Don't be Ignorant

Saturday 2 June
READ: I Corinthians 12:1
MORE LESSON: Galatians 4:1-9

I heard the story of a woman who was travelling. She boarded an aircraft with her ticket. She took biscuits along, thinking she might need to eat on the journey. While on transit, the passengers were served food but the woman declined the offer. This repeated about two times and someone sitting beside her asked, “Madam, why are you not eating, aren't you hungry?” And the woman replied that she had no money. The man looked in surprise and asked if she had a flight ticket and she showed him her ticket. The man kindly explained to her that the ticket was a proof that she had paid for everything, including the food that was being served. She didn't need to pay extra to eat. At this point, they were almost at their destination, though she had a chance of eating once before the plane landed. May this not be your story when you meet Jesus, in Jesus’ name.
Many people are ignorant of things that legitimately belong to them by the reason of what Jesus has done. You have been bought with a price. Everything you will ever need has been fully paid for. There are other things that the Bible warns us not to be ignorant about. This is because ignorance is much more expensive than paying the price to gain knowledge. Speaking about knowledge the Bible says, Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding: Prov. 23:23. This means that both knowledge and ignorance come at a price but the price for ignorance is much more. It is always easier to pay the price to acquire knowledge than be left with the consequences of ignorance. Some of the things the Church cannot afford to be ignorant about are:
1. Spiritual gifts (I Cor. 12:1, 8-10): In order to run the Christian race successfully, God sent us the Holy Spirit and He works through us by giving us gifts that help us to be more effective in delivering our services. Some of these gifts are the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, faith, healing, the working of miracles, prophecy, discerning of spirits, divers kinds of tongues, the interpretation of tongues.
2. God's righteousness (Rom. 10:1-3): This is obtained by faith and not by works. Man does not become righteous before God by trying to please God with good deeds but by believing in Jesus Christ. This is why morality does not save any man.
3. Tribulations that one faces as one does the work of the Kingdom (II Cor. 1:8).
4. The devices of the devil (II Cor. 2:11).
5. Life after death (I Thess. 4:13-18).

Prayer/Action
* Receive grace not to allow ignorance to deny you of anything good in destiny.
* Ask God to grant you the full manifestation of the gifts and fruit of the Spirit.
* Ask God for a fresh knowledge of His Word.

TODAY’S PROPHETIC PRAYER: Father, You, who remembered Hannah at a hopeless point, remember me this sixth month, in the name of Jesus.