God’s Word And Daily Prayer For Today

Here again we see the mind and love of God as he inspires the recording of his instructions for humanity as to how we demonstrate his personality in our everyday vocations. What we do is what defines us. We cannot please God yielding to the will of the flesh. It is important and imperative that we learn the desire of God by his word for believers and then embrace them and walk in them.

Here we are blessed to have the wisdom of God as to how we are to conduct ourselves amongst non-believers demonstrating the personality of God. We are not to boast ourselves and be glory seekers. We are not to compare ourselves one with another but perform the holy and righteous commands of God; as did Jesus Christ, followed by his hand picked apostles, including this apostle, Paul. All glory belongs to God.

Here we learn of apostle Paul defending and proving his Apostolic authority, and asserts his right to continue the work God charged him and was demonstrating that he was with him. Being led by the spirit of God in performance of the tasks he was commissioned. He waved this part of his Christian liberty, for the good of others. Even so today God is still proving himself in those he has commissioned to perform the truth of the gospel until he comes to get the righteous on that great day.

This scripture teaches us that God is not concerned about our ethnicity, nationality, race, sexual gender, or possessions, but he is looking at our righteousness, to see if we are living by faith in Him, through his word and His instructions. When we find ourselves living by the instructions of the word of God, and have the indwelling of the Christ of God by the baptism of the Holy Ghost then we know that we have a acquired it by faith and that is what pleases God. His desire for us is to have faith in him, and to live righteously.

Some understanding derived from this part of scripture is that God does not forsake his own. Like then even now non-believers have tried to stop the promotion of the gospel of Jesus Christ. They tried to stop it by putting Jesus on the cross; but he is our risen Lord and Saviour. They tried to stop Christianity by murdering the Apostles; but they became martyrs and furthered the spread of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Here they have falsely accused Apostle Paul and were trying to shame him, but God allowed even in his bondage favor from the people, even from some of his captors. Point here is even though we suffer ridicule, abuse, even mockery, it will promote and further the gospel of Jesus Christ. People can murder people but they can’t kill the cause. God won’t let it be.

This is Jesus, praying to the father on behalf of the original disciples that were made Apostles. He pray to the father to keep the apostles encouraged as they will go out to minister, against great opposition and not to give up when confronted with adversity. He told the father that the words that the He gave Him He gave them to his disciples, and they received them. Also that He sent them out as sheep in the midst of wolves. He also prayed to the father, for those that would receive the word from those apostles and from generation to generation. He prayed for us.

And even until these days our Lord Jesus, the only begotten Son of God, the propitiation for the sins humanity, that has provided opportunity to humanity to live life in abundance is still rejected. But woe to them that reject Him. Please don’t turn Him away!!

Here we learn of the resurrection of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ and how He spoke to those that doubted of His promise to come out of the grave on the third day morning. He went on to reprimand His chosen disciples for their unbelief. He then gave them instructions on how to preach the gospel and provided them with information and proof of receiving the Holy Ghost and what they would be empowered to do after their baptism of the Holy Ghost.

In this chapter, we are given some insight into the apostolic teachings of Jesus Christ. He is teaching his disciples that, rather than to seek for personal gain and glory, we should be looking for forwarding and the promotion of the cause and /or the Gospel that we represent. Jesus also stresses the importance of forgiving one another and living our lives in humility and meekness.

The apostle John salutes the seven churches of Asia; and declares when, where, and how, the revelation of Jesus Christ was made to him; to declare it to the Pastors of the seven churches in Asia Minor. We see that God allowed the Apostle, who was caught in the presence of God that he would understand what God wanted man to understand. He gave it to the Pastors; whose responsibility it is to make the people of God aware of what the futures holds..