Friday, 23 September 2016

Devotional 24/9/16 – John 15:25 All things fulfil God’s will

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Saturday’s devotional blog: Imagine how your outlook on life would be if you completely trusted that God ruled over all circumstances. Let’s learn to live with the same faith as Jesus who trusted that all things fulfilled God’s will and word.
To meditate/pray upon
John 15:25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’”
John 12:37-38 ‘Even after Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him. This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: “Lord, who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”’
Everything serves the great purposes of God for His own glory.
Ephesians 1:11 ‘In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will.’
No matter what we face each day, God loves us, loves His church and is working all things according to His unstoppable will.
We may, as the context of John 15 makes clear, have days of great trial, but we can rest assured that God is still on the throne. Even the death of Christ, even though carried out by the sin of men, was never the less in accord with God’s will and promised in scripture,
Acts 4:27-28 “Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.”

Let’s ‘remain in the vine through word, prayer and trust. The closer your relationship with Jesus, the greater will be your awe and faith in God, and so greater will become your ability to joyfully endure and bear fruit in all circumstances.

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