Enriched In All Things
1 Corinthians 1:4-5 (DARBY) I thank my God always about you, in respect of the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus; that in everything ye have been enriched in him, in all word [of doctrine], and all knowledge The church in Corinth was indeed enriched in all things. Concerning spiritual gifts, they were not lacking in any and were behind no one (1 Cor 1:7). They had abundant demonstrations of the power of God in their midst, and because of this, they enjoyed great growth and admiration from the people of the city. Concerning physical and material prosperity, they had become rich through the power of grace (see 1 Cor 4:8). These Paul acknowledged and was glad for, but was concerned for them not to be carried away by these and ignore the weightier matters of the kingdom. The secret of the Corinthian church’s enrichment was their enrichment in doctrine and knowledge, and Apostle Paul pointed this out (see 1 Corinthians 1:4-5). They had skilled teachers like Apollos, and because of them, they were enriched in doctrine and knew how to appropriate the riches of Christ through faith. For faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Rom 10:17). Whenever you see Christians who are walking in the grace and the manifestation of the riches and liberty of Christ, it is always because they have been properly taught in that regard. Christians who are not given to doctrine and learning are usually impoverished, oppressed, and wanting in many things. This is not the will of God. Go into today remembering that Christians are disciples and disciples are students. We are students of the Word, and we never graduate from the school of the Spirit. Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you give yourself to the ministry of the word and to prayer (see Acts 6:4). —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Reading: Mark 11-12 (Available in Today’s Audio) Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 Learn more about us here: www.streamglobe.org http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201619.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Grace and Peace
1 Corinthians 1:3 (NET) Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! A certain missionary took the gospel to a West African village. The first household he visited, they greeted him warmly and offered him some food and water because they perceived he was coming from a far journey. He told them the reason why he came to their village and shared the gospel with them. They knew there was something glorious about him, so their father wanted him to stay with them in their house. Everyone in that household eventually accepted the Lord Jesus and became born again. They later observed that since the time the missionary stayed in their house, everything started going well with them. Their farm became unusually fruitful, and their livestock became very productive. They also observed that their sickly children were now healthy and strong. All these good things happened to them because of the peace of Christ that rested upon their household through the missionary. Jesus told his disciples that if they went preaching and found a home deserving, they should let their peace rest upon that home, but if the home is not deserving, they should let their peace return to them (see Matt 10:13). In the world today, peace is understood to be the absence of war. But the peace that Jesus gives is far more than that (John 14:27). It is a spiritual force that causes everything to work properly. It is spiritual empowerment that ensures well-being, health, and prosperity. It has the ability to garrison the soul of a person against anxiety and fears (see Phil 4:7). It is worthy of note that Grace was mentioned before peace in Paul’s salutation to the Corinthians. This is because peace is made available because of grace. It is unmerited and has been fully paid for by Christ Jesus. Go into today asking the Lord to fill your life with His peace. Not yet saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 — Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Reading: Jeremiah 17-21 (Available in Today’s Audio) Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study Today by 2pm (GMT +1). ZOOM Meeting ID: 536206651 Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 Learn more about us here: www.streamglobe.org
Be Careful With Your Company
1 Corinthians 15:33 (NET) Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.” When Rex was in the university, he rededicated his life to Christ and determined to live the rest of his life to please the Lord. At this point, Rex had enough spiritual understanding to know that life had no meaning if it was not lived in the center of God’s will. Many of his old friends in the university laughed at him because they said he was becoming too fanatical, but he sincerely pitied them because they were walking in darkness and did not understand how lost they were. He tried to help them but they could not see. Many years passed and Rex made some Christian friends who were not really committed to the Lord. These friends knew what to say and how to appear as believers, but they did not truly love the Lord. With time, Rex found that his love for the Lord had waxed cold and he could do nothing about it. He found that he was now tending towards the category of even those his old university friends he used to pity. He didn’t understand how he fell so far, his faith seemed to have eroded. When he decided that he could not continue to waste his life, he sought for help, and by the guidance of the Holy Spirit through a servant of God, he found that his ‘Christian’ friend who did not truly love the Lord was now the biggest influence in his life the devil was using to corrupt him. Evil company corrupts good manners. The devil understands this too well. If he wants to destroy the destiny of a believer, he would try to connect that believer with friends who would be a bad influence on that believer spiritually. It is not every ‘believer’ that can be your friend. The