DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
Friday, July 7, 2017
KINGDOM’S AMBASSADORS (I)
Read John 17:11-16
MEMORISE
For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. (Philippians 3:20)
Friday, July 7, 2017
KINGDOM’S AMBASSADORS (I)
Read John 17:11-16
MEMORISE
For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. (Philippians 3:20)
A consulate is a branch embassy, headed by a Consul General and many junior Consuls. Apostle Paul writes, For our citizenship is in heaven. Though, some may spiritualise this fact away, yet it is literal and real to the church in Philippi, that understood that God has called us out of this world (Jn. 15:19) and transferred us into His Kingdom of Light (Col. 1:13; 1 Pet. 2:9). Now, having our citizenship in the Kingdom of God, by definition, makes us aliens in the physical country in which we live. We are God's ambassadors.
Do you know what an ambassador is supposed to do, or how he/she is expected to behave? Do you know how an ambassador of a foreign government is expected to interface with the various public with which he comes in contact, especially being not allowed to participate in the politics of another country, lest he/she is distracted from his/her real goal? Consulates are found in every major city, conducting the businesses of their home countries, within the regional spheres of influence of those cities. And to draw a parallel, it is safe to say that God's embassies on earth are the headquarters of any church denomination, where the leading pastor or evangelist serves as the Chargé d'Affaires or the Consul General. While the branch consulates are the individuals, and congregations with its members, serving as junior consuls. So, where is your duty post? We are ambassadors for Christ (II Cor. 5:20).
Every Christian home ought to be a designated branch consulate for the Kingdom of God, with the realisation that we are members of God's diplomatic corps. Beloved, act and live as a diplomat of God's kingdom, today and always.
Do you know what an ambassador is supposed to do, or how he/she is expected to behave? Do you know how an ambassador of a foreign government is expected to interface with the various public with which he comes in contact, especially being not allowed to participate in the politics of another country, lest he/she is distracted from his/her real goal? Consulates are found in every major city, conducting the businesses of their home countries, within the regional spheres of influence of those cities. And to draw a parallel, it is safe to say that God's embassies on earth are the headquarters of any church denomination, where the leading pastor or evangelist serves as the Chargé d'Affaires or the Consul General. While the branch consulates are the individuals, and congregations with its members, serving as junior consuls. So, where is your duty post? We are ambassadors for Christ (II Cor. 5:20).
Every Christian home ought to be a designated branch consulate for the Kingdom of God, with the realisation that we are members of God's diplomatic corps. Beloved, act and live as a diplomat of God's kingdom, today and always.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Holy Spirit, let me be a true representation of Your kingdom here, on earth.
2. Lord, rid me of every unbecoming attitude that can render me irrelevant or ineffective in my God-given role, in Your eternal redemptive plan.
3. Lord, make Your Church in the land more focussed on the task of depopulating hell to populate Your Kingdom.
1. Holy Spirit, let me be a true representation of Your kingdom here, on earth.
2. Lord, rid me of every unbecoming attitude that can render me irrelevant or ineffective in my God-given role, in Your eternal redemptive plan.
3. Lord, make Your Church in the land more focussed on the task of depopulating hell to populate Your Kingdom.
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: GENESIS 28-30
TODAY'S EXTRA
Porn was not made for entertainment or fun it was made purposely to destroy both the actors and their viewers. It feeds man with lust and makes him hungry for more. That is what result in masturbation and all abominable sexual act. Ignorant men and women love to watch it for fun not knowing that they are inviting demons of lust to themselves. It is a great doorway for demonic entrance. They don't need to have spare keys to be in your room. They only need you to watch their product and they will come in through the walls!. If you sit down alone to watch something on the TV please have it in mind that you are not alone.
There are evil beings looking out for your weaknesses to attack you. When demons get to know that you are weak in a particular area, they will make it difficult for you to overcome it. You will understand why people keep on falling back into the same sin over and over again!
The good news is, you can can still win and overcome! in Jesus . Through discipline, prayer and fasting. Otherwise, those demons will put stumbling blocks in your paths to trap you so we can't afford to be careless friends. Too many men are hooked to porn and are struggling to overcome it after seeing the damaging side of it. Even some pastors fall into it. We should know that the actors are being used by demons to go to that extreme to degrade their bodies. Married men who get addicted to porn find it difficult to sleep with their own wives, young men who are not married will also masturbate.
