Job or Ministry?
Colossians 3:23-24 (KJV) And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. You probably may have heard people say that ‘‘my job is my ministry, this is where I serve God”. By saying this they mean that whatever their hands find to do which is not evil will be rewarded by God as long as it is done heartily. One of the verses used as back up is today’s Bible text. It is however sad that although Christians work in almost all the available offices, the kingdom of God is not expressed in such offices. What might the problem be? Note that your job becomes relevant to God’s kingdom agenda only when it affords Him an opportunity in such an office or sphere. If you do a job that refuses God this opportunity and/or hinders you from serving God in the capacity that God has ordained that you serve Him, such a job is a distraction, and no matter how committed or faithful you are in executing your duty, you will not get any eternal reward from God. Your job is not your ministry if you are not ministering the realities(nature, power, character) of God to people through it or in it. Someone may ask, what about Pastors or Ministers whose job is directly related to preaching or ministering the gospel? To answer this, we must understand that for the purpose of this teaching, ministry means bringing God’s kingdom and will to a particular sphere (Matthew 6:10) which could be your workplace. It is possible to be a preacher and yet not be a minister of God. This happens when preaching is only perceived as a job. Go into today knowing that your job is relevant to God’s kingdom (and your assignment in it) to the degree to which it allows God’s will and kingdom to flow. Pray this way: Lord, help me to serve you acceptably for the rest of my life. Want to be saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 — Dr, Emmanuel James Yearly Bible Reading: I Corinthians 7-8 (In Devotional Audio) Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study Today by 2pm(WAT). ZOOM Meeting ID: 536206651 Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838
Your Work Will Be Tested
1 Corinthians 3:13-15 (KJV) Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. Caleb visited Jude but couldn’t see him because he was on a retreat. He visited again after several days and still couldn’t speak with Jude because the retreat had not ended. After some time, Caleb met Jude in the Church and asked ‘‘Jude, what were you praying for?’’ Jude put up a smile and said ‘‘I want the mantle of Apostle Paul”. Oh, that’s a great one! Caleb exclaimed. Shortly after this Caleb and Jude were appointed by their Pastor to oversee cleaning the Church, but Jude became very sad. Why are you sad? Caleb asked. ‘‘Don’t you get it? I want to be an apostle, not a common Church cleaner” he responded. Just like Jude, many zealous children of God have despised the current assignment God gave them for other works they consider to be more prestigious. In a bid to be celebrated as great servants of God they have created offices for themselves. Others have spent their lives desiring to be greatly used by God while abandoning the everyday assignment committed to them by Him. They do not realize that only those who are unfaithful in little can be given much, and only those who are unfaithful in another man’s work can be given their own (see Luke 16:10-12). Apostle Paul explained that what he had done was according to the grace given to him. Neither he nor Apollos chose to be apostles; they simply followed God and became what He ordained them to be. 1 Corinthians 3:5-6 (KJV) Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. Your hard work will gain eternal relevance when in the spirit of humility and service, it is channeled in the direction of the grace given to you (1 Corinthians 15:10). Go into today knowing that God will reward you only for the work he has sent you to do. Self-appointed assignments would count for nothing and be burned up on that day. Prayer: ask the Lord for a humble and obedient heart. — Dr, Emmanuel James Yearly Bible Reading: Mark 1-2 (In Devotional Audio) Join Our WhatsApp Group to Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio From us early every day. Click Here to join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/C3Nhis8xxkD1fQsOjvynqG Beware of scammers. No one in Streamglobe would contact you to ask for any Whatsapp code or money.
