ENTHRONEMENT ASSEMBLY DAILY DEVOTIONALS.

Sunday June 16th, 2024.

Topic : Dying To Self And The World.

Memory Verse :‭ Colossians 3:4. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Bible Reading : ‭Colossians 3:1-3 NIV‬. Key Verse : v2.

Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

Today we are continuing our journey to look at what it takes to be a follower or disciple of Jesus Christ as believers. Every one that attends our churches believes in Jesus Christ no doubt. But just believing only is not enough because the word of God says that even the devil believes and trembles before him as God. The fact is that believing in him is the first step unto salvation. For that salvation to be effective and have a voice of impact here on earth, we must take another step further to become followers of him that saved us. He saved us from eternal death and destruction, so that we can live for him. To live for Jesus implies following him daily. The church therefore surpose to be a place where men are taught on how to follow Jesus Christ in practicality. The beauty of following the master is that it gives him the right platform to make men. He told Peter after the draught, follow me and I will make you…. The reason many people inside our churches are not being made is because their interest or intention in the first place is never to follow him, but to enjoy his benevolence.

Now looking at Colossians 3, as contained in our text above, another condition that we have to meet as disciples of Jesus Christ is that we have to die with him first in order to live for Jesus Christ. One of the challenges we have today is that some try to jump the process. Truth is that no man who had not been to the cross with Jesus can have a new life in him. The new life will remain a mirage as long as we don’t willingly go to the cross with him just like himself willingly obeyed the father. On the cross we have to crucify our selfish desires and the desires of the world, to be able to keep our minds with him. Christianity becomes a struggle and sometimes fake when this process is ignored.
““My old identity has been co-crucified with Messiah and no longer lives; for the nails of his cross crucified me with him. And now the essence of this new life is no longer mine, for the Anointed One lives his life through me—we live in union as one! My new life is empowered by the faith of the Son of God who loves me so much that he gave himself for me, and dispenses his life into mine!” Galatians 2:20 TPT.

The proof of this new life; where a man dies to things he loved in the past and reprogram his mind to live to honour Jesus as Lord in reordered priorities is Discipleship. At this point our focus in life changes in entirety. That is what it takes to seek that which are above where Christ himself is seated. If truly we are seated together with him in the heavenly places in the spirit realm, that new placement must affect the way we live and do things daily. ‭”But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus .” Ephesians 2:4-7.

Prayer : Thank you Lord Jesus for for dying to save me so that I can live the rest of my life to follow and serve you. Help me to understand what it means to sit with you in the place of authority. Thank you to touching my heart to love and to follow you daily in Jesus wonderful name…. Amen 🙏🏿.

Yearly Bible Reading : John 1:19-34.

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