BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS
Join Our WhatsApp Group & Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio From Us Daily. Click here to Join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/H0KvJLQ2iEf6N6TVomOWwF Devotional Audio☞ http://bit.ly/aud1488 Hebrews 13:5 (NET) Your conduct must be free from the love of money and you must be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you and I will never abandon you.” God’s word to us today is quite straight forward. God does not want His children to be controlled by the love of money. This is only possible when we are contented with what we have. Being contented with what you have is different from being satisfied with where you are and becoming complacent. A contented person is a thankful person. He is grateful for where he is and is thankful for where the Lord is taking him. An uncontended person is an ungrateful person. He compares himself with others and is easily deceived by the deceitfulness of riches. The ‘deceitfulness of riches’ says that all a person needs in this life is money. That is not true. You need much more than just money in this life. Ask those with lots of money who are still dying of incurable diseases. Jesus says in Luke 12:23 (NET) that there is more to life than food, and more to the body than clothing. This means there is more to life than what money can afford. It is because of the mindset controlled by the deceitfulness of riches that the rich fool in Luke 12:13-21 lost his life. In Mark 4:19, we see that those who subscribe to the deceitfulness of riches cannot be fruitful in God’s Kingdom. Such people cannot serve God because they serve mammon. Wheras, those who serve God will not lack anything. Many go to church, not because they love God, but because they love money and want God to give them money. Such ‘Christians’ will not have power with God (they cannot be rich toward God) and will always be at the mercy of time and chance. Go into today remembering to watch against covetousness and the love of money. Thank the Lord for where you are and where He is taking you. -Pastor SD Abraham Yearly Bible Reading: Deuteronomy 26-28 (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is interdenominational We request that you Kindly Share This Devotional with Your Contacts and Let’s Touch Lives Together. WhatsApp : +1 (701) 802-0743 www.streamglobedevotional.com Source: Devotionals
REPENTANCE AND THE CONSCIENCE
Join Our WhatsApp Group & Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio From Us Daily. Click here to Join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/H0KvJLQ2iEf6N6TVomOWwF Devotional Audio☞ http://bit.ly/aud1487 Colossians 3:5 (KJV) Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry Daniele and her dad had a strain in their relationship. Her father had warned her several times not to take his car out without his permission. She took it out one day without permission and it ran out of gas while she was driving it. She refueled it, but the engine started malfunctioning after that. She didn’t tell her dad what happened, but she started acting really weird around him and couldn’t even look him in the face anymore because of her guilt. He had to spend a lot of money on fixing the car. When she was tired of the strain in their relationship caused by her guilty conscience, she decided to come out clean and confess what she had done. She didn’t know that her dad already knew and had already forgiven her. He was only waiting for her to come out clean. We saw yesterday that a bad conscience hinders faith from entering the heart of anybody. That is why before faith towards God is mentioned among the principles of the doctrine of Christ (in Hebrews 6:1-2), repentance from dead works is mentioned. When a person hears the Gospel and believes it, the first response is repentance from dead (sinful) works, usually followed by water baptism-the baptism of repentance (Acts 2:38). This takes away the guilty conscience (see 1 Pet 3:21), and then faith producing salvation (practical deliverance from sins and the powers of Satan) can now enter the heart of the believer. Notice that in 1Pet 3:21, the baptism of repentance is directly linked to the good conscience of the believer towards God. Go into today remembering that the most potent way to deal with lingering guilty conscience is to come out clean before the Lord (1 John 1:9) or before a member of His body who represents Him (James 5:16, Matt 18:15-18, John 20:23). -Pastor SD Abraham Yearly Bible Reading: II John (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is interdenominational We request that you Kindly Share This Devotional with Your Contacts and Let’s Touch Lives Together. WhatsApp : +1 (701) 802-0743 www.streamglobedevotional.com Source: Devotionals
HIS PROMISES 2
