FIT FOR THE NEW WINE?- Daily devotional by Pastor E.A Adeboye

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Mal 1 - 2
FIT FOR THE NEW WINE? Wednesday, November 24, 2010
MEMORIZE: “That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor” (1 Thess. 4:4) READ: 1 Peter 1:14-16 Apart from total obedience, commitment and cooperation, another requirement for the new wine is holiness. The word ‘holiness’ can be correctly interchanged for ‘obedience’. In 1 Peter 1:14-16, the new wine Giver says because He is holy, so must you be to partake of this new wine. It takes possessing the nature of God to access this wine. You cannot be enjoying sin and expect to partake of it.  Some people are in a waiting game with God. They are praying, fasting and seeking God’s face for more of the anointing in their lives whereas God is waiting for them to deal with anger, strife, bitterness, unforgiving spirit, and other weaknesses before He answers their prayers. They are waiting for God to act while God is waiting for them to act. Are you caught up in this waiting game? Check your life and amend your ways and the new wine will come. Exodus 15:26 talks of God keeping away the diseases that afflict unbelievers from His covenant children if only they can obey Him. There is a movement towards increasing danger due to different identified and unidentified causes.  For many years, cancer was the most dreaded of diseases but today, HIV/ AIDs has  joined in the rank of the world’s most dreaded diseases.  In fact, for those who are not properly counseled, the mere report from the lab that they are HIV positive triggers their trip to the grave. There is much information today about the depleting of the ozone layer and its negative effects on human beings. These are some reasons why you must have the new wine. Those with the new wine will not only be unaffected by these strange or new diseases or epidemic but will be the ones to pray for the victims and bring divine healing to their doorsteps. As a result of the power of the new wine, those with sicknesses and diseases can be drawn to the Kingdom of God and that will be harvest for God. God is ready to give the new wine but the issue is that Christians are not ready to pay the price. What is preventing you from receiving the new wine today? Ask for divine purging to make you a suitable vessel for the new wine. ACTION POINT: Father, whatever will stand between me and the new wine, take out of my life today. Join www.10millionexercisebooks.com project today, support the eradication of illiteracy.