Scripture Union Daily Guide – 28 March 2023 | The Temple Will Be Destroyed
Scripture Union Daily Guide – 28 March 2023 | The Temple Will Be Destroyed
SCRIPTURE UNION DAILY GUIDE 28TH MARCH 2023 DEVOTIONAL
Read and Meditate on Today’s Daily Guide Devotional for 28 March 2023. May the Lord bless you as you study!
Today’s Topic: The Temple Will Be Destroyed
Opening Prayer: Dear Lord, expose me to your truth as I read your word in Jesus name.
Scripture: Mark 13:1-13
Question(s) for Reflection
• Q 2: Is there any example for me to follow or not to follow?
• Q 5: Is there any warning for me to heed?
OUTLINE FOR DAILY GUIDE 28 MARCH 2023 DEVOTIONAL:
The Temple is an amazing architecture with massive stones and magnificent buildings to admire, built to last forever. But Jesus foretells its complete destruction. This happened in AD 70 when Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed.
The disciples were teachable and continually learning from Jesus. So privately, four of them asked about the timing and the events that will accompany these things (vs.3-4). Jesus responded by alerting them to things they should watch out for. First are false Messiahs whose purpose is to mislead and deceive. Sadly, they will deceive many (vs.5&6).
Notice other signs in vs.7-8 and the second “watch out” in v.9. However, these trials “will be your opportunity to tell them about me” (v.9). The persecution will be so hard that even family members will actively join in it (vs.12-13)! Is it any different today? But God will never abandon us. Read and take to heart the encouragement in v.11.
Living as a true Christian will be getting more and more difficult, “but he who stands firm to the end will be saved”.
They are not saved by their perseverance through life’s joys, hard persecutions, and betrayals by even family members. But their consistent, continuous Christ-like lifestyle, despite the pressures, is proof that true salvation has been received and can never be interrupted for the believer (see Romans 8:35-39).
• Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?
Closing Prayer
Lord God, I pray for grace and courage to stand firm in times of difficulties, pressures, and persecutions.
Practice/Word Application
Thought: Read Psalm 37:7, 10-15
• Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?
Closing Prayer
Father God, rescue me from every wicked trap and deliver me from terror and tyranny.
Offer a prayer of faith in line with Leviticus 20:8
One Year Bible Reading Plan
NATIONAL PRAYER BULLETIN – 28TH MARCH 2023
PRAYER FOCUS: ENDURING TILL THE END
Love bears all things, believes all things, and endures all things. – 1 Corinthians 13:7
THANK GOD FOR:
► Filling our hearts daily with Joy and Peace as we keep on believing Him for our daily supply.
► The presence of His Spirit that has kept and still keeps our hope in Him a life daily.
PRAY FOR:
► Daily growth in the spirit as we continue to read, study and apply God’s word in our lives.
► Grace to remain steadfast as the planned purpose of God comes to past in our lives.
► Sober minded and grace to endure any suffering God permits knowing He will make a way out of it.
PRAY AGAINST:
► Every weight of sin that may want to cling thereby not making us run with endurance.
► Loosing faith because of the hostility of the devil and his cohorts thereby abandoning our fellowship with God and man.
Offer a prayer of faith in line with Isaiah 46:10
One Year Bible Reading Plan
Deuteronomy 8, 9, Acts 20
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