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Daily Fountain 2017 - 061117 - Raised Up To Sit With Christ In The Heavenly Realms





Monday November 6

Bible Reading:     Eph. 2: 1 - 10
Topic:                  Raised Up With Christ To Sit In The Heavenly Realms

Paul reminds us in this passage today before Jesus saved us, we were living disobedient lives that missed the mark of God's righteous standard.

He reminds us too that without God, we crave the wrong and forbidden things and end up surrendering to satan who becomes our master and who finally leads us to our eternal destruction.

This conforms to Jesus declaration in John 10: 10 that satan comes but "to steal, to kill and to destroy" only God's great grace and merciful intervention through Jesus' sacrifice on the Cross brings abundant life.

But God did not just save us, He has united us with Christ in the Heavenly Places out of the reach of our enemy, satan and his cohorts.

And all this is by grace so no one should boast. Moreover God saved us so we can do good works on His behalf and in gratitude we should wholly dedicate our lives to His service.

Are you showing your gratitude to God by the way you live and serve?

Prayer
Loving Father, thank You for lifting me from the miry pit of sin and setting me upon the Solid Rock. May I always live my life to praise and work for You in Jesus Name, Amen.

Memory Verse             Eph. 2: 6
"And hath raised us up together and made us sit together in the Heavenly Places in Christ Jesus."


Source:     The Daily Fountain 2017
(The Daily Devotional Guide of the Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion)

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