Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity! - Psalms 133:1 REFERENCE Psalm 133:1-3 Continued from yesterday… The advantages of being in fellowship with other believers are unquantifiable. For starters, it gives you a platform to experience the love of God from others, because sooner or later, you will need a body of believers to console you in your ‘low’ times, and also to rejoice with you in times of celebration. Again, because of the pressures around, being in company of other believers will always keep you refreshed in the Word,...
So the five men left. They came to the city of Laish and saw that the people of that city lived in safety… Everything was peaceful and quiet… Also they lived a long way from the city of Sidon, and they did not have any agreements with the people of Aram. - Judges 18:7 (ERV) REFERENCE Judges 18:1-10, 27-29 This story about the people of Laish further buttresses the point we made yesterday, about the enemy seeking that stand alone Christian, who doesn’t want to associate with any group (church), so he can easily devour them. Sometimes, people don’t...
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. - Hebrews 10:25 REFERENCE Hebrews 10:24-25 Man is a spirit, he possesses a soul and lives in a body. This means, man is a spiritual as well as a social being. So as man feeds his spirit, he also needs to meet his social needs, which is where as a believer, the place of fellowshipping with others comes in. Fellowship simply means companionship. It is a friendly association of...
Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, 'Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.' - Luke 10:17 REFERENCE Luke 10:1-19 There is unlimited and so much untapped power in the name of Jesus. The disciples discovered it as they went on their mission – sicknesses were healed and stubborn demonic entities heeded their words of command in the name of Jesus. Philippians 2:9-11 shows that the name of Jesus is above every other name, and when mentioned, things on earth, beneath the earth and in heaven bow and confess that Jesus is Lord over...
Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace, be still!” And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. - Mark 4:39 REFERENCE Mark 4:35-5:2 Continued from yesterday… There are certain things the devil knows about you that makes him want to hinder you, because if he doesn’t, you will deliver his prisoners and destroy his works. So don’t be fazed by windstorms in your journey of life, their intention is to stop you from completing the journey. (Whether business, marriage, ministry, academics, etc,). Rather, learn from what Jesus did in...
And when He had come out of the boat, immediately there met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. - Mark 5:2 REFERENCE Mark 4:35-5:2 Jesus embarked upon the journey in this passage for a purpose, a purpose not known to his disciples. The destiny of the mad man of Gadara was in Jesus’ hands, so the devil tried to stop Jesus from getting to him and releasing him from his imprisonment. This was why the storm came. In the same way, you are on a destiny journey in life, there is a...
For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place.- Jeremiah 29:10 REFERENCE Jeremiah 29:10-14 One of the greatest gift God has given to man is ‘TIME,’ it has helped man to plan his life, set goals, make appointments, and has been exchanged for money severally. But, time has been one of man’s greatest source of frustration because he cannot hasten it, delay it or control it. The only person that can control time is God, and...
But Ruth said: 'Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God. Where you die, I will die…' - Ruth 1:16-17 REFERENCE Ruth: 1:6-18 What prompted Ruth to follow her mother in-law, despite the lack of prospects, to an unknown land, to strangers and to a foreign God, when she could easily have gone back to her family – the familiar, and a support system after the death...
For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. - Romans 8:19 REFERENCE Romans 8:18-22 Man was created and clothed with glory to rule as the leader of the world. However, he ‘fell’ and all of that changed – he was stripped of his glory and that affected other created things because God in His wisdom decided to ‘remove’ the glory of the created world so that there will still be a balance in the hierarchical order, although at a baser level of glory. The creation was subjected to...
So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. - II Kings 5:14 REFERENCE II Kings 5:1-15 One of the evils that befall us in our generation is 'lack of motivation', which results in quitting. Many of us have become defeatist and resigned to fate. There is so much against people now more than before: unemployment, mounting bills, delay in getting married, marital challenges, medical conditions, rising cost of living, etc....