DEVOTIONALS
2024 DEVOTIONAL
THEME: PREVAILING TEENS BY GOD'S MERCY TEXT: 1 SAM. 2:9, ROM. 9:15
FEBRUARY
week THREE (day 19-23)
2022-2023 was really a tough year for me because I usually fall sick and every time I went to the clinic, I was diagnosed of either malaria or typhoid fever. Usually, I was always given anti-malaria, paracetamol and some antibiotics. After several attempts of on and off, one day one of the doctors said, whenever these medications are given, there should be an addition of blood tonic. After taking the prescribed medication this time around, I felt pretty better. But I wanted to be healed permanently, so I trusted Jesus and then he prescribed faith. And now I am healed till now. To be spiritually matured and sound there is a spiritual prescription. They are:
First, you must be born into the family of God by renouncing past lifestyle, believing in, accepting, and confessing Jesus as your Lord. When you do that by faith, then Jesus gives you His Holy Spirit. With him in you, you have an identity in the family of God. Although your physical body doesn’t change but in the spirit realm you spirit is seen as the baby (John 3:3)
Second, you must be nurtured by a parent or a foster parent. Note that the person that led you to Christ is your spiritual parent. And a foster parent is the one who pick interest in you to grow you with the word of God if you don’t have access to the original person who led you to Christ( 1 Peter 2:2, Hebrews 5:12-14)
Thirdly, you must change the circle of your friends and determine to forsake all inappropriate activities and actions. You are to deliberately take action on that by the help of the Holy Spirit that was given to you.
You try these three steps and see the outstanding result that you will experience in your spiritual health.
Pray, Read ,Think & Form your own Devotional note on the scriptures for each day of the week
write out your discovery?
Monday Ephesians 4:11-16(…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….)
Tuesday -Hebrews 5:13-14(……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………)
Wednesday -1 Corinthians 2:6(……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………)
Thursday -James 1:2-5(…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….)
Friday -Matthew 5:48(………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………)
Saturday – Activity “Apostle Selman”
week TWO (day 12-17)
2 Corinthians 5:17
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
In 2013, I was in the international airport for the first time for a journey when I saw a small pully truck pushing the big plane backward to the main road before it would navigate to the run way to take off. So I wondered whether the whole big plane could not reverse by itself then I was told that it has no reverse gear. In the same vein, deciding to be a family member of Jesus Christ is a big decision that anyone who makes such decision should never consider taking aa reverse to the past life from where he or she is coming.
You see, 1 Corinthians 5:17 says that if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, old things have passed away and behold all things have become new. Note the word, “All” not some “old things.” So when all old lifestyles are past, then you shouldn’t take a reverse gear to any of them again if they are termed old. There must be a 360 degree turn around character – communication, relationship, morality, reasoning, perceptions, work ethics, respect and humility and other – your entire lifestyle must take a new shape or form.
Dear teen, so which of the old things are you reversing the gear of your spiritual plane back to? Any plane that takes a reverse in the atmosphere will soon crash. And once there is a crash, it is always fatal. Make up your mind to stick to this life in Christ, it pays.
Prayer point:
May this old life style be stinking and irritating to me in the name of Jesus
Pray, Read ,Think & Form your own Devotional note on the scriptures for each day of the week
write out your discovery?
Monday Colossians 2:7(…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….)
Tuesday -Ephesians 3:17(……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………)
Wednesday -1 John 4:4(……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………)
Thursday -Romans 8:18(…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….)
Friday -Romans 8:35(………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………)
Saturday – Activity “listen to Myles Munroe”
2 Corinthians 5:17
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
In 2013, I was in the international airport for the first time for a journey when I saw a small pully truck pushing the big plane backward to the main road before it would navigate to the run way to take off. So I wondered whether the whole big plane could not reverse by itself then I was told that it has no reverse gear. In the same vein, deciding to be a family member of Jesus Christ is a big decision that anyone who makes such decision should never consider taking aa reverse to the past life from where he or she is coming.
You see, 1 Corinthians 5:17 says that if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, old things have passed away and behold all things have become new. Note the word, “All” not some “old things.” So when all old lifestyles are past, then you shouldn’t take a reverse gear to any of them again if they are termed old. There must be a 360 degree turn around character – communication, relationship, morality, reasoning, perceptions, work ethics, respect and humility and other – your entire lifestyle must take a new shape or form.
Dear teen, so which of the old things are you reversing the gear of your spiritual plane back to? Any plane that takes a reverse in the atmosphere will soon crash. And once there is a crash, it is always fatal. Make up your mind to stick to this life in Christ, it pays.
Prayer point:
May this old life style be stinking and irritating to me in the name of Jesus
Pray, Read ,Think & Form your own Devotional note on the scriptures for each day of the week
write out your discovery?
Monday Colossians 2:7(…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….)
Tuesday -Ephesians 3:17(……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………)
Wednesday -1 John 4:4(……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………)
Thursday -Romans 8:18(…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….)
Friday -Romans 8:35(………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………)
Saturday – Activity “listen to Myles Munroe”
week ONE
15 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. (Luke 15:15)
Someone kept knocking at my gate sometimes ago but I refused to open the gate because I couldn’t identify him. Then I said in a loud voice from within the house, “please, identify yourself!” and as he did, but I couldn’t recognise him because he looked so old, tall, plumpy. He saw that I was making some efforts to identify him, then he broke the silence by introducing himself. He had not landed with his introduction when the wind was cleared as per who he was. He was my childhood friend but we had parted after primary school education but now he is a grown up man- I actually lost his identity at first. Without any hesitation, I opened the gate and granted him access to my house and even to other compartments of my house.
The same thing happens to us as children of God, we could lose our identity in Christ when we stay away from within the confine of the house of God for a long time. We would lose who we are in Christ Jesus as the dear son or daughter who is entitled to all rights and privileges. You see the young man that was labelled “prodigal” in the Bible was because he left the family to identify with another family outside the family relations of his father. That singular choice that he made, afforded him the loss of the father’s nurture, care, security, food, kingly treatment, kisses, loving embrace, coverings/clothing, endorsement, guidance, shelter, access to helpers and other privileges. He really suffered because he lost his identity in Christ. But when he eventually returned to the family to identify with the father, he regained his rights and privileges as a sonship in the family.
Dear teen, don’t take rash decision to go away from the confine of Gods family in the name of freedom and because of the beckons of friends that are far from home. You may lose all your rights and privileges. And if you had left home please go to the gate of God’s family and keep knocking, calling him to grant you access into his family once again? Before you finish explaining what came upon you, Daddy will open the gate unto you. GO BACK HOME!
Prayer point:
Lord may I not lose my identity in you for any reason in the name of Jesus.
Pray, Read ,Think & Form your own Devotional note on the scriptures for each day of the week
write out your discovery?
Monday – 2 Samuel 13: 1-20 (…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….)
Tuesday – 2 Samuel 13:21-32(……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………)
Wednesday -Genesis 3:1-10(……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………)
Thursday – Genesis 3:14-24 (…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….)
Friday – Galatians 2:20,(………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………)
Saturday – Activity “listen to Steve Harvey on power to get up again”
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season. Job 5:26
Recently, I came across a movie that pulled out tears from my eyes. It’s titled “Thando”. The protagonist in that movie, a teenager being raised by her grandmother after she lost her mother due to wayward lifestyle, went through bully from school mates because of boyfriend matter. It lead to depression and eventually she ended in the hands of sugar daddy who totally wrecked her battered life. She tried all means to commit suicide but at the end, while she contemplated the last suicidal attempt, she saw reasons to change her mind from dying but alas! She lost her balance on the stool that supported her feet while hanging the rope on her neck, and sadly, she died. A future gynecologist did not experience her full age. Don’t waste your life dear friend.
From my perspective, a full age comprises of 3 stages- the cradle(0-9), the youth(10-25) and the Adult(26-death). Each of the three are further divided as well. But focusing on the youth, this is divided to pre-teen, teen, late teens, adolescents and early adult. This stage is very critical because it is fundamental and it determines whether one will come to full age as stated by God in peace. Now if this critical age is not maximized to its fullest potential, the next stage of life would be catastrophic . The more reason it must not be wasted. So what you spend your teen age upon determines whether or not, the late adult, and old age would be spent on weeping agonizingly, persistent frustration and life of struggle. Don’t miss it at teen age friend!
See, Whatever you would love to be known for is designed at teen age, purpose or vision is created and finalized at teen age, spirituality is deepened at teen age, your personality and true identity, your financial intelligence and integrity, your social capital that depicts your level of influence, intellectual capability, legacy and others are finalized at teenage. Teenage is for an all round building of yourself. It is not for fun but for real work. Don’t play when you are to relay or else you will relay when you are to play. I encourage you to put your hand in the hands of mentors whose life are also placed in the hands of God. Create time to eat spiritual balanced food now, feed your brain intellectually, be serious academically, keep your body, and mouth or throats under control, practice financial prudence, think about investment in real estate and other investments, be positive mentally, don’t play all day long, don’t stick to movies and social medial all day long, don’t use all the day for unproductive gist, reduce concentration on body image because of the opposite sex, deal with your phobias, endure hardship, plan, pray and pursue your desires.
Friend, spend your teenage well so that you could come to your full age and get there without blames and regrets.
Pray
I receive grace to spend this stage of my life meaningfully. Thank you Jesus.
week TWO (day 12-17)
FEBRUARY
week TWO (day 12-17)
2 Corinthians 5:17
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
In 2013, I was in the international airport for the first time for a journey when I saw a small pully truck pushing the big plane backward to the main road before it would navigate to the run way to take off. So I wondered whether the whole big plane could not reverse by itself then I was told that it has no reverse gear. In the same vein, deciding to be a family member of Jesus Christ is a big decision that anyone who makes such decision should never consider taking aa reverse to the past life from where he or she is coming.
You see, 1 Corinthians 5:17 says that if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, old things have passed away and behold all things have become new. Note the word, “All” not some “old things.” So when all old lifestyles are past, then you shouldn’t take a reverse gear to any of them again if they are termed old. There must be a 360 degree turn around character – communication, relationship, morality, reasoning, perceptions, work ethics, respect and humility and other – your entire lifestyle must take a new shape or form.
Dear teen, so which of the old things are you reversing the gear of your spiritual plane back to? Any plane that takes a reverse in the atmosphere will soon crash. And once there is a crash, it is always fatal. Make up your mind to stick to this life in Christ, it pays.
Prayer point:
May this old life style be stinking and irritating to me in the name of Jesus
Pray, Read ,Think & Form your own Devotional note on the scriptures for each day of the week
write out your discovery?
Monday Colossians 2:7(…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….)
Tuesday -Ephesians 3:17(……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………)
Wednesday -1 John 4:4(……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………)
Thursday -Romans 8:18(…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….)
Friday -Romans 8:35(………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………)
Saturday – Activity “listen to Myles Munroe”
week ONE
15 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. (Luke 15:15)
Someone kept knocking at my gate sometimes ago but I refused to open the gate because I couldn’t identify him. Then I said in a loud voice from within the house, “please, identify yourself!” and as he did, but I couldn’t recognise him because he looked so old, tall, plumpy. He saw that I was making some efforts to identify him, then he broke the silence by introducing himself. He had not landed with his introduction when the wind was cleared as per who he was. He was my childhood friend but we had parted after primary school education but now he is a grown up man- I actually lost his identity at first. Without any hesitation, I opened the gate and granted him access to my house and even to other compartments of my house.
The same thing happens to us as children of God, we could lose our identity in Christ when we stay away from within the confine of the house of God for a long time. We would lose who we are in Christ Jesus as the dear son or daughter who is entitled to all rights and privileges. You see the young man that was labelled “prodigal” in the Bible was because he left the family to identify with another family outside the family relations of his father. That singular choice that he made, afforded him the loss of the father’s nurture, care, security, food, kingly treatment, kisses, loving embrace, coverings/clothing, endorsement, guidance, shelter, access to helpers and other privileges. He really suffered because he lost his identity in Christ. But when he eventually returned to the family to identify with the father, he regained his rights and privileges as a sonship in the family.
Dear teen, don’t take rash decision to go away from the confine of Gods family in the name of freedom and because of the beckons of friends that are far from home. You may lose all your rights and privileges. And if you had left home please go to the gate of God’s family and keep knocking, calling him to grant you access into his family once again? Before you finish explaining what came upon you, Daddy will open the gate unto you. GO BACK HOME!
Prayer point:
Lord may I not lose my identity in you for any reason in the name of Jesus.
Pray, Read ,Think & Form your own Devotional note on the scriptures for each day of the week
write out your discovery?
Monday – 2 Samuel 13: 1-20 (…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….)
Tuesday – 2 Samuel 13:21-32(……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………)
Wednesday -Genesis 3:1-10(……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………)
Thursday – Genesis 3:14-24 (…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….)
Friday – Galatians 2:20,(………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………)
Saturday – Activity “listen to Steve Harvey on power to get up again”
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season. Job 5:26
Recently, I came across a movie that pulled out tears from my eyes. It’s titled “Thando”. The protagonist in that movie, a teenager being raised by her grandmother after she lost her mother due to wayward lifestyle, went through bully from school mates because of boyfriend matter. It lead to depression and eventually she ended in the hands of sugar daddy who totally wrecked her battered life. She tried all means to commit suicide but at the end, while she contemplated the last suicidal attempt, she saw reasons to change her mind from dying but alas! She lost her balance on the stool that supported her feet while hanging the rope on her neck, and sadly, she died. A future gynecologist did not experience her full age. Don’t waste your life dear friend.
From my perspective, a full age comprises of 3 stages- the cradle(0-9), the youth(10-25) and the Adult(26-death). Each of the three are further divided as well. But focusing on the youth, this is divided to pre-teen, teen, late teens, adolescents and early adult. This stage is very critical because it is fundamental and it determines whether one will come to full age as stated by God in peace. Now if this critical age is not maximized to its fullest potential, the next stage of life would be catastrophic . The more reason it must not be wasted. So what you spend your teen age upon determines whether or not, the late adult, and old age would be spent on weeping agonizingly, persistent frustration and life of struggle. Don’t miss it at teen age friend!
See, Whatever you would love to be known for is designed at teen age, purpose or vision is created and finalized at teen age, spirituality is deepened at teen age, your personality and true identity, your financial intelligence and integrity, your social capital that depicts your level of influence, intellectual capability, legacy and others are finalized at teenage. Teenage is for an all round building of yourself. It is not for fun but for real work. Don’t play when you are to relay or else you will relay when you are to play. I encourage you to put your hand in the hands of mentors whose life are also placed in the hands of God. Create time to eat spiritual balanced food now, feed your brain intellectually, be serious academically, keep your body, and mouth or throats under control, practice financial prudence, think about investment in real estate and other investments, be positive mentally, don’t play all day long, don’t stick to movies and social medial all day long, don’t use all the day for unproductive gist, reduce concentration on body image because of the opposite sex, deal with your phobias, endure hardship, plan, pray and pursue your desires.
Friend, spend your teenage well so that you could come to your full age and get there without blames and regrets.
Pray
I receive grace to spend this stage of my life meaningfully. Thank you Jesus.
APRIL DEVOTION, 2023
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for April (week 2 )
The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him (John 12:19)
I heard of the story of a young man who was the accountant officer of a small company. His Boss and other higher officers ganged up against him and frustrated him to a greater dimension. The Boss had falsified a document that contained a huge amount of money which he wanted to steal from the company and shared among themselves. Every other officer agreed to the plan but it was only this young man who called himself a true child of God. Despite his several financial pressure, and challenges- House rent, school fees of children, feeding and other debts, yet he refused to sign the document that his Boss pressurised him about. So the day he was to be evicted out of his apartment by his landlord, was the same day his Boss invited him to receive a sack letter. However, instead of a sack letter, it was a letter from the state government for the post of the minister of finance to the state government that was given to him by his Boss. The governor had earlier contacted his Boss who happened to be his friend to find for him a truthful, faithful and commited person to be employed as the new state minister of finance. So the Boss called together all senior staff to assist in watching and testing this young accountant officer who claimed to be a true believer in Christ. But he passed the test because he stood for the truth. And truth exulted him to a highest position.
Pastor W.F Kumuyi said, a true believer must stand for the truth always. Anyone who gangs up against you because of the truth gangs up against Jesus who is the Truth and life. God will fight them on your behalf. John C. Maxwell in his book How to Influence People said, one of the ways to influence people is by standing for truth always. And Bible says truth exults a nation(as well as an individual).
Dear teenager, truth is not an outdated habit o. Please stand for truth at all times, it is an attitude of Christlikeness and one who would go far in life and stay at the pinnacle of success.
Prayer
I will stand for truth even if no one stands with me. Jesus is with me, he will fight for me because he is the Truth itself. Standing for truth is standing for and with Jesus.
APRIL DEVOTION, 2023
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for April (week 3 )
Where there is no vision…the people perish…(Proverbs 29:18, AMP)
It was really disturbing. I had already planned what I would use the entire day for but right from day break, things were not flowing as planned. There were so many interruptions, distractions and others that scattered all my plans. At the end of the day, I discovered that I had not achieved one percent of what I initially planned for the day. That thing really got into me and caused uneasy feeling.
A lot of us go through the same challenge on a daily basis. As a matter of fact, the same applies to the vision and goals for the year that was scripted at the beginning of the year. You had a strong conviction that you will strictly follow it as the year begins but if I may ask, have you started implementing any of your new year resolution, vision and goals? The year is already getting old, I tell you! There are some teenagers who do not even have any vision for the year at all. They just live their lives as it comes. May I inform you that you are treading on a very dangerous path because such action leads towards a wasted life. It is not actually late to draft one vision now. But for you that have your plan for the year nonetheless, somethings kept happening so that you are unable to implement it yet or you are distracted so that you keep posting when to start, then let me assist you on how to go about it.
