“The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence” (Psalm 115:17).
TEXT — Psalm 115:12-18
Message
Redeemed and righteous children of God engage in the twin activities of praising the Lord for His great works and in preaching the gospel in obedience to the great commission. We lift up our voices in praises to God as we consider His vast creation replete with glory and splendour. His eternal salvation through Christ for us is simply beyond description. These spur us on to preach to the unsaved that they might partake of His great salvation.
The psalmist points out that it is compelling that we press forward with these occupations for two reasons. First, God desires that we draw the attention of the unbelievers to the fact that He created the universe. He designed the earth for humans. Second, the inspired writer lays a foreboding urgency of service on the living saying, “The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence”.
God has put it in the hearts of leaders and assemblies of every generation of believers to understand that life is too short for serious evangelists to drag their feet concerning seeking the lost. We must go by God’s schedule clearly declared in the Bible: “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season”.
The psalmist’s charge to believers to serve the Lord while alive because those in the grave cannot do so is especially relevant for our present generation. The proliferation of false teachings and devastating effects of global socioeconomic uncertainties and pandemics place a great burden on us, end-time people, to reach the world with the gospel of life and hope. We must show them how to be reconciled unto God through salvation in Jesus Christ, the Giver of hope.
Thought for the day
It behoves every believer to take the gospel to the living before it is too late.
Listed among “500 most powerful people on the planet” by the Foreign Policy magazine in 2013, Pastor (Dr.) William F. Kumuyi is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry (DCLM) headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. DCLM started in 1973 as a 15-member Bible study group right in Kumuyi’s apartment at University of Lagos where he was a lecturer. His revolutionary Bible teaching on personal holiness and commitment to evangelism soon gained so much traction and resulted in a widespread revival.
Please man of God please pray for me to our God to forgive me if my sins restore me unto his salvation heal me of all dieseas and sickness of it kind in me and Al families members particularly my sons Fidel and Mathew who are drugs addicts and empower us all spiritual phisically and financially too
I will keep on praising the Lord for whom he is
Sorry for lateness. Psalm 23 say the Lord is your strength i shall not want it make to lay down in sea passion.
Please man of God please pray for me to our God to forgive me if my sins restore me unto his salvation heal me of all dieseas and sickness of it kind in me and Al families members particularly my sons Fidel and Mathew who are drugs addicts and empower us all spiritual phisically and financially too