LIVING WORD DEVOTIONAL By Pastor Mensa Otabil Thursday 17th June 2021 DON’T SELL YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD Lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears. (Hebrews 12:16–17) Esau sold his birthright, because he did not value what that Lord had blessed him with. As the first born of Isaac, Esau was the one to carry on the line of the promised Messiah. He was the one that his father was to pass the blessing of Abraham to in his old age. However, Esau despised his spiritual heritage in exchange for his physical needs. Many years after Esau had despised his spiritual blessing, he realized the damage he had done to himself. At the time, he recklessly threw away what God wanted to give him for food. He paid no attention to his action. On the day when his father, Isaac, bypassed him with the blessing, Esau became aware of what he had lost. He wept for the birthright to be restored to him, but there was nothing for him. Our relationship with God and the several blessings that come with it is our birthright. Like Esau, if we trade Christ for the world, we may find out the consequences when it is too late. Nothing that the world promises us remotely matches what God has freely given us in Christ. The pleasures of the world are temporary. Acceptance by the world is fleeting when compared with eternity. We must treasure our spiritual walk with God above all else. The greatest honour anyone can have in this life is to be called a child of God. Is there any relationship better than to be a son or daughter of God? We cannot compare the relationship we have with any person or group to the one we have with the Creator of the Universe. God’s gift of salvation pays eternal dividends. It benefits us both in the now and the hereafter, while we live on earth and when we step into eternity. There’s no greater prospect, than to continue living for the Lord when you leave this earth after you’ve walked with Him all the days of life He grants you to live. Let us hold fast to the gracious gift of salvation and never despise it. Don’t sacrifice it for the enticing, yet passing offers of this world. We guard against future regrets and hurts when we refuse to sell off our birthright in Christ. Prayer: Heavenly Father, I appreciate your gift of salvation. Help me not to exchange your grace for worldly glory in Jesus’ name, Amen.

In God’s time, He makes All things beautiful. No matter how long it takes it shall surely In God’s time, He makes All things beautiful. No matter how long it takes it shall surely come. I will JUST hang in there and WAIT on Him.

"And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of one body you are called to live in peace. And always be thankful."

It is the same with my word. I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it. Isaiah 55:11

"Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness."Colossians 2:7

"Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness."Colossians 2:7

Philippians 1:9,10 - This is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,o that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ

The Greatest Gift. 1: Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2: And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3: And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. 4: Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5: Does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 6: Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 7: Does all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8: Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9: For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10: But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. 11: When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12: For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. 13: And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Please Do Believe that God is a REWARDER of those that diligently seek Him.. It means He hires, gives wages & is a remunerator. Amwn!

Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people both now and forevermore.