Tongues and An Unknown Tongue
đDownload Audio Version Here â bit.ly/audio1901 1 Corinthians 14:2 (NET) For the one speaking in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, for no one understands; he is speaking mysteries by the Spirit. Amaka refused to speak in tongues because she was wrongly taught that each time she spoke in an unknown tongue, someone had to interpret it or she should hold her peace. She was also wrongly taught that âmost of the tongues you hear today are fake tongues because no one understands what they are saying, but on the day of Pentecost, people were understanding what the disciples were sayingâ. Because of such wrong teachings, she was kept from praying in tongues and her prayer life was greatly affected by this. But the first day she read 1 Corinthians 14 with a Bible translation she could understand, the scales fell of her eyes. She could see clearly that speaking in a tongue(singular) was different from speaking in tongues(plural). She could also see that one was speaking to God who didn’t need an interpreter, but the other was to men who needed to understand it. This is how she was liberated. Her prayer life was greatly transformed since then, and the power of the Holy Ghost was now a reality in her life as she could now pray in an unknown tongue. Many people have been kept in bondage through doctrines because they do not study their Bibles for themselves. There is a spiritual gift called diverse kinds of tongues (1 Corinthians 12:10), and there is a manifestation of the Spirit or sign called ‘an unknown tongue’ (1 Corinthians 14:2). The gift of diverse kinds of tongues is used to deliver messages from God to people. So whenever this gift is in operation, the tongues have to be interpreted for the people to understand, or the Holy Spirit would have to orchestrate the interpretation of the tongues so that all the people hearing it would miraculously start hearing it in their own languages as it happened on the day of Pentecost (see Acts 2:8). Go into today knowing that the sign of an unknown tongue that manifested in your life when you were filled with the Holy Ghost helps you to speak mysteries to God and not to men. It was given to you for much-needed self-edification (see 1Cor 14:4, Jude 1:20). âAbraham Damilola Arigi Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Joshua 11-15 Not saved? Go here: streamglobe.org/33 To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, join our WhatsApp group here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LGTTXeiXWUSATRG72jQq3t Contact us: +2348079816967 (Phone, WhatsApp, Telegram) streamglobedevotional.com Join our Telegram group: streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
The Inward Groans 2
đDownload Audio Version Here â bit.ly/audio1900 Romans 8:23, 26, 28 (KJV) 23. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.26. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.28. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. When a woman is in labor and groaning, she groans in the hope that she would give birth to a baby. Her groaning in hope is not based on wishful thinking but based on verifiable facts with certain evidences she cannot deny. We can see from today’s Bible verses that not only creation but we ourselves who have the firstfruits (verifiable facts and evidence) of the Spirit groan as we await the adoption. But we further see that in like manner, the Holy Spirit helps our infirmities by also groaning for us. It is in the backdrop of these groanings that all things work together for our good. Believers who live with their affection set on things above(Colossians 3:2) are those who partake in these groanings that birth further manifestations of the firstfruits (powers of the age to come) in their daily experiences. They are those who circumstances (whether ‘good’ or ‘bad’) will all work together for their good because they love (set their affection on) God and live for His call. Go into today remembering that those who set their affection of things above are those who fulfill their eternal destinies in this side of eternity. Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you keep your mind stayed on Him today and for the rest of your life. Pray with Isaiah 26:3 (KJV): Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. âAbraham Damilola Arigi Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Genesis 8-11 Not saved? Go here: streamglobe.org/33 To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, join our WhatsApp group here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LGTTXeiXWUSATRG72jQq3t Contact us: +2348079816967 (Phone, WhatsApp, Telegram) streamglobedevotional.com Join our Telegram group: streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
Not By Sight
đDownload Audio Version Here â bit.ly/audio1899 Genesis 50:24-25 (KJV) And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you and bring you out of this land into the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, surely God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. Here was Joseph the Prime minister of Egypt, having the complete trust of Pharaoh, and access to all the privileges and trappings of power, and the people of Israel were living in the âbest of the landâ in Egypt (Gen 47:11), and in peace and tranquility. Yet hearing Joseph speak in our text above, one is tempted to think they were living in bondage and under oppression. Though that was to come later, but as at the time Joseph spoke these words, there was no physical evidence whatsoever pointing to that. All he had to go on was the word of God to Abraham (Gen 15:13-14), and then to