DAILY SHOWER April 9, 2022 Devotion and Declarations
Prayer before the Word:
_O God, I worship You for making me to dwell among the living today. Help me to keep leaning and following You in Jesus name, Amen_
TODAY’S TOPIC: Will you lay your life for Jesus?
Text: John 13:31-38 (NIV Bible)
"13:31 When he was gone, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him.
13:32 If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once.
13:33 My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.
13:34 A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
13:35 By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
13:36 Simon Peter asked him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus replied, "Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later."
13:37 Peter asked, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."
13:38 Then Jesus answered, "Will you really lay down your life for me? I tell you the truth, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!"
*SHOWER:*
'Will you really lay your life for me,' Jesus asked Peter when he boasted that he will follow Him. This question came up when Jesus was to be sold and killed for our sins. The question is still pertinent to date. Some had while in trouble and tribulations promised to do this or that for God. Unfortunately, once they realised what they want they run. Jesus in saying this also gave us another important task. I think He preferred this to others we claimed to be doing for Him. That is; to love one another just as He had loved us! This is because if you love one another as He had loved you, you won't fight, engage in frivolities, take immoral acts, steals and other unethical and societal vices.
*PRAYER/DECLARATIONS*
O God, thanks for teaching me to love one another just as You loved me. I pray for Your grace to keep to this and others in Jesus name, Amen!
*1. God of direction build a wall of divine love around me. I will never fail to shine the light you set in me.*
*2. I shall not die but live to glorify God. My business and career must show that God is truly in me.*
*3. I hereby decree and declare that God will always perfect everything that concerns me in Jesus name, Amen.*