most important thing in this life for us as believers is pleasing and serving the Lord. If we have friends that don’t have the same convictions, their corrupted value system will get into us and corrupt us. If you mingle dirty and clean clothes together in a closet, the clean clothes are the ones that get contaminated. Go into today remembering that for you, an unbeliever is not just someone who does not believe in the Lord, but someone who does not believe in the Lord the way you believe in and love the Lord. A person may be called a believer, but if he does not truly love the Lord, he would be a stumbling block for the sanctified believer. Not yet saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 — Abraham Damilola ArigiYearly Bible Plan: Job 31-32 (In Devotional Audio) Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study Today by 2 pm (GMT +1). ZOOM Meeting ID: 536206651 Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 visit: www.streamglobe.org
You Will Still See His Favor
Psalms 27:13 (NET) Where would I be if I did not believe I would experience the Lord’s favor in the land of the living? Edet went through a season in his life that looked like it wouldn’t end. It was as if the heavens were closed against him and everything was working against him. He prayed, fasted, prophesied, and did everything he knew to do. But that season came to pass in the fullness of time. Looking back at that time in his life, he realized that the reason his faith did not fail was because of a small but steady and consistent knowing in his heart that he would still see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. This knowing kept him from sinking and fainting. He indeed lived to see the goodness of the Lord. God’s word to someone today is that you will soon see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Things will not always continue the way they have been but you will see good things from the Lord that will make you glad and rejoice. The Lord will prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies, and you will experience an overflow of His blessings in every area of your life. Go into today knowing that God who saved David from the jaws of death and made him king over Israel is the same God you worship. He will bring you into the greater days of your life if you continue to rely on Him in confidence (see Psa 27:13-14). Prayer: Thank God because He is the one who lifts you up in His time. Thank Him because you know that when He blesses, no one can curse. Not yet saved? Click here ☞ streamglobe.org/33 -Pst. Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Plan: Psalms 45-47 Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study Today by 2pm (GMT +1). ZOOM Meeting ID: 536206651 Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 visit: www.streamglobe.org
What is your Focus
1 Timothy 6:9-10 (NET) Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains. When the Lord appeared to King Solomon and told him to ask for anything he desired, the Lord was pleased that his biggest desire was not riches, long life, or the death of his enemies, etc. His biggest wish was that he would be equipped to fulfill his divine assignment on the earth. He asked for the one thing he needed the most in order for him to fulfill God’s kingdom assignment for him as the leader of God’s people. Even though Solomon did not ask for riches, God decided to bless him and make him the wealthiest king in his generation (see 2 Chronicles 1:7-13). The way God created us as humans, we have binocular vision. We do not have the ability to focus our eyes on more than one thing at the same time. If we must see a thing properly, we would have to focus on it and it alone. Even spiritually, we have the same makeup. We cannot focus on more than one heart pursuit for our lives. As believers, our only focus should be the kingdom of God (Matthew 6:36). We do not have the ability to love God and love mammon at the same time (see Matthew 6:24). If a believer’s goal in life is to be rich, that believer has already been deceived by the prince of this world. Our goal in life as believers should be to be found in the center of God’s will and pleasing Him in all things. As for the matter of our needs, God is able to supply them (see Phil 4:19). Even when money fails, God is still able to meet the needs of those who are in the center of His will. For some, because of the nature of their assignment, God will cause a lot of many to pass through their hands, but their lives are not defined by that but by how yielded they are to God. Many have strayed from the faith because they were deceived into believing that making money is the ultimate thing in life(see Luke 12:15). A day is coming when we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ (2 Cor 5:10), and what will matter then would be our stewardship not our worldly wealth. Even those the Lord gave worldly wealth as stewardship would have to give an account of how they used it for the kingdom agenda. Go into today remembering that you have been called to inherit God’s eternal kingdom(Luke 12:32), worldly wealth and power is the best the devil has to temp you out of that glorious destiny (see Matthew 4:8-10). Don’t let that happen. Prayer: Heavenly Father, please help me keep my mind stayed on thee and thee alone(see Isiah 26:3). In Jesus’ name. Amen. Not yet saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 —Pst. Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Plan: I Samuel 26-31 (In Devotional Audio) Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study Today by 2pm(GMT +1). ZOOM Meeting ID: 536206651 Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 visit: www.streamglobe.org
True Godliness 2
