ENTHRONEMENT ASSEMBLY DAILY DEVOTIONALS.
Sunday June 9th, 2024.
Topic : Love and Forgiveness.
Memory Verse: Mark 11:26. But if you will not release forgiveness, don’t expect your Father in heaven to release you from your misdeeds.”
Bible Reading : John 13:34-35 TPT. Key Verse : v35.
“So I give you now a new commandment: Love each other just as much as I have loved you. For when you demonstrate the same love I have for you by loving one another, everyone will know that you’re my true followers.”
This period on Sundays we are looking at the need for us not just to be ordinary worshippers, but to step up in boldness to become disciples of Christ indeed. That is God’s will for us and the main reason God had to appear on earth in the flesh….not only to save, but also to raise men or followers unto himself. Last week, I mentioned that one of the tragedies of Christianity in our days is that many fill our churches with misplaced priorities. They just want to solve some problems by the help of the Lord without any desire or intention to follow him or become his disciples. Now I want us to start looking at those qualities we must possess if we are true followers of Jesus Christ. Today we shall be looking at only two of those very important characteristics of a disciple. The two are love and forgiveness and they work hand in hand. Anywhere there’s genuine love, forgiveness becomes easy.
Now looking at love who I can say fathers forgiveness, Jesus taught us that our standard for love is himself and not any other person. In John 13: 34 he taught us expressly that every love and care we received from him as our source and king, we are to extend to other men we meet in the course of our lives on earth. He went further to explain in the next verse that when we love and show enough care for one another, men will know by our actions that we are followers of the master. “Delightfully loved ones, if he loved us with such tremendous love, then “loving one another” should be our way of life! No one has ever gazed upon the fullness of God’s splendor. But if we love one another, God makes his permanent home in us, and we make our permanent home in him, and his love is brought to its full expression in us. And he has given us his Spirit within us so that we can have the assurance that he lives in us and that we live in him.” 1 John 4:11-13.
One of the determinant factors of the presence of love as a lifestyle in any man or believer is the ability to forgive just like the master himself. In some occasions in the Bible, we had situations where men were terribly sick because of sins they committed, Christ forgave them on seeing their predicament, so that they could be healed, Luke 5:17-23, John 5:1-14. Again the people caught a woman in the act of adultery and wanted Jesus approval to stone her to death according to the laws of Moses. Rather than consent, Jesus made sure the people left her alone by demanding that any one of them who had no sin, should cast their stone first on the woman. After they dispersed, Jesus forgave her and told her to go and sin no more, John 8:3-11. Now I must point out that one the commonest sin found among believers of all class is unforgiveness, Matthew 18:21-22 . Lastly, there three things unforgiveness will do to any man, especially believers. They are : (1) Unforgiveness brings retardation to many believers in life in whatever they do and sometimes sickness. (2) It will be a hindrance to your prayers from being heard or answered. (3) No man who leaves this earth bearing unforgiveness can see Jesus in victory.
Prayer : Thank you Lord Jesus because whom you love you always instruct. From today, give me a heart that loves just like yourself. Help me to always forgive fellow men any time they offend me. Thank you for the grace to be like you in everything in Jesus precious name….. Amen 🙏🏿.
Yearly Bible Reading : Matthew 1:1-25.
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