Gleaning from Ruth’s Life

Scriptures:

Ruth 1: 12-19 & 3:1-5
Luke 14:25-33

Her Background

• A heathen of Moabites origin- Deut. 23.3
• Heard about the God of Israel via a disobedient disciple
• Decided early not to halt between God and Baal.
• Surrendered ownership of her life and womb to the God of Israel

Result

• The lineage of Christ found continuity
• An unlikely candidate who found favour with God and man.

PRAYERS

Luke 1:4 [My purpose is] that you may know the full truth and understand with certainty and security against error the accounts (histories) and doctrines of the faith of which you have been informed and in which you have been orally instructed.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!!

Ruth 1:16-17“Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God. 17 Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me.”

1. We plead for mercy where we’ve halted between God and mammon so much that Your life output through us has been curtailed and stunted.
2. I make a definite decision today to follow and go all the way with you Lord Jesus. I will not halt between God and Mammon.
3. Open my eyes to see and know that my life is a borrowed life and my womb is for the purpose of birthing in travail the purposes of God via intercession.
4. God’s people will be my people- Severe me Lord from the Adamic race.
5. Grant me grace as a branch to remain grafted, abiding and fruitful inside Christ. May I never walk out on Jesus.

Ruth 3:5 And she said to her, “All that you say to me I will do.”

Obedience = Entrance into Divine multiplication – Isaiah 60:2

Total yieldedness brought about her divine multiplication

A little, insignificant Ruth- a Moabite - became a thousand : small Ruth indeed became a mighty name – Isaiah 60:2

• Lord enable me to daily live a life of total obedience  Luke 14:25-33
• Help me to fully come into discipleship so that Christ’s life can be completely formed and crystallised in me.
• Grant me understanding that discipleship is simply my journey to becoming like Jesus. Do not allow me take this lightly.
• Make me resolute and courageous in fulfilling all the prerequisite of discipleship so that I can also fulfil the full extent of my destiny.

Hymn

I pledge allegiance to the Lamb
With all my strength, with all I am
I will seek to honor His commands
I pledge allegiance to the Lamb

I have heard how Christians long ago
Were brought before a tyrant's throne
They were told that he would spare their lives
If they would renounce the name of Christ
But one by one they chose to die
The Son of God they would not deny
Like a great angelic choir sings
I can almost hear their voices ring

I pledge allegiance to the Lamb
With all my strength, with all I am
I will seek to honor His commands
I pledge allegiance to the Lamb

Now the years have come, and the years have gone
But the cause of Jesus still goes on
Now our time has come to count the cost
To reject this world, to embrace the cross
And one by one let us live our lives
For the one who died to give us life
Till the trumpet sounds on the final day
Let us proudly stand and boldly say

I pledge allegiance to the Lamb
With all my strength, with all I am
I will seek to honor His commands
I pledge allegiance to the Lamb

To the Lamb of God who bore my pain
Who took my place, who wore my shame
I will seek to honor His commands
I pledge allegiance to the Lamb

I pledge allegiance to the Lamb
With all my strength, with all I am
I will seek to honor His commands
I pledge allegiance to the Lamb