Wednesday January 27th, 2021
Memorize: 2 Corinthians 6:14 Coping Words (CW)
« Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what do righteousness and lawlessness share together, or what does light have in common with darkness? »
Read: 2 Corinthians 6:13-18
13 I am asking you to respond as if you were my own children. Open your hearts to us!
14 Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness?
15 What harmony can there be between Christ and the devil? How can a believer be a partner with an unbeliever?
16 And what union can there be between God’s temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God said: “I will live in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
17 Therefore, come out from among unbelievers, and separate yourselves from them, says the Lord. Don’t touch their filthy things, and I will welcome you.
18 And I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
Message:
Who you associate with is a great determinant of whether God will be silent over your matter or if He will act on your behalf.
In Genesis 12:1, God told Abraham to leave his father’s house and go to a land He would show him. Unfortunately, Lot, Abraham’s nephew, went with him.
Lot being with Abraham hindered God from delivering the promise to him, but the moment Lot was separated from him, God remembered His promise.
« 14 After Lot had separated from him, the Lord said to Abram, “Look from the place where you are. Look north and south, east and west, 15 for I will give you and your offspring forever all the land that you see. »
Genesis 13:14-15 CSB
Thank God for His mercy that caused Abraham and Lot’s men to fight so that Lot could be separated from him (Genesis 13:1-18).
I pray for you today: God will separate from you any friend or associate hindering Him from fulfilling His promise to you, in the mighty name of Jesus.
Joshua was experiencing victory upon victory until one day when he faced a small army that defeated him. That day, he had to investigate what made him fail and then he found out that there was a bad egg in his company , Achan. After getting rid of Achan, the victories resumed (Joshua 7:1-28 & Joshua 8:1-35).
The Almighty God who I serve will reveal to you any Achan in your family, company or Church in the mighty name of Jesus.
God wants to help some people, but He would not because of their friends and associates.
It is either the persons sins make it difficult for God to be involved in whatever the fellow is involved in or He knows that if He gives you what He wants to, with that fellow still in your life, it would result in more harm than good.
Who are your friends?
Who are your business partners?
Who are you planning to get married to?
Who is squatting with you in your house?
You need to choose these people with care. If you choose a business partner who mutters incantations when you are praying, that project is not likely to go well because a house divided against itself cannot stand (Mark 3:25).
Action point: Prayerfully review the kind of people you associate with from today.
Author: Pst E. A. Adeboye.
Text edited by Naomie
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