04-22-2020, 02:27 PM
OUR DAILY MANNA DEVOTIONAL BOOKLET FOR CHAMPIONS
DATE: WEDNESDAY 22ND APRIL, 2020
TOPIC: THE PHOENIX! JUST AFTER THAT MISTAKE
BASIC SCRIPTURE: (COLOSSIANS 4:1-12)
Welcome to another devotional encounter with He who will wrap up the heavens and the earth as ventures (Hebrews 1:12)!
It was Janet Fitch who wrote: “The phoenix must burn to emerge.” In Ancient Greek stories, a PHOENIX is a long-lived bird that regenerates or is otherwise “born again.” It is a bird associated with the sun!
A PHOENIX obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor. Ancient legend paints a picture of a magical bird, radiant and shinning, which lives for several hundred years before it dies by bursting into flames. It is then reborn from the ashes, to start a new, long life.
So powerful is the symbolism that is an image that is still used commonly today in popular culture and folklore stories. The legendary PHOENIX is a large, grand bird, much like an eagle or peacock. It is brilliantly coloured in red, purple, and yellow, as it is associated with the rising sun and fire.
So, Janet Fitch was only reminding us that the PHOENIX had to BURN to be re-born! So, the process of passing through the FIRE is what transforms the bird from one level of glory to another!
Your passing through your fire of ERRORS or heat of MISTAKES/FAILURE is what creates another YOU; a bigger, wiser and better YOU! JUST REFUSE TO CONDEMN YOURSELF or allow DEPRESSION!
Hear Lance Armstrong: “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
So true! The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing! C.S. Lewis opined: “Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” Failures and mistakes are detours!
NOT DEAD ENDS! Ask Apostle John Mark. John Mark abandoned Paul and became backslidden from the rigours and pain of missionary work!
But years later, when Paul was sitting in prison awaiting trial, he wrote a letter to the church at Colossae, informing them that John Mark was with him and had been a great comfort, but he also told them that they were to welcome John Mark if he showed up.
This kid that had sorely disappointed Paul had now become a man who brought him comfort. That is rising from failure (Colossians 4:10-11)! Indeed, in life, failure should be your teacher and not your cemetery! Learn, laugh at your mistakes, and move on! Your best days are ahead!
LAGOS, OGUDU ANOINTING SERVICE for this month is Saturday April 25th 2020. Venue: 8-10, Omotayo Banwo Street, Transformer Bus-stop, Ogudu Orioke, Lagos. Time: 7.30am. Theme: “LORD, REMEMBER ME.” It will be a great EASTER VISITATION! Bring your photograph!
PRAYER POINTS: Take your best song of worship as led.
1. In your own words, pray over today’s word as led now.
2. LORD, help me to face life and win! Help me to face life and conquer!
3. I receive elevating grace to win over every seed of past failure and past mistakes in Jesus name.
4. Oh you my destiny, you shall not be buried in the ocean of MISTAKES and past ERRORS! I DETERMINE TO MOVE ON!
5. Sometimes your best days are just after a major failure/mistake! Lord God of Peter, use every mistake and error of my past to RE-WRITE my DESTINY STORY again this year in Jesus name (Pray it seriously for 5 days and 5 nights).
6. I scatter every power that says my ELEVATION in 2020 cannot happen, in Jesus name.
THE BIBLE-IN-ONE-YEAR: (1 CHRONICLES:27-29)
BY: BISHOP DR. CHRIS E. KWAKPOVWE (CEK)PUBLISHER/WRITER
DATE: WEDNESDAY 22ND APRIL, 2020
TOPIC: THE PHOENIX! JUST AFTER THAT MISTAKE
BASIC SCRIPTURE: (COLOSSIANS 4:1-12)
Welcome to another devotional encounter with He who will wrap up the heavens and the earth as ventures (Hebrews 1:12)!
It was Janet Fitch who wrote: “The phoenix must burn to emerge.” In Ancient Greek stories, a PHOENIX is a long-lived bird that regenerates or is otherwise “born again.” It is a bird associated with the sun!
A PHOENIX obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor. Ancient legend paints a picture of a magical bird, radiant and shinning, which lives for several hundred years before it dies by bursting into flames. It is then reborn from the ashes, to start a new, long life.
So powerful is the symbolism that is an image that is still used commonly today in popular culture and folklore stories. The legendary PHOENIX is a large, grand bird, much like an eagle or peacock. It is brilliantly coloured in red, purple, and yellow, as it is associated with the rising sun and fire.
So, Janet Fitch was only reminding us that the PHOENIX had to BURN to be re-born! So, the process of passing through the FIRE is what transforms the bird from one level of glory to another!
Your passing through your fire of ERRORS or heat of MISTAKES/FAILURE is what creates another YOU; a bigger, wiser and better YOU! JUST REFUSE TO CONDEMN YOURSELF or allow DEPRESSION!
Hear Lance Armstrong: “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
So true! The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing! C.S. Lewis opined: “Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” Failures and mistakes are detours!
NOT DEAD ENDS! Ask Apostle John Mark. John Mark abandoned Paul and became backslidden from the rigours and pain of missionary work!
But years later, when Paul was sitting in prison awaiting trial, he wrote a letter to the church at Colossae, informing them that John Mark was with him and had been a great comfort, but he also told them that they were to welcome John Mark if he showed up.
This kid that had sorely disappointed Paul had now become a man who brought him comfort. That is rising from failure (Colossians 4:10-11)! Indeed, in life, failure should be your teacher and not your cemetery! Learn, laugh at your mistakes, and move on! Your best days are ahead!
LAGOS, OGUDU ANOINTING SERVICE for this month is Saturday April 25th 2020. Venue: 8-10, Omotayo Banwo Street, Transformer Bus-stop, Ogudu Orioke, Lagos. Time: 7.30am. Theme: “LORD, REMEMBER ME.” It will be a great EASTER VISITATION! Bring your photograph!
PRAYER POINTS: Take your best song of worship as led.
1. In your own words, pray over today’s word as led now.
2. LORD, help me to face life and win! Help me to face life and conquer!
3. I receive elevating grace to win over every seed of past failure and past mistakes in Jesus name.
4. Oh you my destiny, you shall not be buried in the ocean of MISTAKES and past ERRORS! I DETERMINE TO MOVE ON!
5. Sometimes your best days are just after a major failure/mistake! Lord God of Peter, use every mistake and error of my past to RE-WRITE my DESTINY STORY again this year in Jesus name (Pray it seriously for 5 days and 5 nights).
6. I scatter every power that says my ELEVATION in 2020 cannot happen, in Jesus name.
THE BIBLE-IN-ONE-YEAR: (1 CHRONICLES:27-29)
BY: BISHOP DR. CHRIS E. KWAKPOVWE (CEK)PUBLISHER/WRITER