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Our love source


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We love because he first loved us. ( 1 John 4:19 )

We are in the season of love. And it is only appropriate we turn our lens to the topic of love. Love has lately been misunderstood or abused. The scripture says we love because He first loved us. This means that without He (Christ), we do not know what love is and cannot love as a result. Jesus is the portrait of love for us. Today, in our pursuit of love and our search for it, we need to have the portrait in front of us, Christ. So that love will flow from that trajectory to us. We cannot love in isolation from Christ neither can we be loved without Christ. We can only love God because He first loved us and we can love our neighbors because God first shared His love abroad in our hearts. Let brotherly love continue.

Prayer_Bead: Thank you Lord Jesus for your love for me. Help me to express your love to the world.

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Victory by faith


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For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. ( 1 John 5:4 )

The world has systems and “mountains” and many people have sold their souls to the devil to operate these systems and mountains. They exchange a permanent victory for a temporary glory. But there is another avenue to win over the world. Except that this also comes with a restriction. This avenue is limited to those who have accepted Christ as Lord over their lives. Hence, the Believer’s victory over the world is in Christ. Outside of Christ, the Believer cannot overcome the world. And this victory is tied to our faith in Christ. So that unless we are born of God, we cannot exercise that faith over the world. Everything in God is accessible through faith. Without faith, we cannot get over the wall of divide that separates the ordinary life from the supernatural life. One of which is the victorious life.

Prayer_Bead: Author and Finisher of my faith, thank you for the victory of the cross. I live in that victory for me by faith in you.

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Slaves of God


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Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves. ( 1 Peter 2:16 )

God so love humanity, that He sent His only begotten son to pay the penalty for our wrong. This act gives us the opportunity to return to the family of God (see John 1:12). Though we are given the privilege of sonship when we believe in Christ and as result we are free, God does not force us to comply with His ways and plans for us. He gives us the freedom to choose what to do with the freedom we have, whether good or bad. But if we love God as much as we profess, we need to become slaves of God. And this not by coercion but by our free will. We hear comments like “In Christ, I am free to do whatever I want to do”. That is true, the apostle Paul said he is free to do all things but not all things are beneficial to him. And so he will not be brought under the power of any. He chose to become the bond servant of Christ as a pledge of allegiance to God. Let us live as slaves of God so that we can express the life of God.

Prayer_Bead: Thank you Jesus for the opportunity to live for you freely. Empower me to succeed in this life I have subscribed to.

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Faith in the hearing


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But many who heard the message believed; so the number of men who believed grew to about five thousand. ( Acts 4:4 )

There had never been a time when people believed anything without hearing, touching, seeing or feeling something. Beliefs have always been founded on something perceptible to the heart. Jesus told some fishermen that He will make them fishers of men. True to that word, they were sent out to the fields of souls. In the book of Acts, the disciples had so many more people joining the family of God. But before these people could ever join this family, they had to hear something. So that it was not everybody who got saved but those from the sample of people who heard the message. Until that gospel of the kingdom was preached to them, faith couldn’t have come alive in them to lead them to Christ. It is by grace we have been saved, through faith. The medium of faith is necessary for anyone to reach God. For anyone who comes to God must believe that He is and a rewarder of they who diligently seek Him. Keep hearing the word, keep walking in the light of His word.

Prayer_Bead: Omniscient King, Omnipotent Father, thank you for the word of faith that brought me salvation. Keep me in the bosom of your love in Christ Jesus.

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Be sober and alert


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The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray. ( 1 Peter 4:7 )

It seems that the apostle Peter in the verse of scripture above is drawing our attention to that last moment of the Lord when He called three of his inner cycle disciples to watch with Him. In the strength of their flesh, to the detriment of their spirits, they slept at the place of prayer. In moments afterwards they had wished they prayed. (see Matthew 26:38-40). As one who had a first hand experience of these things, the apostle is able to give advice on what is necessary in these last days. In the last days, it is difficult to pray as the experience of the disciples revealed to us from the gospels. As such there is the need to follow a strategy that can help us to pray. The apostle says we should be alert and sober minded. In their experience, they were not alert though they had been cautioned by Jesus to “watch”. We need a discerning heart to be on the watch for shifts in the atmosphere of the spirit. A sober mind understands shifts and spiritual sound codes and this helps to pray as we ought. Hearing helps the heart to be sober and our senses to be alert. May the assurance of God’s word calm us as we meditate on the word and hear from God.

Prayer_Bead: Thank you father for the grace to be sober minded and alert. Guide me to watch and pray even more earnestly in these days.


