"It's true. God wants you to have a devotional life and to walk with Him each day. It's not impossible. It just takes commitment and consistency. However, God will never ask you to do something that is impossible. He is calling you to ministry and to prepare your life for service for the Master and King, the King of kings, and the Lord of lords.
"While it's okay to drop a large check as an offering to support a missionary or God's mission work, God is saying to you today, "My Son, I don't want your money, I want your heart."
"God has placed a call upon your life for ministry. Are you living a life that is pleasing to God today?"
"I believe you can. How? By learning to have a devotional life with Jesus. For you see, it's not about going to church, giving money, or following a religion. It's about getting to know the person that gave His life on a cross for you, so that today you can live a life filled with purpose, freedom, and influence."
"Today's devotional is based on war imagery. For the Bible says, "There was war in Heaven" (Revel 12:7-9). First, we have to accept that we are in a spiritual war. You are in a war. I am in a war. If you have confessed with your mouth, and believe in your heart that Jesus is Lord, to the Glory of God the Father" (Romans 10), then you have a target on your back, a bullseye. The Devil is out to get you. He is going to send Women, Sex, Drugs, partying, money, false religion, etc., your way to get you to get off the path that leads to life, that is, the path that leads to Jesus.
"Therefore, you have to get dressed each day for the war against the enemy. You enemy is the devil. Why? Because he is out to get you. Ephesians 6:11-13 tells us that we have to dress each day with the armor of God.
"Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand."
So, every day and every morning, we have to go before God and get dressed and fitted for the spiritual warfare we are in. The good news is that God's armor is bulletproof. That does not mean that the enemy will not try to hit us with his fiery arrows, assassin bullets, and destructive ammunition. However, when you are in Christ and you have the armor of God on you, then the bullets and arrows will bounce right off of you. You can even go into a burning building, and as long as God still wants you for a special mission on this earth, He will bring you out of that fire unharmed without a hair of your head burnt.
Today's lesson is simple: Go each day before God, and spend time in a Daily Devotional Life, so that he can dress you and equip you for that days's mission and duty.
In fact, you are "Called to Duty". God calls you to be his representative on planet earth. The moment will come, when God will ask you to invite other to call and cry out the name of Jesus. Why? Because the name of Jesus is so powerful. No matter what religion or church affiliation people have may have, to those who are involved in the spiritual battle on planet earth, calling on the name of Jesus bring peace, deliverance, and assurance.
So, be ready. When the opportunity comes, don't be afraid to invite those in the valley of the shadow of death, without hope and without God in the world, to cry out the name of Jesus.
The promise is: "For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” - Romans 10:13
Have a blessed day,
Sir Sal Garcia
PS, tomorrow we will begin to look at the armor of God in Ephesian 6. It's so powerful to know that God provides everything that we need in this war. And the good news is that, "Jesus Wins".
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