The Washing of the Word
John 17:17 (KJV) Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. Phillip was excited to attend a reunion party organized for the old students of his university. There he met old friends and even old girlfriends. You see, Phillip became born again three years after he graduated from university. But when he was on campus, he was a very ungodly person. He had many godless friends and led a reckless immoral life. But now that he was born again, his life was transformed by the power of God’s grace. The time he spent in that party was characterized by many unwholesome conversations that he wasn’t comfortable with. His old friends who were excited to see him started such conversations with him because they did not know that he was now born again. When he came out of that party, he felt so defiled and unclean. Dirty thoughts filled his mind and he struggled with them. When he got back home, he picked up his Bible and started reading it. As he continued to read and dwell in the Word, he felt washed and refreshed. He no longer felt unclean on the inside. This was how the Lord cleansed and renewed his soul (Ps 23:3). We see in Ephesians 5:26 that the way Christ sanctifies His Church is with the washing of water by the word. This is an explanation of John 17:17 above. In John 15:3, Jesus told His disciples that ‘you are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you’. Go into today remembering that the word of God is the water of the spirit that washes and sanctifies us. Prayer: Lord, help me abide in your word always. Want to be saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 — Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Reading: Isaiah 56-61 (In Devotional Audio) Join Our WhatsApp Group to Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio From us Every Day. Click Here to join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/C3Nhis8xxkD1fQsOjvynqG Beware of scammers. No one in Streamglobe would contact you to ask for any Whatsapp code or money. Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study Today by 2pm(WAT, GMT+1). Join Via Zoom Here☞ https://us04web.zoom.us/j/536206651
The Believers Authority 2
Ephesians 1:22 (KJV) And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church. Until Laide truly started believing that she had authority over the devil and darkness, she couldn’t walk in this authority even though she had believed. As she started reading and hearing sermons about the spiritual authority of the believer, faith came to her by the hearing of the word, and she started walking in the authority of Christ. Everything we receive in God’s kingdom is received by faith. It is obvious that Jesus has been put “far above” the kingdom of Satan and made to be “the head over the church.” If Jesus is far above Satan’s kingdom and Satan is below His feet, then something has to be in between. That something between Jesus and Satan is the church. Jesus has given us authority over Satan except you have not accepted Jesus as your Lord and Saviour by faith. Jesus conquered Satan through the work of the cross and resurrection, and then He gave us the rightful authority to use His name and see the devil run from us. In Mark 16:17 Jesus says, And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues. Thank God for the name of Jesus! Satan hates that name, and all of heaven loves to hear it repeated. Every time the name of Jesus is used, both hell and heaven remember that day. Hell trembles and heaven rejoices. We have been left here in the earth to stand in the place Jesus stood as Christ’s personal representatives (2 Corinth. 5:20) and see people come to know Jesus as Lord and Savior, Healer, and Provider. There are many today who are suffering from demonic oppression, afflictions, and plagued with infirmities simply because they don’t know and believe the power that is in the name of Jesus and the authority that has been conferred on them as believers. Mark 16:17-18 makes us understand that ‘These miraculous signs will accompany those who believe: they will cast out demons in Jesus’ name, if they drink anything poisonous, it won’t hurt them. They will be able to place their hands on the sick, and they will be healed’. Halleluyah! Go into today asking the Lord to teach you to use your authority and walk in his liberty; bringing many others into this liberty. Jesus has become the head of all things! Prayer: Father, please help me walk in my authority in Christ. Amen. Want to be saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 — George .E. Djorhogba Yearly Bible Reading: Job 21-22 (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 Beware of scammers. No one in Streamglobe would contact you to ask for any Whatsapp code or money. Join Our WhatsApp Group to Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio From us Every Day. Click Here to join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/C3Nhis8xxkD1fQsOjvynqG Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study Today by 2pm(WAT, GMT+1). Join Via Zoom Here☞ https://us04web.zoom.us/j/536206651
The Believers Authority
