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THE CHRISTIAN AND THE LAW
Get Today’s Audio☞ bit.ly/aud1765 Ephesians 2:15 (NET) …when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace Christians are not under the 613 laws of Moses, nor are we even under the Ten Commandments. We are under THE LAW OF CHRIST. 1 Corinthians 9:21 (KJV) To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the LAW OF CHRIST,) that I might gain them that are without law. Galatians 6:2 (KJV) Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the LAW OF CHRIST. Of the Ten Commandments, Jesus and His apostles reiterated nine and ignored that of the Sabbath (there are reasons for this, but that’s not our topic today). The Lord gave other instructions that were not captured by the Law of Moses. Instructions like ‘turn the other cheek’ or ‘do not repay evil for evil’, etc, were not part of the Ten Commandments, but are part of the commandments of Christ. Anyone who has accepted Christ as His Lord will obey His commandments. For those who love him keep His commandments (see John 14:15, John 14:21, John 15:10). As for the matter of tithing, it is the prerogative of your church assembly. If they pay tithes in your church assembly, then you should pay tithes. Just as with other matters like dress codes, you should obey the rules of your church assembly. And yes, it is rebellion (even before God) when a Christian disobeys the rules of his church assembly if those rules are not in violation of the law of Christ. The last time I checked, tithing didn’t violate any commandment of Christ. As a matter of fact, a time Jesus mentioned it, He didn’t seem to discourage it (see Matthew 23:23). Go into today knowing that grace is not a license to be lawless. Grace brings people under the law of life and delivers from the law of sin and death. —Pastor SD Abraham Bible in 1 Year: Numbers 17-20 (in today’s audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/2RpDqK0YhsF1ppft29zfAL Get sermons here☞ streamglobe.org/34 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
STABILITY
Get Today’s Audio☞ bit.ly/aud1764 Proverbs 24:16 (NET) Although a righteous person may fall seven times, he gets up again, but the wicked will be brought down by calamity. Ejura was tired of the constant rise and fall experience in her walk with the Lord. It started looking to her like her spiritual life was going in circles. There were many things that the Lord had spoken to her concerning life and ministry, but it appeared that her spiritual instability hindering them from coming to fruition. A day came that she became totally tired of it all and decided to discuss her frustration with her discipler. He discerned that she was now getting discouraged and wondering if God still loved her because of all her failures. He took time to help her understand that the fact that she had fallen did not mean God no longer loved her. He helped her see that there were demons delegated to frustrate believers and cause them to fall and not rise again. But that it was a miracle and the work of God’s great love and grace that has ensured that she rose again each time. He went ahead to show her that there was a difference between the works of the flesh and the manipulation of demons, that if against a believer’s will, she appears to be in bondage to any work of the flesh, a demon is usually involved. That while the remedy for the flesh is the cross, the remedy for demons is expulsion by the authority of Christ. He continued by telling her that one reason many believers keep rising and falling is that ‘the zeal of God’s house has not consumed them’. They are not yet consumed by the work of God such that they know they cannot afford to keep falling. Go into today remembering that anyone in Christ is free indeed. If there appears to be any bondage in your life keeping you from spiritual stability, you have the authority to expel demons and walk in constant spiritual liberty. Source: Devotional
KNOWLEDGE AND HUMILITY
Get Today’s Audio☞ bit.ly/aud1763 1 Corinthians 8:2 (NET) If someone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know to the degree that he needs to know. I remember many years ago when I felt I knew something because I had read the Bible from cover to cover and had a few revelations here and there. But the truth was that I really didn’t know as needed to know. Today, I look back and see how devoid of knowledge and understanding I was back then. I knew so little, but I felt I knew something. After learning much more and growing, I now know that there is still so much to learn. One of my biggest and most sincere prayers today is ‘Lord, help me know you more’. I know of believers who do not read books and would never be caught reading a daily devotional because they believe they know God more than to read what others have to say about Him. Such a mindset is simply an indication that they do not know God to the degree they need to know Him. For every season of your life, there is a degree of the knowledge of God that is required. This knowledge corresponds to your spiritual strength. Go into today knowing that if you believe you know all that you need to know, it is a sign that you do not know to the degree that you need to know. That is a dangerous place to be. Prayer: ask the Lord to deliver you from all pride and help you continually grow in your knowledge of Him. —Pastor SD Abraham Bible in 1 Year: John 13-15 (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 yet saved? 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
OBEDIENCE ACTIVATES THE BLESSINGS
