MFM Daily Devotional – Don’t Be A Pilate

Mountain Top Daily Devotional 28th September 2021 – Don’t Be A Pilate

Topic: Don’t Be A Pilate

Memory Verse: Prov. 23:23 – Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding

Fire Scripture: Matt.27:15-24

Outline

The gospels recorded the story of Pilate, particularly in relation to the trial of our Lord Jesus Christ and the release of a prisoner, according to the Jewish laws at that point in time. This man knew the truth, was warned by his wife, saw no justifiable reasons for declaring Jesus guilty, yet he yielded to the pressure from the people.

He sought the favour of men against his conscience and the Truth. He was close to being saved, but he missed it. If only he realized that he was writing eternal history, even his own destruction. There are still many Pilates around, even in the church. Christians that get easily manipulated, such that they fall into compromise.

Men-pleasers, fame and popularity seekers, forgetting that it is God that promotes and celebrates a man. Unfortunately, in his ignorance, Pilate washed his hands! An outward show of, “my hands are clean”. He had forgotten or was ignorant of the fact that God does not look at the face of a man, but his heart. No amount of washing of hands can cleanse anyone from guilt or the consequences of his or her sins.

Only the blood of Jesus can! The problem here is the conscience! What is that other voice that is louder than your conscience? Watch it! It is a distraction and a destroyer. Your conscience is the police of your mind, telling you what is good or bad. Listen to it! Refuse to yield to the voice of sin and temptation. Don’t be a people-pleaser, but a God seeker and pleaser. You are created to do that which is pleasing unto Him.

Are you afraid of people as against God? Pray for boldness to stand for the truth at all times, even when you may need to stand alone. Stephen did. He was stoned to death, but he saw Jesus. The truth is naked, but lies wear many coats to cover up. Embrace the truth and experience peace and the fullness of all that is in Christ. Fear has torment! How long will you stand against the truth and die in torment?

Either in church, in your family or at your workplace, stand for Christ and for the truth. Those who hailed you today will pull you down tomorrow. Jesus is the only friend that will never forsake you!

Motivational Quote: A compromising life is unstable and insecure, liable for eternal destruction.

Prophetic Word: I pray for you to receive the discerning power to distinguish between the voice of truth and that of deceit and destruction, in the name of Jesus.

Prayer Points

Morning

1. Every spirit of compromise, lose your grip upon my life, in the name of Jesus.

2. Power to live above human pressures, come upon my life, in the name of Jesus.

3. I shall not be a victim of evil compromise, in the name of Jesus.

Evening

4. Satanic trap, prepared to catch me and rubbish my salvation, catch fire, in the name of Jesus.

5. O God, arise and set me above the evil entanglements of this world, in the name of Jesus.

6. I shall stand for Christ alone all the days of my life, in the name of Jesus.

7. Holy Spirit, enable me to discern correctly and live

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Matthew 2; Luke 2:29-52