God still gives Eve to Adam 2
Proverbs 3:5-6 (NET) Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding. Acknowledge him in all your ways, and he will make your paths straight. Sister Grace had believed in God for a husband for many years. Being a committed worker in the Church, her Pastor took a special interest in her and began to intercede for her. After some days of intercession, the Lord gave Genesis 2:18 as his word for the matter. After receiving this Bible verse, the Pastor decided to have a chat with her, and that was when he discovered that she had been her own problem all along; she had her specifications and was not willing to budge. God has a female for every male and a male for every female, but your male or female will be brought to you only when you are open to God’s choice. Making an idol out of your specifications will only increase your wait time. You make an idol out of your specs when you believe God has to give you according to them or nothing. Usually, these specs are not primarily based on God’s word but rather centered on our own peculiar desires and designs. Many people find it difficult to trust God’s will for them because they don’t truly know God. God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and more loving than any parent could be. His plans for you are better than your plans for you. So when as a believer, you are certain that something is the will of God for you, that is the most important consideration in any matter.want to be saved? Click here: streamglobe.org/33—Emmanuel James & Abraham Damilola Arigi Download the Audio Version of today’s Devotional: http://bit.ly/aud3580 Bible in 1 year: Genesis 8-11 (In Devotional Audio) Audio Bible credit: Bible Experience, Zondervan Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Streamglobe Devotional is nondenominational and interdenominational Get our latest sermons here: www.streamglobe.org https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3580.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:18 — 6.4MB)Subscribe: RSS
Living for Christ
2 Corinthians 5:15 (NET) And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised. Even though Denise had accepted the Lord Jesus, he still struggled with certain sins he used to enjoy while he was an unbeliever. He had attended several prayer vigils, given himself a very strict prayer schedule, and had gone for several deliverance services, but these did not change much. He found that he was still a slave to the flesh and to sin. He was bothered because he understood that as long as he was still a slave to sin, he could not walk in the fullness of his glory as a son of God. It was when he attended a student congress outreach program in the northern part of his country that he understood the message of the cross, and that was the beginning of his freedom. Several months later, he reflected on his life and remembered how he used to be a slave to sin. He had nothing but thanksgiving in his heart. “The cross indeed is the secret of real power” he exclaimed. God’s answer to the flesh is the cross. It is not prayer and fasting nor is it deliverance. These are good and can provide solutions when a believer who has adopted the philosophy of the cross life finds that for whatever reason, he is demonized and being manipulated against his will. But when talking about overcoming the power of the flesh, the cross is the solution. The doctrine of the cross is the philosophy by which Jesus lived. It is the philosophy by which all his followers must live if they will conquer the power of the flesh(Adamic nature). The Lord Jesus did not live to please himself or fulfill his own pleasure. He carried his cross daily — existed to only please the father. The reason Jesus came to the world was to do the will of the father. He went to the cross because that was the will of the father. A believer who lives by this same philosophy must come to terms with the truth that life for him is no longer about pleasing himself but about pleasing God. He must die to his self-life and begin to live the God-life. He must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Jesus. In those days, if you saw a man carrying his cross, he was carrying his death sentence. He was going to be crucified. Carrying your cross daily means carrying your death sentence to the flesh. You must remind yourself daily that life is not about pleasing you, it is now about pleasing God. Go into today remembering that the secret of real power over sin and over the works of the flesh is the [philosophy of] the cross. Reflect on today’s Bible Text and this scripture: Galatians 2:20 (NET) I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Download the Audio Version of today’s Devotional: http://bit.ly/aud2445 Bible in 1 year: Romans 5-6 (In Devotional Audio) Audio Bible credit: Bible Experience, Zondervan Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Streamglobe Devotional is nondenominational and interdenominational Get our latest sermons here: www.streamglobe.org https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3579.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:59 — 4.8MB)Subscribe: RSS
Doers of the Word
To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, click here to Join our Secure WhatsApp Channel: https://chat.whatsapp.com/E65dqaVf0Zl6Z5t5v1qCws James 1:22 (KJV) But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. Sandra was in church for every meeting. She kept coming to hear the word of God because she believed she was a believer who was on her way to heaven. The problem was that she was not a doer of the word, she was merely a hearer only. Somehow she had deceived herself to believe that her conduct as a person does not matter. She was living [in sin] with her boyfriend, but she was a regular hearer of God’s word in the church and had convinced herself that she was heaven-bound. In today’s verse, notice that the Holy Spirit talks about hearers of the word, not those who simply heard once. The reason a person can be called a hearer of the word is that he keeps hearing the word, not just that he heard it once. A hearer who is not a doer of the word is one who keeps coming back to church to hear the word because he somehow believes that despite the fact that he is not living according to the word of God, he is saved and going to heaven. The Bible says that such a person is only deceiving himself. Believers who refuse to live in obedience to God’s word are simply deceiving themselves when they believe they will inherit the kingdom of God (1 Cor 6:9, 1 John 3:7). See what our Lord Jesus says in Matthew: Matthew 7:21 (KJV) Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. The will of God is contained in His word, We must be doers of His word. Go into today remembering that a person who deceives himself is one who doesn’t live in obedience to the word, but believes that he is safe because he is in church hearing the word. Prayer: Dear Lord, please deliver me from self-deception. Help me to live in obedience to your word and be fruitful in every good work. Amen.