ULTIMATE CARE DEVOTIONAL⛪THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2022💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦Today’s Theme: ⛪️ REBELLIOUS PE OPLE“But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted”Text: Ezekiel 3:7MESSAGE:🍎Rebellion is an attitude displayed to contradict authority. Rebellion is act of violent or open resistance to an established government or ruler. The Old Testament used the Hebrew word meri that translates to the English word rebellion. The root of this word, mara, means to be or cause to be bitter or unpleasant. It is also translated most often as change, disobedient, disobey, provoke, rebellious, and rebel. In the New Testament, similar words for rebellion are disobedience or sedition, both of which refer to rebellion against or undermining authority. Rebellion started from the beginning of creation when Adam and Eve did not keep God’s instruction (Genesis 3: 6). In 1 Samuel 15:23, God said rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.How are rebellious people? Rebellious people are those who resists or defies rules. Rebellious people are people with death conscience.For a sinner to go to God’s house and pretend to pray to him and praise him argues a brazen-facedness of the worst kind!Hear the charge of the Lord to the rebellious house of Israel.At first the Lord said, they are impudent (not showing due respect to any other person, insolent) (Ezekiel 3:7).Alas! since the day of my new birth, we have doubted my Lord to his face, murmured unblushingly in his presence, worshipped before him in a slovenly manner, and sinned without bewailing ourselves concerning it. “If our forehead were not as an adamant, harder than flint, we should have far more holy fear, and a far deeper contrition of spirit; woe is me; I am one of the impudent houses of Israel” (Isaiah 6:1; Ezekiel 3:7-9).The second charge is hardheartedness (heartless, pitiless) (Ezekiel 3: 7), and we must not venture to plead innocent here. Once we had nothing but a heart of stone, and although through grace we now have new and fleshy hearts, much of our former obduracy (obduracy means stubbornly persistence in wrongdoing, hardened in feelings) remains.We are not affected by the death of Jesus as we ought to be; neither we moved by the ruin of our fellow men, the wickedness of the times, the chastisement of our heavenly Father, and our own failures, as we should be.O that our heart would melt at the recital of our Saviour’s sufferings and death. Would to God we were rid of this nether millstone within us, our hateful bodies of death. (Deuteronomy 24: 6)Blessed be the name of the Lord, the disease is not incurable, the Saviour’s precious blood is the universal solvent, and me, even me, it will effectually soften, till my heart melts as wax before the fire. May the Lord melt our hearts for him in Jesus mighty name, Amen.Characteristics of rebellious peopleThey always want to stand out irrespective of the danger along the away.They never scared to make life change.They seem unapproachable to others.They question everything the authority does.They always want their opinions to be accepted even though its unpopular.They will never define their career, always busy in other men’s business.They always belittle others and promote their self-egoThey always want to bend rules to favour them.They are rule-breakers.They are lone-rangers (A lone-ranger is someone who acts alone without consultation with or approval of others).PRAYERS♨️Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, anything in my body, soul, and spirit, that is contrary to your will, I command them nullify and dissolve by the blood of Jesus Christ, Amen.Every spirit of rebellion hovering over my spirit, by the blood of Jesus Christ, I banish them, and separate my life and soul from them, in Jesus mighty name, Amen.Every spirit that walks in children of disobedience, fighting against my life and family, I terminate and cast them out of my life, soul and spirit, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.Every rebellious demon on assignment against my life and family, I banish them by the blood of Jesus Christ.Every ancestral spirit manipulating destinies around my life and family, I bind, blind and cast them to the abyss, to remain chain till the day of judgment, in Jesus mighty name, Amen.Thank you, Father for delivering and saving me in Jesus mighty name, Amen.FURTHER BIBLE READINGJude 1:1-EndBIBLE READING PLAN FOR THE YEAR, 2022.MORNING: EXODUS, 20-21EVENING: JOHN, 3-4💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦Author: Pastor NseAbasi Harry💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦Hammer Word Bible Church, Abak, Nigeria Cares⛪