DCLM HIGHER EVERYDAY 18 August 2022 — Doubting Thomas
DCLM Higher Everyday 18 August 2022 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Doubting Thomas
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TOPIC: DOUBTING THOMAS
TEXT: JOHN 20:24-29
MEMORY VERSE: “The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe” (JOHN 20:25).
MESSAGE:
On July 15, Charles Blondin walked backward across the tightrope over the Niagara Falls and returned pushing a wheelbarrow. After pushing a wheelbarrow across while blindfolded, Blondin asked for some audience participation. He had proven that he could walk across with a wheel barrow, and there was no doubt about that.
He asked his audience, “Do you believe I can carry a person across in this wheelbarrow?” Of course the crowd shouted that, “Yes,” they believed. Then Blondin posed the question – “Who will get in the wheelbarrow?” None did. The crowd had watched his daring feats. They said they believed, but their actions proved they truly did not.
The maxim “seeing is believing” is diametrically opposed to faith. Faith is believing before seeing. Thomas missed the blessedness of believing the good news of the resurrection of Jesus. Jesus later declared, “blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.”
Faith in God brings indescribable blessings. Doubters are losers. If God says it, that settles it because God cannot lie. Faith sees the invisible, believes the impossible and receives the incredible.
QUOTE: Doubters are losers.
CHALLENGE: God can never lie. Believe His word.
PRAYER: Father, deliver me from a doubtful spirit.
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)
