Friday August 28th, 2026
« However, stop rejoicing because the spirits are submitting to you. Instead, rejoice because your names are written in heaven” »
38 While Jesus and His followers were traveling, He went into a town, and a woman named Martha let Him stay at her house.
39 She had a sister named Mary. Mary was sitting at Jesus’ feet and listening to Him teach.
40 But her sister Martha was busy doing all the work that had to be done. Martha went in and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”
41 But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are getting worried and upset about too many things.
42 Only one thing is important. Mary has made the right choice, and it will never be taken away from her.”
- Intimacy with God should be your greatest heart’s desire.
The desire for power to work miracles must be secondary compared to the desire to be intimate with Him.
Believe me honestly, if you focus on intimacy with God, signs and wonders will follow effortlessly.
In Luke 10:19-20, after Jesus had given His disciples authority over all the powers of the enemy,
He told them not to rejoice in that fact, but rather that their names were written in Heaven.
- God prefers for you to be close to Him than that you have power to do His work.
In our Bible reading for today, when Jesus went to visit the two sisters,
Martha was occupied with serving Him, while Mary sat at His feet, spending quality time with Him.
Martha thought she was doing the right thing and told Jesus to instruct her sister to join her,
but He told her that Mary had done the one needful thing, which is to spend time at His feet.
He said further, “Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
- Someone can take a position in Church away from you or even deprive you of the opportunity to serve God in a particular area, but no one can take your intimacy with God away from you.
That is what you should guard more than anything else.
According to Jesus Christ Himself, that is the one needful thing.
When Jesus was on the cross in great pain, and being mocked by people who hated Him, He kept hanging on to life.
- When He no longer felt the presence of God, at that point, even with all the pain,
He cried with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?, Matthew 27:46-50NKJV.
He bore all the pain and shame, but could not bear to be separated from God.
Beloved, intimacy with God must be your priority above all else.
God desires to build intimacy with His children.
He is seeking those who will worship Him in Spirit and in truth, John 4:24
and not just those who are seeking what they can get from Him.
Application – Intimacy with God must be to you as breath is to your lungs.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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