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 of 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 —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Plan: I Samuel 26-31 (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is Interdenominational and nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, click this link to join our WhatsApp Group☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GvVFJFXWXJMENumQjx4VcG Or Send us a message on WhatsApp: +15155195600, +2348138224547 Listen to Streamglobe Radio Here: www.streamglobe.radio http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%202234.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Ordained Unto Good Works
Ephesians 2:10 (KJV) For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. After Ben got baptized in the Holy Spirit and started enjoying the fellowship of the Spirit, it didn’t take long for him to discover that his life was scripted [in heaven] and there were good works written for him to accomplish. He was so glad to realize that his life was not an accident after all; that God knew everything about his life and had a plan for him even before he was born. Ben was born out of wedlock. His mother didn’t want him and his father denied him. He was reluctantly raised by his mother’s aunt who had to take his mother and him in when her sister(Ben’s grandma) died in the midst of the trauma and stress of dealing with the fact that her only child got pregnant as a teenager and contracted AIDS. Ben grew up with a sense of rejection. He believed that his birth and life were a big mistake. His mother had died of aids when he was a baby but he was lucky not to have contracted the virus. He sometimes wished he had contracted the virus and died as a baby too. But that all changed when he started fellowshipping with God through the Holy Spirit and realizing that he was God’s masterpiece created for good works. Knowing the Lord Jesus and discovering that even though his physical birth may have been unplanned, his [Spiritual] birth into God’s kingdom was well planned and orchestrated, Ben found joy and peace in his relationship with the Lord. One of the essential things that being baptized in the Holy Spirit should do to every believer is that it will reveal God’s visions concerning us. “….[Y]our young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams”(see Acts 2:17). The outpouring of the Holy Spirit brings us into alignment with God’s visions and plans for us. The Holy Spirit is the one who energizes us to actualize and fulfill the good works God has before ordained for us to walk in. Go into today remembering that God has a plan for you and that plan is good. Never forget that life here on earth is about finding and fulfilling God’s grand plans for you. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Bible in One Year: Exodus 9-12 (In Today’s Audio)Streamglobe is Interdenominational and nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together.To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, click this link to join our WhatsApp Group☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GvVFJFXWXJMENumQjx4VcGOr Send us a message on WhatsApp: +15155195600, +2348138224547Listen to Streamglobe Radio Here: www.streamglobe.radio https://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%202795.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Receiving Through His Promises 2
2 Pet 1:4 (NLT) And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires. Femi noticed that Dare was not growing spiritually, and he wondered why this was happening. They used to pray together and had many things in common. He later noticed that Dare was not very interested in the word of God, he was more interested in reading motivational books than reading and meditating on God’s word. He hardly read spiritual books, and he was never really dedicated to reading his Bible. It is because of God’s great promises that we can become partakers of His divine nature. Christians who know these promises are more likely to walk in the divine nature than Christians who do not know these promises. We know God’s promises by hearing and meditating on His word. God’s word brings light into the dark places of our lives and empowers us to walk in His holiness (see Psa 119: 105, 9). What makes your body grow is the food you eat. What makes your spirit grow is the word of God you receive and understand (see Matt 4:4). Go into today remembering that spiritual growth never ends for the believer. You must continue to grow into the fullness of Christ and remain productive. One way this happens is as you feed your soul with the word of God and align with its righteousness each time you notice misalignment. Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you grow into the fullness of the stature of Christ. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Plan: I Corinthians 15-16 Want to be born again? Tap here: streamglobe.org/33 Get free sermons here: streamglobe.org/34 Streamglobe is Interdenominational and nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, join our WhatsApp Group here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GvVFJFXWXJMENumQjx4VcG Or Send us a message on WhatsApp: +1 (515) 519-5600, +2348138224547 Listen to Streamglobe Radio Here: www.streamglobe.radio http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201249.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
