DCLM Daily Manna 29 March 2023 — Genuine Christianity
DCLM Daily Manna 29 March 2023 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Genuine Christianity
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TOPIC: Genuine Christianity (DCLM Daily Manna 29 March 2023)
KEY VERSE: “I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me” (Psalm 119:102).
TEXT: Psalm 119:97-104 (KJV)
97 O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
102 I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
DCLM Daily Manna For Today MESSAGE:
During Sunday school, a teacher asked her class of first-graders if anyone could describe a Christian. A little boy quickly raised his hand and stated, “Christians are nice people, who never complain, argue, or talk back”; he then added, “My Daddy is a good Christian, but my Mummy isn’t”.
In the passage today, a testimony is given concerning the effect of God’s word on the writer. He became wiser than his enemies, his teachers, and the ancients (aged and wise people), who did not have the experience of salvation. He had a good understanding of the Scriptures, which kept him from sin and every evil way. He faced temptations and trials which were unavoidable.
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But he overcame them all by living and meditating on the word of God. His experience of true grace and peace set him out among the people of his age. The entire narrative is the transformative power of the word of God to effect salvation and a righteous lifestyle.
Present-day believers face the same challenges, trials, and temptations which came to the saints of old.
If indeed we have met Christ and have been genuinely converted, we should live a glorious and victorious life over sin. These are the days in which you find so-called believers, and even ministers of the gospel getting involved in one scandal or the other and living lives contrary to God’s standard.
Instead of just following the crowd in their mass decline into the sins of society, let us move into a special class of righteous people, and by God’s grace model true Christianity wherever we find ourselves. By our strength alone we cannot make it, but His grace is more than enough to keep us standing till He comes (Titus 2:11-14).
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
If God’s word in you doesn’t distinguish you, you’ve extinguished its power.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Deuteronomy 28–30
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Deeper Life Daily Manna For Today 2023 was written by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi; is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church situated at KM 42 on the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Nigeria. https://dclm.org/
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)
