Yesterday’s message was titled “THE WAY OF ESCAPE ”. Today’s message is titled “SPREAD THE GOOD NEWS” as provided by Pastor E. A. Adeboye in Open Heavens Devotional (Adeboye, 2014). In today’s message, we have been asked to memorise 2Timothy 4:2: "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all Iongsuffering and doctrine. and read Luke 8:38-40. The Bible in one year for today has been taken from Ezekiel 16-12 and Psalms 67:1 -68:6 (Adeboye, 2014).
The message is quoted below. God bless you for your contribution
"There is one great sin of omission that contemporary followers of Jesus Christ are guilty of. We enjoy God's grace, forgiveness, healing, breakthrough, P9309 and joy but fail to share the good news with others so that they may become beneficiaries of the benevolence of the Almighty God. We tend to take interest in staying in our beautiful cathedrals. When we are sent to go out and pioneer Churches in rural areas where people are in need of the gospel, we see it as punishment! We tend to enjoy listening to powerful, motivational sermons from our fathers in the Lord and their associates - tapping from their anointing on daily basis but refusing to go and share part of what we have received. What a crime of omission. Our Bible reading reveals one fundamental obligation of every genuine Christian which unfortunately, many children of God do not pay close attention to. A demoniac encountered Jesus Christ in this story and immediately fell in love with Jesus and His company. This man wanted to stay with Jesus, but He commissioned him to go and spread the good news of his deliverance among his people. This is exactly what our Lord expects of us as His followers. This injunction however, does not encourage forsaking Jesus Christ to become independent or to begin to do whatever we like; Jesus spoke against such attitude in John 15:4-5. In Mark 16:15"He also said:
”Go ye in to all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.”
Whenever we comply with this injunction, we do not only make our Lord happy, we also make His benevolence known. After the witnessing of the demoniac, the Bible reports Luke 8:40 that:
”And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were waiting for him.”
When we do what we ought to do on the field of evangelism, many good things will happen. First, darkness will give way for the light of the gospel. Secondly, Jesus Christ will be Lord wherever the gospel is preached. Thirdly, in anticipation of the second coming of our Lord, people will be conscious of what they do in the society. Lastly, the world will be a better place to live in. Therefore beloved of the Lord, I encourage you to begin to spread the good news of what the Lord has done for you and what He is capable of doing for others too, all in the light of His gospel. God bless you as you do so in Jesus' Name. "
Today's action point is to decide today that you will not sleep until you witness to at least one person about the goodness of Jesus Christ.
God bless you all for your contribution. Have a fruitful day
Reference:
Adeboye, E. A. (2014) Open Heavens: A Guide to Close Fellowship with God, Volume 14, 2014. Nigeria: Open Heavens Media Limited.
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Thanks for posting this.and I Thank God for His goodness in my life.
ReplyDeleteSpreading the goodnews is our major God-given assignment here on earth, It is also the secret needed to unlock the heavens for answers to our prayers.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this wonderful message with us, God bless you. To understand a message better one ask questions, permit me to ask few questions based on this topic: Believers that are still going through some afflictions or have not gotten there long awaited breakthrough are they to spread the gospel too? 2; Rural areas was mentioned in the message as areas that need the Gospel, does this mean the Urban areas do not really need the Gospel? Are the better-off (saved) bcos they leave better lives. 3; how does a believer preach to an unbeliever or an unsaved soul that tend s to be living a much better life than the Gospel Spreader?
DeleteThanks for sharing this wonderful message with us, God bless you. To understand a message better one ask questions, permit me to ask few questions based on this topic: Believers that are still going through some afflictions or have not gotten there long awaited breakthrough are they to spread the gospel too? 2; Rural areas was mentioned in the message as areas that need the Gospel, does this mean the Urban areas do not really need the Gospel? Are the better-off (saved) bcos they leave better lives. 3; how does a believer preach to an unbeliever or an unsaved soul that tend s to be living a much better life than the Gospel Spreader?
ReplyDeleteDear alexander,
DeleteThankyou for sharing,the life, here on earth that one lives with riches glamour is not the real life.It is, the things unseen which is real life,please, dear friend our lord died to give us eternal life all the things of the world will pass, away but what, is sure is the unseen eternal life.people with plenty wealth and a show outside are decaying inside for want of a saviour. Please loved one in christ please build your relationship with christ and then share.god bless.annabelle
Father Lord I thank you for the Previlege to see another day ,Lord as your word says i ask that you open my eyes to see where you want me to go and spread your word, as you have been with Daniel I believe you will be with me and wherever that i go to spread the word i shall be accepted as those people waiting for our Lord Jesus Christ, that your word will bring your people out of the darkness In Jesus name I Pray. Amen Father i want to be use so that i will not miss my heaven,
ReplyDeleteThanks be to my Redeemer, Jesus Christ, for the salvation of my soul. Please, Father grant me the abundant grace to spread THE GOOD NEWS; in Jesus' Merciful and Mighty Name- Amen!
ReplyDeleteYetunde, what happened to you. Your line is being missed these 3 days. Come on board now and God will bless u.
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