JUST TRUST

And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:3

Jesus brings us back to childlikeness. What characterizes a child?
One thing is dependence. The humility of a child is expressed by their awareness of their lack of self-sufficiency. They are completely dependent on someone else.

Young children don’t clothe themselves or put their own food on the table yet they don’t worry. Doubts about these things don’t enter their mind. They just trust.

When we travel with our children, they are never worried about the bus fares, about
where they are going, or when they are
coming home. They just trust their parents. To live a wholesome Christian life, we must become
childlike again.

  *In the Christian life, we mature
by becoming childlike.*

A physical child grows from dependence to independence. *A spiritual child of God must grow from independence to dependence.* It is the reversal of the natural order of things.

Jesus is saying that we must change and it’s not going to be accidental.

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please help me become a child again, dependent on You alone every day.

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SECOND-HAND FAITH

So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.
Genesis 13:1

The sidebar to the story of Abraham is the story of Lot – Abraham’s nephew, the son of his brother Haran. We know that Haran died young, and perhaps Abraham adopted Lot, it’s hard to know. We do
know that when Abraham left Ur and came to Canaan, he took Lot with him, and when they found themselves in a famine, Lot went
with Abraham to Egypt. *Lot’s guidance came from what God told Abraham*

Lot’s value came from hanging around Abraham. The problem is that Lot did not know God for himself. While Abraham got direction from God, Lot just followed Abraham. While Abraham experienced God directly, *Lot’s relationship was
second-hand.*

His faith was only experienced in the slipstream of
Abraham’s relationship with God.
God calls us primarily to Himself. He may use others to help us get to know Him, but ultimately we must be weaned from them and
have our own relationship with God that is direct and personal. Lot failed to do this. When Lot became separated from Abraham, he had no personal relationship with God himself and inevitably spiraled away and ended up in Sodom, living in sin and despair and Abraham had to come and rescue him from Sodom.

The work of God in other people to help us can
never be a substitute for our own personal walk with God.

Do you have a first-hand or second-hand relationship with God?

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please help me to know you personally in Jesus mighty name....Amen.

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DO NOTHING YOURSELF

Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
John 5:19

Jesus, as a human being, professed no ability of His own when He said, ‘The Son can do nothing by himself.’ He also went on to say that He had no agenda of His own, ‘he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does’ (John 5:19).

The only agenda
He had was the agenda His Father prepared for
Him. Right through Jesus’ life this was the constant criteria for everything He did and everything He said. Jesus obeyed the Father and lived in complete dependence on Him.

When Paul says that we are to have the mind of Christ in
Philippians 2:5, he is speaking of this same dependency on God
and obedience to God. It’s not a passive dependency where we
do nothing, but an active obedience that derives from a dynamic sense of dependence upon the living, active life of Christ within us.

After all, he said to his disciples, ‘… apart from me you can do
nothing’ (John 15:5). It is a daily disposition of dependence and
obedience, no matter what.

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I depend entirely on You. Have Your way in me.

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GOOD DEBT

Let  no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled  the  law. Romans 13:8

None  of  us  likes  being  in  debt. As  far  as  financial  debts are concerned, the apostle  Paul  admonishes  us  to, ‘let  no  debt  remain  outstanding’ (Romans  13:8).  But  that’s  simply the  lead-in  to  his  real  point  in  the other  half  of  the  verse:  ‘except the  continuing  debt  to  love  one another’  (Romans  13:8).

It’s  like an  eternal loan.  It’s  our  debt to  love. How would it change  us if  we began  to  see  ourselves  as  being  in debt  to  the  world,  to our church members and  to  our neighbours?  Suddenly,  *we  wouldn’t have the luxury of responding ‘tit for tat’ in relationships.* Instead, we would have a debt of love to pay them regardless if we think they  deserve  our  love  or  not.

Love  has  nothing  to  do  with deserving.  That’s  radically  unique  to  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ, our  greatest  obligation  as  a  Church  is  not  to  ourselves  but  to others.  We carry a debt of love to the world.

