Run to win 2
1 Corinthians 9:24-25 (KJV) Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. Because Temitayo wanted to win the trophy, she was willing to do whatever it took. It became impossible for her to hide this from the people around her. Everyone now knew she was an athlete because she always did something that showed she was preparing for the championship. It doesn’t take time for people who have to deal with really serious athletes to know that they are athletes. It is very difficult for them to hide this fact about themselves. It shows. In the same way, when a believer is really serious about his kingdom assignment and winning his prize, he cannot hide his identity as a believer for long. Under normal circumstances, any believer who has successfully been able to hide his identity from his coworkers for several months may have been able to do so because he is not really striving for the prize of the mark of the high calling in God. Daniel worked in a godless environment, but it was impossible for him to hide who he really was. Moses couldn’t either. When your kingdom assignment takes over you and becomes the most important thing in your life, you will find that you are a witness for Christ everywhere you go. The Holy Spirit would begin to give you insight into people’s lives just because He wants you to share the gospel with them. Go into today remembering that you are first and foremost a witness for Christ in every place He has planted you. Ask the Lord to help you to this end. Ask for the wisdom to be a soul-winner. — Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible: Deuteronomy 1-3 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together.Send testimonies and prayer requests here(WhatsApp): +234813822454, +2348034420524 Listen to Streamglobe 24/7 Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio Subscribe to our Apple podcast here: https://bit.ly/streamglobe https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio2702.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:35 — 7.9MB)Subscribe: RSS
Run to win
1 Corinthians 9:24-25 (KJV) Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. When Temitayo started preparing for the championship in tennis, she knew she now had to become temperate in her eating, sleeping, watching movies, etc. She was told by her instructor that she could no longer eat anything but had to only eat things that maximize energy output. Her life became greatly streamlined because of this championship. Temitayo made the sacrifices she made because she wanted to win the tennis championship. We are also in a championship, but this is for an infinitely more valuable incorruptible prize. The devil and his hordes of demons are our contenders that can’t win the prize, but they want to hinder us. The only human beings that can overcome them are those who believe in the Lord Jesus (see 1 John 5:5). We must maintain a champion’s mindset of self-control. We must not let the flesh hinder us. We must always put the flesh under the will of our renewed minds. This is the only way to appropriate our victory over our contenders. Go into today remembering that the prize you have to win is the reward for faithfully doing the work cut out for you by God. This reward, among other things, will translate to your place of glory and authority in God’s eternal kingdom that would never end. Not everyone in the kingdom will receive a reward, some will suffer loss (see 1 Cor 3:15). Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you run in such a way that you would receive your reward (1 Cor 9:24). — Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible: Hebrews 11-13 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Send testimonies and prayer requests here(WhatsApp): +234813822454, +2348034420524 https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3489.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:29 — 6.2MB)Subscribe: RSS
Trust God 1
Hebrews 11:17-19 (NET) By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son. God had told him, “Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,” and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there. It can be very painful when you are not trusted, especially if you are a very truthful person. Without trust, friendship is literally impossible. God is so truthful that His spirit is called the spirit of truth(see John 14:7). People that doubt God cannot be very close to Him. (See Hebrews 11:6). People who trust Him are those who would be close to Him and walk in His glory. Faith means to believe in God and believe His promises. This was Abraham’s secret. God made him some promises and he believed them wholeheartedly, even when it no longer made logical sense for him to believe. This belief that Abraham had in God controlled the things he did. This impressed God so much. Even when God told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, because God had already promised him that it was through Isaac that his descendants were going to be numbered, he reasoned that it meant God was going to raise Isaac from the dead after the sacrifice, or something like that. Abraham was not being deceptive when he told his servants he and Isaac were going to worship God and return back (Genesis 22:5). He trusted God’s word so much that he didn’t have the ability to think Isaac was going to be lost to the sacrifice. Abraham’s story was that He trusted God so much that he knew God’s plan for him was better than his plan for himself. Anyone that would have a relationship with God must have God’s words as the basis of His faith in God. When the Lord has spoken to you and you believe it, you will see the manifestation of God’s words, as long as you don’t waver in faith. Know today that God is more trustworthy than any other person you can ever find. God cannot lie, and it is only wise to trust and not doubt him. Circumstances and temptations may try your faith in God, but remember that it is those who keep their hearts stayed on God because they trust in Him that will experience His perfect peace (see Isaiah 26:3). Go into today remembering to find God’s word for you in every area of concern, and believe it until you see the manifestation of the things He has promised. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Plan: Micah (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Listen to Streamglobe 24/7 Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio Subscribe to our Apple podcast here: https://bit.ly/streamglobeContact us (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +2348138224547 https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3488.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:52 — 17.8MB)Subscribe: RSS
The secret to true unity
Philippians 2:1-3 (NET) Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort provided by love, any fellowship in the Spirit, any affection or mercy, complete my joy and be of the same mind, by having the same love, being united in spirit, and having one purpose. Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself. Seun had dealt with people long enough for him to know that, more than anything else, people are controlled by their selfish motives. So he was not surprised when Sola behaved the way he did. Sola was selfish and greedy. He only looked out for himself, and whenever it seemed he was looking out for others, it was because it was an indirect way of him looking out for himself. Seun did not know he could trust anyone until he met Trevor and Daniel who were true believers whose hearts had been changed by God’s word. They were truly selfless and humble. Seun became a believer in the Lord Jesus through their influence. If people are not selfless and humble, it would be practically impossible for them to walk in unity and love. The secret to walking in true unity and love has been revealed in today’s Bible verses. Even among believers, walking in unity may be a far cry if they don’t understand the principle of selflessness. The Adamic man is naturally selfish and self-centered. But as we are transformed into the image of Christ, we receive the mind of Christ which is selfless and perfectly humble. The only time people can truly walk in unity is when they meet the conditions of Philippians 2 verse 3 which says: Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself. Go into today making it your goal to be like Christ and have his mind. Jesus was willing to give his life to save us. If for example, there is only one seat and you and someone else are tired and need to sit down, be the one to offer the seat to the other person. Treat people better than you would expect to be treated. This doesn’t mean you have low self-esteem, it means you have the mind of Christ. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Plan: Micah (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Listen to Streamglobe 24/7 Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio Subscribe to our Apple podcast here: https://bit.ly/streamglobe Contact us (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +2348138224547 https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3487.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:30 — 18.9MB)Subscribe: RSS
Why Trouble the Master Any Further
Mark 5:35 (BBE) And while he was still talking, they came from the ruler of the Synagogue’s house, saying, Your daughter is dead: why are you still troubling the Master? The responsibility of raising a child is a most grave and serious responsibility. It changes people. There are very few things sadder than a parent watching helplessly a child suffer. In fact, someone once posited that so sad is the reality of a parent losing a child that the English word has no fitting expression for it. Jarius, a leader in the synagogue, was in such a situation, his daughter lay dying of an illness, and nothing he had done had worked, instead, the situation was getting worse. He must have been plagued with fear and a great dread of the possibility of losing her. He came and fell at the feet of Jesus and prayed him to intervene; to heal his daughter. And Jesus had mercy on him and was going to go with him to the house to heal his daughter. However, while they were still en route, the child died. Then came messengers from the house saying to Jesus, “Why trouble the Master any further?” What they were really saying was, ‘the situation has become hopeless, therefore don’t put Jesus through the stress of still coming to your house’. The reaction and response of Jesus is quite instructive. Firstly, when Jesus (over)heard them saying this, he turned to Jarius and spoke to him immediately. Notice how Jesus quickly reacted to the report of these messengers regardless of the fact that they were not addressing him. This is because Jesus understood the potential effect of such report to the heart of Jarius and how that could ultimately shape the events of the day. Secondly, take note of the response of Jesus, he said, “have no fear, only have faith”. At the end of that day’s event, Jarius had his daughter raised from the dead. What lessons can we learn from this? We must learn to respond to circumstances from the viewpoint of faith and nothing else. Faith here would mean believing what God says about himself and acting on the strength of that. While it might sound commonsensical to conclude that a situation had become hopeless because it has gone beyond what the intervention of men can address, however, has God placed a limitation on his ability by the boundaries of men’s capabilities? For example, what does God call ‘hopeless’? What does the Lord count as ‘troubling’? Knowing, believing and acting on this is what practical faith is. When next you hear “It is done, trouble the Master no more”, be diligent enough to ask, “Says who?” Go into today refusing to accept voices that put a limitation on the power of God. Pray without ceasing, and if that be trouble, then trouble the Master on. —Ikecukwu Mpama Yearly Plan: Proverbs 29-30 (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Listen to Streamglobe 24/7 Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio Subscribe to our Apple podcast here: https://bit.ly/streamglobe Contact us (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +2348138224547 https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3486.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
