Month: November 2020

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Personalized graces


[The Glory Unveiled]

Then Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.” ( Acts 3:6 )

Apostles Peter and John were out one day going about their normal daily life when they came across a man who was lame from birth. Peter and John had been team mates, colleagues in the school of Christ and friends for quite some time until then. They probably knew the likes and dislikes of one another and a couple more things they shared in common. But interestingly, at this juncture, Peter, instead of using the first person plural form of the pronoun [he used], he used the “singular” denoting he was speaking for himself and himself alone. One of the challenges of many of today’s Believers is that, we try to role play and act out for other people and even ourselves. We try to act for people and pretend to be like them whereas we may have been far from them in experience. You could be friends with someone but what they carry on the inside is different from what you carry. You could graduate from the same Bible school but have different ministries and grace. It is for this reason we must enter the secret place as individuals and exercise the power and grace willed to us as such. We can only give what we have as individuals not as a group. No man can give what they do not have and no one can know what another person has or hasn’t unless they tell them. So beloved, let us give what we have been given of God; freely we were given, freely we should give.

Prayer_Bead: Omniscient King, Omnipotent God, thank you for the grace of your benevolence. Help we to give out to a needy world even as you gave to my needy soul.

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Obey the source


[The Glory Unveiled]

As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying on the road, with both the donkey and the lion standing beside it. ( 1 Kings 13:24 )

The events that led to the scene of this verse of scripture is one that is unimaginable yet full of lessons. A prophet was sent by God from Judah with specific instructions to be carried out in Bethel. He did well to execute his mission but upon his return, he let out some secrets he should have kept for himself or at worst to a selected few. This prophet had announced the secret that sustained him until then to a large gathering so that the children of an old prophet even heard it. They came home to tell their father all that the prophet from Judah had done, and the secret that sustained him. This old prophet, decided to go and deceive the prophet from Judah. He urged him to do the opposite of what God told him to do in the name of “God’s new instruction to him.” The result of his disobedience to God and obeying the words of a man is what we read in the verse above. Now, our lesson: there are certain secrets that must remain secrets between us and God. Whatever God told us in our closet is still valid until, we are convinced otherwise by His Spirit; not by another man, prophet or whoever they may be without first having a witness within us. Let’s stick to God’s word.

Prayer_Bead: Merciful God, Loving Father, thank you for showing us through your word to hold unto your word and to keep secret what needs to be kept secret.

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The end in the beginning


[The Glory Unveiled]

I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’ ( Isaiah 46:10 )

It is a natural instinct to want to know the end of a thing from the beginning. Business men and women venture into their business deals with the hope and anticipation of making a lot of returns. This is the reason why many people, even some Believers patronize new age astrology and witchcraft. Prophecy is one of the channels through which the mind of God is made known to us. God speaks to his people and unbelievers through the word of prophecy. In the verse of scripture above, we see that God is able and willing to make known to us the end from the very beginning. And God will fulfill His purpose for our lives when we align with that revealed plan for us. For this reason, we have no reason or whatsoever to fail in life. Once we subscribe to the pattern laid out for us in scriptures, everything will work out perfectly. God is not a man to lie nor promise and fail. Once the word has gone out, God will honour it. The secret is to acknowledge God in all we do and He will fulfill His desires for us.

Prayer_Bead: Ancient of days, the wind in my wings, the life in our lives, thank you for your provisions for us. Thank you for showing us the end from the beginning. Let your purpose for us stand.

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Alert and Sober


[The Glory Unveiled]

Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. ( 1 Peter 2:8 )

The enemy prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. But the thing with the devil that is very different from the animal it is compared to is that, the devil will not scream out loud that he is the enemy and that he is coming for you; no! He comes disguised as an Angel of light; a friend, a brother, a spouse, a family friend or member etc. As such the scripture cautions us to be alert and sober minded. Otherwise we will be overtaken with evil and before we could say jack, we are in the ditch. In the verse nine (9) of this same chapter, the word of God shows us how to deal with the enemy. He says we should “resist” him. The enemy will always come at us through our desires…always. This is why we need to be alert and sober minded so that we can resist him. And we become alert by the word of God. It opens our eyes to the schemes of the enemy so that we are not ignorant of his devices. Study the word of God to be sober and alert!

Prayer_Bead: Saviour, Redeemer, Healer, Friend, Source and Origin of all things. Thank you for the anointing to know your word and to stand firmly in it, resisting the enemy. Help me to be alert and sober minded in you.

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Chosen to reveal Christ


[The Glory Unveiled]

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. ( 1 Peter 2:9 )

The love of God for humans is so vast and complex. Before the foundations of the earth, God chose us in Christ to be unto Him His precious possession. And then in the fullness of time, God sent grace to save and take those He had chosen. This is why our salvation is not accidental. God is intentional about us getting into His ark, like in the days of Noah. It is just like how God instructed Noah to take particular animals with him into the ark. So we have been chosen; for a purpose. What is the purpose of our calling? We were called and chosen to declare the praise (glory) of He who called us from darkness into His marvelous light. How do we declare his praise? We do, like Moses, by showing ourselves to the world after we have been with the Lord for long. So let us live in the word of God so that the world can see the word of God through us.

Prayer_Bead: Awesome, Magnificent King, thank you for choosing me in Christ to reveal your praise and glory to the world. Keep me in the word of Your grace.

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