The Humility of Christ
Philippians 2:5-8 (NET) You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had, who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped, but emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature. He humbled himself, by becoming obedient to the point of death – even death on a cross! While studying the subject of humility and seeing that it is the strongest attribute of the nature of Christ pointed out in scripture(see Matthew 11:29, Philippians 2:5-8), I was wondering and asked the Lord why so much emphasis on the subject of humility? I didn’t ask long before I remembered that pride was the one thing that turned the angel Lucifer into Satan. Pride entered his heart and iniquity was found in him (Ezekiel 28:14, 15, 17). One of the biggest roots of iniquity is pride. The opposite of pride is humility. As powerful as God is, He is humble. We are to be like God not like the devil (see 1 Peter 1:16). Pride is a root of iniquity. God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble (1 Peter 5:5-6). Anyone who walks in pride will walk under the resistance of heaven. That’s a bad place to be. Do you want to live under the dew of heaven? Do you want your prayers answered before you even utter them? Then be truly humble. I Believe one reason Moses had so much power with God was that he was the most humble man on earth during his day (see Numbers 12:3). Go into today determining to be like Jesus in your heart. The strongest attribute of the nature of Christ is humility. Prayer: Resist all forms of pride and ask the Lord for grace to be more humble and gentle (see Ephesians 4:2). —Abraham Damilola Arigi Want to be born again? Tap here: streamglobe.org/33 Get free sermons here: streamglobe.org/34 Bible in One Year: Mark 9-10 (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is Interdenominational and nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, join our WhatsApp Group here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GvVFJFXWXJMENumQjx4VcG Or Send us a message on WhatsApp: +1 (515) 519-5600, +2348138224547 Listen to Streamglobe Radio Here: www.streamglobe.radio http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%202794.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Imputed Righteousness
Romans 5:18 (NET) Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people. Keneth got himself entangled with certain teachers who taught strange things. They taught him that his conduct as a young man didn’t matter much before God because God deals with him based on the righteousness of Christ, so his conduct didn’t matter. They quoted the Bible verse above to buttress their point. As a result of these doctrines, Kenneth sunk deeper and deeper into uniquity and made many mistakes that he lived to regret years later. The Lord restored him when he started reading Streamglobe Devotional (Actual Name changed). All human beings were made sinners because of the sin of the one man Adam. It is on that same basis that all who believe in Christ will be made righteousness by the righteousness of Christ the last Adam. Now, even though all were made sinners because of the sin of Adam, the basis of God’s judgment on every individual person would be his individual actions (see Ecclesiastes 12:14). Before God, sinners are judged for their own sins, not for the sin of Adam. What Adam’s sin did was to open the door of sin to mankind, such that the sinful nature became our nature by default. But for those who believe in Christ, His righteousness opens the doors of eternal righteousness and holiness to us, such that if any man is in Christ, sin would not have dominion over him. Sin entered the world because of Adam’s sin, but individuals will be judged and condemned because of their own sins they have committed. Believers in Christ Jesus become righteous because of Christ’s righteousness, but people will be rewarded and elevated in God’s kingdom because of their obedience and service in [the doing of] righteousness (see 1 Cor 3:13-15, Mat 16:27, Rev 22:12). Go into today remembering that you have received the righteousness of the Lord Jesus because of your faith in Him. It is as you walk out this righteousness that you would grow and not die spiritually. Walking again in the old sinful nature produces spiritual death (see Rom 8:13). Heavenly Father, please help me work out my salvation with fear and trembling. Help me please you in all things and be fruitful in every good work, In Jesus’ name. Amen —Abraham Damilola Arigi Bible in One Year: Jeremiah 12-16 Streamglobe is Interdenominational and nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, join our WhatsApp Group here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GvVFJFXWXJMENumQjx4VcG Or Send us a message on WhatsApp: +1 (515) 519-5600, +2348138224547 Listen to Streamglobe Radio Here: www.streamglobe.radio http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%202793.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Learning From Christ- Humility
