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Joshua 2:18 (GWT): When we invade your land, tie this red cord in the window through which you let us down. Also, gather your father, mother, brothers, and all your father’s family into your house.

Tricia was lost in thought as she walked back home from her evening music class and it showed. Ezinwa could tell because Tricia was usually the chatty one but tonight, she was all quiet and somber. So, while everyone said their goodbyes and went their separate ways, she waited to enquire what was so heavy on her heart.

“It looks like God just delights in answering the prayers of bad people much more than those who show him more devotion”, blurted Tricia to Ezinwa’s inquiry.

It turned out Tricia had been praying for a certain health condition to be turned around for a while now, while Pat who just got saved barely a month ago already had testimonies of divine healing and supernatural help. Ezinwa thought long and hard on how to respond to Tricia, so she asked:

“What, in your opinion, is the most remarkable thing about Rahab?”

“Her profession”? replied Tricia.

Think again.

Here is a woman who heard the same report of the works of the God of Israel and the same account that simply generated fear in the heart of every other person who heard it, stimulated something more than just fear in her (See Joshua 2:.9-12)

So much so she was willing to risk death by lying to the messengers of the King of Jericho, she was willing to stake her life just to align with the people of this God she had heard about. She elicited a promise and a token from these spies and so kept a red cord on her window in response to their assurance.

And that was not all, she took the next step to ask her family and relatives to come camp in her room. How easy do you think it is to go say to your family,

“Hey, these guys are going to conquer this city and the only safe place is my room. Come camp in my room till they return or risk death”

And if they say, ‘what makes you so sure?’, ‘she’d reply, ‘You see that red cord, as long as it hangs over my window, you can be sure that come what may, we will not suffer the fate of the rest of the city, that is the promise they made me’

The most remarkable thing about Rahab was her faith, and the writer of Hebrews agrees (See Hebrews 11:31). You see, God is about favoring supposedly ‘bad’ persons like a good PR strategy, it is just that people who have no brownie points with God just tend to totally depend on God in faith in ways which some ‘established’ people do not. It is the faith that produces the result, and not their history.

Go into today simply trusting in the Lord like a child would his/her parent. This kind of faith pleases the Lord.

—Ikechukwu Mpama

Bible in 1 Year: I Thessalonians 1-3 (in today’s audio)

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Matthew 3:10 (KJV) “And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.”

Mrs. Jakes: sweetheart, don’t you think we should consider that Pastor down the street? The testimonies of those who visited him are really trilling. Don’t mind those jobless complainers who are criticizing him, they are just jealous of him, his results are simply amazing. Honey, don’t you think we should visit him too?

Mr. Jakes: But sweetheart, this man is known for his sexual escapades, he even tried it with your friend just some days ago, remember? We will not visit him, his results are questionable?

Just like Mrs. Jakes, many are easily deceived. They are carried away by results usually because they want the easy way out of their challenges or because they just cannot differentiate mere fruits from good fruits.

So, what makes a fruit good? Is a man good simply because his life is producing results?

Jesus in Matthew 12:33 (KJV) said “either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.” Hence, a fruit is good if it is produced by a good tree, in like manner, a result is good if it is produced by a good man. How then does a man become good?

Jesus in Luke 18:19 (KJV) said “none is good, save one, that is, God”. God alone is good, a man is good if he is born of God and knows God.

It is the fruits or results produced when a man is connected to God that is called good fruits or good results.

Go into today knowing that success for a child of God is not measured by every kind of result but by good results (fruits) alone.

Prayer: Father, I ask that you help me remain connected to you so I can produce good results always, In Jesus’ name. Amen!

—Dr. Emmanuel James

Bible in 1 Year: Luke 21-22 (in today’s audio)

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Matthew 3:10 (KJV) “And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.”

Mrs. Jakes: sweetheart, don’t you think we should consider that Pastor down the street? The testimonies of those who visited him are really trilling. Don’t mind those jobless complainers who are criticizing him, they are just jealous of him, his results are simply amazing. Honey, don’t you think we should visit him too?

Mr. Jakes: But sweetheart, this man is known for his sexual escapades, he even tried it with your friend just some days ago, remember? We will not visit him, his results are questionable?

