The Yoke: Learning the way of Rest
Join Our WhatsApp Group to Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio From us early every day. Click Here to join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/EuXIrL5e1tn4H9XT0DyBq7 Mathew 11:28-30 (KJV) Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Our minds find it difficult to accept the simplicity of words like these as we tend to lean more towards seemingly complicated answers to our daily challenges. (See Ecclesiastes 7:29 GNT) Jeremiah, under the inspiration of the Lord, pointed to the same reality when he spoke these words: “Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, we will not walk therein”. Jeremiah 6:16 A yoke is a bar or frame of wood that joins two animals at the neck for working together. Daily living is full of expectations/burden/cares; and all of these come in different sizes and weights. For example, trying to live righteously on the strength of self-discipline, the weight of becoming successful in our careers, or even fulfilling something the Lord spoke to you about by your own devices, we can go on and on. The one who is the same yesterday, today and forever, He who is the way, the truth, and life; the one (Christ) whom the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings point to hands you an invitation to His to rest. You have to start believing that He is in control and is taking care of you when you submit to His lordship. I don’t know your weights nor the things you are laboring fruitlessly for, but I know there is rest for your soul today. Christ gives rest. Will you accept the Lord’s invitation as you go into the world today? Prayer: Identify the areas of your life that is a burden or care. Say: Lord, I yoke this aspect of my life to you. I don’t want to worry or fret about it again. Want to be saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 -Titus Ojima A Yearly Bible Reading: Psalms 48-50 (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 http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%202236.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Gates of Division
1 Corinthians 1:12-14 (NET) Now I mean this, that each of you is saying, “I am with Paul,” or “I am with Apollos,” or “I am with Cephas,” or “I am with Christ.” Is Christ divided? Paul wasn’t crucified for you, was he? Or were you in fact baptized in the name of Paul? I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius Further Reading: Acts 18:1-19 A certain missionary took the gospel to a community. He didn’t meet opposition, but he observed that people were not responding to his message because there was a certain mystical ‘prophet’ in that community that the people followed. This prophet was not saved but was one who walked in the way of Balaam. The missionary preached and preached and many were convicted but did not come forward to receive and confess The Lord Jesus. After the missionary labored in that community for weeks, the mystical ‘prophet’ was convicted and accepted the Lord Jesus and was baptized. When the people in the community heard that their ‘prophet’ had accepted the gospel and was baptized, many of them too believed in Jesus and were baptized. When Paul first took the gospel to Corinth, he stayed there for 18 months, and many of the people in the city believed and were baptized after Crispus the leader of the synagogue believed (see Acts 18:8). Apart from Crispus and some other few people who were Paul’s first converts, Paul did not baptize but only preached. Others did the baptizing. This was Paul’s biggest point when he rebuked the Corinthians for their divisions. He did not baptize many of them so they couldn’t claim that he baptized them in his name. Since they were all baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, the only name that should be their tag should be Christ, not Paul, Peter or Apollos. Go into today remembering that to be denominationally minded is a sign of spiritual immaturity (see 1 Cor 3:1-3). -Abraham Damilola Arigi GET AUDIO SERMONS here☞ www.streamglobe.org/34 Yearly Bible Reading: Job 33-34 (Available in Today’s Audio) http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201624.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
The Wake Up Letter
1 Corinthians 1:10-11 (NET) I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree together, to end your divisions, and to be united by the same mind and purpose. For members of Chloe’s household have made it clear to me, my brothers and sisters, that there are quarrels among you. Because the Corinthian church grew so rapidly, many of the new members were still babies in the faith. At the time Paul wrote his first letter to them, the church was now dominated by such new believers. Many of them were still carnal, and they manifested works of the flesh like quarrels, divisions and the likes. Paul’s first letter to them was a wakeup call, and it brought many of them to repentance. He even had to encourage them in his second letter to them because many of them were sorrowful and broken (see 2 Cor 2: 4-11) when they realized that they were not walking in a way fitting for those who would inherit the kingdom of God (see 1 Cor 6:9-10). One major sign that showed that the Corinthian believers were true believers (even though many of them were still carnal) was the way they responded to the word of God when corrected. They repented and changed their ways. They did not rationalize and give excuses for their faults. Today, many people claim to be believers, and many are still in the process of growing into maturity. One way to discern those who have been truly born again is the way they respond to God’s word. If a person has total disregard for God’s word when it opposes his conduct, it may be a sign that he is not yet truly born again. Prayer: Lord, help me not to deceive myself. Help me to be a hearer and doer of Your word. Amen. -Abraham Damilola Arigi GET AUDIO SERMONS here☞ www.streamglobe.org/34 Yearly Bible Reading: Psalms 48-50 (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 http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201623.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
He Will Strengthen to the End
