Tuesday, 15 November 2016

Devotional Wednesday 16/11/16 – John 17:17 “Sanctify them by truth”

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The foundation of all sanctification is the bible: it’s only on the truth of scripture that we build our lives…
To meditate/pray upon
John 17:17 “Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.”
John 3:21 “But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.”
2 Timothy 2:15 ‘Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.’
Following on from yesterday’s devotion, how do we get sanctified? How do we know what Jesus is like so as to aspire to this? How do we know God’s opinion on anything? All sanctification is accomplished by the Spirit inspired and empowered truth of the bible.
The foundation of all sanctification is the bible: it’s only on the truth of scripture that we build our lives; indeed we must measure everything else that we may feel God is wanting to change in us by scripture.
For example, we may go to a conference where we feel convicted to pray more often. But how is one to go about that? Well a good place to start might be the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6:5-15. Here, Jesus gives us a good outline on which to build our prayer habits and attitudes to avoid.
Or maybe we struggle with fear and anxiety; we face our days with a pessimistic outlook. How can we deal with this? Maybe we could turn to self-help teachers like Tony Robins. Or, better still, one could turn to God’s word! Passages like Philippians 4:6-7 or Isaiah 41:10 could be employed to help us.
How are you doing in this?
Where does God want to change you at present? Make a brief study of the bible on that subject, list a few key bible verses to memorise or pray through.
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