DCLM Higher Everyday 8 January 2023 — Essentials for seeing God
DCLM Higher Everyday 8 January 2023 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Essentials for seeing God
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TOPIC: ESSENTIALS FOR SEEING GOD
BIBLE TEXT: HEBREWS 12:14-17
14Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
MEMORY VERSE: “Follow peace with all men and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord” (Hebrews 12:14).
MESSAGE:
Corrie Ten Boom lived during the Second World war and experienced the agony of losing her sister through a wicked German guard. After being released from the concentration camp, she had a preaching engagement in a Church where she taught on forgiveness. Unknown to her in one of the meetings, the guard was present. He walked up to her, and commended her for the message, stating that it touched him. She recognized the cruel man and felt coldness within her towards him. It took the grace of God for her to make peace with the man that inflicted deadly harm on her sister.
Holiness and peace are indispensable virtues everyone who is born again must possess to see God. In a world full of offences, we have a responsibility to be holy and forgive all offenders, thereby making peace with them. Jesus, our best example, was sinless and made peace between God and lost humanity. Abraham also made peace with Lot. Friend, avoid sin and live in peace with people at home, school and elsewhere. Are you a sinner? Repent and become a peace-builder.
CHALLENGE: Be holy and peaceful.
QUOTE: Be holy and forgive all
PRAYER: Help me to make peace with all men, oh God!
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)
