Manner of thinking
Broadcast 3590 If you wish to start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, Join a Streamglobe Group through the links: Telegram: https://t.me/streamglobe1 | Whatsapp: https://bit.ly/whatsAppSG 1 Corinthians 14:20 (NET) Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. Aku grew up among some of the most cunning and dishonest people, so this made him very suspicious and untrusting. This affected his relationships with his friends even after he became a believer, and this even affected his relationship with his wife because he was too suspicious and untrusting.As he became more spiritually mature, he understood that because he was in Christ, he was not the one taking care of himself but the Lord. He stopped being suspicious and untrusting. He realized that being that way had not really helped him in life. It alienated his friends and made it impossible for him to enjoy the peace of God. Even though he remained wise and observant, he stopped being a suspicious untrusting person because he now understood that his life was God’s idea and his security God’s responsibility. In today’s Bible verse, we see a very important guiding principle of thinking that every believer should imbibe. We are not to be children in our thinking, but when it comes to evil and malice, we are to be children. We can afford this because we are children of Almighty God.There are revelations that God cannot reveal to believers who are too simple and childish in their thinking and reasoning. But there are depths of peace that cannot be reached by those who are too suspicious and untrusting. God wants us to be advanced and critical in our reasoning because He wants to reason with us(see Isaiah 1:8). He doesn’t want us to be simple thinkers who can be swayed by winds of highfalutin doctrines. One way to ensure we are not simpletons and childish in our reasoning is for us to have hearts that seek knowledge and understanding. “…with all thy getting get understanding” –Proverbs 4:7. Read, ask questions, seek to know. The internet is not meant only for social media but can be used for wisdom and understanding imparting research. Prayer: Lord, give me a heart that seeks wisdom and understanding. Amen.Want to be saved? Click here: streamglobe.org/33—Abraham Damilola Arigi Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Bible In One Year: Job 7-8 (In Devotional Audio) Audio Bible credit: Bible Experience, Zondervan Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Streamglobe Devotional is nondenominational and interdenominational Get our latest sermons and resources here: https://streamglobe.org https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3590.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Pay attention to sound teaching
1 Timothy 4:16 (KJV) Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. As Linda grew in her walk with the Lord, she realized that the more of God’s word she understood, the more it purified her, and the result was a closer walk with God. For example, Linda used to make promises without fulfilling them, and she didn’t take her words very seriously. But as she continued to learn the word, she realized that she was not living in God’s perfect will by being unfaithful with her words. As she adjusted and became more truthful, she found that the power of God could now be expressed through the words of her mouth. One evening, she was sitting outside near the car porch when her sister drove in. Because of the excitement of seeing her, her sister forgot to engage the auxiliary brake before exiting the car. As soon as she came out of the car, the car started moving away and was heading toward a nearby wall with increasing speed because the place was sloppy. Linda simply said “I command you to stop”, and instantly, the car stopped. This was one of the many examples of how God’s power could now be expressed through Linda’s words because her tongue was now sanctified. In today’s Bible verse, we see Apostle Paul telling Timothy that by continuing in the doctrine [of Christ], he would save himself and those who hear him. It was by continuing in The Doctrine that Linda’s tongue was saved and was now made a vessel that could give expression to the power of God. Any believer who does not pay attention to sound teaching will live a life that is not truly saved from the power and dominion of sin. After accepting Christ, It is by receiving the engrafted word that our souls are saved from the entanglements of old sins (see James 1:21). Go into today remembering to pay attention to sound teaching.Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you pay attention to sound teaching and lose appetite for any teaching that is not sound.—Abraham Damilola Arigi Get The Audio Version Here of this devotional here☞ https://bit.ly/audio2193 Bible In One Year: Psalms 9-11 (In Devotional Audio) Audio Bible credit: Bible Experience, Zondervan Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Streamglobe Devotional is nondenominational and interdenominational Get our latest sermons and resources here: https://streamglobe.org https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio2193.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 12:25 — 3.6MB)Subscribe: RSS
I Am Standing At the Door and Knocking
