IF YOU HAVE DECIDED

SOLEMN WHISPER DEVOTIONAL

Saturday, 6th June, 2020.

IF YOU HAVE DECIDED

(Luk. 9:59-62; Rom. 8:38-39)

MEMORY VERSE: "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers...shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Rom. 8:38,39 KJV).

Now that you've decided to follow Jesus, have you made him Lord over your life? Search your heart and find out if there's any thing or any area that is yet to be brought under his Lordship.

Kenneth Hagin shared in one of his books, how some ministers of the Gospel told him that they were afraid of allowing God to be Lord over their lives; they feared that God was going to send them to the mission field.

Many of us are like that. We recognise Jesus as God and Savior but we don't want him as Lord, because we fear that He may ask what we may not be willing to give.

We must know that God loves us and would not want evil to befall us. Infact He cannot do us evil. Whatever He demands of us is an avenue for us to express what He's endowed us with. It always would be a demand geered towards kingdom expansion.

God's word says, "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" (Rom. 8:32). If God can give us all things, why then do we hold back?

Some human rights activists and religious extremists around the world have given up their very lives, with nothing in return, for the cause they believed in. But for us, it's most likely God won't even ask for our lives. Then, our monies, bodies, convenience and time shouldn't be too much to give to the one who didn't hold back His dearest as a gift to us?

PRAYER: Lord, help me to surrender all.

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By Roseline Shekogaza