12-23-2018, 02:15 PM
Good morning Brothers and Sisters....TODAY IS SUNDAY DECEMBER 2018 DAY 23 of ODM devotional booklet for the Champions.
Topic: THE MYSTERY OF EPAPHRODITUS
( PHILIPPIANS 2:24-30).
Verses 25 and 26 of today’s devotional are mystery lines but they will provoke ministry lines concerning your walk with God! Let’s go! “Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphrodittus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellow soldier………For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.”
In fact, the next verse says: “He was sick to the point of death!’ Wow! Why would God allow some battles to degenerate before He intervenes? Why would God wait till the last minute before He shows up in some battles? I can imagine that Apostle Paul must have prayed a lot for him, yet it was just at the point of death that God showed up! Why does God DELAY?
Don’t also forget that despite Paul’s prayers, Timothy was not completely healed of his ulcers! In fact, Paul told him to take regular, little wine for that reason! Was Paul not carrying a strong healing anointing? Oh, questions and questions! No matter how 2018 has been, even in the midst of mysterious delays, questions and unanswered prayers, despite all your prayers and fasting, REFUSE TO QUIT NOW!
A wise woman said: “Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.” Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away! Determine to live life with flair and laughter even when all you see is pain. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude! Close with Maya Angelou again: “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
Yes, God is up to something awesome even when He hides His face for a season! BE COURAGEOUS AS YOU END THIS YEAR IN 8 DAYS TIME! Without courage you cannot look up to your God and you can’t be prayerful, patient, kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest!
In the remaining days of this year and in 2019, every mysterious event around your life and ministry will become your ministry to your world! Hold on and dig in! I see a last-minute testimony before 2018 ends! BE COURAGEOUS!
( ODM is the best Christmas/ New Year gift item).
PRAYER POINTS: Take a song of victory now.
1. In your own words, pray about today’s word as led now.
2. God of Epaphroditus,a rise and give me a LAST-MINUTE MIRACLE before the end of 2018 and in January, in Jesus name (Pray it aggressively for 7 days and 7 nights).
3. Lord God, turn every mystery to my ministry!
4. Holy Ghost, use events beyond my brain as Your raw material for greater glory in my life, family and ministry.
5. I scatter every END-OF-YEAR BAD NEWS; go back to sender TODAY in Jesus name.
BY BISHOP (DR) CHRIS E. KWAKPOVWE (CEK)
PUBLISHER/WRITER OF ODM AND
REV (MRS) FLORA E. KWAKPOVWE (FEK)
CO-PUBLISHER/WRITER OF ODM...
Topic: THE MYSTERY OF EPAPHRODITUS
( PHILIPPIANS 2:24-30).
Verses 25 and 26 of today’s devotional are mystery lines but they will provoke ministry lines concerning your walk with God! Let’s go! “Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphrodittus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellow soldier………For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.”
In fact, the next verse says: “He was sick to the point of death!’ Wow! Why would God allow some battles to degenerate before He intervenes? Why would God wait till the last minute before He shows up in some battles? I can imagine that Apostle Paul must have prayed a lot for him, yet it was just at the point of death that God showed up! Why does God DELAY?
Don’t also forget that despite Paul’s prayers, Timothy was not completely healed of his ulcers! In fact, Paul told him to take regular, little wine for that reason! Was Paul not carrying a strong healing anointing? Oh, questions and questions! No matter how 2018 has been, even in the midst of mysterious delays, questions and unanswered prayers, despite all your prayers and fasting, REFUSE TO QUIT NOW!
A wise woman said: “Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.” Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away! Determine to live life with flair and laughter even when all you see is pain. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude! Close with Maya Angelou again: “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
Yes, God is up to something awesome even when He hides His face for a season! BE COURAGEOUS AS YOU END THIS YEAR IN 8 DAYS TIME! Without courage you cannot look up to your God and you can’t be prayerful, patient, kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest!
In the remaining days of this year and in 2019, every mysterious event around your life and ministry will become your ministry to your world! Hold on and dig in! I see a last-minute testimony before 2018 ends! BE COURAGEOUS!
( ODM is the best Christmas/ New Year gift item).
PRAYER POINTS: Take a song of victory now.
1. In your own words, pray about today’s word as led now.
2. God of Epaphroditus,a rise and give me a LAST-MINUTE MIRACLE before the end of 2018 and in January, in Jesus name (Pray it aggressively for 7 days and 7 nights).
3. Lord God, turn every mystery to my ministry!
4. Holy Ghost, use events beyond my brain as Your raw material for greater glory in my life, family and ministry.
5. I scatter every END-OF-YEAR BAD NEWS; go back to sender TODAY in Jesus name.
BY BISHOP (DR) CHRIS E. KWAKPOVWE (CEK)
PUBLISHER/WRITER OF ODM AND
REV (MRS) FLORA E. KWAKPOVWE (FEK)
CO-PUBLISHER/WRITER OF ODM...