*🙏The Word Daily Devotion 🙏*
(Global Evangelical Church)
*📖NEW FAITH, NEW EXPERIENCE*
👉(Reading: 1 John 1:1-4)
🗓Tuesday, September 8
📜We proclaim to you what we ourselves have actually seen and heard so that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ *1 John 1:3 (NLT)*
📋Witnesses tell of their experience. The Apostle, in our text, says that which they have seen, handled and tasted is what they speak about. In the case of we who hear the testimony of the Biblical witnesses, our old knowledge and experience, pitches against the new one that we are invited to. Experience, if put in the right perspective, encourages our faith. But certain experiences can also drive us from true worship or right-believing to false-believing, leading to the wrong perception of God. That which we have experienced from the beginning can strongly influence how we live. Apostle John tells us that word-based experience with Christ is what he testifies about. If we follow his testimony, we who have not seen Christ in person, by believing his truth, can have fellowship with him. Whatever we believe with our heart becomes the framework around which our lives rotate. The Lord wants us to know, believe and experience him as well. We can know him from his word and experience him as we walk with him by faith. Start that walk today as you commit to doing his will in everything. Cultivate his faith and your experience will change.
_*🛐Meditation And Prayer:*_ Lord, I want to know you, trust you so that my experience can flow from you
_*📚Further Reading:*_ Psalm 22:22; Acts 20:27; 1 John 2:24
_*🔑Key Lesson:*_ We have a new fellowship with Christ and experience him if we believe his testimony
_*◼The Bible in one year:*_ Ezekiel 47-48
Jesus is wonderful!