LIVING STREAMS DEVOTIONAL
By Pst. Ezekiel Atang
MAY 2025
THE GREAT ASSIGNMENT
(Luke 14:21-23 KJV)
Thursday, 1st May
THE GREAT ASSIGNMENT
(Acts 1:8 KJV)
“But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth”.
An assignment is the act of assigning things. It is the specific work or task assigned to a person or group of persons. So, when Jesus was leaving, He made sure He left us with an assignment that must be done. Another way to view the concept of assignment is from the angle of homework, it is work that you take home, it is the home practice of what had been taught in the class room. One home or habitual practice that God wants us to have is the work of saving the lost.
There is a reason why Jesus left this work after His resurrection, and that was because He had finished His assignment. There is one reason why we have not been taken out of this world since we got saved, it is because we have an assignment to accomplish. It is the reason why we live and enjoy all the blessings of God in our lives. Also, we can be positioned to fulfill this assignment. Never make any mistake about this, you are what you are and you have all that you have so that you can do what you were saved to do.
Our text says God wants us to be witnesses; The best set of people to make a case and cause victory in court are eye witnesses, this is because they experienced and encountered the matter first hand. God knows that telling people about Him on theoretical basis would be hard, so He recruited twelve men who would experience Him and then become witnesses.
So, when the twelve spoke about Jesus they didn’t speak theories, they spoke as his witnesses. It is the same reason God saved you, so that you could share your experiences with God, and lead people to Jesus. Therefore, when you fail to share your experience with God, or fail to witness for Him; you automatically say that you have not met or experienced God. The only other explanation is that you just don’t care about God’s agenda or about the hopeless eternity of the lost. God forbid! Receive grace to witness about Jesus today.
Action Points
i. Begin to share your personal experience with God today.
ii. Constantly ask yourself about the eternity of anyone you meet from now on, and let that feel compassion in your heart.
iii. Catalogue as many testimonies about your relationship with God, then use them as evangelism tools from today.
iv. Tell someone about Jesus today and invite someone to the next church Service today without fail.
Prayer
-Make Prayer Points of all the action Points today.
Nugget
You are what you are and you have all that you have so that you can do what you were saved to do.
For Further Reading and Meditation
MORNING
Genesis 6; Matthew 20
EVENING
Proverbs 7
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