Morning Devotional For Saturday 8th December

[Edoman]

RHAPSODY OF REALITIES

SATURDAY, 8TH DECEMBER

WE LIVE BY WORDS.

…for he hath said…So that we may boldly say… (Hebrews 13:5-6).


Christianity is called the “Great Confession”; it’s a life of words. As Christians, we live by words. In Romans 10:9, we see the confession principle as the very basis for salvation. It says, “…if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved....” The vital aspect of salvation is activated and becomes real when you make the confession of the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

Thus, in Christianity, your words—your confessions—are so important. The Lord Jesus said in Matthew 12:37, “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.” In Mark 11:23, He said, “For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith”; He placed a premium on words.

Your confessions create realities. You create new realities for today and the future with your words. The Bible says, in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth, and tells us how He did it: He did it through words. Through the power of the spoken word, He reframed and brought order to the world, which had become a chaotic mass (Genesis 1:1-6). What God did at the beginning was to reveal to us how to bring order, beauty, and glory to our lives, circumstances, and situations through words.


Chart your course in victory and success with your words; make your life perpetually triumphant. Even now, speak words that are consistent with God’s divine provisions, plans, and purpose for you in Christ, and whatever you say will surely come to pass. Affirm that good things are coming your way, and glorious things are happening for you and around you, because you’re the seed of Abraham.

CONFESSION

The Word of God in my mouth prevails as I speak it forth. Good things are happening for me, and around me today. My words are infused with divine energy, creating new and glorious realities, transforming circumstances, and changing situations to conform to God’s provisions, plans, and purpose for me in Christ. Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY:

2 Corinthians 4:13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;

Hebrews 13:5-6 [Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. 6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

1-Year Bible Reading Plan
Revelation 1 & Daniel 11-12

2-Year Bible Reading Plan
Revelation 9:11-21 & Amos 8-9

[Edoman]

OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL


DATE: SATURDAY 8TH DECEMBER 2018.


THEME: ALTAR OF PRAISE.

MEMORISE:


Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed. Psalm 65:1

READ: 2 Chronicles 5:13-14

13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;

14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.

MESSAGE

In today’s memory verse, the Psalmist assures God that praise awaits Him in Zion. How remarkable! When God comes to your home or heart, will He find praises there or will He find complaints. If you can have a place in your heart and home when God can find praise at all times, He will surely draw close to you. Solomon did not ask God for anything when he became king, neither did he complain about all the issues his father left for him to resolve in the kingdom; all he did was to make a sacrifice of worship to God that no one had ever made before, and God paid him a visit with a blank cheque (1 Kings 3:4-5). When Paul and Silas were in prison, they didn’t complain and query God; rather, they turned the prison into a house of praise, and they got a special visit from God. As soon as God arrived in the prison, there was an earthquake and all their chains were broken (Acts 16:23-26). When the walls of Jericho stood before Joshua and the people of Israel, they did not begin to whine and question God; instead, they built a praise altar around the walls of Jericho, and the walls fell down flat (Joshua 6). Is there a problem giving you sleepless nights? Turn those sleepless nights into praise nights unto God and see all your problems fall down flat.

Do you know that whenever God looks upon the earth, He is looking for people praising Him in spirit and in truth? John 4:23 says:

“But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.”

Those who are close to me know that as I go about my activities all through the day, I am always singing praises to my God. I do this because I want Him to know that anytime He looks at my direction, He will find praises there. I want Him to be with me all day and never leave, because he gets an unending dose of praises from me. Many years ago, I promised an elder I our church that I was going to visit him but that I would only be staying for five minutes, because I had a lot of things to attend to that day. The elder, based on his personal knowledge of me, knew very well how to make me stay longer than five minutes. Before I got to his house, he had music playing- hymns and other sweet gospel music. I felt so comfortable in his house that I did not realize when I had spent more than an hour there! If I, as a child of God, could get carried away by praises to my Father, how much more God Himself? Psalm 22:3 says God inhabits the praises of His people; so if you want Him to be with you always, make your heart an altar of praise for Him.

KEY POINT:

When you meet someone who lives a lifestyle of praise to God, you have met someone who always has God at his side.


BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Daniel 3

John 8:31-47

AUTHOR: PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE


HYMN 1: NOW THANK WE OUR GOD

1. Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices,
Who wondrous things has done, in Whom this world rejoices;
Who from our mothers’ arms has blessed us on our way
With countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.

2. Oh, may this bounteous God through all our life be near us,
With ever joyful hearts and blessed peace to cheer us;
And keep us in His grace, and guide us when perplexed;
And guard us through all ills in this world, till the next!

3. All praise and thanks to God the Father now be given,
The Son, and Him Who reigns with Them in highest Heaven—
The one eternal God, Whom earth and Heav’n adore;
For thus it was, is now, and shall be evermore.

[Edoman]

*SEEDS OF DESTINY*

DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY DR. PASTOR PAUL ENENCHE

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 08, 2018

*THE ALMIGHTINESS OF GOD*

SCRIPTURE: Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me? Jeremiah 32:27

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: God can do, undo, overdo, extra-do, and mega-do anything beyond human comprehension; where man stops is where God starts.

We serve the only Almighty God that acts beyond the boundaries and limits of men. God can do, undo, overdo, extra-do, and mega-do anything beyond human comprehension; where man stops is where God starts. In Ephesians 3:20, the Bible says, 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,

This confirms the fact that God can do greater things beyond our imagination in order to show His Almightiness. So, any person, nation or situation playing with God does not understand Who God is.

Now, what are the dimensions of the Almightiness of God?
1. The conversion of absolute impossibilities to limitless possibilities.
We serve the God who dares the impossible and does the unthinkable. He performed the miracle of creating a highway in the Red Sea, the miracle of providing water from the rock for about three and a half million people to drink for forty years. He is an impossibility Specialist.

2 The discharge of drastic judgment
God manifests His Almightiness in the discharge of drastic judgment.

Beloved, in order to see the Almightiness of God, absolute surrender to Him and His Will is the key. When we come to the point where we totally give God the space to move, then He will move.

REMEMBER THIS: God can do, undo, overdo, extra-do, and mega-do anything beyond human comprehension; where man stops is where God starts.

ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Remove doubt and unbelief totally from your operations with God.
2. Surrender your life to God and allow Him to do His work in your life.

PRAYER: Lord, I surrender my life totally to You. I reject every spirit of doubt and unbelief. Do what only You can do in my life and take all the glory, Lord in Jesus’ Name.

For Further Understanding, Get This Message: The Almightiness Of God
QUOTE: God can bring inexhaustible supplies out of unexpected sources.
Culled from ACCESS TO ALL POSSIBILITIES by Dr Paul Enenche

DAILY READING: 1 Chronicles 5:18 to 6:8, Acts 26:1 to 32, Psalm 6:1 to 10, Proverbs 18:20 to 21.

AMAZING FACT: Koalas and primates are the only animals with unique fingerprints.

TODAY IN HISTORY: 08/12/1955 – The Flag of Europe was adopted by Council of Europe.

[Edoman]

OUR DAILY MANNA DEVOTIONAL

_A DEVOTIONAL BOOKLET FOR CHAMPIONS_

DATE: SATURDAY 8TH DECEMBER, 2018

TOPIC: THAT DRY SEASON IS OVER!

BASIC SCRIPTURE: PSALM 65:5-13

Welcome to today’s devotional encounter with the one whose name is El-Shaddai, the God who is more than enough. In this last quarter of 2018, I hear the voice of the LORD in my spirit loud and clear, “I will visit the earth.” He is not just going to visit the earth, His visitation will cause a turn around in your situation. What happens when God steps into a place? Verse 9 of today’s scripture says, “Thou visited the earth and waterest it…” See Verse 10: “Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly…” WHEN GOD VISITS YOUR LAND, HE COMES TO WATER IT! That means you will end 2018 with a watered garden, life and ministry! 

Maybe the first six months of this year has been dry for you, maybe the land has been hard and unproductive, and you are asking in your heart “God, where are you?”

There is good news for you today. The river of the living God is flowing towards you and all yours! That river is a river of life, and whenever it flows, it brings life, growth, decoration and fruitfulness. God will visit you in this last quarter of the year and He will cause you to experience so much increase than you can contain! The Holy Ghost is saying to a user of this devotional clearly: “I am not through with you yet. There is more! YOUR DRY LAND WILL BLOSSOM AGAIN! I have come to WATER that which was WITHERED! I have not forgotten and cannot forget you. I will visit you AGAIN and you will see My greatness, honour and glory in ways that you have never seen before.” Amen!

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PRAYER POINTS: Sing your best song to you God.

1. Pray about the word as led now.

2. I decree: The DRY SEASON IS OVER! LORD, water my garden! Water every DRY land around my life, family and ministry (Pray it for 3 days seriously).

3. Praise God and worship Him for another day!

4. Pray about this quarter! Father, I receive all that You have prepared for me to enjoy in this last quarter of 2018 (Pray it seriously for 3 days).

5. Pray for travellers this December/January!

6. Every plot of the enemy to make the remaining days of this 2018 worse than the past months, SCATTER in Jesus name.

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[Edoman]

*CAC LIVING WATER*

*DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE*

*Saturday, December 8, 2018*

*TOPIC:*GOD HAS THE BEST INTENTION*
*READ: Isaiah 55:8-12*


"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD (Isaiah 55:8).

*EXPOSITION*

Whenever a great disaster strikes, some questions spring in the mind: Why does the lord let such things happen? Could not He have stopped this? Does He not care? The magnitude of death and destruction caused by earthquakes, tornadoes, insurgency, gruesome murders even during Sunday worships, kidnapping, or floods disrupts are everyday thoughts and cause us to seek explanations for suffering, all over the world.
Often the answers people come up with are based on their relationships with God. Those who know nothing of Him have no frame of reference for understanding how He works. Believers, on the other hand, have the Bible to guide them as they wrestle through these issues. But even then, the accuracy of one’s perspective is determined by his or her knowledge of God’s Word. Those with limited understanding may as well reach inaccurate conclusions.

We must guard against attempts at forcing the Lord to act the way we think He should. If He does something that would not fit into the “box” we have devised for Him, we easily become upset, angry, or confused. 

God will never stay within the parameters we set for Him. Since we are mortal and sinful, we have a very narrow perspective and understanding of life. But our eternal, sinless, sovereign, and omniscient Creator sees and knows what cannot perceive.

As we ponder upon this today, let us be sure that our viewpoints of God’s role in natural disasters come from the Bible, not from our own limited perspective. Scripture tells us of the Lord’s love, faithfulness, and wisdom. Whenever we cannot understand His ways, faith in His goodness must be our foundation.

*PRAYER POINTS*

1. Lord, give me the grace to follow you even when it seems dark.

2. Lord, endow me with the power to understand Your leadings and workings.

3. Lord, help every child of God that is undergoing worrisome situations, today.

*EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Daniel 3 - 4*
Good morning and do have a pleasant weekend.
Remember, Jesus cometh soon. Be prepared!