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OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL-SPREAD THE GOOD NEWS - 21/03/2014

SPREAD THE GOOD NEWS - 21/03/2014

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.


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