ULTIMATE CARE DEVOTIONAL🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2022.🎁💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦TODAY’S THEME: Dealing with Man and God”Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord”TEXT: Hebrews 12:14″MESSAGE📕The children of God have two relationships: their relationship with God and their relationship with men. Vertical Relationships are those where one of the members has greater standing, whether due to power and authority or knowledge and wisdom, for example a relationship between God and man. Horizontal relationships are those where they are equality of status amongst the relationships involved, for example a relationship between husband and wife. God created all men equally, in his image and his likeness.Loving God is a vertical love or relationship. Loving others is a horizontal love. Jesus showed his discipleshow these two loves are intertwined in practical ways. He warns and encourages us to see that the way we treat people affects our experience and relationship with him (1 JOHN 4: 7-12):7” Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us”We are truly involved in four different kinds of relationships of God;” our relationship with God”, “our relationship with ourself”, “our relationship with each other”, and “our relationship with the world”. This is an essential theology for understanding the good news. These can be placed at the four points of the across with “God at the head”, “self at the base”, and “Each other” and” World” horizontally across, left and right respectively.When the children of God deal with men, they are expected to deal peacefully with them. The Scriptures say that as much as lies with the children of God, they should live peaceably with all men (Romans 12:18);“If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men”.Hebrews 12:14 also says,””Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord”It is only in the midst of this peace that we can experience continual development. On the other hand, the children of God must live a holy life because without holiness, we cannot experience the Lord. God is holy, and we can only see Him with a pure and sincere heart. If Christians are able to appropriately hold to these two standards in their relationships, they will live in continual joy and prosperity in Christ Jesus.Beloved, how do you live with your fellow men?What is your relationship with the Lord?May the Lord guide you to choose the right way of holiness and peace with all men in Jesus mighty name, Amen.PRAYERS🔑Heavenly Father, I thank you for your goodness and mercy over my life and destiny. I surrender all to thy blessed will, please Lord, help me to live in peace with all men and holiness so that, I will fulfill the kingdom assignment given to me by you. I commit my life and my spirit into thy hands, empower me to live for Jesus alone and reap the blessings of redemption in Jesus mighty name, Amen.FURTHER BIBLE READING1 JOHN 3BIBLE READING PLAN FOR THE YEAR, 2022MORNING: RUTH 4; I SAMUEL 1.EVENING: 1 JOHN,1-2💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦Author: Pastor NseAbasi Harry💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦HAMMER WORD BIBLE CHURCH, ABAK, NIGERIA CARES ⛪