Friday, November 18, 2011

Daily Devotions for Week 14 False Prophets

Week 14 Day 5 Devotions

Imitate and Imitated

How difficult it is to learn to discern even in the same person what you should listen to and what you shouldn't listen to, what you should imitate and what you shouldn’t imitate. It is sometimes humbling to admit that we can learn from those who perhaps we don't respect in many ways. Each of us should have people that we respect and who we are willing to listen to in things of a spiritual nature. Hopefully they will be the type of people who, under God's guidance will bring comfort to us when we are uncomfortable but who will also have our permission to make us uncomfortable with a prophetic word when we are perhaps dangerously comfortable in our spiritual walk. Each of us should also realise that there are always people who are looking to us because we are Christians and who might be imitating us and our example.

Think on these things as you read and meditate on the following Scriptures and then pray that in your life God will guide you regarding who you should imitate and that by His Spirit He will continue to make you into someone who others can imitate. So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.

Matthew 23:3
Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone
who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil
has not seen God.

3 John 1:11
Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you.
Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.

Hebrews 13:7
Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.

1 Corinthians 11:1
We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but
in order to make ourselves a model for you to follow.

2 Thessalonians 3:9
Father, help me to see imitators of Christ in the world around me who I can imitate
to your glory, and by your Spirit make me someone who others can imitate to your
glory.

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