Category Archives: Devotions

Compassion

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Exodus 2:1-6

 

Whenever a plan is put out to terminate you in the journey of life, it will only take the intervention of God for you to be delivered. An innocent baby boy, born at an appointed time of God, and set to deliver his people from bondage of over four hundred years was born. It was the timing of God, but to Pharaoh, it was the worst time for such to be born. Pharaoh passed a law that every male born child of the Hebrew people should be terminated. In GodÕs timing, it was the time to send a male son that will bring deliverance to thousands of His people. What a mighty God! Today let those that can see and think it as a bad timing hold on to what they are seeing with their naked eye. You, as someone that knows the living God begin to see it as GodÕs allowed timing. Moses could have been killed at birth just as some must have. After three months, his mother decided to send him off in an ark of bulrushes on the water. He rowed down to the one that was to kill him when the daughter of the murderer (Pharaoh) picked up the ark which was holding Moses. Exodus 2:6, ÒAnd when she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby wept. So she had compassion on him, and said, ÔThis is one of the HebrewsÕ children.ÕÓ You have been crying to God because of manÕs timing that is affecting you. See today that God will let open a door of compassion on your behalf and your story will be eternally changed to the glory of God.

Sent?

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Exodus 1:15-21

 

Have you been sent to deliver an assignment that does not glorify God? Listen, it does not matter who sent you, when you have been sent, and what the reward is, what matters most is fearing God. Fearing God and not just flying in the direction of an evil errand. When you fly under the direction of an evil minded service, you will crash land and you will fail woefully. However, when you turn to the fear of God before delivering an evil message, God will not ignore your move, He will acknowledge you beyond and above whatever reward that is set for you. It does not matter where you are today or what position you are holding, let it be established in your heart that today you have ceased from delivering any message that is meant to hurt others, any message that does not glorify God. Pharaoh entered into shrewdness because of the growth of the children of < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>Israel. He ordered the midwives to kill all male children at birth. The fear of God arrested the midwives. Exodus 1:17, ÒBut the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.Ó If you ask God to endue you fear of His name to always do what is right, He will do it for you. He is the One that said when we ask it shall be given. Exodus 1:20-21, ÒTherefore God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very mighty. And so it was, because the midwives feared God, that He provided households for them.Ó Let your every action be based on the fear of God, and He will establish you in all areas of life.

Praise Worship

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Psalm 47, 48

 

How often do you render unto Him praise worship? How long does it take you to praise Him? Is your praise emotionally driven? All the above questions are rooted in this one question: Do you praise Him with understanding? When you praise Him with understanding, your praise worship will be constant and consistent; your praise worship will no longer be to get manÕs applause. When you praise Him with understanding, your praise worship will no longer be timed, it will be all day long, all week long, all month and all year round. Your praise will not be subjected to timing or calendar of man, it will be heavenly connected because anytime you are on your own or out of conversation with man, you will have nothing to worry about but to be praising Him. Have you ever thought about this or you do not think He is worthy of your praises? Psalm 47:7, ÒFor God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.Ó Do you now get it? Your praise should be driven by the fact that He is in charge of all the earth. Psalm 47:8, ÒGod reigns over the nations; God sits on His holy throne.Ó It is frequently quoted among the believers, ÔGod inhabits the praises of His people.Õ The more reason why you have to praise Him is to be able to carry His presence around you round the clock. Praise belongs to God, when it is not with understanding it becomes noise-making. Religion makes noise, serving Christ makes you powerful to the glory of God. Get out of religion and get into Jesus reality.

Concerns

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1 Samuel 13:1-15

 

It was God Himself who called Moses out to go and lead the children of < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>Israel from the bondage of over four hundred years. The same God that was, and is, also sent Samuel to go and anoint Saul as the first king over the children of Israel. He knew the end from the beginning and the beginning from the end. Jeremiah 1:5, ÒBefore I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.Ó That is God for you and for your understanding. What could have gone wrong with both men to have missed the expected end? Saul, being the topic of the subject now, was no accident when He was ordained by God for the assignment, but he failed in the assignment. 1 Samuel 10:1, ÒThen Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head, and kissed him and said: ÔIs it not because the Lord has anointed you commander over His inheritance?ÕÓ When Saul failed to wait for Samuel by carrying out a burnt offering and peace offerings before a war against the Philistines, he failed in the presence of God. Saul had the reasons why he could not have waited for Samuel. SaulÕs reasons became concerns for Him to misplace his assignment before God; his concerns placed him on a ground where he should not have been; his concerns became an agent of his termination from GodÕs assignment. SaulÕs concerns compelled him to failure. 1 Samuel 13:12, ÒThen I said, ÔThe Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the Lord. Therefore I felt compelled, and offered a burnt offering.ÕÓ What are your concerns today? Do not lose focus on God or your concerns will compel you from getting to your expected end. Pray to God for help in His assignment for your life because by strength shall no man prevail.

Making

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1 John 2:1-6

 

Ask God to make you again. Ask Him that every area of your life that you have not been following to be redirected to following Him. Going to church every Sunday, going from prayer meeting to prayer meeting, and memorizing the word verse by verse does not mean you are following Him as He requested. Think within yourself how you have been following Him. Yes you are on the right track of following Him, but being on the right track is different from following through the rules of running the track. If you are on the right track and not following with the rules, you are a trapped believer. What does it take to follow Him? Do you care to know? Following Him is in knowing Him. Knowing the Lord is not in determination, it is not in strength or changing from one church to another. Knowing Him is in obedience to His word. 1 John 2:3-4, ÒNow by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, ÔI know Him,Õ and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in Him.ÕÓ If you have been keeping His commandments you must be clean from lying, deceiving, manipulating, or any marks of this world. God is able; He is able to carry you through the race. Ask Him if you will, and He will make you just as the potter makes and remakes his clay.