RETURN REDUCED WAGES! For Wednesday July 1st 2015
Topic: RETURN REDUCED WAGES!
Memorise:
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth
another hath fulfilled the law. Romans 13:8
Bible
Text: Genesis 31:36-42, Bible in one year: 1st Chronicles
7:14-9:34, Luke 15:1-24
God is a
righteous God, and as a result, He hates all forms of Fraud. According to
Leviticus 19:13, it is a crime to delay your workers salary for 24 hours. Do
you promptly pay your staff – whether church or secular? Another aspect of
fraud is manipulating your workers’ salaries. One Bible character who was a
victim of this was Jacob. All the years he worked for Laban, he suffered a
great deal. He was deceived, cheated, made to bear the losses his boss should
have borne and earned an ever-decreasing wage. Laban was extremely wicked. But
do you know that some employers today are like Laban? They take all the gains
of their businesses and push all the losses to their staff, irrespective of
what caused such losses. Also, while they plan to make more profit and push
their staff to work hard at it, they hardly ever plan to increase their
salaries. If anything, they continue to come up with excuses as to why such
salaries should remain at the same level, or even be reduced.
BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN For Friday June 12th 2015
Topic: BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN
Memorise: For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but
the sorrow of the world worketh death. 2nd Corinthians 7:10
Bible Text: Matthew 5:4, Bible in one year: 1st Kings 20:26-21:29,
Luke 6:46-7:17
The word of God is full of mysteries. Our Bible reading today reveals
one of such mysteries. How can mourning, which is an expression of deep sorrow,
become a blessing, which is an expression of deep sorrow, become a blessing?
The answer lies in our memory verse which reveals two types of sorrow: godly
sorrow and the sorrow of the world. There are lots of blessings associated with
godly sorrow. One of these is that it produces repentance which brings about
salvation. Godly sorrow can be expe
PRODUCING CHILDREN OF GOD For Thursday June 11th 2015
Title: PRODUCING CHILDREN OF
GOD
Memorise: So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God. Romans 10:17
Bible Text: 1st John 3:1-3, Bible in one year: 1st
Kings 18:41-20:25, Luke 6:24-45
Children
of God are produced by the power in the Word of God. The reason why it seems
genuine children of God are scarce nowadays despite the increase in the number
of churches and increase in church attendance is because the Church is
suffering from a famine of the genuine Word of God. It is by faith that we
become genuine children of God. However, this faith does not come by the wisdom
of man; neither does it come by the philosophical sayings of the learned or the
motivational words of orators. 1st Corinthians 2:4-5 says.
“And
my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in
demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in
the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.”
The
world, especially devotees of certain religious, still wonder up till now how
it is possible for a human being to claim that he or she is a child of God.
Such people look at divine paternity with the mind of the flesh, and so they
cannot understand or accept the mystery of adaptation which empowers us to
become sons of God through Christ Jesus. Even to us who have been conferred
this prestigious status of being children of God, it is still a mystery. John
the beloved expressed this mystery with awe in 1st John 3:1:
“Behold,
what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called
the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.”
The Word
of God came to Mary and produced the Son of God, when she had not known any man
(Luke 1:30-35). This is a template for us. The mystery of divine adoption lies
in the Word of God. For us to produce children of God from children of
disobedience, we need to expose them to the undiluted Word of God that will
produce the required faith for their adoption. Romans 10:17 says;
“So
then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
We should
therefore follow the pattern of the early apostles, we produced children of God
through the Word of God. We see this manifested in Acts 4:4
“Howbeit
many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about
five thousand.”
Key Point There is power in numbers. For the kingdom of
God be firmly established on earth, there must be a tremendous increase in the
number of God’s children
A WATCHMAN FOR GOD II On Wednesday June 10th 2015
Topic:A
WATCHMAN FOR GOD II
Memorise: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever
I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the
world. Amen. Matthew 28:20
Read: Ezekiel 33:12-16, Bible in one year: 1st Kings
17:8-18:40, Luke 6:1-23
As a
young Christian, I used to think that the soul purpose of preaching was the
conversion of souls. When I preached and people did not respond positively, I
used to be discouraged. Often times, I felt that there was no need to preach to
people whom I assumed were despises of the message of the gospel, until the
Lord led me to a truth about my assignment as a watchman. This truth is hidden
in Mathew 24:14:
“And
this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness
A WATCHMAN FOR GOD I For Tuesday June 9th 2015
Ttopic:A WATCHMAN FOR GOD
I
Memorise: Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that
your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the
presence of the Lord; Acts 3:19
Read: Ezekiel 33:7-11, Bible in one year: 1st Kings
15:25-17:7
God
called Prophet Ezekiel and set him as a watchman over the house of Israel. As a
watchman for God, he was to hear from Him and warn the people concerning
whatsoever God told him. Just like Ezekiel, believers in these end-times,
particularly ministers of the gospel, are set as watchmen to warm the world of
the impending judgement of God. One of the most important responsibilities of a
watchman for God is that he or she must of necessity here from God (Ezekiel
33:7). You must hear from
MESSENGERS WITHOUT A MESSAGE For Today Monday June 8th 2015
Theme: MESSENGERS WITHOUT A
MESSAGE
Memorise: Preach the Word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke,
exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 2nd Timothy 4:2
Bible Text: 2nd Samuel 18:19-33, Bible in one year: 1st Kings
14:1-15:24, Luke 4:38-5:16
One anomaly noticeable in the Body of Christ today is the presence of
messengers running around without a message. An example of such messengers is
Ahimaaz in today’s Bible reading. After the death of Absalom, Joab, the captain
of David’s army, sent Cushi with a message to the palace; but Ahimaaz
volunteered himself to also deliver a message to the king. In spite of the fact
that Joab reminded him that he had no reason to go since he had no message to
deliver, he insisted that he would, and he was allowed to. The funny thing
about this story is that, Ahimaaz outran Cushi who actually had a message to
deliver. When Ahimaaz got to King David and he was interrogated, the
emptiness of his message was laid bare, and the king therefore asked him to
step aside for the person who actually had substance in his message. One cannot
help but wonder: what was the essence of Ahimaaz’s effort, so much so that he
outran the person who actually had a message?
The attitude demonstrated by Ahimaaz can be referred to as zeal without
meaning. This is the situation of some so-called ministers of the gospel today.
They are massagers sent by their belly or by the devil (Romans 16:18). How do
we know messengers without a message? We know them by their deceptive speeches,
which are geared towards making people “feel good” when they should be sober
about their lifestyle of sin. Apostle Paul, while giving his final charge to
Timothy, his son in Christ and a young bishop, instructed him to:
“Preach the word; be instant in season, out of
season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.”
2nd Timothy 4:2
Today, many so-called sermons are actually motivational speeches, given
by motivational speakers disguised as preachers. Their message cannot be the
word of God; it contains no rebuke, no reproof and no doctrine. As a matter of
policy, they would not teach doctrine because they say they have not been
called to do so! One cannot help wondering who commissioned them in the first
place. It is their belly, of course (Philippians 3:17-19). Beloved, I advise
you to be careful of the ministers you listen to, and to filter the type of
sermons you admit into your spiritual sub-consciousness. On the other hand, if
you are a deceptive preacher of the gospel, desist before the anger of God
comes on you without remedy.
Prayer Point: Father, help me to recognize your appointed messengers, and grant me
the grace to listen and do according to Your bidding through them.