In Touch Daily DEVOTIONAL for 1st December 2023 Friday

In Touch Daily DEVOTIONAL for 1st December 2023 Friday

You are welcome to Today’s In Touch Daily Devotional written by Dr Charles Stanley and published by In Touch Ministry. Charles F. Stanley is the founder of In Touch Ministries and a New York Times best-selling author. He demonstrates a keen awareness of people’s needs and provides Christ-centered biblically-based principles for everyday life.

Today’s Topic: Is Anyone Beyond God’s Reach?
The miraculous power of God’s love will flow through us when we obey His command to forgive.

Scripture: Acts 26:9-18

9 I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

10 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.

11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.

12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,

13 At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.

14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.

16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;

17 Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,

18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

In Touch Daily Devotional – Dr. Charles Stanley 1st December 2023

Three years after her release from the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Corrie ten Boom came face-to-face with a former Nazi guard. She was in Munich to give a speech, and just as she finished, the man walked toward her. He said, “I have become a Christian. I know that God has forgiven me … but I would like to hear it from your lips as well.” And, empowered by the love of Christ, she did just that.

The man had actively participated in the Holocaust, one of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind. Yet he wasn’t beyond the Lord’s reach. Called “out of darkness into His marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9-10), this onetime enemy received the mercy offered only by almighty God.

The Holy Spirit is always working to bring men and women to saving faith. He uses believers’ lives and testimonies—like those of Corrie ten Boom and her former guard—to rescue others. “I am the Light of the world,” Jesus told His disciples. “The one who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life” (John 8:12). That promise is for you—and also for the world.

Bible in One Year: 1 Corinthians 14-16