Just like Mrs. Jakes, many are easily deceived. They are carried away by results usually because they want the easy way out of their challenges or because they just cannot differentiate mere fruits from good fruits.

So, what makes a fruit good? Is a man good simply because his life is producing results?

Jesus in Matthew 12:33 (KJV) said “either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.” Hence, a fruit is good if it is produced by a good tree, in like manner, a result is good if it is produced by a good man. How then does a man become good?

Jesus in Luke 18:19 (KJV) said “none is good, save one, that is, God”. God alone is good, a man is good if he is born of God who is good.

It is the fruits or results produced when a man is connected to God that is called good fruits or good results.

Go into today knowing that success for a child of God is not measured by every kind of result but by good results (fruits) alone.

Prayer: Father, I ask that you help me remain connected to you so I can produce good results always in Jesus’ name. Amen!

—Dr. Emmanuel James

Bible in 1 Year: Ezekiel 31-36 (in today’s audio)

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1 Samuel 13:14 (NLT): But now your kingdom must end, for the Lord has sought out a man after his own heart. The Lord has already appointed him to be the leader of his people, because you have not kept the Lord’s command.”

Kwame really wanted to ace this interview. He was nervous, it was his first major interview. So, to aid his preparations, he signed up for the “Acing It Like A Pro” webinar hosted by an HR consultant.

During this training, Kwame was taught all kinds of skills and etiquette. He was trained on how to open and shut doors properly, how to be polite to all staff he encounters, how to hold the gaze of the interviewer in a way that is not aggressive but assertive, he was taught how to exude confidence while giving a handshake.

Kwame was also told questions to anticipate, one of which is the infamous, “Tell us about yourself” question.

God once had an opening for which he interviewed prospects/candidates.

The then holder of the position was quite a looker; he was heads and shoulders above everybody, literally. He had started well, self-effacing, unassuming, humble, and courageous. But then, once he got the job, his head got bigger, his ego bloated, and he became too big for his shoes. Now God was on a lookout again, and he put the vacancy out.

What He did was he contracted his prophet to carry out the recruitment exercise and…Oh Boy! Did he almost miss it! You see when the interview was on, Samuel was so impressed with the CV of Eliab, that he muttered under his breath, “This must be him”, he felt he had found a worthy replacement for Saul, one with an imposing physique too, that way the royal clothes will require little or no adjustment at all. But he was called to order, because, when God puts a vacancy out, he’s not going to be impressed with the arrangement of your CV, when He asks, “Tell me about yourself”, He doesn’t expect a long-winded effort at blowing your own trumpet; He just listens to hear your heart say, “I’m available Lord, I’m at your service”

Like Jesus: “Then I said, ‘Look, I have come to do your will, O God—” (Hebrews 10:7a NLT). He looks for one of whom He can say “‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart [conforming to My will and purposes], who will do all My will” (Acts 13:22 AMP)

Do you want to serve Him? Go into today preoccupied with doing His will and carrying out His programs…His and not yours.

—Abraham Damilola Arigi

Bible in 1 Year: Ezekiel 31-36 (in today’s audio)

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2 Thessalonians 2:15 (NLT) With all these things in mind, dear brothers and sisters, stand firm and keep a strong grip on the teaching we passed on to you both in person and by letter.

The realities of this ‘social media’ age is the heightened need for acceptance. People want to be liked and fear being different. The world is becoming more and more intolerant of anyone holding an unpopular view, and anyone who doesn’t agree with the general view is labeled intolerant, phobic and narrow-minded. In light of this, believers are under pressure to shift grounds and compromise the truth in order to conform to the demands of an ever-changing world.

However, the word of God warns, keep a firm grip on the truth. It is a command. Christian values remain the same as has ever been. Jude 1:3 describes our faith as one that has been handed once and for all times to us. Keep a firm grip on the truth, understand that the Christian/godly stance on sexual purity has not been modified, its stance on integrity remains the same, and its stance on love is still as was given…Hold fast to these truths as revealed in God’s word. Because as Hebrews chapter 2 verse 1 succinctly puts it,

“So we must be more careful to follow what we were taught. We must be careful so that we will not be pulled away from the true way” (Easy-to-Read Version).

Prayer: Heavenly Father, please help me build my life according to the culture of your kingdom. Fill me with your Spirit and help me never to cave to the pressures of this world. Amen.