Rev 3:20-22 (NET) Listen! I am standing at the door and knocking! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come into his home and share a meal with him, and he with me. 21 I will grant the one who conquers permission to sit with me on my throne, just as I too conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. From when he was in the university, Ikenna knew that there was a call of God upon his life. He knew he would have to seek God for clearer specifics and details, but this never happened. Immediately he finished from the university, he went for his country’s mandatory youth service corps for one year. During that period, he had several opportunities to seek the face of the Lord, but he spent all that time looking for opportunities for a ‘better life’. He spent all his time applying for jobs and scholarships to various graduate programs on university campuses around the world, but he relegated God’s call on this life to the background. All the while, Jesus was still knocking. By the time Ikenna was 49 years, he looked at his life and all his achievements, but he knew he had missed it concerning divine destiny. He had spent the best years of his life chasing money. We see in today’s Bible text that the one who conquers will sit with Christ on His throne. Christ will rule the entire universe, and the one who conquers will rule and reign with Him on His throne. Many Christians have been deceived to think that escaping hell and making heaven is the ultimate goal, they fail to realize that God did not just destine us to see the kingdom; He destined us to inherit the kingdom. Conquerors are not those who just escaped hell, they are those who conquered life for Christ: they are those who conquered territories for Christ and fulfilled their divine destiny. Go into today remembering that any life not lived for the divine kingdom purpose would be judged to be a wasted life.Prayer: Father, give me the grace to live for you and not waste my life. Amen.—Abraham Damilola Arigi YBP: Joshua 16-20 (Audio in Devotional Audio) Get The Audio Version Here☞ https://bit.ly/2audio1167 Bible In One Year: Genesis 12-15 (In Devotional Audio)Audio Bible credit: Bible Experience, Zondervan Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together.Streamglobe Devotional is nondenominational and interdenominational Get our latest sermons and resources here: https://streamglobe.org
Witnessing Requires Power
1 Corinthians 4:20 (KJV), “For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power”. One of the last instructions Jesus gave His disciples after His resurrection was to wait for power. “And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high” (Luke 24:49 KJV). He promised to send the promise of the Father upon them, but did not send them to witness until they had received power. As believers, we have the Holy Ghost, and as long as we remain in God, eternity with Christ is secured. However, there is a life to live right here and right now since we are not returning to God the same moment we received the Holy Ghost. Jesus said, “tarry until you be endued with power.” In other words, don’t rush out to witness for me just because the Holy Ghost has been poured upon you. You will have to wait for power to be added before you can become effective witnesses. So in Acts 1:8, we read, “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth” (Acts 1:8 KJV). While we no longer tarry or wait for the Holy Ghost, we still have to tarry to be endued with power, and it is after this that we become effective witnesses. Go into today knowing that what makes a witness according to Jesus is not receiving the Holy Ghost alone, but the Holy Ghost and power (Acts 10:38). Pray and ask the Lord Jesus to endue you with power to be an effective witness for Him. Prayer: Dear Lord Jesus, I want to be your witness. Please endue me with power. Amen. —Dr. Emmanuel James Download the Audio Version Here☞ http://bit.ly/aud3587 Bible In One Year: Genesis 12-15 (In Devotional Audio) Audio Bible credit: Bible Experience, Zondervan Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Streamglobe Devotional is nondenominational and interdenominational Get our latest sermons and resources here: https://streamglobe.org https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3587.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 17:11 — 5.9MB)Subscribe: RSS
Repentance From Dead Works
Broadcast 3586 To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio early every day, click here to Join a Streamglobe Telegram Channel: https://tme.streamglobe Hebrews 6:1 (NET) Therefore we must progress beyond the elementary instructions about Christ and move on to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God Nosa wasn’t sure he was accepted before God because he was told that God does not like tattoos and he had quite a few before he believed in the Lord Jesus. He was wrongly made to believe that God has not yet accepted him even though he had believed, but that he would have to labor to be accepted by the Lord. Even though the people teaching him had noble intentions to teach him about sanctification and holiness, they ended up instilling in him the tendency to depend on dead works and not the works of Jesus Christ as the basis for his salvation. By the time a believer begins to believe that his acceptance before God is based on anything apart from the works of Jesus, he needs to repent from dead works. As believers, we are to live holy and consecrated lives before God, but not as our basis for acceptance but because we have already been accepted. The advantage of deeper consecration is better fellowship and intimacy, not relationship and acceptance. Only those who have new birth are called to the higher life of consecration so they can be prepared for the Lord’s good use( see 2 Timothy 2:20-22). Go into today remembering that a system that directly or indirectly engenders dead works cannot produce true holiness. The proof of true holiness is power with God born out of intimacy, not religious conformity born out of fear. Prayer: Lord, deliver me from all dead works and help me walk in the fullness of your plan for me. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Download the Audio Version Here☞ http://bit.ly/aud2453 Bible In One Year: Romans 7-8 (In Devotional Audio) Audio Bible credit: Bible Experience, Zondervan Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Streamglobe Devotional is nondenominational and interdenominational Get our latest sermons and resources here: https://streamglobe.org https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio2453.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Stop roaming, stay and cook
