God Comforts Us: Devotion for Thursday January 30, 2020

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Devotion for Thursday January 30, 2020

Topic: God Comforts Us                                          

Text: Isaiah 51:1 – 3

Those who are born again should consider that they were shaped in sin. This should cause them to have low thoughts of themselves, and high thoughts of divine grace we have received by virtue of our new birth.

Our text is a call to steadfast faith in the Lord. If we consider our present state, we will be discouraged. For this reason, God speaking through the prophet Isaiah called on us to consider where and how we started. He also challenged us to look at the life of Abraham our father of faith and his wife Sarah how He increased them. He thus assured His people of His comfort in their troubled state with promise of restoration (Isaiah 5:3).

Beloved, our God is a covenant keeping God. He that called us is faithful (Deut. 7:9; Nehemiah 9:32). He called us for a purpose which among them is to increase us and comfort us. In this world, we are faced with so many challenges of life like protracted sickness; sever wants, spiritual battles, etc. All these are what we face because we are still in the world. However, there is a place God has prepared for us that is void of all this challenges.

In the interim however, He has assures us of His comfort (Psalm 102:13; Isaiah 40:1; 51:12; 52:9 – 10). What is it that you lack now? He will make all to flourish again like the Garden of Eden in all areas of your life; your health, finances, marriage, studies, etc. Hold on to Him for He will surely comfort you.

Food for Thought: When God says something, He performs it.

Memory verse: Psalm 102:13

Prayer: Lord, send your comfort to me in my troubled situations

He Will Continue His Care: Devotion for Saturday January 4, 2020

Devotion for Saturday January 4, 2020

Topic: He Will Continue His Care                

Text: John 14:18 – 21

The parting of friends are always emotional and it is even more disheartening when it is at the point where you have just started knowing each other, and have started enjoying the relationship. I remember my last service at the church I served 6 months before going for Ordination training. It was more than emotional as my members were all weeping at the end of the service.

Jesus had just been with the disciples for three years and now he was leaving. In your mind, what do you think will be the feelings of these men who left everything to follow Him? Jesus knew what will be in their minds and thus He promises that He would continue His care of His disciples. I will not leave you orphans, for though I leave you, yet I leave you this comfort that I will come to you.

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God’s care for us didn’t end with last year. His care for us will continue from where He stopped with us last year. People usually try to improve on what they were the previous year so God will improve on what He did for you last year. However, it all depends on our love for God and His word. Where sincere love to Christ is in the heart, there will be obedience. Love will be a commanding, constraining principle; and where love is, duty follows from a principle of gratitude. Keep trusting Him!

Food for Thought: God is able to keep and care for all those who entrust their lives to His care and protection.

Memory verse: John 14:18

Prayer: God, I rededicate myself and family to your care and protection this year. Grant me the grace to love you and keep your commandments.

Move On To Actualize Your Dream

Devotion for Friday March 16, 2018

Topic: Move On To Actualize Your Dream

Text: Deuteronomy 1:1 – 8                 

The first part of Moses' farewell sermon to Israel begins with this chapter, and is continued to the latter end of the fourth chapter. Moses began his admonition (v5) by reminding them of God’s promises concerning Canaan (v 6 – 8). The people of Israel spent about a year on mount Horeb, the mountain that burned with fire (compare Hebrew 11:18). There God spoke to Moses that the people have stayed so much and should move on. They seem to be comfortable at that mountain but God told them to leave that comfort zone. No one can achieve much when he/she is in the comfort zone. You need to move out of your comfort zone to improve yourself, take more challenges and attain a new height.

Many of us are stagnant in our faith and spiritual lives. Some are comfortable being in the church without any commitment attached to it in terms of winning souls for Christ. Are you satisfied with what you are now? Are there no rooms for improvement in your life and career? If there are, then you should move on. Don’t sit in a place because of troubles of life that seem to have brought you to a standstill. It is time to move on. Are you mourning loss of a friend, a spouse, a parent, a benefactor or a child? It is time to move on. Dust yourself for there are better things ahead as there was Promised Land ahead of the Israelites. Sing A&M 331; Abu 109

Food for Thought: No one ever achieved much in a comfort zone.

Memory verse: Deuteronomy 1:7

Prayer: Lord, strengthen me to move in life not minding the troubles and challenges that have come my way in Jesus name.

He Will Comfort You

Devotion for Thursday March 1, 2018

Topic: He Will Comfort You

Text: Isaiah 51:1 – 3                              

It is good for those privileged to be born again, to consider that they were shaped in sin. This should cause us to have low thoughts of ourselves, and high thoughts of divine grace we have received by virtue of our new birth. In our text, we are called to a steadfast faith in the Lord. If we consider our present state, we will be discouraged. For this reason, God speaking through the prophet Isaiah called on us to consider where and how we started. He also challenged us to look at the life of Abraham our father of faith and his wife Sarah how He increased them. Thus, He assured His people of His comfort in their troubled state with promise of restoration (Isaiah 51:3). 

