Category Archives: God’s Promise
The God Factor
Rom.8:31 “What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?”
Yesterday we started learning a few things about how to be unstoppable from Numbers 23:1-30 and 24:10-11 [please read]. Our first learning was, we do not need to know most of the battles God fights for us. We just need to make God our dwelling and our covering.
#2: In the place of curses, God brings blessings. This is our second learning point. God replaces curses with blessing. Read the rest of this entry
Cheer Up!
Prov.17:22 “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength.”
If only you play a lot, if you will just laugh a lot, if you just allow God to be God, your life will be without stress. Years ago, Read the rest of this entry
Fully Persuaded?
Gen.2: 16 “But the Lord God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden— 17 except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”
Eve knew God talked about death, but she did not understand the dimension of death that God was talking about. The death God was talking about was separation from God, spiritual death and she eventually died physically. Read the rest of this entry
Acceptable Response
Dan.6: 14 “Hearing this, the king was deeply troubled, and he tried to think of a way to save Daniel. He spent the rest of the day looking for a way to get Daniel out of this predicament.”
There is such a huge contrast between Darius’ and Nebuchadnezzar’s responses to “defiance”. The reason is, Dairus obviously had experienced Daniel and had respect for him. Nebuchadnezzar on the other hand, had obviously not experienced the three young men and had no respect for them. In addition to that, Nebuchadnezzar had ulterior motives. His decree was out of his insecurity. Darius on the other hand yielded to “yes men” and discovered his error. However, favour and honour made Daniel a target. Some people’s response to favour is to avoid it all together and just coast through life. Some pray that God would reduce their measure of favour so that they will not attract attention. If you are favoured please be humble but embrace it and do not apologize for it or cut yourself down. You are not doing anyone a favour by making yourself look small. Stop it!
I know a family that would always train the domestic staff that they employ. They sponsor the person up to university level and give them a chance to make a life for themselves. So, they took in a boy, very intelligent chap, and started him up on the same path. He got into school and was excelling. One day, the boy’s mother showed up and started crying. She was convinced that the family wanted her son dead because if the people in the village hear of the boy’s progress, they will kill him. She pleaded with them to let him remain at the level of a domestic staff so that she can have her son in old age. They tried to point her to God’s protective covering that is available for her and her son. But when the woman saw that they were not accepting her proposition, she let it be. Then one day, she just showed up and took the boy back to the village.
Some people feel they need to wear rags to prolong their life. I am not saying you should become arrogant but if God’s favour on your life makes you a target, God Himself will protect you. We also see from the responses of the other administrators and high officers, that when people do not respond positively to the favour on another person, they became breakfast for lions. I pray that you will respond well, and those that become jealous of the favour on your life will be breakfast for lions in Jesus Name. If God is blessing your neighbor, He is in your neighborhood, so rejoice!
Prayer: O Lord, fight those fighting me; declare war on them for their attacks on me. Put on your armor, take your shield and protect me by standing in front, in Jesus Name. Amen [Ps.35:1-2, TLB]
Big Picture
Dan.3:26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came as close as he could to the door of the flaming furnace and shouted: “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!” So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego stepped out of the fire.
Gen.50: 19 (NKJV) “Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God? 20 But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good…”. This was the same Joseph that was hated by his brothers. They Read the rest of this entry
Dealings
Dan.2:20 “He said, “Praise the name of God forever and ever, for he has all wisdom and power. 21 He controls the course of world events; he removes kings and sets up other kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the scholars. 22 He reveals deep and mysterious things…”
For some people, God has been dealing with them about the same thing for years and getting the same wrong responses. Some people throw tantrums and scatter things like they are toddlers. Such people’s response to God’s Read the rest of this entry
Equipped
Isa. 49:25 (KJV) “But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.”
In addition to the deadly punch of obedience, gratitude, the victory combo, the power of the Holy Spirit, the spoken Word, the high praises of God, we Read the rest of this entry
Essentials VII
Eccl.3:1 “For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven… 11 Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.”
We will start today’s devotion by reading Joshua 14:10-12. Open your heart to the Holy Spirit and trust Him to reveal deep secrets to you today. Read the rest of this entry
Essentials IV
Gen.26:1 “And there was a famine in the land… 12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him. 13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great” (KJV)
In those days, when there is famine in the land, there is no water and no irrigation system. They depend solely on rain. Read the rest of this entry
Restore & Renew
Ps.139: 5 “You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head.”
Happy New Year! In this New year, God will continue to fill us to the over flowing with the life of Christ Jesus. God will continue to release us into our destinies and God’s Favourite House
