MFM Daily Devotional 10 March 2022
TOPIC: The Great Commission (I)
MEMORY VERSE: 1 Corinthians 9:16 – “For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of for necessity is laid upon me, yea, woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel.”
MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES: Evangelism is a definite assignment of God for all His children on earth.
PROPHETIC WORD FOR TODAY: As you do the work of God, He will meet you at the very point of your needs, in the Name of Jesus.
PRAISE AND WORSHIP: Take praise and worship songs as led by the Holy Spirit.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Deuteronomy 11–13; Mark 12:1–27
FIRE SCRIPTURE: Romans 10:14-15
14 But before people can pray to the Lord for help, they must believe in him. And before they can believe in the Lord, they must hear about him. And for anyone to hear about the Lord, someone must tell them.
15 And before anyone can go and tell them, they must be sent. As the Scriptures say, “How wonderful it is to see someone coming to tell good news!”
MFM Daily Devotional 10 March 2022 MESSAGE
Jesus died for every human being on the surface of the earth, irrespective of gender, race, colour, wealth, position, power, influence or authority (John 3:16).
The Great Commission instructs us to preach the gospel to every person in all the countries of the world (Matthew 28:18-20). As a result of the differences amongst human beings engendered by many factors, everyone cannot be reached using the same method.
This explains the wisdom of Apostle Paul in his approach to evangelism as explained in 1 Corinthians 9:15-24. He made himself everything to everybody in order to win them to Christ.
Similarly, when Jesus was queried for eating with tax collectors and sinners, he answered that it is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick, I have not come to call the righteous but sinners (Mark 2:17). (MFM Daily Devotional 10 March 2022 for Today)
Back in those days, tax collectors were considered corrupt and treacherous, yet Jesus went to them, spent time with them and shared a friendly meal with them. He did not overlook what they had done or what they had become. But in the moral ‘sickness’ of their sin, He offered them the healing of His friendship.
When we invite sinners to repentance and transformation through evangelism, we will make them amend their ways.
Zacchaeus, a corrupt man who had grown rich by cheating others, climbed a tree to see what this Jesus was all about. The Lord Himself chose to dine with him to the irritation of the more ‘righteous’ people in the crowd.
This loving invitation brought this corrupt tax collector to repentance and transformation –ready to make amends for his wrongdoings. The man that the others had considered an outcast was restored as a brother.
Beloved, if Jesus can do all these while on earth, what about you as a child of God? If the precious souls of people meant so much to Him that He could lay down His life to win them for the Father, then, the Great Commission must be of top priority to you.
The Lord will reward you as you witness and win souls for Him in this new year, in Jesus’ Name.
Prayer Points
MORNING
1. O God my Father, make me a soul winner, in the Name of Jesus.
2. O God my Father, make me an effective battle axe in Your hands, in the Name of Jesus.
3. Spirit of the Pharisee, my life is not your candidate, come out and die, in the Name of Jesus
EVENING
4. O God my Father, make my fellowship with You become deeper, in the Name of Jesus
5. Anointing for soul winning, baptise my life, in the Name of Jesus.
6. Lord Jesus, make me a solution to my generation, in the Name of Jesus.
7. O God my Father give me passion for lost souls, in the Name of Jesus.
