CHRIST THE PERFECT TEN

FROM ZERO TO TEN TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: "I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or death" (Philippians 1:20). DAILY FIRE! To my lowly zero, Jesus has added His glorious one - and now we are a perfect ten!  Throughout the Old Testament, the divine method that God chose to select the leaders of His people was to choose nobodies, rejects: “The base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are” (1 Corinthians 1:28).  Jesus prayed…and came back to pick the most unlikely apostles— almost anybody! He bumped into young men without any qualities at all—other than very human character traits: impetuous Peter…his quieter brother Andrew…James and John, the hot-headed sons of Zebedee… rational Thomas…sociable Philip…and thieving Judas.  When people are not successful in Germany, those who constantly fail in their efforts in daily life, we call them “zeros.”  But these are the ones God is especially interested in! When Jesus calls a zero and the zero responds—he or she will soon find out that the Lord is the number one… and a zero next to a one equals ten! In other words:  Jesus gives value to every zero as long as He is the number One! The worthless become highly valuable. This is the way that God builds His kingdom. So it was with the first disciples…and so it is today. I claim this as my own testimony too… and so should you!  Make sure that Jesus Christ is number One in your life today! Taken from Daily Fire Devotional: 365 Days in God’s Word by Reinhard Bonnke. Copyright © 2016 by Reinhard Bonnke. Use by permission of Whitaker House. www.whitakerhouse.com

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