BREAKFAST BY THE SEASIDE
Life's Punchlines... (Volume 3).
❤🇳🇬🇳🇬 Year 2020🇳🇬🇳🇬❤.
Preacher: Priest Godsknight O.J
Topic: Give Honorarium🏅.
Text: Luke 22v35" And He said to them, "When I sent you without money bag, sack, and sandals, did you lack anything?" So they said, "Nothing"."
Honorarium is a payment for a service (such as making a speech) on which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set. God created excess honorariums for humans, before employing them (Gen 1v1-25).
Honorarium is a divine command that was obeyed during the Old & New testament era on many occasions, it speaks of courtesy 🤝(Deut 25v4, Judges 13v15-21).
Those who received Jesus' disciples understood the tradition, they honoured Christ without reservations👍 (Luke 6v38).
May we come to that place in time, when Ps 24v1 will be well understood & graciously applied in all sphere of our lives in Jesus Name🙏.
Both workers & members needs honorarium. Everyone came to serve in one capacity or the other, honorarium should not be limited to invited guests only!
Love Offering💵, Tithe, First fruits, special seeds, Thanksgiving offering, are all honorarium. The church authority should learn to reciprocate.
Even in heaven, when you render services in other departments, you'll be given honorarium upon project completion.
Honorarium is not for adults only, Jesus expect the children to swim in it⚽🩰. Rewards knows no age bracket, benevolence 🍱🍾is ageless.
However, making honorarium the driving force can lead to a sin. Soon, scamming the flocks will start, leading to loss of ministry (2 Tim 4v10 ).
You can even donate your honorarium 💵to the less priviledged, that makes it an act of worship. Let no one useless you because of honorarium, a minister must be honorable always (1 Cor 9v11-18)
May God honour those honouring my ministry with comments, Watsap broadcast, Facebook likes, monetary support💶, etc, I'm grateful (2 Cor 6v3-10)🙏.
God bless you🤝.
Instagram: @PriestGodsknight.
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
DELIGHT YOURSELF IN THE LORD!
EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!
WEDNESDAY APRIL 22, 2020.
SUBJECT : DELIGHT YOURSELF IN THE LORD!
Memory verse: “Then you shall delight yourself in the Lord; and I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father. The mouth of the Lord has spoken. (Isaiah 58:14.)
READ: Psalm 37 vs 4 - 5; 145 vs 19:
Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart.
37:5: Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to,pass.
145:19: He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him, He will also hear their cry and save them.
INTIMATION:
To delight in the Lord means to experience great pleasure and joy in His presence. This happens only when we know Him well. Thus, to delight in the Lord, we must know Him better. It’s your quest and thirst to know Him and His ways that commits Him into revealing Himself to you. It’s by God’s grace that we exist. We never entered into any agreements to be created by Him. It’s all His doing, and for His purposes. Therefore, if He has done all by Himself, and for His purposes, it’s obvious that to live and do rightly—living according to His preordained purposes—you must know Him and His ways thoroughly.
The Scripture tells us to delight in the Lord and commit everything we have and do to Him. And to commit ourselves to the Lord means entrusting everything—our lives, families, Jobs, possessions—to His control and guidance. It means to trust in Him, believing that He can care for us better than we can care for ourselves, while we willingly wait patiently for Him to work out what is best for us. The knowledge of God’s great love for us, that love that drove Him to give His only begotten Son as a propitiation for our sins, will indeed make us delighted in Him. Whatever He does is permanent, and His blessings makes rich and adds no sorrow with it.
Jesus said, “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For all these things the Gentiles seek. For your Heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6 vs 31 - 33.) To “seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness” means to put God first in your life, to fill your thoughts with His desires, to take His character for your pattern, and to serve and obey Him in everything. God’s righteousness comes through one’s submission to His will. Seeking the kingdom of God, therefore, must always be first.
He created you and has put in place everything you require to live for Him, and according to His purposes. You can only know and have access to His limitless provisions when you delight in Him—strive to know Him and His ways better. Remember He said do this first—seek to know Him and His purposes for you first, and all other things you need, including your desires, will be added to you without struggle. All you have to do is seek Him first, and all other things flows your way as additions!
Before all else, strive after God’s way of doing and being right. Steep your life in God-reality through the wisdom and revelation of the knowledge of Him, never worrying about missing out. Put Him first in all you do—let Him take the driving seat in your life. Then you find that all your everyday human concerns will be met. Resolve to set aside time each day to read and think about God’s Word, reminding yourself of it day and night, and God will be your constant companion, ensuring your success in carrying out His purposes. You may not succeed by the world’s standards, but you will be a success in God’s eyes—and His opinion is most important.
Prayer: Abba Father, endue me with the spirit of love that I may delight myself in You, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.
PRAISE THE LORD!
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
FILLING THE VACUUM!
