LIVING STREAMS DEVOTIONAL
By Pst. Ezekiel Atang
MAY 2025
THE GREAT ASSIGNMENT
(Luke 14:21-23 KJV)
Saturday, 31st May
REDEEM THE TIMES
(Ephesians 5:14-16 AMPC)
“Therefore He says, Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine (make day dawn) upon you and give you light. Look carefully then how you walk! Live purposefully and worthily and accurately, not as the unwise and witless, but as wise (sensible, intelligent people), Making the very most of the time [buying up each opportunity], because the days are evil”.
I thank God for bringing us to the end of May! This month has been our month of focus on the great assignment, and my last words for us today is that we live to redeem the times. Have no time to waste, make the best with everybody and every situation for evangelizing purposes.
Always live like an ambassador, in every single place you find yourself. The King James Version of our Bible verse for today advises that we should redeem the time, and the amplified bible interprets it as living purposefully.
When it comes to serving kingdom purposes, here are the advises of Paul the apostle:
-Sleep no more, but wake up and let God give you light. To sleep is to be unconscious of your environment, it is to be less concerned and unperturbed about the ongoings. Paul says we should wake up!
To redeem the times is to live purposefully. It is to be intentional about your actions, and determine consequences; don’t just allow things happen with unintended consequences. Make sure you determine the the outcome of each encounter with people and meetings. Intentionally make sure that someone is saved. Use your birthday to save souls, target people to be saved in your office meetings, pray for people’s salvation on purpose, and don’t stop till they are saved. This is why you should live this way; according to our text: “Making the very most of the time [buying up each opportunity], because the days are evil”.
Receive grace to redeem the times in Jesus Name.
Action Points
i. Think of any occasion you have, and build in plans to get souls saved into it.
ii . Take out time each week to pray and fast for certain people known to you, so they can be saved and serve God.
iii. Trust God to put the right words in your mouth for the salvation of a souls headed for hell.
Prayer
-Lord please plant me at the right time, in the right place, with the right words in my mouth in Jesus Name.
-Lord I pray for everyone you have assigned to be saved through me, Lord may they be convicted ahead of any word that shall proceed out of my mouth in in Jesus Name.
Nugget
Always live like an ambassador, in every single place you find yourself.
For Further Reading and Meditation
MORNING
Genesis 34; Luke 4
EVENING
Ecclesiastes 4
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