The Believers Authority
Join Our WhatsApp Group to Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio From us Every Day. Click Here to join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/C3Nhis8xxkD1fQsOjvynqG Ephesians 1:21(KJV) Far above all principality, and power [authority], and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world [age], but also in that which is to come. In the above verse, we have one of the Greek words that have been translated “power”—exeusia. This word can be translated as “authority, and Bibles translated from older manuscripts translate the word as authority.” Through the work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross and His resurrection, we have been given authority over the devil. An obvious question that arises at this point is, what is the difference between power and authority? God has not invested us with just power but with authority. In the fall, God did not lose any of His power. What was lost was His channel in the earth for the expression of His power. Adam lost his authority in the earth when he yielded to Satan. From Adam until the cross, Satan had unchallenged authority on earth. When Jesus rose from the dead, He said, “All authority in heaven and in earth has been given unto me” (Matthew 28:18 NET). Jesus gave His authority to the church. You are probably thinking that you would rather have power than authority, but that should not be the case. Jesus says in Luke10:19, Look, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and on the full force(power) of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you”. Jesus says he gives us authority over Satan’s power. When a policeman stands on the corner and raises his hand, cars stop because of his authority, not his power. The policeman is not more powerful than cars and trucks. What would he do if they would not stop? The policeman has been given authority over all the power of the cars. The drivers of the cars will not resist his authority because they know that if they do, they would have to face the power which the policeman represents. The power of the local government is channeled through the authority of the policeman. The policeman does not stand on the corner in his own name but in the name of the law. Jesus gave us authority over all the power of the enemy. When we use His name, all hell comes to a halt, not because we are so innately powerful, but because we are invested with the authority of heaven. Satan stops for our authority because he does not want to face the power again. He faced the power one day and lost. God channels the power of heaven through the authority of the believer who knows the rights and privileges that belong in the name of Jesus. According to Phil.2:9-10, the name of Jesus is higher than any other name that can be mentioned in this age and also that which is to come. The name of Jesus outranks the name of any sickness, disease, problem, world leader, or crisis. We as believers have the right to use that name to cast out devils, speak with new tongues, take up serpents, drink any deadly thing and not be hurt, and lay hands on the sick and see them recover. (See Mark 16:17-18.) Go into today knowing that God channels all the power of heaven through the authority of the believer who knows the rights and privileges that belong to him and are found in the name of Jesus. Want to be saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 — George .E. Djorhogba Yearly Bible Reading: Psalms 30-32 (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study Today by 2pm(WAT, GMT+1). Join Via Zoom Here☞ https://us04web.zoom.us/j/536206651
Grace and Peace
Ephesians 1:2(KJV) Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. This is a familiar salutation repeated in most of the New Testament. (See Rom.1:7, 1Cor. 1:3, 2Cor.1:2, Gal.1:3, Phil.1:2, Col.1:2,). You would notice after reading the above references that grace always comes before peace. Before you can have peace in your life, you have to understand the grace of God. So many people are so wrapped up in their own self efforts that they never have peace. They remain frustrated. They are trying to work to please God. However, the thing about working to please God is you never know when you have done enough or performed well enough to meet His requirements. The devil will tell you “You could have prayed longer. You could have gone to one more church service. God is not pleased with you.” This will always leave you frustrated and without peace. However, when you understand God’s grace; when you understand that God has already done the work and all you need to do is receive His gifts of grace, all the pressure is off, and peace is the result. 2 Peter 1:2 points out that grace and peace are multiplied to us through knowledge of Jesus Christ. Understanding of God’s Word(which leads to a deeper knowledge of God) always increases our capacity to handle more of His blessings. As we increase our capacity, God increases the amount we receive. David said, “my cup runneth over” (Psalm 23:5). God always fills to overflowing, but He only pours out when we have something with which to receive. If you do not have a cup, God is under no obligation to pour. The cup comes through knowledge of God and His Word. As your knowledge increases, your cup increases. Increased capacity brings increased grace and peace. PRAYER: Ask God that as you study His Word, the Holy Spirit will help you grow in grace, and find peace which passeth all understanding to keep your heart and mind through Christ Jesus. Want to be saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 — George .E. Djorhogba Yearly Bible Reading: I Samuel 1-5 (In Devotional Audio) Download Sermons here: www.streamglobe.org/34 Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 WWW
Stop Tying to Be the Atoning Sacrifice
