*Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.* Romans 8:1
The devil is called, ‘the accuser of our brothers and sisters’(Revelation 12:10). First he tempts us, luring us on, making sin attractive and desirable, undermining its consequences and leading us to fail. But once we do, he turns on us and jumps on our back with accusation, ‘You dirty sinner! You failure! You hypocrite!’ And he heaps condemnation on us. And it’s easy to believe because it is true; we have failed, we are sinners.
However, God also speaks to us about our sin, but His voice is very different. *God convicts. The devil condemns.* There’s a huge difference between the two. Condemnation is like a wet blanket that sits on us so we feel unable to move from under it. It paralyses us.
When God convicts, He not only makes us aware of our sin, but He shows us the way out. He takes us to the cross of Christ. Satan’s condemnation is designed to humiliate and destroy us. God’s conviction is designed to liberate us.
To be in Christ is to be in a place of complete security. Cleansed by Him, accepted in Him, we are now in a place of liberty and freedom.
_*Do not let the devil rob you of that freedom* ._
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I thank You for the cross of Christ, through which I find complete acceptance by the Father, and am never again condemned in Jesus mighty name ..... Amen🙏🏼
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JESUS GAVE UP HIS LIFE FOR YOU.
Thursday 26 April 2018
POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
*They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.* ACTS 2:46-47
Three thousand were converted to Christ after Peter preached on the Day of Pentecost in Acts, Chapter 2. Within a few days 5,000 people had turned their lives to Christ. Explosive growth was taking place in the city that seven weeks earlier had crucified Christ. Those early disciples had available to them something completely new. Until Pentecost they had been followers of Christ, but now they were indwelt by the actual life of Christ, by the gift of His Holy Spirit to them.
His presence transformed them spiritually. They spoke with new courage. It transformed them socially. They were ‘enjoying the favor of all the people.
It transformed them fruitfully, and the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved (Acts 2:47). The impact of the Holy Spirit on the disciples led directly to the impact of the disciples on their community. There came opposition of course but rather than being indicative of things going wrong, that was evidence of their positive impact on the community.
_*The outflow of our lives to the benefit of others gives evidence of the inflow of the Spirit*_ .
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please I want to live in the fullness of Your presence in my life, not only so that I am enriched but so that I become a means of enrichment to others.
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Three thousand were converted to Christ after Peter preached on the Day of Pentecost in Acts, Chapter 2. Within a few days 5,000 people had turned their lives to Christ. Explosive growth was taking place in the city that seven weeks earlier had crucified Christ. Those early disciples had available to them something completely new. Until Pentecost they had been followers of Christ, but now they were indwelt by the actual life of Christ, by the gift of His Holy Spirit to them.
His presence transformed them spiritually. They spoke with new courage. It transformed them socially. They were ‘enjoying the favor of all the people.
It transformed them fruitfully, and the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved (Acts 2:47). The impact of the Holy Spirit on the disciples led directly to the impact of the disciples on their community. There came opposition of course but rather than being indicative of things going wrong, that was evidence of their positive impact on the community.
_*The outflow of our lives to the benefit of others gives evidence of the inflow of the Spirit*_ .
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please I want to live in the fullness of Your presence in my life, not only so that I am enriched but so that I become a means of enrichment to others.
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SUPPORT THE GOSPEL
*Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment*.
John12:3
If you really want to change the life of the poor, its not the food you give the poor but its sending the gospel and supporting the gospel that goes to the poor. This is the reason, United Nations with all their intellectual know how, skills and capabilities are unable to solve the problem of poverty .
There is poverty in every rich country. Christ said the poor you shall always have with you. The only thing that transforms people from being poor is the gospel. The only thing that can take someone from the back to the front is the gospel. Have you asked yourself why the scripture says he has anointed you to preach to the poor. Jesus is prosperity. The blessings of God maketh rich.
Do you believe it? Please ask yourself now, where would you have been without JESUS. Support the gospel. The best way to give to the poor is to support the gospel because the only thing that brings permanent transformation is the *GOSPEL*.
The woman with the Alabaster box gave very costly. David said I will not give anything that is not costly to my God. The woman gave a very expensive oil in her day. Mary broke this perfume and aroma filled the whole atmosphere.
Give something towards the gospel. I was just meditating on the scripture and I just realised Mary never thought twice before giving her all to Jesus.(breaking her jar of oil).
Support the gospel so it spreads .
PRAYER: Father I thank you for my life. Please grant me the grace to support the gospel.
Amen.
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John12:3
If you really want to change the life of the poor, its not the food you give the poor but its sending the gospel and supporting the gospel that goes to the poor. This is the reason, United Nations with all their intellectual know how, skills and capabilities are unable to solve the problem of poverty .
There is poverty in every rich country. Christ said the poor you shall always have with you. The only thing that transforms people from being poor is the gospel. The only thing that can take someone from the back to the front is the gospel. Have you asked yourself why the scripture says he has anointed you to preach to the poor. Jesus is prosperity. The blessings of God maketh rich.
Do you believe it? Please ask yourself now, where would you have been without JESUS. Support the gospel. The best way to give to the poor is to support the gospel because the only thing that brings permanent transformation is the *GOSPEL*.
The woman with the Alabaster box gave very costly. David said I will not give anything that is not costly to my God. The woman gave a very expensive oil in her day. Mary broke this perfume and aroma filled the whole atmosphere.
Give something towards the gospel. I was just meditating on the scripture and I just realised Mary never thought twice before giving her all to Jesus.(breaking her jar of oil).
Support the gospel so it spreads .
PRAYER: Father I thank you for my life. Please grant me the grace to support the gospel.
Amen.
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THE TEST OF WHAT'S INSIDE
*The LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul.*
Deuteronomy 13:3
A famous Christian writer, once said that Christians should be like tea, when they get into hot water all the goodness should come out. For the Israelites in the wilderness, the hot water repeatedly brought out a spirit of grumbling.
During the 40 years in the wilderness, Moses explained to the Israelites that the Lord was testing them to expose what was in their hearts. The tests only exposed the ugliness of their hearts, for they constantly grumbled against Moses, failing to understand their trials had purpose.
