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John 8:31-32 (NET) Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, “If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Mr. Allen had some mutated dogs that could never grow from being puppies. They were mutated to remain puppies all their lives. But one day, the dogs started a diet that began to annul their mutation. Because of this, they began to steadily grow into adults. But while puppies, Mr. Allen tied each of them with seven strands of knitting wool. And they remained bound that way. But as they started to grow, one day, some of them realized that they could now break free by virtue of their size and increased strength.

The wool now seemed like a joke. All they had to do was to simply keep walking and the rope broke.

 But there were many of them who were still afraid of the power of the threads because as puppies, they had tried to break free to no avail. They were actually now bound by the limitation of the past. And because of this, they remained in bondage even though they had enough might(strength) to break free.

The dogs that got freedom got it because they came to the knowledge of the truth. This truth was that they could now walk away free.

If you are a disciple of Christ who follows His teachings, this is the truth concerning you: you have grown out of the power of sin. Sin no longer has power over you because we are now under God’s grace. This grace teaches us the word of God and causes us to grow out of the smallness that made sin dominate us (see Titus 2:8-9).

Go into today with this truth.

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—Abraham Damilola Arigi

Yearly Bible Plan: I Kings 5-9

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Ephesians 5:15-16 (KJV) See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Before Segun understood that his conduct was important if he was going to successfully engage in spiritual Warfare, he was a dishonest man whose life was plagued with suspicion and lack of love. His relationship with his wife left much to be desired. His neighbors didn’t like him because he was very suspicious of them and behaved awkwardly around them.

But as he began to apply himself to God’s word, he realized that he needed to walk circumspectly. Being circumspect means being careful to consider all possible consequences of one’s words and/or actions. One of the major attributes of the wise is that they are circumspect. For Segun, one area he knew he needed to be more circumspect was with the use of his words, especially with his wife. As Segun made the appropriate adjustments in the way he spoke and the things he did, he realized that his spiritual authority grew. He observed that he was now no longer afraid of many things he used to fear.

Yesterday, we saw that one of Satan’s most potent weapons against believers is accusations. Witchcraft is a demonic craft that would be totally useless without accusations. As we live spirit-led lives (being circumspect and walking in love), we drain out every accusation the devil may have been using against us. As a result, when we resist the devil, he would have no choice but to flee (James 4:7).

Go into today remembering that all authority in heaven and on earth now belongs to Jesus. As you abide in Him and become more like Him, you will find that the devil has no authority or power over you and your sphere of influence.

Prayer: Heavenly Father, please help me to become more like Jesus every day. Amen.

—Abraham Damilola Arigi

Bible In 365 Days: Exodus 37-40

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Ephesians 6:10 (KJV) Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

Segun was a prayer warrior because he understood the wickedness of the wicked and how the power of God could put them in check. He was from a village known for its notorious witches. His stepmother was a witch and he knew the battles he had to fight in order for him to live a near-normal life.

But Segun was not totally free. He lived from battle to battle, struggling from one attack to another. No one prayed like him in the church, yet no one was afflicted like him. He used to tell himself that he had so many attacks and defeats because of his family background, but when he discovered that his pastor, who lived a free joyful life, was from a more wicked background than him, he started asking questions he should have been asking a long time ago.

Segun discovered that even though he exerted himself a lot in spiritual Warfare, he was low on spiritual authority and had few real victories because of his conduct. He was a suspicious, unloving, proud, and self-centered person. Because of this, the enemy had many potent accusations against him that weakened his spiritual battle formation.

Today’s Bible verse begins with the word “finally”. The subject of spiritual Warfare was the last one apostle Paul would share with the Ephesians. He shared it just after sharing about spiritual maturity and Christian conduct. A man whose conduct is questionable cannot triumph in spiritual Warfare. The devil is not so powerful against the believer who is mature and whose conduct is blameless. One of the devil’s most potent weapons against the believer is accusations (see Rev 12:10-11).

The cleansing of the blood of Jesus and the transforming power of God’s word is why the saints will overcome Satan (Rev 12:11). The word of God transforms us to become like Christ, thus making us spiritually mature. Any believer who doesn’t give priority to the word of God may not attain the required level of spiritual maturity to successfully execute spiritual Warfare.

Go into today remembering that as you become more like Christ in nature [and character], you become spiritually invincible.

—Abraham Damilola Arigi

Bible In 365 Days: Galatians 4-6

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John 15:16 (NET) You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

When the Lord Jesus came to the world over 2000 years ago, apart from His disciples, the Jews did not believe that he was the messiah because they expected the messiah to come and take over the kingdoms of this world and establish his government in Israel (Acts 1:6, Mark 14:61, Matt 11:3). The Lord did not do that in His first coming, but He will in His second coming(Rev 20:40, Daniel 7:27, Matthew 19:28, Dan 7:18, 2 Tim 2:12). One of the reasons for this was that the Messiah was not going to reign and rule alone. He would need princes that would reign with him, and at that time, He didn’t have anyone He could commit to(see John 2:24). You see, the fall had so damaged human nature that the Lord needed to redeem and transform man in order for man to be fit to inherit His kingdom.

God has expectations in saving you. When you fulfill these expectations, you are fruitful. The power to be fruitful does not come from you but from the Lord. As long as you abide in Christ and let His word abide in you richly, you will be fruitful. I have seen many who believed in the Lord Jesus but went back to the world. Such did not remain in Christ. Abiding in Christ means abiding under His authority, and also abiding in the Church which is His body. Believers who have forsaken the gathering together of the saints and do not want to be accountable to anyone have stopped abiding.

Go into today remembering that the biggest measure of your fruitfulness is the degree to which you have been conformed to the image of Christ. Becoming like Christ is the object of Christianity. Those who will rule and reign with Christ are those who have become like Him. The purpose of the Church is to train and equip us, so we become mature; and grow into the fullness of the stature of Christ (see Ephesians 4:13-14)

Prayer: Lord, help me be like Jesus indeed. Help me truly forsake the Adamic nature.

—Abraham Damilola Arigi

Bible In 365 Days: Luke 7-8

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1 Corinthians 2:15 (NKJV)But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.

When the Lord said ‘judge not’ in Matthew 7:1, He was talking to His disciples, and the context was a Christian disciple judging another disciple. That Sermon [on the mount] started in Matthew 5 after His disciples came up the mountain to meet Him (see Matt 5:1). In the sermon, He instructed them not to judge one another, that was why he said if you see a spec in “your brother’s” eye. the context here is “your brother” not “your neighbor”, indicating that He is talking to disciples.

Today’s Bible verse reveals that even though the spiritual man has the ability to judge all things, no one has the ability to rightly judge him. Indeed, those who would be counted worthy to inherit the kingdom of Christ and reign with Him would also judge all men and even the angels (see 1 Cor 6:2-3). But even they are not qualified to judge each other correctly, no one is. The only Person able to judge them is their Lord and master (see Rom 14:4). This applies to spiritual believers and not carnal believers because walking in the flesh excludes a believer from immunity to judgment and condemnation (see Rom 8:1 in KJV, Rom 8:13).

Before Satan can afflict anyone, he must first have grounds for judgment and condemnation against him. These grounds do not exist for the spiritual man (whose life is ruled by the Holy Spirit). Even if a spiritual man falls, he rises again and does not stay there and create grounds for judgment.

Go into today remembering that there is no judgment and condemnation for the spiritual man. The only thing that can make him walk in a way deserving of judgment is when he becomes carnal by continuing to unrepentantly walk in the flesh.

Prayer: Lord, please help me to always walk in the Spirit.

—Abraham Damilola Arigi

Bible In 365 Days: Jeremiah 47-52

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Exodus 23:25 (KJV) And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

Dante was so sickly that the health insurance company sent him an email saying that they could no longer keep up with his medical bills and he would have to upgrade his insurance plan.

After he accepted the Lord Jesus, he learned the word of God and realized that the Lord would bless his food and water and take sickness and disease away from him. This was yet another motivation to serve the Lord. He became committed to the service of the Lord in his local church. Because of this, he had boldness and faith that the Lord was going to preserve him from his frequent illnesses. As he continued in the word and refused to change his confessions of faith, he found that he was no longer a sickly person. He now enjoyed divine health.

For Dante, serving the Lord was what preserved his life from untimely death.

Today’s Bible verse contains a covenant promise of God. As we commit to serving the Lord in truth, He will bless our food and water and take sickness and disease away from us. It is possible to think you’re serving the Lord when indeed you are not. Serving the Lord must be done at His terms and in His way.

Go into today remembering that one sure way to enjoy divine health is to be sure that you are serving the Lord in truth. A person serving his belly but who thinks he is serving the Lord may not be able to benefit from the covenant promise in today’s main text.

Prayer: Lord, teach me to serve you acceptably. Deliver from the distraction of worldliness. Amen.

—Abraham Damilola Arigi

Yearly Plan: Proverbs 1

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Luke 1:74-75 (KJV) That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

Susan never knew her father. Her grandmother who also used to be a prostitute was the only family she had. Even though they lived in the most affluent nation on earth, her family was so poor that they had to live on the generosity of strangers, prostitute themselves, sell drugs, and do other illegal things to survive.

Susan had accepted the Lord Jesus but was not yet truly free from the power of curses in her bloodline because she did not fully understand the gospel and was not committed to living for God. She started experiencing true freedom when she rededicated her life to the Lord and understood that living for God and serving Him is the only way to truly appropriate our freedom in Christ.

We see in today’s scripture that when we are delivered from the hands of our enemies, we are to serve God in holiness and righteousness all the days of our lives. Being committed to serving the Lord is the only guarantee of continued freedom in this present world. If you are not a serving son, you are a prodigal son. The prodigal son was born free but became worse than a slave in the land of strangers. It is time for all prodigal sons to come back home.

Isaiah 54:17 (KJV) says “No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord”. Do you notice that the promises in the verse above are a heritage of those who serve the Lord? Curses are spiritual judgments, but only those who serve the Lord can effectively condemn them. Are you serving the Lord or are you serving mammon?

Go into today remembering that you were set free from the slavery of darkness to the glorious kingdom of God. When we commit ourselves to serving the Lord, we commit ourselves to the protection and power of heaven. Believers who are not committed to serving the Lord are cheating themselves.

Prayer: Heavenly Father, help me serve you and reap the benefits, In Jesus’ name. Amen.

—Abraham Damilola Arigi

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Yearly Bible Plan: Psalms 63-65

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John 8:31-32 (KJV) Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Erica knew there was a generational curse in her family. Her grandmother was a single mother, and her mother also became a single mother under similar circumstances as her grandmother. All her aunts were single mothers and her elder sisters were now single mothers. But Erica became born again and was being discipled. Because she was properly taught and discipled, she actually forgot that there was a generational curse in her bloodline. She just continued to enjoy the Lord and was walking in spiritual liberty. Erica’s life never manifested that curse in her bloodline because, through believing and being discipled, she was now a new creature.

Many of the early disciples of the Lord Jesus didn’t need to go for deliverance sessions after they believed. They simply continued in the apostle’s doctrine, prayer, and Christian fellowship. Because of proper discipleship, they broke free of curses and real demonic entanglements. Remember, many of the Gentile believers were proper pagans with generations of demonic entanglements before they became disciples. But they broke free through proper discipleship, not deliverance sessions.

From years of ministry and conducting deliverances for people, I can tell you that nothing guarantees lasting deliverance like when a believer has decided to be a true disciple of the Lord Jesus.

Every curse needs an iniquity of the heart to ride on. Some of these iniquities are native proclivities of the heart to certain kinds of lusts, greed, and/or pride. They can seem latent but they steer the direction of people’s lives without them knowing it. If these iniquities of the heart are not uprooted, curses will have sufficient grounds to operate in the life of the person, even if he is a believer.

Proper discipleship is the only way people can be converted from what they were to become like Christ. Discipleship is the kingdom schooling system that converts a sinful heart into the heart of a Saint. It requires discipline, submission, and consistency on the part of the disciple.

Go into today remembering that a believer who becomes a disciple of the Lord Jesus cannot remain under the power of any curse. The transformation of the heart brought about by discipleship breaks the power of every curse.

Prayer: Lord please make me a disciple indeed.

—Abraham Damilola Arigi

Bible In One Year: Exodus 33-36 (in today’s audio)

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Romans 12:2 (J.B. Phillips New Testament) Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould, but let God re-mould your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God for you is good, meets all his demands and moves towards the goal of true maturity.

There is this interesting scene from a movie of a grocery store keeper who greatly distrusted politicians believing nothing good comes from them. So, this day, as he was setting up for the day’s business and rambling on about the hypocrisy of politicians, midway through his rant, his assistant called his attention to the expiry date of the dairy products which was due the next day. Without missing a beat the storekeeper asked her to switch the labels with a new one with a more distant expiry date and continued his ranting about the ‘rottenness’ of politicians.

The irony of the moment was lost on the sanctimonious storekeeper who was always filled with righteous indignation. He tried to maintain his moral high ground even though he was as guilty of corruption as the politicians he sorely detested.

Now to the labels. What happened when the storekeepers change those labels is that he is rechristening the products in a way that does not align with reality. He was inadvertently calling bad, good, and convincing his unsuspecting buyers to accept as true what was false.

This is a good analogy for what happens when society keeps shifting the goalpost on various moral issues and pressures the believer to fall in line. You are called a bigot if you believe the claims of the gospel, a misogynist if you uphold the Bible’s teachings on marriage, brainwashed if you believe the Bible is the (written) word of God, intolerant if you believe that Jesus is indeed the (only) way to the Father.

These new labels have been systematically put up to coerce the believer to lower his standards, to open wide his arms to any and every doctrine the world comes up with, and to derail the believer from the path of righteousness. It is a craftily devised strategy to force the believer into the mold of the world system.

Do not accept these labels that seek to make you ashamed to be a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. Be gentle as a dove and also wise as a serpent (See Matthew 10:16). Stand firm, unshakable, holding fast to that which you have received of the Lord and unabashedly walking in the light of his word.

Go into today rejoicing that you are a child of God, and that if you are incompatible with the world’s system, so was Jesus.

—Ikechukwu Mpama

Bible In One Year: Galatians 1-3 (in today’s audio)

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Proverbs 26:2 (NET) Like a fluttering bird or like a flying swallow, so a curse without cause does not come to rest.

When Dare wanted to be delivered from the curse in his life, he sought to establish contact with the pastor who placed a curse on him, but since he was now living in Europe, he had lost all contact with that church and didn’t know how to reestablish it. As he prayed and sought counsel from his current pastor, he realized that what the Lord needed him to do was to truly repent and forsake his former ways that made it possible for that curse to alight and remain in his life.

After repenting before the Lord, soon enough, he was tested with that same kind of temptation. The company he was now working with gave him a new role that meant he was going to be handling a lot of money with little supervision. If he had not repented, he knew the “sharp” practices he would have employed to systematically game the system and make some extra money, but Dare now proposed in his heart not to go that way again. This was the fruit of repentance needed to demonstrate his freedom from the iniquity that made him a captive to curses.

Unknown to him, passing that test was proof that he had truly repented from the iniquity in his heart that was a magnet for that curse. Consequently, he was automatically delivered.

Before a curse can alight on a person’s life, there needs to be a cause; a corresponding iniquity that the curse exploits. The same goes for generational curses. Generational iniquities and proclivities of the heart are the requirements for generational curses to continue to find expression in any life. In order for curses to be broken, iniquities need to be forsaken. Only the power of Christ can truly deliver any man from the power of iniquity. Becoming like Christ is the only true remedy to iniquity in the heart.

Go into today remembering that the way to break free of all curses is to be free of iniquity. Becoming like Christ is the sure path to this.

—Abraham Dami Arigi

Bible In One Year: Luke 5-6

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