2 Thessalonians 3:10(KJV) “For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat” Rollin’s wife traveled for a long seminar. She however stocked their deep freezer with food before she left. There was a little challenge though; their freezer was small, and the piled-up food would not last for all the days that she will be away. So, she went to the market, bought raw foodstuff, and stocked the house with them. Just as she predicted, the food in the freezer finished but Rollin would not cook. He visited his friends instead where he got some food but he was never satisfied. After doing this for some days, he resorted to cooking his own food. “Why roam around for food when I have my house filled with foodstuff? I will cook” he said to himself. It was after this decision that he again ate to satisfaction. When a sinner surrenders to Jesus, the initial days are filled with joy, peace, zeal, and fervency. The love of God fills their heart, and they become lost in love for the Lord. However, a time will come when it seems as though all of God’s goodness has been depleted. It is at this point that they need to work out their salvation, by following God’s instructions and developing an intimate relationship with God. Without this, they risk being overpowered by the sins, habits, and vices they once overcame. Unfortunately, many Christians begin to move from one man of God to another in search of prophecies, deliverance, impartations, and favor at this point. Meanwhile, God has already loaded them with benefits (Psalms 68:19), just like Rollin’s wife loaded the house with foodstuffs. All they have to do is put in some work; cook and eat. Go into today knowing that the best you will get from another man will not satisfy you if you’re not willing to put in the work to know God for yourself. If you want satisfaction, “cook your own food” by learning to know God for yourself.—Dr. Emmanuel James Download the Audio Version of today’s Devotional: http://bit.ly/aud3585 Bible in 1 year: Matthew 5-7 (In Devotional Audio) Audio Bible credit: Bible Experience, Zondervan Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Streamglobe Devotional is nondenominational and interdenominational Get our latest sermons and resources here: https://streamglobe.org https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3585.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 20:19 — 7.0MB)Subscribe: RSS
Be Eager For Spiritual Gifts
1 Corinthians 14:1 (NET) Pursue love and be eager for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. Dara was disturbed that he did not have spiritual gifts like Deji his friend. He started asking the Lord why and really desiring to walk in spiritual gifts because his interaction with Deji had made him see how spiritual gifts engender fruitfulness in ministry. As soon as Dara started becoming eager for spiritual gifts and asking the Lord for them, he realized that he too started walking in them. His disposition towards spiritual gifts wasn’t a healthy one before he met Deji. He was raised in a church that almost despised all spiritual gifts and didn’t allow them in their services. One thing I have noticed is that believers who despise spiritual gifts don’t walk in them. In fact, believers who are not eager for them hardly have them, no matter how spiritual and holy they are. I believe that one reason the Corinthian Church grew so fast was because they were not lacking in spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians 1:7). Even though that church appeared to emphasize spiritual gifts much more than the fruits of the Spirit and Paul had to warn them that people who lived the way some of them were living would not inherit the kingdom of God (see 1 Corinthians 6:8-10), he still encouraged them to be eager for spiritual gifts. Go into today remembering that those who walk in an abundance of spiritual gifts are those who are eager for them. Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you receive and walk in your God-ordained gifts.—Abraham Damilola Arigi Download the Audio Version of today’s Devotional: http://bit.ly/aud3584 Bible in 1 year: Job 5-6 (In Devotional Audio) Audio Bible credit: Bible Experience, Zondervan Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Streamglobe Devotional is nondenominational and interdenominational Get our latest sermons and resources here: https://streamglobe.org https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3584.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:41 — 7.8MB)Subscribe: RSS
The Spirit-Filled Life
1 Corinthians 14:1 (NET)Pursue love and be eager for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. I have had to deal with some brethren that behave in a way that inspires only hatred. But I have found that for me as a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, hatred is not an option, but love is my only option. I have been commanded to love even my enemies(see Matthew 5:44, Luke 6:27), so misbehaving brethren should not be the issue. for us to walk in love, it must be pursued and not merely desired. Pursue is an active word and it may involve doing things that are not convenient. Many times, if we do not pursue love, we will not love but become lukewarm and indifferent. One way we pursue love is by doing things that inspire love. Giving sacrificially is a good example. Our choice of words can either kill love or inspire love. We pursue love because we understand that walking in love with all men is the secret to appropriating our greatest spiritual power. A man who walks in faith has great power. But the man that walks in love is greater(see 1 Cor 13:2, 13). Go into today remembering to pursue love. If love seems to have run away from your marriage, relationship with brethren, etc, don’t give up. Ask the Lord for wisdom to do things that would inspire love. Ask for the grace to pursue love till it returns. Prayer: Lord Jesus, please help me walk more in love and favor with all men. Amen.—Abraham Damilola Arigi Download the Audio Version of today’s Devotional: http://bit.ly/aud2450 Bible in 1 year: Job 5-6 (In Devotional Audio)Audio Bible credit: Bible Experience, Zondervan Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together.Streamglobe Devotional is nondenominational and interdenominational Get our latest sermons and resources here: https://streamglobe.org https://streamglobe.org/listen/DevotionalAudio2450.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 18:53 — 5.4MB)Subscribe: RSS
