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Devotional for August 14, 2026

MOVE AWAY FROM ROUTINE

SCRIPTURE READING - 📖 Mark 1:22

“And they were astonished at His doctrine: for He taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes”.

Additional Verses

📖 Psalm 23:1-6; Matthew 23:1-39; Acts 2:1-47

Routine is when you do things repeatedly without meaning or passion. Many people today are going to church as routine. They were born and brought up in families where it is a routine to wake up every Saturday or Sunday morning and go to church. They are afraid that if they do not go to church they will be thoroughly disciplined by their parents. In the church the same procedure is followed by the leader and there seems to be nothing new. Prayers are read out and the Bible is read because you are used to the different stages of the service, and at the different stages you are either dozing or yawning. You do not open your heart to the Word of God being read or to the prayers in order that they may transform you. When you come out of the service you are actually worse than what you were the first time you came in. Today l am challenging you to move away from routine. You can only do this when you open your heart to the Word of God and to the Holy Spirit of God. The Word of God brings the light of Christ into your soul while the Holy Spirit will transform your life. The Word of God and the Holy Spirit of God will only work for you when you yield your freewill to God. Pray without ceasing as prayers keep your heart aligned with the will of God. When you worship, you must worship in spirit and truth and this worship invites the presences of God to dwell in your heart. You must therefore have an intention to be transformed each time you come into the house of the LORD. Whenever the Scribes and Pharisees read the Law of Moses it was without effect upon the hearers because everything they did was just routine and tradition. Routine and tradition aims at fault finding. Matthew 7:28-29 says, “When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.” Each time Jesus Christ preached and taught the Word, it was with authority. The sick were healed, the demon possessed were delivered and the weak were strengthened and the dead were raised back to life. In order for you to move away from routine, you must pray to be filled with the Holy Spirit just as what happened to the Apostles on Pentecost Day. When they were filled by the Holy Spirit, they were able to witness for the Lord Jesus Christ without fear unto the ends of the earth. Alleluia!

Prayer

Thank You for Your Word Lord Jesus Christ which is life unto me and transforms me on a daily basis. Help me to move away from routine and tradition but instead be filled by Your Word which is life giving. In Jesus Christ’s name I pray. Amen.