First, review what you planned to do, and give thanks to God that you have a plan. Second, rearrange them in the order of priority or importance. For instance, place each item of your plan under the following headings and be honest with it:
1. Important versus necessary
2. Not important versus necessary
3. Important versus not necessary
4. Not important versus not necessary
Note: whatever activity that points to the major reason for being where you are at this time and is valuable to your destiny is termed as important and necessary. That is, something that if you don’t do them now, it may affect the overall performance or fulfilment of your destiny. Such activities should be placed under number 1. What could be done next day or any other day should be under point 2. The one that you can delegate to someone else so that you could concentrate on number 1 -the most important thing to your life should be under the 3rd point and the ones that even if you wouldn’t do them for life, it doesn’t mean anything, then those things should be under the last point.
Brian Tracy says, 80% of your time should be spent on the most important activities of your life while 20% of your remaining time should be spread over other activities. Don’t turn it upside down or else, you will weep at the end of the day.
Receive grace to fulfil your vision for this year in Jesus name.
APRIL DEVOTION, 2023
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for April (week 4 )
. . . Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead.
Philippians 3:13 (TLB)
Jack Canfield said, you can move from where you are to where you want to be. However, Bishop David Oyedepo said, that can only be achieved through the power of clear vision.
Dear friend, how far can you see ahead and what can you see ahead of you? Do you see possibilities? Do you see yourself graduating as the best student in your college, faculty or overall best in the institution? Do you see greatness? Do you see breakthroughs? Do you see victories? Longevity of life? Prosperity? Gift of men? Good health? Wealth? Do you see yourself in accomplishments- buying that dream car, building that dream landed property? Do you see yourself as the leader, CEO, richest entrepreneur, and powerful Influential personality? Inventor? Do you see yourself as the executive governor or chief commander of the armed forces of the federation? Public speaker? Company and organizational creator? Do you see yourself as the highly sought for author? do you see yourself as the highest cited researcher? What do you see?
Can I tell you that where and whatever you focus on, there you will surely navigate to? If you focus backward, you go backward, if you focus forward, you go forward.
The power of vision is capable of designing the you inside you. You can use it to design who you want to be tomorrow. Someone said, whatever you can think about, you can achieve. In the same way, whatever you can see, you can create or bring to reality. See great things in your mental imagination, see distinctions in your exams, see the best relationship, home, or marriage, see your account filled with the amount that you want, see yourself being the celebrity in your field, see progress, see solutions, see courage, see positive things, confess positive things and experience positive things.
Pray thus:
I see the best of the best about myself, I am delivered from negative and backward mentality. Thank you Jesus.
MARCH DEVOTION, 2023
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for March (week 4 )
Those who still reject me are like the restless sea. … There is no peace, says my God, for them!
Isaiah 57:20,21 (TLB)
I heard of a brilliant student who excelled in all exams but failed woefully in her final exams at the University. While she cried, she said, she is extremely bothered because while she was about going into the hall of the examinations, her mother called to notify her that she had packed out of her marital home because her husband was caught with another young lady on their matrimonial bed. And instead of apologizing his wife, he began to beat her for the lady. This young student lost her peace and balance immediately. Just then, the father’s call came in saying he is disowning the children and the wife and that he is no longer ready to pay her final year school fees balance. She broke down emotionally and subbed uncontrollably.
Everyone needs peace. Loss of peace could bert chronic distress and depression. Peace is precious than any amount of money. With peace, virtually all things could take shape- Marriages could take shape, mental health could improve, significant progress could be recorded in all spheres. Peace is key to a wealthy life. Peace is a state of rest and calmness even when various storms surrounds one.
As I wondered how to receive peace so that burdens could be lifted off shoulders, Isaiah 57:20-21 came to mind. The major way to attract peace is by placing your attraction on Jesus. Placing attraction on Jesus means research on the man Jesus and his pattern of life. Jesus said, come unto me all you that have heavy load on your life or that are bothered and I will give you rest (peace), he also said, all that fastened their eyes on him were not ashamed and likewise, he said, peace I give unto you, not the kind that the world gives. You see, Jesus lived a victorious life- victory of Satan, Sin and the world. His life was not enveloped in worries or anxieties. Never reject this Jesus, he is an epitome of peaceful life. Search for how he lived each phase of his life and discover how to attract peace.
Do you need peace on any aspect of your life, then look onto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.
Would you ask for peace in Jesus right now?
Pray then and say, thank you Jesus for your life. I receive peace through you in the name of Jesus. Declare, I have peace in Jesus! Hallelujah!
MARCH DEVOTION, 2023
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for March (week 3 )
Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles (JOHN 11:47)
Conspiracy is synonymous with satanism. And the main character of satan is wickedness.
In the class in one secondary school, a set of class mates planned to teach one of their mates the lesson of her life that she will never forget because she revealed the noise makers to the teacher who vowed to flog the whole class if the noise makers were not spotted out. It was therefore planned that apart from ganging up to beat her while going home at closing hour, they will disgrace her in class. This young lady rose up to answer a question and while she was about to sit, her chair was shifted and off to the ground she went. But the story changed as she heat her head on the edge of the table behind her and sustained a fracture on her skull and eventually packed up.
Conspiracy is a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful. And that was exactly what the elders who old important position in the then synagogue did to Jesus. They were jealous that everyone is focusing on Jesus because of the miracles he was performing whereas, they were losing attention and fame. So they conspired to kill Jesus. The same thing is in operation everywhere in the world. Hence as a teenager, just know that you could be a victim of conspiracy if you are at the top list of good records anywhere you are. However, you can escape being a victim of conspiracy if you can follow these suggestions:
First, when friends call you to join in planning to commit evil or harm someone or do something out of law, do not agree (proverbs 1:10-18). Second, create social capital for yourself(Proverbs 18:24). One of the signs of true friendship is the ability to meet your needs when you need it. If nobody could arise to defend you when you need help, then check your relationship with people. You need to establish a group of true friends for yourself at all times -That is, be good to people, stand for people, render help to people, give to people, be humble, be kind and live in harmony with people( Romans 12:16). Third, never do to others what you would not want them to do to you.(Luke 6:31 and Matthew 7:12). Fourth, always practice security consciousness. Double check your surroundings if it’s safe before embarking on any action. Fifth, choose wise, godly and morally sound friends, and last but not the least, learn to know when to speak and when to keep quiet (James 1:19)
Dear friends above all, 2 Timothy 4:18 says; The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack… And
Psalm 121:7 says; The Lord will protect you from all evil;He will keep your soul. Lean on the Lord and see the way he will rescue you from all evil attempts.
Can you pray:
Save me Lord from evil conspiracy this year.
MARCH DEVOTION, 2023
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for March (week 2 )
Prov.4.23 – Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
A young man said he was tired of his life then I asked him, how old he was? He said he was 18 years old. What did he use those years to do, I asked him? Then I told him that was he aware of Reinhard Bonke who began to affect lives spiritually as from age 8? And was he aware that Donald Dougher, 15 years old, calls himself “The Richest Kid in America because of entrepreneurship” — and his worth is estimated to be between $900,000 and $1.2 million? But for him what he produced in his heart was tiredness.
See, the reflection of your life is determined by the product of your heart.
Life has issues and you are the one to produce the issues. Since you are to produce it then you are meant to manage it or else it could turn into a thistle to your life. It is very important to know that everyone produces and manages those issues. Some young people allow the production of the issues of life to be determined by external factors (circumstances that surround them) while others determine what the issues of life should be, they are in charge or in control irrespective of the external factors. They manage all those resources to produce the kind of life that they want. And the production site is the heart. That is why Bible says, keep that heart because out of it comes the issues of life. Protect, and guard your heart!
There are eight issues of life that everyone must manage well. They are: Education, Academics, Spirituality, Finances, Health, Relationship, Marriage, Rest/ Recreation. These eight issues are the departments in everyone’s heart and issues are produced from them depending on external or internal influence. If your life would be great and attractive, it depends on how you manage these eight departments and what issues you allow to be raised from them. And if your life would be a menace and nose diving, full of defeat, it also depends on how you manage those departments.
So to handle those departments from where issues of life emanate, be the gate keeper of your heart. Do not allow just any circumstance to gain access to your heart through the it’s gate, do not allow just any person into your heart if he or she has nothing meaningful to contribute to your life. The gate of your heart are your five senses- your ears, eyes, skin, tongue, nose. So what you allow to gain access into your heart through these means have the ability to define you. Guard it seriously and jealously so that sweet poisonous substances will not be allowed in so that frustration will not be produced as the issue of life. Take time to read the word of God and good books, watch edifying programs, feed your mind with good things and your heart will produce good things. You are making progress this year in the name of Jesus.
Pray
I will guard my heart from now, Lord, give me grace to man the gate of my heart.
MARCH DEVOTION, 2023
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for March (week 1 )
So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David. 1st Samuel 17:50
Many years back, a young man was faced with a serious challenge that affected his progress in education. As he gained admission into university, his father died. And because of that, he lost his admission for that year. But after 5 years, of assisting his mother with menial jobs just to keep the family going, he secured another admission to a university again. But as he was about to resume, suddenly, his mother also got knocked down by a vehicle and immediately, she died also. So he was left to take care of his younger sister. However, People rallied round him and assisted him to fudge ahead with his education as they promised to finance it. Unfortunately, when he got to the final year, he was diagnosed of cancer. So life became unbearable for him and so he planned to commit suicide.
Dear friend, many of us get to challenging times in life that we become fed up with the whole thing and so many unhealthy suggestions do run through our mind and even prayers become sour.
Permit me to say that challenges are part of life and in fact, it is the ingredient that provokes a spontaneous reaction within the body so that the mind automatically switches into action to find solutions. So challenges are just like the night which looks like a limiting phenomenon but was actually created for a rejuvenation of strength if properly maximised. I have never seen a night that started and never ended. Even the night that stood still during Joshua’s time, still came to an end. Listen, challenges have expiry dates and in fact, you can fast track the expiry date to suit your taste if you so desire.
In the light of that, let me suggest 4 points on how to prevail over challenges of life.
First, agree with yourself that challenges are normal part of life and they come in various forms and various sizes.(Job 2:10) The one you have is your size, you can carry it.
Secondly, accept the fact that no matter how long it stays, challenges will come to an end one day- so tell yourself to calm down and patiently wait for that time(Psalm 30:5a),
Third, find a godly, matured, and trusted friend that you can talk to and who is good enough to stand by you at that trying times and also go for spiritual programs that can lift your spirit from heaviness- don’t stay alone. (Ecclesiastes 4:10b)
Fourth, try your best to give room for happiness, I mean, try to intentionally smile but if you feel like crying, cry but when you do pour your heart unto God in Thanksgiving format and switch back to joy again. (1 Thessalonians 5:16-1)
Although there are other means to prevail over challenges but this four are powerful recovery antidotes in challenging times.
Bible says, David PREVAILED over his “Challenges” with a sling and a stone(simple instruments). See, take life very simple no matter what you are going through, it will end one day.
Prayer.
I will wait for your salvation my dear father. I receive grace to wait patiently.
AN OUT POUR OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN FEBREUARY Joel 2:28
FEBRUARY DEVOTION, 2023
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for February (week 1 )
Joel 2:28
28 “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
In every generation, some generals for God must emerge.
They emerge from teen age or youth age. And God begins to groom them for the stage.
For instance;
Reinhard Bonke was spotted out by God around 8 years old. God poured his spirit upon him and he laid his hand on his mother and the woman was healed instantly
David was a teenager when he was anointed and the spirit of the lord landed upon him from that day on word- with that anointing poured on him, he killed the enemies of the children of God.
Bishop David Oyedepo was just few years about 20, when he began to hear the Lord clearly
Samuel was still less than 10 years old when he heard God audibly
Now this another generation, and God is sending out his servants to raise for him spiritual generals who will showcase the raw hands of God on earth.
Now the word of God is so clear, in Joel 2:28, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
First, the promise is to all flesh, all flesh. As long as it carries flesh, you are qualified.
Flesh means that you are not perfect. You have weaknesses in some corners of your life so you only depend on Jesus for strength, you move by his strength, then you are qualified for the out pour of the spirit of God!
As long as you are a son and a daughter of the kingdom, you are qualified. You have accepted. and believed Jesus with your heart and confessed him with your mouth that he is Lord over you and all your being, you are qualified
As long as you are a youth, you are qualified . That is, you have strength in your bones to work for God in the kingdom, you are qualified.
You are qualified for 2 major anointing:
- Anointing for prophecy- meaning God is choosing prophets among people with flesh, people who are sons and daughters, people who are youths.
Do you know what prophets do? They hear, they see in the spirit. They are the custodians of divine revelation. They move the hands of God over the earth. They are men and women that command powers and authorities from the heavenly realms to control the cosmus.
- Anointing for vision.
See all development in the world came as a result of vision from one person or the other. The world is ruled by vision.
Cry unto God right now in the next few minutes and be intentional about it. See a picture of tongues of fire resting upon your head and disappearing into your body. See oil wetting your body right from your head. See the elders that surround the throne of God gathering around you to commission you. See God himself placing his palm on your head.
Now open your mouth and begin to speak in the spirit requesting for an Out pour of the spirit of God upon you.
The spirit of prophecy
The spirit of vision
I see in the spirit, I speak in the spirit, I move by the spirit, I hear in the spirit, I heal by the spirit,
I am a son in the kingdom of God
I am a daughter in the kingdom of God
I am a prophet
I see vision
Isaiah 61 . 1 says “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;”
Anointing follows when the spirit of the lord comes upon anyone; The anointing to preach, Anointing to heal, Anointing to deliver, Anointing to break chains, Receive the anointing if the Lord to preach.. For innovation, new ideas, for wealth. Move the earth for God by the spirit of the Lord. In the name of Jesus!.
Give him praise right now. In Jesus name we pray. Amen
AN OUT POUR OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN FEBREUARY Joel 2:28
FEBRUARY DEVOTION, 2023
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for February (week 2 )
Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way (MATTHEW 15:32)
That fateful day, I was in my room upstairs and I peeped out of the window all to see a coloured woman with her little daughter sitting on the ground across the road begging passersby with timid smiles. I ignored it but as I went off the window I heard the holy spirit saying clearly, “take some money in your walled rope and go and feed that child.” I heard it clearly and immediately I took action. As I delivered it to the woman, I could see a sign of relieve on her face. Note: it is important to set something apart to help other people.
Dear friend, Have you also heard the passionate concern of Jesus? Jesus doesn’t discuss his heart felt concerns with just anybody, he does so with his disciples- his followers. Are you a follower of Jesus and you are not bothered about any of his concerns?
He said to his disciples, “I have compassion on the people because they are hungry and I must feed them”(Paraphrased). How he was going to do it, and where he was going to get the means of doing it were not the problems. But for Him to call the attention of his disciples to it showed that he needed them to first of all see the challenge as he saw it and secondly, he wanted them to take action on his behalf immediately.
Have you also seen the concerns for people from the Jesus’ perspective? When will you take action? Do you know that many people actually want to become disciples of Jesus? But All they are looking for is someone who could compassionately show care for them by meeting some of their basic needs and you will see how the whole thing would work like magic.
Friend, how many people in needs have you met? And did you do anything about it? Or you are thinking about yourself too? Some people need just food, some others need where to live in, it’s job that some need, while some need just encouragement, some others need directions, while some need someone who could take care of their hospital bills. For some, it is their children that they want to sponsor to schools but are financial constrained. Some are dying of loneliness because they felt that no one accepts them. In summary, some people have challenges-such as financial, academic, moral, health, spiritual, imprisonment, condemnations, purpose discovery and lots more. Which one of these have you met for Jesus?
See, Preaching cannot heal, it is care that heals.
Jesus said I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me (Matthew 25:36 & 40).
Which one would you do for Jesus too then?
AN OUT POUR OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN FEBREUARY Joel 2:28
FEBRUARY DEVOTION, 2023
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for February (week 3)
I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Psalm 91:2
I heard of a story of a woman who said, ” this child will kill me ooooo”. Another said, ” this sickness will kill me”. And none of them survived.
Mouth is a sense organ that is sensitive. It is sensitive because beyond being a medium of food intake, it had been empowered divinely to command destiny and reposition same. Someone said, ” your confession is your possession.” The true reflection of anyone’s heart and life is revealed by what he or she says from the mouth. And never forget that as a man thinks in his heart, so is he( your outside is the picture of your inside). It is written also that we take care of our hearts, for out of it comes the issues of life and death( i.e, what could kill or boost life, and what could make a winner or looser lie in the heart). Depending on what you brood over, and allow to escape out from your mouth determine your fate or lot. Prayers are said with the mouth as well as curses. So configure your own mouth to one of those.
Some older men and women are in the state that they are today because of what they brooded upon and kept saying in the past. Even Job said it- what I feared most has finally happened to me.
See, Whatever you say to yourself is what you will get.
Why would you be pessimistic? Why would you be sarcastic? Why would you castigate yourself? Why would you be criticizing yourself? Why would you be negative in your thoughts? Why would you fill your mind with the “I can’t mentality”? Why would you think about dying? Why would you think about failing or losing? The strength that you put in the negative views, why don’t you place it on the positive. Bible says, Faith is what you Hope for…so why don’t you see hope in your hopelessness through the lens of faith and pronounce the positive out of your mouth by faith?
For David, he said, ” I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge”. Positive! So what would you say of your week? month? year? situation? family? Relationship? health? Exams? profession? Why would you brood on or carry bad news? and finances? Above all, what would you say that the Lord is to you? And what would you proclaim about Jesus to others around you this week? As for me, I am not stranded in life. All things are working together for me for my good. For the Lord shall supply all my needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. I am strong and full of strength, I am a wonder to many and a light to my generation. Hallelujah!
