Grace: God Abounding Toward Man
Ephesians 1:8 (KJV) Wherein [in grace] he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence. I have heard and used the standard definitions such as “unmerited favor” and “God’s riches at Christ’s expense,” but this verse really reveals to us God’s definition of grace. Grace at its simplest is God abounding toward man. Man simply receives. Everything you need for your natural and spiritual existence in this life and throughout eternity is being delivered to you by God the Father(2 Peter 1:3). Not only does The Father give us natural and spiritual blessings, but He also gives us the ability to flow supernaturally in our everyday situations. He gives us wisdom and prudence (good sense). Both of these attributes are products of the Spirit-filled and Word-filled life. Wisdom is the correct application of knowledge. Knowledge is an input, and wisdom is an output. Knowledge is being a hearer of the Word, and wisdom is being a doer. Knowledge is gained through our being diligent. We must study to show ourselves approved unto God (2 Tim. 2:15). God will not do this for us. Once we have done our part and studied, God will help us put what we have learned to work in the form of wisdom. The Word does not say, “If any man lack knowledge, let him ask of God.” It does say, “If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God” (James 1:5). Not only does God give us wisdom, but He also gives us good sense or prudence. Christians should walk in more wisdom than anyone in the world. Believers full of the Word should come up with such wisdom that the world would stand in awe and wonder why they could not see the simplicity of the answer. This should be a daily confession of every believer: “My God is abounding toward me today with wisdom and good sense for every circumstance”. There is not a weapon formed against you that can prosper when you are armed with the simplicity of the Word of God (Isa. 54:17). Go into today knowing that, there is not a weapon formed against you that can prosper when you are armed with the simplicity of the Word of God. Prayer: Father, thank you for abounding toward us in all wisdom and prudence. Help us make the most of this privilege in Jesus’ name. Amen. -George Evuarherhe Djorhogba Want to be saved? Click here: streamglobe.org/33 Yearly Bible Plan: Exodus 5-8 (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 http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%202228.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. —Pst. Abraham Damilola Arigi Want to be saved? Click here: streamglobe.org/33 Yearly Bible Plan: I Corinthians 13-14 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 http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201242.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Chosen Before Time
Ephesians 1:4 (NET) For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished in his sight in love. We were chosen—“before the foundation of the world.” This shows us once again the immensity of God, who has always existed. There never was a time nor ever will be a time when He will not exist. Time is no problem with Him because He lives in a realm that is beyond time. We are bound by time, but God is not. He sees tomorrow, next year, and eternity to come as clearly as we see this moment. He knows the problems you will face tomorrow and has already planned every answer for you. God planned answers before problems existed hence nothing can ever take Him by surprise or unawares. It is wrong to think you are going to face a problem tomorrow or next week for which God has not already made a way of escape (1Corin. 10:13). Problems may catch you off-guard, but they never surprise God. If He planned for the biggest problem in your life through the new birth, don’t you think He can handle the smaller ones on the job, in the home, or at school? Somehow we get the idea God saved us, filled us with the Holy Spirit, and left us to fend for ourselves. God not only planned for us to enter this new life but also to be overcomers every day (Romans 8:37, 1 John 4:4). God knows the future and has made plans for you to succeed. Don’t try to help God by worrying. Sit back and enjoy the ride. This is the life of faith that pleases God. (See Heb. 11:6.) The word “hath chosen” means “to call out”. Before the foundation of the world, God called you out to be holy and without blame”. From the foundation of the world, He has seen you through His eyes and predestined you as righteous and holy. We need to see ourselves as God sees us. While we look not at the things which are seen [our mistakes and failures], but at the things which are not seen [our heavenly position]: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal (2 Corin 4:18). Even if you miss it, God still considers you holy and without blame before Him, because that is your destination and destiny. This in no way advocates my sinning or living an unholy life, what it does is to remove the attitude of defeat if you do sin or miss the mark. Just understand that God hates sin and ask Him to forgive you (1John 1:9), then see yourself as He does—forgiven, holy, and without blame. And make every effort never to go back to sinning again. Remember, anyone who practices sin is of the devil (Read 1John 3:8). Go into today with the understanding that we are seated with Jesus in heaven, you are seen as “holy and without blame” because you are in Christ. Prayer: ask the Lord to help you to live holy, justly, and without blame. Want to be saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 -George Evuarherhe Djorhogba Yearly Bible Reading: Mark 7-8 (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 http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%202227.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
The Holy Ghost and Power
