#GOFAMINTDailyDevotion Tue. 19/7/2016

24/7/2016   LESSON   8

HAVING PEACE WITH GOD

Quarter’s Theme: BASIC CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES

Unit 2 – The Believers’ Justification And Admonition To Sinners (Lessons 5-9)

Suggested Hymns: G.H.B.  79, 206

Devotional Reading: MATT. 11:25-30

Topic For Adults

RECONCILED TO GOD, ADOPTED AS HIS CHILD

Topic For Youths

ADOPTED SO AS TO ENJOY GOD’S WONDERFUL LOVE

Topic For Intermediates

LIVE TO PLEASE GOD

Scripture Lesson

ROMANS 8:1-39

(RESPONSIBILITY MONTHS)

MEMORY VERSE

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose (Rom. 8:28) NKJV

DAILY DEVOTIONAL READING

Tue. 19/7/2016

Living According To The Flesh Or According To The Spirit

Rom. 8:5-11

Reflect on the last time someone offended you. Something inside you urged you to retaliate to prove you are not a fool. Another still small voice asked you to forgive, for that is what God wants you to do. The battle went on inside your mind. Such battle goes on every day in your mind – between the desire to act or react according to what the human nature dictates and what the Spirit of God inside you demands. If you always allow the human nature to win, you are living according to the flesh. The more you yield to the flesh, the stronger that desire gets and the more it pulls you away from the influence of the Holy Spirit. The end result is sin, which eventually culminates in either physical or spiritual death or both. God has given you the Holy Spirit to empower you to say no to ungodliness and to live soberly, righteously and godly in the present age (Tit. 2: 11-12)

Point of Emphasis:   Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Prayer Point:            I receive the grace to always obey the dictates of the Holy Spirit in every situation.