AN OUT POUR OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN FEBREUARY Joel 2:28
FEBRUARY DEVOTION, 2023
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for February (week 4)
Where there is no vision…the people perish…(Proverbs 29:18, AMP)
It was really disturbing. I had already planned what I would use the entire day for but right from day break, things were not flowing as planned. There were so many interruptions, distractions and others that scattered all my plans. At the end of the day, I discovered that I had not achieved one percent of what I initially planned for the day. That thing really got into me and caused uneasy feeling.
A lot of us go through the same challenge on a daily basis. As a matter of fact, the same applies to the vision and goals for the year that was scripted at the beginning of the year. You had a strong conviction that you will strictly follow it as the year begins but if I may ask, have you started implementing any of your new year resolution, vision and goals? The year is already getting old, I tell you! There are some teenagers who do not even have any vision for the year at all. They just live their lives as it comes. May I inform you that you are treading on a very dangerous path because such action leads towards a wasted life. It is not actually late to draft one vision now. But for you that have your plan for the year nonetheless, somethings kept happening so that you are unable to implement it yet or you are distracted so that you keep posting when to start, then let me assist you on how to go about it.
First, review what you planned to do, and give thanks to God that you have a plan. Second, rearrange them in the order of priority or importance. For instance, place each item of your plan under the following headings and be honest with it:
- Important versus necessary
- Not important versus necessary
- Important versus not necessary
- Not important versus not necessary
Note: whatever activity that points to the major reason for being where you are at this time and is valuable to your destiny is termed as important and necessary. That is, something that if you don’t do them now, it may affect the the overall performance or fulfillment of your destiny. Such activities should be placed under number 1. What could be done next day or any other day should be under point 2. The one that you can delegate to someone else so that you could concentrate on number 1 -the most important thing to your life should be under the 3rd point and the ones that even if you wouldn’t do them for life, it doesn’t mean anything, then those things should be under the last point.
Brian Tracy says, 80% of your time should be spent on the most important activities of your life while 20% of your remaining time should be spread over other activities. Don’t turn it upside down or else, you will weep at the end of the day.
Receive grace to fulfill your vision for this year in Jesus name.
AN OUT POUR OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN FEBREUARY Joel 2:28
JANUARY DEVOTION, 2023
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for January (week 4)
John.6: 66 -67- From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?😭😶
It’s not about being a prophet of doom, but kindly note that there will be strong and strange winds this year. There will be challenging times, there will be catastrophic moments, fearful and terrifying events, times of emotional break down, trying times and some more. When and how is what I don’t know. But I do know that some individuals will experience one or more of these while some will be exempted from all of those. However, no matter how tense challenges could be in 2023, You will be rescued from them all in Jesus name. But if you find yourself in any of these situations as a child of God, will you also turn your back against Jesus Christ? Someone would say No! But will anything happen that will weaken your prayer life? Would there be any thing that will decrease your hunger for the word of God? Will the fire on your altar go deem or go off? Tell me, what shall separate you from the love of Christ this year? Is it persecution?betrayal? loneliness? pursuance of material possessions? School or office work? Anxieties Or even a feeling of God’s silence over your supposed Critical issues? Would a time come in 2023 that you will neglect the way of righteousness or the way of the Lord?
Note that abandonment of Christ is embracement of Crisis. Whenever any storm arises, awake Jesus to address it rather than jumping into the storm by unsettled mind.
This year, you are safe, you are divinely guided, your very needs are met and you are anointed to overcome all challenging situations in the awesome name of Jesus. Don’t neglect Jesus or his body this year.
Pray Spill: 💧💓
My Dad in heaven, uphold me throughout 2023 with your hands of love. I will never abandon you or neglect your household no matter what may come. Thank you daddy. Amen.
WARM WELCOME TO 2023!
You will Grow by the Grace of God this year in Jesus name.
Dear teen, your future is now. The world we are today is quite advanced than what it used to be yesteryears; everything is developed extraordinarily, so you can't afford to remain on the level of teen mentality at this time and age. Let's sit with God in 2023 to reason together about what to do as from now.
We expect that through our devotional materials, you will grow spiritually, Intellectually and Physically.
Enjoy 2023.
JANUARY DEVOTION, 2023
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for January (week 3)
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. (Psalm 23:6, NKJV)📖💧
Sometimes ago, I read from a post about a man who usually branches the church every morning as he makes his way to work just to say, “good morning Jesus, I just want to say hi before going to work.” He was consistent with this habit for months and years until one day when he had an accident and was on emergency, battling with his life- he was in an unconscious state. One day, while the medical professionals and family members were losing hope on him, suddenly he rose up and was perfectly healed. How did this happen? The man explained that a man who identified himself as a friend walked in and said that he usually enjoyed him whenever he comes by in the church to greet him early in the morning as he goes to work however, for sometimes now he had not been seeing him anymore, so he also decided to go in search of him too just to greet him also. And as he left, the man who had been unconscious came back to life and perfectly healed.
I tell you, the house of the Lord is not an ordinary place. You can’t be desperate about the house of the Lord and He also would not be desperate about you and all that concerns you too. See, in His house, we encounter the presence of God that strengthens us spiritually, morally, intellectually, emotionally, socially and economically. The presence of God sets us free from sinful practices, and keeps us bobbling with joy that ordinary men cannot understand. In the house of the Lord, we receive grace for productivity that comes without stress through various relevant teachings, we receive anointing to handle all life matters and also live in victories. This house of the Lord, is a family that encourages spiritual growth, caring for one another, lifting of burdens, breakthroughs, breaking of bondages, and formation of social capital. We experience miracles, joy, peace of mind, communion with the Holy Spirit as we praise and worship the almighty God. Excuse me, aren’t all these wonderful? No one makes the house of God his passionate desired place and would not be in the company of the mercy and goodness of the Lord all the days of his life.
Would you make a choice to love, enjoy and stay with the members of the family of the Lord in 2023? It will do you good and you will enjoy the mercies of the Lord all the way. Throughout this year, everywhere you go, God’s blessings, goodness, favor are following you all around in the name of Jesus. But chose to stay in His house too.
Pray thus:🔥🔥
Father, thank You for Your abundant grace and mercy. Today, I make a solemn decision to dwell in your house for the rest of my life. I set my heart on You. Show me Your love in a new way today in Jesus name. Amen.
WARM WELCOME TO 2023!
You will Grow by the Grace of God this year in Jesus name.
Dear teen, your future is now. The world we are today is quite advanced than what it used to be yesteryears; everything is developed extraordinarily, so you can't afford to remain on the level of teen mentality at this time and age. Let's sit with God in 2023 to reason together about what to do as from now.
We expect that through our devotional materials, you will grow spiritually, Intellectually and Physically.
Enjoy 2023.
JANUARY DEVOTION, 2023
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for January (week 2)
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. (John 15:7, NKJV)
At a children’s camp, I was invited to talk to teen male children. Most of them were pre-teens. So I thought, they wouldn’t have any serious desire at all. On that bases, I asked if any of them has desires. To my surprise and contrary to my expectation, one little boy got up and said, sir, my desire on a daily bases is to lift off the heavy load on the shoulder of Nigeria and the Nigerians. 😲😲😲 I doubt if the boy could be 10 years of age. Another one said, he wants to enjoy a very robust relationship with the Holy Spirit. 🔥Wonderful desires! This implies that everybody has desires. What are yours as you begin this new year? 🤔
I want you to know that it pleases God to give you the desires of your heart!
He wants to see you happy, whole, strong and enjoying His blessing.
However, the conditions for the granting of the desires of your heart is rooted in your consistency in abiding (living) in Christ and Christ in you. Christ is the living Word of God- just by way of a reminder- so by implication, you must consistently live your life principally on what the word says. The Word of God must be the yardstick and principal guide of all your activities in life. And it is not just the quoting of the word of God when you hit challenges but it must be domiciled in you, so that it defines who you are. You must get to the point where the Word of God and you are inseparable. When you make the Word of God your number one priority, when you stay connected to Him through prayer and worship, His Word shapes and moulds your characters, your thoughts become His thoughts, your words become His Words, and your desires become His desires. That is what we called walking in the light of the word or yielding to the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Teenagers can walk in the Holy Spirit. Yes! You can.
It is then you can ask for whatever you desire and it will be granted because they will be aligned with His will. It is that kind of desire that God promises to give to you. If you want your desires to be granted in 2023, then, walk in alignment with God’s word all the time.
God doesn’t say a thing and fails to do it. If it doesn’t happen, then the problem is not from God, check yourself with respect to his commands. Have you fully obeyed them?
So what are your heart desires now? Ask accordingly.
Prayer Spill.
Father, today I submit every area of my life to You. I invite You to have Your way in my heart. Mold me and make me as I surrender every area of my life to You. I praise You and give You all the glory in Jesus’ name. Amen
WARM WELCOME TO 2023!
You will Grow by the Grace of God this year in Jesus name.
Dear teen, your future is now. The world we are today is quite advanced than what it used to be yesteryears; everything is developed extraordinarily, so you can't afford to remain on the level of teen mentality at this time and age. Let's sit with God in 2023 to reason together about what to do as from now.
We expect that through our devotional materials, you will grow spiritually, Intellectually and Physically.
Enjoy 2023.
JANUARY DEVOTION, 2023
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for January (week 1)
And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come (LUKE 19:13)
A person without a clearly defined work to do is a disastrous human disaster to everyone. Jesus had something to do in the light of the kingdom anywhere he found himself. The most frustrating thing in life is to be doing nothing. How on earth will you have nothing to do? So in 2023, there are works to do as a child of God. Therefore kindly pay attention to it’s details.
The summary of the work to do is to OCCUPY 2023. The meaning of “occupy” is to fix what to do in each day, week, and month throughout 2023. Fix and fill the year with some things important and necessary. No day must be left empty. Something significant to do must be fixed by you in line with God’s instructions.
Friends,
*Occupy the year with personal times with the Lord.* It was because of the personal time with God that Moses was inspired to lead. The more you spend time with God, the more you will be like God. Moses was like God because he stayed more with him. He fasted, communicated with God in prayer, he had times to hear God’s word in clear terms, and he was constantly in God’s presence. The secret of greatness is hidden in the secret place with the Lord. Listen to men and women of God either online or attend their programs physically, read spiritually inspired materials and invest both your midnight and early morning in your spiritual growth. Don’t copy anyone, copy Jesus.
*Occupy the year with personal development.* There is nothing that you want to achieve in life that had not been done by someone before. Successful people have put the way they attained success in books or audio visual forms. Find that book or video around what you want to do and consume it as if you could die without it. It must be a daily affair. Readers are best thinkers and sure it will put more than food on your table. Everything that you want to know is online in this our age. Google for important and specific things, listen to successful people on YouTube, attend seminars, workshop, buy books and so on. Pay for wisdom for sound wisdom comes with a price. You can’t make impacts without personal development. Pick a specific line of interest and develop yourself in it even if it will cost you something.
*Occupy the year with doing kingdom business.* Do the work of the ministry. -talk to someone about what Jesus has done for humankind, support missions with your money, intellect, materials and your time. Don’t eat your tithes and seeds, plan for them because it will chase devourers away from you. Apart from that, these are the pathways to financial abundance, health prosperity, academic success, security and other breakthroughs. Sometimes, prayers do no produce those things but following principles. Bible says, seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness (not pray ye first) and all other things shall be added into you.
*Occupy the year with creation of multiple streams of income.* The economy of the present times is not really favourable with respect to meeting all needs. So there is need to be innovative and creative and apply such to create other sources of income. God is never against you being rich but he is against the love of money and the unjust means of getting the money. Without money, some notable people would not listen to you because you will lose your authority to talk among them and of course you can’t penetrate or stand in certain places without some significant digits of money. Abraham and Isaac were very rich in their times because of the animals they rared coupled with God’s blessings. You also start a business, learn new skills, go for trainings, use your phone and other computing gadgets to generate more money, invest in real estate business, turn what you know how to do into money by making videos out of them and put them out on YouTube channel and so on.
Do not be lazy, get busy using your brain and hands to get what you want.
*Occupy the year with inscribing your name on a platform of gold.* – help someone, sponsor someone, encourage someone, solve a problem for someone, write something that will be beneficial to someone when he reads it, use your social media platforms for positive communications, organize a program or tutorial for a set of people to address a need, learn to say something hilariously, meaningfully and with simplicity. Life is short, so do something that someone will remember you for. Let your handwriting be on somebody’s life and heart for eternal purpose.
*Occupy the year to form and spend time with good thinkers.* John C Maxwell says he has groups of good thinkers who believe in him and think better and that is why he succeeds. Fix times weekly, and monthly to think. The successful have a bond of people like themselves or better than themselves to think for the next level in their businesses. Jesus had the disciples, Paul had sons in the Lord, Femi Otedola is friend with Aliko Dangote and others who control wealth in Africa. Which group do you belong? Who do you spend time with too? Find one in 2023 and make sure they fear the Lord.
*Occupy the year with your family members. Do the needful at home.* Be there for your family members, provide for your family members, care for them, reduce quarrels, go out on recreational and vacation activities with them, correct them and let them correct you when wrong and be united. Fix time for your family now because they will be the only people around you when time comes in your life.
*Note:* There is nobody without something divinely to do. 2023 is the “10 pounds” that was given by the master to you, his servant. Don’t waste it, invest it productively. You will leap astronomically with divine grace in all ramifications in Jesus name.
OCCUPY 2023 FOR JESUS TILL HE COMES!
YOU WILL REMEMBER 2022 FOR GOOD.
DECEMBER DEVOTION, 2022
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for December (week 4)
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11, NIV)📖💧
A father took his daughter to the gift shop to give her a surprise gift. He had a plan to get for her an electronic toy car that’s big enough to drive her around the compound of their house. But just to test the child’s alignment with his plan, he asked her, what do you desire that I buy as a gift for you? In response, she ran to pick a small police car toy that is small as her fist. 😀Dear friend, your heavenly father already has a plan for you both for this present time and the future. Those plans are the best for you because they are intended to prosper you with a prosperity that has no harm in it. It is only when we run ahead of God after prosperity that are outside the plans of God that we are harmed.
No matter what may be happening to you presently, its still designed by God, to be for your prosperity. Do you know that he could turn that pain that you complain about into gain? Do you know that he could turn your trial into triumph, he could turn your test to testimony, he could turn your disappointment into appointment? When you package all these together, it could be what would announce you for greatness. So that you could be invited here and there to share what they heard and read about you? Even if you only could see blankness looming around your today and future, God already has good things in store there for you! It may not be easy to see now, but God has already lined up a new beginning, new friendships and new opportunities for you.
All you need is to subsume yourself into whatever plan God has for you. It will all end in huge success if you could only patently wait in God, serve God wholeheartedly in his kingdom with absolute hope that all is well for your future and align with whatever is God’s plan for you. See, Just throw yourself in his arms and say Daddy, thy will be done😭😭😭
Then pray like this:🔥🔥🔥
Father, thank You for giving me hope and a future. Thank You for loving me. Thank You for choosing me. Thank You for delighting in me. I invite You to renew my heart and mind to the good plans You have for me in Jesus name. Amen
DECEMBER DEVOTION, 2022
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for December (week 4)
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11, NIV)📖💧
A father took his daughter to the gift shop to give her a surprise gift. He had a plan to get for her an electronic toy car that’s big enough to drive her around the compound of their house. But just to test the child’s alignment with his plan, he asked her, what do you desire that I buy as a gift for you? In response, she ran to pick a small police car toy that is small as her fist. 😀Dear friend, your heavenly father already has a plan for you both for this present time and the future. Those plans are the best for you because they are intended to prosper you with a prosperity that has no harm in it. It is only when we run ahead of God after prosperity that are outside the plans of God that we are harmed.
No matter what may be happening to you presently, its still designed by God, to be for your prosperity. Do you know that he could turn that pain that you complain about into gain? Do you know that he could turn your trial into triumph, he could turn your test to testimony, he could turn your disappointment into appointment? When you package all these together, it could be what would announce you for greatness. So that you could be invited here and there to share what they heard and read about you? Even if you only could see blankness looming around your today and future, God already has good things in store there for you! It may not be easy to see now, but God has already lined up a new beginning, new friendships and new opportunities for you.
All you need is to subsume yourself into whatever plan God has for you. It will all end in huge success if you could only patently wait in God, serve God wholeheartedly in his kingdom with absolute hope that all is well for your future and align with whatever is God’s plan for you. See, Just throw yourself in his arms and say Daddy, thy will be done😭😭😭
Then pray like this:🔥🔥🔥
Father, thank You for giving me hope and a future. Thank You for loving me. Thank You for choosing me. Thank You for delighting in me. I invite You to renew my heart and mind to the good plans You have for me in Jesus name. Amen
DECEMBER DEVOTION, 2022
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for December (week 3)
Your threshing season will overlap with the grape harvest, and your grape harvest will overlap with the season of planting grain. You will eat your fill and live securely in your own land. (Leviticus 26:5, NLT)📖
There was a time that I had a conversation with a young lady who said she doesn’t know how it feels to be hungry because she had never been hungry before. Everything was made available for her all round the clock by her parent. It looks funny but that is the same life that God wants for us. Because 1 Timothy 6:17b says …put hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. it is the joy of your heavenly father to provide all your needs for your enjoyment. … And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19.
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You might have taken an inventory of 2022, and concluded that your experience is contrary to what God promised you because your own field did not produce much to thresh for your enjoyment.
Yes, there had been times of severe financial constraints to meet your plans and desires, many times you couldn’t eat what you wanted, you couldn’t make the trip of your dream, you couldn’t pay one fee or the other, you didn’t enjoy the gift of men and women/friends, your health failed, there were losses, oh, you experienced lots of disappointments from people, you lost counts on moments of weeping, finding no reasons to be happy, moments of pains, confusion, and you trusted God for specific breakthrough in your profession, business, family, and many other things, yet again and again, you were let down. And you checked and found out that you obeyed all instructions of the kingdom, yet things are still the same. 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Your heavenly father sent me to you today to remind you that he has a plan for you, and it’s the plan of good, not of evil to bring you to your expected end. Jeremiah 29:11. Heaven and earth will pass away, but not one of his word will go unfulfilled Matthew 24:35
Hear this, friend, Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. Habakkuk 3:17-19😁🍇🍓🍒
I want you to know that 2022 is not yet over, and it does not take your heavenly father to change your story within seconds if you could wait patiently with and for him and praise him not for what you expect him to do but for who he is.
