ENTHRONEMENT ASSEMBLY DAILY DEVOTIONALS.
Saturday January 11th, 2025.
Topic :Let Your Testimony Count.
Memory Verse :Matthew 8:4. Then Jesus said to him, “Listen! Don’t tell anyone, but go straight to the priest and let him examine you; then in order to prove to everyone that you are cured, offer the sacrifice that Moses ordered.”
Bible Reading :Matthew 8:1-3 GNB. Key Verse: v3.
When Jesus came down from the hill, large crowds followed him. Then a man suffering from a dreaded skin disease came to him, knelt down before him, and said, “Sir, if you want to, you can make me clean.” Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him. “I do want to,” he answered. “Be clean!” At once the man was healed of his disease.
This particular man in this Bible portion had leprosy which was dreaded because of it’s very contagious and devastating nature anywhere it enters. That’s the reason people who had such decease were separated from the society to live in solitary colonies till they recovered. The reason was to curb the spread of such deadly contagious infections. Here we saw that Jesus came down from the place of prayer (from the mountains) and a crowd followed him. On his way he met this leprous man who solicited for help to be healed. After Jesus healed him, he told him to do something significant. He sent him to the unbelieving religious leaders and priests who saw Jesus as a treath to their ambitions and personal pursuits instead of divine agenda.
“You know about Jesus of Nazareth and how God poured out on him the Holy Spirit and power. He went everywhere, doing good and healing all who were under the power of the Devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses of everything that he did in the land of Israel and in Jerusalem. Then they put him to death by nailing him to a cross. But God raised him from death three days later and caused him to appear, not to everyone, but only to the witnesses that God had already chosen, that is, to us who ate and drank with him after he rose from death. And he commanded us to preach the gospel to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God has appointed judge of the living and the dead.” Acts 10:38-42.
In our main text, Jesus commanded the leprous man he healed to go and bear witness to the unbelieving priests and religious leaders, doing things that are prescribed in the law which the priests operated. The priests here represents a category of people today who after seeing what Jesus does or is doing in the lives of men, turn blind eyes because of what they think they know or stand for, to the detriment of their souls. They refuse to embrace the saviour because of reasons best known to them. Again, in the Acts 10 we saw the Spirit of God send Peter to Cornelius’s house to bear witness of the truth and bring many souls unto salvation as made available in Christ Jesus. As Peter obeyed the voice of the Holy Spirit, the result opned new doors to reach the Gentiles in their days. Today, as we follow the Spirit, he will use us to reach out to men in order to lead them to Christ through our witnessing. Never forget that we were saved, in order to be used and reach out to the unsaved. You must therefore allow your witnessing or testimony of Jesus count in your lifetime .
Prayer :Thank you Father God for saving me, so that you can use me to reach out to the unsaved. I ask that you open my eyes to men you want to use my testimonies of you to bring into your kingdom. Use me to draw men to yourself in Jesus precious name…. Amen 🙏🏿.
Yearly Bible Reading : Genesis 18:1-15.
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