Pattern Your Life After Christ

Thursday 29th November, 2018
Words of Life Daily Devotional
Pattern Your Life After Christ
Memory Verse: - Col 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Bible Reading: - Col 2:1 – 23
Message
There are philosophy and vain deceit of the world, tradition of men and rudiments of the world that are not profitable and not godly and as a child of God you must abstain from them. You must not be ruled or guided by tradition of men because man must not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.
Worldly amusement, rudiments and worldliness in general is enmity against God and whosoever holds unto them becomes God’s enemy. Worldly fashion of wearing strange apparels that do not cover ones nakedness is not of God, but of the world; God says let your moderation be known unto all men for God is at hand; your dressing must not be too flamboyant and must not be too simple as to not covering your nakedness, maintain the middle portion of modesty and shamefacedness.
Christ told the early church [his disciples] follow me, learn of me, and search the scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternal life and they are the one that testify of me. Therefore, pattern your life after Christ the way, the truth and the life through whom we can see God for in him alone dwell the Godhead bodily; and you can only be complete in him reigning over principalities and power in heavenly places.
Christ though was anointed without measure kept the anointing by praying regularly, evangelizing constantly and doing good zealously. The work he did you must do and greater than that you must do because he had gone to the father and you are now his ambassador. Hence, pray always without fainting, evangelize meaningfully and diligently and do good to all men.
Devil came and found nothing in Christ Jesus; he was sinless, blameless, and holy without any spot; so you must also be grounded and rooted in holiness, godliness and righteousness. Follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see God.
Heb 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Look unto him in all things and pattern your life after him for it is him alone that can take you to paradise the resting place of holy pilgrims.
Confession of the Day
I will look unto Jesus alone the way, the truth and the life and pattern my life after him till I reach my home.
Prayer Points
Abah father, I can only be kept by you from this untoward, perverse, adulterous, and wicked world; take me by hand and lead me through.

Give me power every hour to stand and follow your steps to the end. 

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