02/10/2025
DAILY FOUNTAIN
DAILY DEVOTIONAL CHURCH OF NIGERIA
(ANGLICAN COMMUNION)
DATE: THURSDAY OCTOBER 02, 2025
TOPIC: FAITHFUL WITNESS
READ: COLOSSIANS 1:1-8(NKJV)
1:1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
1:2. To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ [who are] in Colosse: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:3. We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
1:4. since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all the saints;
1:5. because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,
1:6. which has come to you, as [it has] also in all the world, and is bringing forth fruit, as [it is] also among you since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
1:7. as you also learned from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf,
1:8. who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
THE MESSAGE:
As I sat listening to testimony after testimony of the faithful labors of Brother Gideon, who had served the Lord for many years in the ministry, I wondered if I will have such a testimony at the close of my pilgrimage here on earth (if Christ tarries). And to say the truth, I knew the things being said of the brother were true. My experience relating with him in the past thirty-eight years was not different; I knew I could easily say the same things about him; he was quite selfless.
He had served creditably in the ministry and now he was gone. In verse 2 of our text, Paul was clear that he was writing "To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ who are in Colosse." Can this be said of you where you're living? Are you faithfully following the Lord? One of the touching things is that this was being said about an entire congregation (Saints in Colosse). I wonder if there are congregations today that the Holy Spirit can bear 'a wholesale testimony' that all in the local assembly are 'faithful brethren.' And yet, this was said of men, flesh and blood, not spirits. The journey to having an assembly of faithful brethren starts with each member deciding to be a faithful follower of Christ, as I believe Gideon was. If you are faithful and I am faithful, then we will have a faithful assembly.
PRAYER: Lord, May I indeed be a true soldier of Christ.
