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HOLINESS REVIVAL MOVEMENT WORLDWIDE - Daily Devotional

EVERY WORD OF GOD FOR DAILY LIVING

BY PASTOR PAUL RIKA
(Int'l Director)

FRIDAY
JUNE 8, 2018

TOPIC: WHY GOD IS STILL PATIENT WITH YOU

TEXT: 1 Peter 4:17-19

Key verse: Eze 18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, SAITH, the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

A man wore a T-shirt with the inscription: God is too busy to hear you, can I help you ... Says Satan! A man ordered a shipload of bibles and offloaded them in the Atlantic Ocean to spite God. The man is still living and making money. A man needed an unborn baby to make money ritual so he kidnapped a pregnant woman, ripped open the belly with a sharp knife and used the baby for the ritual. He became rich, popular and a notable philanthropist so much that he even built a church for God.

Why is God so patient?

2 Peter 3:8-10; [8] But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. [9] The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. [10] But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

The patience of God sometimes pays off, but not always because of the hardness of man's heart. If God were to judge us immediately for our evil deeds, no man will go to heaven for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. It was God's patience and forbearance that saved Paul such that he became a propagator of the very gospel he tried to destroy. Here is Paul's testimony of God's patience and forbearance: 1 Timothy 1:12-13 [12] And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; [13] Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

Paul responded favourably to the grace showed to him and even laboured for the gospel more than all the apostles that were before him. His holy life is a shining example to every true believer up till today. Acts 24:16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men. What has been your own response to God's mercy? Remember that His mercy is not available forever.

Thought for the day: Take advantage of divine mercy while it lasts. Tomorrow may be too late.

Song for the day: What a friend we have in Jesus.

Bible reading for the day: 2 Chronicles 26-28; John 17.
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