Join Our WhatsApp Group to Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio From us Every Day. Click Here to join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/C3Nhis8xxkD1fQsOjvynqG Ephesians 1:21(KJV) Far above all principality, and power [authority], and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world [age], but also in that which is to come. In the above verse, we have one of the Greek words that have been translated “power”—exeusia. This word can be translated as “authority, and Bibles translated from older manuscripts translate the word as authority.” Through the work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross and His resurrection, we have been given authority over the devil. An obvious question that arises at this point is, what is the difference between power and authority? God has not invested us with just power but with authority. In the fall, God did not lose any of His power. What was lost was His channel in the earth for the expression of His power. Adam lost his authority in the earth when he yielded to Satan. From Adam until the cross, Satan had unchallenged authority on earth. When Jesus rose from the dead, He said, “All authority in heaven and in earth has been given unto me” (Matthew 28:18 NET). Jesus gave His authority to the church. You are probably thinking that you would rather have power than authority, but that should not be the case. Jesus says in Luke10:19, Look, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and on the full force(power) of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you”. Jesus says he gives us authority over Satan’s power. When a policeman stands on the corner and raises his hand, cars stop because of his authority, not his power. The policeman is not more powerful than cars and trucks. What would he do if they would not stop? The policeman has been given authority over all the power of the cars. The drivers of the cars will not resist his authority because they know that if they do, they would have to face the power which the policeman represents. The power of the local government is channeled through the authority of the policeman. The policeman does not stand on the corner in his own name but in the name of the law. Jesus gave us authority over all the power of the enemy. When we use His name, all hell comes to a halt, not because we are so innately powerful, but because we are invested with the authority of heaven. Satan stops for our authority because he does not want to face the power again. He faced the power one day and lost. God channels the power of heaven through the authority of the believer who knows the rights and privileges that belong in the name of Jesus. According to Phil.2:9-10, the name of Jesus is higher than any other name that can be mentioned in this age and also that which is to come. The name of Jesus outranks the name of any sickness, disease, problem, world leader, or crisis. We as believers have the right to use that name to cast out devils, speak with new tongues, take up serpents, drink any deadly thing and not be hurt, and lay hands on the sick and see them recover. (See Mark 16:17-18.) Go into today knowing that God channels all the power of heaven through the authority of the believer who knows the rights and privileges that belong to him and are found in the name of Jesus. Want to be saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 — George .E. Djorhogba Yearly Bible Reading: Psalms 30-32 (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study Today by 2pm(WAT, GMT+1). Join Via Zoom Here☞ https://us04web.zoom.us/j/536206651
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Topic: Divine wisdom and true prosperity (Riches) INTRODUCTION We saw last time that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Divine wisdom and true riches go hand in hand. You need the one to have the other. There are two kinds of wisdom in this world (James 3:14-17) and they both have the potential to produce riches, but only the wisdom from above have the ability to produce riches whose value transcend time and space. This study will help us understand the dynamics of divine wisdom and true riches. This knowledge would help us appropriate them and live more fruitful lives. This is an interactive inductive Bible study, so your contributions form a major part of the study. DISCUSSION Divine wisdom 1) Define divine wisdom (James 3:17, 1 Cor 1:30, Eph 3:10, Job 28:28) 2) What are the benefits of walking in divine wisdom? (Prov 24:3, Prov 8:18 3) How can we receive divine wisdom? (Psalm 34:11, Cor 1:30, James 1:5, John 15:7, Prov 3:5-6, Job 28:28) 4) How do we ensure we walk in divine wisdom and not in foolishness? (Eph 5:17,Eph 5:15, Rom 12:2) TRUE RICHES 5) Define true riches (Luke 16:11, Eph 1:10,Eph 3:8) 6) Who receives true riches? (John 1:12, Eph 1:10) 7) What are the benefits of true riches ( Acts 3:6-8, Eph 3:20, , Phil 4:19, 2 Cor 9:8) 8) Why true riches? (Eph 3:16, 2 Cor 4:17, Eph 1:18) 9) How do we ensure we walk in true riches and not in poverty (Rev 3:15-19, Luke 12:21) QUESTIONS 10) Questions from Luke 16 11) Other questions CONCLUSION In order to walk in true riches one must possess divine wisdom. This wisdom comes by the Spirit of God. We walk in it by allowing the word of God change our thought patterns in accordance with the mind of Christ.