1 Timothy 6:6-7 (NET) Now godliness combined with contentment brings great profit. For we have brought nothing into this world and so we cannot take a single thing out either. Gbenga accepted the Lord Jesus because he saw a vision in his sleep that really troubled him. In that vision, he saw that he was going down into hell and a really great dragon demon was taking him there and torturing him. When he made all the religious recitations that he knew, they only seemed to empower the evil spirit, but when he eventually remembered to call upon the name of the Lord Jesus, that demon was weakened and left him alone. Gbenga was sure that if he didn’t call upon the name of the Lord, he would have died that night and gone to hell. This was what led him to the Lord. But when he became a believer and started attending a popular church in the city, all he heard them talk about was money and more money. He didn’t accept christ because he was looking for money, he was already a billionaire, and making more money for him didn’t involve showing up in church every week. In fact, he knew that leaving his former way of life would have consequences on his wealth because of the way he made his money, but that didn’t matter to him anymore. Unfortunately, it appeared to him that money was all that mattered to his pastors. It appeared that many of the church members were ‘serving God’ because they wanted God to make them rich and ‘successful’. He saw how much attention he got from the pastors when they realized how rich he was. All Gbenga wanted was to be closer to the Lord who alone could save his soul. He wanted to devote the rest of his life to serving the Lord who spared his life from damnation, but his pastors were too money-minded to be able to help him. There were fraudsters known to him that had first-class access to the pastor because they were rich. If Gbenga didn’t have the encounter that led him to the Lord, based on what he now saw, he would have thought Christianity was nothing but a charade. Too many believers today are so money-minded that they ignore godliness. God’s major use to them is to make them rich. They do not realize that being this way doesn’t make them more prosperous but only more covetous compromisers who would do anything for money. God really blesses people with wealth, but when wealth becomes the focus of the believer, it becomes an idol in his heart that is capable of turning him into a worker of iniquity and limiting his ability to partake in the divine life. The love of money is the root of all evil. Go into today remembering that the purpose of the church is not primarily to make people rich but to make people saved and reconciled to God. When believers become too money minded, it would limit their capacity to connect with grace for even the wealth that God has destined for them on the earth. Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you love him above all else. Not yet saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 —Pst. Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Plan: Exodus 9-12 (In Devotional Audio) Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study Today by 2 pm (GMT +1). ZOOM Meeting ID: 536206651 Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 visit: www.streamglobe.org
Grow Up 3
Ephesians 4:16 (KJV) From whom [Christ] the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. We saw last time that speaking the truth in love would cause us to grow up into spiritual maturity. Today’s verse tells us that edification (building up) of the body of Christ also is done in love. Love becomes a key issue in the individual and corporate growth in the body of Christ. Faith will not work without love whether it is in an individual person or an entire body of believers. Faith is the culmination of all of the input of the Word into a person’s life. All the promises and Scriptures found in the Bible will do us no good if we do not operate in love toward other members of the Lord’s body. This verse tells us the whole body (natural and spiritual) is “joined together and compacted [knit together] by that which every joint supplies.” What are the joints? The joints are a type of the ministry offices found in verse 11. They supply to the different parts of the body what is needed. The ministry gifts see to it the different members are fitly joined and knit together. The members of the body of Christ are like bones in the natural body. Bones are shaped differently and, logically, should not be joined. The ends of all the different bones look as if they should not be joined to the bones next to them. What really joins bones together are “joints and bands [ligaments and tendons]” (Colossians 2:19). This is a reference to love. What links me to you in the body of Christ is love. We may come from various backgrounds and levels of society and be different skin colors, but love joins us together into one supernatural body. When one member of the body suffers, we all suffer together with it. When one member rejoices, we all rejoice. We are inseparably joined to each other. If someone needs help, don’t turn from him. We minister to him God’s Word in love, give him a foundation from God’s promises to stand on, and speak the truth in love so we all may grow up together in all areas into Christ, the Head. Go into today knowing that just as every part of the human body is important so also every member of the body of Christ is important. Not yet saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 -George Evuarherhe Djorhogba Yearly Bible Plan: I Corinthians 15-16 (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 visit: www.streamglobe.org
True Godliness
