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1 Corinthians 3:18 (NET) Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.

Certain incidences had revealed to Agu that he did not have so much spiritual stature and authority in the kingdom. He knew this when he spent time with some missionaries and saw how much of Christ’s authority they walked in and even exerted over their environment.

Jesus could command the storm and speak to the fig tree because of this authority. Paul could effectively be a witness for Jesus in the darkest places of the world and was dreaded by demons because of this authority.

Agu now knew that even though kingdom authority is inherited, we have to grow into it.

Before he became born again, he was a very wealthy man in this world and was vast in the wisdom of this world. He now wanted the greatness of the kingdom of God but was still using the wisdom of this world.

Many principles in the kingdom of God are antithetical to that of the kingdom of this world. For example, Jesus says those who are great in the kingdom of God are determined by their extent of service to others, not by the extent to which people serve them (see Matt 20:25-28). But it’s the opposite in this world. Also, in the kingdom of God, it is more blessed to give than to receive (Acts 20:35), but in the kingdom of this world, it is considered more beneficial to get than to give.

If a person thinks he is wise [according to the standards of this world], that wisdom cannot take him far in the kingdom of God. If he tries to use that kind of wisdom to advance in the kingdom of God, he will realize that he is making no progress.

One of the reasons we must pay attention to the ministry of the word and prayer is because this is the way God recalibrates our minds to the standards of His kingdom so we can grow.

—Abraham Damilola Arigi

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Matthew 5:46-47 (NET) For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Even the tax collectors do the same, don’t they? And if you only greet your brothers, what more do you do? Even the Gentiles do the same, don’t they?

After Trevor forgave Bill, he noticed that the peace of God that he once enjoyed was now restored. The next time he saw Bill, his heart no longer raced because of hatred, but he treated him normally and kindly like before. Even Bill was surprised because he expected Trevor to become unfriendly and mean to him.

Bill started observing that Trevor was a believer in the Lord Jesus because he really wanted to know what it was about Trevor that made him have the power to overlook the evil he had done against him. He first thought Trevor was just acting so that he would revenge hard when he has the opportunity, but time passed and it was evident that Trevor had overlooked what he did. Because of this, he became afraid of Trevor and wanted to know more about the faith.

Loving our friends is normal and expected, and it doesn’t reveal any power or special ability, but loving our enemies is proof that we have power that is not ordinary – the power of the divine life. The opportunity to forgive and love our enemies activates this power that we so desperately need to manifest in other areas of our lives.

Go into today remembering that walking in divine love gives expression to the power of the divine life that we have. This is our strongest proof that we have indeed been fathered by God.

Prayer: Heavenly Father, please give me the grace and power to walk in your divine nature of love and mercy. Help me understand that my destiny cannot be manipulated by anyone but you.

—Abraham Dami Arigi

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Matthew 5:44-45 (NET) But I say to you, love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

There was a logging error in the warehouse department of the company, and several crates of finished goods were unaccounted for.

Bill wrote a report about it and lied that Trevor was the one responsible for the error. If Trevor were not so skilled at his job and kept his own personal logs, he would have lost his job because of the lie Bill told against him.

When Trevor realized that Bill was the one who lied against him in the report, he started to nurse hatred in his heart towards Bill. But because Trevor was a believer, he observed that he could no longer commune with the Lord while hatred was being cultivated in his heart. He wept the day he decided to truly forgive Bill. But Trevor knew his communion with the Lord was too precious to forfeit because of the need to revenge. After months passed, it was evident to Trevor that he had been promoted spiritually and physically because of that tough decision he made to forgive Bill.

When we love our enemies, it means we don’t repay evil for evil, but we even render help to them if they are in need (Romans 12:20). This is one of the strongest proofs that a person is truly born of God that shuts down every accusation against his rights to the privileges of sonship in God’s house.

Because there is a day that God has set aside to judge the wicked, he provides for all people and allows his rain to fall on both the righteous and the wicked, hoping that the wicked will repent. That is the same mentality that keeps us from hating our enemies. We understand that no one can escape God’s judgment, and we show mercy hoping that they will change and find God’s grace the way we too found God’s grace.