-Ikechukwu Mpama

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Yearly Plan: Proverbs 11-12 (In Devotional Audio)

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Ephesians 3:17-19 (NET) that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love, you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

When Dara was a little boy, he was too young to truly understand what love meant. He felt his parents loved him when they bought him nice things and hated him when they disciplined him. It took a level of growth and maturity for Dara to realize that even the times his father disciplined him, it was born out of genuine love.

He saw the way other children who were not disciplined turned out, and he doubted whether their parents truly loved them the way his parents loved him.

Because he was loved as a little child, he also could love his children easily. It is a true saying that: those who have never experienced love would have a hard time expressing love.

From today’s scripture, we can see that the prerequisite for being filled with the fullness of God is a comprehension (or an understanding) of His love. One of the fruits this understanding produces is love for God, and this love would manifest in obedience to Him (See John 14:15, 1John 2:3-5, John 14:21-24). 1 John 4:19 says “we love Him because he first loved us”.

Our comprehension of the depth of love the Lord has for us would produce a response of love in us towards Him and towards other people He loves. This love will manifest in the way we treat our friends, neighbors, and even our enemies. For indeed, we would remember that while we were still enemies of God, Christ loved us and gave his life for us.

Understanding the Love the Lord has for us is the key that opens up our hearts to deeper fellowship with Him because of trust and faith in Him. It is a true saying that: the deeper you trust a person, the deeper your fellowship would be with that person.

Go into today thanking the Lord for the great love with which he has loved you. Ask that the eyes of your understanding may be enlightened so you may comprehend His love more and as a result, your capacity to be filled with His presence and power would be enlarged.

Confession: I live a life that demonstrates God’s love. My life is filled with the fullness of God, In Jesus’ name.

—Abraham Damilola Arigi

Bible in 1 Year: Psalms 84-86 5 (in today’s audio)

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Hebrews 11:5-6 (KJV) By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Arielle lived a dirty life as a call girl who did drugs, wild parties, and other terrible things. Her neighbor had preached to her about putting her faith in God but she mocked her saying “oh! What do you know about faith? I have more faith than you that’s why I have all my needs met. Or have you forgotten how I was healed of HIV last month in the crusade you invited me to? What did you get from that crusade? Nothing I guess. You see, I have more faith than you already”.

Sometime later, in another crusade, Arielle truly accepted the Lord Jesus, and it was after this that she discovered that there was more to faith than she had earlier known.

Faith is the power given to you by God to live a life that pleases Him. When you are living to please God, you will love what He loves and hate what He hates. Simply put, you will do God’s will. The prayers prayed by one who lives like this will be answered because he is in the will of God (John 15:7, 1 John 5:14).

There is a kind of faith that helps us to get things from God but much better is the faith that helps us to live lives pleasing to God. The former is aimed at bringing us to the place where we find the latter, thus the ultimate aim of faith is to help us please God, not just to get things from Him.

If you desire intimacy with God, you must learn to please Him and this is only possible by faith. It is those who please Him that are His friends (read Mark 3:35) who will reign with Him.

Prayer: Lord, help my faith grow to the point that I walk in a manner that pleases you continually. Amen

—Dr. Emmanuel James

Bible in 1 Year: Luke 19-20 (in today’s audio)

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1 Corinthians 4:5 (NET) So then, do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the motives of hearts. Then each will receive recognition from God.

Chinonye received the Lord Jesus when she was a teenager and had grown to know the Lord. Because of this, she responded differently to situations she came across in life. Her colleagues in the office wondered why she was so calm and collected and so easily willing to forgive wicked offenders and overlook the most grievous trespasses against her. She tried to explain to them that even though people may escape human judgment on this earth, no one was going to escape God’s judgment on the Day of Judgment. Because of this understanding, she didn’t try to revenge because she knew God was going to judge. The eternal judgment didn’t look like a time too long to wait for her because she knew she had eternal life and now had the proper perspective of time.We can see from scripture that there are times that the spirit of judgment could come upon believers, as willed by the Lord, and they would proclaim judgment against the Lord’s enemies (see Acts 13:11). But it has to be a result of the Lord’s leading, not a result of the fleshly desire to get vengeance.