When we’re faced with difficulties in life, we can either turn to grumbling or turn to God. *Trials and testing reveal our hearts,* not to embarrass us or humiliate us when we grumble, or to congratulate us when we turn to God, but so that *we learn the truth about ourselves.*
You may be facing a difficulty right now - economically, physically, or emotionally. Are you giving in to the temptation to lash out and grumble, or are you embracing your challenges as a means of trusting God and experiencing Him more fully?
The test of how much we trust God comes when we don’t know what is going on and are walking blindly. Proof that you trust God.
PRAYER: Pray and ask honestly whether you are grumbling in your trials, or trusting God and seek for help in your area of need.
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JESUS WILL NEVER DISAPPOINT YOU.
Deuteronomy 13:3
A famous Christian writer, once said that Christians should be like tea, when they get into hot water all the goodness should come out. For the Israelites in the wilderness, the hot water repeatedly brought out a spirit of grumbling.
During the 40 years in the wilderness, Moses explained to the Israelites that the Lord was testing them to expose what was in their hearts. The tests only exposed the ugliness of their hearts, for they constantly grumbled against Moses, failing to understand their trials had purpose.
When we’re faced with difficulties in life, we can either turn to grumbling or turn to God. *Trials and testing reveal our hearts,* not to embarrass us or humiliate us when we grumble, or to congratulate us when we turn to God, but so that *we learn the truth about ourselves.*
You may be facing a difficulty right now - economically, physically, or emotionally. Are you giving in to the temptation to lash out and grumble, or are you embracing your challenges as a means of trusting God and experiencing Him more fully?
The test of how much we trust God comes when we don’t know what is going on and are walking blindly. Proof that you trust God.
PRAYER: Pray and ask honestly whether you are grumbling in your trials, or trusting God and seek for help in your area of need.
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JESUS WILL NEVER DISAPPOINT YOU.
Thursday 12 April 2018
THE REAL DEAL
*Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.*
Colossians 3:9-10
Many of us with pets at home will attest to the fact that they misbehave and are normally wild when we first bring them home but we teach them to behave: to go outside when they need to, not to jump on the table or hang around looking for food.
Dogs for example have no moral consciousness; they have merely been housetrained – taught to behave by consequences.
It is possible for us as Christians to also be evangelically housetrained. We are taught how to behave in the right company, and we are meticulously observant, but out of company or around those who are not Christians, we behave very differently.
We are not driven by an inner compulsion and appetite for what is right, but by external motivation. *The real measure of our sanctification is more how we behave when nobody else is watching.*
The Christian life involves being genuine with our temptations, failures and weaknesses, and looking to the Holy Spirit to produce an inward morality which will be expressed in an outward activity. That is not being housetrained, it is being sanctified.
_*The authentic Christian life is consistent, whether we are being watched or not.*_
Be real before God and you will be real before others.
PRAYER: Almighty Father, I humbly ask that Your Holy Spirit will help me put You first and to please You in every aspect of my life especially when am alone, in Jesus mighty name.. Amen🙏🏼
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YOUR LIFE IS IMPORTANT TO CHRIST.
Colossians 3:9-10
Many of us with pets at home will attest to the fact that they misbehave and are normally wild when we first bring them home but we teach them to behave: to go outside when they need to, not to jump on the table or hang around looking for food.
Dogs for example have no moral consciousness; they have merely been housetrained – taught to behave by consequences.
It is possible for us as Christians to also be evangelically housetrained. We are taught how to behave in the right company, and we are meticulously observant, but out of company or around those who are not Christians, we behave very differently.
We are not driven by an inner compulsion and appetite for what is right, but by external motivation. *The real measure of our sanctification is more how we behave when nobody else is watching.*
The Christian life involves being genuine with our temptations, failures and weaknesses, and looking to the Holy Spirit to produce an inward morality which will be expressed in an outward activity. That is not being housetrained, it is being sanctified.
_*The authentic Christian life is consistent, whether we are being watched or not.*_
Be real before God and you will be real before others.
PRAYER: Almighty Father, I humbly ask that Your Holy Spirit will help me put You first and to please You in every aspect of my life especially when am alone, in Jesus mighty name.. Amen🙏🏼
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YOUR LIFE IS IMPORTANT TO CHRIST.
SEX TALK
*Among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.*
Ephesians 5:3
We live in a sex-saturated world today, but in many ways this isn’t new. The Apostle Paul wrote from a context where sexual immorality had been normalized as fully as in our own day. Paul wrote to the Ephesians knowing Ephesus was a city built on the worship of the goddess Diana, the goddess of fertility.
This cult was riddled with fertility rights disguised as religious duty, involving temple prostitutes and numerous sexual deviations that satisfied the base lusts of people.
There are those that try to persuade us that the sexual ethics of the New Testament are no longer relevant for Christians today. They even say that sexual ethics are unreasonable and unnecessary for we can control reproduction much better than they could in ancient days, and we are to celebrate our sexuality.
Many people in the church today are seriously into pornography and many men when caught lustfully discussing a woman, will say "we are admiring God's creation". _*Oh how they are deceived.*_
There were those in the church in Ephesus deceiving people in this very area, says Paul, who brought themselves under the wrath of God. It is not that God is anti-sex, or does not appreciate physical pleasure. *After all He created it but its fulfillment is found in a right context, apart from which it brings only trouble and pain.* The evidence of that is all around us.
_*We should all be careful of allowing the culture around us to normalise sin and deceive us about its sting.* _
PRAYER: Lift up any unclean thoughts to God in prayer today. Bring them to the light of Christ and ask for help to overcome them in Jesus name.
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GOD THINKS ABOUT YOU EVERYDAY.
Ephesians 5:3
We live in a sex-saturated world today, but in many ways this isn’t new. The Apostle Paul wrote from a context where sexual immorality had been normalized as fully as in our own day. Paul wrote to the Ephesians knowing Ephesus was a city built on the worship of the goddess Diana, the goddess of fertility.