1 Corinthians 7:19 (NKJV) Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters. From when he was a child, Abu was told that his nation was under a curse and because of that, they could never progress above their neighbors. He was also told that men from his nation behaved the way they did because of this curse. But he knew that in Christ, there was no curse but only blessings. For this reason, he was committed to preaching the gospel to the people of his nation because he wanted them to be free from curses and walk in the blessing. We know from scripture that the Jews, being physically the defendants of Abraham, had a heritage of the blessing. But we also know that this blessing was activated only when they walked in obedience to God’s commandments. Today, those who are in Christ are the spiritual descendants of Abraham (Galatians 3:29). Jesus is the seed God referred to when He Promised Abraham that in his Seed [not seeds], all the nations of the earth will be blessed (see Galatians 3:16, Genesis 22:18). This means that even if your nation is under the limitations of curses, if the people of that nation accept Christ (Abraham’s seed) and abide in Him, they would be blessed above every curse. Just like with ancient Israel, the blessing of God is activated in the life of the believer through obedience to the commands of the Lord. For example, God commands children to honor their parents. When blessed people obey this commandment, the blessing of long life; prosperity and seeing good days would be activated (see Ephesians 6:1-3). Go into today remembering that Jesus commanded us to make disciples of nations (Matthew 28:19). This is because, through Christ, God wants to bless nations and set them free from the dominion of curses. Confession: I am blessed above all curses because I am in Christ. Amen. —Pastor SD Abraham Bible in 1 Year: Joel (in today’s audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/365I8efHrVmENrDLhZLCws For Free Sermons Click here☞ streamglobe.org/34 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 For Audio with Bible, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201762.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
YOU WILL NOT FAIL
Get Today’s Audio☞ bit.ly/aud1761 Psalm 55:22 (KJV) Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. It would be quite an unusual sight to see a little girl walking hand in hand with her father but carrying his traveling or gym bag. It’ll be more unusual if he asks her to give the bag to him and she refuses. At this point, though she still has her hand in her father’s, she is making their walk become very slow. Similarly, many believers today are moving laboriously, having become so overwhelmed by life’s worries. They forget that God Himself said “I will never leave you nor forsake you” or His word surmising that nothing can separate us from His love in Christ Jesus (Heb 13:5, Rom 8:35-39). In view of those words, it means that for you to be moved [while your heart is stayed on God], that situation must possess the power to move God or separate you from Him, which as seen from God’s word, isn’t the case. Your moving should be upwards, motivated by love and not downwards due to worry or from sin’s guilt. No matter the situation, by resiliently holding on to God, you cannot fail. One reason it may feel as though you’re failing is lack of trust that God is by your side and that He cares enough for you to let go of your burdens (Read Ps 27, Ps 118, Ps 124, 1Pet 5:7). Go into today, confident and without fear that God is able to bear your burdens daily. As you continue to trust Him and His Word, your walk will become lighter till you begin to soar in victory (Ps 68:19, Matt 11:28-30). —Chibo E.C. Bible in 1 Year: Proverbs 22 (in today’s audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/365I8efHrVmENrDLhZLCws Not yet saved? Click here☞ streamglobe.org/33 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 For Audio with Bible, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201761.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
GIVING ALL DILIGENCE
Listen to the audio for more explanations on today’s topic Hebrews 2:1 (NET) Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.Terso accepted the Lord on campus when he almost died as a result of the initiation rituals imposed on him by a certain cult group he was about to join. Their members abandoned him to die when it was clear that he wasn’t recovering from the wounds inflicted on him during initiation. His life was saved by a Christian group who prayed for him and cared for him until he recovered. He accepted the Lord, grew in the word of God, and walked in the tangible power of God as he grew. Many came to know the Lord because of him. Many years later, he started ignoring some of the fundamentals of the gospel and started getting excited by strange stories and legalistic rules presented as holiness: every believer who didn’t dress a certain way was going to hell, etc. Terso became very judgmental and legalistic, as a result, there was no more assurance of salvation in his heart, and he was evidently waning in spiritual might. After certain things happened in his life that proved to him that he had drifted away from the Truth that made him saved, he looked for his university sermon jottings and started reading them again until he properly understood them. The Lord restored him and he discarded the strange doctrines he had received. It is worthy of all diligence to pay closer attention to the word of God and be sure that we properly understand the basics of our faith as believers. Many have drifted away because they did not give all diligence to understand and continue in certain foundational truths. Go into today remembering that more than anything else in this world, we must give all diligence to the ministry of the word and to prayer. Prayer: Lord, please help me never to slip away from your truth. Help me to always be a witness for you in this world. Amen. —Pst. SD Abraham Bible in 1 Year: Psalms 105-107 (in today’s audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/365I8efHrVmENrDLhZLCws Not yet saved? Click here☞ streamglobe.org/33 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 For Audio with Bible, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201760.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
THE MARRIAGE IMMUNITY 2
listen to the audio for more explanations on today’s topic 1 Corinthians 7:12-14 (NET) To the rest I say – I, not the Lord – if a brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is happy to live with him, he should not divorce her. And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is happy to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified because of the wife, and the unbelieving wife because of her husband. Otherwise, your children are unclean, but now they are holy. Drake was going through very tough times in his life. His challenges seemed insurmountable and some of them were because of the terrible mistakes he had made in the past. One day he was waiting on the Lord in prayer and fasting, he saw in a dream that he was trying to carry a big generator to power his house because a storm had cut their power line, but he could not carry the generator alone until wife joined him and it became easy for him to carry. From that day, he started praying with his wife as a matter of necessity, and they now spent a lot of time praying in the Spirit together. The first thing he noticed was that as a result of their prayers together, they had fewer misunderstandings. With time, the mountains that seemed insurmountable became stepping stones. Yesterday, we saw that marriage is the only place where a believer who becomes saved after marriage can have fellowship with an unbeliever (who is his unsaved spouse) and remain undefiled. That’s how powerful marriage is. God cares so much about our relationships because they are the theatre which affords us the opportunity to practically grow in our divine nature [of love]. That is the reason why prayers of agreement between saints invoke the highest spiritual authority and power of heaven (see Matthew 18:18-19). It should be easier for a couple to reach this agreement. Go into today knowing that your adversary the devil will fight unity and agreement between you and your spouse because he knows the power your agreement with prayers can produce. Praying in the spirit with your spouse drives away the spirit of discord and produces unity and power. —SD Abraham Bible in 1 Year: I Chronicles 20-24(in today’s audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/365I8efHrVmENrDLhZLCws Not yet saved? Click here☞ streamglobe.org/33 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 For Audio with Bible, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional http://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%201759.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
THE MARRIAGE IMUNITY
1 Corinthians 7:12-14 (NET) To the rest I say – I, not the Lord – if a brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is happy to live with him, he should not divorce her. And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is happy to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified because of the wife, and the unbelieving wife because of her husband. Otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy. After Lamide accepted the Lord Jesus, she was deeply troubled because her husband refused to accept the Lord Jesus. But he still loved her and did not want to leave her. She realized that even though her husband remained an unbeliever, her faith was not affected by his unbelief. This was a mystery to her because she observed that her faith was affected by the unbelief of other people she acquainted herself with. Marriage is the first human institution ordained by God and it is very powerful. Marriage is so powerful that it defies many natural laws. For example, two plus two equals 4, but in marriage, two plus two equals one because’ the two shall become one flesh’(Mark 10:8, Eph 5:31). Normally speaking, clean things do not sanctify dirty things, but dirty things pollute clean things. If you mingle clean clothes and dirty clothes, the dirty clothes will pollute the clean ones and not the clean clothes purifying the dirty clothes. Normally speaking, having fellowship with unbelievers defiles believers(see 2 Cor 6:14-16), but in the case of marriage, we see from today’s verses that when a person married to an unbeliever becomes a believer, the unbelieving spouse will be sanctified because of him. This does not mean the unbelieving spouse is saved by the salvation of the believing spouse, but it means the unbelief of the unbelieving spouse would not be able to defile the believing spouse as it normally would if it were not a marriage relationship. Such immunity from defilement in the midst of fellowship with an unbeliever is only found in marriage. Go into today remembering that marriage is a very powerful institution created by God. Because marriage is God’s idea, it can only fulfill divine destiny if it is run according to God’s manual (Word). —SD Abraham Bible in 1 Year: Numbers 13-16 (in today’s audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/365I8efHrVmENrDLhZLCws Not yet saved? Click here☞ streamglobe.org/33 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 For Audio with Bible, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional
MARRIAGE AND INTEGRITY
Get Today’s Audio☞ bit.ly/aud1757 1 Corinthians 7:1-2 (KJV) Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Before the epistle of First Corinthians was written, some members of the church at Corinth wrote a letter to Apostle Paul asking certain questions. They wanted to know if they were permitted to get married as unmarried men and women who now believed in the Lord Jesus. They wanted also to know if those married to unbelievers could remain with their spouses even if their spouses did not believe. Today’s Bible verse addresses the first question the Corinthians raised. Apostle Paul makes it clear here that even though celibacy is a good thing, sexual immorality is a bad thing and marriage helps to avoid it. One of the strongest attributes of God His children inherit is His integrity (Psalm 15:4). God even exalts His word above His name (Psalm 138:2), that’s how much a person of integrity our God is. Marriage adds the layer of integrity into the reasons why a believer must flee all immorality. If a married person commits immorality, he not only sins against God and his body but sins against his wife and breaks his integrity. Some have taught that celibacy is a secret to spiritual power. That could be true for some inferior form of spiritual power, but God’s power doesn’t work that way. The only reason given in the word of God why unmarried people can serve God better is because a married man would have to be concerned about the things of this world—how to please his wife. But marriage becomes a big plus to ministry when one marries the right person who would help him/her fulfill his divine mandate. Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you marry the right person who would help you fulfill your divine destiny. If you are married, ask the Lord to help you and your spouse help each other fulfill destiny. —SD Abraham Bible in 1 Year: II Timothy 3-4 (in today’s audio) To start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio on your WhatsApp, join our WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/6hVjJRcL6Av9fQ0LrEv9XM Not yet saved? Click here☞ streamglobe.org/33 Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Whatsapp: +2348079816967 For Audio with Bible, Click here to Join our Telegram Group☞ streamglobe.org/join Source: Devotional