Our Daily Bread for Teens 20th August 2021 – Gone but Not Forgotten
OUR DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL FOR TEENS, FRIDAY 20 AUGUST 2021
TOPIC: GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Bible Reading: John 10:31-42
31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
40 And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode.
41 And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true.
42 And many believed on him there.
Key Verse: All that John said about this man was true – John 10:41
John the Baptist had been dead at least two years and people were starting to forget him. But as the crowds listened to Jesus near the place where John had taught, they remembered what he had said about Jesus being God (John 1:29-34). They said, “All that John said about this man was true” (10:41).
Kenneth Copeland Devotional 20th August 2021 – When Someone Does You Wrong
Most of us live pretty normal lives. We’re not top of every class. We’re not the ones always getting picked first for sports day. We’re ordinary. But we can still tell our friends and classmates about Jesus. We can point people away from us and instead to Him, saying, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (1:29).
Our job is to tell people what we have come to know about Jesus for ourselves, and then leave the results with God. If we do that, we will have done exactly what we’re meant to: make Jesus’ love, rescue and welcome known. Even if our friends don’t seem very interested straightaway, we just don’t know when God might remind them of our words and challenge them to find out more.
So let’s be like John the Baptist and keep pointing others to Jesus.
So let’s be like John the Baptist and keep pointing others to Jesus.
KEY POINT: WHEN WE TALK ABOUT JESUS, GOD WILL CHANGE LIVES.
