Cgeneration devotional

While it’s extremely important for us to get to know God by ourselves and have a personal relationship with Him, spiritual mentors are important because they help us to grow faster than if we were to try to do it all by ourselves.

For us to grow this year, we must be very careful about our company or the people that we choose to allow into our inner circle. Proverbs‬ ‭13‬:‭20‬ ‭MSG‬‬ says “Become wise by walking with the wise; hang out with fools and watch your life fall to pieces.”

Philippians‬ ‭4‬:‭9‬ ‭NIV‬‬ “Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice..” If you want to grow spiritually this year, then it’s time to start practicing the Word and start serving God and serving others.

1 Peter‬ ‭2‬:‭2‬ ‭TPT‬‬ “In the same way that nursing infants cry for milk, you must intensely crave the pure spiritual milk of God’s Word. For this “milk” will cause you to grow into maturity, fully nourished and strong for life”

You want spiritual growth? What are you going to do about it? What is it going to cost you? Luke‬ ‭14‬:‭28‬-‭30‬ ‭MSG‬‬ says ““Is there anyone here who, planning to build a new house, doesn’t first sit down and figure the cost so you’ll know if you can complete it? If you only get the foundation laid and then run out of money, you’re going to look pretty foolish. Everyone passing by will poke fun...

God wants us to go into deeper things from His word so that we can grow and become more mature in our knowledge of Him and in our lives as Christians. So let’s make up our minds to grow spiritually and leave childishness behind!

God our Heavenly Father loves us so much and has invested heavily in you and I, just to ensure that we don’t perish but that we have eternal life through the gift of Jesus Christ. This is definitely a great reason to celebrate Christmas!

If God were to judge us appropriately for our sin, the whole of humanity should have perished and we should all have been completely destroyed. But thank God for Jesus Christ who offered himself as a ransom and came to this world to die in our place.

1 John‬ ‭3‬:‭8‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ “He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.” Jesus came to free us from the bondage of sin but sin is not the only work of the devil that Jesus came to destroy.

1 John‬ ‭3‬:‭5‬ ‭NLT “And you know that Jesus came to take away our sins, and there is no sin in him.” Through the coming of Jesus Christ we’re set free from sin. When we accept Jesus, we are no longer slaves to sin, sin no longer controls us and we can choose not to sin through the help of the Holy Spirit.

One of the names of Jesus as prophesied by Isaiah in Isaiah 9:6 is ‘Prince of Peace’ because Jesus has come to make peace between humanity and God and to restore our broken fellowship and relationship with Him.

Isaiah‬ ‭9‬:‭2‬, 6 NKJV‬‬ “The people who walked in darkness Have seen a great light; Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, Upon them a light has shined.” ‭‭ ‘for unto us a child is born and unto us a son is given’

If you’re celebrating Christmas don’t get carried away by the decorations, shopping and festivities. What are you celebrating and why are you celebrating? The birth of Jesus is the fulfilment of the prophecies in God’s Word.

Romans‬ ‭8‬:‭19‬ ‭NIV‬‬ says “For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.” The world is waiting in anticipation and excitement for you to manifest as a child of God. So what are you waiting for??

2 Corinthians‬ ‭5‬:‭20‬ ‭AMP‬‬ “So we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us; we [as Christ’s representatives] plead with you on behalf of Christ to be reconciled to God.”

John‬ ‭11‬:‭41‬ ‭NLT‬‬ “…Then Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, thank you for hearing me.” Even though Jesus knew that he was the son of God, he never felt entitled or took anything that his Heavenly Father did for him for granted. He was always filled with gratitude to God in every situation, no matter how difficult or challenging.

‭If you study God’s relationship with different people from the Old Testament to the New Testament, you’ll notice that one of God’s love languages is ‘quality time’. Jesus clearly understood this and throughout his life, he was very deliberate about spending quality time alone with his Heavenly Father.

With Jesus and God, there were no surprises because they communicated with each other about everything. Everything Jesus said, God told him to say, and everything Jesus did was what he saw his Father doing (John 5:19). No wonder Jesus prayed and spoke with so much authority!

Hebrews‬ ‭5‬:‭8‬ NLT‬‬ “Even though Jesus was God’s Son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered.

Children are expected to reverence and honour their fathers and God expects us to reverence Him if we are truly His children. Jesus clearly understood the value of reverencing God because he completely reverenced and honoured God the Father all through his life.

It’s one thing to have a good, loving Heavenly Father but it’s another thing to be a good son to the father. Jesus came, not only to reveal the father to us, but also to show us an example of how to relate with our Heavenly Father and be good sons and daughters to Him.

Jeremiah‬ ‭29‬:‭11‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ says “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

The desire of our Heavenly Father is to have an intimate personal relationship with us His children. Being born again means being reconciled back into a relationship with God. So it’s all about the quality of our relationship with God.

Psalm‬ ‭105‬:‭14‬-‭15‬ ‭GNT‬‬ “But God let no one oppress them; to protect them, he warned the kings: “Don't harm my chosen servants; do not touch my prophets.””

Psalms‬ ‭103‬:‭8‬-‭13‬ ‭NLT‬‬ “The Lord is compassionate and merciful, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He will not constantly accuse us, nor remain angry forever. He does not punish us for all our sins; he does not deal harshly with us, as we deserve. For his unfailing love toward those who fear him is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth. He has removed our sins...