The Evil of Aiding and Abetting: Devotion for Friday May 15, 2020

MY DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL

Devotion for Friday May 15, 2020

Topic: The Evil of Aiding and Abetting       

Text: Genesis 27:18 – 29

Rebecca knew that the blessing God wanted to give through Isaac was intended for Jacob, and expected he would have it. But she acted wrongly against Isaac by putting a cheat on him; she also wronged Jacob by leading him into wickedness of defrauding his brother. By her action she placed a stumbling-block in Esau's way, and gave him a cause to hate Jacob. The long term consequence of that action is the strife of Islam against Christianity.

The aiding and abetting of Rebecca is one of those crooked measures often adopted to further the Divine promises; as if the end would justify, or excuse wrong means. Thus many have acted wrong, under the idea of being useful in promoting the cause of Christ. No one can be wiser than God.

If Rebecca had not lead Jacob to supplant his brother, wouldn’t God have fulfilled his promises concerning Jacob? This is one area Christians make mistake too often. We try in so many ways to aid and abet ourselves and others in accessing favour from God and men. There is no how we can help God to be God. In all His wisdom, He is able to bring His decrees to fruition without our aid.

By aiding and abetting, most of us have encouraged or involved in all manner of crimes. If you have ever aided and abetted or you are planning one now, repent before the anger of God will descend on you. It is a sin to aid and abet in order to access God’s promise.

Food for Thought: Are there ways you aid and abet yourself or someone else to do evil or gain favour?

Memory verse: Genesis 27:7

Prayer: Forgive me O Lord in any way I have helped someone in aiding and abetting, and help me not to indulge in it any longer.

A New Thing For You

Devotion for Wednesday January 2

Topic: A New Thing For You

Text: Isaiah 43:16 – 21

The Lord has promised to do a new thing for you because it is His desire to do new things for us. The new thing will not be delayed because it shall ‘spring forth now.’ 2 Peter 3:9 say that the “Lord is not slack concerning His promises” and Isaiah 40:8 confirms that “God’s word will stand forever.” A new thing from God goes with a new song; new title, new office, new privileges, new blessings, new joy, new victory and many more. When you are promoted, your level changes. However, a new thing from God can be positive or negative depending on which divide you belong.

In Exodus 14:21 -28, when God parted the Red Sea, it was a new thing. The Israelites experienced this as a way of freedom. But to Pharaoh and his men, it was a way of total destruction. When God says to His children that He will do a new thing, it means that He will move them to a level of freedom they have never known before. It also means that God is about to surprise their enemies beyond recovery. Get ready; it is your season for a new thing that will lead to a new song (Psalm 40:3) in your life, family, business and ministry in this New Year in

Jesus name.

Beloved in Christ, before you hold on to a promise, you should first get to know who made the promise with the terms and conditions attached to it. The one who is making this promise to you and I is the one called Jehovah El-Shaddai – the God that is more than enough, the Almighty (Genesis 17:1). Have you known and accepted Him as your Lord and Saviour? Do you actually want to experience a new thing in this New Year? Then you have to prepare yourself and rededicate your life again to Him. If you have not accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, do something now so you could enjoy the new thing packaged for you this season and beyond.

Food for Thought: 2 Corinthians 5:17

Memory verse: Isaiah 43:19

Prayer: Lord God, do a new thing in my life that will lead to a new song this month and always in Jesus name. Amen.

Do Not Fear To Go To Egypt

Devotion for Sunday January 28, 2018

Topic: Do Not Fear To Go To Egypt     

Text: Genesis 46:1 – 3                                       

There are places God has chosen to open His promises to us and bless us. The promise of making Jacob great was made by God in Genesis 28:13 – 15. God saw that the promise could only be fulfilled when he leaves Beersheba thus He encouraged him to leave for Egypt to also fulfill His word to Abraham (Genesis 15:3). God told Jacob to leave his home and travel to a strange and faraway land.

At about 130 years old; it was a long journey, and he was unfit to travel that far. However, God reassured him by promising to go with him and take care of him. He fulfilled it by making Israel a great nation in Egypt. They were 75 persons that left for Egypt and came out in millions. What a mighty God we serve!