Matthew 11:29 (NET)Take my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. There was a time in my life that I wasn’t seeing the need or importance of the discipline of fasting in my walk with the Lord. Many of the reasons people gave for fasting weren’t adding up for me. But I had a conversation with a friend who had just been listening to some sermons by Derek Prince. He promptly informed me that he just learned that fasting is so powerful because it is one of the most effective ways people humble themselves before God. At that point it clicked, God gives grace(power) to the humble (see1 Peter 5:5-6, James 4:6-7). That’s the reason why when people fast, they can increase in spiritual power. That’s the reason why fasting is so powerful and such an effective discipline in seeking the face of God. (See Psalm 49:12) When man fell and became like one of the other animals (to the extent that many call themselves a higher animal), the only way God could redeem man and bring him back to his original place of glory was to become like one of us. It was the sacrifice of a man that was required to fulfill the claims of divine justice, but there was no man qualified to be that sacrifice because all have sinned as a result of the seed of Adam (see Rom 3:23). So Jesus came with the seed of the spirit of God as the first new creation man. He came without the Adamic sinful seed and was qualified to take away the sin of the whole world. But in order for this to happen, He, being the second person of the Godhead, had to strip Himself of all His glory and become a humble man who would be killed by His creatures. Such humility is unparalleled, and the glory such humility invokes is also unparalleled (see Philippians 2:7-11). Go into today remembering that it is to the humble that God gives grace. Do you want to walk in great grace like our Lord Jesus? Then let Him be your example in humility. Do everything to help keep your heart in a humble state. Prayer: Lord, deliver me from every root of pride and help me to be perfectly humble and gentle. Amen. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Bible in One Year: Job 29-30 Streamglobe is Interdenominational and nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, join our WhatsApp Group here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GvVFJFXWXJMENumQjx4VcG Or Send us a message on WhatsApp: +1 (515) 519-5600, +2348138224547 http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201987.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Receiving Through His Promises
2 Corinthians 1:20 (ESV)For all the promises of God find their Yes in [Christ]. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory. Jade had a problem that made her pray and cry almost every night. One day she was listening to the word of God, she heard a promise that spoke directly about her problem, she was first excited, but she later said “this promise only applied to the Hebrew women and not to me”. She didn’t realize that the promises of God are actually more real in Christ than they were in the old covenant. When she knew that the promise she heard on the radio was actually meant for her because she was in Christ, she claimed and received her miracle. It is the same God that Abraham and the other patriarchs of the faith worshiped that we worship. But we can even have a closer relationship with Him through Christ Jesus. God’s word is the most powerful force in the whole universe. When God releases His word in the form of promises, if you believe them and receive them in Christ’s name with thanksgiving, they will be fulfilled in your life just as you have believed. Go into today remembering that being in Christ is superior to being a Jew. All the promises of God (even the ones that the Jews could not receive) can be received by you through Christ Jesus. Let your prayers take root in the word and promises of God. This is the most effective way to pray and receive from God. Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you know and claim all His promises for you. —Abraham Dami Arigi Bible in One Year: Psalms 42-44 Streamglobe is Interdenominational and nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, join our WhatsApp Group here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GvVFJFXWXJMENumQjx4VcG Or Send us a message on WhatsApp: +1 (515) 519-5600, +2348138224547 http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%202792.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Those who trust in the Lord
Psalm 34:10 (NLT)Even strong young lions sometimes go hungry, but those who trust in the LORD will lack no good thing. Strong lions represent the strong in this world, they represent those who people revere and look up to when it comes to the things of this world. They are the ones who will be the last to be hungry even when there is farmine. The word of God to you today is that even when strong lions are hungry and suffer lack, you will not lack any good thing if you trust in the Lord. The Lord shall provide your every need according to His riches in glory (see Phil 4:19). You will live in divine health and not be afflicted like the people of this world. Strong lions of this world have their needs met according to the economy, but your own needs will be met according to the riches of heaven. The riches of heaven have never experienced a recession, there are diseases the riches of this world cannot cure, but there is no disease the riches of heaven cannot cure. It is always increasing. Of the increase of Christ’s government and peace, there shall be no end (Isiah 9:7). This means you will only know promotion and never demotion