This cult was riddled with fertility rights disguised as religious duty, involving temple prostitutes and numerous sexual deviations that satisfied the base lusts of people.
There are those that try to persuade us that the sexual ethics of the New Testament are no longer relevant for Christians today. They even say that sexual ethics are unreasonable and unnecessary for we can control reproduction much better than they could in ancient days, and we are to celebrate our sexuality.
Many people in the church today are seriously into pornography and many men when caught lustfully discussing a woman, will say "we are admiring God's creation". _*Oh how they are deceived.*_
There were those in the church in Ephesus deceiving people in this very area, says Paul, who brought themselves under the wrath of God. It is not that God is anti-sex, or does not appreciate physical pleasure. *After all He created it but its fulfillment is found in a right context, apart from which it brings only trouble and pain.* The evidence of that is all around us.
_*We should all be careful of allowing the culture around us to normalise sin and deceive us about its sting.* _
PRAYER: Lift up any unclean thoughts to God in prayer today. Bring them to the light of Christ and ask for help to overcome them in Jesus name.
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GOD THINKS ABOUT YOU EVERYDAY.
CHASING THE WIND
*I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.*
Ecclesiastes 1:14
There are three words or phrases that are key to understanding Ecclesiastes. First, Solomon writes that, ‘ *Everything is meaningless* ’ The second phrase is ‘ *under the sun* .’ Here the writer looks at life as only what he can see, touch, feel, smell and hear. The third phrase says that his pursuit of meaning is like ‘ *chasing the wind* .’
Ecclesiastes could have been written today. When people try to make sense of life without God, we can only come to one honest conclusion: ‘ *Everything is meaningless* .’
We are left to create an artificial sense of meaning and purpose as the writer says he did, through wine, work, silver and gold, good food, plenty of sex, only to conclude, ‘I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. ... Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun’ (Ecclesiastes 2:10-11).
It is only at the end of the book he wakes up to the truth: ‘Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: *Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind* ’(Ecclesiastes 12:13.) That alone gives lasting meaning!
*_The hard truth is that we cannot make sense of life without God._ *
What are you pursuing to find meaning? Is it things of the physical world or the things of God?
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please help me to be a Heavenly minded Christian in Jesus mighty name.....Amen.
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BELOVED IN CHRIST, SINCERELY CHASE AFTER GOD.
Ecclesiastes 1:14
There are three words or phrases that are key to understanding Ecclesiastes. First, Solomon writes that, ‘ *Everything is meaningless* ’ The second phrase is ‘ *under the sun* .’ Here the writer looks at life as only what he can see, touch, feel, smell and hear. The third phrase says that his pursuit of meaning is like ‘ *chasing the wind* .’
Ecclesiastes could have been written today. When people try to make sense of life without God, we can only come to one honest conclusion: ‘ *Everything is meaningless* .’
We are left to create an artificial sense of meaning and purpose as the writer says he did, through wine, work, silver and gold, good food, plenty of sex, only to conclude, ‘I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. ... Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun’ (Ecclesiastes 2:10-11).
It is only at the end of the book he wakes up to the truth: ‘Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: *Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind* ’(Ecclesiastes 12:13.) That alone gives lasting meaning!
*_The hard truth is that we cannot make sense of life without God._ *
What are you pursuing to find meaning? Is it things of the physical world or the things of God?
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please help me to be a Heavenly minded Christian in Jesus mighty name.....Amen.
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BELOVED IN CHRIST, SINCERELY CHASE AFTER GOD.
Friday 6 April 2018
THE FATHER'S TIME
*The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.*
1 Thessalonians 5:24
A wise older man told me when I was young that I need three things for life's journey: ‘ *You need patience, and then you need more patience, and then you need still more patience.* 'He was right.
We are always in a hurry. But God works to a different time frame than we do. We are limited by time but God doesn’t wear a watch, carry a calendar or use an iPhone.
When Abraham came to Canaan and God promised him that he would have a son and from that son would come a nation, he was 75 years old and his wife was 65. Finally, it was when Abraham was 100 years of age and Sarah was 90 that she finally gave birth to the son who had been promised, Isaac.
But what about the nation that was part of the promise? Even 85 years after God had promised Abraham a nation would come from his body, all he had was two baby grandchildren born to Isaac
and his wife, Rebekah. But the purposes of God were slowly (very slowly) coming to pass.
Patience isn’t easy. We must trust the divine timing of God. His delays in our eyes are not His denials.
*God doesn’t keep looking at His watch, but He does everything on schedule.*
Do you trust God’s timing in the areas you are impatient?
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please help me to be patient and to trust You all the days of my life especially in the most difficult days of my life. In Jesus mighty name....Amen🙏🏼
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LET'S PREPARE OURSELVES TO MEET JESUS
1 Thessalonians 5:24
A wise older man told me when I was young that I need three things for life's journey: ‘ *You need patience, and then you need more patience, and then you need still more patience.* 'He was right.
We are always in a hurry. But God works to a different time frame than we do. We are limited by time but God doesn’t wear a watch, carry a calendar or use an iPhone.
When Abraham came to Canaan and God promised him that he would have a son and from that son would come a nation, he was 75 years old and his wife was 65. Finally, it was when Abraham was 100 years of age and Sarah was 90 that she finally gave birth to the son who had been promised, Isaac.
But what about the nation that was part of the promise? Even 85 years after God had promised Abraham a nation would come from his body, all he had was two baby grandchildren born to Isaac
and his wife, Rebekah. But the purposes of God were slowly (very slowly) coming to pass.
Patience isn’t easy. We must trust the divine timing of God. His delays in our eyes are not His denials.
*God doesn’t keep looking at His watch, but He does everything on schedule.*
Do you trust God’s timing in the areas you are impatient?
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please help me to be patient and to trust You all the days of my life especially in the most difficult days of my life. In Jesus mighty name....Amen🙏🏼
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LET'S PREPARE OURSELVES TO MEET JESUS
THE REAL JESUS
*For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you may well put up with it.*
2 Corinthians 11:4
Paul tells the Christians in Corinth that it is possible to create their own Jesus. There are different versions of Jesus, usually tailored to fit our own particular needs or selfish interests. It wasn’t unique to Corinth.
