Ultimate Care Devotional ⛪💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2022Today’s Theme: ⛪ STRANGERS IN THE WORLD“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give hear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were”Text: Psalm 39:12MESSAGE🍎Strangers are people of different cultures and heritage operating on different lands. Strangers are foreigners operating on a different environment or nations other than their own. Believers are strangers in this world. We are in this world but we are not of this world.Hear this: “Yes, O Lord, with thee, but not to thee. All my natural alienation from thee, thy grace has effectually removed; and now, in fellowship with thyself, I walk through this sinful world as a pilgrim in a foreign country”.Thou art a stranger in thine own world. How? The world lies under the wicked arms of Satan. Man who forgets thee, dishonours thee, sets up new laws and alien customs, and knows thee not. When thy dear Son came unto his own, his own received him not. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not (John 1:10).Never was a foreigner so speckled a bird among the denizens of any land as thy beloved Son among his mother’s brethren (John 1:11).It is no marvel, then, if I who live the life of Jesus, should be unknown in the world and a stranger thereof.Lord, I would not be a citizen where Jesus was an alien.His pierced hand has loosened the cords which once bound my soul to earth, and now I find myself a stranger in the land, called this world. My speech seems to these Babylonians among whom I dwell an outlandish tongue, my manners are singular, and my actions are strange.A Tartar would be more at home in Cheapside than I could ever be in the haunts of sinners.But here is the sweetness of my lot: I am a stranger with thee. Thou art my fellow-sufferer, my fellow-pilgrim. Oh, what joy to wander in such blessed society! My heart burns within me by the way when thou does speak to me, and though I be a sojourner, I am far more bless than those who sit on thrones, and far more at home than those who dwell in their ceiled houses.“To me remains nor place, nor time:My country is in every clime;I can be calm and free from careOn any shore, since God is there.While place we seek, or place we shun,The soul finds happiness in none:But with a God to guide our way,’Tis equal joy to go or stay.”It is my utmost prayers that we will find peace to dwell in this strange land with hope of eternity.PRAYERSHeavenly Father, I thank you for giving me this understanding, that while I live in this world, I am not of this world.Father, help me that while I live in this world, never allow me to make my bed with the world.Help me to shut my eyes on the things of this world. Open my eyes to see beyond the shadow of this world.Let thy good Spirit guides me to do your blessed will always in Jesus mighty name, Amen.Father, my going out today is blessed. And my returning is secured in you through your covenant of life and peace in Jesus Name, Amen.FURTHER BIBLE READING:LEVITICUS 19: 33-34; DEUTERONOMY 1: 16, MALACHI 3:5BIBLE READING PLAN OF THE YEAR.MORNING: GENESIS, 9-10EVENING: MATHEW, 9-10💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦Hammer Word Cares