Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional 11 December 2021 Sunday Message
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TOPIC: Who Are You?
TEXT: John 1:19-28(NKJV)
19. Now this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
20. He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.”
21. And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.”
22. Then they said to him, “Who are you, that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?”
23. He said: “I [am] ‘The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Make straight the way of the LORD,” ‘ as the prophet Isaiah said.”
24. Now those who were sent were from the Pharisees.
25. And they asked him, saying, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
26. John answered them, saying, “I baptize with water, but there stands One among you whom you do not know.
27. “It is He who, coming after me, is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose.”
28. These things were done in Bethabara beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional 11 December 2021 STUDY:
Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to John to ask one question: “Who are you? Sometimes, we are offended when someone asks us who we are, particularly in a derogatory manner. be a good opportunity for a biblical self-evaluation. It should make we feel sighted; we feel belittled. But if handled positively, it can us to truly ask if we are the persons we claim to be, or ask if we are truly the persons others perceive us to be. Are you truly the godly Christian person others think you are? Do you truly fit the profile you deliberately built for yourself; in other words, are you a hypocrite?
The way John handled the situation is very instructive. First, he confessed, and did not deny”, “I am not the Christ” (NKJV). Brother, sister, do others think you are a Christian when you truly are not? Is your wife thinking that the child she has for you is your first child, meanwhile you had a child out of wedlock and she still does not know? Are you running around with your husband for prayers to conceive when you know that while you were in the world, your womb was damaged in an abortion? Confess! Truth sets
free. Please make straight the way of the Lord.
PRAYER: Rise up today and handle every wrong impression you have
deliberately created of yourself.
Daily Fountain Quote of the Day
“We don’t think there’s something wrong with one-year-old children because they can’t walk perfectly. They fall down frequently, but we pick them up, love them, bandage them if necessary, and keep working with them. Surely our heavenly Father can do even more for us than we do for our children.”— Joyce Meyer
Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional 12 December 2021 Message. The Church of Nigeria is the Anglican church in Nigeria. It is the second-largest province in the Anglican Communion, as measured by baptized membership, after the Church of England.