DCLM Higher Everyday 12 July 2023 — Enduring Love For The Lord
DCLM Higher Everyday 12 June 2023 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Enduring Love For The Lord
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Topic: Enduring Love For The Lord
Text: Romans 8:25-29
25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
26Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Key Verse: “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8: 38,39).
Message
Love is the bonding virtue that helps two parties to remain faithful to each other. On God`s part love made Him sacrificial to the point of giving us His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ (Romans 8:32). On our part we are expected as Christian youths to be sacrificial to the point of letting go of everything that contradicts God`s word and our godly convictions. This is why Robert Tilton said that, “Service and obedience are proofs of love.” How is your obedience to God? In what aspects are you serving Him? Love for God is not sentiment, but conscious determination to obey Him implicitly.
When a Christian youth understands that perfect love is one without fear, such a youth would maintain a healthy relationship with God, which is to please Him in good times and bad times, like the three Hebrew young men. We can only have an enduring love for God when we make conscious effort to fearlessly but wisely preach the word of God which we have hidden in our hearts.
Quote: Obey Him implicitly
Challenge: Stand for Him always.
Prayer for today: Heavenly Father, help me to love you always, in Jesus’ name.
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)
