21st March 2024
Grace For You Today!
Encounter Jesus The King Of Glory And Experience The Confidence To Stand!
”let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,“ Hebrews 10:22-24 NKJV
The expectation from a believer is to believe that the work is fully finished by the Lord Jesus Christ and exercise his/ her faith in Jesus whom he has believed.
This exercising of one’s faith includes the following as stated in the above verses :
1. Drawing near to God ( Based on the Right standing with God called the Righteousness of God by His blood, given as a free gift)
2. Holding fast to our confession ( Based on who Christ is in us)
3. Considering one another, in order to stir up love and good works
Now, point 3 is very interesting. The word “stir up” means stimulate or provoke.
Normally this word is used in a negative sense like provoking someone to jealousy or anger.
However, the believers are expected to initiate or stimulate the other with godly, unconditional love & encourage them to do good works when the tides are contrary or when there is a economic downturn or when the other believer is facing a storm all alone.
We don’t speak the same language of despair or doom as the people of the world normally do, rather we speak out our confidence we have in Christ and if need be, extend every possible support to the one who is in need because, we freely receive therefore we freely give.
Even in the matter of forgiveness, we forgive others because Christ forgave us first (“bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also …“ Colossians 3:13). Amen 🙏
Let us allow Christ in us to manifest His unconditional love to all especially to the household of God.
Praise Jesus !
Grace Revolution Gospel Church