ENTHRONEMENT ASSEMBLY DAILY DEVOTIONALS.

Sunday January 5th, 2025.

Topic : You’ve Been Configured To Weather The Storm.

Memory Verse:‭1 Corinthians 16:9. because a great door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many who oppose me.

Bible Reading :‭1 Corinthians 16:5-8 NIV‬. Key Verse :v9.

After I go through LPMacedonia, I will come to you—for I will be going through Macedonia. Perhaps I will stay with you for a while, or even spend the winter, so that you can help me on my journey, wherever I go. For I do not want to see you now and make only a passing visit; I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits. But I will stay on at Ephesus until Pentecost,

Apostle Paul was called and commissioned by Jesus to take the gospel to the gentilles in a new dimension in his time. Though he began as a persecutor of the saints out of his ignorance and lack of understanding of God’s agenda as it unfolded in his days. Grace appeared to him however as he was bent on troubling early believers because they were departing from Judaism to embrace the light of the gospel of Christ. ‭”Then I asked, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “ ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied. ‘Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen and will see of me. I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’ “So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the vision from heaven.” Acts 26:15-19.

After his arrest and conversion, the Lord had to open doors of utterance before people, races and nations to him so that he could fulfill his divine assignment of making Jesus the saviour known to the people, so that they could take advantage of the available window of salvation made possible through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Every open door to Paul came with corresponding challenges he had to deal with. ” He said: “Some Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul before the Sanhedrin tomorrow on the pretext of wanting more accurate information about him. Don’t give in to them, because more than forty of them are waiting in ambush for him. They have taken an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him. They are ready now, waiting for your consent to their request.” The commander dismissed the young man with this warning: “Don’t tell anyone that you have reported this to me.”” Acts 23:20-22. They had to sneak Apostle Paul out of town.

When God open doors for kingdom purposes or to lift and bless men here on earth, there are bound to be some form of opposition. This happens because there are men who make themselves instruments in the hands of the devil to the destruction of their own souls most time, except they repent, who try to resist God’s move in the lives of individuals, families, people and nations. At this point, we must note that God’s hand doesn’t eliminate challenges when we walk in his plan, rather his involvement gurrantees us victory when we go all out to use every resources made available by the sender and commissioner himself to counter the forays of wicked forces, no matter how fierce the opposition may appear. ““I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”” John 16:33. Jesus told us here to have confidence and peace in the midst of trouble because the victory he got on the cross belongs to us. That’s the reason Paul could write that…..” in all these things (troubles), we are more than conquerors through him that loved us (and gave himself for us)”. Romans 8:37.

Prayer : Thank you Father God for every grace made available to me and every doors you are opening to enable me fulfill purpose. Thank you because before challenges arise, you have given me the victory already. I worship you because what you began in my life, no power can stop in Jesus mighty name….. Amen 🙏🏿.

Yearly Bible Reading : Genesis 7:1-24.

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