BE CAREFUL HOW YOU BUILD
If you wish to start getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio Directly from us on WhatsApp, join our international WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/J8GlcbvZRYd8KiIwy4RMKo Download Today’s Audio☞ http://bit.ly/aud1675 1 Corinthians 3:9 (NET) We are coworkers belonging to God. You are God’s field, God’s building. Apostle Paul was a tent maker (this made him a builder). He usually built for his clients and received his payment at the end of the project. This was mostly how he sustained himself and paid his bills while ministering the gospel to the pagans. He used the illustration of building to explain certain truths to the Corinthians. He likened the ministry work he was doing among them to a building project. But just like his building projects, this building was not his own but the Lord’s and he would be rewarded for his work on it. When he said we are God’s coworkers, he was referring particularly to himself and every other minister of God like Apollos who had ministered and were ministering to the Corinthians. We would see that he went ahead to explain the part of the building he was responsible for, and how others were responsible for other parts of the building. He left a sublime warning to every other person building among the Corinthians to be careful how they build because just like an earthly builder, they would be judged according to how consistent with the master plan their building turns out to be. Many people have set out to build for God without receiving a building plan. They build because others are building and cannot build properly because they are not building according to the master plan. Go into today remembering that we are co-workers for the Lord. We do not belong to ourselves, and the work does not belong to us. At the end of the day, we shall give account for our work and be rewarded accordingly. Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you build correctly according to His plan. —SD Abraham Not yet saved? Tap here☞ http://bit.ly/beSaved2 YBR: Proverbs 4 (in today’s audio) Streamglobe is interdenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your friends and let’s touch lives together. We’d love to hear from you. Send us your prayer requests, praise reports, etc: WhatsApp: +2348079816967 www.streamglobe.org Source: Devotional
WORKING AS ONE
If you wish to be getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio Directly from us on WhatsApp, join our international WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/J8GlcbvZRYd8KiIwy4RMKo Download Today’s Audio☞ http://bit.ly/aud1675 1 Corinthians 3:8 (NET) The one who plants and the one who waters work as one, but each will receive his reward according to his work. When Ebele started preaching the gospel on campus, he noticed that it was very easy for him to bring people to accept the Lord Jesus. Even the most hardened unbelievers were being convicted and repenting. Sometimes, there was the manifestation of the prophetic and the miraculous when he preached, and this made it very easy for him to bring people to see the light of the gospel. But Ebele noticed that it was not that easy for him to disciple the many people he had led to the Lord. This was a great concern to him. He noticed that one of the brothers in the fellowship had a powerful teaching anointing and was also very successful in discipling people. He started drawing close to this brother and encouraging him to help disciple the many people that had come to the Lord through his preaching. Because of this arrangement, many of those who now believed remained in the Lord and grew greatly. Many times, there has been a great harvest of souls through powerful gospel crusades and campaigns, but many of those new believers went back to the word because there was no proper follow-up and discipleship. There is the need for those who have the ministry to plant and those who have the ministry to water to begin to work as one. This is when we will take full advantage of the harvest that our Lord has paid for. The ministries in the body of Christ can be divided into two departments. There are those who plant, and there are those who water. Every Christian must be involved in one of these. Go into today remembering that everyone will be rewarded according to the work he has done. If you are not doing anything in this regard, it is time to wake up because you will give account of your stewardship before the Lord. —SD Abraham Get FREE SERMONS here☞ http://bit.ly/SERmons YBR: Psalms 69-71 (in today’s audio) Streamglobe is interdenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. We’d love to hear from you. Send us your prayer requests, praise reports, etc: WhatsApp: +2348079816967 www.streamglobe.org Source: Devotional
CHURCH GROWTH 2 (GOD-CENTERED MINISTRY)
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CHURCH GROWTH
If you wish to be getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio Directly from us on WhatsApp, join our international WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/J8GlcbvZRYd8KiIwy4RMKo Download Today’s Audio☞ http://bit.ly/aud1673 1 Corinthians 3:5-6 (NET) What is Apollos, really? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, and each of us in the ministry the Lord gave us. I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow. When Jide became a pastor, his major concern was church growth. He wanted people to come in their numbers to the local church assembly he led. He was expecting growth and asking for growth, but wasn’t planting and watering. His idea of church growth was simply limited to numerical growth which was a result of creating a conducive worship environment for people who came by invitation to want to come back. The method of growth he expected was one that took advantage of what others have planted. He was not making any effort to bring sinners into the kingdom of God. All his effort was focused at causing people who already believe to leave their churches and start coming to his own. Before you can expect God to give increase to any work of ministry you do, there has to be planting, and there has to be constant watering. You cannot separate real church growth from evangelism and active discipleship. It could be media (radio, television, print) or house to house evangelism, but there has to proper evangelism and proper discipleship for there to be proper church growth. There is the increase that God gives and there is the false increase that man orchestrates. To receive the increase that God gives, the ministry must be involved in planting and watering. Go into today remembering that soul winning and discipleship is the most important assignments of any local church assembly. The devil will always try to distract the church from the core assignments into focusing on other less important but high sounding things. Prayer: Ask the Lord to show you how to properly plant and water so that His increase will come to every work He has entrusted you with. —SD Abraham Get FREE SERMONS here☞ http://bit.ly/SERmons YBR: Leviticus 1-3 (in today’s audio) Streamglobe is interdenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your friends and let’s touch lives together. We’d love to hear from you. Send us your prayer requests, praise reports, etc: WhatsApp: +2348079816967 www.streamglobe.org Source: Devotional
JESUS: THE CENTER OF IT ALL
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THE POPULARITY TEST
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DISCERNING THE MATURE 2
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DISCERNING THE MATURE
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SPIRITUAL DIET
If you wish to be getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio Directly from us on WhatsApp, join our international WhatsApp Group Here☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/J8GlcbvZRYd8KiIwy4RMKo Download Today’s Audio☞ http://bit.ly/aud1668 1 Corinthians 3:1-2 (KJV) And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. When Maureen had her first child, her mother came from the village to help take care of the baby. Two months later, Maureen had to travel to take a very important professional exam she had missed because of pregnancy illness. She made enough breastmilk available in the refrigerator for the baby. Her mother knew exactly what to do to warm the milk and feed the baby. But there was an unexpected power outage for three days and the milk went bad. Maureen’s mother tried feeding the baby with baby formula, but he rejected it every time. She eventually decided to try feeding him with custard, and he loved it. The next day, she noticed that he was running a fever. When they got to the doctor, the doctor said the fever was because the baby found it difficult to digest the custard. He recommended another baby formula that the baby liked. After Paul preached the gospel in Corinth, he started teaching the new believers the rudiments of the faith (see Heb 5:1-2). Just like an experienced doctor, he knew that if you feed spiritual newborn babes anything other than doctrinal milk, it would be difficult for them to comprehend, and it may cause spiritual disease instead of spiritual growth. One of the most troubling things I see today is teachers teaching spiritual babes doctrines that are meant for the spiritually mature. When these spiritual babes, in turn, begin to teach these doctrines from their imperfect understanding, they end up teaching heresy. —SD Abraham Bible Yearly: Psalms 66-68 (Available in Today’s Audio) Streamglobe is nondenominational. Kindly share this Devotional with your contacts and let’s Touch lives together. WhatsApp: +2348079816967 www.streamglobe.org Source: Devotional
OCCUPYING OUR DIVINE INHERITANCE 2
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