The Word Sanctifies
John 17:17 (KJV)Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. Fabian: Pastor, I don’t think I can ever be holy like you. I have been bad all my life. I have never loved anyone. My heart is full of immorality and I can’t help it. I am selfish, that’s how I’ve been for as long as I can remember. I don’t know how to make myself become holy. Pastor: you are not the one who will sanctify yourself, God is the one who will sanctify you and make you holy. He sanctifies you through His truth. The reason why you were unholy is that there are many things you believe that are not true; they are not God’s truth. As soon as you begin to believe and walk in God’s truth, it will sanctify you and make you Holy. God’s word is truth. Fabian: I do not understand, sir. Pastor: for example, one of the reasons you have not been able to conquer sin is because you believe it is impossible for you to conquer sin. Even though that was your reality as an unbeliever, now that you have received Christ, God’s truth is that you have power over sin. If you believe this truth, you will see the manifestation of this power in your life. The more you align with God’s truth, the more holy you become. The way God sanctifies us is by His truth. His word is truth, it washes us from our filthiness and makes us clean. Go into today knowing that the way to walk in holiness is not by depending on new rules, it is by feeding your spirit aggressively with the word of God. The Word changes the way you think and changes the way you behave. Prayer: Father, sanctify me by your truth. Amen. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Plan: Isaiah 40-44 Streamglobe is Interdenominational. You can share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. If you wish to start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, Send us a message or Click here to join a Streamglobe WhatsApp Group☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/JdPNz4wRtMdHc6vii1ERn2 Send message to (WhatsApp): +1 (515) 519-5600, +2348138224547 You can always get more Devotionals at www.streamglobe.org http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%202484.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Christ Would Reign on This Earth
1 Corinthians 15:24-25 (NET) Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when he has brought to an end all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. I was discussing with a beloved friend not long ago when I realized he was not acquainted with the fact that the Lord Jesus would reign over this earth for a thousand years with His Saints before this entire earth and the heavens are destroyed and replaced with new heavens and a new earth. He believed that the earth and the heavens and all who dwell in the earth who are not believers would be destroyed with the second coming of the Lord. I had to show him from scripture (starting with Revelation 20-21) that the Lord would indeed rule over this earth for a thousand years before the new heavens and earth would replace it. Today’s Bible verse talks about the reign of Christ before the new heavens and a new earth in which there is righteousness (2 Pet 3:13). Psalm 2 talks about this reign that the kings of this earth would not be able to resist, even though they would try. According to Revelation 20-21, the destruction of the heavens and this earth described in 2 Peter 3:10 would happen after the physical millennial reign of Christ over this earth. Every believer (whether great or small in the kingdom) would be a part of this. But not every believer would be part of this first resurrection and reign of Christ over this earth, because those who would partake therein are the first fruits; they are not those who simply escaped hell, but those who are chosen to reign because of their faithfulness to the cause of Christ during their stay in this body of flesh (see Rev 17:14). They are those at the highest level in God’s kingdom. Height and greatness in the kingdom is attained by faithfulness and obedience (see Matt 25:21). One thing quite sure in scripture is that those who would be martyred for Christ would reign with Him in His millennial reign on this earth (see Rev 20:4). Those who suffered for/with Him in this present world would reign with Him in this present world for a millennium (2 Tim 2:12). Go into today thanking the Lord for the privilege to be a sharer in his sufferings and the incomparable glory that would follow. Ask the Lord to help you see life from the perspective of God’s kingdom. Amen. —Abraham Damilola Arigi. get sermons here: streamglobe.org/34 Bible in one year: Job 15-16 Streamglobe is Interdenominational. You can share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. If you wish to start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, Send us a message or Click here to join a Streamglobe WhatsApp Group☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/JdPNz4wRtMdHc6vii1ERn2 Send message to (WhatsApp): +1 (515) 519-5600, +2348138224547 You can always get more Devotionals at www.streamglobe.org http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201938.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Staying Sanctified
Haggai 2:12-13 (NET) If someone carries holy meat in a fold of his garment and that fold touches bread, a boiled dish, wine, olive oil, or any other food, will that item become holy?’” The priests answered, “It will not.” Then Haggai asked, “If a person who is ritually unclean because of touching a dead body comes in contact with one of these items, will it become unclean?” The priests answered, “It will be unclean.” Jide wondered why each time he spent time with his old friends (who were unbelievers), he came back spiritually weaker and was more susceptible to spiritual attacks and falling into temptations. He always assumed that his contact with unbelievers should help further sanctify them, and not the other way round. But his experience made him realize that his assumption was wrong. Today’s Bible verses reveal a very profound but fundamental spiritual principle. Here the Lord told Prophet Haggai to ask the priests if contact with a Holy thing made other things holy. The answer was no. But it was revealed that contact with defiled things make undefiled things become defiled. This is a principle that God’s people in the time of Haggai needed to remember, and it is a principle God’s people need to remember today. Mixing clean clothes and dirty ones don’t make dirty clothes clean, it would only dirty clean clothes. Go into today remembering that you are not to be unequally yoked together with unbelievers (see 2 Cor 6:14, James 4:4). This does not mean you are not to talk to them, be helpful to them or work with them. This means you are not to make unbelievers your close friends and confidants with who you share matters of your heart. Prayer: Lord, help me to live a sanctified life. Amen. —Abraham Damilola Arigi. Bible in one year: Psalms 21-23 (In Devotional Audio) http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201937.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Sanctification
