Harvest Chapel International - Kumasi
MGD: Come Out of Your Hiding Place
In this devotional message titled "Come Out of Your Hiding Place," we are encouraged to overcome our guilt and come back to God.
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- Duration:
- 9m
- Broadcast on:
- 12 Jul 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
[Music] Shalom, wonderful people of God. We thank God for the blessing of a new day, and it's always a joy to come your way with our morning glory devotion. This is Havishapul International Kamaase. God bless you so much for being a part of the just-ended prayer-start obsession. Facilitating this morning's devotion time is pasta and Mrs. de Grafteria. Let us kindly bow down our head for a word of prayer. Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for this opportunity to be in your presence this morning. We pray for understanding of God. We pray and we ask for grace to be able to apply your word in our lives in Jesus' name we have prayed with us, given amen. We want to take a confession this morning from Joshua chapter 1, verse 8. Joshua chapter 1, verse 8, "This book of the law shall not depart out of my mouth, but I shall meditate in its day and night, that I may observe to do according to all that is written therein. For then I will make my way prosperous, and then I will have good success, amen, amen." The theme for this morning's devotion is come out of your hiding place. Come out of your hiding place. A scripture reading shall be taken from Genesis chapter 3, verse 1 to 10, and will continue from Psalm 139, verse 7 to 12. Genesis chapter 3, verse 1 to 10. I read from the King James Version. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field, which the Lord God had made, and he said unto the woman. Yea, had God said, "Yish are not eat of every tree of the garden." And the woman said unto the serpent, "We may eat of the fruits of the trees of the garden, but of the fruits of the tree which is in the mess of the garden." God has said, "Yish are not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die." And the serpent said unto the woman, "Yish are not surely die." For God do know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be open, and ye shall be as goats, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eye, and it sure to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with hay, and he did eat, verse 7. And the eyes of them both were open, and they knew that they were naked, and their suit freak leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they had the voice of the Lord God, working in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden, and the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him, "Where are thou?" And he said, "I hear thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself." We continue from Psalm 139, verse 7 to 12. "I read from the international standard vision. Where can I flee from your spirit, or where will I run from your presence? If I rise to heaven, there you are. If I lay down with the dead, there you are. If I take wings with the dawn, and settle down on the western horizon, there your hand will guide me there. While your right hand keeps a firm grip on me, if I see, darkness will surely consume me, and the light around me will become night. Even darkness isn't dark to you. Darkness and light are the same to you, the word of the Lord." Thanks be to God. Come out of your hiding place. Come out of your hiding place. In my teenage days, my dad was quite strict on us. He did not like to come back from work to meet us idle or doing nothing. Not even watching the television, so he gave specific instructions. After school, bath, eat. Do your homework and study before you go to bed. But as young as we were, we would always love to have some free time and watch television in his absence. Immediately we heard the sound of his car, we will quickly and swiftly turn off the TV and run to hide in our rooms. Because we were scared of his reaction if he came to meet us in that jolly state. Simply because we knew we had disobeyed his instructions. The story is not so different here. We see how Adam and Eve hid themselves from the presence of the Lord after they had realized what they had done. In the same way, many of us tend to run away or stay away from his presence anytime we sin or disobey God. We stop going to church, we find it difficult to pray or even read the word of God. Because we feel we have had God and we are so embarrassed to face him. Sometimes we also feel like staying away from his presence will make us feel better. But we rather end up being drawn deeper into the mess and taking further away from God. While in that state, the enemy will keep reminding you of your sins until you become a registered member of the Guild community and eventually reject God. Probably like Adam and Eve. This is your story. You feel as though you have sinned against God to that point where you are not deserving of Islam. Come out boldly from the place of hiding and receive his offer of pardon that he so freely gives to anyone who sincerely confesses their sins. The Lord is walking through the garden. He is screaming your name with his arms wide open. If only you would hear him and respond to his call, he is always merciful and ever ready to forgive because God does not want you to remain in that state. Like the Prodigal Son, you can also rise up, acknowledge your mess and go back home. Your father is waiting to receive you back into his love and arms. Amen. Amen. Amen. God richly bless you. So this morning, God is calling us to come out of our hiding place, to receive of his love and pardon. No matter your sins, God is ever ready to forgive you. Yours is to come out. Amen. Amen. We want to take our memory verse for today and our memory verse for today will take him from Psalm 139 verse 7. Psalm 139 verse 7. Psalm 139 verse 7. I read from the International Standard Vision. Where can I flee from your spirit? Or where will I run from your presence? Where can I flee from your spirit? Or where will I run from your presence? Amen. Amen. Shall we share a word of prayer? I heavenly father, we thank you for your word this morning. We pray that if there be any sin that has drawn us away from your presence and caused us to go into hiding, we pray that logic will draw us out of that place to receive of your love and pardon. We even pray for grace, O God, to overcome every sin that easily besets us. In Jesus, my name has been prayed with us, given amen. We love it. God bless you for tuning into this morning's glory devotion. We want to continue to stay tuned for more exciting and spiritual content on Radio HCI today and stay blessed. Thank you.