Audio [Devotional & Bible] Here☞ http://bit.ly/audio1215 Join Our WhatsApp Group to Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio From us Every Day. Click Here to join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/C3Nhis8xxkD1fQsOjvynqG Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study. Today is for General Questions & Answers. Join Via Zoom Today by 2pm(WAT, GMT+1)Here☞ https://us04web.zoom.us/j/536206651 1 John 2:1-2 (NET) (My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous One, and He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world. Vivian did something she had promised the Lord she would never do again. Because of this she was very sad and started to believe that the Lord has not forgiven her. She believed that the Lord had withdrawn his grace and protection. But she was very wrong. Like Vivian, many Christians allow depression to deprive them of grace because they refuse to accept the forgiveness of the Lord but continue to think that the Lord is angry with them because of what they did. They do not realize that God knew they would do what they did long before they did it, and He was not surprised that they did, but made arrangements for their atonement. It is OK to feel remorse about a sin. As a matter of fact, the feeling of guilt associated with sin is a sign that you are spiritually alive and healthy. But just like other good things the Lord has created, the devil will try to exploit that feeling and use it to destroy you. The way to deal with sin is to repent and forsake it and move on. Jesus is the one who does all the spiritual work, including the cleansing from guilt and every other evil associated with the sin (see 1 John 1:9). Go into today knowing that Jesus alone is the atoning sacrifice for your sins. Stop trying to atone for your sins by allowing Satan to afflict you with guilt and fear. Want to be saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Reading: Genesis 40-43 (In Devotional Audio) Download Sermons here: www.streamglobe.org/34 Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838
Liberation Through The Word
Join Our WhatsApp Group to Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio From us Every Day. Click Here to join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/C3Nhis8xxkD1fQsOjvynqG Psalm 119:11 (KJV) Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. After Chide accepted the Lord Jesus, he struggled with many of his previous bad habits and sins. When he discussed this with his discipler, his discipler would recommend prayer and fasting. Chide observed that the prayer and fasting worked in keeping his flesh at bay, but when the fasting was over, he observed that the flesh would spring back up and seek to control him. His spiritual life was like a seesaw; on fire today and cold tomorrow. One day he saw his friend reading a book about the kingdom of God and he was drawn to it. He borrowed the book and started reading it. For the first time, Chide came into an understanding of God’s Truth and kingdom. From then, he was now excited to read the Bible, even the old testament now made sense to him. He observed that as he became a person of the Word, his prayers became much more powerful and he was now free from the bondage of sin. He received His freedom through the knwoledge of the Truth. Jesus told those who believed in Him that it is when they abide in His word that they would know the truth, and the truth will set them free(see John 8:31-34). I have come to realize that the most effective way to escape the power of sin is through abiding in God’s word. The way God sanctifies us is through His word [which is Truth] (see John 17:17). The word of God is the spiritual water that cleanses and renews the minds of those who are born again ( see Ephesians 5:26). Go into today determined to be a person that abides in God’s word. Psalm 119:9(KJV): Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. Want to be saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 Get sermons here: streamglobe.org/34 —Abraham Damilola Arigi Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study Today Via Zoom by 2pm(WAT, GMT+1). Zoom Meeting Link☞ https://us04web.zoom.us/j/536206651 Meeting ID: 536 206 651 Yearly Bible Reading: I Corinthians 5-6 (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 Learn more about us here☞ www.streamglobe.org
Embrace The Blessing
Ephesians 1:3 (NLT) All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. Dotun was now saved, and he was glad he had escaped the wrath that was imminent. He started learning that he didn’t only escape the wrath of God, but had come into the blessing of God through his continued faith in Christ Jesus. He wasn’t only going to escape hell, but he was now going to inherit the kingdom of God. Dotun wanted to understand what it means to inherit the kingdom of God. One of the first things he learned was that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God (1 Cor 15:50). He understood that during the resurrection, we would not resurrect with bodies of flesh, but with glorified spiritual bodies (1 Cor 15:43-44). These physically visible glorified bodies will reveal our true nature as sons of God. But while we are in this body of flesh, we can experience the first fruits of our kingdom life because of the indwelling Holy Spirit (see Romans 8:23). Since flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, Dotun knew that if he was walking in the flesh (Gal 5:19-21), he could not live the kingdom life of victory, glory, and power. Today, many believers are not fruitful in the kingdom life because they have not understood the kingdom of God. We can learn from the Parable of the sower (see Matt 13:3-8, 18-23) that those who received the word and were fruitful were those who received it and understood it (see Matt 13:23). Go into today remembering that you have been blessed with all spiritual blessings. Remember that those who walk in the flesh cannot walk in these blessings. Want to be saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 Get sermons here: streamglobe.org/34 —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Reading: Matthew 26-28 (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Join Our WhatsApp Group to Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio From us Every Day. Click Here to join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/C3Nhis8xxkD1fQsOjvynqG WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 Learn more about us here☞ www.streamglobe.org
Escape The Wrath
