ENTHRONEMENT ASSEMBLY DAILY DEVOTIONALS.

Friday January 10th, 2024.

Topic :Beware Of Demonic Traditions And Cultures.

Memory Verse :Exodus 34:14. “Do not worship any other god, because I, the Lord, tolerate no rivals.

Bible Reading. Hosea 4:1-3 GNB. Key Verse : v3.

The Lord has an accusation to bring against the people who live in this land. Listen, Israel, to what he says: “There is no faithfulness or love in the land, and the people do not acknowledge me as God. They make promises and break them; they lie, murder, steal, and commit adultery. Crimes increase, and there is one murder after another. And so the land will dry up, and everything that lives on it will die. All the animals and birds, and even the fish, will die.”

Jehovah the creator of heaven and earth and everything we can or can’t see is a God of love. John wrote that God is love. This means that God himself is love personified. His relationship with mankind is founded on love. Anywhere love exists in the real sense of it, there’s always some element of jealousy to protect it. That element of jealousy is what prevents a man or woman involved in a love relationship from releasing his partner to his best friend. “I am God, your God,who brought you out of the land of Egypt,out of a life of slavery. No other gods, only me. No carved gods of any size, shape, or form of anything whatever, whether of things that fly or walk or swim. Don’t bow down to them and don’t serve them because I am God, your God, and I’m a most jealous God, punishing the children for any sins their parents pass on to them to the third, and yes, even to the fourth generation of those who hate me. But I’m unswervingly loyal to the thousands who love me and keep my commandments.” Exodus 20:2-6 MSG.

God in Hosea chapter 4 had a controversy with the people of Israel because they forsook the God who created them and chose them as a first born among the nations. Most the calamamities that befell them in the history of their nationhood was because they left the true and living God of their fathers to serves idols or demons. Most of the time God had to send his prophets to warn them, but they were hardened in their waywardness which always attracted divine judgement and punishment. “You grow rich from the sins of my people, and so you want them to sin more and more. You will suffer the same punishment as the people! I will punish you and make you pay for the evil you do. You will eat your share of the sacrifices, but still be hungry. You will worship the fertility gods, but still have no children, because you have turned away from me to follow other gods.” The Lord says, “Wine, both old and new, is robbing my people of their senses!” Hosea 4:8-11.

Even today in many places people still hold on to idol worship in the name of culture and traditions of men. The commonest way people worship idols in our days is through culture and traditions of men that are rooted in idol worship. I know a man who used to finance the Ekpe festival in his home town thinking it was all about what they do in the open. He was shocked to discover after some years of financing the festival that they used to make sacrifices to demons or idols at night before the festival could hold in the day. That was the last time he financed such because he knew the implications. It is good to point out here that such idolatrous practices are channels through which Satan and demons working under his government of darkness renew demonic covenant and strongholds over and people or territories in order to bring such people under the cast of darkness. We have to be careful what we get involved in the name of tradition to avoid bringing divine judgement upon ourselves because the Lord will never let them that despise him and give glory due to him to things he created. Only him deserves our worship.

Prayer :Thank you Father God because only you deserves my worship forever. Help me to live a life that will attract your blessing to me and as many as are connected to me all my days in Jesus precious name….. Amen 🙏🏿.

Yearly Bible Reading : Genesis 18:1-15.

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