DCLM Higher Everyday 31 December 2024 — Worship God For Ending Well
DCLM Higher Everyday 31 December 2024 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Worship God For Ending Well
Topic: Worship God For Ending Well
Text: Ecclesiastes 7:8-10
8Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
9Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
10Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
Key Verse: “Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit” (Ecclesiastes 7:8).
Message
Believers are supposed to express heartfelt gratitude to God. He deserves all our praises for all He has done for us this year – protection, preservation, provision, promotion, success, peace, security, sound health, healing, deliverance, spiritual blessings, salvation, sanctification, Holy Ghost baptism, and divine mercies. We passed through a lot of undesirable experiences in our journey this year, but the Lord overcame for us. God loves and blesses those who show gratitude for His goodness upon their lives. Hear Andrae Crouch in these lyrics:
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I thank God for the mountains, And I thank Him for the valleys,
I thank Him for the storms, He brought me through;
For if I’d never had a problem, I wouldn’t know that He could solve them,
I’d never know what faith in God could do.
Beloved, we need to sing praises and share the testimonies of what God has done for us this year as the year comes to an end today. However, don’t enter the coming New Year with an old life of sin, but a new life of holiness.
Quote: Express heartfelt gratitude to God
Challenge: Count your blessings, name them one by one.
Prayer for today: Lord, I thank you for bringing me to end of this year successfully.
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)
