The Daily Fountain Daily Devotional of the Church Of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) 19 May 2024 – TOPIC: THE GREAT COMMISSION
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THE DAILY FOUNTAIN
DAILY DEVOTIONAL OF THE
CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION)
DATE: SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2024
(Pentecost/Whit Sunday)
TOPIC: THE GREAT COMMISSION
READ: JOHN 20: 19-31 (NKJV)
20:19. Then, the same day at evening, being the first [day] of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace [be] with you.”
20:20. When He had said this, He showed them [His] hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.
20:21. So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”
20:22. And when He had said this, He breathed on [them,] and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
20:23. “If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the [sins] of any, they are retained.”
20:24. Now Thomas, called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.
20:25. The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord.” So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.”
20:26. And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, “Peace to you!”
20:27. Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand [here,] and put [it] into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.”
20:28. And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”
20:29. Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed [are] those who have not seen and [yet] have believed.”
20:30. And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book;
20:31. but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.
THE MESSAGE:
We have an account ofJesus Christ’s first appearance to the disciples on the day He rose. He had sent them the good tidings of His resurrection and to confirm their faith in Him, He came Himself and gave them the needed assurance they could ever desire so that they themselves would be eye-witnesses of His being alive because they must attest to the world and build the Church upon this testimony. Jesus gave them a commission, thus: “As the father has sent me, I am sending you” which implies that they were to go on with His work upon the earth and commit themselves for the spreading of the Gospel and setting up of God’s kingdom among men. He also sent them with divine warrant and armed them with divine power, as ambassadors, to make peace and to proclaim it.
Today is whit Sunday. It is a day that explains to us the fulfilment of the promise of God regarding the Holy Spirit. As disciples of God, we need to understand that the greatest assignment was given to us all the moment we received our salvation. We must at this point rise to take up this assignment. As children of God, we have been given the necessary power been equipped; it is left for us to speed up and obey the clarion call. We need to bring people to salvation by sharing wit them the Gospel of God through witnessing, in order to make them candidates of the Kingdom of God.
PRAYER: Father, help me to be faithful to the assignment of Your Kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
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