LIVING STREAMS DEVOTIONAL
By Pst. Ezekiel Atang
MARCH 2025
WHY WERE YOU BORN?
(John 18:37 KJV)
Wednesday 19th March
DON’T JUST BE A CHRISTIAN, BE A DISCIPLE
(Acts 21:4 KJV)
“And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.”
Having been a Christian for all these years i have come to understand that there is a difference between a Christian or someone who just gave his life to Christ and someone who is a disciple or a disciplined follower of Jesus Christ. A Christian is one who is not a Muslim, at least so it is in many places. There are people that are Christians by nomenclature. Then there are those who became Christians by responding to an altar call, and that would be it.
But a disciple is one that has gone beyond being a Christian to being a student of Jesus Christ as it were. He is a disciplined follower of Jesus. These are people who read the bible everyday, they spend time in prayer daily and seek to have a deeper relationship with Jesus everyday. It is people like these who had enough spiritual fiber to discern that Paul shouldn’t go to Jerusalem. It was never recorded that they were pastors, evangelists, prophets or apostles, yet they discerned so accurately. As accurate as the all powerful prophet Agabus.
The question is, how many believers today can have such spiritual lives to come about such accurate discernment? Very very scarce to find in our time. We live in an age where believers want to be spiritually spoon fed by their pastors all the time. The pastor does the praying, teaching, follow up, etc. What we have today is more like a woman with a ten year old baby that must be carried around and pampered all the way. Please move from being a Christian to becoming a disciple.
Jesus never told us to go and make Christians, No! He said go and make disciples. Be a disciple.
Action Points/Prayer
i. Ask God to take away all forms of spiritual laziness from you, and give you the wisdom to follow through with it.
ii. Ask God for the grace to have a daily spiritual life of prayer, study of the word, weekly fast, etc.
Nugget
Jesus said “go and make disciples”. Be a disciple; a disciplined follower of Jesus who reads the bible everyday, spends time in prayer daily and seeks to have a deeper relationship with Jesus everyday.
For Further Reading and Meditation
MORNING
Habakkuk 2; Revelations 12
EVENING
Psalms 127
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