Date: Friday, 29th September, 2023
Text: Matthew 10:37-39
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
The perfect will of God is summarized in two sentences, namely, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:30-31
Though the above statements look simple and straight forward, many of us struggle with them and are found wanting. This is because many things compete for the place of love in our hearts.
The Lord said,“Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. Matthew 10:37-39
To take up our cross is to daily bear the burdens of God’s work on Earth. It is to be committed to soul winning and to the expansion of God’s kingdom on the planet Earth.
As we make the above our daily focus, we would find ourselves at the very centre of God’s perfect will.
The Lord said, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 7:21
Prayer Nugget: Father, please, let the fire of your love be stirred up in my heart in Jesus name.