—Abraham Damilola ArigiDownload the Audio Version of today’s Devotional: http://bit.ly/aud2445 Bible in 1 year: Matthew 3-4 (In Devotional Audio)Audio Bible credit: Bible Experience, Zondervan Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together.Streamglobe Devotional is nondenominational and interdenominational Get our latest sermons here: www.streamglobe.org https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio2445.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:01 — 3.8MB)Subscribe: RSS
The superiority of love
1 Corinthians 13:8-9 (NIV)Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.Read 1 Cor 13:8-13 Of the three powerful spiritual virtues (faith, hope, and love), love is the greatest (see 1 Cor 13:13). It is the only reality on this side of eternity that did not come in part but came in full. All the knowledge you can have now is in part. All the [prophetic] gifts you can have now are in part. But love is the only virtue that is not in part. When completeness comes through the resurrection, what is in part disappears, only what is whole will remain- love. After the resurrection and we have been ushered into the fullness of our glory as sons of God, we would not need spiritual gifts because we would have unlimited spiritual bodies like that of Christ (Philippians 3:21, 1 Corinthians 16:44), and all acquired knowledge would be useless because we would share in God’s divine nature of omniscience (1 Cor 13:12). But we would still love each other and love our eternal Father. Of all the powerful virtues we can have today, love is the only one that will endure for all eternity. Prophecies will cease, faith and hope would have been actualized, but love will remain. Do you see how powerful love is? It is the only attribute we have that Satan cannot counterfeit. He doesn’t have the ability and power to love. Only those who are born of God have this ability (1 John 4:7). Go into today thanking God for the privilege to walk in His divine nature of love. Thank Him for the power that walking in this nature releases into your life. Ask the Lord to help you walk in love more than ever before.—Abraham Damilola Arigi Download the Audio Version of today’s Devotional: http://bit.ly/aud2766 Bible in 1 year: Isaiah 7-11 (In Devotional Audio) Audio Bible credit: Bible Experience, Zondervan Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Streamglobe Devotional is nondenominational and interdenominational Get our latest sermons here: www.streamglobe.org https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio2766.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:31 — 6.8MB)Subscribe: RSS
Because you have kept my admonition
Revelation 3:10 (NET) Because you have kept my admonition to endure steadfastly, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come on the whole world to test those who live on the earth. As Femi started to seek the Lord in prayer and fasting for the year, one of the first things he did was to ask the Lord what improvements he needed to make in his life to walk better in pleasing the Lord. He sensed the Lord leading him to be more committed to prayers this year. When he got to church in the evening, he received confirmation to that admonition. It was now clear to Femi that he needed to set aside some time every night to pray and spend time with the Lord henceforth. In today’s Bible text, Jesus talked about an hour of testing. IN 1 Cor 7:26, Apostle Paul also made reference [by the spirit of prophecy] to an Impending crisis. History has it that around that period, Christians everywhere were persecuted by the very powerful Roman Empire which ruled the world. The Empire made it a duty to persecute and kill Christians everywhere, and they used their very vast resources to do this. But the Church in Philadelphia was going to be spared from this testing because they always kept the Lord’s admonition to them. The Lord has the power to preserve His own from global or national occurrences that appear inescapable. When a person honors the Lord, the Lord honors him and would dedicate special resources for His peace and prosperity(see 1 Sam 2:30). The church at Philadelphia honored the Lord and Kept His admonition. Because of this, they were spared. I do not know what admonition you have recently received from the Lord, but as you go into today, determine to keep the Lord’s admonition, and see His preserving grace and power multiply in every area of your life.—Abraham Damilola Arigi Download the Audio Version of today’s Devotional: http://bit.ly/aud2443 Yearly Bible Plan: Job 3-4 (In Devotional Audio)Audio Bible credit: Bible Experience, Zondervan Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together.Streamglobe Devotional is nondenominational and interdenominational Get our latest sermons here: www.streamglobe.org https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio2344.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
God still gives Eve to Adam