It is easy to start with a sense of our needs, wants or aspirations, and design a Jesus who meets them. How do we know the real Jesus?
For a start, we don’t have to invent Him, for everything we know about Him in Scripture is sufficient for all we need to know.
He was born, lived, acted and interacted with people, died, was raised and ascended to heaven. *He not only taught the truth, He embodied the truth and is the truth.*
Everything we need to know about God, we see in Jesus. Many people are encouraged to close their eyes and ask Jesus to reveal Himself to them. No, don’t do that. Open your eyes and read the revelation of Christ that He has
given in His Word. As you do so, in a spirit of humility, He will step out of the Bible to become a living companion.
_*If you’re going to look for Jesus, look for Him where He has revealed Himself....In the Scriptures.*_
Are you getting to know the Christ of the Word?
PRAYER: Beloved in Christ, pray for the revelation of Christ through the Scriptures and for the spiritual interpretation of the Word of God.
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SEEK TO KNOW CHRIST MORE FOR YOURSELF.
2 Corinthians 11:4
Paul tells the Christians in Corinth that it is possible to create their own Jesus. There are different versions of Jesus, usually tailored to fit our own particular needs or selfish interests. It wasn’t unique to Corinth.
It is easy to start with a sense of our needs, wants or aspirations, and design a Jesus who meets them. How do we know the real Jesus?
For a start, we don’t have to invent Him, for everything we know about Him in Scripture is sufficient for all we need to know.
He was born, lived, acted and interacted with people, died, was raised and ascended to heaven. *He not only taught the truth, He embodied the truth and is the truth.*
Everything we need to know about God, we see in Jesus. Many people are encouraged to close their eyes and ask Jesus to reveal Himself to them. No, don’t do that. Open your eyes and read the revelation of Christ that He has
given in His Word. As you do so, in a spirit of humility, He will step out of the Bible to become a living companion.
_*If you’re going to look for Jesus, look for Him where He has revealed Himself....In the Scriptures.*_
Are you getting to know the Christ of the Word?
PRAYER: Beloved in Christ, pray for the revelation of Christ through the Scriptures and for the spiritual interpretation of the Word of God.
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SEEK TO KNOW CHRIST MORE FOR YOURSELF.
BURIED WITH CHRIST
Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures. 1 Corinthians 15:3-4
Jesus should never have been buried. Having died as a criminal, His body became the possession of the Roman authority. In Jerusalem, bodies of criminals were thrown into a gorge on the south side of the city wall known as the Valley of Gehenna. In Jesus’ day, the Valley of Gehenna was a garbage dump. The bodies of dead animals and criminals were incinerated with the garbage.
The bodies of the two thieves crucified with Christ would have been disposed of here. But Jesus had a wealthy friend who rescued His body. This was prophesied
years in advance by Isaiah, when he wrote, ‘He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death’(Isaiah 53:9).
Paul states in Romans 6:4, ‘We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death.’ It is important to know we were ‘buried with him,’ because burial is final. We speak of something being ‘dead and buried’ when there is no hope of it coming back. The burial of Christ says that He took my sin to the Cross; He died my death and was buried.
It is over. We must see ourselves united to Christ in His burial. Our sin is dead and buried.
*_We are not only united to Christ in His death and resurrection, but also in His burial._*
You have accepted that you have died with Christ, but do you know the implications of being buried with Him too?
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please help me to understand the implications of being buried with You and to live my life as such in the name of Jesus I pray.....Amen🙏🏼
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JESUS CARES FOR YOU
Jesus should never have been buried. Having died as a criminal, His body became the possession of the Roman authority. In Jerusalem, bodies of criminals were thrown into a gorge on the south side of the city wall known as the Valley of Gehenna. In Jesus’ day, the Valley of Gehenna was a garbage dump. The bodies of dead animals and criminals were incinerated with the garbage.
The bodies of the two thieves crucified with Christ would have been disposed of here. But Jesus had a wealthy friend who rescued His body. This was prophesied
years in advance by Isaiah, when he wrote, ‘He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death’(Isaiah 53:9).
Paul states in Romans 6:4, ‘We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death.’ It is important to know we were ‘buried with him,’ because burial is final. We speak of something being ‘dead and buried’ when there is no hope of it coming back. The burial of Christ says that He took my sin to the Cross; He died my death and was buried.
It is over. We must see ourselves united to Christ in His burial. Our sin is dead and buried.
*_We are not only united to Christ in His death and resurrection, but also in His burial._*
You have accepted that you have died with Christ, but do you know the implications of being buried with Him too?
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please help me to understand the implications of being buried with You and to live my life as such in the name of Jesus I pray.....Amen🙏🏼
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JESUS CARES FOR YOU
DON'T GIVE UP
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. John 6:44
God’s work is to draw people to Himself. Jesus says, ‘No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them’ (John 6:44). We can’t predict how or in what circumstances God may do that, but we know that He will do it. It’s not easy to wait for God’s timing.
Don’t give up my dear. Your very presence is a means by which God may be at work revealing Himself. Jesus said to His disciples, ‘ *You are the light of the world* ’(Matthew 5:14). On another occasion He said, ‘ *I am the light of the world* ’ (John 9:5). His work of reaching others is done through the people in whom He lives.
We shine by virtue of the fact that He is the Light of the world and lives in us. *When He said, ‘I am the light of the world,’ He qualified it by saying, ‘While I am in the world, I am the light of the world’* (John 9:5).
Don’t underestimate what God is doing in us and through us. We don’t have to see it and we certainly don’t have to feel that we are shining brightly but if we are connecting with the Source of light in fellowship with God, it will be His business to show Himself to others though us. The alternative is to hide our light under a bowl so that the house will never see the light (Matthew 5:15).
*_When a person comes into a relationship with God, they bring the presence of God into every situation they participate in._ *
Are you living as a light of the world or are you hiding it under a bowl?
PRAYER: Ask our Father in Heaven to help you shine brighter and to connect you with those in whose heart He is at work.