Acts 1:8 (NKJV) But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” The day Femi got baptized in the Holy Ghost, he prayed in the Spirit for three hours straight. As a result, he felt so much power in his soul that there was no more fear in his heart. This power also made him free from slavery to sin. As the days passed, it appeared as if this power within him was no more with the same intensity. He wondered why this was happening. The next time he went to fellowship, he prayed fervently for about 30 minutes, and he felt the boldness and power once again. This was how he knew that the way to stay in the Spirit and power of God is to be prayerful and holy. The power to become sons of God is supplied to us by the indwelling Holy Spirit (John 1:12). The Holy Spirit is only given to those who have received Christ Jesus as their Lord. In today’s Bible text, we can see that Jesus did not allow His disciples to be His witnesses until the Holy Ghost came upon them to empower them. When a person is baptized with the Holy Ghost, it is usually accompanied by praying in the Spirit and sometimes by prophesying. People who intend to live Spirit-filled lives must be people who take their cue from that first day they were baptized. They must be people who continue to pray always in the Spirit (see Ephesians 6:18). Go into today asking the Lord to fill you with the Holy Ghost and with power so that you will represent Him well. -Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Reading: Jeremiah 7-11 (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 http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201604.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Be Fruitful
John 15:16 (NET) You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. Moyin noticed that the rate at which Kemi received answers to her prayers was really remarkable. There was a day they were traveling together, and it was about to rain and disrupt the meeting they were going for. Moyin had prayed and prayed in her heart concerning the rain, but nothing happened and the rain started. As soon as she called Kemi to pray, while Kemi was still praying, the heavy rainfall reduced and eventually stopped miraculously. There were many other examples of how Kemi received from the Lord more, and Moyin became concerned. ‘Does it mean that God loves Kemi more than me?’ Moyin would ask herself. She went into days of prayer to seek God’s face concerning why He didn’t answer her prayers the way He answered Kemi’s prayers. This was when the Lord showed her that Kemi was a much more fruitful Christian than her, that this was why Kemi had God’s ear. We can see from today’s Bible text that when we are fruitful, we can ask and receive more expressly from the Father. Many Christians have fruitless prayer lives because other areas of their lives are fruitless before God. A fruitful Christian is one whose life and character manifests the fruit of the Spirit. He is also one who wins souls to the kingdom of God. He is a profitable servant of the Lord who uses his resources [talents and gifts] for the advancement of God’s kingdom in this world. Go into today remembering that when all is said and done, we will be rewarded according to our fruitfulness (see Rev 22:12, Matt 16:27, Rom 2:6). Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you become more fruitful. Not saved? Click here ☞ streamglobe.org/33 -Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Plan: I Samuel 11-15 Get sermons here: www.streamglobe.org/34 Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study Today by 2pm(WAT). ZOOM Meeting ID: 536206651 Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. www.streamglobe.org http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201230.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Interactive Bible Study Manual 9
Theme: Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage and Forgiveness. Topic: Divorce, Remarriage, Marital Infedility and Forgiveness Text: Matthew 5:32 “But I tell you not to divorce your wife unless she has committed some terrible sexual sin. If you divorce her, you will cause her to be unfaithful, just as any man who marries her is guilty of taking another man’s wife.” CEV INTRODUCTION Regarding the Scriptures on divorce, remarriage, infidelity and forgiveness, there are such wide differences of opinion, interpretation, and application between leading Christian theologians and denominations today. Some churches believe that the new testament forbids divorce and remarriage in any form. Others feel that the passages in question are to be applied as guidelines tempered with love, mercy, understanding and judicial allowances. In this study, we will closely consider what the scriptures say on these issues and align ourselves with the position of the scriptures. DISCUSSIONS 1) What is Divorce? Deut. 24:1 2) Why does God hate divorce? Malachi 2:14-16 3) Is there any scriptural grounds for divorce? Matt 5:31-32, 19:8-12, 1 Cor. 7:10-13, 4) What about pre-conversion divorce? 1 Cor. 7:20-27 5) What is marital infidelity? 6) Does God require forgiveness in the case of marital infidelity? Matt. 6:14-15 7) Does divorce imply unforgiveness? 8) Is there any scriptural grounds for remarriage after divorce? 1 Cor.7:15,39 Rom. 7:1-3 9) What is the role of the church in divorce and remarriage? Matt 18:15-17 For now, Bible Study holds every day except Sundays. TIME: 2:00pm(WAT- GMT +1), 1pm(Accra), 2pm(London), 4pm(Nairobi), 3pm(Johannesburg), 6:30pm(Mumbai), 9am(New York) Join via ZOOM. Zoom Meeting Link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/536206651 OR Meeting ID: 536 206 651
The Fellowship of His Suffering
