ENTHRONEMENT ASSEMBLY DAILY DEVOTIONALS.
Monday April 7th, 2025.
Topic : God With You And In You.
Memory Verse :John 14:18. “When I go, you will not be left all alone; I will come back to you.
Bible Reading : John 14:15-17 GNB. Key Verse : v17.
“If you love me, you will obey my commandments. I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, who will stay with you for ever. He is the Spirit who reveals the truth about God. The world cannot receive him, because it cannot see him or know him. But you know him, because he remains with you and is in you.
At this point in time, Jesus Christ began to prepare his first disciples for his departure back to the father. He had been with them physically as a man and they had gotten used to being in his company physically. The information or idea of returning to the father in heaven was not welcome as long as they were concerned. Though he tried to make them understand that his return to the father was a blessing in disguise as he will be preparing for them everlasting mansions in the heavenlies, so that they could spend eternity with him, they were not satisfied. This was because one most important thing they felt they needed was his daily company which they had enjoyed few years with him.
One of the most important thing Jesus presence gurranteed those early followers was comfort. With him in their midst, there was no situation they could not navigate successfully. Challenges of life was under their control, at any point where they would have been stranded or frustrated, he always showed up to provide support and succour. When the storms arose that would have resulted in shipwreck, he was woken to control the situation. At another time, they saw him walking on water to meet them in the midst of a turbulent voyage. When they were in remote places with numerous crowd and they needed food, he used five loaves of bread and two fishes to feed five thousand men, women and children who were in higher numbers not included. The healings and miracles was a daily occurrence. The dead was brought back to life with unusual ease. Nobody on earth will want such move of God to cease and the man pioneering such to leave for another location, abandoning them.
In v17, Jesus made a very profound statement about the Holy Spirit whom the father will be sending to permanently be with everyone who believes in him, that I want us to note. He said that this Holy Spirit will “… be with you and in you” . That describes the double dimensional function or operations the Spirit of God carries out in the life of every believer. Being with us implies keeping us company just like a best friend and partner will always do. This gurrantees a presence which is spiritual with attendant physical results to show. To be in by implication means that he will be our strength from within this time. This is about releasing of inbuilt supernatural capacity to command unusual results; results that sets men apart in life. Such men becomes sought after because of the nature of results their earthly lives carries. “The members of the Council were amazed to see how bold Peter and John were and to learn that they were ordinary men of no education. They realized then that they had been companions of Jesus.” Acts 4:13. Understand today that this two ways operations of the Spirit of God must be real in your personal life as a believer.
Prayer :Thank you Lord Jesus for giving me your Spirit. Thank you for being with me. I worship you because no man carrying your presence fails in life. Thank you for living in me and giving me capacity to do the unusual anywhere I find myself. Thank you because of uncommon results and testimonies my life will command forever in Jesus mighty name….. Amen 🙏🏿.
Yearly Bible Reading : 2 Samuel 13 :1-18.
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