Note: Humans may not be trusted but Whatever God says, he will do. His promises are still intact.
Pray with me🔥🔥🙏
Father, thank You for Your faithfulness in my life. Thank You for working behind the scenes on my behalf. I trust that my times are in Your hands. I know that You have a good plan for my future, so I open my heart and put my faith and trust totally in You in Jesus name. Amen
DECEMBER DEVOTION, 2022
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for December (week 2)
Now looking at the passage again, 2Tim.1.7 – For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. (KJV)📖📖💧
God specified that… But of power, love and sound mind. Let’s rephrase that sentence. God hath not given us the spirit of fear but (he hath given us the spirit) of power, love and sound mind. By implications, power has a spirit, love has a spirit and sound mind has a spirit. Excuse me, if these three has spirits, then all other good things have spirits as well. Bible says, and God gave Solomon wisdom, and great wealth. Do you know that it is actually written that there is a spirit called the spirit of wisdom, spirit of grace, spirit of wealth, spirit of sound health or healing, spirit of money or riches, spirit of joy, of comfort, reminder, guidance, spirit of discernment, God gives these spirits? Jesus said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me… (Luke 4:18, Isaiah 61:1)The same was said by John the Baptist, he said I saw the spirit descending upon Jesus like a dove. He saw…Prophet Samuel poured the anointing oil on David and it was said that from that day onward, the spirit of the Lord came upon him.
This means that the spirit of the Lord comes upon people. And it happens when the person sees(desires and engages the power of imagination to see within the coming of the spirit upon you. It also happen when the person declares it with the whole of your heart and believe that what you are seeing is actually happening. I mean that you must engage the power of imagination proclamation about this matter. Will you engage that same power of imagination and proclaim that the spirit of the Lord is upon you.Bible says, and they were filled by the spirit. Proclaim that you are filled by the spirit. Filled with the spirit of power, spirit of love, spirit of sound mind, spirit of wisdom, spirit of grace, spirit of comfort, spirit of wealth, spirit of riches, mention and see the spirit land upon your spirit…
I decree, from now henceforth,
Receive the spirit that had been given by God. Be filled by the spirit of power, be filled the spirit of love, be filled by the spirit of sound mind. In the name of Jesus.
Thank you Jesus.
DECEMBER DEVOTION, 2022
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for December (week 1)
2Tim.1.7 – For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. (KJV)📖
Everything is controlled by a spirit. However, the giving of spirit is carried out by God. Consequently, the devil also gives spirits but with the permission of God.
Now God specified categorically that he had not given us the spirit of fear. By implications, fear has a spirit that controls it. And the kind of fear was not specified. Which means that whenever anyone is experiencing any kind of fear, – phobias, anxieties, paranoids, etc, this spirit is responsible for them all.
Now it simply means that all negative behaviours, habits and events or occurrences are controlled by spirits and each situation is named after the spirit.
So as there is the spirit of fear, there is spirit of sickness, spirit of bad luck, spirit of accident, spirit of misfortune, spirit of hatred, failure, immorality, lie, stealing, laziness, etc
But the bible says, resist the devil and he will flee from you. Now it means that devil can flee and what makes it to flee is just a “resistance” when the devil pestered Jesus for some time in the wilderness, even the quoting of scriptures didn’t make the devil to flee rather, he pressed on to tempt further. Not until out of the anguish of the soul Jesus pronounced a resistance, to the devil he did not leave. Then Jesus said, Satan, get the behind me! Then the devil left him for a while. Behind is the location of the devil, until you give him that instruction, he will continue to stay before you. When the devil leaves, he goes with his spirit. That was the strategy that Jesus used all the time. He said the same to Satan when he entered Peter, he said the same thing when evil spirit troubled the sea, he said the same thing when Lazarus was to be raised to life, he said the same thing when people were crying around that dead child in the room, he drove them out, when his father’s house was being turned into the den of robbers, he drove them away – he was not quoting bible.
Friends, are you experiencing the operation of the spirits that were not given by God, with a strong and burning anger from within, pronounce a resistance unto them. I resist you spirit of fear, get out! get behind me!
Mention the spirits that are operating right now and give them the command.
I resist you spirit of failure, spirit of misfortune, spirit of depression, spirit of lack, poverty, unforgiveness, spirit of hatred, spirit of weakness, spirit of sleeplessness, confusion, anger, aggression, bitterness, illegal sex, pornography, masturbation, tiredness, unorganized life, retrogression, doubt and unbelievable or faithlessness, every unfavorable situation,
Resist them in the name of Jesus. Bible says the Lord rebukes you. Rebuke them in the name of the Lord. Do it until you are free. For if the son of man sets you free (from these spirits) you are free indeed.
Thank you Jesus.
NOVEMBER DEVOTION, 2022
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for November
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever. Hebrews 13:8
Some years back, I met with someone who was like an angel. Everyone talked good about her and I also witnessed it myself. So I prayed earnestly that God helps me to have that kind of life too. But after some years later, that great woman of God was caught fighting in the public. The worst was that she was caught in an hotel several times with different pot bellied men in immorality. She now dressed like an harlot and visits native doctors frequently for charms. 😱😭😭😭. I screamed when this news got to my attention. Kai! 😬🥹 See, how human beings change any how!!! but thanks be to Jesus, Jesus had never changed since the foundation of the earth. His nature and words never changes, his characters never changes, his values, promises, love, kindness, and authority and power has not change too.
It has never happened that Jesus was good yesterday and then changes to become bad today, he didn’t say he was going to do something yesterday and today, he changes his mind. He had remained constant in words, character and power.
So have you been disappointed because of the inconsistency of men? Have your close friend or blood relation offended you because of their changing attitude?
My friend, do not be surprised or discouraged at all, it is human to change at any given time 🙇♂️😊 but Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever.
Dear young lady and man, have you also changed from good to bad or bad to Good. Are people finding out that you are no longer consistent, loving, righteous, truthful, open as you were in the time past? Or are you considering to change from being good, godly, truthful, chaste or hard working just because of your experiences of disappointments?
Remember, If anyone is in Christ he is a new creature and we all shall be judged by what we have done in the flesh. Do not give up in well doing, knowing that we will be rewarded in due time if we faint not. Please be encouraged, don’t change to evil doing now, it may result in eternal regret. Remain constant just like Jesus your Lord and master.
Prayer spill
Jesus, even if loved ones, friends, acquaintances change, You are always the same. Strengthen me to take after your step. Thank You for Your unchanging love.
NOVEMBER DEVOTION, 2022
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for November
So use every piece of God’s armor to resist the enemy whenever he attacks, and when it is all over, you will still be standing up. Ephesians 6:13 (TLB)
We live in the world of trials and so we will continually face trials in various areas of our lives, most importantly the trial of our faith in Jesus as our personal Lord and saviour. Apart, we will be tried in our moral stance, especially the aspect of sex, money and truth. And I assure you that some of God’s children who never believed that they could fall had actually fallen so cheaply. Little wonder the word of God says, ” if anyone thinks that he stands, let him stand firm so that he/she may not fall. So have you fallen? Do not worry, There is still home for you. You need to put on the complete armour of God as written in Ephesians 6:10-18. When faithfully applied, you will be very strong in the Lord and His mighty power to withstand all forms of attacks.
Many biblical men were also attacked but because they activated and applied the complete amour of God, they didn’t fall. You also will no longer fall cheaply.
Daniel and his companions were tempted and tried to forsake their godly heritage, but they refused. They even faced a fiery furnace rather than compromise. God honored their faith and mightily used them. Moses was surrounded by the luxury and godlessness of the Egyptian court, but cast in his lot with his own people. Lot lived in Sodom and saw the obscenities of that doomed city. God saved him out of it because he trusted in Him. Every one of our Lord’s apostles sealed their faith with their lives. Since then, history has been replete(full) with the lives of men who have put God and His way of life above all else. Will you also join the queue?
🗣️🗣️ Receive strength to withstand all forms of trials as from today in Jesus name. Amen 🔥
Prayer Spill🙇♂️🙇♂️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥
Help me to stand by faith in You, when I am tempted, almighty God
NOVEMBER DEVOTION, 2022
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for November
… one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. John 9:25
I asked teenagers to tell me what they get from the bible study of few days ago and they try to muster words of moral lessons which are usually scanty. Then here comes the release of a new movie series that’s vibrating all around. I needed not to ask for what it’s all about and voila! 
off they go with details account and even if care is not taken, they will buy you over so that you have to abandon all else to also seek to watch it.
I try to explain to you the joy of following Christ: the thrill, the excitement, the exhilaration—knowing where I’ve come from, why I’m here, where I’m going! There’s a reason for existence. There’s a reason for getting up every morning of the year. I try to tell you what I’ve found in Jesus Christ, and in studying the Scriptures and walking with Him, and you say, “I can’t see that!” or “I don’t understand” Of course! That’s called spiritual blindness. But if your spiritual eyes are opened and you understand the spiritual content of the scriptures, you can see the entire world and even the spiritual world through the lens of the Bible. But its only THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT CAN GIVE SUCH SIGHT
will you ask for that sight from Him right away?
You can get it, your vibe can trip on again for his word and prayer every day and night. It won’t be on the basis of what will I tell parents, pastors, mentors when they ask if I had done my devotion but it will be based on your quest/hunger and love for Jesus. You will be enthusiastic to say good morning Holy Spirit 
. Can you say that right now? The scales must be removed from your eyes, and only Christ can do that. He can remove them right now and you can start living and seeing a whole new world that you never knew existed, if you will let Him open your spiritual eyes.
Pray right now
I thank You for that Power that is able to give sight to the spiritually blinded eyes of each person who trusts in You, Lord Jesus, give me that sight too.
NOVEMBER DEVOTION, 2022
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for November
Keep thyself pure. 1 Timothy 5:22
Purity does not mean white colour 😂. It means just one material without the infusion of any other one. So black can represent purity if it has no additional mixture of colours in it. Purity is something that is not contaminated, it is clean from many other things.
Purity of heart means your heart is not given to more than one master at a time, it is not subjected to various activities of different focus. Your heart is committed only to one thing, one Lord, one and lifestyle or habit.
By implication, if you are committed to Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, he is the only one and no one else. You can’t be committed to Him and then to idol too. Committment to Jesus also means commitment to his own pattern of life. Commitment to an idol or Satan implies commitment to whatever their lifestyles or habits are. 🥹 That is why it is written that unto whom you submit yourself, him becomes your master- so he controls your life too!
Dear Teenager, you can’t commit your heart to Jesus alone and live an immoral or a life of sin-they are not the same, that is impurity. You can’t submit your heart to Jesus and live a double standard life, it is not correct, your heart cannot be given to Jesus and then you don’t know how to manage your time, or life,. You can’t live in sorrow, pains, sickness, lack, depression, fear, and so on if your heart is kept pure in Jesus. Your heart cannot be given to Jesus and at the same time also given to substance abuse. There is no correlation in that o.
Many teenagers are full of nervous tension, frustration, resentments, bitterness, prejudices, and hatreds. Why? Simply because they had lost sight of God’s conception of the pure in heart. Their hearts are given to so many things outside Jesus the Christ.
I put this question to you today dear teen, “how pure is your heart?”
To keep your heart pure is a personal decision. You decide or choose who or what to submit your heart. Another way to keep your heart pure is by reading, meditating, memorizing and spending more of your time on the Word of God. (Psalm 119:11)
How much of your time do you commit your heart to meditating on God’s word? Purity of heart depends on how much of the word of God are kept in the heart. (Keeping God’s word in the heart equals Keeping heart pure) mark you, it is not keeping of the letter of the words in your heart but the spirit in it. You may know Jesus but not with him. 🥹🥹
Will you try to keep your heart pure from now and enjoy a peaceful, happy, and productive life?
Prayer spill 🔥
Father, give me purity of heart that in true humility I may serve and praise You
OCTOBER DEVOTION, 2022
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for October
Doest thou well to be angry? Jonah 4:4
You have a temper! And it is in varying degrees, of course. Temper is not a crime or a sin and so God does not ask that you get rid of that temper. But He does say that if you are to be happy, it must be brought under control and re-channeled to proper use. Jesus demonstrated his temper against unrighteousness that was pervasive in his father’s house- perfect channel! See, God cannot use a man without a temper but He can’t use the man with uncontrolled temper as well. Anyone who can’t control his or her temper is emotionally childish. Too many teenagers who professed to be Christians also get raised temper which is not bad but for inconsequential things.
How do you place this? You get high temper because you caught your best friend dating your boy friend, or because of the way your belonging was mal handled or because of the mannerism shown towards you or because you were not respected as you ought to or you were miss understood or your friend sled on you or you felt left out of the group and so on, yes! Enough to be angry but those are not the channels to invest and vent your temper upon. Rather raise your temper when sinful activities or ungodliness are discovered, when there is a show of injustice, when corruption is perpetuated.
When last did you get mad at the devil and scream to his unseen face to get behind you when he brings useless suggestions to your mind? When last did you get angry at yourself because of disobedience unto God’s commands, or because you are mismanaging your precious times, wasting it on things that don’t matter but you feel they do? I think there is a need to watch what you spend your temper on from now and learn to control your temper in all unpleasant situations. Will you like to pray with me right now?
Prayer Spill
Use my anger to help others, Lord. When I see them hurting or Your world decaying, let me be challenged to reach out instead of merely exploding.
OCTOBER DEVOTION, 2022
teen Weekly Spiritual supplement for October
Dear brothers, I have been talking to you as though you were still just babies in the Christian life … 1 Corinthians 3:1 (TLB)
Some people have received Christ but have never reached spiritual maturity. They have been in church all their lives, and yet they have never become mature Christians. They are still considered “spiritual children” and “babes in Christ.” They know little Scripture. They have little desire to pray, and bear few of the marks of a Christian in their daily living. To say, “I will resolve to do better, I will muster all my will power and revise my way of living,” is noble, but futile. A corpse could as well say, “I will-through sheer effort-rise out of this coffin and be a living man again.” You need a power outside yourself. You cannot get over the habits and chains that are binding you. You need outside help. You need Christ.
The Bible tells of a bridge of faith which reaches from the valley of despair to the high hills of glorious hope in Christ. It tells where we are, but beyond that-it tells where we may be in Christ. Now, of course, you will not be completely mature until you are in the presence of Christ, but you should be growing every day as a Christian.
Prayer Spill
Lord, work through me this day, that I might be maturing as a Christian and come to know You better, that I might know Your perfect will for me
OCTOBER DEVOTION, 2022
Teen Weekly Spiritual Supplement for October
… one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. John 9:25
I asked teenagers to tell me what they get from the bible study of few days ago and they try to muster words of moral lessons which are usually scanty. Then here comes the release of a new movie series that’s vibrating all around. I needed not to ask for what it’s all about and voila! 😂 off they go with details account and even if care is not taken, they will buy you over so that you have to abandon all else to also seek to watch it.
I try to explain to you the joy of following Christ: the thrill, the excitement, the exhilaration—knowing where I’ve come from, why I’m here, where I’m going! There’s a reason for existence. There’s a reason for getting up every morning of the year. I try to tell you what I’ve found in Jesus Christ, and in studying the Scriptures and walking with Him, and you say, “I can’t see that!” or “I don’t understand” Of course! That’s called spiritual blindness. But if your spiritual eyes are opened and you understand the spiritual content of the scriptures, you can see the entire world and even the spiritual world through the lens of the Bible. But its only THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT CAN GIVE SUCH SIGHT😭😭will you ask for that sight from Him right away? You can get it, your vibe can trip on again for his word and prayer every day and night. It won’t be on the basis of what will I tell parents, pastors, mentors when they ask if I had done my devotion but it will be based on your quest/hunger and love for Jesus. You will be enthusiastic to say good morning Holy Spirit 💓😁😭. Can you say that right now? The scales must be removed from your eyes, and only Christ can do that. He can remove them right now and you can start living and seeing a whole new world that you never knew existed, if you will let Him open your spiritual eyes.
Pray right now
I thank You for that Power that is able to give sight to the spiritually blinded eyes of each person who trusts in You, Lord Jesus, give me that sight too.
OCTOBER DEVOTION, 2022
Teen Weekly Spiritual Supplement for October
He Helps.
I pray that you will begin to understand how incredibly great his power is to help those who believe him. It is that same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead …
Ephesians 1:19,20 (TLB)
Sometimes we all come to a state in life that we feel discouraged, bored, disappointed, down, pained, failing and falling and thus we get disconnected from realities of God being able to help. We struggle with believing that God actually wants to help us. We feel sometimes that he has chosen some people to help and abandoned some others and among those he chose to abandon is you. So we find it very difficult to continue to believe his promises spread across his word. But that is not correct. The Word of God says – his power is to help those who believe him. And that power is even the one that raised Jesus from the dead.. Kai🔥 God has you in mind, you just need to continue to trust him. To you, it may look as if time is waisting and you are running out of time. But his plans for you, you can’t understand until he does it. Those who continue to trust in him, he helps. Will you continue to do that? See, whether he helps or not, don’t give up trusting in him. Find ways to continue to rejoice in the Lord. Do not allow anyone to discourage you or turn your back against God. You are the next in God’s agenda to be helped, trust God.
Prayer Spill
Please pray, Lord Jesus, keep us ever mindful of the need to rejoice in You constantly; to go beyond the circumstance, no matter how desperate, and to see You as our hope and joy.
OCTOBER DEVOTION, 2022
Prayer Spill for October 1(Nigeria's Independence Day)
A CHALLENGE TO REVERSE DELAY
Proverbs 13:12, “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.”
