AVOID FOOLISH QUESTIONS: Devotion for Thursday December 24, 2015

AVOID FOOLISH QUESTIONS    Thursday December 24, 2015

Text: Titus 3:9 – 11         Memory verse: v 9

Paul charges Titus that there are needful questions that should be discussed and cleared, such as make for improvement in useful knowledge and glory of God; but idle and foolish inquiries, tending neither to God's glory nor the edification of men, must be shunned. He urged Titus not to give countenance to those who promote Mosaic rites and ceremonies, but should avoid and oppose them; for they are unprofitable and vain. These He referred to as those foolish questions and genealogies, as well as those striving about the law. They are so far from instructing and building up in godliness

In the opinion of Paul, kind, watchful, and efficient discipline should always be maintained in our churches. Efforts, not by pains and penalties, but by sound argument and kind persuasion, should first be made to reclaim offenders. If all is unavailing, Christians should separate themselves from them. This should also be adopted in our personal relationship with people. We should avoid such people. Arguing with them will only lead us to worldliness.

Food for Thought: Is there any good in arguing what is true?

Prayer: God do not allow me into foolish questions and argument.

WHO HAS BLESSED US: Devotion for Thursday October 1, 2015

WHO HAS BLESSED US       Thursday October 1, 2015

Text: Ephesians 1:3 – 6          Memory verse: v 3

We wish Nigerians at home and in Diaspora a Happy Independence Celebrations. Indeed we are a blessed people even before the nation Nigeria came into being just as our bible reading says. Spiritual and heavenly blessings are the best blessings; with which we cannot be miserable, and without which we cannot but be so. This was the design of God for us as Paul tells the Ephesians before the foundation of the world, that they should be made holy by separation from sin, being set apart to God, and sanctified by the Holy Spirit, in consequence of their election in Christ. This was the condition for their continuous blessings from God.

Unfortunately it is not so with us. Thus our conditions are worse than that of the wicked because we have sold ourselves to the devil. We now suffer amidst plenty and the blessings of God have been hijacked by very few sons of Ishmael. That we are blessed is not in doubt. We should therefore return to God is true repentance as that is the only way to retrieve the blessings that have been hijacked. Remember that we should be the praise of God’s glory in this Land (1:11, 12). Let us rise again and make Nigeria great.

Food for Thought: Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any people (Proverbs 14:34).

Prayer: Heal our land, O Lord and make us great again in Jesus name.