The theme for TREM Daily Devotional December 9 2022 is ”THE BENEFITS OF INTIMACY”
Here is today’s TREM daily devotional designed for your today’s spiritual refreshment. Kindly read today’s teaching by Pastor Mike Okonkwo, meditate on the word of God and endeavour to act in accordance with them. As you start your day with God through his word, may he go before you to perfect all you have to do today.
Read TREM Daily Devotional December 9 2022.
SCRIPTURE: “And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughter.” Genesis 5:22 (KJV)
God is doing a new thing and things are not as we used to know. We are in the season of great change and there will be a lot of overtaking, recovery and restoration. It is important that we align ourselves with what God is doing presently. So, my assignment is to align you and position you to take that which God has already perfected in eternity that is manifesting even now. If there is anything that we need in this hour, it is intimacy with God.
In the Bible text above we are told that Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. God’s desire for his children right from creation is not for benefits, but intimacy even though there will always be benefits. The secret is never to prioritize benefits but to focus on intimacy. Intimacy will produce results but when you begin to follow results or benefit rather than the main purpose or the real reason why He saved you, then you got it backward.
What God is doing in this day is realignment and repositioning us so that we can maximize what He has purposed for each one of us. But unfortunately, today many have been seduced and I believe this is the result of the fall of man, by thinking that it is benefits that we are called for. Benefits will obviously come but benefits are not the key reason for our salvation. Bro Mike when you say benefits are not the key reason, what do you mean by benefits? I am talking about your healing, prosperity, houses you want to build, a good career you want to have, the latest car, good family life, marriage, and everything that makes you successful. The pursuit of these things is not the original intention of God for us.
Further Reading: Genesis 5:18-24; Matthew 6:25-34; John 6:25-27
Daily Bible Reading: Morning- Daniel 11-12; Evening- Jude