Grace and Peace
Ephesians 1:2(KJV) Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. This is a familiar salutation repeated in most of the New Testament. (See Rom.1:7, 1Cor. 1:3, 2Cor.1:2, Gal.1:3, Phil.1:2, Col.1:2,). You would notice after reading the above references that grace always comes before peace. Before you can have peace in your life, you have to understand the grace of God. So many people are so wrapped up in their own self efforts that they never have peace. They remain frustrated. They are trying to work to please God. However, the thing about working to please God is you never know when you have done enough or performed well enough to meet His requirements. The devil will tell you “You could have prayed longer. You could have gone to one more church service. God is not pleased with you.” This will always leave you frustrated and without peace. However, when you understand God’s grace; when you understand that God has already done the work and all you need to do is receive His gifts of grace, all the pressure is off, and peace is the result. 2 Peter 1:2 points out that grace and peace are multiplied to us through knowledge of Jesus Christ. Understanding of God’s Word(which leads to a deeper knowledge of God) always increases our capacity to handle more of His blessings. As we increase our capacity, God increases the amount we receive. David said, “my cup runneth over” (Psalm 23:5). God always fills to overflowing, but He only pours out when we have something with which to receive. If you do not have a cup, God is under no obligation to pour. The cup comes through knowledge of God and His Word. As your knowledge increases, your cup increases. Increased capacity brings increased grace and peace. PRAYER: Ask God that as you study His Word, the Holy Spirit will help you grow in grace, and find peace which passeth all understanding to keep your heart and mind through Christ Jesus. Want to be saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 — George .E. Djorhogba Yearly Bible Reading: I Samuel 1-5 (In Devotional Audio) Download Sermons here: www.streamglobe.org/34 Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 WWW
Stop Tying to Be the Atoning Sacrifice
Audio [Devotional & Bible] Here☞ http://bit.ly/audio1215 Join Our WhatsApp Group to Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio From us Every Day. Click Here to join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/C3Nhis8xxkD1fQsOjvynqG Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study. Today is for General Questions & Answers. Join Via Zoom Today by 2pm(WAT, GMT+1)Here☞ https://us04web.zoom.us/j/536206651 1 John 2:1-2 (NET) (My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous One, and He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world. Vivian did something she had promised the Lord she would never do again. Because of this she was very sad and started to believe that the Lord has not forgiven her. She believed that the Lord had withdrawn his grace and protection. But she was very wrong. Like Vivian, many Christians allow depression to deprive them of grace because they refuse to accept the forgiveness of the Lord but continue to think that the Lord is angry with them because of what they did. They do not realize that God knew they would do what they did long before they did it, and He was not surprised that they did, but made arrangements for their atonement. It is OK to feel remorse about a sin. As a matter of fact, the feeling of guilt associated with sin is a sign that you are spiritually alive and healthy. But just like other good things the Lord has created, the devil will try to exploit that feeling and use it to destroy you. The way to deal with sin is to repent and forsake it and move on. Jesus is the one who does all the spiritual work, including the cleansing from guilt and every other evil associated with the sin (see 1 John 1:9). Go into today knowing that Jesus alone is the atoning sacrifice for your sins. Stop trying to atone for your sins by allowing Satan to afflict you with guilt and fear. Want to be saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 —Abraham Damilola Arigi Yearly Bible Reading: Genesis 40-43 (In Devotional Audio) Download Sermons here: www.streamglobe.org/34 Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838
