TEXT ACTS 7:54- 57
TOPIC : THE CREATIVE FORCE OF TRUST
[54]When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
[55]But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
[56]And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
[57]Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
I heard the story of this christian family that was martyred as told by pastor Youngi Cho.
This happened at a time when is was a crime punishable by death to be caught practicing our faith.
Christianity was practiced underground.
On the day they planned to execute them, they dug their grave, one single big grave and gave the man another opportunity to recant and save his family.
At that very moment, the two children screamed and wept aloud, asking their daddy not to let them die.
The man was about recanting his faith when the wife grabbed him and said to him, "Honey this night, we will be having super with Jesus".
They were singing a hymn as the bullets rained on them.
The crowd who came to watch could not believe their eyes.
That same day, more people gave their lives to Christ than in their life time.
Galatians 2:20
"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me"(Galatians 2:20).
The greatest honour any life on earth will attract is that it was wasted on the master.
A life not wasted like the alabaster on Jesus is a wasted life.
As the Easter approaches, decide that you will present the master with a gift, your soul for His punctured and bleeding heart.
God bless you.
With the God I serve, nothing shall be impossible.
Your case is not
bigger than God.
May you have a God filled day in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Your Victory is already guaranteed
It is well, do not give up, with God all things are possible
(Please be a blessing to seven persons by sending to them devotionals)
For further reading,
Deuteronomy 3,4.
2 Corinthians 7,8.
Pastor Obi Ejikeme
Senior Pastor
House of faith, Nigeria
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