THE MARKS OF A TRUE APOSTLE 2
Get Today’s Audio☞ bit.ly/aud1776 1 Corinthians 9:1-2 (NKJV) Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. After Richard graduated from the University, he went for his country’s mandatory Youth Service Corps. He spent most of that time waiting on the Lord to get clear directions on what exactly he was to do next in life. This was when it became clear to him that it was in accordance with God’s eternal plan for him that he studied medicine and surgery. This was to be used to gain entrance into an open door for apostolic work in an unreached nation. He knew the nation the Lord was sending him to after this period of waiting. Later on, he met some older ministers of God, and they made it clear to him that he had the call to be an apostle because of the nature of the assignment the Lord had given him. Soon after that, he started having encounters with the Lord Jesus in visions and dreams. His seal of Apostleship was the disciples who were a direct product of his work in the Lord’s vineyard. Everywhere he went, he made true disciples. From the scriptural standpoint, one mark of true Apostleship is true disciples. The Apostles of the Lord were to make disciples of nations. And this they did. Apostles are wise master builders (1 Cor 3:10). And most of the time, they are those the Lord uses to break ground in new territories or lay proper foundations of God’s building(the church) in territories. They set things in order. From today’s Bible verses, one thing is clear: Apostles are known by their disciples. Show me true disciples of the Lord Jesus, and I will show you that it was directly or indirectly the product of an Apostolic work. Go into today knowing that false apostles can’t make true disciples of the Lord Jesus. Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you fulfill your ministry in this side of eternity. —Dr. Emmanuel James Bible in 1 Year: Amos 5-9 (in today’s Telegram audio) Not yet saved? Go here☞streamglobe.org/33 To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/ImeHmc6EjZ8Jq7lzvPRpch Streamglobe is interdenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 To start getting Devotional Audio that has Audio Bible for our Yearly Bible Plan, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201776.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
DISCERNING THE BODY OF CHRIST 3
Get Today’s Audio☞ bit.ly/aud1775 1 Corinthians 11:29-30 (KJV)For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. No member of the body is strong on its own; the strength of every part is drawn from its attachment to other parts. If the hand is detached from the shoulder, it will not be able to perform the function of the hand. The same applies to the body of Christ (the Church). If you consider a member of the body alone, that member is weak. So, if you continue to see the individual parts of the body alone, you will always see weakness. If you must see, experience and constantly enjoy the strength in the body, you must see each member in the light of the whole body. When you tear down your father’s house, it shows that you are either ignorant or have been overtaken by an external influence. Ephesians 5:29 (KJV), “For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church.” Mark 9:40 (KJV), “For he that is not against us is on our part”.If you have done this in the past, repent and turn over a new leaf now, because you have been enlightened. You may not be physically sick, weak or poor now, even when you have criticized, condemned and have torn down the body of Christ. You must, however, remember that you are a steward and will give an account of your stewardship. Matt 12:26(KJV): But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. Go into today determined to be more careful with the things you say especially as it pertains the body of Christ.—Dr Emmanuel James Bible in 1 Year: Psalms 111-113 (in today’s Telegram audio) Not yet saved? Go here☞streamglobe.org/33 To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/DM8ObLVoP9qIhufNhNTzpp Streamglobe is interdenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 To start getting Devotional Audio that has Audio Bible for our Yearly Bible Plan, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
FREE INDEED
Get Today’s Audio☞ bit.ly/aud1774 Prayer for the sick in today’s audio John 8:32 (KJV)32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Bolaji observed that in his family, every man was a chronic womanizer. His father left his mother for another woman because of this. His grandfather did the same, but only returned to his wife when he became very sick and his lovers deserted him. His father tried to return to his mother when he too became very sick, but his mother wouldn’t accept him back. Even though Bolaji was born again and happily married, he observed that a feeling of discontentment towards his wife and a strong lust for other women started growing within his heart. It didn’t take him long to realize that the same demon that led his grandfather and father astray was now on his case. He knew this was a family curse when he started having symptoms of