Wisdom For The Day Devotional 9 March 2023 By Bishop Mike Okonkwo: Building According To Pattern
TOPIC: Building According To Pattern (TREM Devotional 9 March 2023)
“According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.” Exodus 25:9 (KJV)
MESSAGE:
As members of this Ministry, God expects us to speak the same language irrespective of where we find ourselves. The location of the branch should not make us different because the word of the Lord to us is one, the mandate is one and we must pursue it with singleness of mind.
One of the tragedies of the church is that we have left the principles of the Bible for the world, and it is delivering the results to them. Systems came from the Bible. God instituted systems and documented them. Today, the world has taken it while the church has ignored it, but we must come back to it. Everyone must build according to the pattern. We may differ in size, and the address of the branch will be different, but that is all about our differences, every proud and living TREMite should be the same irrespective of location. The only way we can achieve this is by being deliberate in the teaching of our MIT manual.
When God gave me the mandate, the emphasis was and is still on the word and that is why we say that whatever the word cannot give you: 1. You don’t need it, and 2. It does not exist. That is foundational and non-negotiable. Then we also have our teaching on the things we do and why we do them. If you are yet to go through the Ministries in Training (MIT), please speak with your Pastor so you can be directed on how to go about it. God has brought you into this Ministry for a purpose and it is my prayer that you will fulfill that purpose as you join hands with me, across all locations to build according to the pattern.
You can also reach out, through your Pastor, to take the School of Ministry class in the Bible College. This will take you deeper into the knowledge of the things we do. We owe the coming generation a duty to pass on the right legacy and this can only be done when we build according to the pattern.
FURTHER READING:
Exodus 25:1-9
DAILY BIBLE READING:
Morning – Deuteronomy 4-6
Evening – Mark 11:1-18
Wisdom For The Day Devotional was Written by Dr. Mike Okonkwo; Is the Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM); a versatile man of God with over 30 years of dedicated service unto the Lord.
