ENTHRONEMENT ASSEMBLY DAILY DEVOTIONALS.

Saturday August 23rd, 2025.

Topic : Living Prepared.

Memory Verse : Acts 1:11. They told the startled disciples, “Galileans, why are you staring up into the sky? Jesus has been taken from you into heaven, but he will come back the same way that you saw him ascend.”

Bible Reading : Acts 1:7-9 TPT. Key Verse : v9.

He answered, “The Father is the one who sets the fixed dates and the times of their fulfillment. You are not permitted to know the timing of all that he has prepared by his own authority. But I promise you this—the Holy Spirit will come upon you and you will be filled with power. And you will be my messengers to Jerusalem, throughout Judea, the distant provinces—even to the remotest places on earth!” Right after he spoke those words, the disciples saw Jesus lifted into the sky and disappear into a cloud!

When Jesus came to the earth the the first time, many people misunderstood his identity and his mission. Many took him to be an ordinary prophet, only those whom God revealed him to like Peter understood that he was God who came in the flesh to reconcile the world to himself. Even after he rose from the dead, at the point when he was about to return to heaven, some of his disciples was still very curious about the liberation of Israel from the rule of the Roman Empire. Some from among them didn’t understand adequately the nature of his earthly assignment. He was instructing them to wait until they be filled with power, as to bear witness of the kingdom. Some among them was thinking that the kingdom would be earthly and that it was all about political liberation. “Every time they were gathered together, they asked Jesus, “Lord, is it the time now for you to free Israel and restore our kingdom?”” Acts 1:6.

Even today, there is much misunderstanding of God’s plan and moves in many places, even in the church. Many people come to Jesus for the wrong reasons. They just want the solutions he offers and the blessings he bestows on men who run to him for help to overcome their challenges in life, they don’t care much about his kingdom and righteousness, which is key to discovery of purpose. Today we must remember again and forever that Jesus Christ the son of God came to the earth to raise men unto himself, he came to establish God’s kingdom on earth as it had been in heaven. That is the reason he didn’t waste time to send the Holy Spirit to us starting from the day of Pentecost. The Holy Spirit is here to empower men to live like angels or heavenly beings and to make heavenly possibilities a common thing on earth. “heal the sick in that town, and say to the people there, ‘The Kingdom of God has come near you.’”Luke 10:9 GNB. See also Luke 9:2.

On a final note this day we need to look again at the message of the angels that appeared to the disciples as they stood transfixed, after the master was taken away from them into the heavens. They didn’t know what to make out such experience, but the two angels stood with them to douse their confusion and to remind them that this same Jesus they had seen taken into the heavens is coming back again. He is no more coming as a lamb, but a judge to harvest the earth and to punish them who hated and rejected the salvation he paid for with his blood and offered mankind on a platter of gold. We must therefore realise the need to prepare ourselves and allow ourselves to be used to prepare others because every second that ticks in a man’s lifetime brings us closer to his return either by rapture or by death. “But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.” Matthew 24:43-44.

Prayer : Thank you Lord Jesus for dying on the cross to save my soul. Help me to live the rest of my days as a stranger here on earth, as I prepare myself for your imminent return. Make me a channel to be used to get others prepared also in Jesus precious name…. Amen 🙏🏿.

Yearly Bible Reading : Mark 10:1-16.

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