Beloved, God is a covenant keeping God. He that called us is faithful (Deuteronomy 7:9; Nehemiah 9:32). He called us for a purpose which amongst them is to increase and comfort us. In this world, we are faced with so many challenges of life like sickness (some protracted), sever wants, spiritual battles and many more. All these are what we face because we are still in the world. However, there is a place God has prepared for us that is void of all this challenges. In the interim however, He has assures us of His comfort (Psalm 102:13; Isaiah 40:1; 51:12; 52:9 – 10). 

What do you lacking now that everything seem to be like desert to you? He will make all to flourish again like the Garden of Eden be it your health, finances, marriage, studies, etc. In this new month, hold on to Him.

Sing SS&S 530

Food for Thought: When God says something, He performs it. Keep believing for He will never fail 

Memory verse: Isaiah 51:3

Prayer: Lord, send your comfort to me in my troubled situations.

He Comforts The Downcast

Devotion for Thursday November 30, 2017

Topic: He Comforts The Downcast

Text: 2 Corinthians 7:5 – 11

Paul was beset by fear and concern for Titus and the Corinthians (2 Corinthians 2:13). But God had encouraged him at the right time with the arrival of Titus. Being reunited with a fellow labourer in Christ brought him joy. But more than that, the news Titus brought from Corinth was enough cause for joy too. God gives us consolation when we are anxious and depressed. The consolations Paul enjoyed were from God, no matter the instrument used. Paul acknowledged God who was the author of the consolation he received. Titus brought him a most satisfactory report of the success of his epistle, and the good state of the Corinthian Church; a boost for his missionary work.

Many a time, we are often discouraged. We look for consolation and comfort as we labour for God and none seem to come. People we work amongst them even frustrate us. The devil and his agents are also on one side fighting against the work we do and we seem very discouraged. At other times, it seems too that God has withdrawn his grace from us. However, in whatever situation we find ourselves, God has ways of comforting us. When Gideon was so discouraged and frustrated, an angel of God brought comfort and encouragement. Are you down and discouraged? God will definitely bring comfort and consolation for you. He will cause your fears to go and your tears to dry in Jesus name. Amen

Food for Thought: 2 Corinthians 1:5

Memory verse: 2 Corinthians 7:6

Prayer: Comfort me O God, in all areas I am discouraged and in need in Jesus name Amen.

Why Are You Crying?

MY DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL

Devotion for Thursday June 8, 2017                  

Topic: Why Are You Crying?                                                           

Text: John 20:15

When God does something for us, we should be grateful for such blessing, received. Mary Magdalene demonstrated such character. She ministered to Jesus Christ with her substance (Luke 8:3). Jesus casted out seven demons from her and as act of gratitude to her great Deliverer, she became His follower. She was committed to serving Christ with total sincerity of heart and it paid off for her. When other women left the tomb disappointed, she stayed back crying at the tomb perhaps waiting to get information on what had happened. Her staying back paid off as Jesus appeared and spoke to her (John 20: 15a).

The first question Jesus asked Mary was an expression of kindly sympathy. The second question seems to suggest that He knew the cause of her grief. This is the character of Jesus; not only sympathetic but also empathetic about our situations (Hebrews 2:18; 4:15 and 16). His appearance comforted Mary. God will comfort you also on that, which is the cause of your sorrow and grief at the moment.

You may be crying because of what you are presently passing through or people might have mocked or abused you. Maybe you have made frantic efforts to succeed in life and nothing seems to work for you. Maybe you are in the hospital and there is no headway about your healing and now you have resorted to crying. Never mind, it is not and never too late with Jesus, except you haven’t invited Him into the matter. He has solutions to your problems. He has answer for you. Just keep trusting Him.

Food for Thought: 2 Corinthians 1: 3 & 4

Memory verse: John 20 verse 15b

Prayer: Pray for God’s comfort concerning that protracted problem that makes you cry often and again.

BLESSING FOR THOSE WHO MOURN

DEVOTION FOR FRIDAY DECEMBER 16, 2016

Topic: BLESSING FOR THOSE WHO MOURN      

Text: Matthew 4 verse 4 - Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.                   

People who mourn over their spiritual wants and over sin because they are guilty; people who long for spiritual blessings, and come to Jesus Christ for them, according to His directions are blessed (Revelation 3:18). This beatitude includes also all the mourning which children of God are subjected to by the chastening through which God prepared them for the everlasting joy of heaven (Compare Hebrew 12:5-12). 

Obviously, mourning for righteousness here is that entire feeling which the sense of our spiritual poverty causes, and so the second beatitude is but the complement of the first. It is poverty of spirit that says, “I am undone” – Romans 7:24; and the mourning it causes, make it to break forth in lamentation. Thus they shall be comforted as God promised (Isaiah 61:3).

Beloved in Christ, we should note that as mourning goes before comfort, so comfort shall follow after mourning. Our godly sorrow for our own and others' sins shall end in everlasting joy and comfort. Our mourning and tears for the ills of the present day shall end also in joy. Just like sowing in tears and reaping in joy so shall all those who mourn will be comforted because the days of their mourning shall soon end, and then God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. Do you have that poor spirit that will lead you into mourning? Do you have the tears God will wipe away so as to comfort you?