The New Man
Ephesians 2:15 (AMP) By abolishing in His [own crucified] flesh the enmity [caused by] the Law with its decrees and ordinances [which He annulled]; that He from the two might create in Himself one new man [one new quality of humanity out of the two], so making peace. Emmanuel was enjoying his new job. He had moved into this city 18 months ago by the leading of God and had taken up employment in a Marketing Firm. He soon forged new bonds of friendship with some of his colleagues and one day, while they were returning from a marketing call Emmanuel turned to a teammate and friend and said: “Rueben, can I ask you a personal question?” “Yeah, shoot” “Who is a Christian? And does it have any bearing on a person’s life beyond the walls and activities of the church?” Rueben took a brief pause, closed his iPad, was still thinking on it when Emmanuel’s phone rang and he had to take the call. How would you answer that question though? Who exactly is a Christian? The Bible would make us understand that the Christian is not merely an individual who has become a member of a church and is a committed member of such a church keeping to all its guiding rules and regulations. The truth is this; there was a corruption and a perversion of God’s man Adam which came about by sin, and man became defective. Beyond this, it is important to note that sin was a capital offense; this means that the punishment for sin is death (See Romans 5:12 and 6:23). All because all man sins, mankind was doomed to death, we were virtually on death row awaiting the execution of judgment. Therefore Christ’s redeeming work was not merely a marketing exercise to increase church membership, but a critical fulfillment of the spiritual legal system to take upon himself man’s pending and deserving judgment of sin in order to set man free. But that is not all, because setting a criminal free without any true reformation and rehabilitation is just setting him up for a future return to jail. So what God did is to offer a new life to everyone who will receive his offer of salvation, that is, anyone who will accept the pardon procured by Jesus through his death, will not only receive a pardon but will actually receive a new kind of spirit that is able not only to do what is right, but also to desire and do it, and for the right reasons too. This is why the Christian is referred to as a New Creature (See 2 Corinthians 5:17), his whole life and destiny have changed; now he has the ability to truly obey and please God, and this becomes the priority and primary focus of his life. Go into today knowing that the Christian is not just a new committed member of the church, but rather one who has received divine pardon and divine life. Want to be saved? visit this page: streamglobe.org/33 —Ikechukwu Mpama Download the Audio Version of today’s Devotional: http://bit.ly/aud3582 Bible in 1 year: Psalms 6-8 (In Devotional Audio) Audio Bible credit: Bible Experience, Zondervan Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Streamglobe Devotional is nondenominational and interdenominational Get our latest sermons and resources here: www.streamglobe.org https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3582.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
When the resurrection comes
1 Corinthians 13:12 (NET) For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known. When Wole started reading his Bible and understanding it, he realized that there were many things he thought he understood that he didn’t understand. He realized that the best he could attain while in this body of flesh was but a foretaste. That the real manifestation of his glory was going to come with the resurrection that would happen when the Lord returns. He also started to understand that when the Lord returns in glory with His Saints, we would literally physically take over the governments and kingdoms of this world (see Revelation 11:15, Daniel 7:27). He used to wish the Lord would delay his coming so he could accomplish some things, but after more understanding, he started praying daily that the Lord should hasten His coming. When you see believers wishing in their hearts that the Lord’s coming is delayed, you have seen believers with very little understanding of the kingdom of God and the hope of our calling. That’s a very dangerous place to be for a believer. “The spirit and the bride (Church) say come”. That is the yearning and one of the greatest desires of the true living church (see Revelation 22:17). Go into today remembering that when the Lord appears, we shall be like Him and we shall rule and reign on the earth, and over all creation forever. The resurrection body we would receive is what would reveal our real nature as sons of God. This is when shall see Him face to face and will know fully. Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you understand the hope of His calling and see the exceeding riches of your inheritance in Him. Want to be saved? visit this page: https://streamglobe.org/33—Abraham Damilola Arigi Download the Audio Version of today’s Devotional: http://bit.ly/aud3581 Bible in 1 year: Joshua 11-15 (In Devotional Audio)Audio Bible credit: Bible Experience, Zondervan Kindly share this devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together.Streamglobe Devotional is nondenominational and interdenominational Get our latest sermons and resources here: www.streamglobe.org https://listen.streamglobe.org/DevotionalAudio3581.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:42 — 9.9MB)Subscribe: RSS