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 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

TUESDAY AUGUST 11, 2026.

SUBJECT: HOLY SPIRIT—THE BELIEVER'S HELPER! 

Memory verse: "However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come." (John 16 vs 13.)

READ: John 14 vs 15 - 18:

14:15: If you love Me, keep My commandments.

14:16: And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever. 

14:17: the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him; for He dwells with you, and will be in you.

14:18: I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.

INTIMATION:

God, in His mercy, faithfulness, and love nature came down Himself to help mankind, haven seen that man cannot help himself. He sent to those who believe in Him and do His commandments an Helper—the Holy Spirit—His Spirit according to His promise. 

In the passage we read today, Jesus teaches about the Holy Spirit: "If you [really] love Me, you will keep (obey) My commands. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, standby), that He may remain with you forever—The Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him. But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you [constantly] and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans [comfortless, desolate, bereaved, forlorn, helpless]; I will come [back] to you." (John 14 vs 15 - 18. Amplified Bible.)

The Holy Spirit is the very presence of God in and within all believers, helping them live as God wants—according to His purpose. He is the powerful person on our side, working for and with the believers; caring and guiding them to achieve their God's ordained purposes for their lives. 

How is the Holy Spirit the ultimate guide of the believer? (1) The Holy Spirit will be with the believers forever (John 14 vs 16). (2) He lives with them and in them (John 14 vs 17). (3) He teaches the believer (John 14 vs 26). (4) He reminds them of Jesus' words (John 14 vs 26; 15 vs 26). (5) He convicts all of sin, shows all God's righteousness, and announces God's judgement on evil (John 16 vs 8). (6) He guides the believers into all truth and gives them insight into future events (John 16 vs 13). 

Many people are unaware of the Holy Spirit's activities, but to those who hear Christ's Word and understand the Spirit's power, the Spirit gives a whole new way to look at life in order to achieve their God's ordained purpose of life. By faith the believer can appropriate the Spirit's power to himself each day.

Jesus said, "I will not live you as orphans; I will come [back] to you," (John 14 vs 18). He means He will come back as Holy Spirit to live with all believers. Therefore, to have the Holy Spirit is to have Jesus Himself. Through the Holy Spirit, God reveals to us all we need to know to prepare for the future. The future is known to Him from the beginning. 

When the believer lives by His standards, He will not leave him, He will come to him, He will be in him, and He will show Himself to him. God already knows what will happen and, because He will be with the believers through it all, they need not fear. They don't have to know the future to have faith in God; they have to have faith in God to be secure about the future.

The end result of Holy Spirit's work in the believers’ lives is deep and lasting peace. When God guides you, rest assured you never will miss your goal. You have confident assurance in any circumstance; with Christ's peace we have no need to fear the present or the future. 

Prayer: Abba Father, thank You for the gift of the Holy Spirit. Endue me with the excellent spirit of complete obedience my Helper, the Holy Spirit, and that I will continually be guided by Him, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed. Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

The Different Tenses of Grace

 The Different Tenses of Grace

We always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Thessalonians 1:11–12)

Grace is not only God’s disposition to do good for us when we don’t deserve it — we call this “undeserved favor”; God’s grace is also a power from God that acts in our lives and makes good things happen in us and for us — which we also don’t deserve. 

Paul said that we fulfill our resolves for good “by his power” (verse 11). And then he adds at the end of verse 12, “according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.” The power that actually works in our lives to make Christ-exalting obedience possible is an exertion of the grace of God.

You can see this also in 1 Corinthians 15:10: 

By the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

So, grace is an active, present, transformative, obedience-enabling power.

Therefore, this grace, which moves in power from God to you at a point in time, is both past and future. It has already done something for you or in you and therefore is past. And it is about to do something in you and for you, and so it is future — both five seconds from now and five million years from now.

God’s grace is ever cascading over the waterfall of the present from the inexhaustible river of grace coming to us from the future into the ever-increasing reservoir of grace in the past. In the next five minutes, you will receive sustaining grace flowing to you from the future — in this you trust; and you will accumulate another five minutes’ worth of grace in the reservoir of the past — for this you give thanks.

Every day in the God's Word

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

MONDAY AUGUST 10, 2026.

SUBJECT: YOUR ATTITUDE DETERMINES YOUR ALTITUDE! 

Memory verse: ""Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, without walls." (Proverbs 25 vs 28.)

READ: Proverbs 8 vs 32 - 36: 

8:32: Now therefore, listen to me, my children, for blessed are those who keep my ways. 

8:33: Hear instruction and be wise, and do not disdain it. 

8:34: Blessed is the man who listens to Me, watching daily at My gates, waiting at the post of My doors. 

8:35: For whoever finds Me finds life, and obtains favor from the LORD; 

8:36: But he who sins against Me wrongs his own soul; All those who hate Me love death.

INTIMATION: 

How long you stay in your problem depends on your reaction to the problem. "Your attitude determines your altitude." You get trapped in the problem if your choices within the problem are not right choices. Our attitudes color our whole personality. We cannot always choose what happens to us, but we can choose our attitude toward the situation we are involved. The secret to a happy heart is filling our minds with thoughts that are true, pure, and lovely; thoughts that dwell on the good things in life (Philippians 4 vs 8). This should be our secret as we face the struggles of daily living. 

The children of Israel were in the wilderness for forty years when the actual journey to the promised land could have taken them days. Experts have calculated that the Israelites could have walked across the wilderness in ninety days, but it took them forty years. Why? It is because of their attitude while in their problem in the wilderness. They were forgetful, doubtful, unfaithful, and ungrateful. Their negative attitudes only caused them to rebel even more and bring about even greater troubles to themselves. It eroded their faith in God and encouraged thoughts of giving up and turning back. 

How you conduct yourself in the problem will determine how long you stay in the problem. It took God one day to get the children of Israel out of Egypt; it took Him years to get Egypt out of them. Murmuring, complaining, rebelling against spiritual authority, refusing to forgive another, and disobedience to the known Will of God can keep you in the problem for the rest of your life. Stop it!

Do you know that some people, even believers, have been trapped in the same problem for years due to their attitude. Often such attitude runs in a family line that they become trapped in the same problem of their father, and the daughters become trapped in the same problem of the mother. The Bible calls such problems generational curses. When the same bad habits control you and those you love from generation to generation, you are mired in the pits of an inherited problem that can only be resolved by the supernatural deliverance of the Holy Spirit. 

I really don't think that anybody would like to be trapped in a problem, not even you reading this message! With God no problem is intractable, because nothing is impossible with Him. Therefore, don't be ensnared in your problem, which is a fallout of your attitude. It time to break off from such bondage, and then prepare yourself to receive your provision. Aristotle said, "I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; the hardest victory is the victory over self." 

God has guiders or signposts to guide you through problems to your promised land. These signposts are to be honored and obeyed. Remove them, ignore them, or try to take short cuts, and you will die in your problem. God has given us a Road Map—His Word. Within His supernatural Guide to us are many "guiders" or "signposts" leading out of the wilderness. Among them are faith, diligence, excellence, knowledge, patience, and integrity. Look at your checklist to find out where you are lagging.

What you walk away from determines what God brings you to. You must live Egypt before you can reach your promise land. Look at your attitudes and examine what you allow to enter your mind and what you choose to dwell on. You may need to make some changes. Go straight to God, and surrender all to Him. Listen to Him, and obey.

The path to open rebellion against God begins with dissatisfaction and skepticism, then moves to grumbling about both God and present circumstances. Next comes bitterness and resentment, followed finally by rebellion and open hostility. If you are often dissatisfied, skeptical, complaining, or bitter, beware! These attitudes lead to rebellion and separation from God. Any choice to side against God is a step in the direction of letting go of Him completely and making your own way through life which leads to a dark end. 

