Daily Devotional
Betty Miller shares her daily
devotionals which are based on the book of Proverbs in the Bible.
The Wisdom
of God
Verses for the Day:
27 For a whore is
a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among
men.
Proverbs 23:27-28 (AMP):
27 For a harlot is a deep
ditch, and a loose woman is a narrow pit.
28 She also lies in wait as a robber or as one waits for prey, and she increases the
treacherous among men.
Thoughts for the Day:
These verses in Proverbs
are a warning from a father to his son to avoid the snare of being seduced by a
whore. Verse 27 describes the plight of one who is ensnared by a whore,
or harlot, as getting stuck in a deep ditch or falling into a narrow pit. Anyone
who has gotten stuck in a deep ditch knows that it is not easy to get out of it.
In fact, most of the time it takes other people to come and help you get out of
a treacherous ditch or a narrow pit. Men who fornicate or commit adultery with a
whore are opening themselves up to receive demons from their sexual encounters,
which then will create a supernatural pit, that only the greater power of God
can get them out of.
Not only is there
a danger of contracting a venereal disease that is incurable, but men who have
their affair discovered have been known to lose their wives and families because
of their unfaithfulness. Shame and embarrassment also come with the discovery of
cohabiting with a harlot. There is also the spiritual bondage of perverted
sex and unnatural pornographic desires. This is a hell many good men wish they
had never entertained. The Bible warns that a man will take on the harlot's
flesh and her sin.
1 Corinthians
6:13-20 & 7:1-2:
13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it
and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord
for the body.
14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own
power.
15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the
members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two,
saith he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that
committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in
you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in
your spirit, which are God's.
7:1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not
to touch a woman.
2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let
every woman have her own husband.
God can rescue men
who have fallen into this pit, if they will humble themselves to God and cry out
to Him for deliverance. They may need deliverance prayers said over them
to get them free. If they are in deep sin, they may need demons of lust cast out
of them. In our study, v tells us that the wicked
women in the world, who are whores, are like robbers who are waiting to steal
from men and drag them into a treacherous life also. However, there is
hope for both the man and the harlot. God hates the sin of lust, but He loves
the sinner, and will set them free if they come to Him.
Remember the story
of the woman at the well in John 4 who was living in fornication when she
met Jesus. Jesus told her about her life and offered her living water.
She not only gave her heart to the Lord, but she became a great witness to the
love of God. Jesus did not condemn her, but showed her the way to find
everlasting life. There is another woman in John 8 who was caught in the
very act of adultery, and Jesus' words spared her life from the crowd who was
ready to stone her, when He said, "He that is without sin among you, let him
first cast a stone at her." Then, there was the harlot, Rahab, in
Joshua 2, whose life was saved because she hid two spies who were sent by
Joshua. Because she reached out to help God's people, her life and her
family's lives were spared, when Joshua attacked the city of Jericho.
God is a loving
and forgiving God who desires to set free all those who have fallen into the sin
of sexual lust and perversion.
Prayer for the Day:
Dear Heavenly Father,
Please help the young men and women in our day not to yield to the temptation of
a lustful life. Lord, there are so many sexual temptations everywhere,
keep those who desire to walk with You from falling into the traps of the devil.
Lord, also deliver those who are already in bondage to sexual sins and
perversions. I especially pray for those who have fallen into the deep pit of
pornography. God have mercy on them, and grant them the power of the Holy
Spirit to find their way out and to overcome the bondage of this addictive evil.
Deliver our world from the sexual sins that are destroying our societies.
I ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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