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”. I once listened to a marriage coach who said, “God no longer gives people wives or husbands, the last time he did was with Adam, and he was blamed for doing so”. He continued by saying, “the new standard is, ‘whosoever finds a wife’, so, go out there and find yourself a wife. Don’t just sit back waiting for God to bring her to you, because he will not”. When choosing who to marry, there are several ways people do it. Some of the popular catchphrases regarding this are: “marry your friend”, “make sure you are compatible”, “marry the one you love”, etc, Even though these counsels are reasonable, they do not guarantee a successful marriage that would fulfill God’s purpose. Many of these counsels rely on our own ability to make the right decision, but God knows how limited we are in this regard. In the beginning, it was “I will make him a help meet for him” (Genesis 2:18 KJV). Is Genesis 2:18 still valid today or should one go by the thoughts of the said marriage coach? The Scriptures reveal that we must depend on God for all things, marriage inclusive. Proverbs 3:5 (KJV) says, “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding”. Proverbs 19:14 (NLT), “Fathers can give their sons an inheritance of houses and wealth, but only the LORD can give an understanding wife”. Go into today knowing that God still gives spouses and He will give you your own if you trust Him. Prayer: Lord Jesus, I trust you in all things, so I let you rule my life. Want to be saved? Click here: streamglobe.org/33—Dr. Emmanuel James Download the Audio Version of today’s Devotional: http://bit.ly/aud3575 Yearly Bible Plan: Psalms 3-5 (In Devotional Audio) Audio Bible credit: Bible Experience, Zondervan Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Streamglobe Devotional is nondenominational and interdenominational Get our latest sermons here: www.streamglobe.org https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3575.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:21 — 3.2MB)Subscribe: RSS
Look! An open door
To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, click here to Join our Secure WhatsApp Channel: https://chat.whatsapp.com/E65dqaVf0Zl6Z5t5v1qCws Revelation 3:7-9 (NET) “To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write the following: “This is the solemn pronouncement of the Holy One, the True One, who holds the key of David, who opens doors no one can shut, and shuts doors no one can open: 8 ‘I know your deeds. (Look! I have put in front of you an open door that no one can shut.) I know that you have little strength, but you have obeyed my word and have not denied my name. Folakemi wanted an open door so much because she understood that an open door meant opportunities for greater blessings and promotions. She did not know that an open door was already set before her. Her problem was that she couldn’t see it. She was working in a place where she literally had to deal with thousands of campus students every week, and they all held her in very high esteem. When her eyes were opened, she now saw that her influence over the students was an opportunity for her to do what the Lord had been impressing on her heart for years. It is worthy of note that Jesus told the saints in Philadelphia to ‘LOOK! I have put in front of you an open door’. One of the biggest problems hindering people from walking into open doors is that they have not seen the doors set before them by the Lord. An open door represents every new great opportunity provided for you to make spiritual and physical or financial increases. One essential thing about an open door is that you have to see it. Secondly, you have to understand that if a particular door has been opened for you by the Lord, no person or devil can close it. This is the confidence you need to walk into your open doors. Go into today asking the Lord to help you see every open door set before you in this season of your life. Ask for wisdom to make the best use of every opportunity set before you.Want to be saved? Click here: streamglobe.org/33—Abraham Damilola Arigi Download the Audio Version of today’s Devotional: http://bit.ly/aud3574Yearly Bible Plan: Joshua 6-10 (In Devotional Audio)Audio Bible credit: Bible Experience, Zondervan Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together.Streamglobe Devotional is nondenominational and interdenominational Contact us/Get more Streamglobe resources here: www.streamglobe.org https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3574.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 35:32 — 12.2MB)Subscribe: RSS
Broadcast 3573 1 Corinthians 4:15 (KJV) For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. Richard and Ford were childhood friends but were separated for some years because they attended different universities. They were reunited after graduating from the university but the two friends could no longer blend because they now attended different Church denominations. After their reunion, Ford excitedly invited Richard to a special program in his Church. Richard, however, turned down the invitation. “We have been friends from childhood, do this for the sake of our friendship,” Ford said. “We are not permitted to visit other churches, we cannot even listen to messages preached by other preachers, if we do, we will be punished” Richard replied. “But we are all born-again Christians serving Jesus, I can’t understand you”. Ford answered and walked away. Admonishing the church, Paul in 1 Corinthians 12:4-6 (KJV) stated that, ‘‘now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. We are not called to disciple a denomination, we are called to disciple the Nations. If you are a leader to whom God has given spiritual sons, you should be secure enough to allow your sons access to other godly instructors, knowing that there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which walketh all in all. If your sons are going to have balanced growth, they must eat a balanced diet. This will happen when you play your part and allow others to play their part in their lives. One of the most painful things to deal with is disciples that are not balanced or spiritually mature. It would be hard for believers to be mature if all their spiritual diet is from only one minister and none other. Christ didn’t design His body that way. Go into today knowing that the body is not one member, but many and God has placed each of the members in the body just as He decided. (1 Corinthians 12:14,18). Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you grow to the fulness of your stature in Christ and be fruitful in every good work.Want to be saved? Click here: streamglobe.org/33—Dr. Emmanuel James Download the Audio Version of today’s Devotional: http://bit.ly/aud3573 Yearly Bible Plan: Genesis 4-7 (In Devotional Audio) Audio Bible credit: Bible Experience, Zondervan Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Streamglobe Devotional is nondenominational and interdenominational Contact us/Get more Streamglobe resources here: www.streamglobe.org To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, click here to Join our Secure WhatsApp Channel: https://chat.whatsapp.com/E65dqaVf0Zl6Z5t5v1qCws https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3573.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:10 — 7.3MB)Subscribe: RSS
