Knowing God Devotional is an online daily devotional written by Andrews Baah Kwafo, the president of The Bible Daily Network.
To get rid of bitterness, you must expunge holding on to offences in your heart. That means you ought to forgive people as quickly as possible whenever they offend you. If you don’t do it, you’ll give the devil the chance to make you meditate on your pain instead of God’s forgiveness.
This world is such a strange world. Many people struggle to make ends meet. But are we believers supposed to be struggling? No! Aside from God meeting our needs in supernatural ways, He commands us, through His Word, that we shouldn’t steal but work. So, dear Christian, God doesn’t want you to steal. He knows that your full potential will be brought to bear through work.
In your anger, watch what you say. It is better to keep quiet when angry, calm your raging emotions, and pray before responding to people.
It is better to do what the Word of God says and be called names than to live a fake life to please people. God is the one that created you, not people. At the end of the day, you will render the account of your life to Him, not to any man.
Everything you live for in Christ must be rooted in faith, which involves perceiving everything from an accurate understanding of the Word. Therefore, to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, you need to know the Word.
If you are a believer who has been feeding your fleshly lusts, there is a warning from scripture for you today. You must put off your old self consciously. In fact, God won’t descend from above to do that for you; you must do it yourself. But the question is, how?
Child of God, it is God’s desire for you to mature spiritually. That is why, even before the Church was born, Jesus Christ apportioned diverse gifts to men to equip the saints to do the work of the ministry. When you submit to this divine administration, what happens is that you’ll mature spiritually, especially in divine knowledge.
You will always be different because your divine gifts are unique. What is important is that you harness your divine gift for it to be so sharp that you that it command global attention.
It pays to be completely humble and gentle. When God sees you to be humble and gentle, He will open doors for you that you never think it is possible. Don’t live always scheming ways to be arrogant to people, even if they talk badly about you. Let God avenge you, not yourself.
Consecration in fulfilling your divine mandate requires that you don’t touch the filth in the world. So even though you are in the world, you are not of it (see John 17:16). Let your thinking patterns and how you see life be rooted in the Word of God. In that way, you will always live a life worthy of your divine calling in Christ, no matter where you are on the face of this earth.
God loved you so much that He sent Jesus to come and die for you. So, what makes you think you’re less valuable before Him? It doesn’t matter how bad people have treated you for years. Maybe your parents haven’t taken care of you since infancy. But today, let it be registered in your consciousness that God loves you.
You must learn to give what you have decided in your heart to give because that is what scripture teaches. That implies that planning your offering and giving to support God’s work is necessary.