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BRIGHTEN THE CORNER YOU FIND YOURSELF
God’s work is to draw people to Himself. Jesus says, ‘No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them’ (John 6:44). We can’t predict how or in what circumstances God may do that, but we know that He will do it. It’s not easy to wait for God’s timing.
Don’t give up my dear. Your very presence is a means by which God may be at work revealing Himself. Jesus said to His disciples, ‘ *You are the light of the world* ’(Matthew 5:14). On another occasion He said, ‘ *I am the light of the world* ’ (John 9:5). His work of reaching others is done through the people in whom He lives.
We shine by virtue of the fact that He is the Light of the world and lives in us. *When He said, ‘I am the light of the world,’ He qualified it by saying, ‘While I am in the world, I am the light of the world’* (John 9:5).
Don’t underestimate what God is doing in us and through us. We don’t have to see it and we certainly don’t have to feel that we are shining brightly but if we are connecting with the Source of light in fellowship with God, it will be His business to show Himself to others though us. The alternative is to hide our light under a bowl so that the house will never see the light (Matthew 5:15).
*_When a person comes into a relationship with God, they bring the presence of God into every situation they participate in._ *
Are you living as a light of the world or are you hiding it under a bowl?
PRAYER: Ask our Father in Heaven to help you shine brighter and to connect you with those in whose heart He is at work.
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Thursday 5 April 2018
YOU NEED A BODY
Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. Ephesians 4:15
‘I am a Christian but I, have difficulty knowing why I need to be in church every week’. This is a the question many young believers often ask.
Part of the answer to the question is that we are not only individuals in a personal relationship with God. We are being built together with other believers as a functioning body, inter dependent on one another and complementing each other.
Many of us put high prizes on our individualism but we were never intended to live and function alone. We were created for relationship. From the very beginning, God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness’ (Genesis 1:26). The ‘our’ is the trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Human beings were intended to express relationship as well as being individuals. Hence, ‘it is not good for the man to be alone’ (Genesis 2:18). Everything God had created He had declared ‘good’ until now and one of the things that was ‘good’ was that it is ‘not good’ for man to be alone.
*Individualism is a weakness, not a strength.* The need for others is essential to our personal well-being. In our Christian life, the Church is essential to our health and well-being. The New Testament vision of the Church includes, ‘ *From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work’* (Ephesians 4:16)
Are you a faithful, active part of the Church, which is the body of Christ on earth? If not, how can you be so?
PRAYER: Almighty God, I humbly ask that you help me to position myself and to function well in the body of Christ...Amen🙏🏼
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JESUS CHRIST IS COMING SOON
‘I am a Christian but I, have difficulty knowing why I need to be in church every week’. This is a the question many young believers often ask.
Part of the answer to the question is that we are not only individuals in a personal relationship with God. We are being built together with other believers as a functioning body, inter dependent on one another and complementing each other.
Many of us put high prizes on our individualism but we were never intended to live and function alone. We were created for relationship. From the very beginning, God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness’ (Genesis 1:26). The ‘our’ is the trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Human beings were intended to express relationship as well as being individuals. Hence, ‘it is not good for the man to be alone’ (Genesis 2:18). Everything God had created He had declared ‘good’ until now and one of the things that was ‘good’ was that it is ‘not good’ for man to be alone.
*Individualism is a weakness, not a strength.* The need for others is essential to our personal well-being. In our Christian life, the Church is essential to our health and well-being. The New Testament vision of the Church includes, ‘ *From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work’* (Ephesians 4:16)
Are you a faithful, active part of the Church, which is the body of Christ on earth? If not, how can you be so?
PRAYER: Almighty God, I humbly ask that you help me to position myself and to function well in the body of Christ...Amen🙏🏼
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ONE THING
One thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13-14
Paul focuses on ‘one thing’ in this passage. He confesses that he hasn’t arrived in the Christian life but he’s narrowed his focus to just one thing, not 25 things he is dabbling with but ‘one thing’ (Philippians 3:13).
What’s that one thing? Paul sets his statement in a context of forgetting what is behind. The past can be a big stumbling block for us. It can act like a ball and chain that holds us back in old ways, old habits, old sins and old assumptions.
It takes deliberate intention to ‘forget what is behind and strain forward to what is ahead’ (Philippians 3:13).
There are two aspects to our goal: *destination and means* . The destination is ‘the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus; that one day, fully restored into His image we will enjoy Him forever (Philippians 3:14). The means is: ‘I want to know Christ. Yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings’ (Philippians 3:10).
To know Christ is to know the power of His resurrection life and to know the power of His resurrection is to be equipped to share His sufferings. It is not an avoidance of suffering that comes with knowing Christ but an equipping to face and live in it.
James speaks of having ‘patience in the face of suffering’ (James 5:10). Is this the one thing you do?
What would it mean for you to narrow your focus to just one thing? Think about it.
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I humbly ask that in the mist of all these adversities help to be focus on You and Your Kingdom....Amen🙏🏼
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SEEK FIRST AND ALWAYS THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
Paul focuses on ‘one thing’ in this passage. He confesses that he hasn’t arrived in the Christian life but he’s narrowed his focus to just one thing, not 25 things he is dabbling with but ‘one thing’ (Philippians 3:13).
What’s that one thing? Paul sets his statement in a context of forgetting what is behind. The past can be a big stumbling block for us. It can act like a ball and chain that holds us back in old ways, old habits, old sins and old assumptions.
It takes deliberate intention to ‘forget what is behind and strain forward to what is ahead’ (Philippians 3:13).
There are two aspects to our goal: *destination and means* . The destination is ‘the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus; that one day, fully restored into His image we will enjoy Him forever (Philippians 3:14). The means is: ‘I want to know Christ. Yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings’ (Philippians 3:10).
To know Christ is to know the power of His resurrection life and to know the power of His resurrection is to be equipped to share His sufferings. It is not an avoidance of suffering that comes with knowing Christ but an equipping to face and live in it.
James speaks of having ‘patience in the face of suffering’ (James 5:10). Is this the one thing you do?
What would it mean for you to narrow your focus to just one thing? Think about it.
