Sunday, 27^th August 2023

Alex Buabeng-Korsah

TOPIC: YOU’RE GOD’S GIFT

THEME SCRIPTURE: “And the woman conceived and bore a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three month” – Exodus 2:2

 

PREPARATORY QUESTIONS:

1. Why did the mother of Moses risk hiding her son? What did she see in the son?

As slaves in a foreign land, Moses was born at a time when Israel needed God’s intervention. At that same time the life of all male children born in Egypt were in danger. Moses’ birth, in the history of Israel, was when hope and despair clashed. Sighing and crying under oppressive rule, the unseen hand of God was at work. A baby was born and faith began to emerge.

Pregnancy brings different kinds of feelings when it is discovered. To the fornicator and adulterer, pregnancy is a scary and an unwanted thing. To new couples, it’s joy unspeakable.

But to the couple who, for years, have been believing God for a child, pregnancy is a miracle and the child born is deemed the gift of God.

A story is told of a woman who was informed in her teenage years that she wouldn’t be able to give birth because she is incomplete as a woman. In other words, her ovaries do not function. In her adulthood, all serious relationships couldn’t last because in all fairness, she tries to let her partners know that medically she can’t have children. Finally, she got to marry a Methodist preacher who was not perturbed by medical report. He only needed a partner to fulfill a divine call. In less than a year into the marriage, this woman was rushed to the hospital. Everybody thought it was a kidney infection. But no, it was discovered that she was pregnant. Ovaries which haven’t functioned seems to have functioned. And she was going to have a baby. She did, and this miracle baby was named Matthew (gift of God). Interesting, three years after having Matthew, this woman needed a critical surgery. Examining her ovaries, her doctors concluded that her ovaries have never functioned and would never function. Yet, she has had a baby boy. Nine years after Matthew was born, she rang her doctor and told him, “Another miracle.” What miracle this time? She was pregnant again. She brought forth, and named the baby Joshua (God is salvation). This woman is Bonnie Crandall.

Precious one, Moses was born at a time the risk of being a baby boy meant doom. However, his birth defied all odds because he was God’s gift or a solution to his people.

Time will not permit us to look at Samson, Josiah, Jeremiah, etc. whose birth were foretold and were born to effect changes in their days. We cannot forget also the birth of our Lord Jesus as God’s gift to mankind, and you as well.

Precious one, you are special and God’s gift to our world. How true this is. Has it not been written concerning you: ‘You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation…’? (1 Peter 2:9). Again, many years ago, before Christ stepped on the scene, a prophecy went forth concerning your coming: “Saviors shall come up on Mount Zion to judge the Mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s” (Oba 1:28). What a blessing to be called and ordained as a savior. Your new birth was a miracle. You have been born again and sent into the world to bring the power of God which brings salvation (the gospel) to many (Matt 28:19-20).

You have become a new creation, given to our world to show forth the excellencies, the wonderful deeds, the virtues and perfections of the true God. What a glorious mandate you have.

Every day of your life, you dare not think or act less of what you’ve become—God’s gift and solution to the world. Are you yet to be born again? You have been missing out. Has the gospel ever been brought to your doorstep? It is because God wants to bury your past, bring you into the class of the God-kind and present you to this world as His gift. Who will refuse such an opportunity? Definitely not you. So, turn to Jesus today and He will receive you as you are, make you into another man and present you to this world as His solution; His gift. Glory to God!.

 

FURTHER READING – Exodus 2

Call to Salvation: Today is your day if you have not received salvation by turning over your life to Jesus Christ. Click here to do so 

 

QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU MEDITATE ON THE WORD:

1. Are you seeing yourself consistently as God’s gift and solution wherever you go?

 

CONFESSION

|Thank you Precious Father. You have chosen me, and ordained that I be a solution to my world. I affirm that I am the light of the world. Wherever I go, I choose not to be part of the problem but rather the solution needed. Hallelujah!

 

1-Year Bible Reading Plan

1 Kings 22; Jeremiah 49; 1 Corinthians 8; 1 Corinthians 9