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Join via Zoom. Audio conference. Zoom Meeting Link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/536206651 Meeting ID: 536 206 651 TIME: 2:00pm(WAT- GMT +1), 1pm(Accra), 2pm(London), 4pm(Nairobi), 3pm(Johannesburg), 6:30pm(Mumbai), 9am(New York). Daily except Sundays. TOPIC: THE FEAR OF THE LORD Psalm 111:10 (NLT) Prov 1:7, Job 28:28 INTRODUCTION Everyone who is wise has come to understand the fact that life has a Lord who orders things, and there is more to life than meets the eyes. Wisdom makes any understanding person know this from simple observations of life. It is only the fool that says in his heart that there is no God (see Psalm 14:1). There are many who have said with their mouths and with their pens that there is no God, but not in their hearts. They know in their hearts that they are lying. Some of them are even servants of the devil set up to turn the hearts of the simple-minded into ultimate foolishness. Since we know that one primary manifestation of divine wisdom is the fear of the Lord, we want to be sure that we are walking in divine wisdom by ensuring that we understand and walk in the fear the Lord. We may not be able to easily know and control whether we are walking in divine wisdom (because everyone is wise in his own eyes), but we can definitely control whether we are walking in the fear of the Lord. If we are walking in the fear of the Lord, we are walking in divine wisdom (see Job 28:28). Every child of God has the spirit of Christ, this means he has the spirit of wisdom. Many do not walk in their divine wisdom because their hearts have not been renewed to walk in this aspect of their divine nature. DISCUSSION: 1.Discuss Job 28:8. Psalm 111:10, Prov 1:7, Prov 9:10 2.Define the fear of the Lord. Explain Gen 31:42 3.How can we learn the fear of God? (Psalm 34:11-14, Deut 17:19) 4.How does the fear of the Lord and divine wisdom relate? 5.What are the signs that a person fears the Lord? Deut 6:2, Deut 10:12, Prov 8:13 6.Wisdom instructs you to fear God: Prov 15:33 7.The Holy Spirit empowers us to fear God: Isaiah 11:2 8.Fear of the Lord is a function of faith: Prov 9:10, Hebrews 11:6 WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF THE FEAR OF THE LORD 9.Wisdom: Job 28:28, Prov 9:10 10.Privy to the deep things of God Psalm 25:14 11.Angelic protection: Psalm 34:7 12.What are the signs that a person does not fear the Lord? CONCLUSION The fear of the Lord in your heart provides the right atmosphere for the manifestation of the divine wisdom that you have received in your spirit through the Spirit of Christ (the Holy Spirit). www.streamglobe.org
Liberation Through The Word
Join Our WhatsApp Group to Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio From us Every Day. Click Here to join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/C3Nhis8xxkD1fQsOjvynqG Psalm 119:11 (KJV) Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. After Chide accepted the Lord Jesus, he struggled with many of his previous bad habits and sins. When he discussed this with his discipler, his discipler would recommend prayer and fasting. Chide observed that the prayer and fasting worked in keeping his flesh at bay, but when the fasting was over, he observed that the flesh would spring back up and seek to control him. His spiritual life was like a seesaw; on fire today and cold tomorrow. One day he saw his friend reading a book about the kingdom of God and he was drawn to it. He borrowed the book and started reading it. For the first time, Chide came into an understanding of God’s Truth and kingdom. From then, he was now excited to read the Bible, even the old testament now made sense to him. He observed that as he became a person of the Word, his prayers became much more powerful and he was now free from the bondage of sin. He received His freedom through the knwoledge of the Truth. Jesus told those who believed in Him that it is when they abide in His word that they would know the truth, and the truth will set them free(see John 8:31-34). I have come to realize that the most effective way to escape the power of sin is through abiding in God’s word. The way God sanctifies us is through His word [which is Truth] (see John 17:17). The word of God is the spiritual water that cleanses and renews the minds of those who are born again ( see Ephesians 5:26). Go into today determined to be a person that abides in God’s word. Psalm 119:9(KJV): Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. Want to be saved? Click here: www.streamglobe.org/33 Get sermons here: streamglobe.org/34 —Abraham Damilola Arigi Join Our Interactive Online Bible Study Today Via Zoom by 2pm(WAT, GMT+1). Zoom Meeting Link☞ https://us04web.zoom.us/j/536206651 Meeting ID: 536 206 651 Yearly Bible Reading: I Corinthians 5-6 (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is Nondenominational. Kindly share with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348034420524, +2349055565838 Learn more about us here☞ www.streamglobe.org