As we build on the foundations of our relationship and intimacy with God, for this morning devotion we consider Some rudiments of our relationship with the Lord that account for the spiritual health of our lives and the effectiveness of our witness. 

 

1 Timothy 1:5 : “Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith,”

 

1. A Pure Heart.

(The heart is the seat of our affections and the treasury from where our thoughts and actions springs from)

Matt 5:8

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God”

Psalms 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Proverbs 22:11

He who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will have the king for a friend.

 

Prayer Point 1:

Luke 6:45 ( “.. for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks) 

Pray that God will help us everyday as we pursue personal purity and let Jesus be the centre of What is building up in the treasury of our hearts.

 

2. A Good Conscience 

Our conscience cooperates with the Holy Spirit to protect us from the deceitfulness of Sin. (The conscience is that knowledge of divine law that every man bears in their heart, and the danger is that the conscience can be violated, as we can see in our world today)

1 Tim 1:19
“Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck”

1 Tim 3:9
Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

Acts 24:16

As Paul was making his defense before Felix, the governor, he said, “So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man.”

Act 23:1
“And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.“

 

Prayer Point 2:

Galatian 5:1 ( “it was for freedom that Christ set us free”) 

Pray for each other that God will help us walk daily in this path of freedom with nothing standing between our consciences and our Saviour.

 

3. A Sincere Faith .
2 Tim 1:5

When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

 

John 2:23-25

“Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.

But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people”

 

Prayer point 3:

Oh God find in us a sincere faith You would be pleased to entrust Yourself to.

Prayer Point 1:

Luke 6:45 ( “.. for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks) 

Pray that God will help us everyday as we pursue personal purity and let Jesus be the centre of What is building up in the treasury of our hearts.