the same disease that killed his father and grandfather. He had prayed and fasted for many days, but as soon as his fasting ended, the lust came back. The Lord revealed to him that he had to change his belief concerning certain things if he wanted to walk in spiritual liberty. His life and world-view was not shaped by the word of God because he wasn’t devoted to the ministry of the word enough. Every believer in Christ has a heritage of blessings rather than curses (see Ephesians 1:3), and should walk in total freedom. But this freedom is appropriated through our knowledge of the truth. It was to those who believed in Him that Jesus said ‘you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free’ (see John 8:31-32). Christ sets us free through our knowledge of the truth revealed by the word of God we know and believe. Those who still believe they are under ancestral curses, rather than believe God’s truth concerning them, never truly experience freedom. Go into today changing what you believe according the truth of God’s word concerning you. Confession: I am filled with the knowledge of God’s will and walking in the blessing(see Col 1:9-10) —Pst SD Abraham Bible in 1 Year: Psalms 111-113 (in today’s Telegram audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/DM8ObLVoP9qIhufNhNTzpp Join our group on Messenger(Facebook) by visiting: https://m.me/join/Abba6ubCtgChvOQh Streamglobe is interdenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 To start getting Devotional Audio that has Audio Bible for our Yearly Bible Plan, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
THE MARKS OF A TRUE APOSTLE 1
Get Today’s Audio☞ bit.ly/aud1773 1 Corinthians 9:1 (NKJV) Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? Femi had reasons to work closely with a servant of God who had an Apostolic call. After his experience with this Apostle, he couldn’t help but notice how spiritually free the apostle was. This spiritual liberty was contagious. It was characterized by such joy and peace that words could not describe. This servant of God didn’t put on any clout and was as down to earth as one can be, but Femi could sense the true peace and liberty that this servant of God enjoyed. He had dealt with other ministers before who proved to be untruthful, but this servant of God was different. He was free. In today’s Bible verse, the first proof of apostleship Apostle Paul stated was ‘am I not free?…’ One of the most important hallmarks of the true apostolic ministry is that it sets people free from the bondage of darkness. It doesn’t stop at bringing pockets of individuals into freedom but seeks to bring about national liberation. Such is the stature of the apostolic ministry. Jesus commanded His apostles to go and make disciples of nations (see Matt 28:19). A nation can be defined as a group of people who have the same culture, speak the same language, etc. A nation is a group of people who have the same destiny because of certain peculiarities they share. There are nations within nation-states, and because of the peculiarity of each nation, God usually sends apostles to them with special messages that would resonate with their reality and bring them to the liberty of His kingdom. For example, we see that Apostle Peter was an apostle to the Jewish nation, but Paul was not (Gal 2:8). For one to be a minister of freedom, it is expedient that he himself be free indeed. Many believers do not yet walk in freedom from certain symptoms of the old fleshly bondage they were born with. This is a process that only the Holy Spirit can execute. But we have to let Him. Go into today remembering that who the Son sets free is free indeed. Ask the Lord to cleanse you of every vestige of the fleshly nature that may seek to find expression in your present reality as a minister of God’s liberty. —Pst SD Abraham Bible in 1 Year: II Chronicles 1-5 (in today’s Telegram audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/2Q746K7zdL6J8IbTfCfEEF Streamglobe is interdenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 To start getting Devotional Audio that has Audio Bible for our Yearly Bible Plan, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
THE LOST CONNECTION
Get Today’s Audio☞ bit.ly/aud1772 1 John 14:6 (KJV) “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” We (humans) were created not to die. We couldn’t die as long as we were connected to our source(God); the disruption of this connection is what produces death. Jesus came to reconnect us to our source. Anyone who connects to God through him will not die the second death (eternal separation from God). 