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
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