Join Our WhatsApp Group to Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio From us early every day. Click Here to join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/JStK2cvbe8q68Od3SSuHkt 2 Timothy 2:12-13 (KJV) If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself. After Darrel read this Bible verse, he felt quite disturbed because all his life as a believer, he had never really been persecuted for his faith. He was born into a secular country where there was freedom of religion and no one was overtly persecuted for their faith. He thought within himself that ‘does this mean I will not be counted among those who would reign with the Lord when He returns because I have never suffered with Him?’ While he meditated on this, the Holy Spirit helped him remember the times he had been mocked and sidelined in the office because he refused to compromise his faith. He remembered the times he felt alone and almost rejected because he accepted the Lord Jesus and his old friends now despised him. He also remembered the times he had the opportunity to make fast money but wouldn’t because of his faith, and he looked like a fool to many(even so-called Christians). The Holy Spirit reminded him that while he went through all of that, the Lord was with Him to Comfort him, that was why he could go through such seasons and come out victorious. In Philippians 3:10, Apostle Paul said: “that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His suffering…” There is a depth of knowledge of God that is accessed when we have gone through ‘stuff’ because of our faith in Christ. I believe one reason why saints who overcome(see Revelation 3:21) have the destiny to sit on the throne of Christ with Him [and reign over all God’s creation with Him] is that our fragile lives here on earth give us certain privileges to know God in ways that even angels might not be able to know Him. We have the privilege of being able to say “I suffered with Him”. You know that when you have a faithful friend you suffered with when things were tough, such a friend would have a special place in your heart, much more than the new friends you made when things became easy and abundant. Go into today remembering that if you truly want to live for Christ and refuse to compromise your faith in this corrupt world, it will fight back. When the world fights back and you passed through unpleasantness that you normally wouldn’t have faced if you were an unbeliever, that suffering you passed through because of your faith counts in heaven. Prayer: Lord, help me know you more and walk more in your power. Amen. Want to be saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Plan: Genesis 48-50 (In Devotional Audio) Get sermons here: www.streamglobe.org/34 Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study Today by 2pm(WAT). ZOOM Meeting ID: 536206651 Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. www.streamglobe.org http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%202223.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
They Loved Not Their Lives
Revelation 12:11 (KJV) And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. A prominent Christian leader in my country was confronted by terrorists and eventually beheaded. He was asked to deny his faith in Christ in a video clip that became public, but he refused and was killed because of his faith in Christ Jesus. According to scripture, Persecution, and martyrdom will increase as the day approaches. Luke 21:16-17 (KJV) And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake. Matthew 24:6-9 (KJV) And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. Matthew 24:10-13 (KJV) And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. The only way to survive in the last days is to be ready to live, suffer, and even die for Jesus just in case it gets to that. Your conviction must be clear and free of ambiguities; you cannot love the world and yet love Jesus; you will have to choose between the two. Many of the believers and apostles of old who were martyred have secured for themselves a level of eternal glory that is unparalleled (see Revelation 2:10). Those who denied Christ during their time have also died, but do not share in their level of glory. Go into today knowing that, ‘‘he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved”. Want to be saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 —Dr. Emmanuel James Yearly Bible Plan: I Corinthians 9-10 (In Devotional Audio) Get sermons here: www.streamglobe.org/34 Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study Today by 2pm(WAT). ZOOM Meeting ID: 536206651 Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%202222.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Spiritual Growth
Just like a newborn baby, when you are born again, there is need for you to grow spiritually. A short sermon by Pastor Abraham Damilola Arigi http://listen.streamglobe.org/Pastor%20Abraham%20Damilola-Spiritual%20Growth%201.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
The Gifts of God
Romans 11:29 (KJV) For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. When Kemi was baptized in the Holy Ghost, she was so excited because she received the gift of tongues. She could now pray in tongues. But she did not realize that the gifts of God are without repentance. There was a time she walked in the flesh and outside the will of God, and she thought she had lost the gift and the ability to pray in the spirit. But she was wrong. The devil told her that lie because he did not want her praying in the Holy Spirit and building up herself (see Jude 1:20). Because she believed that lie, it appeared that she could no longer pray in tongues. But when her eyes opened and she understood that God is not one to give you a gift and then collect it back, she knew she had not lost her gift from the Holy spirit. There are some that have been deceived to believe that they have lost their salvation because of something they did or something they did not do. Your salvation is a gift; it is not something you earned. Ephesians 2:8 says: For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this is not from yourselves, IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD. If you truly repent of your sins, God will forgive and accept you. The devil deceives people to think they have lost the gift of salvation so that they will lose the faith that makes them saved. If you see anyone who left the faith, it was not because God rejected them, it was because they rejected God and stopped believing (see John 6:37). Go into today remembering that your salvation and any other gift you have received from God is eternal. Ask the Lord to help you use your gifts for the purpose He gave them to you. Not saved? Click here ☞ http://bit.ly/1iTOmol -Pst Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Plan: Mark 3-4 Get sermons here: www.streamglobe.org/34 Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201227.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS