“Conduct yourself with wisdom in your interactions with outsiders (non-believers), make the most of each opportunity [treating it as something precious]. Let your speech at all times be gracious and pleasant, seasoned with salt, so that you will know how to answer each one [who questions you].” Colossians 4:5-6, Amplified.
My sisters, in this day and time, people are making eternal decisions. They are deciding whether they will reject Jesus or surrender to Him. Christians are also deciding whether they will continue to walk with the Lord or turn their backs on Him. The enemy desperately wants to cause many to spend eternity in hell with him. So, he will use the fleshly responses of God’s people to nurture this unbelief and rejection of God. While people’s lives are hanging in the balance of whether they will believe or not believe, our responses and our love or lack thereof, could influence their decision.
I challenge us by the Spirit of God to let the Lord continue to produce His fruit in us. I challenge us to walk in love and wisdom when dealing with others. Let’s not let our behaviors and responses be all the reason someone needs to turn their backs on the Lord. We will receive the wisdom of the Lord and the help of His Holy Spirit. If someone chooses to turn their backs on God, it won’t be because of us, my sisters. Our hands will be clean before God. We will be blameless and continue to love with His love. We will make the most of every opportunity to give people a reason to believe.
We know the great impact we have on every person we come in contact with. We understand we are influencing eternal decisions by our choices and our responses today.
Prayer: Father God, we thank you for ministering to our hearts and minds your truth. We accept the challenge your Holy Spirit is giving us today. Help us, Father, to be the light you’ve called us to be. Help us be salt. Let our words be seasoned with grace. Help us make right choices today in how we respond. Help us not give place to the enemy, but room for you to move. Help us not give people reason to reject you, but plenty of reason to accept you to the saving of their souls. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
(Read Ephesians 5:15-16; Proverbs 11:30; Matthew 5:14-16)
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Good morning Father God! Thank You for Your powerful words and unfailing love! You are my Creator and my Rick! You are The Almighty God all by Yourself! Thank You for making me the “salt” this world needs! I love You Father with my whole being! I pray these thugs in Jesus Christ name, Amen! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
God help me to have pleasant words but truthful words. God forgive me for those who I’ve hurt in not knowing how to show love. Send people to show your love so they see your love and don’t turn away from you. That was never my intention but I don’t know how to show your love. I need you to love through me. Jesus please just help me to show love and help draw them to you instead of away from you. In Jesus name
God forgive me of my sins. Help me be the light that draws people to You.
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Yes, let the word of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight. May the Lord be my strength and my redeem. For the Glory of God. Blessings, Shalom and Agape 👀🙏🏽♥️📖🙌🏽
Lord, allow me to be sunshine and not a dark cloud in someone’s life. Allow my words to be sweet and not sour. I want to a beacon for You, so I ask You to please help me to be mindful of my reactions as I know people are watching. If I am going to serve as an influence, I want to be positive especially if it will help lead someone to You, our great Lord and Saviour! 🙌🏽♥️
Amen, amen, amen. Confirmation to what the Lord speaks in my heart daily. It is what I intentionally walk out daily and teach and encourage others to do in word and much more importantly through my actions. There is room for improvement though. Just today, I was teaching such to others prior to reading this devotional that now strengthens and encourages me to stay the course. Sometimes, I wonder if I am teaching to much or being what some would call “too holy.” But when God gives me confirmations like this, I know I am on track with being, saying and doing what He wants me to.
I do admonish others that their response and relationship to God is ultimately between them and God, so they can’t blame people for their rejection of God or their chose to leave God after having accepted Him. While understanding and being emphatic to their pain and bad experiences, I tell them, people made those choices. What they did to you or how they misrepresented God through hypocrisy and other actions, has nothing to do with God, but everything to do with their personal choice. They did those things; God did not, so why are you walking away from Him? At one time, I came to this understanding in the midst of my own pain. I encourage people to know God for themselves. To make room for Him to reveal to them who He truly is. To not let pain cause them to close their hearts to Him. Some make people an excuse for why they never give their life to Christ or walk away from Him. If one truly wants God, nothing or no one will be able to separate them from His love.
Some of my deepest pains have come from confessing Christians. I could not wrap my mind around how they could serve God, preach His Word, pray so very powerfully, go to church, serve in the church etc, or just profess to be a Christian and hurt me (their sister in Christ) and seemingly see no wrong in what they were doing and be seemingly unbothered and unapologetic and clueless to the pain they afflicted even after I bared my soul and heart telling them my hurts. In my pain, I thought about walking away from God because these were people who served Him and seemed to be His. I could not walk away from God because I loved Him so much. I know His goodness and His faithfulness. I know His character. I know who He is to me and has been to me. You see, I come to know all this about God through the pain I endured. It was Him who kept my heart and mind. It was Him who was unchanging and faithful even when others were not consistent.
There was a time when the pain of other people’s actions could cause me to backslide and seek comfort in wrong places. Now pain pushes me closer to Him. It causes me lean on Him more. It lets me not forget my need for Him. I love harder on Him and go harder for the Kingdom. Not because of something special in me. No, because greater is He who is in me, than He who is in the world. He gives me the ability to persevere through all. His strength is made perfect in my weakness. I can only love Him and walk in His divine agape love towards others because He first loved and continues to love me daily.
Romans 8:35-39
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.