Scripted Life [SERMON]
A Streamglobe Word Encounter Sermon Your life was scripted by Almighty God from before you were born. God has His plans concerning you and these plans are good plans(Jeremiah 29:11). These plans can only find fruition when you are born again. Being born again started when you believed in the Lord Jesus, and would be perfected during the resurrection; when our bodies are changed according to the similitude of the new life we received. Listen and be blessed: http://streamglobe.org/listen/ScriptedLife-PstSDAbraham-StreamglobeWordEncounterSermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:00:43 — 34.6MB)Subscribe: RSS
Our Heavenly Ally 2
Hebrews 4:15-16 (KJV) For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us, therefore, come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Chinelo was going through a lot. Her husband was behaving badly, her children were unruly, and her boss was overbearing. Her car was now misbehaving, and Chinelo started feeling overwhelmed. At some point, she burst into tears because of how frustrated she felt. “I need to speak to someone,” she said frantically. She called her mother and had a long conversation with her. While discussing with her mother, at some point, she started crying. After discussing her challenges with her mother for about one hour, she felt truly relieved. Her mother gave her good counsel, prayed with her, and encouraged her. After this, Chinelo felt revived and strengthened. She was now able to face life triumphantly. Do you know that by faith, you can have a conversation with the Lord Jesus as you would a counselor or therapist? The difference is that the Lord Jesus can help you in ways no therapist can, and He loves you the way no one does. In 1 Peter 5:7, we learn that the Lord expects us to cast our cares upon Him because He cares for us. One of the most effective ways of doing this is to literally tell the Lord how it hurts and open up about your wounds of betrayals, fears, and insecurities. Know that when you talk to the Lord, He hears you. Go into today remembering that you have an ally in heaven called Jesus Christ. He is the most important person in the universe and He is on your side. Prayer: Heavenly Father, please fill my heart with faith, so I can commune with the Lord as I should. In Jesus’ name. Amen —Abraham Damilola Arigi Bible in 1 Year: I Chronicles 15-19 (in today’s audio) Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Contact us (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +2348138224547 Listen to Streamglobe Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3441.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:56 — 19.9MB)Subscribe: RSS
Our Heavenly Ally
Hebrews 4: 15-16 (KJV) For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us, therefore, come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Sharon was going through a lot of pressure and had failed so many times, but she didn’t feel she could share her struggles with her mother because she knew her mother would judge her instead of helping her. Her mother had never lived on campus and had a very narrow fixed perspective on the way things were meant to be. Pastor Pamela was not like that. She was down to earth, had lived on the campus, and knew the struggles a young girl like Sharon faced. Sharon found victory through the help of Pastor Pamela. She could open up to her and share her fears and weaknesses, and she could be helped. One reason we can come boldly before God’s throne of Grace is that we know that our high priest will not judge us but help us. He is human and understands our weaknesses. He knows how to help us through temptations because he Himself was tempted, but did not sin. So he knows how to guide us in his footstep so we too can walk free of the entanglement and power of sin. God desires a personal relationship with us where we get to discuss our deepest fears and insecurities with Him (1 Peter 5:7). The reason we are to confess our sins to Him is not that it informs Him(He knows already), it is because we are in a relationship with Him, and opening up to Him helps us heal and gain wisdom and strength to overcome the next time temptation comes. Go into today remembering that the throne of grace is meant to help us, not condemn us. We can come boldly because we have an eternal ally in Christ Jesus. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Bible in 1 Year: Numbers 9-12 (in today’s audio) Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Contact us (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +2348138224547 Listen to Streamglobe Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3440.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:31 — 16.2MB)Subscribe: RSS
Marriage and Integrity
1 Corinthians 7:1-2 (KJV) Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Before the epistle of First Corinthians was written, some members of the church at Corinth wrote a letter to Apostle Paul asking certain questions. They wanted to know if they were permitted to get married as unmarried men and women who now believed in the Lord Jesus. They wanted also to know if those married to unbelievers could remain with their spouses even if their spouses did not believe. Today’s Bible verses address the first question the Corinthians raised. Apostle Paul makes it clear here that even though celibacy is a good thing, sexual immorality is a bad thing and marriage helps to prevent it. One of the strongest attributes of God that His children inherit is His integrity (Psalm 15:4). God even exalts His word above His name (Psalm 138:2), that’s how much a Person of integrity our God is. Marriage adds a layer of integrity to the reasons why a believer must flee all sexual immorality. If a married person commits immorality, he not only sins against God and his body but sins against his wife and breaks his integrity.Some have taught that celibacy is a secret to spiritual power. That could be true for some inferior form of spiritual power, but God’s power doesn’t work that way. The only reason in the word of God why unmarried people can serve God better is because a married man would have to be concerned about the things of this world—how to please his wife. But marriage becomes a big advantage to ministry when one marries the right person who would help him fulfill his divine mandate. Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you marry the right person who would help you fulfill your divine destiny. If you are married, ask the Lord to help you and your spouse help each other fulfill divine destiny. —SD Abraham Bible in 1 Year: II Timothy 3-4 (in today’s audio) Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Contact us (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +2348138224547 Listen to Streamglobe Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3439.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:14 — 1.6MB)Subscribe: RSS
