DCLM Higher Everyday 19 September 2024 — Christian Cleansing

DCLM Higher Everyday 19 September 2024 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Christian Cleansing

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Topic: Christian Cleansing

Text: Isaiah 52:1-3

1Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

2For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Key Verse: “Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean” (Isaiah 52:1).

Message

Spiritual check up should be a routine strategy for Christians to maintain sanctity. It is your responsibility to cleanse yourself from all the filthiness that is flying all over your community. It starts by watching physically over what you allow into your life, beginning from the books you read, the movies you watch, the friends you keep and so on.  Unclean instruments will make you dirty and unacceptable in the sight of God.  God wants His children to cleanse themselves and remain pure because He does not want to lose any of them to the devil and to hell, a place of eternal perdition.

Beloved, you are the holy city of God and “…henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean|” (Isaiah 52:1). Consciously pray to God for heart cleansing or sanctification experience whereby your adamic nature would be uprooted. Remember that heaven is only for the holy.  Trust in God because He “is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy” (Jude: 24).

Quote: Heaven is only for the holy

Challenge: Be clean in an unclean generation.

Prayer for today: O God, help me to live a clean life, in Jesus’ name. 

GOSPEL REALM: STEPS TO SALVATION
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)