 *Love is not an option for us as Christians but an obligation.  We are in debt to love.*

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, Please help me to love others as you have commanded me to do, in Jesus' name.....Amen

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OBJECT OF WORSHIP

Solid Rock Devotional
18th January, 2018

OBJECT OF WORSHIP

Do  not  let  anyone  who delights  in  false  humility  and the  worship  of  angels  disqualify  you.  Such  a  person also  goes  into  great  detail  about  what  they  have seen;  they  are  puffed  up  with  idle  notions  by  their unspiritual  mind. Colossians 2:18

Angels  have  become  popular  in  certain  sections of  our  culture.  We can even find  models  of  angels  for sale in different shops. People  apparently  buy  an  angel  for  their homes,  their  cars,  or  their  bookshelves.

The Bible makes it clear that there is one mediator between God and man and it’s *Christ* Himself. The worship of angels was one of the false doctrines being  taught  in  the  church  at  Colosse.  We  can  be  encouraged,  and even  comforted  that  angels  are  involved  in  life.  *The  name  angel means ‘messenger’,  but  they  are  carriers  of  messages  not  the  origin of  the  message.*

The constant warnings against idolatry in  Scripture, is  the  warning  against  elevating  anything  to  a  place  it  was  never  to be given. One thing we know angels say is this: ‘Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!’ (Revelation 5:11-12).  

 *We are never to worship angels not to talk of human beings. Let’s not elevate them, let’s join them to worship the king of Kings and Lord of Lords.*

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, Please help me keep my focus on You. You are the object of my worship and forever you will remain, in Jesus name.....Amen

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Matthew 16:13-28

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GLORY BOUND

Solid Rock Devotional
17th January, 2018

GLORY BOUND

Praise  be  to  the  God  and  Father  of  our  lord  jesus christ!  In  his  great  mercy  he  has  given  us  new  birth into  a  living  hope  through  the  resurrection  of  jesus christ  from  the  dead. 1 Peter 1:3

The  old  spirituals  that  we  still  sometimes  sing  are mostly  about  the  future,  because  in  those  dark days  of  slavery,  there  wasn’t  a  lot  to  be  glad  about in  the  here  and  now.
Those  songs  brought  joy  into the  hearts  of  ill-treated,  trodden  down  slaves,  being denied  the  dignity  and  freedom  every  human being deserves.  *They  sang  about  ‘crossing  the  Jordan’, about  ‘glory’  and  although  ‘Soon  and  very  soon  we are  going  to  see  the  King’  was  a  later  song* ,  that  was the spirit  of  their  music.

This  is  not  escapism. We  can  sing  about  the  future  because  in  the darkest  times  of  life, one  thing  remains  sure.  *God  raised  Jesus from  the  dead,  and  ‘Because  He  lives,  you  also  will  live (John  14:19).*

We enjoy His resurrected life  today,  indwelling  and  enabling  us to live  well,  but we also have the certain hope of a future resurrection from the dead. This ‘living hope’ overrides the worst nightmares of life  and  gives  to  us  one  of  the  most  important  ingredients  of  life  - hope.

We can say with Paul about the present and the future, ‘ *For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain’ (Philippians 1:21).*
Is  your  Christian  life  about  what  God  does  in  you, or  about  your human efforts?

PRAYER: My Father and my Lord, I thank you for life and the hope you have given me. Am so grateful for the gift of Jesus Christ......Amen

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Matthew 11:20-30

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WATCH YOUR MOUTH

Solid Rock Devotional
16th January, 2018

WATCH YOUR MOUTH

All of them were filled with the holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
Acts 2:4

If you want to know what’s going on in somebody’s heart, just stay around and listen to what comes out of their mouth especially when they are off guard. What happens in the heart will find its way out through the mouth.

In all  Post-Pentecost references to people being filled with the Spirit, something immediately happened to their mouth. On the day of Pentecost they spoke in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. On other occasions they spoke the Word of God boldly, or on one occasion issued a rebuke: ‘Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked straight at Elymas and said, “You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right!” (Acts 13:9-10).

After Paul tells the Ephesians to ‘be filled with the Spirit’ he immediately says, ‘ *Speak* to one another with psalms, hymns and songs from the Spirit,’ (Ephesians 5:18-19).

When the Holy Spirit fills us, there will be something to talk about and something to sing about. Singing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs is an expression of the Holy Spirit’s presence in our hearts.

Therefore to not speak good words and to not sing good songs will be to grieve the Holy Spirit, and quench the outworking of His fullness.

Is there evidence of the Spirit in what comes out of  your mouth? Think about this.

PRAYER:  Precious Holy Spirit, I humbly ask that you will be seen in me, my speech and all that I do, In Jesus name....Amen

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Matthew 11:1-19

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