Join Our WhatsApp Group & Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio From Us Daily. Click here to Join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/H0KvJLQ2iEf6N6TVomOWwF Devotional Audio☞ http://bit.ly/aud1486 2 Peter 1:4 (KJV) Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. Dare was walking with a defiled conscience because of a sin he refused to repent of. He needed divine healing and wanted to receive it by faith. He tried to apply all the principles of hearing the word to build faith in His spirit, but faith was not coming because he was walking in a defiled conscience. In 1 Tim 1:19, we see that faith and a good conscience always work together. Faith does not build up in the heart of a person who contineus in a defiled conscience. That is the reason why in James 5:16, in order for the believer to recieve his divine healing, he needs to confess his faults. This deals with his defield conceince. From today’s Bible verse, we see that in order to receive the manifestation of the divine nature through God’s promises, we have to have first escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. This is possible by the power of God’s grace. And this power is supplied by the indwelling Holy Spirit. As you go into today, ask the Lord to help you get rid of anything in your life that causes defilement of conscience, so that your faith can grow and you can walk in all the promises that usher in various manifestations of the divine nature. -Pastor SD Abraham Yearly Bible Reading: Acts 21-22 (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is interdenominational We request that you Kindly Share This Devotional with Your Contacts and Let’s Touch Lives Together. WhatsApp : +1 (701) 802-0743 www.streamglobedevotional.com Source: Devotionals
HIS PROMISES
Join Our WhatsApp Group & Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio From Us Daily. Click here to Join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/H0KvJLQ2iEf6N6TVomOWwF Devotional Audio☞ http://bit.ly/aud1485 2 Peter 1:4 (KJV) Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. Daniel did not only receive divine healing, but as a result of the revelation he got before he became healed, he didn’t fall sick again. This was a manifestation of the divine nature at work in Him that we can call Divine Health. But how did he begin to walk in this divine nature? It was by virtue of God’s promises. During the period he was sick and studying the word of God concerning divine healing and health, he read certain promises concerning healing and health and they became Rhema to him. He knew he was now healed because heard and heard those promises until he received them by faith. We see from today’s Bible verse that it is through God’s magnificent promises that we walk in His divine nature. One reason why it is very important for believers to know the scriptures is because they contain God’s promises, and it is through these promises that faith comes to manifest attributes of the divine nature that the promises reveal. It is possible to be a believer and not walk in certain manifestations of the divine nature because you do not know (or have not recieved) the promises of God that activate those manifestations. That is why God’s people can suffer for lack of knowledge (see Hosea 4:6, Job 36:12, Proverbs 5:23, Proverbs 10:21 in ESV). Go into today remembering that God’s promises are the keys that open up different manifestation of the divine nature to you. Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you know and stand on All His promises. -Pastor SD Abraham Yearly Bible Reading: Revelation 1-6 (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is interdenominational We request that you Kindly Share This Devotional with Your Contacts and Let’s Touch Lives Together. WhatsApp : +1 (701) 802-0743 www.streamglobedevotional.com Source: Devotionals
BRUISED FOR YOUR HEALING
Join Our WhatsApp Group & Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio From Us Daily. Click here to Join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/H0KvJLQ2iEf6N6TVomOWwF Devotional Audio☞ http://bit.ly/aud1484 1 Peter 2:24 (NET) He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed. As a medical student, Daniel had seen a few people receive divine healing by faith. When he now had an incurable medical condition, he knew that the Lord could heal him. He started trusting in the Lord for his healing. He started giving special heed to the word of God and reading books that would build his faith in that area. After doing this for months, a time came that he just knew without a doubt that he was now healed. He went for medical tests and the tests showed that the disease was still there. But his faith did not waver even as he had to continue his treatment. Two weeks later, when praying in the spirit, he was reminded by the Holy Ghost that he was indeed healed. He went for the tests again, and this time the disease was completely gone. Everyone in the lab couldn’t believe it. If you are in Christ Jesus, your divine healing has already been paid for on the cross. Your healing is already available, but you have to receive it by faith. Before you became born again, you had to receive the salvation that Jesus paid for by faith. Someone told you about it and you believed it. And because you believed it, you received it. That is the same way we receive divine healing. We hear that we are healed and we believe it. Then we receive it. Some people only have faith to receive salvation from sin (which is the most important work that Christ did on the cross). But any faith that can receive salvation from sin can anything else. Go into today knowing that Christ Jesus paid for all you need on the cross (2 Pet 1:3). Your salvation from sin and death, your healing, your prosperity, your sanctification, your wisdom, your peace and joy, etc.. -Pastor SD Abraham AUDIO SERMONS HERE: http://bit.ly/SERmons Yearly Bible Reading: Song of Solomon 1-2 (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is interdenominational Kindly Share This Devotional with Your Contacts and Let’s Touch Lives Together. WhatsApp : +1 (701) 802-0743 www.streamglobedevotional.com Source: Devotionals
