OBEDIENCE ACTIVATES THE BLESSINGS
1 Corinthians 7:19 (NKJV) Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters. From when he was a child, Abu was told that his nation was under a curse and because of that, they could never progress above their neighbors. He was also told that men from his nation behaved the way they did because of this curse. But he knew that in Christ, there was no curse but only blessings. For this reason, he was committed to preaching the gospel to the people of his nation because he wanted them to be free from curses and walk in the blessing. We know from scripture that the Jews, being physically the defendants of Abraham, had a heritage of the blessing. But we also know that this blessing was activated only when they walked in obedience to God’s commandments. Today, those who are in Christ are the spiritual descendants of Abraham (Galatians 3:29). Jesus is the seed God referred to when He Promised Abraham that in his Seed [not seeds], all the nations of the earth will be blessed (see Galatians 3:16, Genesis 22:18). This means that even if your nation is under the limitations of curses, if the people of that nation accept Christ (Abraham’s seed) and abide in Him, they would be blessed above every curse. Just like with ancient Israel, the blessing of God is activated in the life of the believer through obedience to the commands of the Lord. For example, God commands children to honor their parents. When blessed people obey this commandment, the blessing of long life; prosperity and seeing good days would be activated (see Ephesians 6:1-3). Go into today remembering that Jesus commanded us to make disciples of nations (Matthew 28:19). This is because, through Christ, God wants to bless nations and set them free from the dominion of curses. Confession: I am blessed above all curses because I am in Christ. Amen. —Pastor SD Abraham Bible in 1 Year: Joel (in today’s audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/365I8efHrVmENrDLhZLCws For Free Sermons Click here☞ streamglobe.org/34 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 For Audio with Bible, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201762.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
YOU WILL NOT FAIL
Get Today’s Audio☞ bit.ly/aud1761 Psalm 55:22 (KJV) Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. It would be quite an unusual sight to see a little girl walking hand in hand with her father but carrying his traveling or gym bag. It’ll be more unusual if he asks her to give the bag to him and she refuses. At this point, though she still has her hand in her father’s, she is making their walk become very slow. Similarly, many believers today are moving laboriously, having become so overwhelmed by life’s worries. They forget that God Himself said “I will never leave you nor forsake you” or His word surmising that nothing can separate us from His love in Christ Jesus (Heb 13:5, Rom 8:35-39). In view of those words, it means that for you to be moved [while your heart is stayed on God], that situation must possess the power to move God or separate you from Him, which as seen from God’s word, isn’t the case. Your moving should be upwards, motivated by love and not downwards due to worry or from sin’s guilt. No matter the situation, by resiliently holding on to God, you cannot fail. One reason it may feel as though you’re failing is lack of trust that God is by your side and that He cares enough for you to let go of your burdens (Read Ps 27, Ps 118, Ps 124, 1Pet 5:7). Go into today, confident and without fear that God is able to bear your burdens daily. As you continue to trust Him and His Word, your walk will become lighter till you begin to soar in victory (Ps 68:19, Matt 11:28-30). —Chibo E.C. Bible in 1 Year: Proverbs 22 (in today’s audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/365I8efHrVmENrDLhZLCws Not yet saved? Click here☞ streamglobe.org/33 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 For Audio with Bible, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201761.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
GIVING ALL DILIGENCE
Listen to the audio for more explanations on today’s topic Hebrews 2:1 (NET) Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.Terso accepted the Lord on campus when he almost died as a result of the initiation rituals imposed on him by a certain cult group he was about to join. Their members abandoned him to die when it was clear that he wasn’t recovering from the wounds inflicted on him during initiation. His life was saved by a Christian group who prayed for him and cared for him until he recovered. He accepted the Lord, grew in the word of God, and walked in the tangible power of God as he grew. Many came to know the Lord because of him. Many years later, he started ignoring some of the fundamentals of the gospel and started getting excited by strange stories and legalistic rules presented as holiness: every believer who didn’t dress a certain way was going to hell, etc. Terso became very judgmental and legalistic, as a result, there was no more assurance of salvation in his heart, and he was evidently waning in spiritual might. After certain things happened in his life that proved to him that he had drifted away from the Truth that made him saved, he looked for his university sermon jottings and started reading them again until he properly understood them. The Lord restored him and he discarded the strange doctrines he had received. It is worthy of all diligence to pay closer attention to the word of God and be sure that we properly understand the basics of our faith as believers. Many have drifted away because they did not give all diligence to understand and continue in certain foundational truths. Go into today remembering that more than anything else in this world, we must give all diligence to the ministry of the word and to prayer. Prayer: Lord, please help me never to slip away from your truth. Help me to always be a witness for you in this world. Amen. —Pst. SD Abraham Bible in 1 Year: Psalms 105-107 (in today’s audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/365I8efHrVmENrDLhZLCws Not yet saved? Click here☞ streamglobe.org/33 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 For Audio with Bible, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201760.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
THE MARRIAGE IMMUNITY 2
