I’m a good person.

For the most part, I obey the rules. I don’t get in trouble. I try not to upset people or cause any kind of conflict.

I mean, I try to be nice to strangers, cordial to my landlord, considerate to my roommates.

I’m certainly not a bad person – I don’t steal or cheat. I’m not a traitor. I’m just your average good person, trying my best to make it in the world.

The thing about the gospel is, it doesn’t matter that I’m a good person. I could be the best person, and it wouldn’t amount to anything. The thing about the gospel is that I’m a sinner. The truth is that

“all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” Romans 3:23.

I’ve sinned. So have you. I’ve sinned against God, just the same as your best friend, your sweet old grandmother, and your worst enemy. Sin makes us the same. In a way, sin makes us equal. As far as God’s glory is above us, we’re in the same boat — a bunch of sinking sinners trying hopelessly to survive, flailing around so as not to drown and inevitably smacking each other around in the pitiful process.

Because remember, as typical and downright normal as it is to be a good person these days, it’s hard to be like Jesus. It’s hard to practice forgiveness toward those who hurt you.

It’s easy to be a ‘good person,’ but it’s impossible to be righteous on our own. Without the saving grace of Jesus, we’d all be goners. Without the empowering presence of the Spirit of Christ, we’d be doomed to the miserable existence of a ‘good person’ bound for hell! Instead, we have the right to become the very children of God! It’s better than being a good person – it’s being an heir with Christ, a member of the family of righteousness, a participant in God’s kingdom come in which all is on earth as it is in heaven.

"Wherefore remember, that...at that time ye were without Christ...having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off aremade nigh by the blood of Christ."

If you want that revelation to explode in you, start searching out scriptures that refer to being in Christ. Watch for the words in Him, with Him, through Him, or in Whom. Mark those and meditate on them until the truth of them gets down into your spirit man. They'll give you some powerful ammunition against the attacks of Satan.

When he tries to tell you, for instance, that you're just a sinner and God doesn't want to be bothered with your problems, you'll know he is lying. You'll be able to answer him boldly and say, "Thank God, I was a sinner, but now I'm the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. I've been raised up to sit with Him in heavenly places. Now
I'm in Him and you can't touch me at all!"

Be prepared the next time Satan comes at you with doubt, unbelief, and condemnation. Be ready to fight back with the scriptures about who you are in Jesus. You're sure to win once you truly know you're in Him!

SCRIPTURE READING: Ephesians 1:1-14

"Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth."

Once you make up your mind to keep the commands of Jesus and begin to allow the Word to dwell in you richly, the Name of Jesus will become far more powerful to you. It will become more than just a word. It will become a force that will cause every circumstance and every demon that tries to stand in your way to bow its knee to your
command.

Discover for yourself what the exalted Name can do. Begin to speak it with confidence and authority. There is power in the Name of Jesus.

SCRIPTURE READING: Acts 3:1-16

"But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been
assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them."


uchinge wazvarwa patsva muna Kristu, une shoke raMwari mumwoyo mako. Unogona kukunda mukurarama kwako.Ungangove usina mhinduro dzose. Ungangove nezvinhu zvakawanda zvausinga nzwisisi mukutenda kwako. Asi hazvisi zvinhu zvingakuparadza. Ndizvo zvinhu zvaunoziva kuti uite asi usingazviite, ndizvo zvinogona kukudonhedza munamata kwako.

Funga uchifamba pakati peusiku murima, zvimbo yausingazive pakati peSango. Asi kumusoro kunechiedza chinokutungamirira kuti urambe uri munzira kwayo. Asi zvino wabva wangokariko pinda mumhindo iyo uriwega. Unofunga kuti chiiko chinoitika kwauri? Unobva wango fenda nokudonha.Kazhizhi-zhinji unobva wakuvara.

Ndizvo zvakafanana mukufamba kwako naMwari. Anoziva zviri kumberi,anokupa chiedza chakakwana kwauri kuti utore nhabwe imwechete panguva imwechete. Unofanira kufamba nechiedza ichocho kusvikira wasvika kwaurikuenda.

Verenga 2 Peter 1:2-11

"And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come
unto thee on the water. And he said, Come. And when Peter was
come down out of the ship, he walked on the water."

It's easy to be so afraid of making a mistake that you never get around
to stepping out on faith. You can spend all your time wondering, "Is
this faith? Or is it presumption? What if I exercise my faith for
something and find out later I've missed God's will?"

Don't worry. God can handle any mistake you can make. I know
because I've made plenty of them. When I did, I'd just go to the Lord
and He'd tell me, "Stay on the Word, son. Together we'll overcome
this thing." And we always did.

If you act on the Word out of the sincerity of your heart and you
steadfastly stay with the Word, Jesus will never let you down...no
matter how many dumb mistakes you make. He proved that the night
Peter jumped out of the boat in the middle of the lake.

Don't let fear keep you from taking that step of faith. Come on, get
out of the boat today!

SCRIPTURE READING: Matthew 14:22-33