Morning by Morning—Daily Prayer Journey with Tommy Hays

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Morning by Morning, January 29 - The Day the Manna Ceased

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Let me sense Your leading and hear Your voice, as I seek Your face and begin my day "looking to Jesus" (Hebrews 12:1-2). ...

"While the Israelites were camped in Gilgal they kept the Passover in the evening on the fourteenth day of the month in the plains of Jericho. On the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain. The manna ceased on the day they ate the produce of the land, and the Israelites no longer had manna; they ate the crops of the land of Canaan that year" (Joshua 5:10-12).

There came a day that "the manna ceased." What fed the people of God in the last season would no longer feed them in the next season. They were no longer just surviving in their wilderness; now they were going in to take dominion of their Promised Land.

Just as You were the Source of the manna, You would be the Source of their grain. But You were bringing them to a place on the journey to take a more active part. You were giving them more responsibility and more authority. They were hungry for more and You were making a way. "He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness" (2 Corinthians 9:10).

The "harvest of righteousness" is the ultimate goal of our Promised Land. That we would be like Jesus -- "conformed to the image of (God's) Son" (Romans 8:29); "as He is, so are we in this world" (1 John 4:17). That we would "come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ. We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people's trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming. But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into Him who is the head, into Christ" (Ephesians 4:13-15).

On our journey to spiritual maturity -- to take hold of our Promised Land of all we are in You and all You desire to do through us -- we're hungry for more. As You increase our responsibility and authority, as You deepen our relationship and understanding of our desperate dependence upon You alone in both humility and faith, You desire to take us from milk to meat (Hebrews 5:12). You desire for us to "grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 3:18). And You're the One who stirs in our hearts to be hungry for more, to be hungry to grow. "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled" (Matthew 5:6).

On the day the manna ceased, in the celebration of the Passover, You reminded Your people of the blood of lamb, when death passed over so they could be free. You reminded them that just as You were with them in their deliverance from their past, You would be with them in the conquest of their future. Like them, we need to always remember the Blood of the Lamb. Like them, we need not fear letting go of the manna and milk. You will be faithful to teach us and equip us with all we need to live into the harvest of righteousness -- this place of ever deepening, every growing spiritual maturity in You -- in our Promised Land at hand. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

My friend, may you keep growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Christ, continuing to grow deeper in relationship with Him as He makes you more like Him, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

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