ENTHRONEMENT ASSEMBLY DAILY DEVOTIONALS.

Tuesday February 18th, 2025.

Topic :Live Prepared.

Memory Verse : 1 Thessalonians 5:4. But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the darkness, and the Day should not take you by surprise like a thief.

Bible Reading : 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3 GNB. Key Verse : v2.

There is no need to write to you, brothers and sisters, about the times and occasions when these things will happen. For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come as a thief comes at night. When people say, “Everything is quiet and safe,” then suddenly destruction will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in labour, and people will not escape.

In chapter 4 of Apostle Paul’s letter to the Thessalonian believers, he was teaching us how to relate with each other, walking in love and upholding high moral standards as people expecting the return of the Master. He was trying to let believers know that our kingdom sacrifices can’t be wasted even if we sleep in the Lord before his second coming. “There will be the shout of command, the archangel’s voice, the sound of God’s trumpet, and the Lord himself will come down from heaven. Those who have died believing in Christ will rise to life first; then we who are living at that time will be gathered up along with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord. So then, encourage one another with these words.” 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18.

In chapter 5, he began to teach us about the need to live prepared. As men, we would have loved to be given a specific date when Christ will return as some people tried to do in the past in their error. God who knows man better, he knew that if any date was given, every man will go his own way, at the last minute, the whole world will repent just to receive him knowing that he is a loving and forgiving God and creator. In his wisdom, we are to follow up things or updates from his presence as it relates to his 2nd coming through the channel of his Spirit in our personal walk with the master. One thing we are sure of is that it will be a sudden event that will come upon the people of the world just the way thieves or robbers appear to attack unannounced or suddenly.

As believers or people of God, it should not take ourselves unawares, if we are alive and awake in the spirit. Though the Lord will not give a specific date, but we should have idea or understanding of the season, just like the pregnant woman. The pregnant woman doesn’t know the particular date when her baby will be delivered, but at the same time, she will have idea of the season or period through some signs in her body as interpreted by herself, people taking care of her or physicians. Because she has idea of the period or season, she gets ready for her expected baby. Anytime labour comes, even if it’s by midnight, she and people taking care of her are prepared to respond appropriately. In like manner, when believers live sober and vigilant in the spirit, the Spirit of God at work in us will help get us ready just like physicians taking care of the pregnant woman. “All of you are people who belong to the light, who belong to the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then, we should not be sleeping like the others; we should be awake and sober. It is at night that people sleep; it is at night that they get drunk. But we belong to the day, and we should be sober. We must wear faith and love as a breastplate, and our hope of salvation as a helmet. God did not choose us to suffer his anger, but to possess salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,” 1 Thessalonians 5:5-9.

Prayer :Thank you Lord Jesus because you are coming back again to take as well as reward your own. I pray today for grace to walk with your Spirit in vigilance and sobriety. Thank Holy Spirit for helping me live prepared in Jesus precious name…. Amen 🙏🏿.

Yearly Bible Reading : Numbers 12:1-16.

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