Daily Manna DCLM Thursday November 20th 2025 The Need For Intercessors

Daily Manna DCLM Thursday November 20th 2025 The Need For Intercessors

Key Verse

“And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none” (Ezekiel 22:30).

TEXT — Ezekiel 22:23-31

Message

Modern preachers and ministers often act as though they can be more loving and sympathetic than God, who personifies love. In preaching, they portray Him as an indulgent and permissive God who
looks away from the disobedience of “His people”; after all, the atonement of Jesus Christ has covered all their sins and transgressions. They talk so much about God’s love and His compassion and never want to teach that He is also the God of justice, ostensibly so that their listeners will not become “sin-conscious”. God has never condoned sin in His people. The Scripture is clear: “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” The sin of nations or individuals attracts God’s displeasure. It must interest us that no one condemned sin and talked about God’s judgment as Jesus did, yet He personified love.

Our passage today reveals a balanced view of God’s attributes. On the one hand, He is gracious, merciful, and loving; and conversely, He judges and punishes sin without respect of persons or nations. Following the uniform testimony of Scripture, Moses categorically declared to Israel, “Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face” (Deuteronomy 7:9,10). Therefore, God’s love and mercy must not be taken for granted by Israel or the Church today.

Ezekiel boldly denounced the false prophets, the king, and the people, in his prophecy. God will judge them for their uncleanness, conspiracy against Him, robbery, killings, disobedience of the law, and disregard for the Sabbath.

God has no delight in the nation’s devastation; he therefore sought mediation – someone to intercede for the land, to avert His judgment, but he found none. He remains the same gracious God today. Who is willing to mediate for the nation? Who is willing to pay the price for divine intervention in the countries? The world still needs men like Moses, Elijah, Elisha, and Paul, who are willing to stake their lives, speak the truth to the high and low, turn others to God and stand in the gap for souls. You can be one, too!

Thought for the day

God still needs intercessors!

• Bible
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• Ezekiel 32 – 35(Read By Alexander Scourby)