DCLM Daily Manna 8 November 2026 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Our Lasting Legacy
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TOPIC: Our Lasting Legacy (DCLM Daily Manna 8 November 2026)
KEY VERSE: Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men – 2 Corinthians 3:2
TEXT: 2 Corinthians 3:1-6 (KJV)
1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
DCLM Daily Manna For Today MESSAGE:
Among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World compiled by the Greeks, only the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt has survived. Others – the Colossus of Rhodes, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon – have all been destroyed over the centuries. They failed the test of time because they were the works of natural man, himself a finite construction subject to decay.
Writing to the Corinthians, Apostle Paul, however, says it is the word of God planted in the heart that makes a difference for a man to have a durable legacy of commendation. He refers to his own ministry, which he, by the Grace of God, brought to bear on the Corinthians. Paul declares that the gospel worked out a permanent change in their lives through their faith. The church in Corinth became an indelible epistle written in their hearts, preserved by Christ in His Kingdom against destruction and decay. Like Paul’s apostleship, the Corinthians’ faith was not surviving on man’s sufficiency but on heaven’s.
It is not sheer human capability or feat that releases staying strength or life into our labour. It is the Spirit of God we allow into it through our submission to Him and His precepts. The depth of our faith in His Word is what will give our puny efforts power, life and rejuvenation. Thereafter, we are assured of being propelled by the Lord to erect sanctified works to His glory; works that cannot be wiped away by time, as it happened to the ancient wonders.
For the teachings of the Church and its work for Christ to outlive our age and last, we must function like Paul. Heaven wants us to disciple those who would be the epistle of Christ for their environment to read. They would not seek self-serving achievements for short-lived human commendation. Our converts must receive fundamental change that translates and transforms them for the renewal of their communities. This is the imperishable legacy we must thirst for.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
The Word in our hearts primes and propels us to triumph over all trials of faith.
THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR
1 Kings 15-16
Deeper Life Daily Manna For Today 2025 was written by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi; is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church situated at KM 42 on the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Nigeria.
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