Seize the Momvent – Day 344
Be Holy and Healthy in Every Respect!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Wednesday, February 24. Please join us for the in-person or online Prayer Awakening mid-week prayer service tonight at 6:15 pm—it is a time of worship, prayer, and Scripture reading.
3 John is another short, but powerful little book of the Bible. Listen to John’s opening thoughts in verses 2-4, “Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers. For I was very glad when brethren came and testified to your truth, that is, how you are walking in truth. I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.”
John is speaking of his spiritual children—those the Lord brought to Himself through John. Just as any loving father, John cares for the growth and development of these children into adulthood.
John cares about their holiness and their wholeness:
1) John celebrates their holiness unto the Lord—they not only testify to the truth, which means they believe right things about God and the gospel of Jesus Christ, but they also walk in the truth, which means they are living a holy lifestyle unto the Lord. We cannot simply say that we love God and His Word, we must obey God and do what Jesus commands.
2) John cares about their wholeness. He wants them to be healthy people as they walk with Jesus. John cares that we are healthy in all respects—emotionally and relationally, physically and socially, so that we prosper and not just in our souls.
Seize the moment and be holy and whole—it is for this reason that God has saved you and sent you into the world to shine His light and love.
Let’s recite this week’s memory verse from Genesis 9:12-13 (ESV), “God said, ‘This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations; I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.’”
God Bless you!