God’s Ideal Home 1
Ephesians 5:25 (KJV) “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it” Abel married Mabel the love of his life after courting her for two years. They had enjoyed beautiful moments of courtship. After another beautiful, dream come true honeymoon, it was time for the “happily ever after”. But, it was only days after the honeymoon had ended that frictions began. Mabel exclaimed, “This is not the man I married,” to which Abel replied, “you’re not submissive, don’t you read your Bible?”. “Who submits to a beast? You tricked me into marrying you, I thought you loved me, you deceived me” responded Mabel. This was how they lived for a very long time because Abel believed Mabel deserved his love only when she submits to him. Should a husband love a disobedient and unsubmissive wife? What does God command? “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it” is God’s commandment. It is not “husbands, love your wife when she submits and obeys you”. Every man who wants to become a husband must be well acquainted with and willing to obey this command. Your standard as a husband is Christ, you will have to constantly ask the question, “am I loving my wife as Christ loved the Church?” Go into today knowing that loving your wife is not one of the options, rather, it is God’s command to husbands. Prayer: Ask God for the grace to truly love. —Dr. Emmanuel James Yearly Plan: Psalms 119 (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Listen to Streamglobe 24/7 Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio Subscribe to our Apple podcast here: https://bit.ly/streamglobe Contact us (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +2348138224547 https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3485.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 20:32 — 14.1MB)Subscribe: RSS
Useful But Not Acceptable
Colossians 1:13 (NET) He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves When Ebuka first heard the gospel message, he knew he was walking under the power of an ancestral curse. His elder brother’s first daughter died at birth. His younger brother had also just lost his first daughter too. There were other aspects of this ancestral curse that manifested, and Ebuka knew that he was under the dominion of the dark powers responsible for this curse on his family. When he received the gospel and believed it, one of the most exciting things about it was that he was no longer under the dominion of darkness but now brought to the dominion of Christ. Somehow he knew that the extent to which he submitted to the dominion of Christ (that he was now translated into) was the extent to which he would walk outside of the physical manifestation of the dominion of darkness (that he was now delivered from). He decided to live a life that is totally sold out to Christ and His kingdom. This is how he lived a life that was totally free from the influence of the very dark forces that had held his entire family captive for generations. God did not just deliver you from the kingdom and dominion of darkness, He transferred you into the kingdom of Christ Jesus. It is the authority of this new kingdom that enforces the reality of your deliverance. When a law is given, it may appear as if it does not exist if it is not enforced by the appropriate authorities. Go into today remembering that it is by the authority of Christ’s kingdom that you enter into the experience of your freedom. —Dr. Emmanuel James Yearly Plan: II Chronicles 16-20 (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Listen to Streamglobe 24/7 Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio Subscribe to our Apple podcast here: https://bit.ly/streamglobe Contact us (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +2348138224547 https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio2696.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 32:51 — 9.4MB)Subscribe: RSS
The Working of Faith 2
Ephesians 6:2-3 (NET) “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely, “that it may go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth.” Because of what his discipler taught him, Joe understood that the promises of prosperity and long days were going to be activated in his life when he got rid of his bitterness and began to honor his parents. After he overcame the bitterness in his heart through the help of the Holy Spirit and started honoring his parents by showing them respect and giving them gifts regularly, he started regularly confessing the promise of God that he would see good days on the earth. He had the faith to expect the manifestation of this promise in his life because he knew that by faith, he was now meeting the condition of this promise. God’s promises give us hope (an expectation), and faith gives substance to this hope (see Hebrews 11:1). For example, a person believes that he is healed through the stripes of Jesus because he has placed his faith in Jesus. That is hope. But he needs to give substance to this hope in order for him to receive his healing. One of the ways to give substance to your hope is by confessing what you hope for. Your confession becomes an act of faith. It now gives substance to what you hope for. In mark 11:23, we can see that it is if a person believes and speaks according to what he believes that he will receive what he believes. The easiest way to give substance to your hope is by speaking it out. But you would not have the boldness to effectively do this if you are walking in disobedience. Go into today remembering that faith is the action that accompanies the hope we receive from God’s word. Prayer: ask the Lord to help you understand His promises and the conditions to receive them so that your faith will be boosted to receive all His promises for you. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Bible in 1 Year: Numbers 33-36 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Listen to Streamglobe 24/7 Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio Subscribe to our Apple podcast here: https://bit.ly/streamglobe Contact us (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +2348138224547 https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio2387.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:46 — 2.0MB)Subscribe: RSS
Learning from Philip: A Culture of Obedience
Acts 8:26-27a (NIV) Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” 27 So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship The beep of her phone broke her concentration, so she dropped the book she was reading and glanced at her phone. She had put her phone on vibration mode, so she could spend some alone time. As she picked up the phone, she made a mental note to put it on “Do not Disturb” mode next time. When Mrs. Helen swiped her phone open, she saw that the beep had come from an SMS notification from her women fellowship member, Mrs. Ubong. The text read: “Ma, the Lord has directed me to start a Bible Club for kids in my neighborhood. But you know that I am shy and reserved, I don’t know what to do. What do you counsel Ma?” It took Mrs. Helen only a few seconds to think of a response, she typed it and responded to the text thus: “Start a Bible Club.” Acts chapter 8 records the story of Philip. Philip had just completed what could be termed a successful evangelistic crusade in Samaria when an angel of the Lord said for him to go to a certain location. The details of what he was to do were not particularly given to him, just a location, and the next sentence is profound and instructive, it says, “so he started out”. You can observe the prompt response of obedience to the voice of God exhibited by Philip. The story unfolds as he meets an eminent personality where God had directed him to. However, there was just one challenge; the man, an Ethiopian Eunuch, was on a chariot back to his homeland. A chariot was an ancient means of transportation built for speed. Then came the next set of instructions: ‘The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.” Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked. (Acts 8:29-30). Again, Philip got an instruction, and he responded by breaking into a sprint in obedience. He caught up with the chariot, initiated a conversation, and got invited to sit with the Eunuch and he ended up winning the man to Christ and getting him baptized in water. A culture of prompt obedience to the promptings and leading of the Holy Spirit makes us useful and veritable vessels profitable in the work and service of the Master. Go into today with a resolve to build a culture of obedience to the voice of God echoed in the Word, and by the Holy Spirit. —Ikechukwu Mpama Yearly Plan: Hebrews 8-10 (In Today’s Audio) Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together.Listen to Streamglobe 24/7 Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio Subscribe to our Apple podcast here: https://bit.ly/streamglobe Contact us (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +2348138224547 https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3482.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 17:26 — 12.0MB)Subscribe: RSS
Renounce the spirit of the world
1 Corinthians 2:12 (NET) Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God. When Seye received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, he lost the zeal he used to have for social media show-offs. As he grew spiritually, he also realized that he was no longer living his life to prove any point and demonstrate superiority. What now really mattered to him was pleasing God. Because of this, Seye found that his walk with God was now fruitful. The spirit of the world is the reason why people of the world are proud, greedy, and sexually immoral. The spirit of the world is responsible for the wisdom of this world which is jealous, selfish, proud, etc. One of the major things the Holy Spirit does to the believer is that He changes the believer’s nature into the nature of Christ. He crystallizes in us the mind of Christ. It is only those who have the spirit and mind of Christ that would be able to know the things that have been freely given to them by God. This knowledge is not natural mental knowledge but revelational knowledge that serves as keys and portals into those realities in God. Go into today remembering that as long as a person has the spirit and attitude of the world, he would find it hard to walk in the revelational knowledge that produces results in the life of a believer. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Plan: Acts 3-4 (In Today’s Audio) Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Listen to Streamglobe 24/7 Christian Radio here☞ https://streamglobe.radio Subscribe to our Apple podcast here: https://bit.ly/streamglobe Contact us (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +2348138224547 https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3481.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 12:47 — 8.8MB)Subscribe: RSS