ULTIMATE CARE DEVOTIONAL ⛪💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2022.Today’s Theme: ⛪ WEEP NOT“And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him”Text: Luke 23:27MESSAGE🍎Today’s theme is a divine command, “Weep Not” which Jesus saith to the widow at Nain whose son was dead (Luke 7:11-13) This command came before her son was raised to life. One thing about weeping is that it does not solve the problem at hand. Beloved, the antidote for weeping is the reading of God’s word and claiming his promises in the time of trouble. Another one thing is high praises to God who specializes in reversing the irreversible.Let’s see the master’s case scenario in Luke 23: 27-31; Amid the rabble rout which hounded the Redeemer to his doom, there were some gracious souls whose bitter anguish sought vent in wailing and lamentations—fit music to accompany that march of woe.When my soul can, in imagination, see the Saviour bearing his cross to Calvary, she joins the godly women and weeps with them; for, indeed, there is true cause for grief—cause lying deeper than those mourning women thought.They bewailed innocence maltreated, goodness persecuted, love bleeding, meekness about to die; but my heart has a deeper and more bitter cause to mourn. My sins were the scourges which lacerated those blessed shoulders, and crowned with thorn those bleeding brows: my sins cried “Crucify him! crucify him!” (Luke 23:21) and laid the cross upon his gracious shoulders.His being led forth to die is sorrow enough for one eternity: but my having been his murderer, is more, infinitely more, grief than one poor fountain of tears can express.Why those women loved and wept it were not hard to guess: but they could not have had greater reasons for love and grief than my heart has. Nain’s widow saw her son restored (Luke 7:11-12) – I myself have been raised to newness of life. Peter’s wife’s mother was cured of the fever (Luke 4: 38-39)—but I of the greater plague of sin.Out of Magdalene seven devils were cast (Luke 8:2)—but a whole legion out of me.Mary and Martha were favoured with visits—but he dwells with me.His mother bare his body—but he is formed in me the hope of glory.In nothing behind the holy women in debt, let me not be behind them in gratitude or sorrow.“Love and grief my heart dividing,With my tears his feet I’ll have—Constant still in heart abiding,Weep for him who died to save.”PRAYERS♨️Heavenly Father, I thank you for the assurance that I should weep because you have once settled my case on the Cross of Calvary.Lord by the grief of the Savior on the Cross I stand, and I decree that whatever may want to cause grief in my life, soul and spirit, I curse them this day by the saviour’s grief and put a stop to that which is not of your glory in my life in Jesus mighty name Amen.FURTHER BIBLE READINGJEREMIAH 31:1-18; MATHEW 2:13-18.BIBLE READING PLAN FOR THE YEARMORNING: EXODUS, 3-4EVENING: LUKE, 9-10💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦Author: Pastor NseAbasi Harry💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦HAMMER WORD BIBLE CHURCH, ABAK, NIGERIA, CARES ⛪