Topic: Your Time of Testimony and Favour [Archbishop Margaret E. Benson Idahosa] Above Only Daily Devotional 8 May 2020
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Your Time of Testimony and Favour
Psalms 102:13 (NKJV) You will arise and have mercy on Zion; For the time to favor her, Yes, the set time, has come.
2 Corinthians 6:1-2 (NIV) As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. For he says, “In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.
Isaiah 61:2 (LB) The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news. … He has sent me to tell those who mourn that the time of God’s favor to them has come…
The day you got born again was not the day that God provided for your salvation. Through Christ, God has long provided for your salvation. The day you got born again was the day you believed and received the revelation of God’s love and salvation that was already available to you in Christ. Child of God, I have good news for you right now! Jesus has already brought you into God’s favour and salvation. Every manifestation of God’s favour and power that you desire in your life have already been provided for you in Christ. As you believe and receive this revelation, it becomes yours and it will manifest in your life.
Do you understand the glory and power of this great salvation that we have received in Christ Jesus, Heb. 2:3-4? We are in that great time which so many of the prophets of the Old Testament prophesied about. 1 Peter 1:10-12 (NIV) says, “Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow. It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.” Halleluyah! Along with your salvation in Christ, God has freely provided everything you desire in your life, Rom. 8:32. You are in Christ and the Bible assures you that in Christ, all the promises of God are yes and amen, 2 Cor. 1:20. Every promise of God to you in His word is fulfilled and it is your reality already. All that is left for you to do is to claim it as yours right now.
Prayer Focus:
Rejoice and declare that now is your time of favour and salvation. Declare that in Christ, God has heard you and has helped you.
Bible in one year reading plan:
- 2 Kings 7-9
- John 1:1-28