Swear Your Allegiance to God

 An Emoji Devotions for Mon, 19th April, 2021

Topic: Swear Your Allegiance to God

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The time will come when the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, and turn away from their sin because you punish them, 1Kings 8:35

"I pledge to God my father, to be faithful, loyal and honest, to serve Jesus with all my strength, so help me God. Amen"

The statement above is an example of allegiance. Have you any? First what is allegiance? An oath of allegiance is an oath whereby a subject or citizen acknowledges a duty of allegiance and swears loyalty to God. Do you know that the Kingdom of heaven has its constitution and the day you are born again, you have said bye bye to sin. You have become the temple of God. A child of God is not supposed to commit fornication or steal. 1 Corinthians 6:18 tells us to "Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body." There are many other things listed in Galatians 5:19-21 which a child of God must run away from.

"The result of sin’s control in our lives is clear. It includes sexual immorality, impurity and wild living, worshiping false gods, doing witchcraft, hating, making trouble, being jealous, being angry, being selfish, making people angry with each other, causing divisions among people, having envy, being drunk, having wild and wasteful parties, and doing other things like this. I warn you now as I warned you before: Those who do these things will not be in God’s kingdom."

When a child of God becomes irresistibly attracted to sin. He or she must repent and renew allegiance otherwise they will be cast out of the kingdom. The Lord was angry with Solomon because he had shifted his allegiance away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him on two occasions. 1Kings 11:19 May God be merciful unto our soul.

If you are far away from God, you need to find your way back to God like the prodigal son immediately so that God can be Happy with you - Luke 15:32 because outside the kingdom is an outer darkness. Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin. James 4:17 Renew your allegiance back to God today.

Prayer: Lord Jesus It is not over between us. I am renewing my allegiance to you by pledging to love you with all my heart and with all my soul and with all my strength. I will be faithful, loyal and honest.  So help me Lord in Jesus name. Amen