Consecration

These short devotional have been written by Rev Malcolm Duncan, Elim Minister of Kensington Temple in London. They were written in 2024 to help Elim Ministers and members spend time consecrating their lives to God.

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We must never forget the power of transformation that God chooses to give to the Church and to those who follow Him.

God’s Holy Spirit at work in us brings us into deeper consecration and enables us to be channels of fresh water in stagnant pools. Our lives can become drinking water to the thirsty. As we live out the commandments and the call to be people who love God with all our hearts and love other people extravagantly and wholeheartedly, transformation takes place – and beauty is re-discovered. And all this flows from lives that are consecrated to God and His purposes. Our consecration creates conduits of hope into a fractured and broken world.

Holiness may not be infectious, but the blessing that flows from consecrated lives into the world, bringing the aroma of Christ and a message of freedom is incredible. No wonder, then, that the accuser wants to cut us off from consecration. If he can stop us seeing the power in holiness, then he can stop the river of God flowing into the world.

As pastors and leaders in Elim, we can be conduits of the River of life to our churches and our communities. We never become the source, but we can become drainpipes of blessing! The power of millions of acts of consecrated kindness, compassion and mercy is incalculable. We are this river when we challenge exclusion and confront injustice. We are this river when we speak out for those who cannot speak out for themselves. And we are this river when we speak of the wonderful, transforming grace of God exhibited through Christ. But in everything and at every moment, we must be rooted in consecration and sanctification. The Holy Spirit does not flow through us because we are holy, but the Spirit flowing through us makes us holy! Our hands and lives may be the ones that God uses to bless someone else.

The transformation of the world is taking place one life at a time through the power of both Christian compassion and the telling of the Christian story of hope, victory and transformation. As we proclaim the Gospel, and join in the mission of God, we are simultaneously called to let the Gospel have its way in us. What flows to us, must flow through us. We need both if we are to be the river of life. Consecration is not an optional extra for us as leaders, it is a fundamental part of God’s call on our lives.

For further thought –

Take a little time today and think of the wonderful ways in which God has transformed others or situations through your words and your works. Thank Him for doing it! At the same time, ask Him to remove any obstacles or boulders to the flowing water of God through you. Ask Him to use the power of the Water of Life to clear away sin and shame and disobedience from your life so that the Water of Life might flow through you to your colleagues, your family, your church and your communities, and ultimately to the world.