Saturday, 14th January 2017

Bible verse: 2 Corinthians 3:5
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

Message
Beloved, whatever you need in Christ Jesus; whatever you think you lack to being what God wants you to be; is already in stock for you. You just have to learn to appropriate it.

Everything you will ever need is already built in! It's already a finished work in you! You need to get hold of the manual, study it and apply the instructions.
Everything is there already to give you an abundant life, an overcoming life, a victorious life in Christ.

The only condition is: let go your ego, your self-centeredness, your hardened heart, your pride and don't resist what God is trying to accomplish in your life and be obedient to the word of God.

Prayer
Oh Loving Father,I thank You for Your generosity, love, grace and kindness.
Thank You Lord that my destiny is assured, and the desires of my heart will be granted in Jesus name.
Make me worthy of Your blessings and keep me from any want in Jesus name.

Friday, 13th January 2017
Bible verse: James 4:11
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Message
Judging others - condemning, criticizing, backbiting, gossiping. speaking evil, grumbling and talking negatively about others, sharing things that lower someone's image and reputation in the eyes of others are sins that are strongly and constantly condemned.

Listening and supporting people who criticize, backbite and those whose tongues are ambassadors of Satan is aiding and abetting sin. You are guilty of same sin.

If your motive in criticizing someone is jealousy, selfish ambition, rivalry, pride, hatred, or damage of reputation, you have committed sin.
Furthermore, your constructive criticism leading to destructive complaining is also sin.

Beloved, we are to step into the positive, motivating conversation and boldly rebuke every act that God hates and act as true ambassadors of Christ.
Walking in the light of God is your assurance of possessing your possession.

Prayer
Dear Lord, empower me not to easily fall into judging by man-made standards, rather than by God's Word.
Let my enemies experience Your supernatural power of love that transforms hatred, unforgiveness and bitterness to love in Jesus name.

Thursday, 12th January 2017
Bible verse: 1 John 4:20
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

Message
In this year of jubillee and fulfilment, you cannot possess your possesion if you hold bitterness, hatred, malice, grudges, envy, revenge and unforgiveness in your heart.
And the naked truth is that you cannot love God when you cannot show love and compassion to your fellow brother and those who hate and/or offend you.

We are called to be salt and light in a sinful world, to love and have a forgiving heart, not to repay with evil and vengeance.

How do you operate toward your enemies and those who offend you?
- Do you take a more active stance toward them and gossip about them, spread lies about them, and pray that God will punish them for their wicked ways?
- Do you go to war with them, plan and plot their demise, rejoice in their failures and mourn at their successes?
- Do you write letters, make phone calls, send e-mails and muster up support among your friends, try to get people to side you to join the team of those who are angry?

Prayer
I pray that the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard my heart and mind through Christ Jesus.
Oh everlasting Father, let the cycle of hate, cycle of revenge and cycle of retaliation stop in my life and give me a sound mind to ba able to act Christlike in Jesus name.

Wednesday, 11th January 2017
Bible verse: Matthew 5:44 contd.
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Message
Our Lord is telling us that we should hate evil, we should hate sin but we must never hate people.

Loving our enemies is only possible with the help of God and with our strong determination to forgive, to love and not to put the laws into our own hand - lust of revenge and retaliation.

Remember that David had the opportunity to kill king Saul but he refused to.
Joseph had the opportunity to deal mercilessly with his brothers yet he refused to.

Yes! We are bound to experience hard times, scandals, heartbreak, being misunderstood, hatred, betrayal, sufferings and afflictions yet we are to follow the footstep of David, of Joseph, of Jephta and the teachings of Christ and allow your love to override your pride and your feelings of disgust.

Don't forget that just like you have something good in you as you hate others so also your enemies have something good in them.

Prayer
Help me oh Lord, to wear the cloak of humility, to Love my enemies and do good to them which hate you in Jesus mighty name.

Tuesday, 10th January 2017
Bible verse: Matthew 5:44 contd.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Message
Brethren, Jesus is expected to be our mentor and as such we are not to take the battle into our own hand.
No jungle judgement instead allow your enemies' conscience to do the judgment.

Do you know what?
Jesus expects you to love our enemies and pray for them because:
- Jesus will not ask us to do what He will not be able to do.
- you become son of the Father - acting Christ-like.
- God will take up the revenge on your behalf. - "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord.
- when you show mercy and grace, you will remind people of your Father in heaven who is nothin but LOVE.
- if you hate your enemies, you have no way to redeem and transform them and you have acted against the teachings and principles of Christ.

Furthermore, hatred:
- makes you lose your objectivity and leads to bad decision making.
- destroys physically, emotionally and spiritually.
- destroys the very center of your creative response to life.
- leads to loneliness and bitterness, eats you up and wears you out. and finally
Hatred is like eroding acid that eats away the best and the objective center of life.

Prayer
Let my enemies experience Your supernatural power of love that transforms hatred, unforgiveness and bitterness to love in Jesus name.

Monday, 9th January 2017
Bible verse: Matthew 5:44 contd.
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Message
Beloved, "Why should you love our enemies, bless and pray for them?"
Very simple! You are to act Christlike and because Jesus Himself is the perfect example for you to follow.
His disciples whom he trusted let him down and turned against him - betrayed and denied him.
He was arrested, roughed up, insulted, mocked, crowned with thorns, beaten and crucified.

Instead of using His power to strike them blind, to paralyze their hand or send fire from heaven to consume them; with divine dignity, He held His peace, made no threats, didn't return evil for evil.
He silently turned the other cheek and prayed for them asking God to forgive them.

Jephta thrown out of his father's house, denied of his inheritance shew love and mercy not only to his brothers but also to the elders of the city.

Joseph shew love and mercy to his brothers who sold him to slavery; no hatred, no bitterness, no retaliation but forgiveness and blessings.
Stephen was stoned yet He seek forgiveness and mercy for those full of the evil acts.

Who has betrayed you, which scandals, heartbreak, disappointment, hatred, or damage of reputation and other
evil act are you facing?
Beloved, you are to develop a heart of forgiveness and reaffirm your love to those that hurt you or betray you and/or break your heart.

Prayer
Dear Lord, grant me the power and grace to love my enemies, to bless those people that curse and hurt me, to be good to those who hate me and pray for those who despitefully used me; so I will be able to matriculate into the University of Eternal Life in Jesus name.

Sunday, 8th January 2017
Bible verse: Matthew 5:44
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Message
You can become someone's enemy because:
- of your ideology, philosophy, integrity and outspokenness or
- because you hit the iron when it is hot and hit the nail on the head or
- you don't compromise the truth or
- because other people like you or
- because of your loyalty and/or success or
- because of some personality attribute that you possess.

Brethren, something that one have done deep down in the past and one has forgotten about could be what aroused the hate response within individual.

When people you thought you could trust let you down or turn against you, when people you love hurt you deeply, when people you love, motivate, encourage & help have an active desire to hurt you, mistreat you, curse you, disgrace you and have delight in your downfall, fabricate rumours against you and/or gossip about you; at least that moment, they have become your enemies.

Yes! it is such people who despitefully use us, abuse us, victimize us, purposefully and knowingly seek our ill-will and have bitterness and hatred in their hearts against us we are to love and pray for.

Jesus knew it is going to be hard but he knew that hate destroys the hater as well as the hated.

Prayer
Oh heavenly Father, if there might be something within me that arouses the hate responses in or against the other individual, I pray in the mighty name of Jesus that You purge it away and grant me a forgiving and loving heart and without hesitation to love those who despitefully use me, abuse, victimize, hurt, mistreat, curse, disgrace and/or fabricate rumours against me.