“Rejoice
Because Your Names
Are Written In Heaven”
Then the seventy returned
with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.”
And He said to them, “I
saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions,
and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt
you. Nevertheless do not rejoice in
this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names
are written in heaven.”
In that hour Jesus
rejoiced in the Spirit and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and
earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise
and prudent and revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good
in Your sight.
All things have been delivered to Me by My
Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father
is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.”
Then He turned to His
disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things you
see; for I tell you that many prophets
and kings have desired to see what you see, and have not seen it, and to hear
what you hear, and have not heard it.”
Luke
10:17-24
Is your name in God’s
Book of Life?
Jesus send His disciples
on n evangelistic mission. On their return they happily reported their success.
Jesus told them: “Do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice
that your names are inscribed in God’s book.
If you declare, with your
mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe with all your heart that God raised Him
from the dead, you will be saved.”
The Book of Life is God’s
heavenly manifest. Is your name written in it?
God
opens the gates of heaven to those who open their hearts to Him.
Our
Daily Bread – November 30, 2015