Life Capsule for Today Date 18th September, 2022
Theme: RAHAB: A story of Divine Transformation (1)
Memory Verse: Rom 8:29
29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. NKJV
Topic: RAHAB: A story of divine transformation.
Today’s Reading: Josh 2:1-7
2 Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. “Go, look over the land,” he said, “especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there. 2 The king of Jericho was told, “Look! Some of the Israelites have come here tonight to spy out the land.” 3 So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab: “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, because they have come to spy out the whole land.” 4 But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. She said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they had come from. 5 At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate, the men left. I don’t know which way they went. Go after them quickly. You may catch up with them.” 6 (But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax she had laid out on the roof.) 7 So the men set out in pursuit of the spies on the road that leads to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as the pursuers had gone out, the gate was shut. NIV
Words of the Ministry:
This week we would be looking at the life of a bible character called Rahab trusting God to draw some light. The bible also commented on her life in the book of Hebrew 11 as one of the heroes of faith. Rahab was a pagan, a woman outside the covenant of the land of Israel, she was an immoral woman who naturally would have been stoned to death in the land of Israel for her sinful living. The bible said this immoral woman later became a part of the household of Israel enjoying the covenant of Abraham, not only that, she became part of the linage of Jesus the Christ. We see in Rahab, the story of Divine transformation, how God transformed the life of an unbeliever to a mother in Israel.
The bible is particularly clear that God has an intention in eternity past to conform us to the image of his son, this he has been achieving through gospel preaching and the holy Spirit residing in our spirit. In the course of this week we would be drawing some parallels between the story of Rahab and our story. We would be seeing how God intends to transform us from being a prostitute in the world of sin to becoming a saint in his kingdom. How we would be changed from spreading our old immoral life to spreading the gospel of grace and how God eventually expects us to birth the messiah who is Christ in us. We would see how God intends to be glorified through our living. Please keep a date with us, invite friends and family to like our social media page and keep in mind our monthly meeting which comes up next week Sunday the 25th of September, Shalom.
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