SUBJECT: FILLING THE VACUUM!
Memory verse: "And you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. (Colossians 2 vs 10.)
READ: John 6 vs 16 - 21:
6:16: Now when evening came, His disciples went down to the sea,6:17: got into the boat, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was already dark, and Jesus had not come to them.
6:18: Then the sea arose because a great wind was blowing.
6:19: So when they had rowed about three to four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid.
6:20: But He said to them, “It is I; be not afraid.”
6:21: Then they willingly received Him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.
INTIMATION:
Life without its Owner creates a vacuum. This vacuum needs to be appropriately filled. If you look around, you will notice that few people seem content within themselves. But when you get closer, they will tell you of a vacuum in their lives that needs to be filled. Many people are searching for something that will give their lives a boost. A strange and often hard-to-identify inner vacuum gives most people an uneasy sense of incompleteness. Christ fills that vacuum! As Jesus’ person is fully divine, so we, united by faith to Jesus, find personal fulfillment in Him: “You are complete in Him.”
Jesus is the Creator and Sustainer of all things: “All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life and the life was the light of men.” (John 1 vs 3 - 4.) With Him you are something valuable and unique; apart from Him you are nothing, and can do nothing (John 15 vs 5). Christ alone holds the answer to the true meaning of life because He is life. He is the unique source of knowledge and power for the Christian life. No Christian needs anything in addition to what Christ has provided to be saved, and to live; ‘as His divine power has given us all that pertains to life and godliness’ (Second Peter 1 vs 3).
In our life’s experience and circumstances, some days may not feel like it, but in Jesus, the vacuum is gone; the full power and presence of God have taken up residence in your mind and heart. In Christ you are a new person, equipped for life and satisfied in God.
In union with Christ through His empowering Spirit, we are complete. We have all the fullness of God available to us.
Take some risks—God will guide you. Give more generously—God will supply. Love more freely—God will energize you. Say “can do” more often—God will amaze you.
EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!
TUESDAY APRIL 21, 2020.
Jesus said, “I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.” (Revelation 22 vs 13.) Alpha and Omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, and it signify the eternity of God. Without Him you have nothing that is eternal, nothing that can change your life, nothing that can save you from sin. When you place your life in Christ’s hands, He restores you now and resurrects you later to an eternal, peaceful relationship with Him. Is the Lord your reason for living? “the Alpha and the Omega” of your life? Honor the One who is the beginning and the end of all existence, wisdom, and power.
In the passage we read today, the apostle John recorded the very significant and unique attribute of Jesus! When you willingly accept the entrance of Jesus into your life, you will immediately arrive at your ultimate life’s destination. Just as His disciples willingly received Him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land where they were going (John 6 vs 21). When you catch this revelation, you will willingly receive Him into your life, trust, and rest in Him, assured of your ultimate arrival to your life’s destination.
Prayer: Abba Father, all to Jesus I surrender, all to Him I freely and willingly give my life. I will ever love and trust Him, and in His presence I will daily live, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.
PRAISE THE LORD!
Monday, 20 April 2020
OUR DEBT OF CHRISTLIKE LOVE!
EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!
MONDAY APRIL 20, 2020.
SUBJECT: OUR DEBT OF CHRISTLIKE LOVE!
Memory verse: "This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you." (John 15 vs 12.)
READ: Romans 13 vs 8 - 10:
13:8: Owe no one anything except to love one another: for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.13:9: For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
13:10: Love does no harm to a neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
INTIMATION:
The extent to which Jesus went to give Himself for us—His life of inestimable value for our lives of sin that is completely worthless, manifests the extent of the love that Christ demonstrated toward us, and is commanding us to have the same for one another. The greatest expression of love that can be made is that one lay down his or her life for another. This is what Jesus did for us, and wants us to do for one another: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another.” (John 13 vs 34; 15 vs 12) This is called the “royal Law, and was given by our great King Jesus Christ.
Christlike love is a debt that we owe. We are permanently in debt to Christ for His love He lavishly poured out on us. The only way we can even begin to repay this debt is by fulfilling our obligation to love others in turn. Because Christ’s love will always be infinitely greater than ours, we will always have the obligation to love our neighbors. Jesus, our role model, asked God to forgive the people who were putting Him to death (Luke 23 vs 34). Jesus was suffering the most horrible, painful death ever devised by sinful man, and He looked at the people responsible for His suffering and prayed for their forgiveness. And because we are all sinners, we all played a part in putting Jesus to death.
Love is more than simply warm feelings; it is an attitude that reveals itself in action. How can we love others as Jesus loved us? By helping when it’s not convenient, by giving when it hurts, by devoting energy to others’ welfare rather than our own, by absorbing hurts from others without complaining or fighting back. This kind of loving is hard to do. That is why people notice when you do it and know you are empowered by a supernatural source. The apostle Paul, in First Corinthians 13, enumerated another beautiful description of love that believers have to show for one another.
