December 2 Devotion - Our Citizenship is in Heaven

 

For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ

Philippians 3:20

 أَمَّا نَحْنُ، فَإِنَّ وَطَنَنَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ الَّتِي مِنْهَا نَنْتَظِرُ عَوْدَةَ مُخَلِّصِنَا الرَّبِّ يَسُوعَ الْمَسِيحِ،

 

We who have accepted Jesus Christ as Saviour and made Him Lord over our lives have a new citizenship, we are citizens of heaven. Our thoughts, our affections, are centred on heaven.  We look unto the heavens expecting Christ’s return. We fully believe by faith that getting to heaven as our home, is only possible through Jesus Christ as our Way.

 

I invite you to repeat the following prayer for yourself:

Abba Father, thank You Lord that You redeemed me and granted me forgiveness of my sins, according to the riches of Your grace. Thank You God that You have bestowed me with the honour of being a citizen of heaven, where You and Jesus dwell. So my citizenship is not of this world but of heaven. 'My Father in heaven, hallowed be Your Name. Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven’. Thank You Father for loving me with a deep and everlasting love, thank You for Your abundant blessings in my life, and for the riches of Your grace upon my life. LORD, I pray that out of Your glorious riches You strengthen me with power through Your Spirit in my inner being, so that I can continue to declare to the world that Christ is my Lord and Saviour and Jesus may continue to dwell in my heart through faith. In the Holy Name of Jesus, I pray. To Him be the glory and the power and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

 

Jesus loves you,

In Him,

Wagdi Henein