Ancient Words
Matthew 28:19-20 (NET) Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Sandra’s pastor erroneously taught them that the things our Lord Jesus taught His disciples do not apply to the church today because Jesus was teaching people under the law and we are not under the law. He went on to tell them that only the epistles have relevance for the believer in Christ. When you see a preacher trying to explain away the teachings of our Lord Jesus, that is a telling sign that he is a teacher of heresy. Sandra’s pastor probably didn’t realize that after Jesus was resurrected, He instructed His apostles to go and make disciples of all nations by baptizing them and teaching them to observe all that He taught. He also probably does not realize that what the apostles wrote in the epistles were echoes of what Christ taught. Because of what Sandra’s pastor was teaching, which he called “the gospel of grace”, the church he pastored was full of weak indisciplined, and morally bankrupt young people who were full of emotion and devoid of spiritual understanding. While in that Church, Sandra had so many abortions that she did not believe she still had the ability to get pregnant. She was so unhappy and empty even though she was brainwashed to believe she was under the grace of God and was eternally secure. Because of the unrelenting intercession of her mother and sisters, she was eventually delivered from that charismatic zoo she called her church. She was brought to true repentance and started living a straight life under the authority of Christ. It took her mother thirteen years of constant intercession for Sandra to become truly saved. Though ancient, the words of our Lord are the most current and relevant words for life today. They form the foundation of all Christian doctrine. Go into today remembering that because the church is apostolic in nature, the product of an accurate Christian assembly should be sinners converted into saints through the process of discipleship. Any assembly where sinners are made to feel comfortable in their sin is not a place to be as a serious-minded believer. Prayer: Lord, help me live by your word and be fruitful in every good work. Amen. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Plan: Hosea 1-7 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Contact us (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +2348138224547 Listen to Streamglobe Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3438.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:52 — 17.8MB)Subscribe: RSS
The Gain of Godliness with Contentment
1 Timothy 6:6 KJV, “But godliness with contentment is great gain”. A secret camera captured Deby while she was receiving a bribe. When asked why she took the bribe, she had no cogent answer. She was already so wealthy; she owned several houses, multiple investments, a fleet of cars, hundreds of millions as savings, and choice plots of land. Her children were grown up and very successful. She had all her needs met, but lack of contentment led her to receive the bride which cost her her freedom. She was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for that crime. Covetousness and love of money are siblings, they are significant manifestations of lust which is the root of all sin. James 1:14-15 (KJV) has this to say about lust, “But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death”. Lust will produce sin and sin will lead to death if left unchecked. The gain of godliness and contentment is thus obvious: it leads to life. Never forget that the aim of all discontentment to lead to covetousness is death, but the aim of godliness with contentment is life. Prayer: Lord Jesus, help me to lead a godly and contented life. Amen. —Dr. Emmanuel James Yearly Plan: Psalms 99-101 (In Today’s Audio) Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Contact us (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +2348138224547 Listen to Streamglobe Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3437.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:30 — 5.9MB)Subscribe: RSS
Scripted
Hebrews 10:7 (KJV) Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. Your life was scripted by Almighty God from before you were born. God has His plans concerning you and these plans are good plans(Jeremiah 29:11). These plans can only find fruition when you are born again. Being born again started when you believed in the Lord Jesus, and would be perfected during the resurrection; when our bodies are changed according to the similitude of the new life we received. When the Lord taught us to pray (Matthew 6:9-13), you will find that one of the strongest objectives of prayer is enforcing God’s will on the earth as it is [written] in heaven. When all is said and done, we will all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, and our lives are going to be evaluated, not according to how we impressed our neighbors, but according to how we lived in alignment with God’s predetermined will. One of the things the Holy Spirit does for us who believe is that he guides us into all truth and brings us into the consciousness of God’s will for us(John 16:13, 2 Corinthians 10-13, 1 John 2:20). He leads us to walk in God’s predetermined will, and our job is to follow. Those who compare themselves with themselves are not walking wisely(see 2 Corinthians 10:12) because in doing so, they’ll have to neglect their script and try to live by someone else’s script. Many people have done things that God didn’t plan for them to do– things that ended up being a waste of time because they were comparing themselves with their neighbors, and thus following another man’s script. Go into today knowing that your life here on earth has been scripted in heaven. Don’t forget that you’ll stand before the judgment seat of Christ and give an account of how you fulfilled this script(see 2 Corinthians 5:10). —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Plan: Psalms 99-101 (In Today’s Audio) Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Contact us (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +2348138224547 Listen to Streamglobe Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3436.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:37 — 5.9MB)Subscribe: RSS
Justified by God
