Monday, 30^th January 2023

Pastor Alex Buabeng-Korsah

TOPIC: DISOBEDIENCE HAS CONSEQUENCES

THEME SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 2:2-3

 PREPARATORY QUESTIONS:

1. How are we able to yield to disobedience?
2. Can a man under grace suffer consequences for disobedience?

Many years ago, I was listening to a preacher on the subject of heeding to the Holy Spirit. In that sermon, the preacher shared a story of his friend’s disobedience and the consequence that followed. He indicated that his friend preacher was involved in a plane crash. It was pathetic to all because his friend had a thriving ministry. Many people wondered – why will God allow such a thing to happen to a true believer like him. Where was God? The questions were many but there was no answer. A year later, he decided to visit the widow of his late friend. He took her to the cemetery to lay flowers on the tomb of her late husband and brought her home. She served him coffee and as they sat down to talk, the widow made a statement that was so profound. She said,” the morning my husband had a plane crash, he woke up at dawn, sat at the edge of our bed and said that something tells him not to fly”. He ignored that feeling or message in his spirit and flew. He died in a plane crash. According to the preacher, he learnt that day that it can be too expensive to disobey the Holy Spirit of God. It was at that moment he got the answer to the many questions which were asked by many people when his friend died.

Precious One, learn to avoid or overcome all temptations to disobey God. Disobedience is an insult to the Lordship of Christ and a way of telling God you know better what to do. It always comes with consequences. 

When God speaks, it is gentle and soft. God’s voice is not oppressive. However, there are pressures of temptation. Things that will make you feel if you don’t do otherwise you will be a big loser. For instance, you hear the voice of God to avoid a particular route going to work today and yet you had planned to buy a few things on that route. A louder voice may begin to speak to you – you always use this road. It's okay to use it today in order to buy your stuff before they are out of stock. This can be a pressure for you to disobey the voice of God.

There are also the sweet influences of temptation, where you can be made an offer you know its wrong yet too good to be true. Eve succumbed to the sweet influences of temptation when she was made to see the tree (of the knowledge of good and evil) as good for food, pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be desired to make one wise (Gen 3:6).

Precious One, temptations promise so much and deliver little or none at all.

As you go through the day and also the rest of the year, learn to hear the voice of God. Further, with the help of the Holy Spirit, learn to follow His leading. This is the sure way you can avoid the unfortunate and also walk in the greater and superior things of God for your life. God bless you more.

FURTHER READING – Genesis 3:1-8

 

QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU MEDITATE ON THE WORD:

1. Recount the times you heard the voice of God or had the mind of God with you (you knew what God expected from you) and yet you did not honor the mind of God. Was it a result of pressure or sweet influences?
2. In what ways do you think a child of God can live above the pressures and sweet influences of temptations?

 

CONFESSION

I affirm this day that I am yielded unto you Holy Spirit of God, acknowledging your leadership in my life. I confess that from today going forward, I am hearing the voice of God clearly and plainly to obey. I receive strength to overcome any pressure and sweet influence to disobey God, in Jesus’ Precious name - Hallelujah!

 

1-Year Bible Reading Plan

Exodus 1; Exodus 2; Psalm 53; Psalm 54; Psalm 55; Romans 7; Romans 8