THE JUDGMENT OF GOD
Get Audio Version Here: bit.ly/aud1826 1 Corinthians 10:11-12 (NKJV) Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. Certain teachers assert that God does not judge His people in the new covenant. They claim it was Peter who killed Ananias and Sapphari, not God. They claim that it was angels acting rogue that executed wrath on people in the Old Testament and even in the New. Let’s examine the veracity of such claims: In today’s Bible verses, we see a direct warning from the Lord through apostle Paul, and the example used was the people of Israel who left Egypt but were destroyed in the wilderness because of the judgment of God. We see that these things happened for our example and learning. (Read 1cor 10 from verse 1). From 1 Cor 10, we can see that apostle Paul does not believe that God’s wrath does not come upon the disobedient believer. Neither Apostle Peter nor any of the other apostles believed this (see Heb 12:28-29, Jude 1:5, 1 John 5:16-17). They warned believers about judgment for rebellion because they understood God could take drastic measures against some in order to preserve the rest from the leaven of their corruption. See how Apostle Peter puts it here: 1 Peter 4:17 (NKJV) For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? Go into today remembering that you shall give account for this life you are living. The judge stands before the door(James 5:9). He shall reward the faithful but punish the profane. Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you abide in Him and walk in His rewards rather than His rebukes. —SD Abraham Kindly Partner with us to print free Streamglobe Devotional Booklets for Secondary School Students. Click here for this: streamglobe.org/partner BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Haggai Streamglobe is interdenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio daily, join our WhatsApp Group here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BtMMcIRB4miGTKKZW6rPpp Contact us: +2348079816967 (Phone, WhatsApp) Telegram Group link: streamglobe.org/join www.streamglobe.org Source: Devotional
THE COST OF YOUR SALVATION
Get Audio Version Here: bit.ly/aud1825 1 Peter 1:18-19 (NKJV) knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. If God became a man, the best he would be called would be the ‘Son of God’ because technically, God is not a man (man is limited, God is unlimited) and a man is not God (see Num 23:19). That’s why even though Jesus is God [come in the flesh], He is rightfully called the Son of God. God became a man and the name of that man is Jesus Christ. God becoming a man could happen only once, and that’s why Jesus is the ONLY begotten Son of God. Yet God was willing to sacrifice He who is His only image (see Heb 1:3) in this three-dimensional realm. So powerful was this sacrifice that the second person of the Godhead practically had to leave heaven to become a man and remain a man for all eternity. After His resurrection, Jesus remains a man–even today (see 1 Tim 2:5). In order for Him to regain His glory as God, God had to exalt Him and give Him a name that is above other names (Phil 2:9, Heb 2:9). The next time the devil tries to trivialize your salvation or make you feel small, weak and irrelevant, remind him that your salvation was paid for by the life of his creator and sustainer. Nothing in all of eternity is as expensive as your salvation. Knowing how much it cost God to save you; how that He gave His life for you, the most reasonable thing to do in response is to offer yourself to God and live for Him (see Rom 1:1-2). Prayer: ask the Lord to help you walk in a way that is worthy of His great call (Eph 4:1). —SD Abraham Kindly Partner with us to print free Streamglobe Devotional Booklets for Secondary School Students. Click here for this: www.streamglobe.org/partner BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Ecclesiastes 5-6 Streamglobe is interdenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio daily, join our WhatsApp Group here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HGcGMnjiDAN9ZKRCaez88u Contact us: +2348079816967 (Phone, WhatsApp) Telegram: streamglobe.org/join www.streamglobe.org Source: Devotional
TAKE WORDS WITH YOU
Hosea 14:2 (KJV) Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips. Words are powerful. Stick and stones may break your bones but words can break your spirit. With words, you can create and shape emotions. Right words can strengthen a weary man; hurtful words can break a man’s spirit. Many ladies have been led astray by cunningly devised deceitful words. In fact, the Bible tells us that death and life are in the power of the tongue (Prov 18:21), so we must pay attention to words. There is the story of a young boy who was faced with a gigantic opposition. Yes, he did pick up five stones but that wasn’t all he took along. When threatened and derided by the giant opposition, David replied first with words and not stones. He had first said to Saul “the Lord who delivered me from the bear and lion will likewise deliver me out of the giant’s hand” he also went ahead to say to the Philistine, ‘the Lord will deliver you into my hand’. We are soldiers, part of our armor is the sword of the spirit which is the word of God (Eph 6:17). Just as in Hebrews 13 verses 5c and 6a(NLT) it is written “for God has said, … So we can say with confidence”. Take words with you. God’s words; confidently spoken. Let this sword-word be on your lips. Take words with you. Take it to work, take it to school, and take it up at home. Speak it witnessing, speak it praying, speak it declaring; SPEAK IT. Boldly, consistently, continually. —Ikechukwu Mpama KindlyPartner with us to print free Streamglobe Devotional Booklets for Secondary School Students. Click here for this: www.streamglobe.org/partner BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: II Chronicles 33-36 Streamglobe is interdenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio daily, join our WhatsApp Group here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HGcGMnjiDAN9ZKRCaez88u Contact us: WhatsApp: +2348079816967 Telegram: t.me/streamglobe1 www.streamglobe.org Source: Devotional http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201824.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
HOW FREE IS SALVATION?