as you keep your heart stayed on the Lord in trust because His ever-increasing government is your source of supply. Go into today remembering that all of God’s promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a resounding “Yes!” And through Christ, our “Amen” (which means “Yes”) ascends to God for his glory(2 Cor 1:20). You receive these great things from God because of Christ, not because of you. The key is faith in Christ alone. Prayer: Lord, Help me to believe your word concerning my life and trust in you always. Amen. —Abraham Dami Arigi Yearly Bible Plan: I Samuel 21-25 Streamglobe is Interdenominational and nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, join our WhatsApp Group here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GvVFJFXWXJMENumQjx4VcG Or Send us a message on WhatsApp: +1 (515) 519-5600, +2348138224547 Join us live for Streamglobe Word Encounter 11:20 am WAT Video Streaming: https://youtube.com/c/streamglobe Audio Streaming: https://streamglobe.radio http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201244.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
When Men Slept
Matthew 13:25 (KJV) But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. After Joel stocked his new fish ponds with fingerlings, he would come every morning and evening to feed them and sometimes just stand admiring how the little creatures feared. After some months when the time of harvest was near, Joel woke up as usual and went to the ponds to feed the fish, but to his shock, more than two-thirds of the fish were missing– someone had stolen them. The thief came in the night while Joel slept. It was after this sad incidence that Joel employed a guard. You see, the devil is a thief (see John 10:10), he achieves this by taking advantage of the weakness or weak moment of the one from whom he steals. One of such moments is described as ‘when men slept’. Jesus in Matthew 24:43 (KJV) says that, if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. So, the way to keep the thief away is to keep watch. How then do we watch? Matthew 26:38 KJV, ‘Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.’ According to Jesus in the passage above, to watch means to pray. And someone may say, how can I pray when I am weak? Mark 14:38 (KJV) says, ‘Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.’ It is whenever you don’t feel like praying that you need prayer the most, because, not feeling like praying is a temptation, and the way to overcome it is to pray. Go into today knowing that when you keep watching, you keep the thief away. Pray like this: Father, I receive the spirit of grace and prayer, and with discipline and the help of the Holy Spirit, I keep the enemy away from my life in Jesus’ name. —Dr. Emmanuel James Bible in One Year: Exodus 5-8 (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is Interdenominational and nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, join our WhatsApp Group here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GvVFJFXWXJMENumQjx4VcG Or Send us a message on WhatsApp: +1 (515) 519-5600, +2348138224547 Download Today’s Audio here☞ http://bit.ly/aud2791 http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%202791.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
God Wants All People Saved
1 Timothy 2:4 (NET) … [God] wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. Emeka had prayed for the salvation of his brothers for years, but it appeared that things were getting worse and not better. A time came that he started to entertain the false thought that maybe his brothers were not saved because they were never selected by God for salvation. This thought in his heart weakened his faith and made his prayer for his brothers less powerful. When he knew that it was God’s will for them to be saved, his supplications for them became more powerful and regular, and he started seeing the result. All his brothers eventually became saved. I have come to learn that the most powerful kind of prayer regarding the salvation of others is the prayer of supplication. Another word for supplication is begging. When it comes to the will and choice of other people, your declarations and demands may not be very effective, but your plea before the throne of God for them is very effective. Only God has the authority to influence the will of people, and we have to make sufficient supplications before His throne to make this happen. If we begin to entertain the false thought that maybe God has not selected a person to be saved, it weakens our faith in prayer for that person’s salvation. Go into today knowing that one of the reasons God placed you in your family is because He wants you to pray and generate sufficient spiritual license for Him to invade the other members of your family with His salvation. Prayer: Lord, please help me do my part in facilitating the salvation of my loved ones. Amen. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Plan: I Corinthians 13-14 Streamglobe is Interdenominational and nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, join our WhatsApp Group here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GvVFJFXWXJMENumQjx4VcG Or Send us a message on WhatsApp: +1 (515) 519-5600, +2348138224547 http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201242.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS