Monday, 10th April 2023
Bible Reading: 1 John 4: 17-21
Memory Verse: If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? 1 John 4:20 (NLT)
A co-founder of a Satanic Church has resigned from his post as presiding priest of the controversial church around mid last year. He also resigned from the church council, as well as dissolved his membership with the organization. He said, “To be very honest, I initially thought I’d quietly slip out the backdoor and I didn’t think people would be so interested in why I do what I do.” He said he engaged in Satanism because it resonated with him at the time, and because he was ‘very sad and very broken, without realising it’. “I think a lot of people resonate with Satanism when they come from a very broken place. I have met thousands of Satanists over the past year and they are extremely hurt and broken—that’s the one thing they all have in common,” he added.
He burst into tears and added, “To this day, there have only been four Christians in my entire life who have shown me what unconditional love is.” Adel Frey, one of the people who supported him, messaged him saying that she just did a simple thing by showing him love. “People, showing love for others is everything. You showed me the love of Christ, I saw it in you”. He adds that Frey showed him unconditional love at a time when he was an “ugly monster”.
In mid-May last year, he conducted his last interview as a member of the Satanic Church on a radio station, not knowing it would be his last radio interview as an oldie. He said in the interview that he does not believe that Jesus Christ exists. A lady from the radio team walked up to him after the interview and hugged him in a way he had never been hugged before. A week later, he saw on WhatsApp that the woman is a Christian. “I never had a Christian do this. I have never experienced a Christian show so much love towards a self- proclaimed satanist. And it stayed with me, though.”
A week later, when he had to perform a ritual to see “what the next phase is to gain more influence and power”, he did the ritual and during the ritual Jesus appeared to him. He said, “If you are Jesus, you have to prove it.” He said what he experienced next was the most beautiful love he could imagine. “And I recognized it right away, like the woman at the radio station pointed it out to me. This is how I recognized the love of Christ.” No one is too far gone to come back to Jesus Christ. He is always waiting for you with open arms!
Quote: No one is too far gone to come back to Jesus Christ. He is always waiting for you with open arms!
Prophetic Decree: May the grace to receive the love of God shed in our heart, in Jesus name.
Prayer Focus
1. I receive grace to love the unlovely, in Jesus name.
2. O Lord, please correct my mindset about people who aren’t members of my faith, in Jesus name.
3. I receive wisdom to walk in love, in Jesus name.
4. I receive the love of God that comes with tolerance, in Jesus name.
5. I receive the love of God that comes with patience in Jesus name.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Samuel 9-12