Let us be imitators of God as dear children (Ephesians 5 vs 1). Just as children imitate their parents, we should imitate Christ. Our love for others should be of the same kind—a love that goes beyond affection to self-sacrificing service. Christlikeness (Christianity) is based on love. All human relationships that are true and enduring find their bond in the action of love. Jesus says we should love everyone, including our enemies and treat them well. Doing this shows that Jesus is truly the Lord of your life. This is possible only for those who give themselves fully to God, because only Him, through the help of the Holy Spirit, can deliver people from natural selfishness, and help us show love to those for whom we may not feel love.
Jesus said that if we truly love God and our neighbor, we will naturally keep the commandments. When you love God completely and care for others as you care for yourself, then you have fulfilled the intent of the “Ten Commandments.” Let this rule your thoughts, decisions, and actions. When you are uncertain about what to do, ask yourself which course of action best demonstrate love for God and love for others. Rather than worrying about all we should not do, we should concentrate on all we can do to show love for God and others. God’s laws can be reduced to two simple principles: Love God and love others.
When we fail to love, we are actually breaking God’s law. Examine your attitude and actions toward others. Do you build people or tear them down? When you’re ready to criticize someone, remember God’s law of love and say something good instead. Saying something beneficial to others will cure you of finding fault and increase your ability to obey God’s law of love. It is easy to excuse our indifference to others merely because we have no legal obligation to help them and even to justify harming them if our actions are technically legal! But Jesus does not leave loopholes in the law of love. Whenever love demands it, we are to go beyond human legal requirements and imitate the God of love.
When we believers lose the motivation of love, we become critical of others. We stop looking for good in them and see only their faults. Soon we lose our unity. Have you talked behind someone’s back? Have you focused on others’ shortcomings instead of their strength? Remind yourself of Jesus’ command to love others as you love yourself. When you begin to feel critical of someone, make a list of that person’s positive qualities. When problems need to be addressed, confront in love rather than gossip.
Prayer: Abba Father, You manifested Your unparalleled love for us by given Your only begotten Son as a propitiation for our sins. Endue me with the spirit of love that I may imitate You as Your child, and love You and others as You loved me, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.
PRAISE THE LORD!
Sunday, 19 April 2020
THE OVERCOMERS!
EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!
SUNDAY APRIL 19, 2020.
SUBJECT: THE OVERCOMERS!
Memory verse: "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; and they did not love their lives to the death." (Revelation 12 vs 11.)
READ: First John 5 vs 4 - 5:
5:4: For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.5:5: Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
INTIMATION:
Christians are overcomers; They have been brought forth from God by their response to the grace of God that was demonstrated by offering of His only begotten Son on the cross as a propitiation for the sins of the whole world. They have obeyed the gospel, and thus, have been born of water and the Spirit. Their faith is their victory insofar as they are moved to respond to the will of God. Therefore, the Christians’ faith has made it possible for them to overcome the world. Those who have obeyed have overcome the mentality and behavior of the world that is dominated by Satan as the temporary ruler of the part of the world that chooses to follow him. While Jesus is the permanent ruler of the whole world.
Christians became overcomers when Jesus, the Lamb, dealt the critical blow to Satan by the shedding of His blood on the cross for sins of the whole world. The victory was won by sacrifice—Christ’s death in our place to pay the penalty for our sins, and the sacrifice they make because of their faith in Christ. Jesus disarmed Satan and his agents—principalities and powers—and made made a public spectacle of them on the cross where He nailed them, and triumphed over them in victory for all believers (Colossians 2 vs 14 - 15). What Christ ‘disarmed’ on the cross was any embodiment of rebellion in the world—whether that be Satan and his demons, false idols of pagan religions, evil world government, or even God’s good angels when they become objects of worship.
Christ has delivered the Christians from the power of darkness and conveyed them into the kingdom of the Son of His love (Colossians 1 vs 13). True believers have been transferred from darkness to light, from slavery to freedom, from guilt to forgiveness, and from the power of Satan to the power of God—the ultimate power in the universe. Satan has great power, but people can be delivered from his reign of spiritual darkness because of Christ’s victory on the cross. Satan is powerful, but Jesus is much more powerful.
Christians have not only conquered the sin and death, they have also conquered the world because nothing in this world can separate them from the love of God. Satan has no subjective power over the Christian. Satan cannot of his will snatch the Christian from the love of God. He may go about in the world as a roaring lion (First Peter 5 vs 8), but His power of deception is not effective in reference to those who know and love the truth. He does not have the power to subject any Christian against his will who has given himself or herself to God.
