Topic: For Your Good
Personal Daily Confession:
I serve the living God who is indescribable, untouchable, unchangeable and reliable. He is the one who lifts up a pauper and makes him a king.
He change the seasons and time and makes His word become flesh. He is the one who has caused many lives to flourish in fulfillment of purpose. He is the one who does exceedingly abundantly above all I can ask or think. He is the Great I am and the one and only true God. He is forever able, and always reliable king. He is my father, my king, my defence, my banner of victory. He is Messiah, the King above all kings, the uncreated creator. Hallelujah!
Memorise: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. – Romans 8:28
Bible Reading: Genesis 50:19-22 (KJV)
19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?
20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
MESSAGE:
If we could see things the way God does, our lives would be far better.
Sometimes, criticism comes because God wants to make you more popular and influential. Some people may even harm you because God wants to promote you.
If you cannot see things from God’s point of view, you may miss the coming blessings.
As long as you remain in love with God, you can rest assured that all things are working together for your good.
Ephesians 1:3-6 says the purpose of God for your life had been settled before the foundations of the world.
All the things you have gone through and people you have met in your life – whether good or bad, are part of the purpose of God for you.
I find the story of Joseph (Genesis 37-46) very instructive. He was one person who saw things from God’s point of view.
His father loved him greatly and gave him a coat of many colours – prophetic of where he was going.
His brothers became jealous of him because of his dreams of greatness and they sold him into slavery.
If his brothers had accepted him, they would not have sold him into slavery, he would not have arrived in Egypt, and neither would he have reached the throne.
If he had not gotten to the throne, his brothers would not have come to bow to him as God had shown him many years before.
Joseph saw things from God’s point of view; he knew that if he could just stay holy, everything happening to him would eventually lead him to the throne.
He never let his wilderness experience take away his hope or make him sin against God.
At every stage of his ordeal (as a slave in Potiphar’s house and as a prisoner), his leaders attested to the fact that God was with him.
God is working out His purpose for your life. Those who hate you and those who love you are part of the plan.
Stay holy, keep trusting Him; your reward is just around the comer. Galatians 6:9 says:
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
Saturday Key Point:
As long as you are still in the will of God, don’t worry; everything around you is working for your good (Romans 8:28)
Bible in One Year: Matthew 3, Mark 1, Luke 3
This Daily Devotional guide was written by Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG)
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