David Jeremiah Devotional for 6th October 2023 Friday
TURNING POINT DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR 6 OCTOBER 2023 BY DR DAVID JEREMIAH
Welcome to David Jeremiah Devotional, an American evangelical Christian author, founder of Turning Point Radio and Television Ministries and senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church. Read and digest the word of the lord for today and see how powerfully it will impact you. God bless you.
Today’s Topic: God’s Clock
SCRIPTURE: The Lord is not slack concerning His promise…but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. – 2 Peter 3:9
Recommended Reading: 2 Peter 3:9-13
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
DAVID JEREMIAH’S TURNING POINT OCTOBER 6TH, 2023
Why is it taking so long for Christ to return? In Paul’s writings, we get the impression he expected the Lord to return in his own lifetime. Every subsequent generation of Christians has expected Christ to come back during their day. We ourselves are expecting Him at any moment.
But God keeps time by His own clock, and He keeps to His own schedule. A day is like a thousand years to Him and a thousand years like a day. The Bible warns us against skeptical impatience. God is not slow in keeping His promise. He is patient with us, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.
Perhaps Jesus is delaying His coming to give your loved ones a few extra days to be saved. Perhaps He’s extending another hour for you to get your own heart right with Him. That is the one great decision in life that should not be delayed.
Don’t be discouraged if Jesus tarries His coming. Use it to share the Good News and beseech people to be reconciled to God while they still can and while there’s still time.
The delays of God are not meant to discourage our faith but to develop it.
Amy Carmichael
Read-Thru-the-Bible: Matthew 12 – 13