Christians now has power over the results of their sins by the power of the cleansing blood of Jesus. They have power over the kingdom of darkness by the power of the gospel and the word of God that they believe and preach. They are willing to die in Christ because they know that death is only a transition into a better realm—eternal life with Christ. And in Christ, God has freely given us all things that pertain to godliness and to a life of victory in this present evil age in which we are living (See Second Peter 1 vs 3).
The Scripture, in Romans 8 vs 37 - 39, contain one of the most comfortable promises in all Scripture. Believers have always had to face hardships in many forms: persecution, hardship, illness, and even death. These sometimes cause them to fear that they have been abandoned by Christ. It is impossible to be separated from Christ. His death for us is proof of His unconquerable love. Nothing can separate us from Christ’s presence. God tells us how great His love is so that we will feel totally secure in Him. If we believe these overwhelming assurances, we will not be afraid in the face of life’s circumstances.
Prayer: Abba Father, thank You, our most merciful and faithful God, for all You wrought in Christ for us. We have eternally overcome the world in Christ. Give me the grace to live worthily—in obedience, trust, and love for you—in response to all You have done for me, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.
PRAISE THE LORD!
Saturday, 18 April 2020
Friday, 17 April 2020
BELIEVE AND SPEAK THE WORD!
EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!
FRIDAY APRIL 17, 2020.
SUBJECT: BELIEVE AND SPEAK THE WORD!
Memory verse: "And since we have the same spirit of faith, according what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak." (Second Corinthians 4 vs 13.)
READ: Mark 11 vs 22 - 24:
11:22: So Jesus answered and said to them, "Have faith in God.”
11:23: For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
11:24: Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them."
INTIMATION:
Believe is having trust in, or firm conviction about something. To believe in the Word is accepting its existence, recognizing its value or advantage, and to have faith in its ability. Believing builds up your faith. The Word is the same as God (John 1 vs 1), therefore, believe in the Word is believe in God. All God's attributes are also associated with His Word. Every Word of God is pure (Proverbs 30 vs 5), purified seven times (Psalm 12 vs 6), it is proven (Psalm 18 vs 30), it is living, quick, and powerful (Hebrews 4 vs 12), it stands forever (Isaiah 40 vs 8). and God hastens His Word to perform it (Jeremiah 1 vs 12).
Believing that God exists is only the beginning. You have to have faith in what you believe, and demonstrate that faith by practicing what you have believed. If one truly believes, he or she will speak forth the word of God. The faith or believe that one must have is not worth having if he or she is not willing to speak it out or even die for it. As you study the Bible, put into practice the lessons, commands, and examples you have learnt, you will be able to see your way clear enough to stay on the right path.
Faith comes alive when we apply Scripture to our daily tasks and concerns. The Word of God is a seed (Luke 8 vs 11), and when planted on good soil (the good soil is the qualifying conditions mentioned below) bears good fruit. The qualifying conditions to bring the power in the Word into action are: (1) you must be a believer; (2) you must not hold a grudge against another person (Mark 11 vs 25); you must not pray with selfish motives; (4) your request must be for the good of God's kingdom; (5) you must have faith in God and His Word, not faith in the object of your request.
Believe in God, and His Word, have faith and trust in Him, resolve to do His bidding, practice the Word life by speaking the Word into action, and rest assured of a profitable living as the mountains on your path of life will be leveled. The Word is like a medicine—it goes to work only when we apply it to the affected areas: The Scripture notes, "He sent His Word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions." (Psalm 107 vs 20.)
Now that you have known that God and His Word is one, the unchanging nature of God, and consequently the unchanging nature and efficacy of His Word, as well as the purity and power in the Word, and how He hastens to perform His Word, search, and locate the desired Word applicable to the situation of concern in your life. Pray that the Holy Spirit will open your eyes of understanding, and give you the desire to apply Scripture where you need the manifestation of God’s unparalleled power.
For instance, if you are having any health challenges, speak the Word in Isaiah 53 vs 4 - 5, Matthew 8 vs 17, First Peter 2 vs 24, into your health situation; "Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; and by His stripes we are healed; He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses in His body nailed them on the Cross that we might be free and are freed.” Keep saying it, don't stop saying it, and the result is sure to come. Though it may tarry, be patient and wait for it, for it shall surely come.
Remember the Word of God in Isaiah 55 vs 11, "So shall My Word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it." There is a Word for every situation in life. Locate the Word that relates to your situation, and sow the seed of the Word (Luke 8 vs 11) into the situation by speaking the Word. “God is not a man, that He should lie; nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will he not do ? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” (Numbers 23 vs 19.)
Prayer: Abba Father, You made all things by Your Word, and has given us all that pertains to life and godliness in Your Word, give me the grace to be studious of Your Word, believing and speaking Your Word into any situations of concern in my life, that I may obtain the inherent promises, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.
PRAISE THE LORD!
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