Sometimes, because they wanted their vengeance instantly, believers have used their spiritual power to destroy people that would have later been a blessing to them and to the world. There probably would be no ‘Apostle Paul’ if Stephen had used his authority to pray down judgment on those responsible for his execution (see Acts 7:58-60).

Go into today meditating on this:

Romans 12:19 (NIV): Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord.

Prayer: Lord, help me to live with eternity in view and live before you accurately. Amen.

—Abraham Damilola Arigi

Bible in 1 Year: Colossians 1-2 (in today’s audio)

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Matthew 21:21 (NET) ”Jesus answered them, “I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.”

It was only about two weeks after Fred said the sinner’s prayer and handed over the control of his life to Jesus Christ that he began to study the Bible, practice what he studied, and pray. This undoubtedly caused a rapid turnaround in his life but he would soon make an all-time discovery. This happened when he read today’s text in one of such study sessions and wanting to put what he had read to practice, he located a nearby mountain and commanded it to move but it did not, then he walked to a nearby tree and commanded it to dry up but this also did not happen. In his disappointment, he whispered, “but I had faith and I had no doubt in me, why didn’t it happen with me like it happened with Jesus? Didn’t Jesus say mountain will move when I speak to it in faith without doubting what I’ve said? Why didn’t I get the promised result?”. Although disappointed, he, however, continued studying, praying, and practicing what he had learned from the Bible with the hope that he will get an answer for what happened.

What do you think happened to Fred? Why did he not get the desired results? Apostle John by the Holy Spirit said, “this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him” (1 John 5:14-15).

You see, faith does not make any and everything thing you want to happen, instead, it gives you anything you want that is captured within the will of God for you. So, the reason the mountain did not move when Fred commanded it to is because that action was not the will of God. The Apostles for instance never asked a mountain to move or curse a tree to dry up because those were not captured in the will of God for them even though they saw Jesus curse a tree and heard his words about moving mountains. Like the Apostles, you also must make every effort to know the will of God and learn to pray only His will as this will give you better results for your prayers.

Go into today knowing that your faith is effective only to the degree to which it agrees with the will of God.

—Dr. Emmanuel James

Bible in 1 Year: Luke 17-18 (in today’s audio)

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Psalms 68:11 (KJV) The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.

In the city where I grew up, there are burial grounds of European missionaries who died while preaching the gospel in Africa. Those missionaries died and were buried in the land because they came to preach the gospel. Some of these missionaries attended the best universities like Harvard and Oxford, but they saw a higher call and were willing to give their lives for it. Today, many in Africa are believers because of their sacrifice. Many lives have been physically and eternally spared because of their sacrifice. I can still remember the story of how a missionary called Mary Slessor was the one the Lord used to end the ritual killing of infant twins in the southernmost part of Nigeria.

When I look at many believers today, I have a great concern in my heart, because the emphasis and pursuits of many believers are for vain things. Believers who love their lives too much (and love the world) cannot effectively pass the light of the gospel to the next generation (see John 12:25, Revelation 12:11, 1 John 2:15).

When the gospel was first preached [in Jerusalem], it was by a handful of people who were willing to give it all (both those on the frontline of apostolic missions and those who gave their resources to send them). Today, over two billion people on earth are called Christians, and many millions have come to know the Lord personally. But this didn’t happen without a great company of people intentionally committed to spreading God’s word.

Even in the 19th century when there was a great missionary movement, and many parts of Africa evangelized, there were still some believers who loved the world too much and didn’t want to inconvenience themselves for the gospel, but there were those who considered the Kingdom as the most important thing in their lives. All the believers in that generation are now physically dead, but some of them have crowns and eternal rewards stored up for them (2 Timothy 4:8), while some others would be ashamed before the Lord (1 John 2:28). Even though the people from that generation are no more in this world, they are still very much alive and conscious, and some are in joy while others are in eternal sorrow and damnation.

Go into today determining to be among the company of those who publish the word of the Lord in your generation. A life that counts is one committed to spreading The Kingdom.

Prayer: Lord, help me live a life that counts in your eternal scheme of things. Help me fulfill my part in what you are doing in my generation. Amen.

—Abraham Damilola Arigi

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Bible in 1 Year: Ezekiel 19-24 (in today’s audio)

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