Date: Friday, 5th December 2025
Text: Luke 14:27
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
Discipleship carries a price because following Christ demands the surrender of personal ambitions for divine purpose. Jesus never hid this truth; He said plainly, “Whoever does not bear his cross… cannot be My disciple” (Luke 14:27). True disciples lose their lives to find them (Matthew 16:25). Every genuine walk with God requires trading comfort for consecration.
The cost includes letting go of relationships, habits, and systems that resist the Holy Spirit’s work (Galatians 5:16). The flesh rebels against spiritual discipline, so discipleship demands crucifixion of self-will (Galatians 2:20). God shapes His disciples through pruning, and pruning is painful but productive (John 15:2).
Financial cost is also part of discipleship. The early church “sold their possessions” because kingdom priorities outweighed material ownership (Acts 4:34–35). God does not demand poverty; He demands priority. He must be above business, career, convenience, and personal dreams. When He is not first, He is not Lord.
Yet every cost births incomparable glory (Romans 8:18). What you give up becomes seed, and what God gives back becomes harvest. No disciple ever regrets what they surrendered, for Christ fills the surrendered places with something eternal. In losing, we gain. In dying, we live. In yielding, we reign.
Prayer Nugget: Father, please, give me the courage to pay the price of discipleship without reservation in Jesus name.
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