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Daily Devotional: REFUSE THE “DIRTS” THAT CAN CLOG YOUR “WELLS” He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water (John 7:38). Isaiah 12:3 says, “Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.” Wells of salvation refer to all the blessings of Christ inherent in the deep recesses of your spirit. The Bible says out of your spirit are the issues of life. You carry within you a fountain of blessings. Now, the devil always seeks to block up “the wells.” Think about it in line with what happened inRead More →

Daily Devotional: TRUST LIKE A CHILD Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding (Proverbs 3:5). Being trusting isn’t the same as being gullible, and recognising this distinction is essential there’re gullible people who think they’re trusting. To be gullible means to be easily deceived. But children aren’t easily deceived; they’re usually trusting. They trust your character. Adults, however, can be gullible. An adult will try to reason out whatever he’s told before he trusts it, and he may not give much concern to the character of the one he’s trusting. If you hold out a child fromRead More →

Daily Devotional: THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF YOUR DIVINE ESSENCE Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4). Many don’t understand the Spirit’s language in the verse above when it says, “Ye are of …”; it means you hail from God; you’re born of Him. This is what makes the Christian a divine being, and not a mere human person. Hallelujah! This is where some have missed it; their lack of consciousness of who they really are in Christ. The Apostle John, addressing this, said in 1Read More →

Daily Devotional: UNDERSTANDING GOD’S TIMING Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard… (Daniel 10:12). We’re in a very special dispensation in God’s Kingdom. Through the knowledge of the Word, we’re guided by the Spirit to walk in accordance with His plan and timing. For example, in Daniel 9, the Bible tells us that Daniel, while in exile with the children of Israel, understood God’s timing as he studied the writings of Jeremiah the Prophet. He found out they were meantRead More →

Daily Devotional: YOUR MOMENT TO SHINE Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid (Matthew 5:14). This present world is a world in spiritual darkness. It was the same in the days of Jesus. Recall at His arrest, He said, “…this is your moment, the time when the power of darkness reigns” (Luke 22:53 NLT). After Jesus ascended to heaven, the world remained in darkness. But you’re the solution to that darkness. We read in our opening verse that you’re the light of the world. You have to shine ever more brightly in these lastRead More →

Daily Devotional: LIVING IN CHRIST So then, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in Him (Colossians 2:6 NIV). Before we review Paul’s amazing submission in the verse above, let’s read what he said in the 20th verse: “Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances” (Colossians 2:20). Notice his amazing communication; he says the Christian doesn’t live in this world, in this natural plane of life. Where then does the Christian live? He lives in Christ! Christ is the homeRead More →

Daily Devotional: ALERT AND SENSITIVE IN THE SPIRIT ALWAYS Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8). On a certain day, as Jesus taught in one of the synagogues, He noticed a woman who was bent double; she couldn’t straighten herself. She had been in that condition for eighteen years. Then, Jesus said to her, “…Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God” (Luke 13:12-13). Although the religious leaders present were indignant that Jesus healedRead More →

Daily Devotional: YOUR NAME IN THE BOOK OF LIFE And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life… (Revelation 22:19). Many have assumed that when someone gives his heart to Christ, that’s when his name is written in the Book of Life. But that isn’t what the Bible teaches. It’s never really about your name being written in the Book of Life; the problem is about being removed from the Book of Life. In Exodus 32:32, Moses said to God, “…blot me, I pray thee, outRead More →

Daily Devotional: PURCHASED BY HIS BLOOD For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s (1 Corinthians 6:20). In 1 Corinthians 11:25, the Bible records that Jesus took “…the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.” His blood represents His life; He gave His life for us that we may live. It just lets you know how important you are to God. The Bible says we weren’t bought with silver or gold orRead More →

Daily Devotional: BE CONSCIOUS OF YOUR LIFE IN CHRIST Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world (1 John 4:17). When you read in the verse above, “…as he is, so are we in this world,” it’s not talking us being like Jesus before He died, but the resurrected Jesus with eternal life. We have the same life with Him now. The Bible says, “He that hath the Son hath life…” (1 John 5:12). If you have Jesus, you have eternal life—the God-life; it’s not the biologicalRead More →