1 Thessalonians 5:23 (ESV) Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Sharon would say, “It is my flesh that committed that sin, my spirit is holy and cannot sin”. Even though this sounds ludicrous, Sharon was correct to an extent, but she was fundamentally very wrong because man is not judged for what his spirit did or what his flesh did, man is judged for what he did. Whether it was your flesh that committed the sin or it was your spirit, you committed the sin. A sin like hatred is never really committed by the flesh, but by the spirit. It is a defilement of the spirit that ultimately leads to the defilement of the flesh when blood is in the hand of the hater because of murder. That is the same with the sin of malice that leads to hatred, and can ultimately lead to murder. It is very important to note that God does not look at the body, but at the heart when he is dealing with man. Every uncleanliness that is manifested in the flesh is because the seed was left to grow in the heart. Immorality is a very good example. No one just falls into immorality without the seed of lust allowed to grow in his heart. The old covenant saints only knew how to sanctify the body, their spirits were as unclean as they could be, that was why it was possible for them to hate and kill Jesus. Go into today remembering that the Lord has done what you could never do. He has sanctified your spirit and this is the reason you can fellowship with the father and receive grace for the sanctification of the soul and the body. Prayer: Thank you Lord for sanctifying me. Help me walk accordingly in Jesus’ name. Amen. Not born again? Click here ☞ www.streamglobe.org/33 —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Plan: Genesis 28-31 Streamglobe is Interdenominational. You can share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. If you wish to start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, Send us a message or Click here to join a Streamglobe WhatsApp Group☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/JdPNz4wRtMdHc6vii1ERn2 Send message to (WhatsApp): +1 (515) 519-5600, +2348138224547 You can always get more Devotionals at www.streamglobe.org http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201194.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Walking in The New Life
Matthew 12:33 (NET)“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit. After Gbenga accepted the Lord Jesus, he noticed that there was now great resistance in his heart to continuing in his sinful ways. He started seeking for understanding on how to overcome the sins that seemed too powerful for him because unlike before, they now made him feel uncomfortable and miserable. He devoted himself to discipleship because he was now tired of living a miserable life. Somehow Gbenga understood that if he continued to violate this [new fragile] conscience that he had received with the new birth, he would deaden it one day and go back to how he used to be. When you became born again, one of the most important things that happened to you was a change of heart(see Heb 8:10). God gave you a new heart that is able to receive and understand the spirit of His law (not just the letter). Because of this new heart you received from God, you are to live a new life as His child. Whenever a true believer sins, he cannot be comfortable because sin is contrary to his new nature within. The only reason why it is even possible for a believer to sin is because his body has not yet been changed, and until the resurrection when it would be changed, he can still sin. That’s why we have been admonished not to walk in the flesh but to walk in the Spirit(Gal 5:16). Righteousness is in your renewed spirit, but sin is still in your flesh, so you are to reckon yourself dead to sin and deny the flesh (Rom 6:11). They that continue to walk in the flesh will die spiritually and go back to how they were before they were saved (see Romans 8:13). But those that put to death (abandon) the works of the flesh shall continue to live. The only way to successfully put to death the works of the flesh is through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. He makes it possible for you to ignore the cravings of the flesh and walk in the righteousness of your renewed spirit. He has the ability to quicken our mortal bodies so that we can walk in the newness of life. Go into today remembering that the only way to conquer the overpowering influence of the flesh is through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit (see Romans 8:13). You give Him entrance and ‘administrator access’ in your life through the entrance of the word of God. Applying your heart to understanding the word of God is the way to give the Holy Spirit access to empower you over sin that is in the flesh. One way He does this is by furnishing the understanding within you that you have died to sin (see Romans 6:2, 11), and are now made alive unto righteousness. Prayer confession: Sin has no dominion over me. I am dead to sin and alive unto righteousness. —Abraham Damilola Arigi. Bible in one year: Romans 15-16 Streamglobe is Interdenominational. You can share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. If you wish to start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, Send us a message or Click here to join a Streamglobe WhatsApp Group☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/JdPNz4wRtMdHc6vii1ERn2 Send message to (WhatsApp): +1 (515) 519-5600, +2348138224547 You can always get more Devotionals at www.streamglobe.org http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201934.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
