ENTHRONEMENT ASSEMBLY DAILY DEVOTIONALS..

Sunday June 2nd, 2024.

Topic : Condition For Manifesting His Power.

Memory Verse : Mark 4:19. but they allow the cares of this life and the seduction of wealth and the desires for other things to crowd out and choke the Word so that it produces nothing.

Bible Reading :Luke 9:23-25. Key Verse : v25.

Jesus said to all of his followers, “If you truly desire to be my disciple, you must disown your life completely, embrace my ‘cross’ as your own, and surrender to my ways. For if you choose self-sacrifice, giving up your lives for my glory, you will embark on a discovery of more and more of true life. But if you choose to keep your lives for yourselves, you will lose what you try to keep. Even if you gained all the wealth and power of this world, everything it could offer you, yet lost your soul in the process, what good is that?

The primary reason Jesus came and died to save us is to prepare each and every one of us for ministry. The early followers of Jesus was trained by experience to do the work of God. From the beginning of Luke chapter 9, Jesus sent them out with power and authority to heal the sick and cast out devils, as they preached and taught about the appearance of the awaited kingdom of God on earth. The results they got and reports they came back with was amazing. They were still basking in the euphoria of that exercise when they witnessed the miracle of feeding of five thousand men excluding women and children with just five loaves of bread and two roasted fishes. At this point their appetite for more of God and his power was soaring within their hearts, as they wanted more. Now the master seeing their mind began to let them know what it takes to carry God’s power in a man’s life in a sustained measure. We will try to look at some these conditions that Jesus taught them and ourselves briefly.

Jesus taught us here that the first and most important factor that will enable anyone to carry his glory in his life is that we must first be his disciples or followers. This means that as Jesus came to the earth not seeking to do his own will as a man, but that of the father, we also have to live with such mindset. A man of God once described it as a life of abandonment. That is a situation where you intentionally give up your personal life in the manner of every other person around you, so that you can carry his presence anywhere you go. This happens when we have decided to embrace the cross and all that it stands for. At this point in a man’s life, the journey of discovery of life beyond the surface or what the eyes can see (true life) begins. The word rightly said that we can only reign with him when we suffer with him. “For when you live controlled by the flesh, you are about to die. But if the life of the Spirit puts to death the corrupt ways of the flesh, we then taste his abundant life.” Romans 8:13.

The challenge here is that many care less about eternity and all that goes with it. People are more concerned about what happens here and now. They want to make name here on earth and be counted, which is not bad, but not at the expense of their eternity. One thing that destroys the faith of many and renders it impotent is the pursuits of things of this life. “Don’t set the affections of your heart on this world or in loving the things of the world. The love of the Father and the love of the world are incompatible. For all that the world can offer us—the gratification of our flesh, the allurement of the things of the world, and the obsession with status and importance—none of these things come from the Father but from the world. This world and its desires are in the process of passing away, but those who love to do the will of God live forever. soul or their eternity.” 1 John 2:15-17.

Prayer :Thank you Father God because you created me to carry your power inside of me. Help me to live a surrendered life before you. Keep me from anything that wants to choke your presence in my life. Let my life be such you can always depend on to achieve your purpose here on earth in Jesus wonderful name…. Amen 🙏🏿.

Yearly Bible Reading : Daniel 6:1-28.

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