Porn is very addictive, it is easy to watch but hard to walk away from. They have labelled it as "adult channel" it isn't so it is abominable channel!! A colleague of mine told me years back that it is alright to watch porn with your spouse if you are married, that was a lie! I disagreed with him. I wasn't as ignorant as he was. If Jesus wouldn't watch why should we? knowing that we are His bride and His temple.
People who watch porn end up having strong irresistible sexual urges, because they have invited the demon of lust to live in them. Once the spirit brings up the desire you can't stand the pressure but do it with whoever you get, whether your close relative, a child or even animal . This has ended many into prison.
The rate at which sex offenders are increasing is alarming in our society. Friends, close your eyes from watching obscene pictures before it destroys you. Some people have the nerves to post porns on Christian sites on Facebook!! Please delete or block such people straight away! They are sending people to hell!. A man who was addicted to porn confessed that his whole life was destroyed by it. It distorted his image on how he viewed women. He saw women as nothing more than mere "sex tools"
Romans 6:13
"Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead and your members of righteousness unto God"
What will help one to overcome this sin is the holy fear of God in a man, knowing that it will be a shame to set your eyes on vulgar images when the Lord is seated next to you. Porn is deadly, destroy it before it destroys you. Keep yourself pure!!! Your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost not fornication and adultery. I invite you to receive Christ Jesus now and commit your whole life to God: Lord come into my heart now and be Lord and Saviour of my life. Turn me away from sex sins and porn."
Porn was not made for entertainment or fun it was made purposely to destroy both the actors and their viewers. It feeds man with lust and makes him hungry for more. That is what result in masturbation and all abominable sexual act. Ignorant men and women love to watch it for fun not knowing that they are inviting demons of lust to themselves. It is a great doorway for demonic entrance. They don't need to have spare keys to be in your room. They only need you to watch their product and they will come in through the walls!. If you sit down alone to watch something on the TV please have it in mind that you are not alone.
There are evil beings looking out for your weaknesses to attack you. When demons get to know that you are weak in a particular area, they will make it difficult for you to overcome it. You will understand why people keep on falling back into the same sin over and over again!
The good news is, you can can still win and overcome! in Jesus . Through discipline, prayer and fasting. Otherwise, those demons will put stumbling blocks in your paths to trap you so we can't afford to be careless friends. Too many men are hooked to porn and are struggling to overcome it after seeing the damaging side of it. Even some pastors fall into it. We should know that the actors are being used by demons to go to that extreme to degrade their bodies. Married men who get addicted to porn find it difficult to sleep with their own wives, young men who are not married will also masturbate.
Porn is very addictive, it is easy to watch but hard to walk away from. They have labelled it as "adult channel" it isn't so it is abominable channel!! A colleague of mine told me years back that it is alright to watch porn with your spouse if you are married, that was a lie! I disagreed with him. I wasn't as ignorant as he was. If Jesus wouldn't watch why should we? knowing that we are His bride and His temple.
People who watch porn end up having strong irresistible sexual urges, because they have invited the demon of lust to live in them. Once the spirit brings up the desire you can't stand the pressure but do it with whoever you get, whether your close relative, a child or even animal . This has ended many into prison.
The rate at which sex offenders are increasing is alarming in our society. Friends, close your eyes from watching obscene pictures before it destroys you. Some people have the nerves to post porns on Christian sites on Facebook!! Please delete or block such people straight away! They are sending people to hell!. A man who was addicted to porn confessed that his whole life was destroyed by it. It distorted his image on how he viewed women. He saw women as nothing more than mere "sex tools"
Romans 6:13
"Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead and your members of righteousness unto God"
What will help one to overcome this sin is the holy fear of God in a man, knowing that it will be a shame to set your eyes on vulgar images when the Lord is seated next to you. Porn is deadly, destroy it before it destroys you. Keep yourself pure!!! Your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost not fornication and adultery. I invite you to receive Christ Jesus now and commit your whole life to God: Lord come into my heart now and be Lord and Saviour of my life. Turn me away from sex sins and porn."
REVELATION 8 - The Seven Trumpets
Part-4
Part-4
“And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea; and the third part of the sea became blood; and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.” Revelation 8:8-9
We see here more attacks on a ‘third-part’ of the Roman Empire. The period covered by this trumpet is from 428 to 476; and the prophecy was fulfilled in the terrible Genseric, King of the Vandals, and “Monarch of the Sea;” whose ravages gave us in human language the term “Vandalism;” meaning willful, wanton, and ignorant destruction.
This time the force came from the south; from Africa, and so the prophecy says a ‘burning mountain’ cast into the sea. He formed a great navy with many war-ships and raided and took away slaves and treasure from the areas of the Roman Empire.
In 455, just at the time the people of Rome had risen against the Emperor Maximus, and stoned him and thrown his body into the river, Genseric arrived with his warships.
He came into the city and ravaged it, taking away all the wealth he could find, including the things from the Temple at Jerusalem that had been brought there by Titus when Jerusalem was destroyed in AD 70.
Finally the emperor of Rome decided to make himself a large navy to try and defeat Genseric’s war ships. Money was gathered with difficulty, and a huge navy was built. They sailed down to Carthage, where Genseric’s fleet was located, and could have conquered it, but the clever Genseric said he would surrender, and asked for five days to ‘make terms’.
All he did was gather his forces and attack the Emperor’s fleet. During the battle, Genseric would take large barges full of burnable material and towing them close to the Roman ships, would set them on fire and let them sail into the other ships, setting them on fire also. How true the idea of a ‘mountain of fire being thrown into the sea’ really was.
Genseric destroyed the Roman fleet and before his death saw the western part of the Roman Empire totally ruined. When you study history in the light of Bible prophecy, you see that those who do wicked, cruel actions, have wicked, cruel happenings come back on them sooner or later.
*THE POWER IS IN YOU .*
_*He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water (John 7:38).*_
_*He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water (John 7:38).*_
Out of ignorance, many people think that what they need to fulfil the will of God and produce lasting results is more anointing. So they pray, “Lord, I need a double portion of the anointing.” But there’s nowhere in the Scriptures where God promised to give us more anointing. Many have misunderstood the anointing to mean something totally different from what the Bible actually teaches.
First, the anointing is the symbolic consecration. When someone is anointed with oil like it was in the Old Testament, that’s the symbolic consecration. But more importantly, the anointing is the effect of the power and presence of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, for the Christian who already has the Holy Spirit to ask for “more anointing” is a contradiction. Why ask for the effect when you have the real thing? The Holy Spirit is the real deal. He’s the power of God, the power giver, and He lives in you in His fullness.
You received the Holy Spirit, not as a fluid; water, smoke, cloud or gas, but as a person. When He took up His abode in you, it was with the totality of His being. Therefore, the anointing, which is the effect or result of His presence in you, should be oozing out of you. In John 7:38, when Jesus was talking about the Holy Spirit, He didn’t say, “Upon you shall flow rivers of living water”; rather, He said out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Don’t ask or pray for more anointing to fall on you; what you need is the flow of the Spirit. That is, how to let what’s inside you flow out! You can stir up that power to flow through you more by speaking in tongues and meditating on the Word.
*CONFESSION*
*Dear Father, thank you for your Spirit who has taken up His abode in the quarters of my heart. I’m imbued with supernatural powers, graces and glory, which overflow from within me to my world. Righteousness, peace, joy, and excellence exude from me, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.*
*FURTHER STUDY:* *||* *John 7:38-39* He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet [given]; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) *||*
*||* *Ephesians 3:20-21* Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, 21 Unto him [be] glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. *||*
*DAILY SCRIPTURE READING*
*1-Year Bible Reading Plan:* Acts 19:8-41,
Job 15-18
*2-Year Bible Reading Plan:* Luke 7:18-35,
Joshua 3-4
*1-Year Bible Reading Plan:* Acts 19:8-41,
Job 15-18
*2-Year Bible Reading Plan:* Luke 7:18-35,
Joshua 3-4
*Act Now!!! Give someone the chance for a new start and fresh hope for tomorrow.