1 Corinthians 15:45 (NET): So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living person”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. Job 12:16 (KJV): With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his. When you come to God through the Lord Jesus, the deceiver losses his power over you and you are no longer the deceived. Knowing that man’s greatest need is to be reconnected to His creator, over the years, the devil has proposed many futile ways claiming to connect people to their source, each culminating in a religion. He knows that as long as humans stay disconnected from God, he’ll continue to have power over them. In 1 John 14:6(KJV), Jesus says ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by me.” Search through the religious books and you will never find a reprint of this truth, it is ascribed to Jesus Christ and Him alone. Go into today determined to seek and know Jesus better because in Him lays your sustainability. If you have not accepted Christ as your Lord and Savior, do so today and be free from the power of death. Not yet saved? Follow this link☞ streamglobe.org/33—Dr. Emmanuel James. Bible in 1 Year: Numbers 21-24 (in today’s audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/2Q746K7zdL6J8IbTfCfEEF Streamglobe is interdenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 To start getting Devotional Audio that has Audio Bible for our Yearly Bible Plan, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
DISCERNING THE BODY OF CHRIST 2
Get Today’s Audio☞ bit.ly/aud1771 1 Corinthians 11:29-30 (KJV) For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. Freda was so sick that it was clear to her that she might die. She had walked in divine health and healing before but did not understand why this time, the sickness did not seem to respond to her prayers. Through the ministry of a prophet, she discovered that she was afflicted because of the way she failed to discern the Lord’s body. She was an expert at publicly bringing down, criticizing and condemning ministers of the gospel she perceived were airing in one way or another. She did not realize that even though some of the ministers she criticized were wrong, her methods and approach was unacceptable.Children of God don’t rejoice and publicly criticize matters that are a source of grief to the Lord. We don’t take our disputes to the public space and bring down one another. We are not allowed as brethren to take our disputes to public court before unbelievers (see 1 Corinthians 6:1). Why do some think we can take our matters as brethren to the public court of opinions? Christ is the head, the Church is His body. When any part of the body is sick or in pain, other parts of the body may not feel it, but the head does. But when other parts rejoice when the head is in pain, it is because they do not rightly discern the body, and may in effect disconnect themselves from that which the head supplies. No individual part of the body can effectively continue to function without the other parts of the body. Likewise, no believer can be effective without other believers. It is suicidal to think that you are good enough as a ministry without the other ministries. We may differ in our denominations of worship, gifts, offices, and approaches, but if we have the same Lord, we are all brethren and we should walk with this knowledge. Go into today knowing that to be a true ambassador of Christ, you must live by the words of Christ in 1 Corinthians 12:26 “And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.” —Emmanuel James & SD Abraham Bible in 1 Year: Philemon (in today’s audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/2Q746K7zdL6J8IbTfCfEEF Not born again? Click here☞ streamglobe.org/33 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 To get Devotional Audio with Audio Bible for the Yearly Bible Plan, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201771.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
DISCERNING THE BODY OF CHRIST 1
Get Today’s Audio☞ bit.ly/aud1770 1 Corinthians 11:29-30 (KJV)For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. We have all been baptized into the same baptism by the same Spirit, however, His manifestations through us differ. Ephesians 4:4-5 (KJV), “There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” A measure of grace has been given to each of us as members of the body, but in the body lays the fullness of all grace. Because what has been given to us as individuals is a measure, to be effective in our calling we need to partake of the fullness. 1 Corinthians 12:27 (KJV), “Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.” “Now here is what I am trying to say: All of you together are the one body of Christ and each of you is a separate and necessary part of it.” 1 Co 12:27 (TLB) 1 Corinthians 12:27 (KJV), “And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be feebler, are necessary: And those members of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.” You see, every believer, office, and gift is important to God. Go into today remembering that, you are a part of the body of Christ (The Church). You are important to the body (Church) and the head (Christ). Ask the Lord to help you play your part in blessing the body.—Dr. Emmanuel James Bible in 1 Year: John 16-18 (in today’s audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/AXuYZf5XlRk6qckbho4qGn Not born again? Click here☞ streamglobe.org/33 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 To get Devotional Audio with Audio Bible for the Yearly Bible Plan, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
HOW DO WE TREAT EACH OTHER 2?
