Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the very heart of your house, your children like olive plants all around your table. - Psalms 128:3 REFERENCE Psalm 128:1-6 What a great promise of God. The promise of a happy home where Christ is the center, and love is a hallmark. Understanding that it is not every roof that encloses a home should cause you to place value on the gift of your family. Home is meant to be a haven of peace, a bastion of security and an oasis of love. This gives today's key verse great...
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. - Psalm 150:6 REFERENCE Psalm 150:1-6 Most times, life is the greatest gift we easily take for granted. It is one of God's most ignored gift. We get occupied by unpaid bills, unanswered prayers, unmet deadlines, broken relationships and unfulfilled dreams. We wonder at a number of unfair things around us, we get envious of our friends' seemingly better lives, we get worried about how we will accomplish goals and targets we have set. We get depressed just thinking about all these things, but we rarely pause to think about the...
But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day to save many people alive. - Genesis 50:20 REFERENCE Genesis 50:15-21 When bad things happen to us, or when we go through tough times, God is preparing us for a task ahead because nobody can truly help others solve their problems except they have been through those problems themselves. Problems don’t just come for problems’ sake, when God allows problems in our lives; it is because He has people in mind who need...
Nor was there anyone among them who lacked; for all who were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold. – Acts 4:34 REFERENCE Acts 4:32-35 If you do not understand the morality of prosperity, you will never see a need to be rich. There is great need for great prosperity. It is not to buy a big house, a big car or to live large but to be a blessing to many. If you look all around you, you will see someone who can’t pay rent, pay children’s fees,...
Come therefore, let us now kill him (Joseph) and cast him into some pit; and we shall say, ‘Some wild beast has devoured him.’ We shall see what will become of his dreams! - Genesis 37:20 REFERENCE Genesis 37:5-11 Joseph's dream was a threat to his brothers; they could not understand how God could trust so much into so little a boy. They therefore thought to KILL him in order to stop the fulfillment of his DREAMS, but God restrained their madness. Reason - If your dream is from God, you will not die until you fulfill it...Jesus could not...
And the angel of the LORD appeared to him, and said to him, 'The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor!' - Judges 6:12 REFERENCE Judges 6:11-16 God called Gideon, "Mighty man of valor," when all around him, things were not adding up but rather falling apart. It looked like a contradiction but God has a way of talking to us about where we are going to and not what we are going through. We saw that play out in the life of the patriarch Abraham; God called him “Father of all nations” even when it looked...
For it shall come to pass in that day; says the Lord of hosts, 'that I will break his yoke from your neck, And will burst your bonds; Foreigners shall no more enslave them.' - Jeremiah 30:8 REFERENCE Jeremiah 30:1-10 God will not allow His children to be under any other influence but Him, especially enslaving influences. All through the scriptures we see how God delivered His children from their oppressors time and time again; from this we can clearly understand that God hates oppression, He hates the things that threaten the existence of His children and He...
Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you do not know. - Jeremiah 33:3 REFERENCE Jeremiah 33:1-3 God has limitless secrets that will unravel the mysteries of life and living. He has insight into every situation and He knows the way out of every lock-jam, but He will only share these secrets with those who call out to Him for help, who earnestly seek Him, desiring and requiring His help. (His secret is with those who fear Him). God’s knowledge is unfathomable; after all He is the Manufacturer of all...
Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king gave thought to set him over the whole realm. - Daniel 6:3 REFERENCE Daniel 6:1-3 Because the Spirit of God is in you, you should strive for excellence in all you do. The Spirit of God understands all things in this world (more than Google or any other search engine out there); He can bring things to your remembrance if you ask him, more so, He is here as your helper. Therefore, when you submit to Him by asking...
Now the man Moses was very humble (modest, meek & self-effacing), more than all men who were on the face of the earth. - Numbers 12:3 (AMP). REFERENCE Numbers: 12:1-8 The Lord was able to fight and speak on Moses’ behalf. In fact He spoke to him face to face and plainly and allowed him to see His form because Moses was a very humble man. He was unassuming and gentle, he was plain and open before God and the Bible says “God gives grace to the humble.” God knew there was no way Moses would take His glory...