Isaac (Gen 26:3; 28:13) and Jacob (Gen 35:12; 48:21). The bible has no record of God speaking to Joseph directly on this matter, however, it does record Jacob speaking to Joseph about it (Gen 48:21), and on the strength of that, he, Joseph, spoke, giving instructions concerning his bones. His actions declare his faith. See how the Holy Spirit described it in the book of Hebrews (Heb 11:22 NET) âBy faith Joseph, at the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his burialâ. Doctors have a tool they put in your armpit to check for your body temperature, but to check for your faith we will look at your words and check out your actions. For a true test of faith is in what a man says and what he does. A girl who truly believes Godâs word will not wait for a âpersonal revelationâ before she refuses the marital proposition of an unbeliever; she will say NO. She wonât wait till a believing brother comes knocking before she says NO to the unbeliever. She wonât look at his character today and try to base her decision on it. WHY? Because we regulate our lives by faith and not by sight (2 Cor 5:7 AMP). Are you ready to walk the talk? Walk it in total reliance on and obedience to Godâs word; thatâs faith. âAbraham Damilola Arigi Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Matthew 3-4 Not saved? Go here: streamglobe.org/33 To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, join our WhatsApp group here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LGTTXeiXWUSATRG72jQq3t Contact us: +2348079816967 (Phone, WhatsApp, Telegram) streamglobedevotional.com Join our Telegram group: streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
The Inward Groans 1
đDownload Audio Version Here â bit.ly/audio1898 Romans 8:23, 26 (NET)Not only this, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how we should pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings. Those who have the first fruits of the Spirit groan inwardly as they eagerly await the adoption (the resurrection of the dead) which would transform their lowly bodies into glorious bodies that can reveal our true nature as sons of God. They groan inwardly because they understand that the best of God’s glory they can experience while in this body of flesh is but a foretaste–a firstfruit of the things to come. It is in this same way and to this same end that the Spirit groans for us and helps us in our weakness and causes all things to work together for our good. This present life we have here on earth is very temporal, but we are eternal beings. Our time here is like a drop of water in the ocean of eternity. It wouldn’t be wise to spend our lives investing only on things that have only earthly value when we have been given the opportunity to invest in things of eternal value (see Matt 6:19-21). Those who groan inwardly do so because they understand the hope for which they have been called. The eyes of their understanding are being enlightened to see the riches of their inheritance in Christ (see Ephesians 1:18). Go into today asking the Lord to open the eyes of your understanding to see the riches of your inheritance in Christ. Ephesians 1:18 (KJV) The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. âAbraham Damilola Arigi Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Matthew 3-4 Not saved? Go here: streamglobe.org/33 To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, join our WhatsApp group here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LGTTXeiXWUSATRG72jQq3t Contact us: +2348079816967 (Phone, WhatsApp, Telegram) streamglobedevotional.com Join our Telegram group: streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
Be Eager For Spiritual Gifts
đDownload Audio Version Here â bit.ly/audio1897 1 Corinthians 14:1 (NET) Pursue love and be eager for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. Dara was disturbed that he did not have spiritual gifts like Deji his friend. He started asking the Lord why and really desiring to walk in spiritual gifts because his interaction with Deji had made him see how spiritual gifts engender fruitfulness in ministry. As soon as Dara started becoming eager for spiritual gifts and asking the Lord for them, he realized that he too started walking in them. His disposition towards spiritual gifts wasn’t a healthy one before he met Deji. He was raised in a church that almost despised all spiritual gifts and didn’t allow them in their services. One thing I have noticed is that believers who despise spiritual gifts don’t walk in them. In fact, believers who are not eager for them hardly have them, no matter how spiritual and holy they are. I believe that one reason the Corinthian Church grew so fast was because they were not lacking in spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians 1:7). Even though that church appeared to emphasize spiritual gifts much more than the fruits of the Spirit and Paul had to warn them that people who lived the way some of them were living would not inherit the kingdom of God (see 1 Corinthians 6:8-10), he still encouraged them to be eager for spiritual gifts. Go into today remembering that those who walk in an abundance of spiritual gifts are those who are eager for them. Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you receive and walk in your God-ordained gifts. âAbraham Damilola Arigi Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Isaiah 12-17 Get audio Sermons here: streamglobe.org/34 To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, join our WhatsApp group here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/J6H3xxCUukT3THbcBAu9mt Contact us: +2348079816967 (Phone, WhatsApp, Telegram) streamglobedevotional.com Join our Telegram group: streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