Food for Thought: Revelation 21:4

Memory verse: Matthew 4 verse 4 - Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Prayer: Give me the heart, O Lord, to mourn over my spiritual wants, sins and that of the world in Jesus name.

ARE YOU AT EASE?

DEVOTION FOR TUESDAY DECEMBER 13, 2016

Topic: ARE YOU AT EASE?                

Text: Amos 6:1 – 7

In the book Revelation, one problem with the church at Laodicea was lukewarm. They were neither cold nor hot. What led them into being lukewarm was the wealth they enjoyed (Revelation 3:17). This made God to rebuke them (Revelation 3:19), warning them to repent (See full story in Revelation 3:14 – 22). That story is very similar to our text for the day. Our bible reading centres on dangers of luxury and false security.

Usually, times of continued worldly prosperity and alliance with political leadership are full of danger to the cause of Christianity. There is always the tendency to bring into the church luxury, pride, vain show, and indifference to God's service, with all the gross sins that naturally follow in their train. Thus the professors of godliness dishonour Christ before the world, lose their power over men's consciences, and make it necessary that God should purify His church by His judgments.” This was the reason why Amos denounced those that are at ease in Zion. The people in question are men and women who have so much confidence in their wealth and their connections. This attitude is dangerous and God condemns it whole and entire (see Psalm 146:3 & Isaiah 31:3).

It was on this basis that Family Bible Notes admonished that “The numerous examples on record of great and often very sudden changes from a state of ease and comfort to one of deep affliction, ought to be a solemn warning to us of the present day not to abuse the great prosperity which God is bestowing upon us, lest He cause our sun also to go down at noon, and darken our land in the clear day, as he did with ancient Israel (Amos 8:9).” Do you trust your riches and now complacent on the things of God? Do you belong to the group that feels all is well because you have money and can get whatever you want at beck and call? Know that God is the owner of whatever you have and He is the only one that can connect us and not man. Trust God and not your riches for wealth are deceptive.

Food for Thought: Do you abuse the great prosperity God has bestowed on you?

Memory verse: Amos 6 verse 1

Prayer: God, remove every spirit of complacency in me in respect of serving you and help me not to be at ease because of my wealth in Jesus name.

HE WILL COMFORT YOU: Devotion for Saturday January 30, 2016

HE WILL COMFORT YOU        Saturday January 30, 2016

Text: Isaiah 51:1 – 3             Memory verse: v 3

It is good for those privileged to be born again, to consider that they were shaped in sin. This should cause us to have low thoughts of ourselves, and high thoughts of divine grace we have received by our new birth. Our text is a call to a steadfast faith in the Lord. If we consider our present state, we will be discouraged. For this reason, God speaking through the prophet called on us to consider where and how we started. He also challenged us to look at the life of Abraham our father of faith and his wife Sarah how He increased them. He thus assured His people of His comfort in their troubled state with promise of restoration (Isaiah 51:3).

Beloved, God is a covenant keeping God. He that called us is faithful (Deuteronomy 7:9; Nehemiah 9:32). He called us for a purpose which amongst them is to increase us and comfort us. In this world, we are faced with so many challenges of life like sickness (some protracted), diverse wants, spiritual battles, etc. All these are what we face because we are still in the world. However, there is a place God has prepared for us that is void of all these challenges. In the interim however, He has assured us of His comfort (Psalm 102:13; Isaiah 40:1; 51:12; 52:9–10). What are your lacking now that everything seems to be like desert to you? He will make all to flourish again like the Garden of Eden; be it your health, finances, marriage, studies, etc. Hold on to Him.

Food for Thought: When God says something, He performs it.

Prayer: Lord, send your comfort to me in my troubled situations

HE WILL CONTINUE HIS CARE: Devotion for Monday January 4, 2016

HE WILL CONTINUE HIS CARE                 Monday January 4, 2016

Text: John 14:18 – 21              Memory verse: v 18

When friends are parting it is always emotional and it is even more disheartening when it is at the point where you have just started knowing each other, and have started enjoying the relationship. Jesus had just been with the disciples for three years and now he was leaving. What do you think will be the feelings of these men who left everything to follow Him? Jesus knew what will be in their minds and thus He promises that He would continue to take care of them. I will not leave you orphans, for though I leave you, yet I leave you this comfort that I will come back to you.

God’s care for us didn’t end with last year. Just as Jesus did not end His care for His disciples but continued even after His death and resurrection, so His care for us will continue from where He stopped with us last year. We all know that every year, people try to improve on what they were the previous year so God will improve on what He did for you last year. However, it all depends on our love for God and His word. The surest evidence of our love to Christ is obedience to His laws. Where sincere love to Christ is in the heart, there will be obedience. Love will be a commanding, constraining principle; and where love is, duty follows from a principle of gratitude. The promises of God are confined to those whose faith works by love, and whose love to Jesus leads them to keep His commandments.

Food for Thought: God is able to keep and care for all those who entrust their lives to His care and protection.

Prayer: (1) God, I rededicate myself and family to your care and protection this year. 
(2) Grant me the grace to love you and keep your commandments.