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I humbly ask that in the mist of all these adversities help to be focus on You and Your Kingdom....Amen🙏🏼
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MEASURING GROWTH
And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:18
The measure of our spiritual growth is not that we know more of the Bible this year than last year, or that we are engaging in more Christian service than last year or attending more Christian events.
These may be good, but they are not the measure of spiritual growth. *It is the extent to which the life of Jesus Christ is seen in us* that is the true measure of Christian growth. In practical terms, the way we treat our spouse and children, our friends, our colleagues at work, the way we talk to the neighbours (or more tellingly, the way we talk about
them) is the true measure of our spiritual life.
Paul called this ‘the fruit of the Spirit’ (Galatians 5:22-23) for its origin is in the work of the Spirit within us. It is not instantaneous, but a process of ‘being transformed into his image with ever increasing glory’ (2 Corinthians 3:18). Reaching perfection is a gradual process but one day we will be fully restored into the moral likeness of
God.
The Gospel is about restoring the character of God into human experience.
What fruit of the Spirit are evident in your relationships?
PRAYER: Almighty Father, please help me to reflect the Spirit of Christ in me to the whole world...
.Amen🙏🏼
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2 Corinthians 3:18
The measure of our spiritual growth is not that we know more of the Bible this year than last year, or that we are engaging in more Christian service than last year or attending more Christian events.
These may be good, but they are not the measure of spiritual growth. *It is the extent to which the life of Jesus Christ is seen in us* that is the true measure of Christian growth. In practical terms, the way we treat our spouse and children, our friends, our colleagues at work, the way we talk to the neighbours (or more tellingly, the way we talk about
them) is the true measure of our spiritual life.
Paul called this ‘the fruit of the Spirit’ (Galatians 5:22-23) for its origin is in the work of the Spirit within us. It is not instantaneous, but a process of ‘being transformed into his image with ever increasing glory’ (2 Corinthians 3:18). Reaching perfection is a gradual process but one day we will be fully restored into the moral likeness of
God.
The Gospel is about restoring the character of God into human experience.
What fruit of the Spirit are evident in your relationships?
PRAYER: Almighty Father, please help me to reflect the Spirit of Christ in me to the whole world...
.Amen🙏🏼
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TRUST GOD TO THE END
Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son. Genesis 22:12
It was after Abraham bound his son Isaac, laid him on the altar, and took the knife to slay him, that God called from heaven and told him not to lay a hand on the boy.
This hadn’t been an easy journey for Abraham, you can be sure of that. After God had promised him a son, it took 25 years for Isaac to arrive. *Abraham in the meantime had wavered and fathered Ishmael by the maid Hagar in an attempt to get the will of God done.*
It was only when exhausted of human resources that Abraham finally learned that *what God says, God will do – in His own
time,* and Isaac was born.
God now tested Abraham and asked him to sacrifice the son he had waited so long for. Abraham, this time, obeyed and trusted God to the extent that if God had to raise him from the dead to fulfill the purpose He had stated for Isaac, then so be it. Abraham was no longer trying to organize things on God’s behalf. He trusted God to the very end.
Is God testing you over a promise He has made to you that your circumstances seem to be in conflict with? Trust Him to the end.
Are you being tempted to take things into your own hands because of God’s seeming inactivity? Please trust Him to the end.
PRAYER: Almighty Father, I humbly ask for grace to trust You all the days of my life. In Jesus' name I have prayed....Amen🙏🏼
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It was after Abraham bound his son Isaac, laid him on the altar, and took the knife to slay him, that God called from heaven and told him not to lay a hand on the boy.
This hadn’t been an easy journey for Abraham, you can be sure of that. After God had promised him a son, it took 25 years for Isaac to arrive. *Abraham in the meantime had wavered and fathered Ishmael by the maid Hagar in an attempt to get the will of God done.*
It was only when exhausted of human resources that Abraham finally learned that *what God says, God will do – in His own
time,* and Isaac was born.
God now tested Abraham and asked him to sacrifice the son he had waited so long for. Abraham, this time, obeyed and trusted God to the extent that if God had to raise him from the dead to fulfill the purpose He had stated for Isaac, then so be it. Abraham was no longer trying to organize things on God’s behalf. He trusted God to the very end.
Is God testing you over a promise He has made to you that your circumstances seem to be in conflict with? Trust Him to the end.
Are you being tempted to take things into your own hands because of God’s seeming inactivity? Please trust Him to the end.
PRAYER: Almighty Father, I humbly ask for grace to trust You all the days of my life. In Jesus' name I have prayed....Amen🙏🏼
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THE ROOT CAUSE
You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, “You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgement But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgement. Matthew 5:21-22
I can imagine the response of the people in the crowd when Jesus said, ‘You have heard that it was said...you shall not murder’(Matthew 5:21).
Many in the crowd probably said, ‘We never murder – we keep the law.’ Then Jesus told them that if they were angry with their brother or sister, even though they would never put a knife in their back, they were already guilty of murder.
Jesus was not changing the law; He was tracing the effect it addresses back to its cause. Behind murder lies anger. He went on to say that behind adultery lies lust. The law can only deal with symptoms, but the work of Jesus Christ was to deal with causes.
It is in the deep recesses of the human heart that the Gospel does its work. It addresses our pride, anger, lust and greed; all of which produce ugly symptoms if not dealt with. Hence Jesus said, ‘I have not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it’ (Matthew 5:17).
The failure of human history does not demand He change the law and make life easier, but that He goes to the heart and deals with the issues that lie at the cause of our sin – our fallen self.
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please go into the depths of my heart, expose my sin and cleanse me deeply in Jesus mighty name....Amen🙏🏼
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I can imagine the response of the people in the crowd when Jesus said, ‘You have heard that it was said...you shall not murder’(Matthew 5:21).
Many in the crowd probably said, ‘We never murder – we keep the law.’ Then Jesus told them that if they were angry with their brother or sister, even though they would never put a knife in their back, they were already guilty of murder.
