The Daily Fountain Devotional of the Church Of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) 18 April 2026 – Spiritual Circumcision
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TOPIC: Spiritual Circumcision
READ: Exodus 12:42-51
42 Because the Lord kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the Lord for the generations to come.
43 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the regulations for the Passover meal:
“No foreigner may eat it.
44 Any slave you have bought may eat it after you have circumcised him,
45 but a temporary resident or a hired worker may not eat it.
46 “It must be eaten inside the house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.
47 The whole community of Israel must celebrate it.
48 “A foreigner residing among you who wants to celebrate the Lord’s Passover must have all the males in his household circumcised; then he may take part like one born in the land. No uncircumcised male may eat it.
49 The same law applies both to the native-born and to the foreigner residing among you.”
50 All the Israelites did just what the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
51 And on that very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.
THE MESSAGE:
God instructed that the Passover night be celebrated as a solemn observance to the Lord by the children of Israel in all their generations. No uncircumcised stranger was to partake of it except circumcised personal servants of the Israelites. In other words, any stranger who must partake of the Lord’s ordinance must first subscribe to circumcision. He must become initiated as part of God’s people through the covenant of circumcision. Circumcision identifies a person as an offspring of Abraham, and a partaker of the Covenant blessings of God. Similarly baptism in the New Testament identifies Christians to partake in the privileges of their new status in Christ as adopted children of God. Gentiles who were once darkness and sinful have become light and righteous in Christ Jesus.
The Lord is still saying clearly that only those who are redeemed and members of the household of God can participate in the new covenant Passover. Anyone who is defiled and living in sin cannot be a partaker of God’s covenant promise or inheritance. There are no middle grounds in the kingdom, it’s either one is on the side of light or with darkness. The scripture tells us that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 15:50). Have you been circumcised? Have you met the Man of Calvary? Are you prepared for the Passover Supper of the Lamb?
PRAYER: Pray for an encounter to become a child of God, pray to experience the new covenant circumcision. Have you backslidden, pray that the Lord will restore you today.