Prayer: Abba Father, endue me with the spirit of raw and complete obedience to You, and let Your Word be my guide in all I do. Give me the grace to be satisfied all the times in Your leading, and never to try any other way outside of You and Your guidance, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

Have Mercy on Me, O God

 Have Mercy on Me, O God

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. (Psalm 51:1)

Three times: “Have mercy,” “according to your steadfast love,” and “according to your abundant mercy.” 

This is what God had promised in Exodus 34:6–7:

“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty.”

David knew that there were guilty who would not be forgiven. And there were guilty who by some mysterious work of redemption would not be counted as guilty, but would be forgiven. Psalm 51 is his way of laying hold on that mystery of mercy.

“Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.” We know more of the mystery of this redemption than David did. We know Christ. But we lay hold of the mercy in the same way he did. 

The decisive thing he does is turn, helpless, to the mercy and love of God. Today that means turning, helpless, to Christ, whose blood secures all the mercy we need.

Every day in the God's

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SUNDAY AUGUST 09, 2026.

SUBJECT : THE SECRET OF A STABLE LIFE!

Memory verse: "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever." (Hebrews 13 vs 8.) 

READ: Exodus 3 vs 13 - 15:

3:13: Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say unto them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?

3:14: And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

3:15: Moreover God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.’

INTIMATION:

Being stable denotes being steady, firm, fixed, not shaky, lasting, dependable, faithful, not susceptible to change, and well-balanced in an emotional manner. Life is full of changes, challenges, and few things remain stable. We are constantly faced with challenges and changing circumstances in our journey of life, and the secret of a stable life in the face of all these changes and challenges of life is to trust in the unchanging God. 

Trust in God, because He never changes. He cannot be shaken by the changes in our world, and He endures forever. The fads and ideas of our world, and the world itself will not endure forever. For us, stability does not mean lack of change, but moving with God who controls all circumstances. God is stable; the same yesterday, today, and forever. 

God called Himself ”I AM,” a name that describes His eternal power and unchangeable character. In a world where values, morals, and laws change constantly, we can find stability and security in our unchanging God. The God who appeared to Moses is the same God who can live in us today. Because God’s nature is stable and trustworthy, we are free to follow and enjoy Him rather than spend our time trying to figure out the world. Christ has been and will be the same forever. In a changing world we can trust our unchanging Lord.

When God brought the Israelites out of Egypt into the wilderness, they were constantly moving through the wilderness. They were able to handle changes only because God’s presence in the tabernacle was always with them. The portable tabernacle signified God and His people moving together. When God is with you, He goes before you, and will be with you, and will not leave you nor forsake you (Deuteronomy 31 vs 8). 

If we experience troubles or difficulties, we must not conclude, however, that we have somehow missed God and His protection. God's protection has far greater purposes than helping us avoid pain, but with the pain make us better servants for HiHimself. Just as He allowed the Israelites take longer route to get to the promised land, He also protects us by guiding us through painful, and difficult circumstances, not only by helping us escape them. 

Therefore, the secret of our stability is to be securely anchored in God. The Lord is the beginning and the end. God the Father is the eternal Lord and Ruler of the past, present, and future. Without Him you have nothing that is eternal, nothing that can change your life, and nothing that can save you from sin. He is not a man that He can change. 

Men change in reference to their desires, and even obedience to God. God does not change His commandments in order to conform with the behavior of men. He does not change in reference to His promises. God could have justly cast off His people because they broke the conditions of the covenant, but because He does not change, He maintained the covenant with their fathers in order to preserve His people, even in their unfaaithfulness. 

Prayer: Abba Father, my trust is in You. Without You I am nothing, I have nothing, and can do nothing. I am persuaded that the secret of stability in life is an anchor in You. Give me the grace to be steadfast in my trust in You in all things, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

The End of the Gospel

 The End of the Gospel

Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. (Romans 5:9–11)

What do we need to be saved from? Verse 9 states it clearly: the wrath of God. “Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.” But is that the highest, best, fullest, most satisfying prize of the gospel?