Jesus was not changing the law; He was tracing the effect it addresses back to its cause. Behind murder lies anger. He went on to say that behind adultery lies lust. The law can only deal with symptoms, but the work of Jesus Christ was to deal with causes.
It is in the deep recesses of the human heart that the Gospel does its work. It addresses our pride, anger, lust and greed; all of which produce ugly symptoms if not dealt with. Hence Jesus said, ‘I have not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it’ (Matthew 5:17).
The failure of human history does not demand He change the law and make life easier, but that He goes to the heart and deals with the issues that lie at the cause of our sin – our fallen self.
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please go into the depths of my heart, expose my sin and cleanse me deeply in Jesus mighty name....Amen🙏🏼
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NO COUNTERFEIT LOVE
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:1
Why do you think love is held up as the highest virtue in this passage in 1 Corinthians 13? It’s because *God is love* and the mark of genuine spiritual activity is the measure to which God is expressing Himself in love.
We can be the recipients of spiritual gifts and exercise them with expertise, but if they are not exercised in love, they are noise without melody, like clanging cymbals or the banging of a gong.
We might be able to mimic spiritual gifts and certainly we can engage in Christian service in our own human energy, but we cannot mimic genuine love. We might put on a show for a while, but ultimately it will fail. Soon our self interest will begin to take over our interest in the wellbeing of others.
It is possible to engage in Christian ministry for self-fulfillment rather than out of love for those we minister to and serve. The truth is, we are fulfilled by serving others, but never when that is the primary object.
Our work is effective and fruitful when expressed out of love for Christ and dependence on Him. It is then that His presence in us
manifests. *We are not simply to imitate Christ, but to let Christ, whose very nature is love, be Himself in us.*
We can counterfeit spiritual gifts, but we can never counterfeit love.
Are there actions in your Christian life that are lacking love? Look within yourself and talk to your Heavenly Father.
PRAYER: Almighty God, I humbly pray for grace to love more.....Amen
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JESUS WANTS YOU TO LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR.
THE EXCHANGED LIFE
Whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.
Matthew 16:25
There was no middle ground of discipleship to Jesus. *People could not be half in and half out.* He challenged his disciples: ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me' (Mathew 16:24).
This was the very thing the disciples told Jesus not to do. After telling them He would go to Jerusalem and die, Peter said ‘Never Lord…This shall never happen to you’ (Mathew 16:22). But that is exactly what it takes to be a disciple of Jesus, *an obedience right to the end;* including to death if need be.
That is when Jesus gave the challenge: If you want to save your life, go ahead, but you will lose it in the end. If you lose your life, however, you will find it (Matthew 16:25).
One great servant of God wrote these words in his diary: ‘ *He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose* .’
Everything we give to Jesus Christ is only for a short time, but everything He gives us is eternal. That’s why it’s a fool who says, ‘I want to hang on to my own life and do my own thing.’ *As we hand over our life to Jesus Christ, He hands over His life to us* .
It is called ‘ *the exchanged life* .’ What may look like loss in our naivety is really gain.
Are you living the exchanged life? Are your resources found in Christ?
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I offer my life to You, please use it for your glory in Jesus name....Amen🙏🏼
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HE'S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28
Does God really have the whole world in His hands like we sing in the famous song? Pick up any newspaper on almost any day and you will find stories of terror, deceit, war, injustice and poverty.
What do we do with tragedy in our lives? There are many factors involved in what happens to us every day. Natural factors that are just a part of the physical world are involved in our lives.
The Bible says that the sun rises and sets on the righteous and the unrighteous (Matthew 5:45). There are also spiritual factors
involved in our daily lives, the devil is active in this world too, tempting us like he tempted Jesus in the desert but there are divine factors at work too.
Even in the bad things, God is
active. *Like in the story of Job, or Joseph, or anyone under attack,
though the battle is real, God is working out something good.*
It is not that *'things work for good’* as some translations have put it, but that *‘in all things God works for good’* (Romans 8:28). It is not the ‘things’ that are good (they may in fact be evil), but in them God works out purposes that are good.
For that, we can trust him.
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I thank You that You are always active even in the middle of my worst days...Amen🙏🏼
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GOD IS ALWAYS WATCHING OVER YOU.
Does God really have the whole world in His hands like we sing in the famous song? Pick up any newspaper on almost any day and you will find stories of terror, deceit, war, injustice and poverty.
What do we do with tragedy in our lives? There are many factors involved in what happens to us every day. Natural factors that are just a part of the physical world are involved in our lives.
The Bible says that the sun rises and sets on the righteous and the unrighteous (Matthew 5:45). There are also spiritual factors
involved in our daily lives, the devil is active in this world too, tempting us like he tempted Jesus in the desert but there are divine factors at work too.
Even in the bad things, God is
active. *Like in the story of Job, or Joseph, or anyone under attack,
though the battle is real, God is working out something good.*
It is not that *'things work for good’* as some translations have put it, but that *‘in all things God works for good’* (Romans 8:28). It is not the ‘things’ that are good (they may in fact be evil), but in them God works out purposes that are good.
For that, we can trust him.
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I thank You that You are always active even in the middle of my worst days...Amen🙏🏼
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FULLNESS OF CHRIST
Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Ephesians 4:11-13
Paul mentions the fullness of Christ in this passage from the Book of Ephesians but what does he mean? I suggest that the fullness of Christ, in contrast to the fullness of the Holy Spirit, *refers to seeing the character of Christ in a person.* When we are living in the fullness of Christ we exhibit His love, His kindness, His generosity, and His patience; something of His own character.
What’s more, when we are living in the fullness of Christ, we meet people not with judgment, but with compassion. Jesus knew the woman at the well had been married multiple times but He
met her with love and understanding of her deep
need that drove her to so many men.
*She was thirsty and thirsty people will drink dirty water if they do not know where to find the clean, living water, which Jesus offered her.*
When we live in the fullness of Christ, we see the world with compassionate eyes.
In the person of Christ we see God’s moral character.
