PHANEROO~DEVOTION 8th April 2016 Apostle Grace Lubega

And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? [Acts 8:30].

OF UNDERSTANDING

Child of God, examine yourself in this; Do you understand what you are reading in the word? Do you understand what you pray? Do you understand what you give? Do you really have an understanding of the God you worship?

When the Bible speaks of Jeshurun waxing fat and kicking, it is not just a man waxing fat by reason of material things, a man can also wax fat by knowledge, remember it puffs up. He can also wax fat with revelation and with spiritual experiences.

Many times we see Christians with knowledge run off to build houses, ministries or businesses but without the understanding that ought to establish, ground and stabilize them and what they have built. But you see, there is a lesson to be learnt from the man who even after having seen a rod turned into a snake and a hand turned leprous, would still hesitate to go off to Egypt to rescue God’s people.

You don’t just do business or practice your profession because you can. First seek to have a perfect understanding. Luke says that having had a perfect understanding of the very things in their order from the first, he then writes to the most excellent Theophilus. Like Luke, search out diligently, follow all things closely and trace accurately the course from the greatest to the minutest detail, from the very first to the last, to have an orderly account of what must be done and how it ought to be done.

FURTHER STUDY: Proverbs 14:33, Luke 1:3

GOLDEN NUGGET: You don’t just do business or practice your profession because you can. First seek to have a perfect understanding.

PRAYER: Lord we thank you because you give us understanding of everything that pertains to your word, purpose and the revelation of your person. Thank you because we understand these things in order from the first to the last and that at the time when we minister to men we minister under a certain order by which we accurately array things in the spirits of men, that as such, we offend not, but we build, we edify and we establish men. In the name of Jesus. Amen.

Excerpt: THE UNDERSTANDING SERIES