The devil causes delay. To delay means to defer, to postpone, to suspend, to pause. The devil uses delay to distract, discourage, and destroy. Whether it’s delayed marriage, childbearing, education, breakthrough, or promotion, delay is painful and can lead to frustration and depression. The ultimate aim is to deny or deprive you of what you badly need to make your life comfortable and happy. Disappointment is the difference between expectation and reality. There is pain in unmet expectation.
someone said, “I understand the pain of delayed expectation. It was painful when I had to wait an extra year after primary school to enter secondary school because according to my dad, he could not afford to send me to secondary school due to the project he was handling at the time. I cried as I watched my classmates become my seniors.” I have also suffered delay in some other areas, and I can tell you it can be very painful.
There are situations in which you can wait, that is if it is God who causes the delay for his own good and your’s but there are situations in which you cannot afford to because it is caused by satan or you yourself. in such a case, you will need to pray aggressively and act swiftly.
Thus, can you raise your voice loud and clear and say:
- I Challenge every spirit of delay attacking our life- Spiritual delay, academic delay, financial delay, health delay, delay of glory, delay of vision,
2. I rebuke Satan over my life, spiritual growth, ministry, profession, the control of my heart . I decree a stop of his activities around my home, around my heart, around my glory, in the name of Jesus Christ.
3. I Speak life to all my dead promises, dead or lost opportunities, dead glory, dead finances, dead spirituality, dead emotions. Receive life now in the name of Jesus!
Finally on this note, I declare that I am free from all my captors. I enjoy freedom henceforth in the name of Jesus.
Now pray for your country and most importantly for Nigeria as she celebrates her 62nd independence anniversary.
Pray like this:
1. Thank you God for Nigeria (your country) and for grace to survive in it.
2. I speak fruitfulness into Nigeria( mention your country)
3. I speak a reversal of every form of delay over my life as a result of delayed glory of Nigeria (your country)
your prayers are sealed by the precious blood of Jesus in the name of Jesus.
SEPTEMBER DEVOTION, 2022
Teen Weekly Spiritual Supplement (TWSS) for SEPTEMBER
Living Faith
2Tim.1:5 “when I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also.”
The fourth and last division of faith in the context of our study is, Living Faith, otherwise called practicing faith. We have learnt about Saving Faith, Receiving Faith, Performing Faith, and the next to be examined now is Living Faith.
What is Living Faith?
This is when faith graduates from occasional practice to become habitual. It also means, a lifestyle of faith. At this point, faith becomes an attitude not a charisma.
It was this kind of faith that Paul the apostle referred to in the life of Timothy, his son in the faith. Timothy came in contact with the ministry of Apostle Paul when he was sixteen years old(Teenager) and he became the bishop of the Church in Ephesus around twenty years old.
What makes his life distinct among other disciples of Paul was this sincere faith, otherwise called a Living faith which was rare in others. Paul also witnessed that Timothy was his true son in the faith, unlike others who followed and walked with him for ulterior motives and selfish ambitions.
Just like Timothy stood out in Christlike attitude, you can as well stand out in your character and manner of living. Timothy started exemplifying this life or practicing faith, right from his childhood, to teenage and to adulthood. He went through all the phases of growth, yet his faith was intact.
You too can be a living epistle to your generation.
For further study, read: Hebrews 11:5, Gen. 5:21-24, Phil. 2:5-8
PRAYER SPILL:
My Father, help me to be a living epistle to my generation, give me grace to be a practicing Christian in Jesus’ Name!
Performing Faith
Read John 17:14-20
Golden Verse Matt.17:20 “So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, “Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.”
Performing Faith is a gift of faith and it means putting your faith in action or putting your faith to work. It is a step forward from a receiving faith. For example, if you have enjoyed healing as a beneficiary, you can also be an agent of healing. That is, you can be a dispenser of healing, by operating in the healing ministry through the gift of healing.
A good example was a captive young girl, Naaman’s wife’s maid (who probably was in her teenage), she exercised her faith in the God of her fathers – God of Israel, by mobilizing her mistress’ husband to meet Prophet Elisha
2Kgs.5:3 – “Then she said to her mistress, “If only my master were with the prophet who is in Samaria! For he would heal him of his leprosy.”
The words of this teenage girl convinced Naaman’s household and it all resulted to testimony of healing and restoration for Naaman.
That young girl, by implication, had already manifested a performing faith, because she put her faith into action. It doesn’t necessarily mean that you must directly pray for the person to be healed. Elisha and the young girl could be categorized as dispensers of healing.
Contemporary example among many, is Reinhard Bonnke of blessed memory, the founding President of Christ For All Nations (Cfan), he was also an evangelist to Africa; according to his story, in one of his messages I watched in a video, he said, he started manifesting healing at the age of eight (8). That in one evening prayer meeting in his father’s Church (his biological father was a Pastor too), the woman somehow touched him and shouted as if it was an electric shock and she was healed.
A Performing Faith is not limited to healing, you can through it cast out demons and establish God’s Kingdom instead. I don’t know may be you are also asking a question like the disciples asked in the text above, ‘Why can’t we do it’?
Jesus said it was because of their unbelief (that is, lack of Performing faith).
Meaning that, you could be a disciple of Christ, yet, lack Performing faith, because of unbelief to put your faith to work.
Some believe that, the Name of Jesus can work for them and get their miracles through the name, but when it comes to putting their faith to work, they don’t believe the name can work through them, this means unbelief also has levels. Whichever level of unbelief you are manifesting, you need to get rid of doubt, as our golden verse above reveals that, you can move mountains by exercising a Performing faith. Just put your faith to action and everything that mountain represents in your life and around you will become flat before you through your performing faith in Jesus name!
For further Biblical Study:
2Kings 5, 1Cor. 12:9
PRAYER SPILL: My Father, increase my faith, I want to be a dispenser of miracles not just receiving miracles and help me to move mountains by your power.
Receiving Faith
Jas.1.6 – But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. Jas.1:7 – 8 “For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.”
Haven experienced salvation through a genuine encounter with the saving faith by grace, a relationship of father-child will kickoff, which is called fellowship. It is a relationship between humanity and divinity and as such, you need to nurture it to keep the flow. You are free to interact with God as your Father, because He cares!
Understanding the above truth would make you feel free to joyfully access His presence as your Abba Father (Jesus and Paul addressed God in a relation of personal intimacy using Abba Father ), which means Father in Aramaic.
That is why you must approach Him without an iota of fear, your faith must be unwavering, in making your request known to Him by using the formula ASK
A-Ask
S-seek
K-knock
A-ASK: Jesus said you should ask until your joy is full!
As a teenager, what should you ask for ?
(i) Forgiveness for your sin
(ii) A steady relationship with God
(iii) God’s blessing for your parents/guardian to be blessed in order for you to live a comfortable life in fulfillment in Jesus.
(iv)Wisdom, understanding and knowledge.
S-seek: You are to seek God’s face to be a carrier of His presence, do you know you host God? When you host Him you will radiate His glory, hate sin and all manner of ungodliness.
Seeking God requires a strong faith and it is in the ability to patiently wait on Him that your faith is developed
K-KNOCK: it means if you ask and it’s not forthcoming, you seek and you can’t find, then knock!
Knocking, is a persistent and consistent approach in waiting on God, using another Acronym- PUSH!
Which means, pray until something happens.
Read through this (scriptures: Luke 11:8-13)
From the story above, you have learnt how not to take NO for answer but to persistently wait on God. Therefore, back to our memory verse, you cannot receive anything from God with a doubting mind, it is impossible! God desires you to be a stable Christian. Is there any challenge you are passing through, and it’s beyond medical or psychological treatment? Have you been thinking of collecting and applying the traditional charm or any other offer from native doctors and herbalist, may be your parent or grandma is compelling you to drink that thing or use it?
DON’T! Because it will worsen your situation and live you wounded and lifeless. Just trust God without reservation, He will carry you.
God honors and gives regard to the prayer of children and teenagers if asked in faith.
PRAYER SPILL:
My Father, please increase my faith in you, deliver me from doubt and unbelief, that I might receive your best for me!
Saving Faith
Eph.2:8-9
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
Faith is a total reliance and trust in God, believing Him for His Words, notwithstanding the physical signs and proofs; according to: Heb.11.1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
There are different kinds of faith, I categorized Faith into four as relevant to this study:
- Saving Faith
- Receiving Faith
- Performing Faith
- Living Faith
This week, our emphasis will be on Saving Faith.
Saving Faith is the fundamental, basic and bedrock for Christian life without which no one can come into salvation.
It is not just imperative, it is a prerequisite for a new life in Christ Jesus to be birthed. Everyone was born as a sinner, no one is born as a saint, being of the seed of Abraham but the grace of God brought salvation to us, made ready by the atonement of Jesus, in order to rescue us from our sins and wretchedness. Here comes the place of salvation, through the Holy Spirit to bring conviction through faith that Jesus is able to forgive, deliver and save, inspite of the gravity of your sin.
Through saving Faith, Apostle Paul submitted to the Lordship of Christ, when the Lord encountered him on his way to Damascus and he became a transformed man.
Rehab, the harlot, was adopted in the family of God and became part of Jesus’ genealogy by this same saving Faith. Time will not permit me to talk about Mary Magdalene (someone who was possessed by seven demons and later became an adherent follower of Jesus).
We have contemporary example of people who maximized this saving faith and have become world changers today. The likes of Bishop Kayode Williams, he was a teenager in secondary school when circumstances led him into the wrong circle. He received training from men whose atrocities shook the nation in the 1970s. He was a notorious criminal and an armed robber, but at a turning point in his life, he encountered this saving grace and became a regenerated person.
Williams is presently the presiding Bishop of Christ Vessels of Grace Church Inc. International and Director General of the Prison Rehabilitation Mission International.
Pastor E. A Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), has several times, shared testimony of how he became born again in 1973 through the ministry of the founder of RCCG, Rev Josiah Olufemi Akindayomi. Before then, he said, he was a womanizer and a drunkard, did he look like one today? No, that is the efficacy of saving Faith.
You are not too young to embrace this saving Faith, I embraced this saving faith at the age of thirteen, whilst in Junior Secondary School, more than two decades ago now.
I therefore challenge you to also embrace this saving Faith, by first acknowledging your wretchedness and sinfulness and humbly invite Jesus Christ into your life, for the forgiveness and remission of your sin.
If you have done so, a new chapter has been opened for you today. Seek growth in this new journey of Faith through daily Bible reading, prayer and fellowship with believers in a Bible based Church.
PRAYER SPILL
My Father, please accept me, just as I am, as I embrace your saving Faith, help me to maintain a steady relationship with you.
Biblical Ref: Acts 9, Joshua 2, Mathew 1:5, Luke 8:1-3
AUGUST DEVOTION, 2022
Teen Weekly Spiritual Supplement (TWSS) for AUGUST
CONTROL YOUR ANGER
Ephesians 4:26(EXB)
·When you are angry, [or Be angry, and] do not sin [Ps. 4:4; there is a time for righteous anger, but it must not result in sin], and ·be sure to stop being angry before the end of the day [L don’t let the sun set on your anger].
Anger is a normal experience, however uncontrolled one is dangerous to one’s existence because you could lose all you have worked for within minutes when angry beyond control.
I remember the story of someone who decided to come home from basketball game, pick his pistol, and killed his dad and mom, his brother and little kid sister. After he did that, he went to the police station to report him. He was later executed. That marked the end of a whole family just because of anger that is controlled.
Because of uncontrolled anger, Moses, missed the promised land. The purpose and destiny that God has for you may be missed just because you could not control your anger. Some have missed finishing their education, fantastic jobs, marriage partners, or destroyed their homes, wrecked the friendship that would have launched them to greatness in life and many more. The end result of all uncontrolled anger is sin. ( Read the passage again) Uncontrolled anger is a demon in disguise and anyone that is intoxicated by it nothing good will ever last in his/ her hands. Control your anger.
Ephesians 4: 26 suggests the major way to control your anger;…be sure to stop being angry before the end of the day …
Yes! This is possible! No matter the magnitude of the anger, make sure that you stop being angry before the end of that day. There are many technics that could assist you to stop being angry.
1. Think through the cause of your anger objectively, does it worth getting angry to that level? Every anger releases poisonous chemical(catecholamines) to your blood stream which could kill you gradually. Anger throws you into emotional bondage, spiritual bondage, physical illnesses that include: headache, digestion problems, such as abdominal pain, insomnia, also increased anxiety, depression, high blood pressure, skin problems, such as eczema, heart attack and stroke. Moreover, you lose friends with good benefits. So does the cause of your anger worth killing yourself?
2. Talk about your anger to someone who could help relieve the high tension off your system.
3. Tell (and not discuss ) what the agent of your anger did with the agent or discuss this with someone who is mature in all wise.
4. Learn to walk away from the scene temporarily and practice forgiveness in advance. Listen to good music and pray about it.
Uncontrolled anger is a holocaust, don’t give it a chance. It turns you into a fool, (proverbs 14:29) be wise.
Can you mention some other ways you can control your anger?
Prayer Spill
Lord Jesus, I release the pains in my heart as a result of anger and I forgive my offender from my heart just as you did on the cross too.
Further reading for this week
Proverbs 29:22; 22:24, Ecclesiastes 7:9; Proverbs 12:16; Proverbs 14:29; Proverbs 27:3
CONTROL YOUR EYES
Job 31:1-4
1″I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl.2For what is man’s lot from God above, his heritage from the Almighty on high?3Is it not ruin for the wicked, disaster for those who do wrong?4Does he not see my ways and count my every step?
One of the ways defilement gain access into the heart of teenagers is the eyes.
Let me tell you this true life story. A young man in junior secondary school followed his friend home after school hours. The friend took him straight to his personal room and switched on his television set and slotted a CD into the player. Alas! It was a porn movie. The innocent boy screamed and ran out of his friend’s room, heading towards his own house. But from that moment on, he couldn’t stop thinking about what he saw. It affected him to the point that he couldn’t concentrate on his academics and the things of God anymore. It was his pastor who noticed this declination that brought him back on track.
One major thing that teenagers engage their eyes on is the nakedness of the opposite sex. This desire is normal because of the psychosexual developmental stage that they are. Sexual surges do appear and burning curiosity about the bodies of the opposite sex overwhelms. When the eyes are not put under control, it feeds the heart with sexual pervasion, and hence such a person becomes defiled in the sight of God.
Job in the Bible had the same problem in his days too but he acted on it quickly before it spread all over his heart and life beyond control by making a vow unto God about his eyes never to look at the nakedness of ladies. You can do the same too. If you don’t control or discipline your eyes about what you watch or see intentionally, your eyes could recreate you to be a wicked person in God’s sight and the wicked is to be ruined according to verse 4.
Put your eyes under control so that your life would not be ruined.
Prayer Spill
God I hide my eyes inside yours, so that I can see the things you see.
Read: Matthew 5:29; 6:22-23
BURNT CLOTHES
Proverbs 6:27-33
27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? 28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? 29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
The young boy got into trouble one day. Early on Monday morning, his dad was in a hurry to attend the meeting of the CEOs as the guest speaker, so he handed over his only shirt that blended with the suit for the event for ironing. The boy didn’t know that the iron was super hot until he placed it on the collar of the shirt. Immediately, the shirt got burnt beyond repair. Oh my gosh! The boy screamed, “I am in trouble!”
A lot of teenagers have gotten themselves into trouble because they’ve gotten their cloth of glory that covered their moral nakedness burnt because they lack self control.
Everyone was born with divine glory that covers them like cloth and it is expected to be protected. However, the day anyone indulges in immoral acts such as any form of sexual activities with whoever he or she is not married to, he or she had gotten the moral clothes burnt. And of course, if the clothes on you gets burnt, you will be naked. That’s a big shame!
Are you walking about naked in the sight of God because you have gotten your moral clothes burnt? Have you lost your innocence? Or you are at the verge of getting it burnt because of what friends say? Or because of what social media suggests?
You still have available grace that you can tap from.
first, Run unto Jesus to ask for mercy and get a restoration of your cloth of glory.
Second, hold unto the feet of Jesus to grant you the ability for self control
Prayer Spill
Jesus, have mercy upon me, cloth me with your glory and grant me grace to be strong morality.
Read: 2 Samuel 13
SHUT YOUR MOUTH
Genesis 37: 4-11
One of the mediums through which God speaks to human beings is dream. Virtually everyone has this god giving gift while sleeping. Although the challenging aspect of it is the interpretation of some knotted dreams which I would advise that if it’s difficult for you to interpret, just pray about it and leave the rest in the hands of the Lord. And if you cannot remember your dream, it is also something not to worry about. Dreams are spiritual sayings or revelations which are activated for operation in the physical realm through remembrance. In other words, dreams become active when you remember them. That is why when you wake up and you remember it, talk to God about it in prayer and believe that your prayer is potent enough to disconnect it if negative and connect it if positive.
In the case of Joseph, He had dreams two times that were saying the same thing. It was about leadership and feeding of people with grains. When he had that, what rushed through his mind first was to tell his brothers and the second time he told his brothers and father. That was the normal thing that he was supposed to do while the older brothers should have held his hands and lead him to God’s presence to preserve and guide him to the point of the fruition of the dream. But rather than that, they hated him for his dream(verse 8b) and they became jealous of him the second time (verse 11).
That suggests a very serious matter here to me and which it should to you as well. If Joseph’s blood brothers could hate and be jealous of him that they couldn’t mind to kill him then, there is no one to be trusted or be suspected when it comes to revealing your dreams or personal plans. Listen, reading that story beyond black and white, the brothers never hated or are jealous about the person of Joseph rather it was what he carries as vision that they hated because the Bible never said that they hated or were jealous of him before he had a dream.
