THE LORD WILL PERFECT YOU!

 The Lord Will Perfect You! 

“The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.” Psalms 138:8 (KJV)

Knowing that God will fulfill His plan for your life puts all anxiety to rest. We have a loving Father who always has good conscience towards His children. Beloved, He has a plan to accomplish and perfect that which concerns you: this means He has planned for your welfare, to make it excellent (Jeremiah 29:11). He has also poured in abundance His mercy upon your life so that you are not condemned, destroyed, or ashamed. Remember the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, that He didn’t come to condemn the world but to save it (John 3:17). No matter the difficulty you are going through today, be encouraged by the opening Scripture to press on in faith; tomorrow the story will be different. His mercy will bring you to the perfect place He has designed for you. He is not ready to forsake you because you are His child, and He has faith in you (Hebrews 13:5-6). Dear beloved, encourage someone with the opening Scripture today so that you can celebrate together your perfection and victory tomorrow. Hallelujah! Glory to God!

Prayer Point: My faithful Father, thank You for the wonderful plan You have for me, and for assuring me that You would accomplish and perfect it. I believe it, therefore I’m ready to encourage people in my sphere of contact to trust in You, till they enjoy the fulfillment and perfection of the plan You have for them in Jesus’ name. Amen!

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GOD IS READY TO BUILD YOU UP!

 God Is Ready to Build You Up! 

“And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.” Isaiah 54:12 (KJV)

God is a real Father who is always looking for an opportunity to bless His children. He is ready to bless you both spiritually and physically. The opening Scripture throws light on three areas that the LORD is ready to bless in the life of His children: windows, gates, and borders. He will use precious minerals of quartz to build our windows. For our gates, He will use precious red stones. And for our borders, He will use pleasant stones. He will do this spiritually to our body and then physically provide a very good abode for our dwelling. No wonder Jesus Christ said we should not worry, because our heavenly Father knows what we are in need of before we asked Him (Matthew 6:8). He also said He will build His children up and the gates of hell shall not prevail against us (Matthew 16:18). Let us cheer up and worship God in spirit and truth, knowing that all our spiritual needs and physical needs have been catered for. Hallelujah! Glory to God!

Prayer Point: Dear heavenly Father, thank You for Your Word of assurance. Indeed, You are ready to release Your blessings to me, spiritually and physically. I’m ready to receive them, so build me up so that I will be able to contain Your blessings and become a channel of blessings for many lives to be blessed on earth in Jesus’ name. Amen!

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DO YOU LOVE RIGHTEOUSNESS?

 Do You Love Righteousness? 

“For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.” Psalms 11:7 (KJV)

Loving righteousness is the beginning of manifesting the nature of God. Righteousness is holy and upright living in accordance with God’s standard. God’s character is the definition and source of all righteousness (Deuteronomy 32:4). Beloved, do you love righteousness? If you do, then you are on the same page with the LORD. As a child of God, God is your Father or parent; therefore, you must love what God loves and hate what God hates. Children learn from their parents; hence, we must at every point of our daily endeavor ask ourselves whether we are doing the will of our Father in heaven. If you want to know what righteousness is, study the life of Jesus Christ in the Holy Scriptures and you will know that Jesus Christ is the righteousness of God (1 Corinthians 1:30). He is righteousness personified. Hallelujah! He lived the life of the Father on earth; He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil because God was with Him (Acts 10:38). As a child of God, think no evil of people; do good to everyone in wisdom, stand for what is just in society, and be the voice of the vulnerable. Dear beloved, as you begin to do these things and make them your lifestyle, you will attract the attention of God, and He will draw closer to you and make you a partner to reach and bless many lives. Hallelujah! Keep living righteously!

Prayer Point: My righteous Father, I’m happy to worship and serve You. Your righteousness is unsearchable. Thank You for imputing Your righteousness to me. Please let this righteousness show in my speech, actions, and reactions for many people to enjoy and draw closer to You in Jesus’ name. Amen!

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WHAT ELSE DO YOU KNOW ABOUT YOURSELF?

 What Else Do You Know about Yourself? 

“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:” 1 Peter 2:9 (KJV)

The only thing that truly reveals the nature of human beings is the Word of God. The Word of God also reveals the true nature of the children of God. The opening scripture is one of the scriptures that informs the born again Christian who God has made because they have believed in Jesus Christ and made Him Lord and personal Savior of their lives. Dear beloved, if you are born again, meditate on the opening scripture and declare it to yourself personally. Indeed you are now a chosen generation, meaning that God has selected you and made you part of a unique race—a royal priesthood  which means that you can approach God to have fellowship with Him and offer prayer and praises to Him (Hebrews 4:16); a holy nation, you have been set apart to enlarge your territory and multiply in number; a peculiar people, so don’t look down on yourself, because you are special to God. All these attributes should make you confident to offer praises to Him daily and be joyful in yourself because you are now light and have dominion over the kingdom of darkness (Colossian 1:13). Beloved, you are more powerful than you think; therefore, keep proclaiming your true nature and what God has said concerning you, and you will begin to experience and manifest your supernatural life. Hallelujah! Glory to God!

