MFM Command Your Day 5 January 2024 – Friday
COMMAND YOUR DAY
Friday, January 5, 2024
TOPIC: Promote Christ This Year
Memory Verse: John 15:13: “Greater love hath no man than this, that, a Man lay down His life for His friends”.
Reading: Jn. 21:15-17.
If you truly desired a change in your situation this year, there is work for you. The Lord says that you should promote Christ. Let me share with you this short story that challenged me on how to promote Christ.
An unbelieving English traveller met an overzealous American India convert who kept pestering him about Christ. Desiring to keep his mouth shut, the English man challenged him: “What has this Christ done for you that you made so much fuss about him?” The Indian convert decided to demonstrate what Christ did for him instead of telling a story.
He collected dry leaves and sticks, and formed a ring with the items. He picked a live worm and put it at the centre of the ring. Then he struck a light and set the leaves and sticks on fire. As the flame rose, the heat scorched the worm but it could not escape. Weak and helpless, it curled itself up in the middle of the ring, waiting for the inevitable, which is death.
At this point, the Indian picked up the worm, placed it on his palm close to his chest. Gradually, the warm uncurled. “What does this mean?” The English man asked. The Indian explained. His life was like the perishing worm. He was dying in sin hopeless, helpless, and bound for eternal fire. Christ stretched out His long arm of power and mercy, and delivered him from the everlasting fire.
Jesus asked Peter, “Do you love me?” (Jn. 21:15-17). He is repeating the same question this morning. If you really loved Jesus, let your New Year resolution be: “To witness for Christ, to live for Christ and Work for Christ”. When you promote Christ, your life will change.
PROPHETIC COMMAND (MORNING & NIGHT)
Worship! Praise!! Thanksgiving!!!
1. Thank you Father for Your love and kindness for me ⁸which endure forever.
2. Power to promote Christ, Son of God, come upon my life.
3. My life and all that I have, advertise Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour
4. O Thou that picked me from the gutter of life and made me somebody, I
shall never stop to sing about You, in Jesus’ name.
5. O Thou that washed away my sins with Your unpolluted blood, your praise shall always fill my mouth, in Jesus’ name.
6. I was but a worm, weak and helpless, but your compassion brought me to life, in Jesus’ name.
7. My life, promote Christ, the Lover of my soul to the perishing souls
8. I love You, Lord. I promise to witness for You, to live for You and work for You, in Jesus’ name.
9. O Lord, I need a change. Transform my life to promote Your name all the days of my life, in Jesus’ name.
10. Power to go and teach all nations about Christ, come upon me, in Jesus’ name.
JANUARY BIBLE READING TODAY: Neh. 1-3:32
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