When new situations or surroundings frighten us, we should recognize that experiencing fear is normal. However, to be paralyzed by fear is an indication that we are questioning God’s ability to take care of us. There is a place God has made chosen to bless and prosper you this year. At His command, move on to that place. All you need to do is ask for divine wisdom from God to get to that place of recognition and blessing. We should trust God to help us as we undertake various ventures this year. He will see us through. Don’t be afraid. Move on and He will make you great. 

Sing SS&S 561; Abu 188  

Food for Thought: Where has God promised to make you great?

Memory verse: Genesis 46:3

Prayer: Lord, lead me to the place you have promised to make me great.

He Keeps To His Words

Devotion for Wednesday August 9, 2017

Topic: He Keeps To His Words

Text: Joshua 21:45

The words of Solomon in 1 Kings 8:56 confirm our topic for the today. God has never spoken and failed to do what He said. Joshua subscribed to the fact that all God said concerning possessing the Promised Land by Israel came to pass. The inviolable truth of God’s promise and its fulfillment is what Christians should look up to even when it delays in coming to pass. If in anything, it has seemed to come short, we should be ready to take all the blame to ourselves. God does not speak always but when He utters a word, He abides by it.

What are His promises you have laid hold on and they have not come to pass? What are you currently passing through that has almost consumed you and you have started to doubt the promises of God and their fulfillment in your life? Joshua testified that all God promised him and Israel came to pass. Solomon did same. All the promises He made to Paul also came to pass. I am assuring you, the user of this devotional today that God’s promises about your life and future will be fulfilled. Congratulations in advance. All will come to pass in your life in Jesus name. Just keep trusting and waiting for at the right time, it will be fulfilled.         

Food for Thought: “He who is the slowest in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it” – Jean Jacques Rousseau

Memory verse: Joshua 21:45

Prayer: God, bring all your promises for me and my family to fulfillment in Jesus name. Amen.

A New Thing

Devotion for Tuesday August 1, 2017

Topic: A New Thing

Text: Isaiah 43:16 – 21

The Lord has promised to do a new thing for you. The new thing will not be delayed because it shall ‘spring forth now.’ You may ask how do I know. 2 Peter 3:9 say that the Lord is not slack concerning His promises and Isaiah 40:8 confirms that God’s word will stand forever. A new thing from God goes with a new song; new title, new office, new privileges, new blessings, new joy, new victory and many more. When you are promoted, your level changes. However, a new thing from God can be positive or negative depending on which divide you belong.

In Exodus 14:21 -28, when God parted the Red Sea, it was a new thing. The Israelites experienced this as a way of freedom. But to Pharaoh and his men, it was a way of total destruction. When God says to His children that He will do a new thing, it means that He will move them to a level of freedom they have never known before. It also means that God is about to surprise their enemies beyond recovery. Get ready; it is your season for a new thing that will lead to a new song (Psalm 40:3) in your life, family, business and ministry.

Beloved in Christ, before you hold on to a promise, you should first get to know who made the promise with the terms and conditions. The one who is making this promise to His own is the one called Jehovah El-Shaddai – the God that is more than enough, the Almighty (Genesis 17:1). Have you known and accepted Him as your Lord and Saviour? If not, do something now so you could enjoy the new thing packaged for you this season and beyond. Happy new month!

Food for Thought: 2 Corinthians 5:17

Memory verse: Isaiah 43:19

Prayer: Lord God, do a new thing in my life that will lead to a new song this month and always in Jesus name. 
Amen.

He Is Abundantly Able

MY DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL

Devotion for Monday June 5, 2017

Topic: He Is Abundantly Able

Text: Romans 4:21

“God is able, abundantly able to deliver and to save those who trust in Him,” so says a song writer. God is able to perform what He has said. He fulfilled the promises He made in the scriptures. Where He did not fulfil it, may be the person to receive it compromised or failed on his part as in the case of Eli (1 Sam. 2:30). As we read yesterday, Abraham didn’t waver because of his strong belief that God is able to fulfil His promises (Romans 4:21). He was firmly persuaded of God's ability to fulfil His promises. Do you easily shake when you come to the curves of life? Abraham was certain that God not only could, but would do what He promised. We should know that this was not the only time Abraham clearly showed this kind of confidence in God. His faith was equally implicit and strong when God commanded him to go and sacrifice his promised son (Hebrews 11:19). Beloved of Christ, God is able to perform what He promised (Luke 1:37). What is that He cannot do? What you can achieve depends on what you believe. Do you actually believe God for what you are asking from Him? You should be fully persuaded that God is able to do it. It may have taken a lot of time but it is never late with God. You should live by believing in God and not by debating or arguing about His ability because with Him, all things are possible. Debating whether God can do it or not is a mark of unbelief. Just trust God for He would do it for you (Ps 4:5; 9:10 and 25:2).  