listen to the audio for more explanations on today’s topic 1 Corinthians 7:12-14 (NET) To the rest I say – I, not the Lord – if a brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is happy to live with him, he should not divorce her. And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is happy to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified because of the wife, and the unbelieving wife because of her husband. Otherwise, your children are unclean, but now they are holy. Drake was going through very tough times in his life. His challenges seemed insurmountable and some of them were because of the terrible mistakes he had made in the past. One day he was waiting on the Lord in prayer and fasting, he saw in a dream that he was trying to carry a big generator to power his house because a storm had cut their power line, but he could not carry the generator alone until wife joined him and it became easy for him to carry. From that day, he started praying with his wife as a matter of necessity, and they now spent a lot of time praying in the Spirit together. The first thing he noticed was that as a result of their prayers together, they had fewer misunderstandings. With time, the mountains that seemed insurmountable became stepping stones. Yesterday, we saw that marriage is the only place where a believer who becomes saved after marriage can have fellowship with an unbeliever (who is his unsaved spouse) and remain undefiled. That’s how powerful marriage is. God cares so much about our relationships because they are the theatre which affords us the opportunity to practically grow in our divine nature [of love]. That is the reason why prayers of agreement between saints invoke the highest spiritual authority and power of heaven (see Matthew 18:18-19). It should be easier for a couple to reach this agreement. Go into today knowing that your adversary the devil will fight unity and agreement between you and your spouse because he knows the power your agreement with prayers can produce. Praying in the spirit with your spouse drives away the spirit of discord and produces unity and power. —SD Abraham Bible in 1 Year: I Chronicles 20-24(in today’s audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/365I8efHrVmENrDLhZLCws Not yet saved? Click here☞ streamglobe.org/33 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 For Audio with Bible, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201759.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
THE MARRIAGE IMUNITY
1 Corinthians 7:12-14 (NET) To the rest I say – I, not the Lord – if a brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is happy to live with him, he should not divorce her. And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is happy to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified because of the wife, and the unbelieving wife because of her husband. Otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy. After Lamide accepted the Lord Jesus, she was deeply troubled because her husband refused to accept the Lord Jesus. But he still loved her and did not want to leave her. She realized that even though her husband remained an unbeliever, her faith was not affected by his unbelief. This was a mystery to her because she observed that her faith was affected by the unbelief of other people she acquainted herself with. Marriage is the first human institution ordained by God and it is very powerful. Marriage is so powerful that it defies many natural laws. For example, two plus two equals 4, but in marriage, two plus two equals one because’ the two shall become one flesh’(Mark 10:8, Eph 5:31). Normally speaking, clean things do not sanctify dirty things, but dirty things pollute clean things. If you mingle clean clothes and dirty clothes, the dirty clothes will pollute the clean ones and not the clean clothes purifying the dirty clothes. Normally speaking, having fellowship with unbelievers defiles believers(see 2 Cor 6:14-16), but in the case of marriage, we see from today’s verses that when a person married to an unbeliever becomes a believer, the unbelieving spouse will be sanctified because of him. This does not mean the unbelieving spouse is saved by the salvation of the believing spouse, but it means the unbelief of the unbelieving spouse would not be able to defile the believing spouse as it normally would if it were not a marriage relationship. Such immunity from defilement in the midst of fellowship with an unbeliever is only found in marriage. Go into today remembering that marriage is a very powerful institution created by God. Because marriage is God’s idea, it can only fulfill divine destiny if it is run according to God’s manual (Word). —SD Abraham Bible in 1 Year: Numbers 13-16 (in today’s audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/365I8efHrVmENrDLhZLCws Not yet saved? Click here☞ streamglobe.org/33 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 For Audio with Bible, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
MARRIAGE AND INTEGRITY
Get Today’s Audio☞ bit.ly/aud1757 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 verse addresses 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 avoid it. One of the strongest attributes of God 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 the layer of integrity into the reasons why a believer must flee all 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 given 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 plus to ministry when one marries the right person who would help him/her 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 destiny. —SD Abraham Bible in 1 Year: II Timothy 3-4 (in today’s audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/6hVjJRcL6Av9fQ0LrEv9XM Not yet saved? Click here☞ streamglobe.org/33 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 For Audio with Bible, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
JUDGED BY NO ONE
Get Today’s Audio☞ bit.ly/aud1756 1 Corinthians 2:15 (KJV) But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. This the word of the Lord for someone who is reading, “God has placed help next to you, if you will only ask” To understand today’s text, let us read verses 6-7. “Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory” When you come to God through Christ Jesus in surrender, you are made perfect by God in Jesus. God is now dwelling in you and because God cannot be judged, you cannot be judged when you are yielded to Him. The man who is yielded to God will produce the fruit of the Spirit and against such is no law. Galatians 5:22-23, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” If there is no law, there will be no sin and if there is no sin there will be no judgment. This is true for our spirit and will only become our experience when we yield completely to the Holy Spirit whom God has given us. Attaining this state in God where we can judge all things and are not judged by any man ourselves should be our everyday desire. 2 Corinthians 6:10, “being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete”; this is dominion. Go into today knowing that perfection and dominion is possible when we look up to Jesus steadfastly. See 2 Corinthians 3:18 —Dr Emmanuel James Bible in 1 Year: John 10-12 (in today’s audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/6hVjJRcL6Av9fQ0LrEv9XM Not yet saved? Click here☞ streamglobe.org/33 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 For Audio with Bible, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
FAITHFUL IN THE UNRIGHTEOUS MAMMON?
