LIVING STREAMS DEVOTIONAL
By Pst. Ezekiel Atang
MAY 2025
THE GREAT ASSIGNMENT
(Luke 14:21-23 KJV)
Wednesday, 14th May
GOD AND ANGELS CANNOT EVANGELIZE
(Acts 10:1-6 KJV)
“There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always. He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius. And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter: He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do”.
There is a crucially important thing we need to understand about God, that is the fact that He will not do our jobs and we cannot do His job. God can do anything He wants to do, but there are some boundaries that God would not cross, such as coming down to evangelize to people, the same goes for angels too. They too cannot preach the gospel because they have not experienced salvation and as such cannot share it.
What God has done is to enable your salvation by sending Jesus as the propitiation for our sins. Jesus enabled our salvation by dying and carrying our sins on Himself, all the way to the cross. But that is where it stops; The work of disseminating the already finished work of Jesus is that of saved believers, people who have encountered the mercy and grace of God.
As much as Cornelius loved God, and showed it by prayers, fasting and giving of alms, yet the most important thing that should happen to man had not come to pass in his life, which is salvation. So, when the need arises for someone to be saved or to hear the gospel, neither God, nor Jesus nor angels will preach; God will send you to someone or send someone to you. Receive boldness to evangelize today in Jesus Name.
Action Points
i. Make up your mind to be intentional about evangelism today.
ii. Tell someone about Jesus today and invite someone to the next Church Service without fail.
Prayer
-Lord I realize that I have become slack in my pursuit of you and your presence, and I repent in Jesus Name.
-I make my way back to my first love for you in Jesus Name.
-Give me the grace to be consistent with you in Jesus Name.
Nugget
The work of disseminating the already finished work of Jesus is that of saved believers.
For Further Reading and Meditation
MORNING
Genesis 19; Mark 5
EVENING
Proverbs 20
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