Isaiah 53:10 (KJV) Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. “My dad died when I was two years old, I barely can tell what he looked like. Mama determined to give me the very best and worked overtime in a coal mine. She died of lung cancer at age fifty-two. She did not enjoy what she worked so hard and suffered for. I am a success today because of her pains and sacrifices. This is why I have made up my mind to give my children the best.” This was what Ted’s dad told him that made him decide to leave his irresponsible life of drugs, drinking, partying and womanizing– he never cared about how anyone felt. He decided to change and start caring when he listened to his Dad and realized how much his grandmother suffered for them to be where they were. He was now ready to be saved. John 3:16-17: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. The price paid for your salvation is Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten son. There is no other price worth more than him. You see, salvation is not free; it was paid for by God but offered to you freely. If you understand the immeasurable price paid for you to be free, you will not live carelessly, instead, you will live your life in gratitude to God. As you go into today, remember to give thanks to God for all He has done to redeem you from eternal destruction. -Dr Emmanuel James KindlyPartner with us to print free Devotional Booklets for Secondary School Students. Click here to learn more about this: www.streamglobe.org/partner BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: II Chronicles 33-36 (audio available on our Telegram group. Follow this link to join: bit.ly/jstgt) Streamglobe is interdenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio daily, join our WhatsApp Group here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HGcGMnjiDAN9ZKRCaez88u Contact us: +2348079816967(WhatsApp) www.streamglobe.org Source: Devotional http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201823.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
GET-RICH-QUICK SCHEMES 4
Get Audio Version(More explanations in the Audio): bit.ly/aud1821 Jeremiah 17:11 (NLT)11 Like a partridge that hatches eggs she has not laid, so are those who get their wealth by unjust means. At midlife they will lose their riches; in the end, they will become poor old fools. Making money from Ponzi schemes, gambling/betting, embezzling public funds or even by certain kinds of financial speculation that exclude productivity, are common unjust ways people make money today. We dare to say this because we are Christians, and the church is the pillar and ground of truth. Selah. Any business transaction in which both parties do not gain something is an unjust transaction. For example, if I sell you a commodity, I will lose it but will have gained the money. You will lose your money but will have gained the commodity. We both gained something. But something is wrong if I alone gained. When you buy shares of a productive company, you make a profit because the company makes a profit and is becoming more valuable, not because people are losing their money. That is a just way to make gains. There is nothing as dangerous as ignorance for Christians. Unfortunately, in the spirit realm, ignorance is not an excuse. When a Christian gets involved in businesses that only generate profit from other people’s loss, he has participated in a business that thrives only on greed. Such businesses are really not different in spiritual principle from gambling. There is nothing that scares the devil like when real Christians are controlling real wealth in this world. He understands that this means greater influence for God’s kingdom on the earth. He wants Christians to be lured into Get-rich-quick schemes so that they will lose their power to make real enduring wealth. Go into today asking the Lord to empower you to walk in His spiritual wisdom and understanding in all things. Ask Him to deliver you from the Love of money and help you love righteousness and hate wickedness (see Heb 1:9).-Pas SD Abraham Not yet born again? Follow this link: streamglobe.org/34 BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: I Peter 1-3 Streamglobe is interdenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio daily, join our WhatsApp Group here: join us on Telegram: streamglobe.org/join www.streamglobe.org Source: Devotional
GET-RICH-QUICK SCHEMES 3
Get Audio Version(More explanations in the Audio): bit.ly/aud1821 Proverbs 13:11 [NLT]Wealth from get-rich-quick schemes quickly disappears; wealth from hard work grows over time. Kemi and Grace were best friends who both decided to be entrepreneurs. Kemi got seriously involved with a get-rich-quick scheme. She invested all her money into it and started making huge gains. She was now an evangelist for that scheme and would hold large workshops to get people to join. She was indeed very successful in it. She paid cash for a brand new car in months. Kemi was very displeased with Grace because Grace refused to join her. Grace was not led to join but insisted she would rather spend her time and effort learning to be an excellent tailor and starting her own clothing brand. For the first two years, things were not easy for Grace, and Kemi would laugh at her but never help. After the period Grace spent to build her skill, she started producing and marketing very nice clothes, and things started picking up. Her business became profitable and continued