As A Man Thinks
Matthew 12:35 (NET) The good person brings good things out of his good treasury, and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury. I was recently watching some of my friends as they played scrabble. I observed that the person who won the game was the one convinced that he was going to win, even though from my estimation, the other person knew more words and really understood the game. Prosperity is spiritual, and it begins with the way we think. What you believe about yourself is very important, and it goes a long way in determining your destiny. This is the reason why God does not draw back from reminding us time and time again that we are blessed people as His children (see Gal 3:9, Psalm 134:3, Eph 1:3, Deut 28:3-6, among others). He knows that we would begin to walk in that reality when we actually believe it. The treasury of a man is his heart. As a man thinks in his heart so is he (Prov 23:7). People who always have negative and bad thoughts of suspicion end up as bad people, but people who have good thoughts of love and goodwill will end up as good people. I have realized that the same situation would produce different outcomes in different people because of the way they think. What some may see as a terrible setback to destroy them, others would see as a challenge for personal growth and victory. A man already defeated in his heart is a defeated man in reality. It is an aberration for a disciple of Christ Jesus to believe that he is under a curse. Refuse such thoughts no matter what you see to the contrary, and let your faith in God’s Word [that says you have been blessed] crystalize the manifestation of the blessing. Go into today guarding your heart with all diligence. Ensure that the negative thoughts of defeat do not reside there. Prayer: Heavenly Father, please help me discard all negative thought patterns and have the mind of Christ. Amen. —Abraham Damilola Arigi. Bible in one year: Matthew 17-19 Streamglobe is Interdenominational. You can share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. If you wish to start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, Send us a message or Click here to join a Streamglobe WhatsApp Group☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/JdPNz4wRtMdHc6vii1ERn2 Send message to (WhatsApp): +1 (515) 519-5600, +2348138224547 You can always get more Devotionals at www.streamglobe.org http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201933.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Honor Your Father and Mother
Ephesians 6:2-3 (KJV) ‘‘Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise). That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.’’ The following conversation ensued between Ayo and her friend Joy: Ayo: My network is bad, please can I borrow your wifi? Joy: What do you need the internet for so urgently? Ayo: I need to send some money to my parents Joy; Oh, Okay O. Ayo: Hope you’ll send something to your Mum too? Joy: No, I won’t. She’s not born again and I don’t want to be involved with her. Ayo: Ah! She’s your mother! Remember she’s a widow and you’re her only child. Joy: So? see, I don’t know what she’ll do with the money, she often visits witch doctors. Ayo: You can call her at least and send her some foodstuff and groceries. Joy: I can’t Ayo, don’t you get it? I’m in the light and she’s in darkness, we don’t have anything in common. Ayo tried to convince Joy but couldn’t. Even when she told Joy that honoring her mother is a command from God, joy would not budge. Joy was a regular victim of demonic attacks because her life was ruled by fear and not by God’s word. A true believer who walks in the light[of God’s word cannot walk in any bondage. Just like Joy, so many are violating the Lord’s commandment today and wouldn’t take care of their parents. They do this claiming that darkness and light have nothing in common. Note however that the Scripture didn’t say “obey your unbelieving parents, instead, it says, “honor [them]”. One of the ways to communicate honor is by giving your substance (Proverbs 3:9). Even when your parents are rich and do not need you to take care of them, it is still required that you honor them (give them a regular honorarium) because they are your parents. Go into today knowing that if you don’t honor your parents, you’re disobeying God (Leviticus 19:21). Read Exodus 20:12. Obeying this commandment of God comes with a promise of blessings(see Ephesians 6:2-3). Prayer: Ask God to forgive you if you have not honored your parents in the past. Make amends and begin to walk in the light of God’s word and glory. —Dr. Emmanuel James Bible in one year: Isaiah 34-39 (In Devotional Audio) Download Free Sermons Here: www.streamglobe.org/34 Streamglobe is Interdenominational. You can share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. If you wish to start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, Send us a message or Click here to join a Streamglobe WhatsApp Group☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/JdPNz4wRtMdHc6vii1ERn2 Send message to (WhatsApp): +1 (515) 519-5600, +2348138224547 You can always get more Devotionals at www.streamglobe.org http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%202205.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Be Careful How You Build
