Saturday Reading: Ephesians 6:10-18
Key Verse: Ephesians 6:18
18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching to this very thing with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.
Devotion:
Spiritual strength and courage are required to go forward in God’s name and to proclaim His Word. Yes, anyone can go forward and bring the gospel, but if you want to be able to be convincing or authoritative, then you have to be sure in your wording. To be sure in your wording, you have to prepare so that you know what you are talking about. Then if there are going to be people who will ask questions, you have to be prepared to be able to answer them as well. Does this mean then that you have to memorise the whole bible just in case? No, what you have to do is to place your faith in God before you start.
You need to make sure that what you are saying is the truth – don’t make you own view of what you think people need to hear, but take God’s Word as the truth and deliver it. Make sure you make people realise just who is righteous – we may be delivering the word but we are still sinners. Our bibles do not promote war and we need to make sure that we don’t ask for war just because we think it best! We need to remember that God’s Word alone can beat Satan as it has done before and will do unto the end of time – don’t think you can outsmart the smartest deceiver of them all!
Jesus Christ is the one who came to save us from our sins and we need to make sure that people realise the fact that Jesus is God. Too many religions around the world will not recognise the truth and fall short of the mark. We have God’s Word, we have our bibles, we have the truth – we need to deliver that truth out to the people around us... but we need to deliver it in the manner in which it needs to be delivered! We have to put our faith in The Holy Spirit, knowing that He will be standing with us as we deliver His Word to those around us knowing that it is He that is to get the glory and not us. We are just the vessels used for the delivery, not the content.
Points to Ponder:
Are you prepared to tell others of God’s Word?
Are you standing strong in your faith when you talk about God?