to grow steadily. By this time, the Ponzi scheme Kemi joined had crashed. She was no more making the huge sums she once made. Because money initially came so easily to Kemi, she squandered everything she had saved, and every effort she put into starting a profitable business failed because she had lost the power to make wealth. In five years, Kemi was now poor and wished she could be one of Grace’s many employees. When a person becomes addicted to get-rich-quick schemes, he loses the ability to settle down and get wealth through honest gain. He must always have to find another such scheme in order to stay afloat financially. People who embezzle public funds to become rich have the same fate. Life is spiritual, and power to get wealth is spiritually given by God, it can be squandered (see Deut 8:18). Go into today knowing that it is God who gives you the power to get wealth. Don’t squander yours on a get-rich-quick trap.-Pas Abraham Get sermons Here: streamglobe.org/34 BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Deuteronomy 10-12 Streamglobe is interdenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio daily, join our WhatsApp Group here: join us on Telegram: streamglobe.org/join www.streamglobe.org Source: Devotional
GET-RICH-QUICK SCHEMES 2
Get Audio Version(More explanations in the Audio): bit.ly/aud1820 Proverbs 13:11 [NLT] Wealth from get-rich-quick schemes quickly disappears; wealth from hard work grows over time. The smartphone or device with which you are reading or listening to this devotional was purchased because it meets your needs of communication and entertainment. The manufacturer has made money because he has met a need. Christians are righteous and just people. God blesses us by giving us ideas that help us solve problems. Wealth is generated when problems are solved. Unproductive forms of making money include schemes that promise to produce gain but have no productivity. They include gambling and Ponzi schemes. As attractive as unproductive forms of making money may look, they are what the Bible calls get-rich-quick schemes. They ultimately bring every society to its knees economically. Imagine that everyone in the world was only involved in such schemes to make money; there would be no more food to eat, no new clothes to wear and no machines to use. The world will shut down because there would no more be productivity but only greed. A Ponzi scheme is one that promises to provide money and help, yet it has no form of productivity. The only thing a Ponzi scheme does is to use the money new people bring in to pay those who have already brought in money. When there are no more new people in the system, it is bound to crash and produce great loss and pain to the investors; people who invested with the expectation to make gains. Everyone who makes a profit through a Ponzi scheme or betting makes money from the potential loss of someone else. I believe one of the demonic assignments of Ponzi schemes (betting, gambling, some forms of financial speculation) is to take the power to make real wealth from the people of God. Go into today knowing that as a Christian, it is not everything the world does to make money that you can do. God empowers you to make enduring wealth according to His principles of righteousness and justice. -Pas SD Abraham Get sermons Here: streamglobe.org/34 BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: I Peter 1-3 Streamglobe is interdenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio daily, join our WhatsApp Group here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/GSa5SON9Zol8FhmnZz155r join us on Telegram: streamglobe.org/join www.streamglobe.org Source: Devotional
GET-RICH-QUICK SCHEMES 1
Get Audio Version(More explanations in the Audio): bit.ly/aud1819 Luke 16:11 (KJV) If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? I believe there is something about money that made Jesus call it mammon of unrighteousness (also see Luke 16:9). Let’s take a look at the history of money. Before money was invented (around 1500 BC), humankind did business by barter. People exchanged goods for goods, goods for services, or services for services. But since money was invented, people now exchange goods for money and services for money, etc. The problem with this is that as long as a person has money, he can have its value in goods or services, regardless of how he got the money or whether he truly has the requisite service or good whose value he posses in form of cash. Money, therefore, provided accommodation for unrighteousness in the world more than ever before. Unproductive ways of getting money like Get-rich-quick schemes: Ponzi schemes, gambling, etc. became possible or easier because money now existed. Money now gave proper expression to the spirit called mammon. This spirit seeks to be worshiped rather than God. Any system that generates money without any form of productivity is an unrighteous system. Such a system will have to generate money by robbing some people to pay other people. Satan loves such thieving systems, he is the thief (see John 10:10). It is no hidden truth that financial speculation has been considered by many nations around the world as an economic canker because it has the capacity of making people who are not really productive in the economy very rich just because they know how to move money around. The future ripple effect of this is economic loopholes that would have to be plugged by wanton government spending in