DCLM Higher Everyday 16 January 2026 — Share Your Story
DCLM Higher Everyday 16 January 2026 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Share Your Story
Topic: Share Your Story
Text: Acts 26:1-9, 22-23
1Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:
3Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
4My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
5Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
6And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:
7Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope’s sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
8Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
9I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
22Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:
23That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Key Verse: “Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come” (Acts 26:22).
Message
Paul was born into a wealthy family. He was trained as a lawyer under the tutelage of Gamaliel, a prominent teacher of the law. He belonged to the sect of the Pharisees; and was extremely injurious to the saints and the gospel. Though formed by God in His image, he was deformed by the world and opposed the God who formed him.
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A day came in his life when he had encounter with Jesus Christ who transformed his life and he began telling the story of Jesus and His glory to the Jews and Gentiles. If you are born again, you too can share the story of the amazing grace, wonderful work of redemption and remedy for sin. Have you been transformed from the deformation and defilement of the world? Share your story to the world around you like Paul did. Your friends, mates and neighbours in darkness need the light of the gospel. Those boys and girls in immorality and addiction, emptiness, despair, hopelessness and dejection need your help. Share your story today and save a soul from damnation and eternal loss.
Quote: Share your story today
Challenge: Share your story like Paul did.
Prayer for today: Lord, help me to share my story for salvation of others.
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)