Get Today’s Audio☞ bit.ly/aud1755 Luke 16:11 (KJV) If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? Ekene walked in his boss’s shop where he served as an apprentice. He often added to the price of the goods sold and stole from his boss so that he could make some extra money. He did this all through his years as an apprentice and was never caught. After he had finished his apprenticeship, he began his personal business, but he never prospered. He became so frustrated that he sought help from his pastor. By prophecy, his pastor told him about how he had been an unfaithful apprentice; and told him what to do if he wanted his lot to change. Luke 16:12 (KJV), “And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?” Before God commits true riches to your hands, he will first of all test your faithfulness with the unrighteous mammon (money). For Ekene, he had to work under a boss. For you, it may be managing the finance of a little group such as a church, family and even your personal earnings, for example, tithing, offering, giving to others and how you spend money etc. When you are unfaithful with the little at hand, you will not receive the much that is desired. Luke 16:10 (KJV), “He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.” If you desire the true riches of the kingdom, you must learn to be faithful in the unrighteous mammon (money), because, except you are found worthy of trust, God will not entrust you with the riches of His kingdom which includes earthly wealth. Go into today knowing that God is willing to give you true riches. However, you must forsake all your unrighteous ways of seeking money. —Dr Emmanuel James Bible in 1 Year: Psalms 102-104 (in today’s audio via Telegram) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/6hVjJRcL6Av9fQ0LrEv9XM Want to be saved? Go here☞ streamglobe.org/33 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 To get with Bible reading, Join our Telegram Group Here☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
MADE IN THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF GOD
Get Today’s Audio☞ bit.ly/aud1754 Genesis 1: 27 (KJV)So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Man was originally made in the image and likeness of God. He lost that glory when he fell. It was at this point that man became rewired after the pattern of Satan and sin, and consequences such as curses, pain, hardship, poverty etc. became man’s reality. However, God in His love for mankind sent His son Jesus to become the price for our freedom. God literally exchanged Jesus for us (2 Corinthians 5:21), such that in Jesus, the penalty for our sins was paid. “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit” 1 Peter 3:18 (ESV)“ Anyone who accepts the Lord Jesus will be reborn into the image and likeness of God in Christ Jesus, this is the born-again experience. Hence, anyone who believes in Jesus is saved from the power of sin. Although he may be tempted to sin, it is not because he is wired that way; he now has a new nature of righteousness. Note the use of the word ’tempt’. He is tempted because he is no longer wired to sin. If he were, the word ‘tempt’ will not be appropriate because you do not tempt a man to do what he is by nature. How then do we grow? We grow by loving the things that God who redeemed us loves, and hate the things God hates (Heb 1:9). When this happens, growth will come as a return for our love for God which is manifested in obedience, discipline, and responsibility. John 14:15, 21 (paraphrased) “If you love me, keep my commandments and I will manifest myself to you.” Go into today asking God that the eyes of your understanding be enlightened to behold wondrous things out of His word.—Dr Emmanuel James Bible in 1 Year: Proverbs 20-21(in today’s audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/6hVjJRcL6Av9fQ0LrEv9XM Not yet saved? Click here☞ streamglobe.org/33 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 For Audio with Bible, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
REDEEMED AT A PRICE
Download Audio Version☞ bit.ly/aud1753 1 Corinthians 6:20 (NET) For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body. Dwight loved his dog so much and was deeply saddened when his dog was sick and would not recover. The dog eventually died and he buried it. Two months later, his daughter was sick, but his time, Dwight was willing to give his life in order to save his daughter’s life. Daniel loved his dog so much, but his daughter was much more valuable. He was not willing to give his life for his dog, but he was willing to give his life to save his daughter’s life. One of the biggest manipulations of the devil against human beings is to make us feel worthless. The devil knows that when people do not know how valuable they truly are, they would be subject to his manipulations. If you want to know how much God values you, look at how much He was willing to pay in order to redeem you from destruction. He didn’t make such a sacrifice to redeem fallen angels like Lucifer. Have you ever wondered why the Lord Jesus is called the only begotten of the Father? If God wants to come to this physical realm, He can only come as one man and only come once. Christ is not a copy of God; He is God come in the flesh. In Christ, all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily (see Col 2:9). If the Lord Jesus had failed on His mission, there could be no other Jesus. Jesus is God’s greatest investment. God sent Jesus because He wanted to redeem you from destruction and bring you into His glorious kingdom where you would become transformed into His image and likeness. When all this is done, redeemed man will be like God in image and glory. That was God’s original design. The next time the devil tries to make you feel worthless, remember that you are more valuable to His creator and your creator than him. In Christ, God gave His life to save you. Prayer: Lord, please help me know and understand what and who I am in Christ Jesus. Pray with Ephesians 1:18 Source: Devotional http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201752.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS