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Galatians 6:6-7 (NET) Now the one who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with the one who teaches it. Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows

Linda observed that there was a season in her life when she walked in great financial open doors she never expected.

When she started inquiring of the Lord about the reason for the unusual open doors she experienced that season, the Lord showed her that it was because she shared her money with a pastor from whom she had learned so much. During that season of her life, she was sowing correctly and reaping a bountiful harvest.

Many believers wonder where the most fruitful field for them to give their finances may be. The answer to this important question is found in today’s Bible verses. Believers are expected to share their material things with those who instruct them with the word of God.

See the way the Lord presents this truth to us through Apostle Paul here:

1 Corinthians 9:11 (NET) If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?

Many Christians give their money to ‘pastors and prophets’ who use cunning craftiness and deceitful gimmicks to extract money from them. They do not realize that those who fall for such fall because they are spiritual babies (see 1 Cor 3:1)–carnal believers who can be tossed to and fro by the cunning craftiness of men who deceive (see Ephesians 4:14) because their motive for giving is greed, which these cunning men can exploit.

Go into today knowing that the way to identify spiritually fruitful fields to sow your finances for kingdom advancement is by identifying where you are truly being fed with the word of God unto spiritual growth.

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—Abraham Damilola Arigi

Bible in One Year: I Samuel 16-20 (In Devotional Audio)

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Luke 10:27 (KJV) And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself

Amanda was in love. It was quite obvious to everyone around her. There were long calls on hushed tones inundated with intermittent delightful giggles, the many weekend trips, and the love-emoji-laden chat always executed with a wide smile garnished with pink blushes. Amanda was in love.

In due course, Amanda informed her youth pastor of her relationship with Kelvin, and the following conversation ensued.

Youth Pastor: So, Amanda, tell me about Kelvin.

Amanda: Oh Pastor Joe, Kelvin is such a sweet soul. He is caring, treats me with respect, is so in tune with my needs, loves and supports my dreams. He is just the loveliest person I have ever met.

Youth Pastor: Oh, that’s nice. Anything else?

Amanda: Yeah. We hail from the same locality; he works in a tech company as a software developer and we hope to tie the knot soonest. Yeah, that’s about it.

Youth Pastor: Well, you omitted the part about his faith and why you think he is God’s will for you.

Amanda: Yeah, about that, he is erm, a Christian. He might not look like it, but he loves the Lord and has a good heart. Afterall, it is what is inside that matters right?

You must have heard it said before that God looks at the heart, and certain persons person have taken it a notch higher to add that ‘it is what is in the heart that matters’, and by that they usually make an appeal that evaluations should not be made based on what is visible and obvious but rather it should be based on the claims of what is in the heart.

If today’s text is anything to go by, (and it is), then we must know that love for God is not only restricted to the heart. It flows from the inside out. Recognize that this love must be in the heart, possess the soul, manifest in actions (with all your strength), and occupy and transform the mind.

A person who thinks like the world does, does not love the Lord as he ought, or does not love Him at all. A supposed lover of God who spends his strength in the course of his own satisfaction and gratification is one whose love is suspect at best, or maybe he’s just a lover of himself (See 2 Tim 3:2).

All four aspects must be present in increasing measures. The love will flow from the heart, possess the soul, manifest in actions and occupy/transform the mind. If you love the Lord in your heart, you will act like it, your will and emotions will line up with it, and your worldview will be shaped by it; it will flow from inside out.

Go into today allowing the love of God to flow unhindered from the inside out.

—Ikechukwu Mpama

Bible In 1 year: Exodus 1-4 (In Today’s Audio)

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James 1:3-4 (NKJV) …Knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

For seven years, Funke had prayed and trusted God to give her the fruit of the womb. But she was still expecting a miracle to happen. By this time, some of her ‘friends’ and family members were suggesting that she was not taking matters seriously enough. They told her about one ‘baba’ who solved several women’s problems. But Funke insisted that she was going to wait for the Lord and not turn to another god. (This ‘Baba’ was a sorcerer).

Many times, it occurred to Funke that she was going to die childless, but she kept on encouraging herself in the Lord. The Lord kept showing her signs and tokens to remind her that He was with her.

After being married for thirteen years, she and her husband welcomed their first child into this world. At the point she conceived, she was no more expecting to conceive because she had already reached menopause and had concluded that “even if He slay me, I will still trust Him”. This was the threshold of faith that produced the miracle she had been praying for.

She didn’t quickly notice that all the time of waiting on the Lord and remaining steadfast had worked for her an eternal weight of glory. Even though she didn’t have biological children, she had many children in the Lord and had discipled tens of girls, many of whom she brought out of the streets.

Something about faith that we cannot afford to forget is that faith and patience usually work together. One of the biggest signs of true faith in the heart of a believer is the willingness to be patient. It is during the period of patience that our faith is being purified and made strong.

Go into today remembering that true faith is willing to wait on God and not turn to compromises.

Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you walk steadfastly in faith all the days of your life.

-Abraham Damilola Arigi

Bible in One Year: I Corinthians 11-12 (In Devotional Audio)

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Luke 10:35 (MSG) In the morning he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take good care of him. If it costs any more, put it on my bill – I’ll pay you on my way back’

Josh had really had it with Ken. He was tired of always bailing him from circumstances that were clearly due to Ken’s own doing. He was tired of having to share his lunch with him because he was careless with his and it got spilled, he was tired of having to come to his aid just because he had been conned out of his allowance, again. He was tired of having to spend extra hours trying to get him ready for his exams just because he had been so unserious and is behind in his studies. He took it up with his mum:

Josh: Mom, I know Ken’s my younger brother, but is that why I have to always bear the brunt of his shortcomings and all? You make me pick after him, share my portion with him, help him out even when he clearly got himself into the mess in the first place?

Mom: Josh, what I’m doing is teaching you how to love while I’m at the same time training your brother to grow into maturity. And you know maturity takes time and effort.

Josh: How is it love if only one party is the beneficiary?

Mum: Well, love involves a lot of sacrifices. Love pays the bill for a service it might never receive.

In Luke 10, Jesus taught love as the law of God, he went ahead to illustrate it with the famous story of the Good Samaritan. One thing we see there is that the Samaritan, in his display of love, put the bills for the nursing of the man back to health, on his tab; he was going to pay the price and bear the cost of the man’s recovery. That is a most profound illustration of love.

It is not an easy concept to teach and propound in these times where even relationship has been reduced to transactions, and where everyone who gives something must expect something of equal value or even more in return. But God’s kind of love teaches that we should do good and expect no repayment of our kindness from the recipient. It teaches us to be willing to pay in the hard currency of patience when dealing with a loved one as they still wander about in the wilderness of immaturity on their way to growth.

Love is patient, love is kind, love bears all things, love does not fail (See 1 Corinthians 13:1-13). Can God count on you to pay the price of love in the currency of patience so another can get allowance to grow into maturity?

Go into today asking the Lord for strength to love like He wants you to love.

—Ikechukwu Mpama

Bible In 1 year: Mark 5-6 (In Today’s Audio)

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1 Corinthians 8:2-3 (NET) If someone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know to the degree that he needs to know. But if someone loves God, he is known by God.

Recently, while on evangelism with some of my brothers, we met a young boy who told us he had believed in the Lord Jesus but didn’t see the need to be baptized. He was so sure that baptism (all baptisms) was not necessary because, according to him, if a person believes and lives right, that person is fine.

I could see how my brother (who was the one speaking to him) tried not to be irritated by this boy’s blatant ignorance smeared with a tinge of pride. Indeed, the biggest hindrance to the fruitful knowledge of God is partial knowledge [that produces pride]. Proper spiritual knowledge and understanding will produce love.

If you study the teachings of the Lord Jesus, it wouldn’t take long for you to notice that the Lord was quite direct and clear about what it takes to inherit the kingdom of heaven. In one of such teachings, the Lord reveals that many who think they are saved would find out that they were never really known by Him because they were workers of iniquity. Read Matthew 7:21-23.

How is it possible that someone would say Jesus is Lord (Matthew 7:21), and even perform miracles in His name, but would be told by God that “I never knew you”? What then is it that a person can have that will make him known to God?

I believe 1 Corinthians 8:3 reveals to us the answer: It is those that love God that are known by Him. After believing in the Lord Jesus, we are expected to grow into loving God. One of the most important questions your life will answer is “did you love God?”

Remember that the first commandment of the Lord is that we love Him. Fruitful obedience (indicative of transformation) is born out of love.

Go into today remembering that what our experience here on earth should build into our hearts is love for God. That will be the basis for our evaluation. Remember that it is when you love God that all things begin to work together for your good(Romans 8:28).

1 Corinthians 2:9 (KJV) But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

—Abraham Dami Arigi

Bible In 1 year: Jeremiah 1-6 (In Today’s Audio)

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John 11:35-36 (ISV) Jesus burst into tears. So the Jewish leaders said, “See how much he loved him!”

Did you ever get those mental images of a spiritual man painted and shaped over time by certain books and movies? The one in which the spiritual man is always stoic, walks in a deliberate measured step, could literally never hurt a fly even if he steps on it, maintains an even mien even in the face of news of great joy or sorrow, whose face never betrays any emotions. His general appearance makes one believe that frowns are godly and smiles carnal and frivolous. Leaving an impression that emotions and such things are worldly and not for the godly man.

Well, God created emotions, He designed sexual pleasure and gave us free will. These things have never been the problem but their use and abuse. Emotions are tools for expressing our feelings, and they are not evil and of the devil. Jesus is our perfect example, in his life here on earth, he was for us an example of God’s ideal man.

Jesus went to a house of mourning of his friend Lazarus and burst into tears (See John 11:35), this didn’t diminish in any way his spirituality. One thing we must pay attention to is the right usage of our emotions.

Emotions were never designed by God to lead us; they are supposed to follow. A believer must be led by God through his Word and the Holy Spirit (See Psalms 119:33, Romans 8:14). So, it is okay for a believer to feel pain and cry, a lover of Jesus is allowed to be in love with a Sister, a spiritual brother can laugh and generally display emotions of displeasure or delight just like anybody else, however, there are areas where the defining lines become very prominent.

The believer trains his heart (soul) to delight in only the things that are wholesome. There are jokes that one can find funny, but because they are unwholesome, the believer must train his emotion to react in accordance with God’s laws and precepts. For example, jokes that trivialize and treat as common things that God has called sacred cannot be joke material for a believer, he will rather frown upon them, or simply be unmoved by them. Even when we sorrow, the Bible teaches that we do not sorrow as though we have no hope.

Again, the believer must train himself to always act in line with the word EVEN in the midst of strong emotions. What do you do when you are hurt, pained, heartbroken, excited, delighted, or full of joy? Some persons hurt others when they are hurt because that is the natural reaction of our emotions. But not so for the believer. He can be hurt but must not hurt others as a result, because he does not repay evil for evil (See Romans 12:14). He does not propose just because he is ‘smitten by love’, nor does he make promises merely as a result of great excitement. Rather, his actions are well thought out and guided by godly counsels, the word, and prayers.

Go into today allowing the Spirit of God to transform you by the word and to release you into all the fullness of God.

—Ikechukwu Mpama

Bible In 1 year: Job 25-26 (In Today’s Audio)

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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.

Moyin noticed that the rate at which Kemi received answers to her prayers was really remarkable. There was a day they were traveling together, and it was about to rain and disrupt the meeting they were going for. Moyin had prayed and prayed in her heart concerning the rain, but nothing happened and the rain started. As soon as she called Kemi to pray, while Kemi was still praying, the heavy rainfall reduced and eventually stopped miraculously.

There were many other examples of how Kemi received from the Lord more, and Moyin became concerned. ‘Does it mean that God loves Kemi more than me?’ Moyin would ask herself. She went into days of prayer to seek God’s face concerning why He didn’t answer her prayers the way He answered Kemi’s prayers. This was when the Lord showed her that Kemi was a much more fruitful Christian than her, that this was why Kemi had God’s ear.

We can see from today’s Bible text that when we are fruitful, we can ask and receive more expressly from the Father. Many Christians have fruitless prayer lives because other areas of their lives are fruitless before God.

A fruitful Christian is one whose life and character manifest the fruit of the Spirit. He is also one who wins souls to the kingdom of God. He is a profitable servant of the Lord who uses his resources [talents and gifts] for the advancement of God’s kingdom in this world.

Go into today remembering that when all is said and done, we will be rewarded according to our fruitfulness (see Rev 22:12, Matt 16:27, Rom 2:6).

Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you become more fruitful.

—Abraham Damilola Arigi

Yearly Bible Plan: I Samuel 11-15 (In Devotional Audio)

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2 Timothy 2:12-13 (KJV) If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.

After Darrel read this Bible verse, he felt quite disturbed because all his life as a believer, he had never really been persecuted for his faith. He was born into a secular country where there was freedom of religion and no one was overtly persecuted for their faith. He thought within himself that ‘does this mean I will not be counted among those who would reign with the Lord when He returns because I have never suffered for Him?’

While he meditated on this, the Holy Spirit helped him remember the times he had been mocked and sidelined in the office because he refused to compromise his faith. He remembered the times he felt alone and almost rejected because he accepted the Lord Jesus and his old friends now despised him. He also remembered the times he had the opportunity to make fast money but wouldn’t because of his faith, and he looked like a fool to many(even so-called Christians). The Holy Spirit reminded him that while he went through all of that, the Lord was with Him to Comfort him, that was why he could go through such seasons and come out victorious.