God’s Grace & God’s Law
By Dr. Ebele UzorPeters The key to understanding how grace and the law relates is simple: the law cannot be fulfilled by being under the law. It is fulfilled and surpassed, by being under grace. If I want to travel, I have to lock up my house, and it is a very big house. I have to check the gas cooker, disconnect appliances from every socket. I have to put off every switch, shut every window, and close every door. It usually takes me about an hour to do all this And on my trip, I’d be searching through my mind to see if I left anything undone. Most times, I remember a tiny window I didn’t shut and just pray some rodent or serpent does not climb in during the two or three weeks I’m gone. When I get back, I check through every room to make sure all is well, before relaxing. I travel a lot, and this is my routine. It’s extra stressful and imperfect, but I’m used to it. That’s like being under the law. One day, a friend tells me about these modern security systems that monitor your house especially when you’re gone, with CCTV and all. Now when I travel; after I’m done packing, I shut down the whole house by pressing one button on the remote. All windows, all appliances, and all doors are shut down with just one click; and when I get back, I simply sit down over a cup of orange juice, and go through the computer generated analysis of the cctv footage. All my struggle to do this and that has ended, yet I am achieving the same thing even more perfectly. That’s like being under grace. Grace means God does for me what I could never do for myself. The law means I try to do everything myself and fail, grace means I allow something or someone who does it far better, to do it for me So the law means struggle, and grace means surrender. If I check from room to room after installing the modern security system, that’s trying to be justified by my works, and making the grace of Christ of none effect I have to rely on a remote. I have to give up my old method of locking up for the new system. I have to give up my house to this new system and trust that it is secure even though I haven’t checked it myself. I begin to experience grace by surrendering what I was struggling with (the old man). If I don’t want to struggle, so I reject the law; and I refuse to surrender, that is not grace. My house will be burgled. If I’m tired of struggling with the law and facing the condemnation the law brings, but I do not surrender my life to Christ and present myself to God; even though I have rejected the law, yet I am not under grace I have simply entered into lawlessness. Grace is not lawlessness; Grace is the in-working of the capacity for the purpose of the law to be fulfilled. . Another illustration (meaning the story above is an illustration,) is that before I got my modern security system, I never asked my steward to lock up the house because that was even more stressful. I’d have to explain everything to him and he still won’t totally get it; so when I had to travel, I’d give him a leave, and do the thing myself. However, with my son, I don’t need to bother. I don’t have to say much; He knows exactly what to do. Where I’d have had to give my steward 53 separate instructions so that he does not forget anything; I just told my son…I’m travelling in three days, I don’t know if you could come give papa a helping hand. If he could take a break from school, I usually just said to him “Lock up the house, don’t forget the attic”. That’s all. That’s grace. But my steward had to write all the 53 things down and go about with the list one by one….check this, check that, disconnect this, fold that up and put it up there. …it was more stress. Among those 53 things was the very same “Lock up the house, and all the windows in the attic”. The other 52 simply had to be added because he does not really know me and how I operate. That’s the law. Likewise the 613 laws of Moses contain the greatest commandments “Love the Lord your God with all your heart”, and “Love your neighbor as yourself”, but until Christ came, 611 other laws had to be used to explain those 2….because there was NO real CAPACITY TO LOVE God, generally speaking. But when the Son of God came and renewed our hearts, we understood that on those 2 laws hang not only all the 613 laws, but also the prophets. He put in our hearts the capacity to love with the love of God. It is by this capacity to love that grace delivers from being under the law, sets aside all the extra laws used to explain the intent of the law, sets aside that righteousness which comes by keeping the law; but powerfully upholds the law, by fulfilling it in us. That is, the righteouness of faith (that righteousness which is by faith in Jesus Christ) fully satisfies the righteous requirements of the law and makes it unnecessary to try to attain to those requirements by keeping the law through your own effort. . Galatians 3:21 Well then, is there a conflict between God’s law and God’s promises? Absolutely not! If the law could have given us new life, we could have been made right with God by obeying it. Galatians 3:22 But the Scriptures have declared that we are all prisoners of sin, so the only way to receive God’s promise is to believe in Jesus