Receive with Thanksgiving
1 Timothy 4:4-5 (NET) For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving. For it is sanctified by God’s word and by prayer. Growing up, we used to drink soya milk and eat other meals made with soy. As we grew older, we were told that soya wasn’t good because it caused infertility issues. I remember we no longer consumed it for some time until much later when some medical experts said soya oil is one of the best oils to consume. Today, I have read several articles that insist that soya oil is one of the most dangerous oils to consume because it messes with certain body hormones. Butter which was once said to be unhealthy is now highly recommended as one of the best oils for daily consumption. Today, there may be many things we consume that may not be good for our bodies, but we do not know. Some may even be consumed because we were told that they are good while they are really not good for the body. For the believer in Christ, we are not under any laws regarding the food we eat. As long as we receive our food with thanksgiving, it would be sanctified and made good for us. It is very important for the believer today to understand and believe this truth so that he would have the required faith to connect with this reality. Many diseases are caused by the wrong diet. Many times, people don’t even know what in their diet is culpable. But for the believer who serves the Lord(as we all should), the Lord promises to bless our food and our water and take sickness and disease from us (see Exodus 23:25). It is an error to make a doctrine out of matters of diet, but it is very easy to fall into this trap and spend more time talking about diet than talking about Jesus. Let’s be careful that we don’t expose ourselves to elemental spirits but live in the liberty that Christ has purchased for us. To the best of your knowledge, eat as healthy as possible, but be careful not to let your trust in Christ’s grace for divine health be replaced with trust in a diet plan. It has been proven time and time again that there is more to life than food…(see Matthew 12:23). Go into today remembering to receive every food set before you with thanksgiving so that it would be sanctified and made good for you.Prayer: Heavenly Father, thank you for the food that You provide. I ask that you give me a thankful heart always, In Jesus’ name. 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 this Devotional Here: http://bit.ly/aud3560 Yearly Bible Plan: Esther 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 (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +234813822454Listen to Streamglobe 24/7 Christian Radio here: https://streamglobe.radio https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3560.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Faith Boosting Practices 2
Psalms 112:9 (KJV) He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour. Kelvin was so sick that everyone thought he was going to die. But he trusted in the miracle healing power of God and refused to give up. After a while, he observed that because his healing did not come as fast as he was used to seeing it come, his faith started to wane. One evening while he was praying, he felt led to give an unusually large donation to a church charity outreach. As soon as he made the donation, faith filled his heart again and he began to get well miraculously. He didn’t start getting well because his offering acquired his healing, he started getting well because that act of giving boosted his faith. Faith is the vehicle through which the resources of God(like healing) are transmitted into our lives. It has been said that money is congealed life. For example, a person works for a month and a sum of money is given to him in exchange for one month of his life. No one gives sacrificially to a God he does not believe exists and would reward him. One of the greatest demonstrations of faith in God is giving. When you give to God or because of a consciousness of God’s existence, it demonstrates faith in God, and it can serve as a faith booster. Faith is accounted for as righteousness in God’s kingdom(Romans 4:3). For a believer, giving demonstrates faith, and faith demonstrates righteousness. You can see that today’s Bible verse links giving to righteousness. Go into today remembering that when you give sacrificially because of God, it is an act of faith that can help boost your faith. This faith can transport divine healing, prosperity, favor, etc, into your life.—Abraham Damilola ArigiTo 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 this Devotional Here ☞ www.bit.ly/audio3559 Yearly Bible Plan: Deuteronomy 32-34 (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, +234813822454Listen to Streamglobe 24/7 Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3559.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Faith Boosting Practices 1
Psalms 95:6-7 (KJV) O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker. A certain American president went on a state visit to a very popular Arab country. It so happened that when the monarch of that country(who was a much older man) presented him with a gift, the president bowed to collect the gift. This singular incident outraged many of his political opponents back home. The fact that the president of the most powerful nation on earth bowed to the monarch of another nation was an issue they were not willing to quietly overlook. The truth is, many people would inadvertently find themselves bowing in courtesy when they’re giving or receiving something from someone they truly respect. In worship, bowing and kneeling can be a mindless religious routine or an act of pure faith. If you truly believe that you are praying to the Almighty God who is present before you, I believe it would reflect in your posture. The next time you present yourself before God in prayer, remember to assume the posture that you would assume if the Lord were [physically] present, because He is. Doing so could boost your faith in the place of prayer. Spiritual realities and substances like faith affect outward expressions, but many times, outward expressions could trigger them. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Download the Audio Version Here ☞ https://bit.ly/audio3558 To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/E65dqaVf0Zl6Z5t5v1qCws Yearly Bible Plan: Jude (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 Listen to Streamglobe 24/7 Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3558.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 12:10 — 4.2MB)Subscribe: RSS
