Exercise Towards Godliness (Daily Devotional)

Hello and welcome to Living Supernaturally, our daily devotion and we are here to look into God's word, to meditate on God's word and see how we can apply it so that we can live victorious lives, supernatural lives. We've been focusing on Paul's letter to Timothy and today we are going to look at 1 Timothy chapter 4 and verses 6 to8. 1 Timothy chapter 4, verse 6, Paul's writing and he's saying, ‘if you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed. But reject profane and old wives’ fables and exercise yourself towards godliness. For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.’ So, Paul writes to Timothy and he's saying a good minister is one who is himself nourished in these words of faith and good doctrine. So, that's the first thing, as a good minister, are you nourished yourself in the words of faith and in good teaching, firm, established teaching? The second one he says is that a good minister also instructs others in the very same thing, he instructs others in a manner that they are also nourished in the words of faith. They are nourished, they are edified, it is good nourishment, we're not serving something that is substandard, not serving something that does not nourish the people, we're not serving something that just makes people feel good but the word of God which is being served and which is being shared, nourishes them and strengthens them and is good for their spiritual life and for godliness. So, saying are you nourishing others in the same thing, the words of faith and of good doctrine? He goes on to say but you need to reject, not only are you serving and nourishing others but you need to reject and reject what? Reject unprofitable, profane, unholy and unprofitable stories or information, something that does not edify; to reject it, once you know that this is not going to be helpful or it has something that is of the flesh, it is not pure, it is not holy, it is not virtuous reject it. So, Paul is writing and saying reject it and he says, exercise yourself towards godliness meaning reverence, respect, piety and holiness towards God. You exercise yourself which means it requires work, it's an intentional thing, it's a purposeful thing so he says you exercise yourself towards godliness. He goes on to explain, we know that bodily exercise, things that we do for our body, to exercise and for good health and so on; bodily exercise is profitable, is advantageous a little but then godliness is profitable for all things or it is useful and advantageous for all things for this life on the earth and for the life that is to come. Shall we pray, Father, we thank you Lord for these words, for the words of wisdom, for the words inspired by the Holy Spirit and Lord we pray that we ourselves will be nourished by these words, words of faith and doctrine. Lord, we pray when we share with others, it'll be the same, the words that nourish others in faith and good doctrine. We pray that we will reject those things that are unholy and unprofitable, we thank you, we give you all the praise and glory, in Jesus’s matchless name we pray, Amen.

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