11-09-2018, 09:57 AM
Good morning brothers and sisters......... TODAY Is FRIDAY
NOVEMBER 2018 DAY 9 OF ODM devotional booklet for Champions......
TOPIC: BEETHOVEN & THE THAI DIVER: JUST KEEP MOVING!
(DEUTERONOMY 33:24-29).
A professor once tested his medical students about a medical situation. He told them: “here is the family history of a patient: The father has syphilis! The mother has tuberculosis. They already have four children; the first is blind. The second has diabetes, the thirds is deaf, the fourth has tuberculosis also, now the mother is pregnant and comes to you for advice. They are willing to have an abortion, if that is your decision as their doctor! What would you say to them?”
The students gave various individual opinions and then the professor asked them to break into smaller groups! They all came back to report that they would recommend abortion! “Congratulations” the sad professor said, “you just took the life of Beethoven!!!”
Oh, as I write this, I just remembered the death of Mr. Saman Kunan, a former Thai mavy Seal Diver who died in his attempt to rescue 13 trapped boys and their coach 3 months ago- last July! He had given the boys oxygen tanks but ran out of his own oxygen on his way back from that dangerous cave! That successful rescue mission which gripped the world for 17 days looked like, “MISSION IMPOSSIBLE” when that diver died! But the world refused to give up!
To the glory of God, the 13 souls were rescued and it also showed to the world that, the number “13” is no more an “unlucky” number! Laughs! The Holy Ghost’s message to a user of today’s devotional is that problems should not make you to STOP or quit your confidence in God! Never confuse failing with failure! Don’t give up trying even in hard times! If the parents had aborted him due to their harsh difficulties, the great Beethoven would have died and what a loss to musical schools and musical history on planet earth!
Was he not unbeatable musical genius? In whatever you are trusting God for, never give up now- no matter how 2018 has been. Listen to Frank Roosevelt: “When you come to the end of your rope….tie a knot and hang on.” God gave you shoes of brass and iron to enable you march on scorpions and serpents in life’s battles! Refuse to quit! Resist discouragement! You will still testify that God is good and He is your EBENEZER! Hold on! Hold out! Hold on!
(Sow the 2019 ODM as a Christmas Gift to others).
PRAYER POINTS: Take any song of worship as led.
1. Pray about today’s message as you are led.
2. Father, I make up my mind to hold on and trust You again concerning this matter (Mention it now). Lord, make sure that I am not ashamed in Jesus name (Pray it very well).
3. Lord, shake away every agent of discouragement, delay and depression out of my life in Jesus name.
4. Cancel every end-of-year tears! Loose laughter!
5. Pray the morning and evening devotional prayers daily!
BY BISHOP (DR) CHRIS E. KWAKPOVWE (CEK)
PUBLISHER/WRITER OF ODM AND
REV (MRS) FLORA E. KWAKPOVWE (FEK)
CO-PUBLISHER/WRITER OF ODM...
NOVEMBER 2018 DAY 9 OF ODM devotional booklet for Champions......
TOPIC: BEETHOVEN & THE THAI DIVER: JUST KEEP MOVING!
(DEUTERONOMY 33:24-29).
A professor once tested his medical students about a medical situation. He told them: “here is the family history of a patient: The father has syphilis! The mother has tuberculosis. They already have four children; the first is blind. The second has diabetes, the thirds is deaf, the fourth has tuberculosis also, now the mother is pregnant and comes to you for advice. They are willing to have an abortion, if that is your decision as their doctor! What would you say to them?”
The students gave various individual opinions and then the professor asked them to break into smaller groups! They all came back to report that they would recommend abortion! “Congratulations” the sad professor said, “you just took the life of Beethoven!!!”
Oh, as I write this, I just remembered the death of Mr. Saman Kunan, a former Thai mavy Seal Diver who died in his attempt to rescue 13 trapped boys and their coach 3 months ago- last July! He had given the boys oxygen tanks but ran out of his own oxygen on his way back from that dangerous cave! That successful rescue mission which gripped the world for 17 days looked like, “MISSION IMPOSSIBLE” when that diver died! But the world refused to give up!
To the glory of God, the 13 souls were rescued and it also showed to the world that, the number “13” is no more an “unlucky” number! Laughs! The Holy Ghost’s message to a user of today’s devotional is that problems should not make you to STOP or quit your confidence in God! Never confuse failing with failure! Don’t give up trying even in hard times! If the parents had aborted him due to their harsh difficulties, the great Beethoven would have died and what a loss to musical schools and musical history on planet earth!
Was he not unbeatable musical genius? In whatever you are trusting God for, never give up now- no matter how 2018 has been. Listen to Frank Roosevelt: “When you come to the end of your rope….tie a knot and hang on.” God gave you shoes of brass and iron to enable you march on scorpions and serpents in life’s battles! Refuse to quit! Resist discouragement! You will still testify that God is good and He is your EBENEZER! Hold on! Hold out! Hold on!
(Sow the 2019 ODM as a Christmas Gift to others).
PRAYER POINTS: Take any song of worship as led.
1. Pray about today’s message as you are led.
2. Father, I make up my mind to hold on and trust You again concerning this matter (Mention it now). Lord, make sure that I am not ashamed in Jesus name (Pray it very well).
3. Lord, shake away every agent of discouragement, delay and depression out of my life in Jesus name.
4. Cancel every end-of-year tears! Loose laughter!
5. Pray the morning and evening devotional prayers daily!
BY BISHOP (DR) CHRIS E. KWAKPOVWE (CEK)
PUBLISHER/WRITER OF ODM AND
REV (MRS) FLORA E. KWAKPOVWE (FEK)
CO-PUBLISHER/WRITER OF ODM...