Get this right my friend, no body wants you to succeed above them, no one wants you to have more money than they do, no body wants you to occupy greater positions than they are, no one wants you to have better grades than them and so whatever it would take them to put you below or behind them, they would do while some do not mind to put you to death just for your dream never to come to reality. It takes only fathers to shield and assist to nurture the dreams of the sons until it comes to reality. When Joseph told his father, the father rebuked him but later kept it in his mind. And if you read further, after that time, while others were sent out to take the animals for grazing, Joseph stays at home. The father found a way to preserve him because of his dreams while the brothers found ways to eliminate him because of his dreams. So your dreams could either cause your elimination or preservation, the difference is who you tell.
The question now is, who can you trust enough to disclose your dreams, ideas, visions, plans, achievements and others to? My simple answer is, tell yourself and your God who gave you the dream. Many people have fantastic dreams or ideas but because they lack the discipline of keeping their mouth shut, such dreams never saw the light of day. Keep your dreams to yourself no matter how enthusiastic you are and hungry to share it. Plan or strategize on its operations and ask God how to go about it and he may later lead you to fathers that you can share it with, or else you and your beautiful dreams may end up either in the grave or in slavery. PLEASE, SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
Prayer Spill
Lord, help me never to be loose in the mouth so that my dreams and I will not become wasted.
Further Studies of the Bible: Ephesians 4:22-24;1 Samuel 24;Nehemiah 4;Matthew 4:1–11
MORIAH JULY DEVOTION, 2022
Teen Weekly Spiritual Supplement (TWSS) for JULY
Whose Voice Do You Hear?
1 Samuel 3:1-5
1.The boy Samuel continued to serve the Eternal One under the guidance of Eli. In those days, messages from the Eternal were rare, and sacred dreams or visions were given to very few.
2 Eli, who was very old, had become almost blind. He was lying in his room; 3 it was late at night but before dawn as the lamp of God still burned. Samuel was resting in the house of the Eternal One, where the covenant chest of the True God was located, and he heard a voice.
Eternal One: 4 Samuel! Samuel!
Samuel: Here I am! 5 (running to Eli) I heard you calling; here I am!
From time immemorial, voices had been a major instrument of making as well as a marring.
If anyone would successfully go through life, what the person hears would play a significant role and if one would fail in life, words matter as well
What we hear can kill our potential,
What we hear could stimulate great ideas destroy ideas
It could create passion to do something or destroy passion to do anything
It could stimulate anger and quarrel or happiness or friendship among us
It could depress or raise our esteem
Voices could put us in bondage as well as set us free from bondages
As a matter of fact, it was by the voice that everything came into existence- God said, let there be…and there was…
Everything and anything can hear voices
When the great lights heard the voice of God, they came to be , ground, water, plants animals etc,
Anything and everything can hear voices and respond accordingly or appropriately.
As a matter of fact Jesus spoke to the raging storm, commanding it to stop and it obeyed
He spoke to the dead to rise up and they came back to life, the sick to be healed and it was so.
Moses addressed the red sea and it heard and responded by separating for people to pass through
Joshua commanded the sun to stand still and it obeyed.
Voices or words from voices are not ordinarily, they are spiritual. Paul says the words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life. -active- whether positive or negative, joking or serious words, they have potential to create whatever is the contents.
So which voice are you hearing also? And which word are you responding to? Your life, which voice is designing it to be what it is or what it would be?
Little Samuel heard the Voice of God and responded spontaneously and through the assistance of Eli, he became a prophet.
He took God’s voice to be his pastor’s voice, his father’s voice, his teacher’s voice and he responded immediately.
My sons and daughters, who speaks to you? Whose voice do you hear?
The best voice to hear is the voice of God. It is not the voice that you hear from cartoon or movie.
The voice of God can make you wise
It could direct you to take right steps
That voice can heal you
It can build you up
It could save you
It activates faith in you
It could inspire you
It could make you rich
It could encourage you
It could correct you
It could inform you
It could lighten your path
It could reveal hidden secrets and treasures to you
It could break spiritual chains
You could become whatever you would be in life through the voice that you hear
You could have access to this voice of God through your parents, teachers, men and women of God and your friends and most importantly though the Bible.
Therefore, parents, be the voice of God,
Teachers, be the voice of God, challenges could be the voice of God as well, you could hear God in godly music and messages from other children of God too.
Sons and daughters of mine in the Lord, crave for the voice of God more than the voice that demoralizes and destroys your life. crave to hear God in all things as well as you prepare to spend the next month
Prayer Spill.
I want to hear and enjoy your voice my Lord. I am interested in your voice more than any other thing or voice in the name of Jesus.
My ears, you are designed to hear the voice of the Lord alone
I cancel every voice that could send me into bondages in the name of Jesus
Love Your Parent
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 1 John 4:7-8
To honour your parent, you must love them like the way you love yourself.
The best set of people that you must spend your love on is your parent. The reason is because they first lavished their love on you too. Check it out, if you were not loved, you would not be where you are right now. Someone planned to allow you to grow in the womb, someone carried you for over 9 months in the stomach- you depended on her blood, food, health, etc. even when it was not easy, when she had to be sick, throwing up, getting so heavy and disfigured, her own life was halted just to see you develop. On the day you were to be born was another painful event- the tears, the pains, the nakedness in front of nurses and doctors, allowing every dick and harry to poke fingers and hands into her private part. Some had to go through CS- operation where her tommy was ripped opened just to save your life. What about the daily care from babyhood to teenage years. Your dad had to travel in the rain, sun and nights just to make sure that you have something to eat, house to live in, cloth to wear, school to go and all. Your mom had no choice other than to carry you everywhere and every time, even when it was not convenient. When you were sick, down, weak, etc they were there for you. Do you know how many times, you pooed, weed on them and they needed to clean you up so that you looked so clean and beautiful at all times. Sometimes they denied themselves of certain things such as the kind of food that they would have loved to eat, places that they would have loved to travel to for relaxation and even some clothes that they would have loved to buy for themselves. Just to make sure that you are comfortable.
Now that you are older, don’t you think you owe them your genuine love? The best way to love them is to equate it with how you love yourself. You want the best life for yourself, best cloth, best food, best place to live in, best set of friends, sound health, you want to handle money and so on. Do the same for your parent. Just as we read, God is love.
Anyone who loves has God. Do you know what that means, it means that you are a God if you demonstrate this kind of love. God’s don’t lack anything good, He is never a victim of evil circumstances, He had never fallen sick or attacked by armed robbers or kidnappers. He always excels, He always reigns as king, He always has all at His disposal. So all these attributes of God follows you if you demonstrate love to your parents, elders, teachers, leaders, pastors etc.
Love your parents as yourself and be a wonder in your world.
Prayer Spill
Jesus, pour your spirit of love in my heart to everyone especially my parent in the name of Jesus.
Pray for Your Parent
Brothers, pray for us. I Thessalonians 5:25
Another way to honour your parents is to pray for them.
Many parents, elders and leaders are going through a lot of crises that are not discussed with anyone. They go through spiritual crises, marital crises, job, parental, financial, health and many other difficulties of life. Sometimes, when they get to the point of saturation, they tend to give up, lose hope in themselves and break down.
Many times it reflects in the way to react to us as their children or younger ones. Rather than crying and getting worried, the best way to handle it first is to Pray for them. Prayer had proven to be the lasting and surest solution to any problems in life. Prayer is just pouring your heart in words to God with assurance of faith of receiving response. Pray at all times says the scriptures. Pray for their health, pray for their relationships and vocation, pray and do not faint or play. Pray for their walk with God or for their salvation if they are not believers in Jesus Christ.
Praying for your parents is a way to honour your parents.
Prayer Spill
Father Lord Jesus, step into the affairs of my parent, elders, teachers, and leaders. Grant them solutions to all difficulties that they are currently going through in the name of Jesus.
Seek advice and wisdom
“Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck. PROVERBS 1:8-9 (ESV)
The next point that shows that you honour your parents and elders is by seeking for advice and wisdom from them.
By virtue of position and age, they have gone through several experiences in life that is sufficient enough to guide the upcoming young ones in the right part. Just as the right saying that, no matter the height upon which a young man stands, still, he cannot see what an elder sees. The reason God placed fathers, mothers, elders and leaders over you is because he has fortified them with wisdom that are enveloped in the instructions that they give. When such instructions are diligently followed, such a son can never fall into a pit. When you are confused, troubled or disturbed about anything, go to the parents and elders and ask for their advice. Not only will they be pleased that you trusting them to share their wisdom, but they will most likely give good advice. They watched you grow, nurtured you and probably know you in ways that no one else does. The only exception is if your parents or elders are not believers, you should avoid asking them for spiritual advice.
Seekers of advice and wisdom from appropriate elders will surely not be lost.
Prayer Spill
Lord, help me with an humble spirit to seek for advice and wisdom at knotted juncture of life
Respect Them.
… So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him about Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, sat down on his throne, and had a throne placed for the king’s mother. So she sat down at his right hand. 1 Kings 2:13-19
Another way to honour elders is by showing them respect. A lady confessed after she grew up that when I look back at some of the things that I said to my mother when I was a teenager, I cringe and ask God for forgiveness. Teenage girls can be volatile and wretched to their mothers. I know that, at time, I sure was. Thankfully, God put me on the right path as an adult. For Solomon who was a great and wealthy king for that matter, when his mother came in, he stood up, bowed down and gave a throne to his mother to sit upon at his right hand. How do you treat your parent, elders and God also?
Showing respect means you should value the person. It means that you should not shout on your elders especially your parent when they shout on you or do things that annoy you. It means you should not talk back to them when they scold you or talk harshly to you, it means that you should not walk away on them while they are still talking with you. Don’t throw things at them, don’t look down on them or serve them with unworthy things. Show them respect when greeting as it applies to your culture, listen to them and let them have their ways first before yourself. In respecting them, courtesy demands that when you see elders carrying anything or doing some environmental work, assist them. Sometimes, they may even tell you not to worry, please don’t just go away like that, insist to offer assistance. This is not about culture but about biblical injections. We need to treat them, in speech and deed, as some of the most important people on earth.
When we show resentment or frustration towards our parents and elders on the land, then we are reflecting a heart that is not grateful. In addition, we are sinning by not giving our parents the position of authority and respect that God has ordained.
Communicate with them.
“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. Isaiah 1:18
The second way to honour your elders is by communication with them. Communication goes beyond verbal expression. There are many means to communicate to people. One of them and most important is your presence. Others include verbal communication like talking is essential and appreciative to elders. Don’t say what they say doesn’t make sense, try to be patient with them. It is not only when you want to collect something from them that you communicate with them. That will be bribery. Communicate with fun with them at all times it could safe them and you from various challenges like blood pressure caused by depression.
Other ways to communicate is by smiling/ laughing with them, touch them, play with them, ask them questions about their feelings and all. Make them feel relaxed, don’t shout at them or frown at them, it may hurt them and you as well. To honour your elders, you need to talk to them. Ask about their day, how they are doing. Ask questions about when they were growing up. Learn about the milestones in their lives and what you have in common.
The Bible is full of several communications between God and men and from our passage today, it is so clear that God desires human beings talk with him in a constructive manner. He said, come, let us reason together. That means that He wants to involve humans in his act of creation and its sustainability. He wants to you to be involved in forgiving others, providing for others, and even involve us in suggesting to him what should be done on earth. So if God wants us to communicate with him, how much more our elders. Cultivate the habit of creative, constructive and fun-full communication skill as from today.
Prayer Spill
Lord Jesus, I am sorry the way I have been communicating with people who are older than me, especially my parent.
Give Thanks
“Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.”
The first way to honour elders is to thank them. ( this includes parents, God, Government officials, teachers, spiritual leaders etc) Thank them all the time. You need to thank them because of the numerous benefits that you got or are getting from them. When you thank them, it should come from within your soul and not from your ordinary mouth. Let it be truthful, passionate and sincere.
From the passage of today, it is so clear that someone’s soul could be experiencing unforgiveness, full of iniquities, diseases, a constant fall into pits of life, enslavement, falling in unloving hands, lack of mercy from people around him or her, hunger for good things of life and weak in body, spirit, finances, and academics etc just because such soul is not a thankful one.
Nothing must hinder you from giving thanks to elders irrespective of any circumstances. There is the tendency to think about certain experiences that you were not comfortable with while with them, some behaviours that you feel they should not exhibit to you however, there is a need to look beyond those past or present experiences that you did not like which could hinder a happy mood to provoke the expression of giving thanks to them. In thanking them, you have more to gain, those, I will mention soon. Moreover, you must realise that honouring them has no attached condition; it is a command. Friends, do you know that giving thanks to them could be a divine antidote for so many horrible situations that you may be facing? If things are not going on well with you or the society, it is because you might have not honoured your father and mother- I did not say that but the Bible. It could eliminate the militating consequences of unhealthy relationship.
A young man said that the responsibilities our parents take is not easy considering right from pregnancy to adulthood. We may drive them crazy as we grow up, but they continue to put clothes on our backs, provide food, sponsoring to school, caring for us when sick, and so much more. The same applies to the leaders of the society that you live in- school teachers, religious leaders, government officials and even God. The contributions of these groups of people over us to ensure we are still alive cannot be overemphasized. For these reasons, they deserve saying thank you to them. Saying thank you could be done in various forms, it could be vocalized, giving gifts of cash or material or simply being obedient to their instructions will go a long way to say you regard them greatly.
Prayer Spill
Can you take the action right away? Say thank you to God and send a text to someone who took care of you and say thank you.
HONOUR!
17Jesus said to them, “Pay to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were greatly amazed at Him. Mark 12:17.
This month of May, we will be dealing with the issues of honour. This is necessary because of personal understanding of the probability of the root cause of many problems confronting our societies which could be linked to a lack of honour for appropriate personalities by young people starting from teenage age. Youths are suffering because of the lack of honour for the right personalities. These consequences do not have direct impact on the young people alone but also affects the society indirectly at every level-the seven spheres of the society are affected- Government, Economics (Science, Technology & Business),Religion (Faith, Spirituality & Belief), Education, Family, Media, and Celebration (Arts, Entertainment and Sports). What I mean is that, the errors in governance, economic fluctuations, faulty religious standards, fallen educational prowess, fading family ethos, depravity in media, uncultured role models in the arts, sports and entertainment industry are indirect impacts of a faulty foundation of the young people right from teenage age, but evident at the later stage of their leadership involvement at an older age. I discovered from the scriptures that that faulty foundation could result from the lack of honour for the appropriate personalities.
A Yoruba adage says, “you will meet with your initial preparations” which is an indirect way of saying that the law of karma is active at all times. Could it now be that the law of karma is catching up with youths and is indirectly affecting our society because of lack of honour for the appropriate personalities? According to the biblical quote from Mark 12:17, the position of Jesus shows that there are personalities who hold positions of authority that must be honoured whether it is conducive or not and if not done properly, things will not go well on the land and life will be shortened. Confirm this from Ephesians 6: 1-3 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2“Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), 3“that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”
Any time a command is not done rightly, there would always be a repercussion. So when things are not going on well with an individual on earth or on the land where you are, it is a consequence of the broken divine instruction of honour for “Fathers and Mothers”
What is then is honour? It is the to give a high respect or great esteem to someone. The word for honour (τίμα) is translated to mean to determine the value of something. So also the value of our parents is incalculable and what belongs to them but be given to them for our own benefit. Who are we to give such high respect or great esteem to? It is the fathers and mothers. May I bring to your notice that the word father or mother could be biological(who gave birth to you), political(who lead you in government), security(who are paid to watch over you), religious(who feed you spiritually), educational(your teachers) and of course God (your creator).
In the light of that, for the rest of this month, we will be dealing with how to honour your father and mother. God is also very much interested in this and that is the reason for the position of Jesus that read at the beginning of this devotion.
Prayer Spill.
Lord, I am sorry for any ways that I have dishonoured fathers and mothers in this context. I promise to desist from this acts so that it may go well with me and consequently the society in the name of Jesus.
MORIAH APRIL DEVOTION, 2022
Teen Daily Spiritual Supplement (TDSS) for April
A Rare Chance?
18 He said, “What pledge should I give you?” “Your seal and its cord, and the staff in your hand,” she answered. So, he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him. Genesis 38:18
Sometimes ago, my research supervisor invited me to have a lunch with her and the Dean of the faculty at a beautiful and expensive eatery in South Africa. After we all settled down, a list of delicacies was presented to pick from. Knowing how expensive these items were, I thought within me to pick the least, then my supervisor said, Chris, what do you want? Pick anything, I will pay. Wow! So, I picked what I do not even know how to eat-smiles. In the same way, if you happen to meet with God face to face today, and he tells you to pick something, what will be you pick?
You see, while I studied the entire book of Genesis repeatedly, I stumbled at a baser story of Judah who married a wife called Tamar for his older son, but the son was killed by God because he was a wicked man. The same fate befell the younger son who inherited his dead brother’s wife as their tradition allowed. So, when Judah saw that all his sons were dying on a woman, he told the young woman to go back to her father’s house until the last born matures to perform his right. However, after years of disconnections, he finally met her unaware because she disguised as a prostitute. Wait a minute, are you also disguising as a child of God whereas you have fallen long time ago from faith? So, he wanted to have some intimate relationship with her, so he asked what he could give to her as a pledge and the young woman requested for three unique things that were symbolical to strange powers. It was at this point that the Holy Spirit shifted my attention to something else beyond the negative narrative of that story.
Judah requested Tamar to name her price, here were what she requested for. “…Your seal and its cord, and the staff in your hand,” she answered. So, he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him. Genesis 38:18”
I heard the Lord say, that is the same way he had been asking many children of his that same question. “What do you want me to give to you for me to establish a higher level of relationship with you? You see, Tamar had relationships with Judah’s sons, but it all failed. The relationship had been an epileptic one all along and now the chance to enter a stable relationship with the father himself. In the same way, you have been having an epileptic spiritual relationship all these whiles, today you are alive spiritually, tomorrow, you are dead spiritually. Now God is asking, will you allow me to establish a fresh but higher relationship with you?