1 Corinthians 3:15 (NET)If someone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as through fire. When Tobin saw in a dream that she had been building with hay since the day she started doing ministry work, she was very disturbed because she had just read in a book about how the Lord will judge our work, and those whose works are tried by fire and get burned will not be rewarded. She knew she was saved, but she did not want all her effort in the kingdom to amount to nothing. She started asking the Lord what was wrong with the way she was serving Him. It did not take her time to realize that the Lord was not pleased with the direction her ministry was going. She was more interested in healing people and making a name than in saving souls and making a convert. Her members knew her and feared her more than they knew and feared the Lord. She also realized that the desire to gather more money was now her driving force in ministry. She decided to go on a retreat and seek the face of the Lord for the direction she would go in righting the wrongs in the way she was building her ministry. Like Tosin, many have been warned by the Lord concerning the way they are building, but some ignore such warnings and despise the people through whom such warnings come. The Lord is good and He would not allow any of His servants to continue to build wrongly without sending a word of warning and correction. Go into today remembering that one of the greatest hindrances to acceptable service in God’s kingdom is when the love of money comes in. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Plan: Job 13-14 Download Free Sermons Here: www.streamglobe.org/34 Streamglobe is Interdenominational. You can share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. If you wish to start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, Send us a message or Click here to join a Streamglobe WhatsApp Group☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/JdPNz4wRtMdHc6vii1ERn2 Send message to (WhatsApp): +1 (515) 519-5600, +2348138224547 🔊 Audio Version Here☞ http://bit.ly/audio1190 http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201190.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Christ the First Fruit
1 Corinthians 15:20 (NET) But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. A few days ago I was looking at some mango trees with most of their fruits yet to mature, but these same trees already had a few mature and ripe fruits. Even though most of their fruits would not be ready until at least two months, there were some of them with few ripe fruits already. Those few ripe fruits are what is called the first fruits. The other remaining fruits are yet maturing but the first fruits have already been harvested. When you see the first fruits, you are sure that the other fruits will follow in due time. Jesus Christ was raised from the dead as the first fruit of those who have fallen asleep. This term ‘fallen asleep’ is only used for believers who are expected to ‘wake up’ during the resurrection. We believers in Christ are sure of our resurrection because Jesus has already resurrected as our first fruits, and because he has resurrected, we too would resurrect. Go into today thanking the Lord for the privilege to partake in the resurrection. It is our resurrection that would usher us into the fullness of our glory as sons of God and literally set the whole of creation free from corruption (see 1 Corinthians 13:9,10,12, Romans 8:21-23). Living with the consciousness of your coming resurrection is the way to live as a believer. This consciousness would put all things into perspective and reduce the inflated perception of the temporary glory of this present world to its real size. Prayer: Heavenly Father, thank you for the assurance of resurrection into glory just as my Lord has resurrected into glory. Please help me live with this hope, and experience a foretaste of this glory in this present life. Thank you, Heavenly Father, in Jesus’ name. Amen. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Bible in one year: Psalms 18-20 (In Devotional Audio) Download Free Sermons Here: www.streamglobe.org/34 Streamglobe is Interdenominational. You can share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. If you wish to start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, Send us a message or Click here to join a Streamglobe WhatsApp Group☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/JdPNz4wRtMdHc6vii1ERn2 Send message to (WhatsApp): +1 (515) 519-5600, +2348138224547 Tune In to Our 24/7 Online Radio Here (open with Chrome or Safari): https://streamglobe.radio Streamglobe Online Radio is optimized to minimize data consumption http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%202774.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
The Hope of the Believer
1 Corinthians 15:19 (KJV) If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. When Charles became a believer in the Lord Jesus, he was already making a lot of money from being a fraudster. He was already driving a brand new Mercedes Benz and had started building his first house while still a teenager in his second year on campus. But he accepted the Lord Jesus and knew he had to forsake that life of fraud. He left the life of fraud because of hope in Christ. He understood that there was nothing of this world that was too big to give up for inheriting the kingdom of God. He knew he could not continue in his life of sin and inherit the kingdom of God (1 Cor 6:9-10). Because of sound teaching, he knew that all the wealth in this world put together was not sufficient to pay for the eternal glory of God’s eternal kingdom that he was called to inherit. But he also knew that this hope that made him forsake his ungodly wealth was not in this life of flesh and blood but in the life that is to come. For Charles, if his hope in Christ was only in this life, he would have been most miserable because he forsook a life of affluence and embraced the kingdom life of selflessness and sacrifice. Believers in Christ are those who set their affection on things above and not on things of this world (see Col 3:2). This doesn’t mean believers would not be relevant in this world. As a matter of fact, the more we focus on God’s kingdom and set our affection on things above, the more relevant and impactful we would be in this world because that is when our light would shine. Go into today remembering that as a believer in Christ, most of our hope is towards the eternal glory that would shine brighter even when all the glories of this world have failed and expired. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Streamglobe is interdenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s bless lives together. Bible in One Year: Genesis 24-27 Streamglobe is Interdenominational. You can share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. If you wish to start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, Send us a message or Click here to join a Streamglobe WhatsApp Group☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/JdPNz4wRtMdHc6vii1ERn2 Send message to (WhatsApp): +1 (515) 519-5600, +2348138224547 🔊Download the Audio☞ https://bit.ly/aud2474