ENTHRONEMENT ASSEMBLY DAILY DEVOTIONALS.

Friday July 19th, 2024.

Topic : Humility And Grace.

Memory Verse : James 4:10 Be willing to be made low before the Lord and he will exalt you!

Bible Reading : James 4:6-8. Key Verse : v6.

But he continues to pour out more and more grace upon us. For it says, God resists you when you are proud but continually pours out grace when you are humble.” So then, surrender to God. Stand up to the devil and resist him and he will turn and run away from you. Move your heart closer and closer to God, and he will come even closer to you. But make sure you cleanse your life, you sinners, and keep your heart pure and stop doubting.

Humility is a very important Christian virtue that we learn from the life of Jesus Christ himself. When one is humble, it means that such an individual is not proud, but lives a modest lifestyle and doesn’t overate him/herself. When we are humble, we become considerate, teachable, approachable. Humble men live to impact others through service, sacrices of time and resources, etc. Humility is not low esteem, but a good understanding of our limitations as humans and seeing a reason to carry others along our placements notwithstanding. Jesus displayed humility from the point of coming down to live on earth as a man the fact that he is God and creator notwithstanding. He lived among men in weakness, though he had divine power to do whatever he wanted per time, yet he willingly submitted to the will of the father. His life looked so simple that it took Judas hugging and kissing him among the disciples for those who came to arrest him to identify him. ‭”In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;” Philippians 2:5-6 NIV‬.

Now everything we do with God through Jesus in his kingdom is by grace. Grace is God’s investment in man made possible by the sacrifice of Jesus himself. Now v6 of our main text is saying that the more we are able to humble ourselves before God, the more he is able to invest more of his grace in our lives. The more grace we enjoy from his presence, the better our lives becomes here on earth. This is because humility makes us more accessible to God and men which helps us become impactful as a result of being yielded to God and willing to be used as channels to fulfill his purpose, even in the lives of others here on earth. ““I am a true sprouting vine, and the farmer who tends the vine is my Father. He cares for the branches connected to me by lifting and propping up the fruitless branches and pruning every fruitful branch to yield a greater harvest.” John 15:1-2.

The more we move closer to God, the more he is able to expose our weaknesses and those things that hinders the flow of his Spirit in our lives who is the carrier of grace in us. We have to willingly allow his Spirit to work on us to eliminate those things that doesn’t glorify God in our lives which is key to our lifting to a place higher kingdom responsibility. “Move your heart closer and closer to God, and he will come even closer to you. But make sure you cleanse your life, you sinners, and keep your heart pure and stop doubting. Feel the pain of your sin, be sorrowful and weep! Let your joking around be turned into mourning and your joy into deep humiliation. Be willing to be made low before the Lord and he will exalt you!” James 4:8-10.

Prayer : Thank you Father God for loving and saving my soul. Help me to walk before you in humility all the days of my life so that you can invest greater grace in my life. Let your Spirit expose and help me to do away with anything that will hinder the flow of your grace in my life in Jesus precious name… Amen 🙏🏿.

Yearly Bible Reading : John 6:41-71.

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