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'NOW' PART TWO

                                           




I’ll love to start with the Chinese proverb I closed the first part of this topic with.
“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago, the second best time to plant is now.” This reminds me of my mentality about salvation sometimes ago. I always told people let me be rich and enjoy myself. 

After, I can receive Christ into my life. That was then though. Can you see the archaic mentality I had? Can you see how myopic I was? I’m using this channel to tell you that there’s no better time to receive Christ than now. You ought to do so thousand years ago, that is if you were born then. The second best time to do so is now.

2corinthians6:2 for he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

Today is the accepted time to be saved-“Behold now is the day of salvation.” Please don’t postpone your salvation because you don’t know what’s going to happen in the next couple of minutes.

Hebrew4:7c- If you hear God’s voice today, do not be stubborn.
And to the saved or the saints, there’s no better time to reach the World with the word than now.

1Sam21:8 And David said unto Ahimelech, and is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.

King David made it clear in the scriptural reference above that the king’s business require haste. Sharing the gospel of Christ is a king business that must be done with diligence.

2Tim4:2-Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
Preach the word be instant in season and out of season. Never say I’ll share the word with her tomorrow when you have the leading to do so now.
If you have the urge to pray for a person, do it while it is called now.

JESUS Christ did the same thing when He was by the well side waiting for His disciple who went to the town to buy food in Samaria. Though He was hungry but when He saw the need to preach the gospel. He gladly did so without hesitation. This is the perfect example of being instant in season and out of season.

When His disciples came they urged Him to eat. But He told them, “My food is to do the ‘will’ of him that sent me and to accomplish and completely finish His work.” What a good example our master had set!
The best and the right time to preach the word to the world is now.

John9:4-we must work the works of Him who sent me and be busy with His business while it is daylight; the night is coming on, when no one can work.
But I’m not a pastor!
But you don’t have to be a pastor before you preach the gospel.

You don’t have to be the man on the altar before you utter the word or share the gospel.
Every believers have been commissioned to reach every part of the world with the word. Therefore you are sent. So far, you have confessed JESUS CHRIST as your Lord and savior. You’re sent.

Mark16:15
And He said to them, go into all the world and preach and publish openly the good news (the gospel) to every creature (of the whole human race).

© AKERELE ODUNAYO SAMUEL.

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