Love the perfect bond
Colossians 3:14 (NET)And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond. For the first time in his life, Kayode was truly happy because he felt loved and accepted. In the church, he was loved by people he did not know before. Even though he came from a broken home, he was now a member of an unbreakable family. One thing Christians are known for the most is their love for one another. Jesus states this in John 13:35: “By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” There is nothing that binds people together like true Christian love. It is powerful. The devil is powerless against it. Many times, we are generally afraid to love people because love makes us vulnerable. But when we love people for Christ’s sake, it makes us powerful. The surest way to reap love is to sow love. If your marriage is suffering under forces that seek to break it, begin to sow love like never before. Begin to take out extra time to pray for your spouse. Give your time and resources like never before. Begin to sow love in larger proportions and wait for the bountiful harvest. Love is indeed the perfect bond. It will keep you together. Go into today remembering that the only thing we are to owe people is love (Rom 13:8). Because you are now born again, you have the power to love people. This is the most fruitful manifestation of the divine nature. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Plan: Acts 25-26 (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 Listen to Streamglobe 24/7 Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3557.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:41 — 4.7MB)Subscribe: RSS
People of Love
Colossians 3:14 (NET) And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond. When Kayode first believed, he didn’t know how to love people. The only person he had ever loved was himself. His parents did not love him, and no one ever showed him love before he met his roommate who preached to him and led him to Christ. Because he was attending a living Christian fellowship, one of the first things he was taught as a new believer was to love. He was told that he now had the capacity and the ability to love God and love people… You may be asking if it is possible to teach a person to love. Yes. The easiest way is teaching by example. Older women in the church are even to teach younger women to love their husbands and their children (see Titus 2:4). A person who loves will give his time and his resources to the one he loves. For example, It takes love to give your time to pray for someone else. It takes love to inconvenience yourself to give your money to someone who is not you. As children of God, we have been empowered to love. Whether we feel it or not, we now have the power to love people, whether they deserve it or not (remember that God loved us when we did not deserve it). The power of love is the most powerful in the universe. Only those who are born of God have this power to love the way God does (1 John 4:7-8). Go into today remembering that Christians are to be people of love (John 13:35).Prayer: Ask the Lord to make you a person of love.Want to be saved? Click here: streamglobe.org/33—Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Reading: Revelation 12-17 (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, +234813822454Listen to Streamglobe 24/7 Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio
Only Possible By God’s Power
Mark 10:27 (NKJV) But Jesus looked at them and said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.”Read Mark 10:24-26 One reason Froid found it difficult to accept the gospel was that he did not think it was possible for him to be saved. Being extremely intelligent, he had done his calculations and seen that salvation for him was practically impossible. (But he was wrong because he did not factor in the power of God. He only factored in human willpower). He knew that truly believing in the Lord Jesus meant he would forsake his life and livelihood– a life he had spent very many years building. His biggest accomplishments in life were things done in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God, and he knew he would have to forsake all that if he wanted the salvation of Christ. When Jesus said that those who trust in their riches cannot inherit the kingdom of God (Mark 10:24), it was such a revolutionary statement that He had to encourage His disciples by making the statement in today’s Bible verse–Salvation is only possible with God’s help (Grace). Before anybody can enter the kingdom of God, he must put his trust completely in the Lord Jesus (even this is done through the help of God). Have you seen the way little children completely trust their parents and have no other option but their parents? That’s how we must trust in God in order to partake in His kingdom and power (see Mark 10:15). One sign that a person has truly received God’s kingdom is that they would walk in the power of Christ (Mark 16:17-18). The most remarkable and powerful thing this power does is to free us from the power of sin. This power also performs miracles and solves problems, etc. Go into today remembering that because of faith in Christ and Christ alone, you will inherit God’s Kingdom for all eternity. Hallelujah!—Abraham Damilola Arigi Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Bible in One Year: Psalms 146-148 (In today’s 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 Listen to Streamglobe 24/7 Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3554.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 11:49 — 4.1MB)Subscribe: RSS
Members Of One Body