PRAYER: Everlasting Father, I humbly submit myself to you, please give me the grace to live in the fullness of Christ....Amen
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IRRELEVANT WORSHIP
A time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father
seeks. John 4:23
There is a marked difference between the Old Testament descriptions of worship and the New Testament descriptions of worship. Old Testament worship required a specific place, a detailed form and prescribed regulations.
God gave Moses instructions for building the tabernacle. Solomon replaced the tabernacle with a permanent temple. *To be acceptable you had to be in the right place, engaging in the right rituals, operated by the right priests, at the right times.*
The New Testament is radically different. With Christ came the New Covenant focusing entirely on internals. *Worship no longer had
to do with special buildings, rituals or priests.*
What was now most important was the heart and life of the worshipper, reconnected to
God through the work of Jesus.
The Samaritans wanted to worship on their mountain, the Jews in Jerusalem. Jesus’ response to the woman of Samaria was that ‘True worshippers will worship the
Father in the Spirit and in truth’ (John 4:23). It’s not about external rituals any more, but a genuine relationship with God that expresses itself in spirit and in truth. Externals are no longer criteria in the New Covenant.
Worship has little to do with
external rituals but everything
to do with internal realities.
What is the focus of your worship – the externals or internals?
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I continuously need your help to sincerely worship you as the new covenant demands in Jesus mighty name....Amen🙏🏼
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LET YOUR EXTERNALS BE A REFLECTION OF YOUR INTERNAL
DO WHAT YOU WANT
It is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. Philippians 2:13
A great man once said: ‘ *If you love God, you can do as you please.’* What he meant was that if you love God, what pleases you will be what pleases God.
When we love the things God loves, and hate the things God hates, we can live as we please. The Psalmist wrote, ‘Take delight in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart’ (Psalm 37:4), not meaning he will give you anything you desire but that the desires themselves will be God-given desires.
This is a good way to live. God leads us by working in us to will and act in order to fulfill His good purpose, so that He puts His Will into our minds and hearts. I am sometimes asked the question about an issue, ‘Do you think this is God’s Will or mine?’ I sometimes answer, ‘Have you ever considered it might be both? It is your will because it is God’s Will, and He has put this desire into your hearts.’
There are other checks for discerning the Will of God – the Scriptures, our circumstances, wholesome advice from those who know us well – but often His leading us begins with giving us right desires.
What God works out through us,
He first works in us.
How do you think God is molding your mind to His?
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please help me to live according to your will. In Jesus' name I humbly ask....Amen🙏🏼
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LIVING THE WORD
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness. 2 Timothy 3:16
We must live the Christian life by the Word of God. This is a recurring theme in Paul’s two letters to Timothy. Paul is encouraging young Timothy, saying, ‘Timothy, both in the operation of the church you have been sent to Ephesus to lead and in the operation of your own personal life, you must live according to the Word of God.’
This Word is God-breathed, authoritative and life-giving.
But that doesn’t mean it is easy.
In 2 Timothy, Paul talks about the challenges of living according to the Word as being like a soldier (disciplined), an athlete (determined), a farmer (patient), and a workman (conscientious) (see 2 Timothy 2:3,5-6 and 15).
In those pursuits, there is discipline, perseverance and hard work. Timothy was timid, so Paul reminds him, saying he must cast aside his timidity and with the Word of God, *correct, rebuke and encourage - with great
patience and careful instruction* (2 Timothy 4:2).
Timothy must have been exasperating Paul because he writes some rebuke to Timothy, exhorting him not to slacken, but on the grounds of the authoritative Word of God to ‘Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season’ (2 Timothy 4:2), which is to take
opportunities (‘in season’) and make opportunities (‘out of season’).
How are we doing in these areas?
Is the Word of God your foundation?
As disciples we must live by the Word of God.
PRAYER: Almighty God, I humbly ask for a strong desire to study your word in other to know and to live by it. In Jesus' name..Amen🙏🏼
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TOO ADULT
Whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:4
Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven? I think Jesus surprised, if not shocked, His disciples when He answered by calling a little child and telling His disciples that this child was the model of greatness in His Kingdom.
In Jesus’ day children were to be seen and not heard; they were non-entities waiting to become something. There are many aspects to childlikeness. We love their innocence, their sense of wonder, their joy, their quick delight in things, but above all, children are marked by their innocent dependence.
Jesus told His disciples they had to ‘change and become like little children.’ In normal life, there comes a time when we tell children they must change and become like adults and grow up.
In the spiritual life, the reverse is true. *The danger is that we become too adult, too clever, too sufficient in ourselves, and too self-contained.* A return to childlike wonder, love and dependency is essential for spiritual growth. *This is not to be childish, but childlike.*
Jesus told His disciples, ‘Whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven’ (Matthew 18:4). The bar is not going high, it is coming low.
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I humbly ask that you help me to be more child-like in Jesus mighty name.....Amen🙏🏼
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GOD CARES FOR YOU AS MUCH AS HE CARED FOR JESUS
DESPITE OURSELVES
I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised.... whose weakness was turned to strength. Hebrews 11:32-34
Hebrews Chapter 11 is a catalogue of men and women who lived by faith. We may think of them as the heroes of the faith, but if we are honest, it’s more like a police collection of photography of known suspects. How does our grandfather Samson get a mention? You look almost in vain for his redeemable features. Rahab was a prostitute who lied on behalf of the Israelite spies and yet is commended for her faith.
Faith is a disposition of trust in God that looks to God to work. If I put faith in a chair, I let the chair do something for me. If I put faith in a car, I let the car do something for me. Putting faith in God is passing the responsibility to God and letting Him do something.
When Samson was attacked by a lion, ‘The Spirit of the Lord came
powerfully upon him, so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands’ (Judges 14:6); and ‘the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him’ (14:19), when he attacked the Philistines in Ashkelon. This doesn’t
justify the mess he was making of his personal life, but it does mean that when he cried out to God, God intervened. We don’t have to get ourselves cleaned up to trust God, we come as we are. But as He works in us and through us, His holiness will begin to permeate our lives. *Righteousness is never found in ourselves, it is found in God.*
Are you living the Christian life by works or by His strength?
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, thank you for hearing me anytime I call upon you.... Amen🙏🏼
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