Food for Thought: All we have seen, read and heard are enough to persuade us that God can do that which we ask of Him.

Memory verse: Romans 4 verse 21

Prayer: God, grant me an implicit faith to trust you for all my needs.

He Is Abundantly Able

MY DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL

Devotion for Monday June 5, 2017

Topic: He Is Abundantly Able

Text: Romans 4:21

“God is able, abundantly able to deliver and to save those who trust in Him,” so says a song writer. God is able to perform what He has said. He fulfilled the promises He made in the scriptures. Where He did not fulfil it, may be the person to receive it compromised or failed on his part as in the case of Eli (1 Sam. 2:30). As we read yesterday, Abraham didn’t waver because of his strong belief that God is able to fulfil His promises (Romans 4:21). He was firmly persuaded of God's ability to fulfil His promises. Do you easily shake when you come to the curves of life? Abraham was certain that God not only could, but would do what He promised. We should know that this was not the only time Abraham clearly showed this kind of confidence in God. His faith was equally implicit and strong when God commanded him to go and sacrifice his promised son (Hebrews 11:19). Beloved of Christ, God is able to perform what He promised (Luke 1:37). What is that He cannot do? What you can achieve depends on what you believe. Do you actually believe God for what you are asking from Him? You should be fully persuaded that God is able to do it. It may have taken a lot of time but it is never late with God. You should live by believing in God and not by debating or arguing about His ability because with Him, all things are possible. Debating whether God can do it or not is a mark of unbelief. Just trust God for He would do it for you (Ps 4:5; 9:10 and 25:2).  

Food for Thought: All we have seen, read and heard are enough to persuade us that God can do that which we ask of Him.

Memory verse: Romans 4 verse 21

Prayer: God, grant me an implicit faith to trust you for all my needs.

Honour For Parents

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Devotion for Saturday May 27, 2017

Topic: Honour For Parents

Text: Exodus 20:12

Happy Children day to all our children! Honouring our parents is very important commandment that no one should despise. The reason is simple; it is one of the prerequisites for long life; the only commandment with a promise attached to it (Ex. 20:12b & Eph. 6:2). Parents as used here do not mean our biological parents only but all elders and people authority in the society and the church. By honour, it means we should esteem them both inwardly and outwardly. It demands that we should also fear (Lev. 19:3) and reverence them (Heb. 12:9). Above all it demands obedience to their lawful commands (Eph. 6:1 – 3).

The command to obey parents places a demand on children to come when they call them; go where they send them, do what they bid them and never do what they forbid them. Honour also involves submission to their rebukes, instructions and corrections, endeavouring in everything to make their old age easy for them; maintaining them if they are in need of your support. From the above we can deduce that children as used here do not necessarily mean infants but as many as have parents.

Children are commanded to obey their parents (Deut. 5:16 & Eph. 6:2). However, parents should also be models and good examples for their children to emulate. Do you live well as a parent? Children, do you honour your parents? Know that the long life you will enjoy depends on how much you honour your parents. Happy children’s day celebrations!

Food for Thought: Colossians 3:20

Memory verse: Exodus 20 verse 12

Prayer: Lord, help me to honour my parents and all in authority as expected.

HE WILL PERFECT ALL: Devotion for Wednesday July 20, 2016

HE WILL PERFECT ALL: Devotion for Wednesday July 20, 2016     

Text: Psalm 138:6 – 8          

Memory verse: Psalm 138:8 -The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; your mercy, O Lord, endures forever; do not forsake the works of Your hands.