In Philippians 3:10, Apostle Paul said: “that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His suffering…” There is a depth of knowledge of God that is accessed when we have gone through ‘stuff’ because of our faith in Christ.

I believe one reason why saints who overcome(see Revelation 3:21) have the destiny to sit on the throne of Christ with Him [and reign over all God’s creation with Him] is that our fragile lives here on earth give us certain privileges to know God in ways that even angels might not be able to know Him. We have the privilege of being able to say “I suffered with Him”.

You know that when you have a faithful friend you suffered with when things were tough, such a friend would have a special place in your heart, much more than the new friends you made when things became easy and abundant.

Go into today remembering that if you truly want to live for Christ and refuse to compromise your faith in this corrupt world, it will fight back. When the world fights back and you pass through unpleasantness that you normally wouldn’t have faced if you were an unbeliever, that suffering you passed through because of your faith counts in heaven.

Prayer: Lord, help me know you more and walk more in your power. Amen.

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—Abraham Damilola Arigi

Yearly Bible Plan: Genesis 48-50 (In Devotional Audio)

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Proverbs 4:23 (NET) Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Emotions are very powerful tools. This is because they usually start off as a signal of what we feel, but they don’t end there, left unchecked, they go on to create new feelings for us.

A man can become sad because he lost a huge amount of money to a Ponzi scheme, left unchecked, that sadness can morph into depression and suicidal thoughts. Likewise, a young lady can become unhappy because she suffered a heartbreak, left unchecked, that unhappiness can easily segue into strong hate and bitterness. Not all ‘emotions’ were designed by God; some are actually a result of the fall of man and are often a work of demons.

God never created depression; it serves no godly purpose. It is important to understand that emotions can shape how you think and act. People who act sometimes under the heavy influence of emotions do some highly irrational things and usually tag it as acting in a “moment of madness”. That must not be the experience of a discipled believer.

We have heard of men who have in a fit of rage seriously hurt or maimed a loved one. Men have committed murder, women harm and damage their children and lovers inflict injuries upon one another under the influence of (often unchecked and overpowering) emotions.

Demons can take advantage of one’s emotion to promote ungodly actions and strong binds such as bitterness, depression, etcetera. The Bible, therefore, warns that we keep a sober watch over our hearts. Do you allow your emotions to determine your actions? Can you be trusted to act right even when you ‘feel’ wronged? Are you allowing your emotions to dictate and direct your thoughts?

Keep guard over your heart. Have and show emotion but do not allow emotions have you. Do not give demons license over your thoughts and feelings; we cast out demons not give in to them. You can be angry and sin not (Ephesians 4:26).

Jesus wept but did not stay weeping, with teary eyes he looked up into heaven and prayed after which he raised Lazarus (See John 11:35-44). He felt amazed by the lack of unbelief of his country home people and next went about teaching (See Mark 6:6), Paul and his companions were experiencing trouble on every side but were not crushed, perplexed but not driven to despair (2 Cor 4:8), that there is how we must be. Shaped by His word, our convictions, and faith and not by circumstances, experiences and emotions.

Go into today determined to allow your life be shaped and run by the power of God through His word and with the help of the Holy Spirit. Have emotions, but don’t let them have you.

Confession: My Life is shaped by the word of God. I am not controlled by emotions and fears

—Ikechukwu Mpama

Yearly Bible Reading: I Corinthians 9-10

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Ephesians 6:18 (NIV)And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.

Because of her upbringing, Rhoda knew how to pray for long. So when it dawned on her that she was not praying nearly enough, she decided to start praying the way she was brought up to pray. At every opportunity she found, she would pray in the spirit. She also started taking out at least one hour each day to pray in the Spirit.

Rhoda observed that as she prayed more, she became more sensitive in the spirit and was filled with power and boldness. She saw that through prayer, she now physically received the things that had been prophesied over her life long ago; prophecies that appeared like they would not be fulfilled.

It is through prayers that we birth the things that have been given to us through prophecy. This was what Daniel understood when he began to pray concerning the liberation of Israel prophesied by Jeremiah (see Dan 9:2-3).

Rhoda’s prayers were now powerful because she was now walking in the outward manifestation of God’s righteousness.

It is the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man that avails much, not the effectual fervent prayer of any man. Many believers pray long and pray hard, but their prayers are not very powerful because it comes from deceitful lips and impure hearts. They cannot ascend the heights [of power] through prayer because of the way they live their lives (see Psa 24:3-5).

Go into today remembering that deceitful lips do not have any power in the presence of God and his holy angels. Ask the Lord to help you pray in the Spirit on all occasions.

—Abraham Damilola Arigi

Yearly Bible Reading: Mark 3-4 (In Devotional Audio)

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