What caught my attention was the significance of what Tamar asked for from the father-in-law- The SEAL, CORD and STAFF. A seal is a stamp for authenticity, a cord is a string to bind two objects together firmly and a staff is a symbol of authority. Those were the three things that Tamar requested for to launch her into a productive relationship with the father-in-law, and Bible says he gave them to her, and he had an intimate relationship with her, and she became pregnant.
I see God hold out in his hands the seal, the cord and the staff waiting for who will ask for them to step into a higher glorious call of a cosy relationship with him. He wants to plant something your womb for generations. He wants to launch you into higher level of supernatural dimensions to operate on. Will you be hungry or enthusiastic enough to place your order for the three tier that confers God’s power onto a man? Will you agree that God place a stamp of originality of His ownership upon you, will you allow him to bind you with a cord of his Spirit. They that have his stamp using the covenantal blood of the son, Jesus, and full of His Holy Ghost such people are given authority that is arrestable. Are you ready for that? Would you like to take that step right away? The father is still waiting!
Prayer Spill
My father! I request for the seal, the cord and the staff and receive by faith in the name of Jesus. Launch me into the higher supernatural levels of operation in the holy ghost in the name of Jesus
How to Prosper, Part 3
“…Now Joseph was well-built and handsome, 7 and after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me!” 8 But he refused. “With me in charge,” he told her,…” – Genesis 39:6b -8a
Previously, I was inspired to disclose two steps to prosper. The God factor which is the bedrock and the Excellence factor. The third which is the last as spotted from Genesis 39 is Knowledge and Discipline. These two are germane to prosperity because they are the two wings that make any man balanced in any sphere of life. Knowledge is power because it is the capacity needed to do a work while Discipline is a virtue that sustains the work done. So to prosper in anything, you must know absolutely that thing and be able to sustain it. The question that must be answered is what “do I know” about this thing that I am doing? If I do not have the absolute knowledge, then there is a need for me to upgrade my knowledge skill on the that thing right away.
Joseph, although well built and handsome, had a perfect knowledge of who he was, what he wanted, what his job was, he knew where he was heading to in life, he knew his God and guess what, he was absolutely disciplined to keep focus on what he knew- no distractions at all. Oh my goodness, I am getting blessed here. Did you hear what he said to that distracting woman? “ “I am in charge,” he told her, “…everything… is entrusted to my care, …No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you,( meaning you are not in my plan at all) because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?” Kai! Do you know that this guy was well built-going to the gym- very handsome physically but he was also well built and handsome mentally as well? Joseph, when he was confronted with a distracting idea, he reasoned within himself who he was? His action and response was just an indication that he had a principle that was guiding his life.
I believe that Joseph was not actually telling the woman those things but he was reminding himself about who he was, his purpose and what he knew. When the woman told him, come and lie with me… Joseph knew that people who aim at prospering don’t lie when they are supposed to be standing, those people do not mingle with or listen to the ideas from distractors. He had the knowledge of the workings of psalm 1 verses 1 and 2, “Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in…” they know what they are to be delighted in.
Just imagine someone initially walking, the person is now standing and then the person now sitting. That is simply called “retrogression.” Many young people are retrogressing in some aspects of their lives simply because they are devoid of knowledge of what and who they are to hang around with, what they supposed to be doing at a particular time or they are not disciplined about what they want. They are easily dissuaded or persuaded by another person or circumstances. So if you are retrogressing in any aspect of your life,-academics, health, finances, business, morality, just check what you know about that subject matter and who or what you are walking with? who or what you are standing with? What or who you are sitting with?
For Joseph, after he reminded himself of who he was and what he knew, and comparing it with what that woman offered him, he “bluntly refused” the offer (verse 8). You also must know who to reject and refuse and what to reject and refuse if you want to prosper. Those who prosper don’t do everything, they select what they do and when to do and they are dead disciplined about it. My friend, do you know what you are doing? And why you are doing what you are doing? If you want to prosper, know what you want to do, when to do, how to do and with who to do your things. Once you fulfil these, coupled with a stern disciplined lifestyle, you will surely prosper.
Prayer Spill
Jesus Christ my Lord, help me to be serious with my purpose as from now. I will prosper in the name of Jesus!
How to Prosper. Part 2
“…and that the Lord gave him success in everything he did, 4 Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned.” Genesis 39:3b -4
Nothing just happens by chance, it is the result of the combination of excellence, competence, innovation and the fear of God in anything that you do that results to the attraction of favour. Add excellence in whatever you do and you will prosper. Just imagine, a Christian who is a road side mechanic and because he is a member of your church or even a member of your family, you gave him your car to repair, but he ended up spoiling. Moreover, any time he works on any car, the cars are usually smeared with engine oil and all. So you had to spend lots of money to re fix it by another road side mechanic who is not a Christian but does perfect job. And that was not the first or second time he did that not to you alone but it had been a general complain. Now you got a new car and you needed a mechanic to adjust something quickly around the engine, tell me, will you give it to him to do for you?
Potiphar, who bought a slave, threw him to work but as he worked, Potiphar observed him on a daily basis and “saw” the way he handled anything and everything that he was given to do. It was quite different from the way other slaves do their. Joseph added professionalism, he added excellence, he did things perfectly, wisdom was applied in all duties, he brought new dimensions to whatever he did and consequently brought a whole new kind of result that others do not get, he was diligent, faithful, truthful, hardworking and he does all things with the fear of God – meaning that he handled the duties and properties in his care as if it was his own. Then one day Potiphar came to a conclusion within himself that this slave must be operating with a different spirit, because no one would do it the way he does his own things if he had not been properly brought up by his parent and pitched his tent with the Lord. So he put Joseph in charge of all things in his household. In fact Potiphar so much trusted Joseph that this one will not poison his master or harm him so he upgraded him to be his personal attendant. Check verse four, “Joseph found favour in his eyes and became his attendant.”
So what brings prosperity is the application of excellence to whatever one does. exellence will tract favour from men of influence and affluence. Bible says whatever your hands finds to do, do it well(Excellently). If the Lord is with you, you will cultivate an excellent spirit in whatever you do irrespective of the circumstances that surrounds you. When men see your good works, they will respond by glorifying your father in heaven and then release treasures to your hand.
Prayer Spill
Lord Jesus, Grant unto me an excellent spirit. In the name of Jesus
How to Prosper, Part 1
Genesis 39: 2-6 & 23
Genesis 39:5b “…The blessing of the Lord was on everything Potiphar had,…”
Heart breaking news flood the social media in the recent times about the increase in crimes such as kidnappings, armed robbery, fund embezzlements, ritual killings and all manners of fraudulent activities and unfaithfulness, just in the name of making huge money and laying hold on powers. Getting rich quickly is the order of the day- prosperity within a twinkle of an eye not minding any consequences that are attached to it. I am bold to tell you that God is not against you prospering but he is not in support of the various evil ways of getting the prosperity. Young people, listen and listen very well, you can prosper without employing evil means. Let me show you how to prosper legitimately.
First, the word, “Prosper” means to flourish physically; grow strong and healthy.” It means to have all that you need(not want) at the tip of your finger or without struggles. And this applies to all spheres of life; Physical prosperity(money, food, clothes, cars, and other properties), Strength prosperity( intellectual, moral, emotional, sexual etc) and health prosperity. that means that prosperity is not all about making hell of money alone, it encompasses many other things too. However, you can have all these things legitimately and without stress, but how?
There are three steps to prosper legitimately. Genesis 39 verse 2 says, ‘The Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered…’ no one can prosper if the Lord is not with him or her. See, prosperity is not just to be wealthy but to know and acknowledge the source and its purpose. Scriptures says that all good and perfect gifts come from the Lord(the Owner), it also says the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, have you heard that the scriptures says silver and gold are mine, says the Lord? So whatever you have is not from your hard work, intelligence, or strategies but it is a gift from the owner to you because of your diligence. Therefore when you are committed to diligence in anything, anywhere, from a pure heart towards the purpose for the owner placed you on earth, the Lord, stands by you. And since the Lord is the owner of all things, where ever he is, he deploys all that he has to that place. If he is in a life, he deploys all that he has into that life. So the Bible says the Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered in what whatever he did. It doesn’t matter whatever you lay your hands to do, it will flourish, even if is common sand that you are packing together, you will prosper in it. Bible says,…for in it, you shall prosper and have great success.
It is not hard to notice whether the Lord is with somebody, or in a life or in a place by anyone. No! not at all. For Joseph, in verse three, “when his Potiphar saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord gave him success in everything he did,…” there are certain characteristics that will be glaring in a person’s life or in the environment where the Lord is. You don’t need to make the announcement with mouth, you don’t need to display some gymnastics and or be sleeping in the church day and night before people can see that the Lord is with someone. Your commitment, diligence, humility, your manner of communication, level of respect for everyone especially people above you, your response and disposition to issues, things and people, and lots more even in an unconducive/comfortable situation will speak louder. When Potiphar saw that the Lord was with Joseph, he released all his that he had unto his hands. Listen, the presence of the lord in your life, compel men of substance to release treasures to your hand. THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD IS ACCOMPANIED BY PROSPERITY! …To be continued…
Can I therefore ask you this question, Is the Lord with you? Can someone else detect that the Lord is with you?
Prayer Spill
Lord, I need your presence in me. Thank you Jesus!
GOD’S LOVE
By Oluborode Deborah
Genesis 1:26
Do you know that God’s Love has being evident right from the beginning of the creation of Adam? Gen 1 vs 26 made us realize this love when God said let us make man in our own image, after our likeness and let them have their dominion over everything. After the disobedience of Man, which led to the separation of God and man, God still made a provision for reconciliation. The Provision Is Jesus Christ.
John 3 vs 16 says for God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. If you check the verse very well, you will notice that the love in this verse is actually in the past tense which means before you know who God is, he knew you and you were loved already by him. Don’t ever think that God’s love is just for some certain persons…NO!!!!
NOTE THAT YOUR SIN DOES NOT REDUCE HIS LOVE FOR YOU…HE STILL LOVES YOU.
Dear friend, God’s love is unconditional. He just wants you to believe in the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross of Calvary. The message is just BELIEVE!! Romans 10 vs 9 says that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus Christ and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shall be saved.
WHATEVER YOU SIN THAT YOU HAVE COMMITTED OR ARE STILL COMMITTING, JUST BELIEVE THAT HE LOVES YOU, CONFESS THEM TO HIM, BELIEVE THAT JESUS DIED TO SET YOU FREE FROM ALL BONDAGES OF SIN, DETERMINE NEVER TO RELAPSE AND YOU SHALL BE SAVED.
ARE YOU BATTLING WITH ANY ADDICTION? JUST BELIEVE HE LOVES YOU.
ARE YOU FAILING REPEATEDLY IN SOME ASPECTS OF YOUR LIFE? JUST BELIEVE HE LOVES YOU.
When you believe him, you see things changing in the positive direction in your life.
DO YOU KNOW THE ONLY SIN GOD CANNOT FORGIVE? IT IS THE ONE GREATER THAN THE BLOOD OF JESUS WHICH DOES NOT EXIST. BE STILL, MY DEAR FRIEND! YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN!!! AND THE SAME WAY THAT JESUS TOLD THE WOMAN WHO WAS CAUGHT RED HANDED IN THE ACT OF PROSTITUTION, THE SAME HE IS TELLING YOU TOO RIGHT NOW, “IF NO NON OF THEM COMDEMNS YOU, I ALSO DO NOT CONDEMN YOU, THEREFORE GO AND SIN NO MORE”
JUST BELIEVE IN JESUS!!!
Prayer Spill
Lord Jesus, I believe that you love me so much but its my sin that you hate. So I repent of all my sins and I thank you because you have forgiven me through your blood that you shed to redeem me and wash me clean. I promise you never to relapse into my sin again. Thank you Jesus.
The Shadow Race
Hebrews 10:1
The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves…
The other day, while I drove on the high way in a very hot afternoon, I saw afar of, something that appeared to be a fool of water on the express road. I wondered whether rain had fallen in the very hot afternoon. But as I drew nearer, it all disappeared- it was all a mirage. a shadow!
The shadow is not the real thing but it depicts or shows that the original thing is somewhere close. It’s just like someone sending the screenshot of a thousand dollars to you and you are happy that you have a thousand dollars. Shadows are not tangible- you can’t hold them in your hand because it doesn’t exist and so it has no profit or adds no values to you in anyways.
A lot of young people are running after the shadows, living empty lives and leaving behind the original thing. How do you know that you are running after shadows and not real things? The moment you discover that what you spend your energy, money, resources, time and all on and yet there is no justifiable positive profit added to your life, then such a thing is a shadow. Now what do you gain in a relationship that is full of immoral acts or a friendship that all you discuss is sexual matters, strategies on committing havocs, and all. Tell me what do you stand to gain in the party that you snick to and all you do there is to smoke shisha, violent dance, scream, fight, get drunk, sex, and so on? The musicals that you listen to, what moral lessons do you get from them? And you are busy memorizing the lyrics from artists that paint non sense with their songs, and you struggle to get money, load the MGB and download to your phone those songs. What profits do you get from that? The visitation to native doctors for charms either for powers or money rituals, how long will your peace last?
See, whatever you are pursuing outside Christ Jesus, its just a shadow and you may always land in crises.
So take some reasonable minutes and think deeply, ask yourself these questions and supply the answers genuinely; what are you spending your precious time on? Does it have positive return? Will it add values to your life? Can it give you peace of mind? Or is it only fun that fills your mind all day long? What are you putting your attention on repeatedly to the point that you don’t have time for God and your purpose in life whereas you know that you are not getting anything useful out of it? What are you spending your teenage years on that could be hurting when you are an adult? What are you doing now that may be injurious to your health, marriage, academics success and your neighbors’ peace? what do you accept to be very important to you now but adds no value or profit to your life at the long run? Don’t race after such things because they are just a mirage. Don’t put your passion and resources on them, they will only end up breaking your heart and wasting your life.
PRAYER SPILL
Lord Jesus, help me to discover the original things that will help me live correctly in life and passionately focus on them.
WHO DO YOU DISCLOSE YOUR DREAM TO?
Genesis 37: 4-11
One of the mediums through which God speaks to human beings is dream. Virtually everyone has this god giving gift while sleeping. Although the challenging aspect of it is the interpretation of some knotted dreams which I would advise that if it’s difficult for you to interpret, just pray about it and leave the rest in the hands of the Lord. And if you cannot remember your dream, it is also something not to worry about. Dreams are spiritual sayings or revelations which are activated for operation in the physical realm through remembrance. In other words, dreams become active when you remember them. That is why when you wake up and you remember it, talk to God about it in prayer and believe that your prayer is potent enough to disconnect it if negative and connect it if positive.
In Joseph’s case, He had dreams two times that were saying the same thing. It was about leadership and feeding of people with grains. When he had that, what rushed through his mind first was to tell his brothers and the second time he told his brothers and father. That was the normal thing that he was supposed to do while the older brothers should have held his hands and led him to God’s presence to preserve and guide him to the point of fruition of the dream. But rather than that, they hated him for his dream(verse 8b) and were jealous of him the second time (verse 11).
That suggests a very serious matter here to me and which should to you as well. If Joseph’s blood brothers could hate and be jealous of him that they wouldn’t mind to kill him then, there is no one to be trusted or should not be suspected when it comes to revealing dreams or personal plans. Listen, reading that story beyond the black and white pages, the brothers never hated or were jealous about the person of Joseph rather it was what he carried as vision that they hated because the Bible never says that they hated or were jealous of him before he had a dream. Your dream could be a source of envy to many myopic minds.
Get this right my friend, no body wants you to succeed above them, no one wants you to have more money than they do, no body wants you to occupy greater positions than they do, no one wants you to have better grades than they do and so whatever it would take them to put you below or behind them them, they could do while some of them do not mind to put you to death just for your dream never to come to reality. It takes only fathers to shield and assist to nurture the dream of the sons until it comes to reality. When Joseph told his father, the father rebuked him but later kept it in his mind. And if you read further, after that time, while others were sent out to take the animals for grazing, Joseph stayed at home. The father found a way to preserve him because of his dreams while the brothers found ways to eliminate him because of his dreams. So your dreams could either cause your elimination or preservation, the difference is usually, who you tell.
The question now is, who can you trust enough to disclose your dreams, ideas, visions, plans, achievements and others to? My simple answer is, tell yourself and your God who gave you the dream. Many people have fantastic dreams or ideas but because they lack the discipline of keeping their mouths shut, such dreams never saw the light of day. Keep your dreams to yourself no matter how enthusiastic you are and hungry to share it. Plan or strategize on its operations and ask God how to go about it and he may later lead you to fathers that you can share it with, or else you and your beautiful dreams may end up either in the grave or in slavery. PLEASE, SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
Prayer Spill
Lord, help me never to be loose in the mouth so that my dreams and I will not become wasted.
A Time in Life
Genesis 36: 31-39
While reading through these whole verses of the scriptures above, I sensed some signals traveling through my spine. It was just because about eight kings reigned in Edom, the land of Esau at a particular time, for whatever numbers of years that I care not to know and all that the history has to say about them was, “they ascended the throne, and died. Just a statement summarized a crucial stage of their life? You mean, there were no significant achievements even if it was just one that was done during their reigns?! That was a wastage of time and power.
My friend, I want to remind you that there is time for everything under heaven according to the scriptures. That implies that time had been allocated for everything and anything on earth. Those allocated times are given to every individual to achieve something. It is not until you become a king in a palace or a queen before you can achieve something that will be recorded about you. You see, the journey in life of every man is in segments and seasons; the childhood season, preteen, teen, adolescence, youth, adult, aged. Each of these seasons are meant to do something. And it is important to note that stages in life do not come twice in lifetime. So if you don’t achieve what that time or stage of life was designed to achieve before exiting it for the next stage, there may be a bitter and huge regret as you look back later in life.