Secondly, because we understand that our destinies are not in the hands of our enemies but only in the hand of God, and the worst our enemies can do to us will only end up working together for our good(Genesis 50:20, Romans 8:28), we are not afraid of them but pity them.

Go into today remembering to overcome every fear in your heart for anyone that is not the Lord God(See Matthew 10:28). One reason believers sin against the Lord by hating other people is because of deep-rooted fear and insecurity. Seek the Lord and get rid of every fear in your heart(Psalm 34:4). It is a sin to fear anyone but God. Fear is an anchor that prevents spiritual progress.

Prayer: Lord, deliver me from all fear. Help me always remember that my destiny is secure in your hand, and no enemy has the power to destroy it.

—Abraham Dami Arigi

Bible in 1 Year: Ezekiel 7-12

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Psalms 91:11 (NKJV)For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways.

When Amara sleepwalked into the street at night as a little girl, she did not know that she was protected from danger that night by mighty angels. She got to know about this much later in her life when the sorcerer who had been monitoring her family to harm them confessed to her. He was now a Christian and he told her how they planned to kill her that night, but there were certain powerful angels protecting her.

Angelic protection is more reliable than the best human security arrangement. Yet many times Christians take this for granted and do not take full advantage of it through faith.

I remember the story of a celebrated American war hero who would never be killed in the harshest of battles. His fellow soldiers couldn’t understand his secret, he was simply fearless. He later told them that he was safer in the battlefield when in the center of God’s will than in the safest bunker when outside of God’s will. That was his reality. It was clear that he enjoyed angelic help.

Many do not have faith in the protective power of God over them. For some it is because they are not sure they are walking in God’s will, for others, it is because they have not been properly taught. Walking in God’s will is made easy when you live in fellowship with God through His Spirit and let His word rule your life.

Go Into today expecting to be protected by God’s mighty angels. Jesus has paid for this.

Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you walk in His perfect will at all times.

—Abraham Damilola Arigi

Bible in 1 Year: Proverbs 5-6

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Ephesians 6:17 (NET) And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

How do we take the helmet of salvation?

From time to time, some evil thoughts would come to Grace’s mind to make her doubt her salvation. “Are you sure you’re truly born again? Are you sure you’re ready for the coming of the Lord?” These thoughts would throw her into restlessness to the point where she would start confessing the sins she had long repented of. Because of this that kept happening to her, she lived under a cloud of condemnation and was not confident enough to serve the Lord the way she ought to.

She learned how to take up the helmet of salvation when she attended a conference and the teacher explained that her salvation was not her idea but God’s plan from the foundation of the world. She was also made to understand that God wants her saved more than she wants to be saved.

The teacher now went on to explain how the fruits of a tree are the surest way to identify the tree. For the first time, she was made to understand this verse:

1 John 3:18-19 (NET) Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth. And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence.

1 John 4:7-8 reveals to us that it is only those who have been born of God that can walk in [unselfish] love. One of the biggest proofs we have to show that we are truly saved and belong to God is that we bear the fruit of love. Unselfish love is that kind of love that is not propelled by what we can get but is inspired by the desire to give and be a blessing.

Go into today remembering that the way you will know for sure that you’re of the truth, and convince your conscience in His presence that you belong to God and have His nature is when your life bears the fruit of love. This is a sure way to take up the helmet of salvation and guard your mind against the accusations of satan.

Prayer: Lord, help me walk in your nature of love and properly represent you in this world. Amen.

—Abraham Damilola Arigi

Bible in 1 Year: Psalms 72-74

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Ephesians 2:6 (NET) and he raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus

Nonye was really displeased with her stepmother because she didn’t attend her wedding. She had surgery and had to miss the wedding, but Nonye said to herself that if it were her own daughter, she would have still found a way to make it for the wedding. Such was the relationship between Nonye and her stepmother – filled with suspicion and misunderstanding. Nonye who had lost her mom when she was very young didn’t have the best relationship with her stop mother.

When Nonye gave birth to her first child, her stepmother was the first to come and insist that she would stay to take care of the baby and her. Nonye was suspicious but this time, she was now more spiritually mature because she was married to a man who knew and feared the Lord. Former Nonye would have never allowed her stepmother to stay in her house, but because she was now more spiritually mature, she was more accommodating, less fearful, and less suspicious. She got to this point by realizing that abiding in christ meant his character and nature will manifest through her.