No. Verse 10 says “much more . . . shall we be saved by his life.” Then verse 11 takes it all the way up to the ultimate end and goal of the gospel: “more than that, we also rejoice in God.” 

That is the final and highest good of the good news. There is not another “more than that” after that. There is only Paul’s saying how we got there, “through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.”

The end of the gospel is “we rejoice in God.” The highest, fullest, deepest, sweetest good of the gospel is God himself, enjoyed by his redeemed people. 

God in Christ became the price (Romans 5:6–8), and God in Christ became the prize (Romans 5:11).

The gospel is the good news that God bought for us the everlasting enjoyment of God.

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 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SATURDAY AUGUST 08, 2026.

SUBJECT : THE RICH ARE RARELY HUMBLE!

Memory verse: "Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack; Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take the cross and follow Me." (Mark 10 vs 21.)

READ: Mark 10 vs 22 - 25:

10:22: But he was sad at this word, and went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. 

10:23: Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!"

10:24: And the disciples were astonished at His words. But Jesus answered again and said to them, "Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God!

10:25: It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

INTIMATION:

To be rich is to be affluent, wealthy, having a large fortune. The rich are people with great financial resources, having an abundant supply of desirable qualities or substances. Such people often anchor their trust in their riches because they believe with their riches they can get all they want. They usually believe that the financial security they have is all they need to be secured in life. Consequently, It is usually hard to find humble people among the rich because they believe they have all it takes to have all their needs met. 

Obviously, money represents power, authority, and success, hence it is often difficult for rich people to realize their ultimate need in life, and the powerlessness of their riches to save them. The rich in talent or intelligence suffer the same difficulty; they often put their trust in their intellect and abilities. 

A person's wealth usually makes life comfortable, and gives him or her power and prestige, hence they trust in their wealth as the very basis of their security and identity. They have what they want or can easily buy what the want. They are influential, praised, honored, and popular. Therefore, it is rather difficult for them to humble themselves to serve. It is difficult for self-sufficient persons to realize the need of Jesus in their lives. 

In most cases, unless God reaches down into the life of the rich, they will not come back to Him. They fail to realize that is God who owns all things—the world and its fullness (Psalm 24 vs 1; 89 vs 11), and "no man receives anything unless is given to him from heaven" (John 3 vs 27). Therefore, it is more secured to put your trust in the Giver and the gift. 

Humility signifies lowliness of mind; modest, not prideful, submissive, deferential, and meek. These character traits are often lacking in the rich, because riches are mostly the worldly standard of evaluating success and achievement, and eventually cause the rich to think highly of, and too much about themselves. Evaluating yourself by the worldly standards of success and achievement can cause you to think too much about your worth in the eyes of others and thus miss your true value in God's eyes. 

The Scriptures, in Deuteronomy 8 ve 17 -18, say, "then you say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.' And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day." In times of plenty, we often take credit for our prosperity and become proud that our own hard work and cleverness have made us rich. 

It's noteworthy that it is God who gives us everything we have, and it is God who asks us to manage it for Him. The remedy for materialism is to remember Him from whom all blessings flow. It is easy to get so busy collecting and managing wealth that we push God right out of our lives. The key to an honest and accurate evaluation is knowing the basis of our self-worth, that is, your relationship with Christ who controls all things, and without Him you can do nothing. 

Consider the incident in our memory verse and the passage in Mark we read today. Jesus is not asking believers to sell all their possessions. Most of His followers did not sell everything they have to follow Him, although they used their possessions to serve others. Instead, this incident shows us that we must not let our possessions keep us from following Jesus. We must remove all barriers to serving Him fully, and humbling ourselves before the Lord.

Prayer: Abba Father, the earth and its fullness are Yours, and all good and perfect gifts come from You. Endue me with the spirit of humility, knowing that all I am, and all I have comes from You, and by You all things consist. I will humble myself before You, and at all times You will take the first place in my life, in Jesus' Name I prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!