The King’s Table: Feeding Daily on God’s Promises

MONDAY, 4 AUGUST 2025

 

TEXT: JOHN 1:35-42

 

35: The next day John was there again with two of his disciples.

 

36: When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”

 

37: When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.

 

38: Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, “What do you want?” They said, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”

 

39: “Come,” he replied, “and you will see.” So they went and saw where he was staying, and they spent that day with him. It was about four in the afternoon.

 

40: Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus.

 

41: The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, “We have found the Messiah” (that is, the Christ).

 

42: And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which, when translated, is Peter).

 

(New International Version Holy Bible)

 

TOPIC: JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD (II)

 

Man is known to be consistently inconsistent. In other words, man's consistent nature is inconsistencies, but that's not true of John the Baptist. He remained very consistent in terms of the focus of his ministry.

 

Like Paul, who said, "I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified... My message and preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power" (1 Corinthians 2:2-5).

 

Today, especially in Nigeria, most of the messages we hear lack the demonstration of the Holy Spirit's power. Instead, we rely on gimmicks, rhetoric, and deception.

 

John the Baptist is an excellent model for the African church. He is contented with himself, humble, focused, and is not afraid of losing disciples.

 

John did not see the ministry as an arena for competition but a platform for complementing one another.

 

QUESTION: What is your focus in life?

 

PRAYER: Dear Lord, help me to be focused and consistent in doing your will, in Jesus' name. Amen.

Remain Blessed     

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