Christian Healing Ministry - Devotionals

Devotional for May 23, 2026

LET JESUS CHRIST FULLY DWELL IN YOU

SCRIPTURE READING - 📖 Ephesians 3:18

“May Christ through your faith actually dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love.”

Additional Verses

📖 Psalm 1:1-6; Matthew 13:1-23; John 15:1-28

From the day you were born again and accepted Jesus Christ to come into your life, it is your responsibility to ensure that you become Christ’s dwelling place. 1 Corinthians 3:16 says, “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?” There is only one way through which Jesus Christ can settle down in your heart. This is through your love of His Word. In John 14:23 Jesus Christ says, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My Word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.” So many people who claim to be Christians, only hear the Word of God being read to them when they go to Church on Sunday. They are not at all interested in having their own Bibles nor are they at all interested in studying the Word of God. In Acts 20:32 the Bible teaches that it is only the Word of God that builds you up, “And now, brethren, l commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.” In other words, it is the Word of God that makes you a Christian. It is the Word of God that produces the character of Jesus Christ in you. Abiding in Jesus Christ, means living according to His Word. In John 15:6-7, Jesus Christ says, “If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.” A Christian who does not have the Word of God in his life is a disconnected Christian. He is just like a branch that is cut off from a tree which cannot have life on its own but will soon dry up. When people see it they will say it is a useless dry branch of a tree. The dry branch cannot at all bear any fruit because it does not have life in it. When you feed from the Word of God all the time, you are like a living branch of an orange tree, just because it will always be feeding from the main tree, when people describe it, they will say this is an orange tree just because it is so connected to the tree. Because of the Word of God in His life, Paul, in Galatians 2:20 declares, “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” Faith means living by what God says about you in His Word. God will not respect you for your looks or your position in society, but He will only respond to your faith just as Paul says in Hebrews 11:6, “But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a re-warder of those who diligently seek Him.” It is therefore only when you give a good measure of your time to studying the Word of God that Jesus Christ will dwell in you richly. The question l leave with you today, do you have the Word of God in your heart? Alleluia!

Prayer

Dear LORD Jesus Christ, I want You to fully dwell in my heart. Thank You for assuring me that as long as I offer myself completely to You, You will overtake my whole being and dwell in me. In Jesus Christ’s name l pray. Amen.