Christian Relations

Friday 1st February, 2019
Word of Life Daily Devotional
Christian Relations
Memory verse: - Mk 10:30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Bible Reading: - 1Tim 5: 1 – 25
Message
A born again Christian will have spiritual family relations that have being in the faith before him who will embrace him with open hands of love and with all readiness to assist him sacrificially – that is without anything in return. He will have fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters in the faith and how to relate with them so that they live together in harmony was stated in our text today.
First of all, elders [teachers of the word, pastors and leaders] must not be evil spoken of; must not be rebuked, but must be intreated – pleaded with as one would with a father. Leaders are not novice but sincere men of God put in place by God himself to teach us the way of the Lord that leads home; they are superhuman, when we see some things going astray, I mean not right; we can offer them suggestions and plead with them to prayerfully consider it. This reminds me of Moses father in law who saw that Moses will weary himself and the people out with his method of counseling; he then offer suggestions and asked him to prayerfully consider it; Moses adopted the strategy and it works fine for him and the people.
Ex 18:24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said.
Your leaders in the church are your spiritual parents, you need to honour them and prayerfully assist them in fulfilling their ministries.
Elderly women are mothers in Israel that must be seen as mothers and addressed as mothers with all respects and younger women and men as sisters and brothers respectively with all purity.
Purity, righteousness and holiness must be our watch word, for without peace among ourselves and holiness we cannot see God.
In the world today, we hear immorality going on even among family members all over the media: mother and son, father and daughter, brothers and sisters doing that which is illicit and dirty before God. This must not be once mention among us as becometh saints.
Paul rebuked those that did such during his time in
1Co 5:1 that It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife. Relate with other Christian in the vineyard of God with purity, sobriety and sincerity.
Confession of the Day
I will relate with other children of God with purity of heart provoking them unto good works.
Prayer Points
Lord, help me to do all things according to your will in thy vineyard everyday till I see you in glory.

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