Prayer Point: My precious Father, thank You for choosing me and making me a royal priesthood. You didn’t end there but made me also a holy nation, a special person, and marvelous light. I will continually offer praises to You and take the opportunity to declare to people who I am, till they begin to see the manifestation of Your blessings in my life and are willing to come to Christ Jesus. Amen!

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GOD’S PURPOSE IS IN THE VICISSITUDES OF LIFE!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SUNDAY JANUARY 24, 2021.

SUBJECT: GOD’S PURPOSE IS IN THE VICISSITUDES OF LIFE! 

Memory verse: "And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called to His purpose." (Romans 8 vs 28.)

READ: Genesis 45 vs 5; 7 - 8; 50 vs 20:
45:5: But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.

45:7: And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and save your lives by a great deliverance. 

45:8: So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and Lord of all his house, and ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

50:20: 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.

INTIMATION:
God customizes some of our problems so that we can fulfill the purpose for which we are created. They are stepping stones, and ordained platform en route to our divine destiny. The vicissitudes of life we encounter are part of His plans for our journey in life to achieve His purpose. The cross you carry was tailor-made by the carpenter's Son. Therefore, when you encounter them, as a child of God, do not be dismayed, for He is still with you. If you are obedient, even to the end, you will eat the fruit of the land, and you will obtain the crown of life—eternal life with Him.

Perhaps no other account in all of Scriptures illustrates the strange vicissitudes of life more vividly than the biography of Joseph (The Dreamer). Joseph was was the eleventh, and the favorite son of Jacob, one of the patriarchs of Israelite history. Though Joseph was loved by his father, he was hated by his brothers because of his favored status. In Egypt he became 

a favorite servant in Potiphar's house, a favorite prisoner to the warden and other prisoners, a favorite interpreter of dreams, and a favorite lieutenant to King Pharaoh. And after many years, he became the favorite even to his ten brothers who were envious of him.

Joseph stoked his brothers' hatred by telling them of dreams he had—dreams in which his brothers bowed down to him. One day the brothers could contain their rage no longer. They seized Joseph and threw him into a pit. Their first thought was to kill him, but they changed their minds when they saw a caravan heading for Egypt. Instead of murdering him, his brothers sold him as a slave to members of the caravan. They returned home and told their father that Joseph had been killed by a wild beast.

In Egypt, Joseph became the trusted servant of Potiphar, an official in the king's court. Unfortunately, The trust was shattered by one false accusation against Joseph by his master’s wife. Without so much as a court hearing, Joseph was thrown into prison. 

In prison, Joseph met the king's cup bearer and the king's baker. Both men were troubled by strange and mysterious dreams. When they told Joseph their dreams, he interpreted the strange visions for them. Days later his words came to pass in precisely the way he had announced. Joseph merely attributed his ability to the God. 

Two years later, Pharaoh had a dream. His advisors could not even begin to interpret it. Joseph was summoned from the prison to decipher the strange, troubling images. After a moment of silence, Joseph declared the visions meant that Egypt would be blessed with seven years of abundance, followed by seven years of famine. 

In grateful response, Pharaoh appointed Joseph second-in-command in Egypt (a Prime Minister in a foreign land). Joseph's appointment remains an astonishing moment in ancient history. How do we explain his rise from an impoverished foreigner to an imperial leader? However, God was with him in his journey of life, and empowered him to overcome all temptations.

God predetermined the fame of Joseph, and even showed him in a vision of the night what He has planned and purposed for him. God packaged all the encounters in the life of Joseph to achieve His purpose. 

He was pre-ordained by God to be the savior of his people, and God was with him in all his travails. So many problems were lined up en route to his destined purpose; he was betrayed and deserted by his brothers; he was exposed to sexual temptation; suffered false accusation, and punished for doing the right thing; he endured a long imprisonment and was forgotten by those he helped. 

Joseph didn't plan to be in the bottom of a pit after he recounted his God-given dream to his loved ones, but he was. He did not foresee his brothers selling him into slavery, but they did. God had destined him for great things, but people and problems got in the way, apparently fashioned to get him his destiny. 

Joseph was faithful in the problems. He maintained his character and integrity while enduring the problem; he was patient all through, and didn’t complain while facing ridicule, rejection, envy, 

jealousy, false

 accusations, and imprisonment. 

Through it all, God showed favor to him. 

Are you a child of God? Do you place your absolute trust in Him, and is obedient and serving Him? Is God first in your life? 

Are you engulfed in the vicissitudes of life? 

Have you gone through your spiritual checklist to make sure that you are not the cause of the problem?

 

Do you find it difficult to find the purpose of the predicament you are in? 

If your answers are 'yes,' then, rest assured of your great visitation from Him. What you are passing through are all en-route to your glorious destiny. 