The right response to God’s word 2
Luke 12:47-48 (NET) That servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating. But the one who did not know his master’s will and did things worthy of punishment will receive a light beating. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required, and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be asked. Itopa began asking for mercy after he realized that his closed heaven resulted from his refusal to respond appropriately to God’s word. As soon as he made up his mind that he was going to repent and stop being worldly, his peace was restored and his affliction ceased. At some point, he started wishing he had never been to church that day and heard that word that demanded so much of him. Little did he know that the level of revelation he had could not sustain him in the next seasons of his life. He was going to contend with real principalities when he entered politics and public office. If he had not received that word and grown the way he did, his enemies would have made mincemeat of him. As Itopa made the adjustments in his life and stopped being worldly, he realized that he had been missing so much all this while. He now enjoyed a level of communion with God that he didn’t know he could experience. The peace of God and the security of God he felt were unparalleled. It was so superior to the peace and security that came with having lots of money. Every new revelation of truth through God’s word that comes to you comes to lift you up and bring about growth. If a believer fails to grow spiritually, he will start dying and diminishing. Believers experience spiritual fatigue and lose their first love when they stop learning and growing. Go into today remembering that as long as you are in this body of flesh, your growth in the knowledge of God should never cease. Prayer: Heavenly Father, please help me continually grow and become like Jesus. Amen. —Abraham Damilola Arigi To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, click here to join our WhatsApp Channel: https://chat.whatsapp.com/E65dqaVf0Zl6Z5t5v1qCws Download the Audio Version of today’s Devotional: http://bit.ly/aud3572 Bible In One Year: Romans 3-4 (In Devotional Audio) Audio Bible credit: Bible Experience, Zondervan Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Streamglobe Devotional is nondenominational and interdenominational Contact us (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +234813822454 Get more Streamglobe resources here: www.streamglobe.org https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3572.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:42 — 4.7MB)Subscribe: RSS
Saved by the Grace of the Lord Jesus
1 Corinthians 9:21 (NET) To those free from the law I became like one free from the law (though I am not free from God’s law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law. In the old covenant, people believed that salvation could be received by keeping the laws of God. That is what it means to be under the law. It means believing that the reason you will be saved is because of certain laws you can keep. But when a person believes that he receives salvation because of the sacrifice of Christ alone, that is what it means to be under grace. Anyone who is a believer in Christ is not under the 613 laws of Moses. He is not even under the Ten Commandments. He is under the grace of the Lord Jesus and is ruled by the LAW OF CHRIST. Of the Ten Commandments, Jesus reiterated nine of them and gave us better context and understanding (see Matt 5-7). These are now known as the LAW OF CHRIST. They are based on love for God and love for neighbor. There are other instructions Jesus gave that were not captured by the Law of Moses. They include instructions concerning marriage and divorce, retribution, handling debts, prayer, handling anxiety and fear, forgiveness, etc. If we as believers were under the 613 laws or even the 10 commandments, many of us would have been operating under a curse because scripture says cursed is everyone that does not continue to do all that is written in the book of the law (see Galatians 3:10, Deuteronomy 27:26). As Christians, there are many aspects of the law that we do not keep (like the law of sabbath or the laws of ceremonial cleansing, etc) and we would have been under a curse if we were to be under the law, but as it stands, we are not under the curse of the law but under the blessing of Abraham because we are not under the law but under the law of Christ – the seed of Abraham (see Galatians 3:13,16). Go into today remembering that the reason why you are saved is because of the grace of the Lord Jesus and not because of your ability to observe rules and regulations. Those under the grace of Christ live according to His will. —Abraham Damilola Arigi To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, click here to join our WhatsApp Channel: https://chat.whatsapp.com/E65dqaVf0Zl6Z5t5v1qCws Download the Audio Version of today’s Devotional: http://bit.ly/aud3571 Bible In One Year: Matthew 1-2 (In Devotional Audio) Audio Bible credit: Bible Experience, Zondervan Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Streamglobe Devotional is nondenominational and interdenominational Contact us (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +234813822454 Get more Streamglobe resources here: www.streamglobe.org https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3571.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:07 — 4.9MB)Subscribe: RSS