#GOFAMINTDailyDevotion REVISION DAY 3
REVISION DAY 3
WEDNESDAY 23/8/2017
LESSON 5
BLESSINGS FOR THE MERCIFUL
Suggested Hymns: G.H.B. 32, 99
Devotional Reading: Matt. 18:23-30
Topic For Adults: Mercy Begets Mercy
Topic For Youths: You Can Afford To Be Merciful
Topic For Intermediates: It Pays To Be Merciful
Scripture Lesson: Exo. 34:6; Lam. 3:22; Lk. 1:68-72; Mic. 6:8; Lk. 6:36; Ps. 18:25; Matt. 5:7; Jam. 2:13
Memory Verse: Let not mercy and truth forsake you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart. Prov. 3:3 (NKJV)
SUMMARY
In our contemporary world where iniquities abound, it is becoming difficult to exercise mercy. There are people who have shown mercy but were not appreciated. The Good News this lesson has brought us is that Christians who show mercy, though may not be appreciated by the world shall obtain mercy as affirmed through Jesus’ teaching. This assured promise should inspire us to be merciful to others. At the appropriate time, we shall receive mercy of God.
LESSON 6
BLESSINGS FOR THE PURE IN HEART
Suggested Hymns: G.H.B. 28, 62
Devotional Reading: Ps. 24:3-6
Topic For Adults: Pure Heart, Pure Motive
Topic For Youths: Pure Heart, Pure Motive
Topic For Intermediates: Let Your Thoughts Be Pure
Scripture Lesson: Matt. 15:10-20; Ps. 51: 1-11; Matt. 5:8; Ps. 24:3-6
Memory Verse: Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. Matt. 5:8 (NKJV)
SUMMARY
God desires and demands pure hearts from His children. Anyone who harbors impurity cuts himself off from the presence of God. God creates a desire of necessity of love and devotion in the heart of those who have experienced a new birth through the Lord Jesus Christ. Purity of heart is an essential ingredient for anyone to please God since the heart is the knowledge faculty where people know things, also a centre of feeling and volitional activity. The heart that is yielding and devoted to seeking the Lord must be ‘pure’.
In view of this, Christians should keep God’s word in their hearts, trust in the Lord with all their hearts in order to experience the love of God poured into their heart (i.e. to become pure in their hearts)