While Nonye’s stepmother stayed in her house to take care of the baby, she observed that Nonye had truly changed. Nonye was now kind, gentle, humble, and very considerate. After one and a half months, Nonye’s changed life brought conviction to her stepmother’s heart and she accepted the Lord Jesus. The reason Nonye could lead her stepmother to the Lord was that she was now living like a representative of Christ.

Today’s verse reveals what happens to us who are in Christ. Because we are in Christ, where He is seated is where we are too. This is made possible by the Holy Spirit who is our vital connection with Christ. Even though we are physically on the earth, through the Holy Spirit that dwells in us, we are connected to Christ. We dwell in Him and He in us.

Go into today remembering that you should abide in Christ if you are born again. If you reckon yourself to dwell in Christ, then live and act like Him.

Prayer: Lord, help me truly abide in you and walk in the authority of your throne.

—Abraham Damilola Arigi

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Bible in 1 Year: I Kings 14-18 (in today’s audio)

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Romans 8:3-4 (NET) For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Sandra was born into a church where the rules were really strict. She was not permitted to wear jewelry, makeup, or any such outward adornment. They had very strict rules concerning food to be eaten and many such things. But Sandra was not born again. Sin was still her boss. When she was in university, she got pregnant and had to abort it because “no one must hear about this”.

She accepted the Lord Jesus when she was in her final year and understood what it really meant to be born again. For the first time in her life, she knew she was righteous and there were the true fruits of righteousness in her life. This righteousness was not born out of the old sense of condemnation but born out of the consciousness of justification.

Laws are good and they are used to bring order, but even the best laws [given by God himself] didn’t have the ability to make anybody righteous because laws have to be obeyed in the flesh and the flesh does not have the ability to please God- it is too weak.

When a person becomes born again, he receives an entrance of the Spirit of life that enables him to walk in the righteousness of God. But fellowship with the spirit is key to walking in the spirit. We must learn to cultivate fellowship with the Spirit through His Word, Prayer, and fellowship with other Spirit-filled brethren. The Holy Spirit is received by faith- when the believer believes that he has been justified because of Christ and would receive the gift of the Holy Spirit as a result. It is only by the power of the Spirit that the righteousness of God can be fulfilled and worked out in anyone, because true righteousness originates from the spirit, and only those who walk in the Spirit can experience it(see Romans 8:4).

Go into today remembering that the only way a person can walk in the righteousness of God is through communion with the Holy Spirit who has been given freely to all who believe.

Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you live daily in fellowship with the Holy Spirit and please Him in all things.

—Abraham Damilola Arigi

Bible in 1 Year: Leviticus 4-6 (in today’s audio)

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Matthew 24:45-46 (NET): “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the lord has set over his household to give them their food in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes…”

Have you never seen one of those movies?

Young Jack and Jane love each other. Though initially faced with the disapproval of their families, who have a healthy enmity going on between them, their love persists and survives the inferno of hate and mountain of oppositions. At long last, when they ought to begin to consummate their love after a wonderful engagement ceremony that brings both families together, war breaks out and Jack gets conscripted into the army, and now ‘happily ever after’ must wait. Going off to war, Jack promises with his life that he’d be back. He gives half of his pendant, an heirloom, to Jane, and the scene closes in a somber note to the echoing voice of Jack screaming… “I’ll come back for you Jane. I swear it”, and she replies in between sobs, “I’ll wait for you if it’s the last thing I do”.

Three months pass and Jack isn’t returned but at least he sends letters. But then the letters stop coming, Jack is declared missing behind enemy lines. Weeks roll into months and months into years and still no word from Jack, only the faint echoes of his retreating voice whispering, “I’d be back”. Many suitors come knocking on Jane’s door, but she spurns them all. “He said he will return; I will wait for him” she says. Finally, after 5 years, Jack returns and finds Jane waiting, just as she promised she would.

Faithfulness is the ability to keep faith. This produces loyalty to a cause or a person even independent of changing circumstances.

