Today is GENERAL COUNCIL MEN’S DAY
ASSEMBLIES OF GOD NIGERIA TOPIC: WALKING IN THE LIGHT.MEN OF HONEST REPORT.
As we celebrate this general council men’s day 2024 I will like the brethren to reflect on walking in the light. Men of honest report. Walking in the light can simply means we are the one giving the world direction. We are the light of the world as proclaimed by Jesus Christ.
Men of honest report are hard to find or come by, honesty means truthful. Report here means testimony of God over the lifestyle, character, attitude, responds and other spiritual, moral and mental qualities of man, respond to God. Such men that God witness to among men. Examples like Abel, Enoch, who worked with God in the seventh generation from Adam… Noah, the only righteous man that found grace of God in his generation, Abraham that believed God and it was counted for him as righteousness. More men of honest report like Moses God testified of him as His servant, David, that God bore witness as a man after God’s heart. Stephen, Joseph, Daniel who have an excellent spirit who was appointed president above other governiors, Caleb and Joshua, the list is very long INCLUDING YOU AS GOD COUNT YOU WORTHY.
the series of teaching and ENSAMPLE WE have in biblical time and now: Daniel and Hezekiah. A man like DANIEL use prayers to sustain himself, the Jewish nation when in captive for 70 years. Daniel 2:16-19.
Day one: Divine principles or methods. Men of honest report are made not born, because these men are empowered by the holy spirit to perform excellently. Challenges or problems of the church identified and discuss way out.
Day two: Divine personalities or models. Talks about men of honest report, full of the holy spirit, men of wisdom and men of FAITH.
Day three: Driving power and motivation.
This is the last stage of testing the effectiveness of searching, appointing and anointing men of honest report for the wellbeing and growth of the church, especially the local church.
UNDERSTANDING GOD’S PURPOSE IN CREATION OF MAN
Let us make man in our own image , after our likeness. Gen 1:26a
These appear to be two parts of THE MAKING OF MAN.
First in the image of God which represent the physical and social functioning. And AFTER OUR LIKENESS represent the moral and SPIRITUAL QUALITIES …
UNDERSTANDING MEN’S ROLE TO FULFILL WHAT MATTERS TO GOD.
We possess special qualities that enable us serve God’s purpose, which is possible only when made in God’s likeness. Oh I want to be LIKE JESUS IN MY HEART, IN MY SOUL LORD I WANT TO BE LIKE JESUS….Some may not know the reason for God’s creation of man and the recreation in Christ, is to fulfill WHAT MATTERS TO HIM.
UNDERSTANDING HOW TO FIND MEN OF HONEST REPORT, WHERE AND WHEN.
Men of honest report throughout the scriptures were men who expressed their FAITH in God in such a way that they stood out in the crowd, in their generation and space, irrespective of their socio-cultural or political exposure. They were men propelled by the HOLY SPIRIT TO FULFILL WHAT MATTER MOST TO GOD
Hebrew 11:6 have list.
May God count us worthy to called honest men, men of good report till we see Him face to face. Amen
I am on a pencil in His hand
Ephraim Jerry (Hon)
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