Picking out the teenage season for instance. It is a period of rapid development of certain features on the body and as a result, the teenager focuses more on the body; he /she is intentional about what is worn, beauty of the body, etc. There is usually identity crises where problems of who to choose as friend and purpose discovery, choices and decisions, Belief system; dealing with issues of confidence, trust, convictions, and principles to live by. It is at this period that there will be a lot of sexual crises, a quest or inquisitiveness over everything, strong desire to do something with the strength that you have( Mental strength, beauty strength, physical strength, sexual strength, spiritual strength) and a lot more.
Now all of these are not placed in the teenage age for fun but for you to do just two things which are; a recognition that you have a life to live and designing that life by the formulation of a mental picture/imagination to run with for the rest of your life. Oh dear to achieve those things it is wise to have a life coach who will hold your hand and guide you on how to make choices that will not be injurious to the rest of your life, that is the time that you are supposed to make a decision for Jesus Christ who will reveal to you through his word what is your purpose of your existence, that is the time you are supposed to read books of great men and women who had impacted their world in various forms, that is the time to invest in prayers, studies of the spiritual compass, the bible and others.
If you don’t do all these at this time of your life, there may be bitterness and regrets later. So teen age is a time in life to build a solid foundation for the rest stages of your life buildings. What determines whether you will have a good and solid structure for your life is what you use your teenage period to achieve. Don’t waste this time of your life, use it to learn something that will earn you money later, use it to write something that will impact others, use it to meet needs of your neighborhood, be innovative, be entrepreneurial, learn leadership, spend time with God and his people…
So dear friend, what are you doing with this period of your life?
Prayer Spill
Lord, Jesus, I promise not to waste this stage of my life. I am correcting any wrong that I have made at this moment. Lead me to a mature child of yours who could guide me in the right part. Thank you Jesus.
Taking Responsibility
Gen 4:3-9
Memory Verse: Gen 9:5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
Just like the saying “blood is thicker than water”, it seems easier for an elder one to look after their younger one but in the case of Cain, he seemed to be a bad sibling. He asked a funny question a lot of believers ask today… “am I my brother’s keeper?”, unfortunately; he was asking an omniscient God and this landed him in trouble. So we don’t land ourselves in the same situation as Cain, the first question we all need to answer is “Who is our brother?” The body of Christ is a family of God, so every believer automatically becomes your brother and sister, so they have become your responsibility. It is true that we are in the end time and humans are not easy to be trusted but we must consider them through the eyes of Christ and not just with our human eye. Every fellow Christian around you is your brother, so there spiritual, physical, mental and psychological wellbeing becomes your responsibility. You should check them up when they aren’t consistent in church as they used to be, when they don’t pray as much again, when they don’t study like they used to do.
Action/Prayer: Checkup a brother today!
The Shadow Race
Hebrews 10:1
The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
Shadow is not the real thing but it depicts or shows that the original thing is somewhere close. It’s just like someone accepting a screenshot of the paper money of a thousand pounds to be the real money. Shadows are not tangible- you can’t hold them in your hand because it doesn’t exist and so it has no profit or adds values to you in anyways.
So what have you accepted to be the real thing whereas it doesn’t make sense? what are you putting your attention on repeatedly, yet you are not getting anything useful out of it? What are you spending your teenage years on that could be hurting when you are an adult? what do you accept as been very important to you now but adds no value or profit to your life at the long run? Don’t race after such things because they are just a mirage. Don’t put your passion and resources such as time, money, love, and mental strength on them, they will only end up breaking your heart and wasting your life.
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Intercession
Gen 18:20-25
Mem Verse: 1Ti 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
Intercession is the act of praying for or on behalf of a people, place or thing. It is earthly permission for heavenly interference. Abraham operated like an intercessor on behalf of a city. Whoever must be an intercessor must be able to stand as a friend of God. Before anybody can come and plead for someone before you as human, such an individual must have a level of cordial relationship with you. It is the same with God, before you can intercede for another, it is expedient that you have a mutual relationship with God. It was on the grounds of relationship that God revealed to Abraham what he wanted to do and Abraham also pleaded for that city.
Every believer at one point in time or the other must and intercede. We all have the responsibility of praying for people in authority, whether we regard them as good or bad, leaders, friends, family. Paul exhorted Timothy that this should be done because it would help us live a peaceable life. (1Tim 2:2). The line between God destroying Sodom and Gomorrah was an Abraham. The line between a man’s life and death could be your prayer.
Action/Prayer: Pray for your church Leaders and Political leaders.
Exposure or Exposure 1
Gen 3:2-10
Mem Verse: Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Exposure could mean different things; it could be a state of enlightening; it could also mean a state of having no protection. The devil or the serpent promised the woman a level of enlightenment when he told her she would be wise and be like God, she believed him and truly, she was seemingly wise but she also figured out that she was naked. So the exposure was not just an enlightening but also a state of nakedness.
Several times, the intention of the devil when we are faced with temptations or circumstances is not just the enjoyment we get from that little thing we get we perform that act but also the exposure to attacks that comes with disobeying God. The devil will never show you the two sides of the coin when he is tempting you, so at any point you are faced with a situation; always remember that there is the other side of the coin that he will never reveal to you and the repercussions are usually worse than the enjoyment. What’s the antidote? Get the word of God right! Eve didn’t have the word of God accurately so the devil could manipulate the word she thought she had.
Action/Prayer: Lord help me to study the word and get it right.
Exposure or Exposure 2
Gen 3:2-10
Mem Verse: Gen 3:9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
The story of the fall of man is quite an interesting one because of the variables that surround it. After Adam and Eve fell, having discovered that they were naked, not knowing that there was something more than their nakedness has happened. A question was thrown at Adam when God came to check them. I have seen people say, but God is omniscient, why was he asking for where they were, why was he looking for them? It wasn’t just a question of location; it was a question of Positon. When God placed man in the garden (location), he didn’t just dump him there, he gave him authority (position), above all the things he created that he should dominate them. Part of what man lost was the position he had.
A believer is such that has been restored to his position in God but we are found wanting at any time we fall into sin from the position God placed us and so we also fall in our function of dominating.
Prayer/Action: Jude 1v24
Purpose
Gen 2:15-17
Mem Verse: Gen 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Purpose is the reason for which something is done or the reason to which a thing exists. NO PURPOSE IS A SMALL ONE. God knew that activity without purpose will drain the life of a man, so God gave man a reason to be in the garden and the assignment was to dress and keep the garden. Alongside the purpose was the source of livelihood.
Every human is always in pursuit of that thing called purpose, because a purposeless life is a useless life. God being the creator knows best what the purpose of man is. Purpose isn’t the outcome of a man’s life like Destiny, instead, purpose is a summation of different assignments per time according to the will of God. Purpose isn’t the big picture you saw in your dream, purpose is the little thing God asked you to do like preaching to your friend, praying for your relative, etc. the cumulative of these realities is what sums up to what gives us as men a sense of satisfaction. Even our respective career, God’s purposes are engrafted into them, you are not just in the university to study a course and make money but to expand God’s kingdom. It was lack of proper functioning of Adam that led to the entrance of the serpent into the garden. If you don’t do the little that was committed to you well, you might be the reason for the entrance of the serpent that would lead to another problem.
Prayer/Action: Lord help me to be able to do what you have committed to me well.
Father’s Blessings
Gen 49:1-3, Gen 35:22
Mem Verse: Mat 15:4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
“Fathers are Ladders”; this is a popular saying, meaning you would need to step upon the shoulders of fathers if you would obtain any height in life. Reuben lost his height in life because of a foolish mistake, he became a servant to his brothers and his position of the first born was given to another. Fatherhood is not only bent on your biological father. There are people who play the role of a father and are not necessarily your biological parent. There are spiritual fathers also. These individuals hold a key to our life, particularly your biological father, no matter how responsible or irresponsible they are or they seem, believers or non-believers; they have a measure of authority in utterance and they can proclaim blessing or a curse over an individual.
Reuben slept with his father’s concubine but the father did not utter a word even though he knew, all the way from Genesis 35 till Genesis 49n when he cursed him. As young people, your parent might seem tough and not understanding at any point in time, but you must endeavor to keep a good act that wouldn’t make them make a negative pronouncement over you. Honor your Parent was the prescription of the bible, whether they are good or bad people; you must honor them.
Action/Prayer: Lord help me to honor my parent as I ought to. Every negative pronouncement made over my life is canceled in Jesus name.
Where are you?
Genesis 3:9
But the Lord God called out to the man, “Where are you?” God had been the friend of Adam for quite some times and they had been getting along but later, Eve, discovered another friend because he wooed her with his sugar coated mouth. The new friend explained and engaged her mind and eyes with something else that she had neither thought about nor tasted before, she fell in love with him at first sight as her best adviser and someone who met her needs for the moment. She later introduced her new friend to Adam and Adam forgot for a while the former friend that he grew up to know, as well. Someone that he usually enjoyed his presence and his words in the cool of the evenings. Adam who was an addict of God’s voice and presence because he was his dear friend, lover, care giver, provider and counselor but now hid from him. whenever his former friend comes calling, guilt flooded his heart and mind which resulted to hiding behind leaves. God, the awesome friend then asked Adam a very simple question, ” where are you?” By implication, he was asking the man and the lady which among of the friends have they decided to choose or stick to now- God or Satan?
Dear teen, I hear the Holy Spirit asking you the same question right now too, which friend have you decided to choose for yourself now? Friends that sticks and obey him or friends that have decided to stick to satanic activities and disobey God who loves you and placed on this earth for a beautiful purpose and gave you all basic need to fulfil destiny?
Dear friend, can you respond to his question right now?
PRAYER SPILL.
Lord Jesus, I have heard you again, asking me where I want to belong. Sir, I want to stick to you alone and obey you. I am very sorry to have gone to meet the old friends who misled me from your presence. I am really sorry my dear friend, lord Jesus. I promise never to wonder away from you again no matter the enticement. Thank you Jesus.
When will you go up?
Genesis 13:1
So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.
Going up means one had been down before. No-one wants to be down or wants to be going down in life, in peace, in health, in finances, in excellence, in academics, in marriage, in business, in vision, No one! or better put, no one is usually satisfied with being down in anything, hence, a desire and struggle to go up.
Abram was down in Egypt at a point in his life. It was actually hunger that brought him down- he went down because of fermine and he almost lost his beautiful and promising wife to the king of Egypt just because of hunger. I am aware that when one is bombarded with hunger for anything especially money, power, position, food, he can do anything. A hungry is an angry man, so they say. Abram, the father of faith was in that state of life before too. While he was down, he lived his life on half truth or simply put a life of lie because of fear of the ruler of the down land. But God showed him mercy and so he decided to leave that down side of life to go up and not to go from one down level to another down level. He was tired of that state of life. and so he made a choice to change the story positively
Friend, what are you hungry for? What, or who made you to go down at a point in your life? But wait! that does not really matter right now. What matters is when and how will you make the choice to go up again from the down state of your life. Since you have been down in morality, down academically, down emotionally, down in lying, down in ungodly relationship, down in pornography, down in masturbation, down in cyber crime, down in gambling, down in all forms of evil acts, held down and bound by the “Egyptians”, what have you gained? Have you not lost so many virtues, have you not lost your sanity, your self esteem, and identity? have you not lost the peace of mind, your connection with God and his Spirit? Have you not lost the company of people with correct lifestyle? Have you not lost the vision and sense of your future? So when will you go up from Egypt now? Do you know that the restoration of all good things that you have lost begins with a decision to go up right now? You will surely gain more than whatever attracted you to go down just like hunger attracted Abram to go down. friend, don’t delay the decision, stand up right now and go up immediately to where you ought to be in life. You are destined to be happy. you were designed to be strong, to be at the top, to be morally sound, academically sound, you were made to be a shaker and a mover of your generation! GO UP right now in the name of Jesus!
PRAYER SPILL
Lord Jesus, just as you pulled Abram up from Egypt, pull me up from this pit and sate of pains and mediocrity too. I receive grace to go up from this unwanted state of life. Thank you Jesus.
Do you have any dream for your life yet?
Genesis 28:12
He dreamt that he saw a stairway reaching from earth to heaven, with angels going up and coming down on it.
Most times I have the habit of asking jokingly, young people at the tertiary institution about what are their plans for their life? A greater percentage of answers that I get were usually, ” I want to be great or successful”. But my response was always, ” great or successful in what? Do you know that an armed rubber also plans to be great or successful in armed robbery? So you must be specific in what plan is or what you plan to be successful.
It is unfortunate that at the tertiary educational level, and to worsen it all, at graduation level from tertiary institutions, some young people don’t really know what they want to do in life(purpose) and don’t have a plan for one. For Jacob, he had a dream and clearly stated it. Can you also clearly state what your dream (purpose) really is right now? You can’t be on this earth without a reason or purpose. No! Everything that was manufactured had a reason in the mind of the manufacturer before it was created. So God who was said to manufacture man/woman and continues to do so till date through the combination of some biological cells from two different individuals has a reason for so doing. If you are now confused of what you should be doing, then go to your manual that accompanied you when you were manufactured- the Bible. There, you will discover your purpose. and Bible says that you shall meditate on it day and night then you shall prosper and have great success.
Can I tell you that it’s very easy to discover your purpose? First, do you know that the course that you are studying in that university or that thing that you are learning or learnt, is actually you purpose? Your daily investment by getting admission, attending classes and the accumulation of knowledge for those numbers of years is for you to utilize it to meet needs of other people and thereby earn a living? Purpose is what you are born to learn or what you are known for which you are happy to use to meet needs of other people for the remaining part of your life. Your profession is your provision of purpose. It should give you all that you want if you determinedly develop and deploy it to Decapolis(Deca=10, polis = cities) . Form your dream around what you know and act on them right now.
PRAYER SPILL
JESUS! I now know what my dream primarily should be now. Grant me enabling grace to enjoy it and polish it to glitter enough to attract nations and affect them positively for the rest of my life in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
What do you see in your dream?
Genesis 28:12
He dreamt that he saw a stairway reaching from earth to heaven, with angels going up and coming down on it.
Sometimes ago, A popular man of God said that he travelled to another country with some of his students to attend an international conference. At that conference, the key note speaker was a 21 year old young man who was the founder of a top-notch company that was worth billions of dollars. Whereas the list in age among those who attended that conference along with the said man of God was above 20 yet in their tertiary institution level of education and also has no vision. So he screamed and said, dream is pivotal to a progressive life which must have been received at worse between age 12 and 16 crystal clear. By 18, what you saw as a mental picture must have begun to manifest in real life.
At an early age, Jacob began a journey of life initiated by his parent and got to a point on that journey where he had a dream. Clearly, he SAW a ladder touching earth and heaven, he SAW angels ascending and descending, he SAW God standing at the top of the ladder who spoke and showed the picture of his life to him.
Now my friend, what do you see in your dream of life too? What is the contents of your dream? Do you see frustration, disappointment, unpleasant situations, impossibilities, confusion, worthlessness, loneliness and inabilities? For Jacob, he saw a ladder which signified singleness of purpose, he saw Angels which indicated divine assistance and he saw God which signified guidance and fatherly care. My dear, you can see the same too. Listen, If you don’t fill your dream with positive thoughts of possibilities, it will be full of impossibilities.
PRAYER SPILL
Lord, open my eyes to see my dream. Correct my inner eyes to see correctly. I also want to see something good in my life as well. I confess that my life is full of great opportunities and possibilities in the mighty name of Jesus.
Contact lens
Colossians 2: 17 b
…The reality, however, is found in Christ.
The boy was already sitting comfortably and confidently in the examinations’ hall as his scripts and questions papers were placed at his front on his desk. Start! The invigilator roared, alas! The boy picked his question and only saw blur patches of black ink. It was his scream that drew the attention of the invigilator to him. What is the matter? He asked. Sir, the boy responded, I forgot to put on my contact lens so I can’t see the real thing inside this question paper.
Dear Friend, what makes a person real, is not in the celebrity that you pattern your life after, is not found in the cloth you wear, it is not in how many bottles of alcoholic drink/ hard drugs you can consume, it is not in the caliber of friends and where they take you to, it is not in the confidence in charms or cultist, it is not in money you have or how many big boys or girls or class that you fall in. In order words, it is not in the quantity of life but quality of life that you lead. I want you to know that quality life can only be found in Jesus Christ. the real thing makes life enviable can only be found in Jesus Christ.
It is only in Jesus that your life can take a correct shape, well cultured, discipled, well organized and meaningful life. Through Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit, you can clearly understand what your life should look like; how you are to speak, where you are supposed to go at any given time, the kind of friends or company that you are to keep, what kind of movies that you are to watch, I mean what you are to engage your eyes with, what kind of thoughts that you should entertain in your mind, how to handle several feelings that could ruin your career and destiny, and what you are to put in your mouth. Dear friend, it is written, if any man is in Christ is a new creature, old things had passed away, and behold “all” things become new. It is only in Christ that any man could have and live a new life. Newness will no longer be synonymous to physical beauty alone but an inward beauty.
The desire for excessive additives, excessive make up, crazy fashion that depicts madness or weirdness or fashions that exposes sensitive parts of the body especially the ladies, disobedience to parents and teachers or elders will all become irritating to you because of the passionate love for Christ. Bible says, I will send the Holy Spirit to you, and when he comes, he will teach you all things… So this real and valuable life that I am talking about can only be transferred into your life by the holy spirit who will teach you as you search through God’s Words diligently. Psalm 119:9 says, “How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word.”
So ask yourself now, how real are you? Or you are surrounding yourself with fake and deceptive life? Have you seen the real thing through the lens of Christ Jesus? Will you now request that the holy spirit guide you to know and see values in Jesus so that your life can be real and the best?
PRAYER SPILL
Holy Spirit, show Jesus to me and the valuable resources in him.