Prayer: Abba Father, though the labor of my hands may fail, nor the fields will not yield its food, though life turns sour, and I hardly can eat, though I crush under human hardship, I will put my trust, and rejoice in you. You are first in, and the Lord of, my life. For I know you will never leave me nor forsake me. My destiny in You is glorious, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed. Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

DO YOU HAVE A SCHEDULED TIME FOR PRAYER?

 Do You Have a Scheduled Time for Prayer? 

“Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.” Psalms 55:17 (KJV)

Designing a scheduled time to pray is an appointment with God and He looks forward to it to bless you. Christianity is the light of the world, and God is gradually culturing the world through it. The patriarchs have laid a good foundation for us to follow. King David is one of the patriarchs that we need to learn from: he had a scheduled time to meet God in prayer. He met with the LORD in the evening, morning, and at noon. Hallelujah! As a believer in Christ Jesus, you can adopt the Psalmist schedule of prayer as your foundation upon which you build your prayer life. If you schedule a time to meet God in prayer, ask the Holy Spirit to alert or remind you at the said time and He will definitely do so (John 14:26). Beloved, you might be surprised from the beginning that somehow, on the dot of such a time, you are awakened even from sleep to pray at the appointed time. This should inform you that our God is a “Great Timekeeper” in heaven and on earth. Amen. Dear beloved, do you have a scheduled time to pray? The Psalmist has shown you where to start. When you make time to fellowship with God in prayer, He directs you and things become easier. Remember that when the disciples met and prayed, they were emboldened to preach the gospel without fear (Acts 4:31). Hallelujah! Be prayerful!

Prayer Point: My faithful Father, I adore You for being a prayer-answering God. Please guide and lead me to design a scheduled time for my daily prayers. Let me never forget to meet You at such a time to fellowship with You in Jesus’ name. Amen!

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UNDERSTANDING THE GRACE OF GOD!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SATURDAY JANUARY 23, 2021.

SUBJECT : UNDERSTANDING THE GRACE OF GOD!

Memory verse: "But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (First Corinthians 15 vs 57.)

READ: Romans 7 vs 15 - 25:

15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

INTIMATION:

Revelation and understanding of the grace of God starts with the understanding of the Word of God—the Law of God (For better understanding always replace the “Word of . God” with the “Law of God”. The Word of God could be frustrating when we try to work the Word rather than the Word work in us. The most frustrating aspect of the Word of God is that it keeps convicting most believers. Incidentally this is what the Word should do to us. But how do we take and handle the conviction?

As the “Word” would convict us of our wrong doings, we turn completely to our Lord for the grace to change. The devil would take that thing (conviction) that was intended for our good and would begin to beat us over the head with it as condemnation. We would look in the Word and see our need to change, but we didn't know anything about the grace of God to bring about that change in us. We don't know how to allow the Spirit of the Lord come into our lives and cause the things to happen that needed to happen as we believed Him and exercised our faith. We thought we have to do it all by our own power.

The problem here is that most believers don't understand the difference between conviction and condemnation. When the “Word” convicts you in one thing or the other (which it ought to do), turn to God completely to accomplish the change you desire through His grace. Do not get frustrated when the devil will come to minister condemnation (which it ought to) because the devil's mission is "to steal, and to kill, and to destroy" (John 10 vs 10). We cannot suffer condemnation because Jesus Christ has already justified us as believers;  "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit" (Romans 8 vs 1).

When you try to change yourself, trying to make yourself be everything the “Word” (The Law) said you are supposed to be, you get frustrated because you cannot do it by your will power, but only by the grace of God. You have to submit yourself to the Lord and wait patiently on Him to accomplish all He planned for you. Trying to do something about something you can't do anything about is frustrating. It takes the grace of God to change to what the “Word” wants you to be. It is not automatic but gradual, being changed from glory to glory (Second Corinthians 3 vs 18). You conquer your enemies little by little (Deuteronomy 7 vs 22). When convicted by the Word, allow God (trust and surrender yourself to Him) to walk His perfect Will in your life.

In the passage we read today, the apostle Paul says that though we seek to do that which is good, the nature of our being as free-moral individuals in a world of choice does not have the ability to live flawlessly. Though the conscience of the Christian is made sensitive by the “law of God” as revealed through the Holy Spirit, the Spirit does not directly control the behavior of the Christian in reference to the law in order to guard him or her from sin. Therefore, because we know we sin, we are driven to the grace of God. Our arrogance is crushed by realizing that without God’s grace we have no hope of deliverance from the life of sin. In of our inabilities to perform behaviorally in order to stand just before God, we are driven to thank God for the revelation of His grace through Jesus Christ (Titus 2 vs 11).  

Prayer: Abba Father, thank You for Your grace made available to us through Jesus Christ. May the availability of Your grace be alive in my thoughts, that I surrender myself entirely to You and the leading of the Holy Spirit in all things, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!