SIN STARTS FROM WITHIN
Memorise: If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear
me. Psalm 66:18
READ :psalm 66:17-20
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: DANIEL 1-3
ACTION POINT: Give 80% attention to
inward cleanliness and 20% to outward cleanliness. Prayerfully select a house
fellowship center: around you, and be committed to its growth. ;
Hearing and obeying God's
Word are central to receiving your breakthroughs. When you go through the
Scriptures, you will discover among other things that when God has made up His
mind to destroy a group of people, He will first deafen their ears so that they
will not hear God's Word (Isaiah 6:10-12). One of the greatest challenges
Christians have today is our inability to listen to the Spirit. When the Word
of God is coming to us, we tend to believe that Word is for our neighbour, not
us. We are quick to see what others are doing wrong or not doing but fail to
meaningfully reflect over our thoughts, actions and inactions. If you have been
in Christ for some time, you would have observed that when a new convert or a
baby Christian prays to God just for five minutes, the answer would come, but
the Christian who had been saved for several years might experience something
different: if he prays for others, the answer will come, but if he prays for
himself, it would appear nothing is happening. Why is this so? It might be
because that believer is failing to listen to God's Word.
Some Christians only count
how many years they have been in the faith of Christ but never care about
having growth commensurate with their age in the faith. Are you becoming too
big to hear and obey God's Word? Some people are now too big to ask others to
pray for them: they think it is humiliating to request for prayers from those
the Lord has put under them. While all of the aforementioned conditions are bad
enough, a worse scenario is when God says that His child be left alone like it
happened to Ephraim (Hosea 4:17). Are you doing something that can make God not
only to leave you but also to tell others to leave you alone? If you are,
immediately beat a retreat in humility and ask for His mercy today. Psalm 66:18
says God will no longer hear me if I harbour sinful thoughts in my heart. The
Lord does not gauge from the outward but searches the heart. He separates
Himself from a heart where sin thrives. God is no respecter of persons. If you
entertain sin in your heart, God can no more be your guest at that point. Some
brethren ensure no one catches them committing sin openly but inwardly their
hearts are defiled. Always keep the heart pure because sin starts from within.
*This devotional was originally written by
Pastor E.A Adeboye .For all inquiries please visit http://www.rccg.com
*This devotional was originally written by
Pastor E.A Adeboye .For all inquiries please visit http://www.rccg.com