Teachers Of Integrity (Daily Devotional)

Hi everyone, welcome to Living Supernaturally. Thank you so much for joining us today. This week, we’ve been talking about integrity and today is the last day. We talk about Malachi chapter 2, verse 6, ‘True instruction was in his mouth and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many from sin.’ These words are about the tribe of Levi, tell us what an influence we can have when we have integrity. Integrity is when everything about us is in alignment. Levites actions were both righteous and peaceful and they matched Levites words. The Levites not only avoided being dishonest, they sought to help others understand the truth. Because the Levites words and actions were aligned, people were drawn away from sin. Integrity is powerfully attractive. A lack of integrity turns people away. In Malachi’s days, the priests, that is the Levites needed this reminder. God was saying that if they wanted to see God’s blessings again, they needed to live with integrity. Integrity would draw people to be like them and more important, teaching the ways of God with integrity would realign them to God’s will and favor. Mordecai also refused to kneel to Haman, the newly elevated and second most powerful official in Persia. Haman, we learn was a descendant of Agag, an Amalekite king and God declared the Amalekites, His enemy long before when they had attacked His people when they were weak and vulnerable in the desert. We also know that Mordecai was from the same clan as Saul, the first king of Israel. Mordecai refused to honor God’s ancient enemy. Teach with integrity, seriousness and soundness of speech. Christians today sometimes struggle with integrity just as people did in Malachi’s time. Sometimes we say the right things but the way we live or the attitude we carry is not aligned with our words. Other times, our behavior is good but our words maybe cruel and vulgar. Integrity would be impossible unless Jesus walks with us. Waking with the Lord is our only hope for aligning our words and actions. Let’s pray, Father, we thank you for this week and for teaching us about integrity. I pray that even as we continue our walk in this world, no matter where we are or what we do, help us to walk in integrity. We honor your name and to see the fruit of integrity in our lives, in Jesus’s name we pray, Amen.

Thank you for tuning in to living supernaturally, for more resources to strengthen your spiritual strengthen your spiritual walk, please visit apcwo.org.

Daily devotions to strengthen your faith each day. Daily Devotional for Spirit filled living. Each daily devotion is about five minutes in duration. These daily devotionals are centered around a weekly theme. So there are seven daily devotions that focus on the theme and bring you insight, understanding and revelation from the Bible. Each week’s theme is listed as a series. So you can listen to the current week’s devotions or go to any previous theme/series that speaks to your present need (https://apcwo.org/resources/daily-devotions ). Also available free sermons (https://apcwo.org/sermons), and free Christian books (https://apcwo.org/books) to nourish and strengthen your faith.