1 Timothy 6:5-6 (NET) …and constant bickering by people corrupted in their minds and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a way of making a profit. Now godliness combined with contentment brings great profit. The reason Harman accepted the Lord Jesus was because he was made to understand that Jesus blesses people. His elder brother was a failure who had nothing going for him, but after he accepted the Lord Jesus and was committed to the work of God in his local church, everyone saw the difference. His elder brother became responsible and was now able to be a blessing to other members of the family. Harman accepted the Lord Jesus because he too wanted to become a success story like his elder brother. After praying the sinner’s prayer, Harman became really committed to the work of God in his local church assembly because that was also what his elder brother did. With time, Harman became recognized as a committed member of the church and was allowed to teach in his subgroup. But unfortunately, he was a teacher of heresy because he still had an idol in his heart. ‘Making it’ in this life was his true goal for becoming a Christian, and somehow, this goal had not changed in his heart, he still loved money more than he loved the Lord–this was the idol in his heart. He was never content with being godly, the only thing that could make him contented was lots of money. Unlike his brother, Harman never really walked in the power [and gain] that godliness brings because his motives were wrong. If your purpose for trying to be godly is the attendant earthly gain, you will never truly attain godliness and the attendant benefits. When a believer is goldy, it means the nature of Christ has permeated him to a great degree. Because of this, such a believer can truly appropriate the benefits and power of the divine nature he has received through the new birth. One of the things that godliness does to the believer is that it delivers him from covetousness and the love of money. Only the more powerful love of God can deliver a man from the pervasive love of money. A covetous believer cannot be goldy at the same time. Go into today remembering that Godliness is profitable in every way. It holds promise for this present life and for the life to come (see 1 Timothy 4:8). One of the biggest hindrances to true godliness is the love of money. You cannot love God and love mammon (Matthew 6:24). Prayer: Heavenly Father, help me to love you above everything else. Deliver my heart from idols. In Jesus’ name. Amen. Not yet saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 —Pst. Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Plan: Mark 9-10 (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 visit: www.streamglobe.org http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%202231.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Grow Up 2
Ephesians 4:15 (KJV) But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ. The baby, who could not speak, should grow up to learn “to speak the truth in love.” Speaking the truth is speaking the Word. Speaking the Word of God is one of the greatest keys in the Christian life to answered prayers, effective confessions, and mastering the thoughts. When we become full of the Word of God, it comes out of us in two ways– words and deeds. Colossians 3:16-17 admonish us thus: Let the words of Christ, in all their richness, live in your hearts and make you wise. Use it to teach and counsel each other. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts. And whatever you do or say, let it be as a representative of the Lord Jesus, all the while giving thanks through Him (Christ) to God the Father. Speaking the Word is important, and doing it in love is of greater importance. Many people speak the Word of God to tear other believers apart and to set them straight. The spoken Word is a sword (Ephesians 6:17), not to be used on other believers but against Satan and his devices. When we use the Word on other believers, it should be to help remove the problem and preserve and care for the person. All of this is part of the growing up process God has for us to move from babyhood—spiritual immaturity—to the fullness of the stature of Christ. Jesus is our example and our goal for maturity. We are to “grow up in all things [areas] into him [Christ]” who is “the head of the church” (Ephesians 5:23). As you go into today, remember that we must speak the truth in love always. Prayer: Father, help me to be sincere in my dealings with others and to walk in love daily Not yet saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 -George Evuarherhe Djorhogba Yearly Bible Plan: Jeremiah 12-16 (In Devotional Audio) Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study Today by 2pm(GMT +1). ZOOM Meeting ID: 536206651 Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 visit: www.streamglobe.org
The Lordship of Christ
1 Corinthians 6:20 (NET) For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body. When Dare realized what it really meant to be a believer in the Lord Jesus, his slavery to sin was broken. He had attended church all his life, but he knew he was still a slave to sin. When for the first time he learned that believing in the Lord Jesus meant accepting Christ Jesus as his Lord, he understood that this meant that his life now belonged to Christ and he could no longer live the way he liked but now had to submit to the will of Christ. When he realized and understood this, he could now receive power from the Holy Spirit. This power enabled him to overcome the dominion of sin in his life. He also observed that because of this power, he was no more afraid of the devil and his demons. He now had the authority to withstand the forces of darkness and overcome. Being a believer doesn’t just mean accepting that Jesus is Lord, it means receiving His Lordship over your life. When this happens, the Holy Spirit can now empower you to live above the power of the flesh. It is only by the Holy Spirit that we can put to death the works of the flesh (see Rom 8:13) and this can only happen when we have truly accepted the Lordship of Jesus over our lives. Go into today remembering that the degree to which you are submitted to the Lord is the degree to which you will have spiritual authority. It is only those who submit to the LORD that will be able to resist the devil and he will flee from them (see James 4:7). want to be saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 -Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Reading: Job 29-30 (In Devotional Audio) Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study Today by 2pm(GMT +1). ZOOM Meeting ID: 536206651 Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 To learn more about this ministry or doante, visit: www.streamglobe.org