1 Corinthians 1:8-9 (NET) He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with his son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Chinedu had led a lot of people to the Lord. But he observed that a number of them that were no longer with him got entangled in the world again. He went to a certain city and met one of them who was even a fellowship leader when they were together on campus. He was shocked to see that this brother was now living with his girlfriend in sin and shame. He could not understand how someone who was once so close to the Lord could fall so far from grace. He was now deeply concerned about his other disciples who were no more in direct contact with him. Apostle Paul also had this concern for many of the people who had come to the Lord through him. He knew that there were wolves in sheep’s clothing who would seek to mislead and devour them (see Acts 20:29). At a time, he wrote to the Thessalonians and said he really wanted to get in touch with them because he didn’t want his labor with them to be in vain (1 Thess 3:5). As a person who’s had the privilege of leading people to the Lord, I understand the burden and concern Apostle Paul had for his disciples. Even the Lord Jesus had this same concern for His disciples when He prayed for them and asked the Father to preserve them from the evil one (see John 17:15). Go into today knowing that Just like Jesus handed over His disciples to the care of The Father, we too are to hand over our disciples to the Lord and be rest assured that he would strengthen them to the end. We do this by constantly praying for them and asking the Lord to preserve them. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Reading: II Samuel 1-4 (Available in Today’s Audio) Free Audio Sermons here☞ www.streamglobe.org/34 Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study Today by 2pm(GMT +1). ZOOM Meeting ID: 536206651 Streamglobe Interdenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your friends & contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524 streamglobe.org http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201622.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Waiting For His Coming
1 Corinthians 1:6-7 (NET) Just as the testimony about Christ has been confirmed among you – so that you do not lack any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ. One thing was common to the churches in Paul’s time; they all waited for the revelation of our Lord Jesus. They were expecting and hoping that the Lord would come during their lifetime because they understood that His coming would reveal their indescribable glory and power on this earth. When the Lord returns, we will be transformed into His glorious nature, and these vile bodies of ours will be changed into the likeness of His glorious body (see Phil 3:21). He will come with great power and will subject all things to His authority. Every knee will bow to Him (see Rom 14:11-12). We will rule and reign with Him and will judge the world and even angels (1 Cor 6:2-3). This is the destiny of the believer. We are part of God’s kingdom, and we will be rewarded according to our faithfulness to His call (see Matt 16:27, Rev 12:12). When believers live without this consciousness, they are bound to live faithless and weak lives that cannot truly draw people to the knowledge of the truth. But when believers live with a consciousness of the Lord’s appearing and remember that they would give an account of their stewardship here, they would live as pilgrims on assignment in this world and would conquer the world as agents of a higher kingdom. Go into today remembering that as believers, our affection must be set on things above because we are citizens of heaven where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for Him to return (see Phil 3:20). -Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Reading: Exodus 13-16 (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 http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201621.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Bible Study Outline 12
Topic: Money and How a believer should handle it Bible Text: Luke 16:10-11 (KJV) He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? Introduction The topic of money and how a believer should handle it is very important. The Lord says “[i]f, then, you have not been faithful in handling worldly wealth, how can you be trusted with true wealth?” (Luke 16:11). God is interested in how we handle money because it shows our true affection and character. This interactive Bible study will help us better understand God’s kingdom perspective on money, how to handle it, and how to be faithful stewards of it. Discussion 1) Discuss: 1a)The History of Money 1b) The advantages of money as a universal means for the exchange of value 1c) The disadvantages 2) Why is the love of money the root of all evil? (1 Timothy 6:10, Matthew 6:24) 3) What are the signs of the love of money? (Luke 19:19-22) 4) What are the signs that a person loves God instead? (John 14:15, Luke 19:19-22, Genesis 22:1-4) 5) What are the righteous ways to get wealth? (Ephesians 4:28, 1 Thess 4:11-12) 6) What are unrighteous ways to get money? (Exodus 20:15) 7) How do we manage our wealth? (Ephesians 6:2, Luke 12:33-34, Matthew 6:20-21, Acts 20:35, Genesis 9:7) 7)Why is gambling and the likes unrighteous? (Proverbs 28:20, 22, Isaiah 65:11,Mark 12:3, Galatians 5:14) 8) What is the Biblical position on financial speculation Bible study manual sharable link: http://streamglobe.org/bible-study-manual-12/
Enriched In All Things 2
Join Our WhatsApp Group to Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio From us early every day. Click Here to join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/EuXIrL5e1tn4H9XT0DyBq7 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 Amaka was suffering from demonic afflictions and fear even though she was a believer. Her Pastor had prayed for her and ministered deliverance to her several times, but the issues kept coming back. Her pastor knew that the only way she could be free indeed was if she received her freedom through the knowledge of the Truth (see John 8:32, John 14:16, John 8:36). Because of this, her pastor gave her books and sermons to listen to, but she wouldn’t read the books nor listen to the sermons. She became totally free when she heeded her pastor’s advice and started reading faith-building books and paying attention to increasing her faith through the ministry of the word. I have seen Christians who are very careful with their conduct suffer demonic affliction and defeat, and I have seen Christians who like the Corinthians, are not as careful with their conduct, but they enjoy spiritual liberty and are enriched through grace because they have been properly taught and grounded in the word of faith. God neither wants us to live carelessly nor does He want us to suffer unnecessary affliction. But many times, His people suffer because of a lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6). This knowledge is the knowledge of His word. Go into today remembering that prayers are very important and indispensable to spiritual growth. But so is the knowledge of the truth (which is God’s word). Prayer is like a gun and the word is like the bullets. You need to get your gun properly loaded. -SD Abraham GET AUDIO SERMONS here☞ www.streamglobe.org/34 Yearly Bible Reading: II Corinthians 1-3 (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 http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201620.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS