Day 4. – What is our LIFE-MESSAGE?
We’ve been sent to “GO” with a GOOD NEWS life-message. What should this consist of?
EVENING DEVOTION
Tonight, we are encouraged to think about the message that goes out from our heart’s meditations, words, & actions to those around us. What is our life-message that we speak about, portrait & live out to the world around us?
As we read the following Scriptures let us consider some leading questions to meditate on.
1. Does my life-message lead others to salvation & individual revival?
Our salvation message has to go along with Scriptures on the assurance of salvation, helping the believer not to base salvation on a feeling or emotion but on the Word of Truth.
Scriptures on Salvation and the Assurance of Salvation:
John 3:16, Rom 5:5-11, Rom10:10-13, John1:12, 1John 5:11-12, Rev 3:20.
2. Does it originate from truth or opinion?
We have to speak about the truth of Christ’s gospel message.
Joh 16:7-11
(7) Nevertheless I tell you the truth. … I will send Him (the Helper) to you.
(8) And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: (9) of sin, because they do not believe in Me; (10) of righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; (11) of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
3. Does my message help people making changes towards victorious living & life transformation?
Rom 8:5-6
(5) For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. (6) For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
4. Does our message of revival move people to responsibility for their free will choices?
Time is short… Our message should bring revelation of the consequences of all our choices in this life & lead towards taking responsibility for our choices.
Deu 30:19-20
(19) I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;
(20) that you may love the LORD your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days…
Heb 3:13
(13) but exhort one another daily, while it is called “TODAY,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
5. Does it bring conviction of God’s love & hope in a better future?
The Holy Spirit is our Guarantee of the better promises, the message that can bring about revival in each heart & hope for a better future because of God’s love.
2Co 1:20-22
(20) For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.
(21) Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God,
(22) who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
“LOVE WILL COVER A MULTITUDE OF SINS.”
1Pe 4:7-10
(7) But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.
(8) And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “LOVE WILL COVER A MULTITUDE OF SINS.”
(9) Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
(10) As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
Prayer:
Abba Father, thank you for the message of Life to go out to each individual we meet. Help us to know by Your Spirit what Your hearts is for every soul you send on our path. Sharpen our discernment & help us to obey Your voice to bring revival wherever we are.
We pray this in Jesus’ name.
Amen
SCRIPTURES as under point 1
Joh 3:16-17
(16) For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
(17) For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
Joh 1:12-14
(12) But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:
(13) who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
(14) And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
Rom 5:5-11
(5) Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
(6) For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
(7) For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.
(8) But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
(9) Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
(10) For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
(11) And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
1Jn 5:10-12
(10) He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son.
(11) And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
(12) He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
Rev 3:20-22
(20) Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.
(21) To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
(22) “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” ‘ “