Join Our WhatsApp Group to Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio From us Every Day. Click Here to join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/C3Nhis8xxkD1fQsOjvynqG Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study. Today is for General Questions & Answers. Join Via Zoom Today by 2pm(WAT, GMT+1)Here☞ https://us04web.zoom.us/j/536206651 Colossians 3:6 (NKJV) Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience Dotun’s grandmother bought him a Bible as a Birthday present. Before she gave him the present, she prayed over it and asked the Lord to use it to bring him to salvation. When she gave him the Bible, she made him promise to read it. When Dotun first read the Bible, he started from the Old Testament but stopped reading it before he got to the New Testament. He particularly liked the story of Nebuchadnezzar and the book of Daniel because as a history student he could confirm that those kingdoms and Kings really existed in history. One thing he observed from reading the Bible as an unbeliever was that the wrath of God was really scary. So several years later when someone came to preach the gospel to him and told him that by accepting the Lord Jesus he was going to escape the wrath of God, he quickly accepted Christ’s Lordship because he did not want to be part of those who would experience the wrath of God. One of the reasons the Gospel is good news is because it shows us a way of escape from the wrath that is to come. Humankind is headed for eternal condemnation. The only salvation is in the Lord Jesus. If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus, today is your day of salvation. Escape the condemnation of the world because ‘He who believes in Him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God’. John 3:18 (NKJV) Pray this prayer: I believe in my heart and confess that Jesus is my Lord. I will now live under His authority and do as he says. Thank you Lord for dying on the cross for me. Want to be saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Reading: Isaiah 51-55 (In Devotional Audio) Download Sermons here: www.streamglobe.org/34 Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201576.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Live Worthily of the Calling
Join Our WhatsApp Group to Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio Every Day. Click Here to join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/KDnLIBi3w2bBs64qYIw0N4 Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study Today by 2pm(WAT, GMT+1). Join Via Zoom Here☞ https://us04web.zoom.us/j/536206651 Ephesians 4:1-3 (NET) I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Since the day Colins and Candy got married, they had bitter quarrels and misunderstandings. Colins had this perfect idea of what his ideal wife should be like, but he was disappointed because after marrying Candy, he found that she didn’t meet his expectations. Candy, on the other hand, wanted Colins to be a perfect gentleman she could control, but Collins was anything but that. What made matters sadder was that they were both leaders in the church, but they didn’t seem to know how to live in peace with each other. After going for marriage counseling with their pastor, they realized that the root of their problem was pride and a lack of willingness to bear with one another in love. When they both came to terms with the fact that they were proud and needed to humble themselves, they started to have a happy marriage. One of the ugliest things to see is Christian fellowships or homes in which there are divisions and dissensions. Most of the time, it takes a conscious effort on our part to maintain peace. A believer who is quarrelsome and divisive is not living in a manner worthy of His calling in God. How do believers live worthily? We do so by making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Many times, in dealing with people, if there would be peace and unity of spirit, we have to be willing to be patient and bear with them in love. This is only possible when we are humble and gentle. A proud person cannot do this. Go into today remembering that walking in a manner worthy of the Lord enables you to walk in the glorious power and liberty of the Lord. Humility and gentleness are key attributes of those who walk in a manner worthy of the Lord. Prayer: Lord, help me walk in a manner worthy of my calling in You and please You in all things. Amen. Want to be saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 -Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Reading: Job 19-20 (In Devotional Audio) Download Sermons here: www.streamglobe.org/34 Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%202214.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Dealing with Envy
Join Our WhatsApp Group to Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio Every Day. Click Here to join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/KDnLIBi3w2bBs64qYIw0N4 Download Audio Version☞ http://bit.ly/aud1574 James 4:2-3 (NIV) You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. Tinuke and Adenike were best friends in the university. But after they graduated, it appeared that Tinuke started progressing much faster than Adenike. Tinuke got a very good high paying job, but Adenike didn’t. Tinuke got engaged and married, but Adenike remained single. Adenike became troubled because it appeared that God no longer answered her prayers. She started asking the Lord why. The Lord mercifully revealed to her that since they graduated, she could not pray without having Tinuke in mind. She was envious of Tinuke, and her prayers always started from that point of envy and covetousness. She did not know that this envy was greatly hindering her progress and prosperity. You see, when there is envy or covetousness in the heart of a believer, it pollutes his motives and hinders him from receiving from the Lord because God does not answer His children’s prayers that stream from fleshly motives. God is a good father; He does not reward bad behavior. When a person truly trusts in God and knows that everything he will ever receive comes from the Lord, such a person will not be envious of his neighbor’s progress. We can learn from today’s Bible verse that one way to ensure that God does not answer your prayer is praying from a standpoint of envy or covetousness. Envy causes hatred, and those who hate their brothers are considered to be murderers in the kingdom of God (see 1John 3:15). Go into today asking the Lord to help you purify your motives and pray acceptably. Prayer: Lord deliver me from every form of envy and pride. Help me to pray acceptable prayers. Amen. Want to be saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 -Abraham Damilola Arigi Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study Today by 2pm(WAT, GMT+1). Join Via Zoom Here☞ https://us04web.zoom.us/j/536206651 Yearly Bible Reading: Psalms 27-29 (In Devotional Audio) Download Sermons here: www.streamglobe.org/34 Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201574.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