Romans 8:33-34 (KJV) Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. When Nkiru was an unbeliever, she performed many Illegal abortion procedures as a nurse. She had lost count of the number of abortions she performed because it was a very lucrative business. After accepting the Lord Jesus, she repented of her sins and stopped performing abortions. Two years into her marriage, she could not conceive. Each time she tried to pray about this, she was continually reminded of her past sins. It wasn’t until she got light from today’s scripture that she broke free from the bondage of darkness and could now conceive. Before the devil can afflict any believer, he has to first accuse and bring them under condemnation. It is the duty of the believer to appropriate the realities of his redemption and break free from every accusation. Remember, it is God who justified you, not your works. If you believe this, you would walk in the realities of your redemption. Go into today remembering that because you are in Christ, Jesus makes intercession for you. You are not alone in the Spirit realm. You have the biggest ally of all, and He is not ashamed of you. Prayer: Holy Father, please help me know greater measures of your grace daily. Help me walk in the consciousness of my justification and help me be fruitful in every good work, In Jesus’ name. Amen. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Plan: I Chronicles 10-14 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Contact us (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +2348138224547 Join the Livestream of Streamglobe Word Encounter by 11:30 am (WAT): Streamglobe Radio: https://streamglobe.radio Youtube: https://youtube.com/c/streamglobe Facebook: https://facebook.com/streamglobe https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3435.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:49 — 17.7MB)Subscribe: RSS
Experiencing the Fatherhood of God
2 Corinthians 6:17-18 (NET) Therefore “come out from their midst, and be separate,” says the Lord, “and touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters,” says the All-Powerful Lord. While Chinedu was still mingling with the world and running his business as an unbeliever, he was still having episodes of spiritual attacks and nightmares. . He wondered why these things were still happening to him. He was told that if he accepted the Lord Jesus, he would become a child of God and would no longer be susceptible to his previous attacks, but that didn’t really seem to be the case. He was still having experiences that made him doubt if the power of God was real in his life? As he decided to abide in the Lord and not go back to the world, he realized that the Holy Spirit moved him to separate himself from his old friends who were unbelievers. He also observed that his faith became much stronger when he did this. With time, he woke up one morning and observed that his afflictions had all disappeared. He was so preoccupied with seeking the Lord and growing that he even forgot about them. Many believers in the Lord Jesus today are not having the experiential reality of the fatherhood of God and they wonder why. Today’s Bible verse was written to believers who even though they had the motions corresponding to faith in Christ Jesus, they needed to understand that those who would enjoy the fatherhood dimension of relationship with God are those who are wholly separated unto the Lord. This means separation from friendship with the world, and living with the consciousness that they are indeed different from the world around them. Go into today deciding to live a life separated unto the Lord and experiencing the fatherhood dimension of the Lord God. Prayer: Heavenly Father, help me to separate myself unto you and you alone. Help me to be truly holy and walk in the reality of sonship. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Bible in 1 Year: Numbers 5-8 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Contact us (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +2348138224547 Streamglobe is available on podcasts Listen to Streamglobe Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3434.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Who can be against us
Romans 8:31-32 (KJV) What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Amaka’s husband’s family hated her, and they made this very clear to her three months after their wedding. They told her she was the reason their son was no longer loyal to the family. After their wedding, Benjamin became more committed to the Lord because of Amaka’s influence. He was from a pagan family that took pride in their idolatrous practices. But since his marriage, Benjamin stopped giving them money for such practices because his sanctification to the Lord meant he had to consciously cut off from all idolatry whether knowingly or unknowingly. He now gave his parents more money for their upkeep, but no more money for their rituals. Because of this, his relatives knew they could no longer control him. Benjamin accepted the Lord when he was in secondary school. He was a leader on campus fellowship at the university, and that was when he made it clear that he was no longer going to be participating in the family rituals. But unknown to him, he still participated in proxy because he would give his relatives money to participate [on his behalf]. By giving them money for the rituals, he didn’t know that he was giving certain demons license to operate in his life. This was why his spiritual life as a bachelor was a terrible struggle. But this all ended after he married Amaka and they both became more dedicated to the Lord. Amaka did not know the deep darkness in her husband’s family until after she married him and he became more dedicated to the Lord. Strange battles began against her and the family. One night, her husband’s grandmother literally appeared in their bedroom to threaten Amaka. That was when they realized that the traditional sculpture in their bedroom was demonic, and they got rid of it and all others. Amaka was told several times in her dream that she would die and her husband would marry another girl. She was afflicted during her first pregnancy and almost lost it, but the Lord gave them perpetual Victory. She and her husband entered their victory through the revelation in today’s scripture (Romans 8:31-32). This was when they realized that God would do anything to protect them. They stopped being afraid and defensive and started being on the attack spiritually. Many of their family members eventually came to know the Lord because of them. If God did not spare His only begotten son for our sakes, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Go into today knowing that God is on your side. If by faith, you live under the authority of Christ Jesus, you are more than a conqueror (Romans 8:37). There are much more angels than there are demons, and they are all on your side. Prayer: Heavenly Father, help me rest in the truth that you are eternally on my side. Thank you, Father, in Jesus’ name. Amen. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Plan: I Timothy 4-6 (In Devotional Audio) Yearly Plan: John 5-6 (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Contact us (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +2348138224547 Listen to Streamglobe Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3433.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 17:11 — 11.8MB)Subscribe: RSS