Day 7: A Disciple’s Promise

Word:

Discipleship to Jesus involves letting go and leaving things in order to follow Jesus and discipleship to Jesus comes with persecution and suffering. But in the midst of the letting go, the leaving, the persecution and the suffering, Jesus gives us the promise of His unfailing love and of 100 fold return, marked by glory in this age and the age to come. This is the disciple’s promise!

Scriptures For Today:

As you read today's Scriptures, read slowly and attentively, allowing the Holy Spirit to speak to you as you meditate on His Word.

Mark 10.28-31 Then Peter spoke up, “We have left everything to follow you!”

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”

Romans 8.18 "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us."

Romans 8.31-39 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:“For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Worship:

Prayer:

Jesus, thank You for the promise that in the midst of the letting go and loss that comes with discipleship, there is a laying hold of that which is truly life, the promise of Your unfailing love and 100 fold return on everything let go of or lost!

Listen & Obey:

Spend two minutes in silent, listening prayer. Write down what you sense the Holy Spirit speaking to you.

Here are some prompts to assist you:

Lord, what do You want to speak to me from these passages of Scripture as I start my day?

How do You want me to apply this truth today?

Who do I need to share this with today?