ULTIMATE CARE DEVOTIONAL⛪Sunday, October 16, 2022🪐💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦Today’s Theme: ⛪️BE ZEALOUS OF GOOD WORKS”As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore and repent”TEXT: Revelation 3:19MESSAGEZealous means full of zeal. Zeal means persistent, fervent, devotion to a cause. In this case, it means devotion to a good cause. There are good causes and there are bad causes of actions. Our concern here is devotion to good works. The Lord says be zealous therefore and repent. To be zealous hereby means, be sincere, be devoted, be persistent in your love for God and things of the kingdom.If you would see souls converted, if you would hear the cry that “the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord” (Daniel 7: 18,27; Rev. 11:15); if you would place crowns upon the head of the Saviour, and his throne lifted high, then be filled with zeal.Be fervent in your spirit while serving the Lord (Rom 12:11). For under God, the way of the world’s conversion must be by the zeal of the church. Every grace shall do exploits, but this shall be first; prudence, knowledge, patience, and courage will follow in their places, but zeal must lead the van. It is not the extent of your knowledge, though that is useful; it is not the extent of your talent, though that is not to be despised; it is your zeal that shall do great exploits. Prophet Isaiah declared that the zeal of the Lord of host shall perform the counsel of the Lord (Isaiah 37:32).This zeal is the fruit of the Holy Spirit: it draws its vital force from the continued operations of the Holy Ghost in the soul. If our inner life dwindles, if our heart beats slowly before God, we shall not know zeal; but if all be strong and vigorous within, then we cannot but feel a loving anxiety to see the kingdom of Christ come, and his will done on earth, even as it is in heaven.A deep sense of gratitude will nourish Christian zeal. Looking to the hole of the pit whence we were dig, we find abundant reason why we should spend and be spent for God. And zeal is also stimulated by the thought of the eternal future.It looks with tearful eyes down to the flames of hell, and it cannot slumber: it looks up with anxious gaze to the glories of heaven, and it cannot but bestir itself. It feels that time is short compared with the work to be done, and therefore it devotes all that it has to the cause of its Lord. And it is ever strengthened by the remembrance of Christ’s example. He was clothed with zeal as with a cloak (Isaiah 59:17). How swift the chariot-wheels of duty went with him! He knew no loitering by the way. Let us prove that we are his disciples by manifesting the same spirit of zeal. For the zeal of the Lord of Host shall perform it.PRAYERS🍎♨️Heavenly Father, I thank you for a wonderful day like this in my life.Help me manifest the zeal of the Lord of host. Empower me with the love of the Father, and strengthen me with the strength of the Lord to do thy will.I declare this day that my going out is blessed, my returning is blessed. Every encounter I will have today will be to the glory of God.Let your Divine Mercy and favour galvanize all my aspirations and expectations today and grant me peace, joy and fulfilment in Jesus mighty name Amen.FURTHER BIBLE READINGISAIAH 59: 17-21BIBLE READING PLAN FOR THE YEAR, 2022.MORNING: EXODUS 40, LEVITICUS 1EVENING: ACTS, 2-3💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦Author: Pastor NseAbasi Harry 🪐💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦HAMMER WORD BIBLE CHURCH, ABAK, NIGERIA CARES ⛪