God’s Medicine Bottle
Join Our WhatsApp Group to Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio Every Day. Click Here to join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/KDnLIBi3w2bBs64qYIw0N4 Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study Today by 2pm (WAT, GMT+1). Join Via Zoom Here☞ https://us04web.zoom.us/j/536206651 Proverbs 4:20-22 (KJV) “My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.” It is very exciting to know that God has made provision for our physical health and wellbeing if we make His Word our priority. In the passage we are considering today, “all their flesh” refers to our whole physical body, “health” also means medicine. So we see here that God has provided medicine for our whole physical body. This is very significant as we go through life, because most people will come in contact with some form of illness at some point in their lives. But for the Word of God to be effective as medicine, there’s a direction or prescription for taking it. Let’s consider four of those directions today. 1. Attend to my words or give attention to my words: When you turn to the Bible, you need to give it your total and undivided attention. Try to shut yourself off from other influences or distractions. Remember it is God speaking to you. That is not the time to look at your messages on your phone. You can’t get anything out of the bible if you approach it half-heartedly. 2. Incline your ear: That is an attitude of humility. Bow your ear. It’s an attitude that tells the Lord that you’re willing to be taught. Be humble, be teachable. For you to get the word to work in your life, you must have a desire to be taught. 3. Do not let them depart from your eyes: This refers to focus. Focus on the word of God. Don’t look partly at the bible and partly on other things because they may contradict what the bible is saying. Shut yourself in with what God is saying through the bible. Don’t be distracted. Don’t let any other influence turn you away from what God is saying. 4. Keep them in the midst of your heart: The very essence of all these is to get the word of God into your heart, the very center of human personality. Follow these directions the way you would adhere to a doctor’s prescription and the word will be life and health to your whole physical body. —Otuokon, Ubokudom. Not yet saved? Tap here☞ www.streamglobe.org/33 Yearly Bible Reading: Ruth 1-4 (In Devotional Audio) Download 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%201573.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Kingdom Principle of Love and Responsibility
1 Timothy 5:8 (NET) But if someone does not provide for his own, especially his own family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. One of the reasons Biola hated her father so much was because of how much they suffered when she was a child, and yet she knew her father had money but refused to provide for them. He would rather spend his money on drinking and strange women. Her mother was a petty trader who couldn’t provide enough to take care of them, so they had to go live with relatives who maltreated them. It took the grace of God at work in Biola’s heart to make her able to forgive her father when he was now old, withered and needed the help of the same people he had abandoned. One of the strongest signs that a person has been born of God is manifested in his ability to love (see 1 John 4:7). A person truly born of God has the divine nature that makes him able to love even his enemies. For such a person, loving his family, friends, and neighbors is second nature. The way love works, it is manifested more strongly with those with whom you have the closest proximity or dealings. A person who loves would love his Christian brethren, family members, neighbors, and even enemies (enemies usually have a certain level of proximity that strangers don’t have), and strangers. But when you see someone who is supposed to be born of God that refuses to provide for his household (which means he doesn’t love them), it either means he was never born of God or he has denied the faith. When a person denies the faith, it is manifested in the cessation of love in his heart. It is also important that believers work with their hands so that they are able to provide for their households and the people who depend on them– this is an attribute of love. In the kingdom of God, we do not have an entitlement mentality (which breeds laziness), we believe that we are eternally blessed, so we allow this blessing to find expression in the work we do by being diligent and faithful. Go into today remembering that love in your heart is the greatest proof that you have been born of God. 1 John 3:18-19 (NET) Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth. And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence. Prayer: Lord, give me a heart that truly loves. Bless the works of my hands and help me able to provide for those who depend on me. Amen. Want to be saved? Click here: streamglobe.org/33 — Abraham Damilola Arigi Bible in one year: Genesis 36-39 (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 You can always get more Devotionals at www.streamglobe.org http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%202213.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS