Please read 1 Timothy 1.
Meditate on verse 12.
I thank
Christ Jesus our LORD, who has strengthened me
because
He considered me faithful, putting me into service.
Paul left
Timothy in Ephesus to teach the believers how to function as a church (1
Timothy 1:3; 3:15). Before Paul gave Timothy guidelines for church
administration, Paul thanked Jesus for giving him strength, mercy, grace,
faith, love, and patience. Paul acknowledged his past life as a blasphemer,
persecutor, violent aggressor, and the foremost of sinners. If Jesus Christ
saved Paul and put him into service, then no one in Ephesus was hopeless for
eternal life and serving the LORD.
This letter
is for you and those for whom you are praying. Are you standing guard over
someone who appears will never follow Christ? Be encouraged by blasphemous,
violently aggressive, persecuting, sinful Paul, who because of the LORD Jesus
Christ, became a faithful servant to eternal, immortal, invisible King Jesus.
If God can save Paul, He can save anyone!
Pray 1
Timothy 1:12-19 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful,
prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).
“LORD Jesus Christ, strengthen _________ and me.
Please
consider us faithful and put us into service.
Show us
Your mercy, grace, faith, and love.
Thank You
for coming into the world to save sinners.
Please
let _________ believe in You for eternal
life.
Help us fight the good fight, keep the faith,
and keep a good conscience.
Now to
You, King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God,
be honor
and glory forever and ever. Amen~”
The WATCHMAN
on the WALL ~ Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell
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