Pursue Love
đDownload Audio Version Here â bit.ly/audio1896 1 Corinthians 14:1 (NET) Pursue love and be eager for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. I have had to deal with some brethren that behave in a way that inspires only hatred. But I have found that for me as a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, hatred is not an option, but love is my only option. I have been commanded to love even my enemies(see Matthew 5:44, Luke 6:27), so misbehaving brethren should not be the issue. for us to walk in love, it must be pursued and not merely desired. Pursue is an active word and it may involve doing things that are not convenient. Many times, if we do not pursue love, we would not love but become lukewarm and indifferent. One way we pursue love is by doing things that inspire love. Giving sacrificially is a good example. Our choice of words can either kill love or inspire love. We pursue love because we understand that walking in love towards all men is the secret to appropriating our greatest spiritual power. A man who walks in faith has great power. But the man that walks in love is greater(see 1 Cor 13:2, 13). Go into today remembering to pursue love. If love seems to have run away from your marriage, relationship with brethren, etc, don’t give up. Ask the Lord for wisdom to do things that would inspire love. Ask for the grace to pursue love till it returns. Prayer: please father, help me walk more and more in love and Favour with all men. Amen. âAbraham Damilola Arigi Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Job 5-6 Get audio Sermons here: streamglobe.org/34 To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, join our WhatsApp group here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/K7ktuODFSJDDEf6qcbmQdb Contact us: +2348079816967 (Phone, WhatsApp, Telegram) streamglobedevotional.com Join our Telegram group: streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
Faith, Hope, and Love
đDownload Audio Version Here â bit.ly/audio1895 1 Corinthians 13:13 (NET) And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. Ojone was very sick and had lost all hope of recovering because the doctors didn’t seem to have a cure for the disease that was destroying her. One day she went to church, a prophecy came from a servant of God who was visiting their church. He mentioned her situation in a way that she knew it had to be God. He mentioned things that only she could know. He mentioned the source of the demonic attack and gave her the word of the Lord. The word was that she was going to live to a certain ripe old age and see good days. Ojone received this word, and through it, hope was built in her heart. This hope substantiated in faith (faith is always with action). She started confessing that she was healed and became cheerful and full of joy and peace again. In a matter of weeks, she was completely healed. Faith and hope are intricately related. Faith is the substance of hope (things hoped for)(see Hebrews 11:1). It always produces action that justifies the presence of hope. Faith is the token tangible manifestation of hope. Faith is action, for faith without works (action) is dead (James 2:14). The foundation of faith is hope, and God’s word [and promises] is the source of our hope. The word of God, whether written years ago in scripture or received through prophecy, is the same. God is ever present and so is His word. He and His word are not affected by time. He is the same yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13:8, Psalm 46:1). When hope and faith are built up in the heart of a believer, the product and fruit will be total, unrestrained, ‘unreasonable’ obedience. That’s what we saw play out in Abraham’s life. The Lord’s most important commandment to us today is that we love one another (John 13:34). The best and most pristine action faith in God produces is love. Faith works (manifests) through love (see Galatians 5:6). A believer who hopes in God and believes His promises cannot be lacking in faith. A believer who walks practically in love cannot be lacking in ever sufficient faith. Go into today remembering that the fruit of real faith is actions of love. Ask the Lord to help you be more fruitful. âAbraham Damilola Arigi Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Psalms 6-8 Get audio Sermons here: streamglobe.org/33 To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, join our WhatsApp group here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/J6H3xxCUukT3THbcBAu9mt Contact us: +2348079816967 (Phone, WhatsApp, Telegram) streamglobedevotional.com Join our Telegram group: streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
When The Resurrection Comes