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The standards of God


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A person may think their own ways are right,
but the LORD weighs the heart. ( Proverbs 21:2 )

The truth, that God is not a man is evident as it is clearly displayed in His dealings with men. As such man’s standard and unit of measurement is different from God’s. The standards of man leans on what is obvious to the senses. So that once the senses cannot capture something as factual even though it may be, the standards of man regards that unit as irrelevant. On the other hand, God uses a standard of measurement that sees what the eyes and senses cannot reveal. The standard of God sees past the actions of men into the motive that sponsors such actions. So that to God, even though someone might have done a good thing, if the heart is not right at the time of executing that good thing, the act is also null and void. This also means that, our motives; the state of our hearts are more important to God than the noise of our voices and the acts of our hands. We cannot fraud God because the intents of our hearts cannot be hidden from God. He sees the hidden things of darkness and the motives of the heart. If we know and believe this truth, then it behoves us to diligently keep our hearts.

Prayer_Bead: Omnipotent Father, Omniscient king, thank you for your word. Kindly search my heart and expose any corrupt ways and desires in me. And where I am found wanting, supply grace.

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Add knowledge to desire

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Desire without knowledge is not good—how much more will hasty feet miss the way! ( Proverbs 19:2 )

Zeal [desire] is very good, but what is not good is having zeal or desire without adequate [corresponding] knowledge. The problem with desire without knowledge is that it draws men from the path of their assignment and ordination. Desire without knowledge keeps us busy doing what the curriculum of our existence does not capture; in this case such activities are not even qualified to fall within the hidden or extra curricular sessions. What zeal without knowledge drives us to do is just exhaustion of spirit and soul. We get ourselves busy doing almost everything at the same time. We lack a sense of direction and purpose. We are better defined by the statement, “jack of all trades, master of none”. Desire without knowledge typically does what the second part of our scripture reference says; the feet of a man with desire without knowledge is hasty. And the resulting effect is that such people miss the way. They miss their true kingdom north that should lead them to relevance and stature. In addition to zeal and desire, may we add knowledge so that there will be a balance and control on our desires.

Prayer_Bead: Father of all spirits, thank you for the desire you have placed in me for your work, guide me through knowledge not to miss my path.

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Cross examine the world


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In a lawsuit the first to speak seems right,
until someone comes forward and cross-examines. ( Proverbs 18:17 )

Wisdom speaks to us through the voice of today’s scripture. There are so many speakers today, and everyday we are challenged with so many words we have to carefully judge before we accept or reject them. The world and its system has created for itself so many speakers and storytellers. So that in our dealings in the world and with the world, there is the need to be circumspect. The systems of the world have been built on the experiences of the past and the standards of the world that seem right. That may actually be the case until they are cross-examined. But how can we cross-examine something if we do not know better. There is therefore then the need for a higher and better body of knowledge, one that is independent of this world’s and is not taught by this world. That body of knowledge is the knowledge of the Most High. The former can only be corrected by the later if the later is superior to the former. Praise be to God, the word of God is parent to everything in existence and outside it. Anytime the world brings its lawsuits [troubles, issues, accusations and challenges], we need to cross examine them with the word of God and ask ourselves whether they are in sync with the word of God before we open up to them. Anything outside the span of the word of God is eternally useless and destructive. The word is all we need to have all our needs met or changed.

Prayer_Bead: Holy Spirit, the Counselor and guide, thank you for your witness in my spirit and the ability to judge between your ways and will and those of the world.

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Boundless love


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See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. ( 1 John 3:1 )

The love of God is revealed to us in many different forms and through many different situations. Sometimes the object or subject through which God reveals His love to us is too deep to comprehend. Other times, God uses simple acts and drama to expose this depthless love. This is why one singer calls it “reckless love”. The love of God must have been revealed to her in the paintings of reckless abandonment (attachment) to something. That is how strong the love of God is and stronger even it is. In this verse of scripture the love of God is revealed through our adoption into the family of God…GLORY! So that we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. We share in the DNA of God. We have the supernatural life of God. In us, just as in Christ dwells the mysteries of the Deity. So that the divine life is resident in us and can be expressed to suppress the mundane life of the flesh. Now, the world does not know this because it does not know Christ. Christ is the hidden, yet public archive of God; hidden from the civilization of the world but revealed in the recreated human spirit and expressed through the life of one who is a child of God. Glory!

Prayer_Bead: My Father, My Lover, thank you for your boundless love. Thank you for calling me into your family and inheritance.

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See to it


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See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ. ( Colossians 2:8 )

Today, the world seems to have too many teachers and guides. Religion has entered the hall of philosophy so that it is difficult to tell the difference between the two. Spirituality is estranged from the consciousness and association of many. Human traditions and customs birthed from many years of experience and interactions with the world systems has eaten into our human fiber. So deep that the gospel of Jesus sounds strange and alien to the heart of many. Our anchor scripture begins thus, “see to it” to mean that we should consciously guard our hearts from deviating into what we are cautioned against. The word of God helps us to safeguard our hearts against the captivity of human philosophy and deception. We need to study the word of God daily. To the believer, it’s a must, if we would look different from the world. Let us study to show ourselves approved.

Prayer_Bead: Lord of all hearts, spirit teacher, teach our hearts to know your truth and cling to it. Deliver us from the philosophy of men, incline our hearts to your truth and your ways.

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