bailouts and debts. I believe the climax of such unchecked economic activities is what would pave way for the coming of the antichrist, who would come to ‘save’ the world from economic woe. A person who gambles hopes to generate money not by being productive, but by taking advantage of other people’s loss. Ponzi schemes and pyramid schemes also fall into this category. Online betting is a form of gambling. These are unrighteous ways of making money because they are thieving methods sanctioned by the prince of this world. They are fueled by greed and nothing else. We know that greed (lust of the eyes) is of the world and not from God (see 1 John 2:16). Nothing of the world should be found in a Christian because they give the prince of this world sway (see John 14:30, 1 John 2:15-16). Go into today remembering what God says in Proverbs 13:11 (NLT): Wealth from get-rich-quick schemes quickly disappears; wealth from hard work grows over time. -Pas SD Abraham Not yet saved? follow this link: streamglobe.org/33 BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Acts 11-12 Streamglobe is interdenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio daily, join our WhatsApp Group here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/GSa5SON9Zol8FhmnZz155r join us on Telegram: streamglobe.org/join www.streamglobe.org Source: Devotional
THE SWEET TRUTH
Download Audio Version: bit.ly/aud1818 Revelation 10:10 (KJV) And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. While reading an online article on why bitter foods are good for the stomach, I learned that they help keep the body balanced, countering sluggishness that could arise from too many sweet things. And that they contain nutrients that stimulate the liver into producing bile for optimal digestion and detoxification. Unlike some foods or pills that are bitter from the onset, to the spiritually healthy, God’s word as food or medicine is sweet to taste and better when fully digested. It benefits one at every point in time: from its ingestion (head knowledge) to its digestion (heart conviction), there are blessings (Psa 119:103, Jer 15:16). As one studies and meditates on the truth of God’s word, he receives true life and spiritual enlightenment, which elevates him from just knowing about God’s precious promises, to the euphoria of actually experiencing them (Psa 119:130, Jh 14:6, 2Cor 1:20, 2Pet 1:4). Unlike the popular worldly saying that the truth is always bitter, we must know that each time we yield ourselves to sin, the truth of God’s word at that moment, will be distasteful as it chastizes us. Nevertheless, it purifies and makes us truly free, that we might live spiritually healthy and happy lives (Jh 8:32, Jh 17:17, Heb 12:11) Stay hungry for the truth of God’s word, and as you feed on it daily, you will experience growth and a life of peace and vitality in spirit, soul, and body (Pro 4:20-22, 1Pet 2:2, 2Pet 1:2). -Chibo E.C. Not yet saved? follow this link: streamglobe.org/33 BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Zephaniah Streamglobe is interdenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio daily, join our WhatsApp Group here: join us on Telegram: streamglobe.org/join www.streamglobe.org Source: Devotional
BEWARE OF EVIL, SUCCESS MERCHANTS
Download Audio Version(More explanations in the Audio): bit.ly/aud1817 Ezekiel 13:17 – 19 MSG“And the women prophets—son of man, take your stand against the women prophets who make up stuff out of their own minds. Oppose them. Say ‘Doom’ to the women who sew magic bracelets and head scarves to suit every taste, devices to trap souls. Say, ‘Will you kill the souls of my people, use living souls to make yourselves rich and popular? You have profaned me among my people just to get ahead yourselves, used me to make yourselves look good—killing souls who should never have died and coddling souls who shouldn’t live. You’ve lied to people who love listening to lies.’ There’s an evil spreading quickly, where social media especially, is expertly used to advertise sorcery. Due to an insatiable quest for money, fame, security, etc, many now openly solicit the services of sorcery, fancifully repackaged as jewelry, cosmetics, elixirs, lotteries, etc, to fuel their hedonistic lifestyles. The ultimate aim of their craft is to turn men away from God. They appear harmless but will covertly ensnare and enslave those caught by their deceit into endless cycles, in pursuit of vanity. Therefore, God in His displeasure has issued out a strong warning to such success merchants, who are very clever in disguising idolatry (Acts 8:9-11; 18-23, 1Tim 6:6-10). The spiritual media of God’s word is the truth, greater than the deceitfulness of social media, which portrays all that glitters as gold. We mustn’t envy those who are engaged in deeds sponsored by fear or spiritual beguiling, but rather, expose them by living for Christ (Matt 5:13-16, Acts 13:6-12). Go into today, defined, not by the many “likes” online but by the real “Love” of One Divine, who died so that you can have true success (Pro 8:12-21, Jh 10:10). -Chibo E.C. Not yet saved? follow this link: streamglobe.org/33 BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Ecclesiastes 3-4 Streamglobe is interdenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio daily, join our WhatsApp Group here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HGcGMnjiDAN9ZKRCaez88u join us on Telegram: streamglobe.org/join www.streamglobe.org Source: Devotional