The Preaching of the Cross
1 Corinthians 1:18 (KJV) For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. Biodun and Shade now had a very sour and unhappy marriage. Shade was convinced that her husband was now cheating on her because he bought a new phone with fingerprint password and made it impossible for her to access it. He also started coming home really late. Biodun felt that his wife no longer loved him, so he stopped showing her affection the way he used to. They now always disagreed. Biodun wanted a happy home like that of his brother. He asked his brother what the secret was because he knew there was a time that his brother too was having problems in his marriage and almost got a divorce. His brother told him that his secret was accepting Jesus and letting Jesus become the Lord of his marriage. He preached the cross to him and told him that the Lord Jesus had the power to save his marriage and bring peace to his Life because He has paid for this on the cross. This didn’t make any sense to Biodun. ‘What foolishness!’ He said. ‘I say I have marital problems and you are telling me to believe in Jesus that died on the cross?’ The preaching of the cross is foolishness to unbelievers, but it is the power of God to those who believe. Believing in the sacrifice of Jesus and accepting His lordship is the source of all power for the believer. When you see a believer walking in divine health, it is because he believes that Jesus has paid for this on the cross, and receives it by faith (1 Pet 2:24). When you see a believer walking above curses and demonic limitations, it is because he believes that all curses against him have been nailed to the cross (Col 2:14). When you see a believer walking in divine provisions, it is because he believes that Jesus has paid for this on the cross (see 2 Cor 8:9), etc. -Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Reading: II Corinthians 4-5 (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%201627.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
By Their Fruits
Matthew 7:15-16 (NET) You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? When Gbenga accepted Christ, there were many things in his life that were not right. But as he grew in the knowledge of the Lord, he knew that many things that were in his life had to leave. He just knew he had to change his friends because they were all ungodly people. The Corinthian Christians were babes in the faith (lambs and not yet sheep-see John 21:15-16). Many of them were still living like unbelievers (see 1 Cor 3:1-3). But they did not know any better. That was one reason the book of 1Corinthians was written to them. When they read it, they repented in sorrow because it made them realize that many of them were not walking in a way fitting for those who would inherit the kingdom of God (see 1 Cor 6:9-10). So great was their repentance, brokenness, and sorrow that Paul had to encourage them in his second letter to them (see 2 Cor 2: 4-11). The way they responded to the word of God when they were corrected showed that they were born again. They bore fruits of repentance. Jesus tells us that we will recognize people by their FRUITS (see Matt 7:16). For believers, these fruits include the fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5:22), the fruits of repentance (including when the word of God challenges you in an area or erring (see Matt3:8, Luke 3:8), the fruit of your lips (Heb 13:15), etc. Go into today remembering that If a person is brazenly committing sin and refusing to repent even when confronted with the word of God, it is not that he is spiritual a baby in the faith(lamb) , it is most likely that he is not in the faith (goat), or he has had a shipwreck of the faith (1 Tim 1:19). Want to be saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 -Abraham Damilola ArigiYearly Bible Reading: Mark 13-14 (Available in Today’s Audio) No Bible Study on Sundays 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
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
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
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