TOPIC: The Dangers of Partiality (2)
MEMORY VERSE
1 Timothy 5:21 – I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES
Partiality is an acid that corrodes the talent of some people.
PRAISE AND WORSHIP
Take praise and worship songs as led by the Holy Spirit.
PROPHETIC WORD
I pray that God will make you a promoter of His love, peace and unity, in the Name of Jesus.
PRAISE AND WORSHIP
Take praise and worship songs as led by the Holy Spirit.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Esther 2:19-5; Revelation 3:7-22; Psalm 141:1-10
FIRE SCRIPTURE
Acts 10:24-33
MFM Daily Devotional 12th December 2022 OUTLINE
Today, our world is filled with prejudice and hatred based on class, race, ethnicity, nationality and religion. The Bible condemns our categorisation of people into Jew or Gentile, slave or free, rich or poor, Greek or barbarian, etc. God is also not happy with racial discrimination, ethnic and tribal cleavage and other forms of division among us.
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God promotes love, unity and peaceful co-existence. He also commands us to do the same, but these values seem to be lost in our days. In Acts 10, God showed Peter a vision to correct the age-long discrimination in their days that made it unlawful for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to another nation (Acts 10:28). God showed and told Peter in the vision not to call any man common or unclean anymore. In other words, God is telling us to stop any form of discrimination, partiality and divisive tendency.
Remember that if Jesus had not rejected discrimination and related well with the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4, He would not have converted her and many others at that time. Similarly, Jesus honoured the Syrophoenician woman’s faith and gave her the miracle she needed, in spite of her race. He went about doing good to all and sundry without partiality.
If we obey the words of the Scripture, our nations and societies will be saved from the adverse effects of unnecessary class structure, gender discrimination, tribal, ethnic and racial division that often lead to avoidable wars.
There were parents who did not give their daughters education beyond secondary school because they believed only their sons deserve such an investment. Some employers do not employ people from some tribes, no matter how qualified such people may be. Also, some landlords do not oblige some fellow Christians who seek accommodation from them because they belong to another denomination or ethnic group. The list of discrimination seems endless and God is not happy with this.
The charge our Royal Master gave us is to go and make disciples of all nations. This shows that every form of barrier and discrimination has been removed.
Winning the world to Christ and the souls of men for Him should be our priority. To achieve this, we must eliminate all forms of discrimination, partiality and division at all levels.
PRAYER POINTS
MORNING
1. Father, arise and rid our world of racial discrimination and its consequences, in the Name of Jesus.
2. I come against ethnic war, tribalism and other forms of division, in the Name of Jesus.
3. Father, let Your love reign in my heart, in the Name of Jesus.
EVENING
4. Father, help me to promote unity and peaceful co-existence, in the Name of Jesus.
5. O God, arise and remove every barrier to peaceful co-existence in the Church and the society, in the Name of Jesus.
6. O Lord, come and reign in my nation, in the Name of Jesus.
7. Father, make all Christian homes Your abode, in the Name of Jesus.
MFM Daily Devotional 12th December 2022 Mountain Top Life ©2022 𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 is a daily devotional by Dr. D.K Olukoya (General Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries Worldwide).