Tag: October 13 2024

Our Daily Walk with Christ Devotional – October 13, 2024

“… For I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep what I have committed to him until that day.” —Timothy 1:12.

Know Christ – Reflect on your life and compare it to five years ago, has your relationship with Christ grown closer or become more distant? How did Christ live when He was on this earth? Although he had 12 disciples who witnessed His Godly power, Christ had to rely on God, the Father for strength. His disciples remained unchanged for most of their journey with Jesus. They lacked faith and spiritual growth because they desired earthly prestige and power.

At some point in every believer’s life “… every earthly support will be cut off…” We will experience a crisis that only God can intervene and resolve. We must know who Christ is and have a faith-based intimate relationship with Him. When facing satanic attacks, Christ alone will keep us safe. Jesus is leading us to fully depend only on Him. Each new morning, surrender to God and pray for Divine wisdom, strength, power, and solutions to your problems. In the peaceful times, develop a life of prayer and Bible Study.

“Sanctify them by Your truth, your word is truth.” —John 17:17

Know His Word! – Although it is not popular in the Christian community to study the Scriptures, we will not stand against false teachings and temptations without studying the Bible nor can we serve God with love and loyalty when He is a stranger. Most importantly, our hearts cannot be converted and our characters transformed without Scriptural knowledge. Those who lack the knowledge of God’s Word will easily be persuaded by the enemy to sin against God. “We must have a personal and intimate relationship with Jesus Christ to be able to stand.”

“I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people and his incomparably great power for us who believe.” —Ephesians 1:18-19

Know His Power! – The Triune God is Sovereign: God, the Father, Jesus, God, the Son, and God, the Holy Spirit have always existed [Refer to Genesis 1]. In John chapter 1, the apostle confirms that Jesus known as “the Word” created all things. “Jesus spoke and the Earth was created…think about the power of Christ delivering Israel from Egyptian bondage, Christ used the wind to part the mighty Red Sea and the Israelites walked through the Red Sea on dry land. Joshua and the Israelites shouted, but it was the Power of Christ who knocked down the walls of Jericho.”

Signs of the Last Days: “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.” —2 Timothy 3:1-5

Do we really know what time it is? We were created with free will to choose who we would serve. Either we will prepare now to stand as courageous soldiers who are loyal to God or not. God gave Jesus, His only Son to redeem us from the wages of sin which is the final death. “Christ has the power to deliver us from our past and empower us for the future. Christ has the power to deliver us from the guilt of sin and the grip of sin.” As we draw closer to the end of time, commit to stand with Christ.

Quotations: Pastor Mark Finley

A Personal Prayer: Lord Jesus, I want nothing between my soul and my Savior. I confess and ask for the forgiveness of my sins. I desire a personal relationship with You. Jesus, I want to saturate my mind with Your Word and to know Your Mighty Power working within Me. In Jesus’ Holy Name, Amen.

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