Though the Lord God Almighty is high in the heavens, yet he has respect to every lowly, humbled sinner; but the proud and unbelieving will be banished far from His blissful presence. He views us from His heavenly place with pleasure, thinks of us with care, listens to our prayers, and protects us from evil. These are what He does for us especially those who obey words and live according to all He commands us.  

God is concerned in all that apprehensions His people – our cares and worries. He sees to it that none of the precious things He promised us, shall fail of completion. These include our lives, our strength, our hopes, our graces, our pilgrimage, etc, which shall be perfected. God Almighty will see to this and therefore, it is most sure that He will fulfill them. God will perfect what concerns me means that God will fulfill His promises concerning me. It is thus the prerogative of God to do it. It does not depend on our work. It is of the grace of God as it is in our salvation.

Every person dreams and makes plans for the future. Then he or she works hard to see those dreams and plans come true. However, to make the most of life, we must include God’s plan in our plans. He alone knows what is best for us; He alone can fulfill His purposes for us. As you make plans and dream dreams, talk with God about them. This is the only way He can perfect all that concerns us. We should not forget that the condition upon which God perfects all that concerns a man is to walk before Him and be blameless. Are you living the life God expects from you? How faithful and obedient are you to His bidding?

Action: Write down the things required of you for God to perfect all that concerns you and paste it in a conspicuous position in your room so that as your eyes will go there always, it will remind you of what you have resolved to do.   

Prayer: Help me, O Lord, to keep to the things required of me so that you can perfect all that concerns me.

Without Christ: Devotion for Wednesday July 6, 2016

WITHOUT CHRIST: Devotion for Wednesday July 6, 2016

Text: Ephesians 2:11 – 13        

Memory Verse: v 12 - That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

A life without Christ is miserable. Indeed, such life is dead while alive. That is the worst life someone can think of. This was our case before Christ came and died for us. Jews considered all non-Jews (Gentiles) ceremonially unclean. They thought of themselves as pure and clean because of their national heritage and religious ceremonies. This was a false conception and deceit; a consolation which blinded their eyes to the mysteries of God. This was one reason Christ was rebuking them of their false claims and hypocrisy.

Here, Apostle Paul pointed out that Jews and Gentiles alike were unclean before God and needed to be cleansed by Christ. In order to realize how great a gift of salvation is, we need to remember our former natural, unclean condition. This is what Paul posited in Ephesians 2:11, 12. See Romans 3:9, 23.

As Gentiles, we were living without any of the hopes and consolations which we now have, from having embraced Christ. Apostle Paul raised this issue to remind the Church at Ephesus and we by extension, of the deplorable condition in which we were by nature; and nothing would better express it than to say we were "without Christ," or that we had no knowledge of a Saviour. Therefore we shouldn’t allow this privilege to slip off our hands. On the other hand, have you ever felt separate, excommunicated, excluded, and hopeless? Don’t despair. These verses are for you. No one is alienated from Christ’s love or from the body of believers. If you have Christ, that is enough for you because He can do what no man can do for you. You are Christ own forever!

Food for Thought: Ephesians 4:17–19   

Prayer: God, you have shown me your love through Christ Jesus. Help me never to live a life without Christ henceforth in Jesus name. 

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WILL YOU DIE IN FAITH? Devotion for Sunday September 20, 2015

WILL YOU DIE IN FAITH?   Sunday September 20, 2015

Text: Hebrews 11:13 – 16           Memory verse: v 13

These faithful ones so far described in this chapter died without receiving what God had promised them – the promise of the new, eternal city (see 11:10). But these heroes saw and welcomed the promise even though it was, as it were, from a distance. These people of faith died in their faith without receiving all that God had promised, but they never lost their vision of heaven (11:16). Their future hope was not for this earth.

These heroes and heroines of faith looked for a better place, a heavenly homeland, the country of their own that they saw in the distance (11:13). As they served God and walked with Him in this land, they knew that this world was not their home, and they looked forward to that better place because the world to come is better than this present world. Because of these people’s faith, God is not ashamed to be called their God (see also Exodus 3:6), and he has prepared a heavenly city for them (see John 14:2). 

Will you die in faith even though that promise of healing, spouse, child, etc did not come through? Know that what God holds for us in heaven is more than what is here.

Food for Thought: What will be said about you when you die?

Prayer: Lord, keep me faithful till my death in Jesus name. Amen