đDownload Audio Version Here â bit.ly/audio1894 1 Corinthians 13:12 (NET) For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known. When Wole started reading his Bible and understanding it, he realized that there were many things he thought he understood that he didnât understand. He realized that the best he could attain while in this body of flesh was but a foretaste. That the real manifestation of his glory was going to come with the resection that would happen when the Lord returns. He also started to understand that when the Lord returns in glory with His Saints, we would literally physically take over the governments and kingdoms of this world (see Revelation 11:15, Daniel 7:27). He used to wish the Lord would delay his coming so he could accomplish some things, but after more understanding, he started praying daily that the Lord should hasten his coming. When you see believers wishing in their hearts that the Lord’s coming be delayed, you have seen believers with very little understanding of the kingdom of God and the hope of our calling. Thatâs a very dangerous place to be for a believer. “The spirit and the bride (Church) say come”. That is the yearning and one of the greatest desires of the true living church (see Revelation 22:17). Go into today remembering that when the Lord appears, we shall be like Him and we shall rule and reign on the earth, and over all creation forever. The resurrection body we would receive is what would reveal our real nature as sons of God. This is we shall see Him face to face and will know fully. Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you understood the hope of His calling and see the exceeding riches of your inheritance in Him. âAbraham Damilola Arigi Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Joshua 11-15 Not yet saved? click here: streamglobe.org/33 To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, join our WhatsApp group here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/K7ktuODFSJDDEf6qcbmQdb Contact us: +2348079816967 (Phone, WhatsApp, Telegram) streamglobedevotional.com Join our Telegram group: streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
Setting Aside Childish Ways
đDownload Audio Version Here â bit.ly/audio1893 1 Corinthians 13:11 (NET) When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways. When Grace first believed in the Lord Jesus, she didn’t understand what it meant to walk in love as the Lord teaches, but only understood self-love. She was vengeful and arrogant, but she did not know this. After some years had passed and she had become more mature in the way of the Lord, she would look back at her life as a young believer and would be embarrassed by the way she used to act âchildishlyâ in the flesh. She had grown spiritually and set aside childish ways. She now understood the way of love and saw the emptiness of self-centeredness. In todayâs Bible verse, Paul was still discussing the topic of love. Like physical babies, one of the attributes of spiritual babies is self-centeredness and selfishness. Babies donât have the ability to care about anyone other than themselves. They will kick and scream if they donât get their way. But as babies grow into adults, they become more responsible and less self-obsessed. As we grow spiritually, we become more selfless and loving. One measure of spiritual maturity is walking in love. I believe that demons may not have a way of accurately discerning our spiritual maturity, but they would know those who are mature through the power of love their spirits exude. This is how they know who to dread and who they canât mess with. Go into today remembering that as we grow spiritually, we should set aside childish ways and walk in the way of love. This is the way of perpetual victory and multiplied grace. âAbraham Damilola Arigi Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Genesis 8-11 Not yet saved? click here: streamglobe.org/33 To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, join our WhatsApp group here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/K7ktuODFSJDDEf6qcbmQdb Contact us: +2348079816967 (Phone, WhatsApp, Telegram) streamglobedevotional.com Join our Telegram group: streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
Wanted; Faith
đDownload Audio Version Here â bit.ly/audio1892 Luke 8:24-25a (NET)They came to him saying, âMaster, Master, we are about to die!â So he got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves; they died down and it was calm. Then he said to them, âWhere is your faith?â (Read also Luke 8:22-25) Moses wondered what to do. They were hedged in by the sea in front and the army of their enemies behind. Whatâs more, he could hear the sound of his people behind him, the sound of about 2 million disgruntled people. Their murmurs rose till it became a din. He spoke to them âDo not be afraid ⌠the Lord shall fight for youâ, almost immediately, the Lord spoke as though in response, He said: âWhy do you cry to me? Tell the Israelites to move forward. And as for you, lift up your staff and extend your hand toward the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites may go through the middle of the sea on dry groundâ (Exodus 14:10-16 paraphrased) Did you notice the similarity between this account and our text today? It was as though while Moses was saying âdo something Lordâ, the Lord was saying âdo something sonâ. That was the same thing with the disciples. Understand this; you have a responsibility cum a role to play in bringing to bear the intervention of God to a situation. Part of your responsibility is to exercise your faith. Exercise it in prayer; exercise it in speaking. Through the exercise of our faith, we put the power of God to work for us. Donât just lie there crying âwhy me Lordâ, rather fall to your knees and pray âhear me Lordâ and then rise to your feet and say âhear me windâ. Go into today with a resolve to exercise your faith often. Start with the little things and then when the storms come, quench it. âIkechukwu Mpama Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Romans 5-6 Not yet saved? click here: streamglobe.org/33 To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, join our WhatsApp group here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/K7ktuODFSJDDEf6qcbmQdb Contact us: +2348079816967 (Phone, WhatsApp, Telegram) streamglobedevotional.com Join our Telegram group: streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional