ULTIMATE CARE DEVOTIONAL ⛪💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2022Today’s Theme:⛪️ MY BELOVED“The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills”.Text: Song of Solomon 2:8MESSAGE🍎A beloved person is one who is dearly loved. In the old Testament, David was the Beloved of God. He was the beloved because he was the man after God’s heart, he was the anointed of God.Today this word is used generally to refer to God’s people as a whole in the Book of Isaiah and Jeremiah.This was a golden name which the ancient Church in her most joyous moments was wont to give to the Anointed of the Lord.When the time of the singing of birds was come, and the voice of the turtle was heard in her land, her love-note was sweeter than either, as she sang, “My beloved is mine and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.” (Song of Solomon 2:16)Ever in her song of songs doth she call him by that delightful name, “My beloved!” Even in the long winter, when idolatry had withered the garden of the Lord, her prophets found space to lay aside the burden of the Lord for a little season, and to say, as Isaiah did,“Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard.” (Isaiah 5:1)Though the saints had never seen his face, though as yet he was not made flesh, nor had dwelt among us, nor had man beheld his glory, yet he was the consolation of Israel, the hope and joy of all the chosen, the “beloved” of all those who were upright before the Most High.We, in Hammer Word Bible Church, want to speak of Christ as the best beloved of our soul, and to feel that he is very precious, the “chiefest among ten thousand, and the altogether lovely.” So true is it that the Church loves Jesus, and claims him as her beloved, that the apostle dares to defy the whole universe to separate her from the love of Christ, and declares that neither persecutions, distress, affliction, peril, or the sword have been able to do it; nay, he joyously boasts, “In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” (Romans 8:37)O that we knew more of thee, thou ever precious one!“My sole possession is thy love;In earth beneath, or heaven above,I have no other store;And though with fervent suit I pray,And importune thee day by day,I ask thee nothing more.”We do not know more words to use to illustrate the love of God that made us His beloved. (1 John 3:1).“Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not”HOW DO I BECOME GOD’S BELOVED?Being God’s beloved is our right as a child of God. So to become God’s beloved, you must be a child of God, that is you must be born again (John 3:7). Then when you are born again, you must;Be self-aware that you are the beloved.Become a student of Jesus. That is you must the imitator of Jesus, follow his example and pattern.Be a truth-seekerSurround yourself with other whole hearted believers.Be gracious to God and other believers.This will make you the beloved of God.PRAYERS🍎Heavenly Father, I thank you for the manner of love you have bestowed on me and my family that we should be your children.I appreciate you for the continuous sustenance of our lives and souls. I surrender to your total love and guides, empower me to walk in your love and help me to live in the comfort of your care, in Jesus mighty name, Amen.Heavenly Father, this day, my going out is blessed, and my coming in is blessed. Help me to encounter your favour, and bless me with the blessings of the heavens, bless me with the blessings of the deep, and bless me with the blessings of the womb in the mighty name of Jesus Christ Amen.FURTHER BIBLE READING1 John 2:8-10; 1 John 3: 2-11. 1 John 4:7-16.BIBLE READING PLAN FOR THE YEAR.MORNING: GENESIS, 23-24EVENING: MATHEW, 23-24💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦Hammer Word Bible Church, Abak, Nigeria Cares⛪