1 Corinthians 12:15-16 (NKJV)If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? On social media, Ugochukwu was very fond of criticizing church leaders. Even though he was a believer, because he was not called into the ministry of teaching or preaching (all five-fold ministry offices involve teaching and/or preaching), he did not properly reckon himself as a part of the body but felt it was OK for him to stand apart from the church and criticize it publicly. Through his actions, he was saying ‘I am not of the body’. One of the loudest ways a believer can say ‘I am not of the body’ is by joining unbelievers and enemies of Christ to publicly malign and criticize the church and its ministers. This post is in no way giving leeway to ministers who err but is a reminder to believers that many [trumped up] attacks on erring ministers have an underlining agenda to destroy the credibility of the body of Christ as a whole. It is foolishness to be part of this as a member of the body. Not being a preacher, Ugochukwu didn’t feel like a part of the body of Christ the way he should, but this didn’t change the fact that through faith in Christ, he was indeed a part of the body. It took him time to realize that his habit of publicly criticizing ministers of the body of Christ was a major limiting factor in his walk with the Lord. He could not walk in divine health and healing because of this. Go into today remembering that through faith in Christ Jesus, you are a member of the body of Christ. Do not be tempted to feel you are less a member than those who are at the forefront of ministry. Some of the unseen parts of the body are the most important. Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you rightly discern His body and draw from all the benefits that His body provides.—Abraham Damilola Arigi Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Bible in One Year: Esther 1-5 (In today’s 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, +234813822454Listen to Streamglobe 24/7 Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3553.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:09 — 9.4MB)Subscribe: RSS
Pray and do not lose heart
Luke 18:1 (NET) Then Jesus told them a parable to show them they should always pray and not lose heart. Sandra had prayed over her health condition for months, but it did not appear there was any improvement. She had read many faith-building books and believed that God would heal her, but it seemed that her prayers were not getting answered. She started losing heart and her faith started to wane. But one morning, she was listening to an audio Bible when she heard the word of the Lord in today’s Bible verse. At that moment, she decided not to give up but to persist in prayer until she saw what God had promised her. That was exactly what happened. After the sixteenth month of continuing to believe in the Lord for her healing, she was completely healed of a medical condition that had no cure. If all prayers were answered immediately, the Lord would not have needed to teach us the lesson of Luke 18:1-8. Sometimes, for certain spiritually legal reasons, answers to prayers may tarry, and if we will get them, we would need to tarry in prayer. The most important fight you would have to fight in this life is the fight of faith (1 Timothy 6:12). Without your faith, you’re nothing (Heb 11:6). When people stop praying the way they always used to, it is an indication that their faith is waning. Today, remember that “though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry” (Hab 2:3). As long as your faith does not wane, you will see the hand of God. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Reading: Deuteronomy 29-31 (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 Listen to Streamglobe 24/7 Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3552.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Death to the Old Nature 2
Colossians 3:7-8 (NET) You also lived your lives in this way at one time, when you used to live among them. But now, put off all such things as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth. There was a time in my life that I realized it was very difficult for me to forgive those who offended me. Even though I was already a believer baptized in the Holy Spirit, I didn’t realize that unforgiveness and malice were so dangerous until I realized they were hindering my fruitfulness in God’s kingdom. The sins mentioned above are those that can be in the life of a believer and he may not take them seriously. Unlike the sins mentioned in Col 3:5, these ones do not feel as defiling as them but they defile the spirit, thus hindering fellowship with God and spiritual growth. We are to put them off because they are not consistent with our new divine nature. As you go into today, examine yourself under the light of God’s word. Ask the Lord to help you put off anything that is not in His nature. Prayer: Heavenly Father, please help me put off everything in me that does not please you, In Jesus’ name. Amen. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Reading: III John (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, +234813822454Listen to Streamglobe 24/7 Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3551.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Death to the Old Nature
Colossians 3:5-6 (NET) So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry. Because of these things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. Fola was terribly afflicted in her body and she did not understand why this kept going on. She cried to the Lord for help. One Saturday morning, Pastor Clara felt led to go pray for Fola. But before she started praying, she felt led to ask Fola certain questions. It became clear to pastor Clara that Fola was still living like an unbeliever, even though she was very committed to the church. Fola’s sinful life was the reason she was afflicted. She repented and confessed her faults to Pastor Clara and she became healed after Pastor Clara prayed for her and anointed her with oil. (see James 5:13-16). The reason why believers must put to death whatever is in their nature that belongs to the earth is that we do not want to be partakers in the wrath of God that is coming on the sons of disobedience. Many believers suffer many things that they are not to suffer because they are still living like unbelievers. Go into today determining to mortify everything in you that is not in conformity to the nature of Christ.Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you to this end.—Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Reading: Acts 23-24 (In Devotional Audio) Get free sermons here: streamglobe.org/34 https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3550.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 15:37 — 5.4MB)Subscribe: RSS