"Prayer Changes Everything" 
Devotion for Today

"Follow God's Direction"


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April 11, 2023

Daily Devotion:

 

"Follow God's Direction"

Exodus 20:9-10 (NIV)

Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.

 

Life on Planet Earth is fast becoming a rat race and a mad scramble to get ahead that is leaving brokenness everywhere. We desperately need a pattern to live by that will enable us to live our lives successfully. Such a pattern already exists; it was set at the dawn of Creation by God Himself. But we are not following the Creator’s directions.

Our twenty-four-hour day is based on the earth’s rotation on its axis. Our twelve-month years are based on the revolution of our planet around the sun. But the only basis for the seven-day week that is used worldwide as a pattern for humanity’s lifestyle is the Creator’s example: “By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work” (Gen. 2:2, niv). While God’s week included rest on the seventh day, it also involved work for six days straight, giving us a pattern for the discipline of our lives. How close does the pattern of your life follow His?

 

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"Prayer Changes Everything" 
Devotion for TodayBy Y.E.S. Jesus Youth Encountering Savior Jesus