Get Today’s Audio☞ bit.ly/aud1769 Listen to the audio for further explanations on today’s topic 1 Corinthians 8:2-3 (NET) But if someone loves God, he is known by God. Mrs. Anderson was ready to do whatever she could to help her late friend’s children. She sold one of her cars to send two of them to the university. Before her friend and husband died in a motor accident, she didn’t really know their children, but only saw their pictures and knew their ages. The love she poured on those children after they lost their parents was because of the love she had for her friend. One thing the Holy Spirit does in the heart of any true believer is to plant the love of God there (see Romans 5:5). This love manifests in the way we treat God’s children. It cannot be hidden. A person cannot truly know God without loving God. Knowing God is to love God. God’s love is contagious and it compels us to love (2 Corinthians 5:14). It compels us to obey His commandments. It constrains us from fleshly excesses, etc. Anyone who does not love God does not truly know Him. The more we grow in the knowledge of God, the more we love Him and want to please Him. Those who do not care about how the Lord feels do not really know and Love Him. Those who do not love God do not know God and are not known by God. On judgment day, some will be told by the Lord that ‘I never knew you’ (see Matthew 7:23). They would think the Lord knew them because they once said Jesus is their Lord, but they did not truly know Him and love Him. It showed in the way they lived their lives in lawlessness. in 1 Corinthians 16:22 (NET), Apostle Paul uses these strong words ‘let anyone who has no love for the Lord be accursed…’ Why would He use such strong language for certain members of the church? Because any member of that Church who did not love the Lord was not one of the fold. He was most likely a wolf in sheep clothing. And we know what wolves do to sheep. Go into today remembering that those who love God obey Him. And all things work together for the good of those who love God(see Romans 8:28). —Pastor SD Abraham Bible in 1 Year: Psalms 108-110 (in today’s audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/AXuYZf5XlRk6qckbho4qGn Not born again? Click here☞ streamglobe.org/33 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 To get Devotional Audio with Audio Bible for the Yearly Bible Plan, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
HOW WE TREAT EACH OTHER
Get Today’s Audio☞ bit.ly/aud1768 Listen to the audio for further explanations on today’s topic 1 Corinthians 8:12 (NET) If you sin against your brothers or sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. Liza observed that she was going through a season of spiritual dryness. She couldn’t understand why this was happening because as far as she knew, she did everything right. She kept to her Bible study and prayer schedule, was faithful in her donations to the church, etc. But she observed that her prayer time was becoming dry and unexciting. It was as if the Holy Spirit didn’t show up any more to empower her to pray. After struggling like this for days, she became particularly concerned. ‘Lord, what is wrong, why am I not experiencing your fellowship like before?’ As soon as she prayed this prayer, she felt the presence of the Lord again. She immediately knew that something was wrong. Moments later, she received a text message from one of her Christian sisters. This message detailed how hurt and offended she was by the way Liza treated her. Liza immediately understood that the problem was that she had sinned against the Lord in the way she treated this sister. She immediately repented. Jesus is really concerned about the way we treat each other as Christians. Every Christian you relate with is not just your sister or brother but is also a child of God whose heavenly father jealously cares for. It is particularly bad when more mature believers do things that become a stumbling block for weaker believers. Many believers have blocked the heavens above them because of the way they have treated their Christian brethren. Go into today remembering that God watches the way we treat each other as a measure for our faithlessness and love. If you truly love God, it would show in the way you treat His people. See Matthew 25:35-40 and 1 John 4:20 —Pastor SD Abraham Bible in 1 Year: Proverbs 23-24 (in today’s audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/AXuYZf5XlRk6qckbho4qGn Not born again? Click here☞ streamglobe.org/33 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 To get Devotional Audio with Audio Bible for the Yearly Bible Plan, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
Dealing with so-called gods 2
Get Today’s Audio☞ bit.ly/aud1767 Listen to the audio for further explanations on today’s topic Luke 10:19 (KJV)Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Amaka grew up in a community where everyone was afraid of the gods because certain things had happened in the past to invoke such fear. After Amaka accepted the Lord Jesus and started becoming discipled in the way of the truth, one truth that took time for her to fully understand was that the gods in her town did not have any power over her; that she was raised with Christ far above them and all principalities and powers(see Ephesians 2:6, 1:21). One evening, as she was going to fellowship, she mistakenly stepped on a Charm dropped on the ground. Normally, if anyone steps on such, they would become fatally ill if they didn’t do certain rituals. But as soon as she stepped on that charm, she knew the power behind it was destroyed. Nothing bad happened to her and she never did any ritual. This sign was the reason her mother became converted. Amaka observed that as she submitted more and more to the authority of Christ [over her], she found it more and more difficult to believe that the gods in the land had any power. As far as she was concerned, all authority belongs to Christ(Matthew 28:18), and anyone exercising any form of spiritual authority does so illegally and she had the authority to cast out every such demon by the legal authority of Christ. This she did. One reason some believers do not walk in authority over demons is because they are still afraid of them, and as long as this is the case, fear will hinder the faith required to exercise authority over demons. Go into today remembering that Christ has given you the authority to trample over all the power of the enemy. Prayer: Ask the Lord to teach you to walk in this authority. —Pastor SD Abraham Bible in 1 Year: Psalms 108-110 (in today’s audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/2RpDqK0YhsF1ppft29zfAL Not born again? Click here☞ streamglobe.org/33 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 To get Devotional Audio with Audio Bible for the Yearly Bible Plan, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional