THURSDAY MANNA 23 APRIL ‘26

Dr. Daniel O. C. | Apr 23, 2026

“THE CROSS AND SERVICE”

Saints of God Most High, hear God’s word for you today:

“And in every generation He has mercy on those who fear Him” (Luke 1:50).

And His mercy, His compassion and kindness toward the miserable and afflicted is on those who fear Him with godly reverence, from generation to generation and age to age.

THE CROSS AND SERVICE
Jesus’ greatest service to the world and to the church is connected with the cross. The Cross brought salvation to multitudes of people, resulting in justification.

Our service will not be valuable unless it has the seal of the cross on it. For our service to bear fruit, we must bear the cross of inconvenience, difficulty, misrepresentation, persecution and hardship.

Cross-bearing results in death to self. Without a cross, there will be no crown. The duty of man and the purpose of our salvation and blessings is to serve God and be obedient unto Him.

“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul” (Deuteronomy 10:12).

To fear God and serve Him acceptably, we must turn away from sin, Satan, idols and mammon and turn to God in righteousness. We are to glorify God in our body. That presupposes that we cannot do anything we like with our body.

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service, and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God” (Romans 12:1-2).

There can be no true service to God without service rendered to God’s people. The service to the people of God is two-fold. Namely, we serve the church corporately as a body and we serve the church as individuals.

We cannot just concentrate on one and neglect the other. We must thus spend and be spent for the Body of Christ, corporately and individually.

The cross is the vertical relationship with God and the horizontal relationship with man and you are at the intersection.

Somebody shout, “PRAISE THE LORD!”

Shalom and good morning.

Dr. Daniel O. C.