A faithful servant will keep to the terms of his service in all seasons. His loyalty and service are not determined by his present circumstance. Our text tells us that the faithful servant is one who is found doing what he was asked to do even when the master returns unannounced. He is not in it for the name or the fame. He is not in it to score some brownie points or to gain some recognition. He is there to serve and would do so come rain come shine.

There is a sense in which faithfulness is a sign that faith is present. In the parable of the miners, you will find the unfaithful servant was the one who did not believe in his master. He felt his master was a sham, one who sought to reap where he did not sow. He had no faith in his master. His unfaithfulness was a testament to that fact.

No matter how touching a Jack and Jane story might be, Jesus is not Jack. Jesus is Lord, we have every guarantee that what He says He will do, He will do. When He says I go to prepare a place for you (See John 15:1-2) you can count on it. A faithful servant to Jesus is a wise servant (See Matthew 24:45). Likewise, He has given us more than an ornament of remembrance, but rather He has given us the Holy Spirit to guide, help, reassure and bring to our remembrance everything that Jesus has taught.

Go into today committed to staying true to the Master’s call and plan for your life, no matter what it takes.

—Ikechukwu Mpama

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Matthew 25:23 (WEB): His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things. I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord’

Rose was excited with the recent turn of events. She had received her largest commission yet from the marketing firm she worked with, Johnson had finally proposed over the weekend, and she was now staring at the letter of appointment to a bigger firm she had always dreamt of working with. She was giddy with joy.

She dialed Mena, her closest buddy, to share the good news with her but was less than impressed with her reception. Mena was excited for Rose but then she began to bring to Rose’s attention that the conditions of her appointment were going to mean that she would have little or no time for the service to God and even for herself. Rose protested that it didn’t matter because she will still be able to do a lot of good and charitable works with her new salary.

Who exactly is a good servant? What makes a servant good?

When considering matters of scripture, it is supremely important that we endeavor to mine the definition and description of words and concepts from the scripture itself and not from secular and popular usage.

The idea of ‘good’, as used in our text to describe the servant, refers not to a servant who has done charitable acts or one who has done “good things”, rather, it refers to a servant who is being true to his nature of being a servant the way the master wants, designed and desires him to be.

It is why one servant could be in the wilderness eating wild honey and locusts and garbed in raiment of camel’s hair preaching while another will be in the cities and towns teaching, preaching, and healing many and both would be good servants.

Being a good servant is about being true to the call of the Master. Jonah could do all charitable works and even tell the men of Tarshish tales of Yahweh and still not be good, this is because his call, and indeed his Master, demanded that he go to Nineveh and proclaim to them the word of the Lord. It is not about what you do, it is about being true to the call and demands of God upon your life.

Go into today determined to settle for nothing less than to fully follow the call and plan of God for your life.

—Ikechukwu Mpama

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Bible in 1 Year: Luke 11-12 (in today’s audio)

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Revelation 2:6 (NET): But you do have this going for you: You hate what the Nicolaitans practice – practices I also hate

Right there in the cold Isles of Patmos, Apostle John was experiencing a sight so frightful that at some point he fainted. It was the vision of Jesus in his glory and splendor. He instructed John to write a letter to seven churches in Asia, he had warnings and commendations for the church. These letters, once more, give us a close-up inside look at how Jesus views things.

In the letter addressed to the church in Ephesus (See Revelation 2:1-7), Jesus commended them for their works, labor, and patience, then he scolded them for departing from their first love, and then again commended them, this time around, he commended them for what they hated. Jesus commended this church for hating the practices of the Nicolaitans because He himself hated their works also.

You see, the things you hate are as much an indication of where your heart is as much as the things you love. Our devotion to Jesus must regulate our desires and preferences such that we begin to love certain things and hate certain things as well.

It is an anomaly for you, a child of God, to love what Jesus hates. We must train ourselves to adopt his likes and dislikes through a conscious commitment to believe and walk in the truth the word of God reveals. Yours must be a continual work and walk of discovery and realignment of heart disposition under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

One might ask, but what exactly does Jesus hate? Hebrews 1 verse 9 will be a good place to start. It reads, “You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with oil of gladness above your fellows”.

Go into today committed to loving what Jesus loves, and hating what he hates.

—Ikechukwu Mpama

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