Sunday, 21st August 2016

Bible verse: Romans 10:10
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Message
Believing and confessing are both essential for our salvation.
To believe in Christ is to confess Christ and placed our faith in His shed blood to atone for our sins.

Though God does not need one to confess with the mouth for His benefit but your confession is a criteria for your salvation.
He can see into the heart to discern our faith, and grant us justification at the very moment of faith.

But we are called to confess our sins so that God will forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Prayer
Dear Father, I surrender myself unto you and put my mind under Your rule so that I will be thinking on things that are pure, holy, and excellent.
Let me not be moved by what the world thinks is right but by Your word.
Thank you Father for being Lord over my ethics and values.

Saturday, 20th August 2016
Bible verse: Romans 1:17
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written,
The just shall live by faith.

Message
The righteousness of God is that one righteousness of Christ which He affected for us in His obedience unto death.

A just person is one that is made righteous by the righteousness of Christ imputed to him.
No man could, in his own right, claim to be legally justified.
The manner in which the just lives, is "by faith".

Faith is what keeps a man right in every department of life. A man can only live rightly as he lives by faith.

Where there is no faith in the principles of God but only a scramble after self-centeredness and power, injustice supervenes, hopes are lust, visions become an illusion and there will be a shift of focus from the Word to worldly passions while peace is voluntarily given to satan and his agents.

Beloved, we are exhorted and taught NOT to live by the law BUT by faith. We are to trust God even in the most difficult of times.

Prayer
Righteous Father, Your word says "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled" make me hungry and thirsty for righteousness and grant me a passion for loving, knowing and doing your word in Jesus name.

Friday, 19th August 2016
Bible verse: Romans 5:1
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Message
Justification is a sentence of acquittal and the imputation of God's righteousness in Christ.
It is our standing with God.
Beloved, faith is how we become justified before God.
It was faith that made the woman with the issue of blood whole.
It was faith that made blind BartimC&us whole.
Abel offered by faith to God and was justified to harvesting blessings.
It was faith in Jesus, who He is and what He did, that led you to trust Him for your salvation.
It was faith in what God said about sin that led to repent of your sin.
It is faith in the Lord and His word that leads you to daily prayer, Bible reading and to live a clean and righteous life.
It is faith in the Lord that gives you the confidence to say, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow I will fear no evil, for thou art with me."
It is faith in the Lord that will cause you to trust, praise and be obedient to God.

With faith we gain entrance to the most wonderful place possible - God's domain and we receive peace with God which is the most wonderful gift that anyone can possess!

Yes! without faith it is impossible to please God.

Prayer
Thank you Lord for Your powerful gift - PEACE.
I know you will not only give me peace; Lord, you will be my peace in Jesus name.

Oh heavenly Father, speak peace and calm my storms, hold my hand while I walk through the valley of the shadow and storms.
Guide my path through life and make my enemies be at peace with me in Jesus name.

Thursday, 18th August 2016
Bible verse: 2 Thessalonians 3:16
Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.

Message
To be troubled, to be worrisome, to be fearful or fretful means:
    ●   we do not trust God's sovereignty, God's wisdom, God's faithfulness and God's goodness;
    ●   we have lost sight of the Lord and His providential working;
    ●   we have lost focus on the Lord and His revealed will;
    ●   we have lost sight of the Lord's love and our blessings.

Yes! with lack of peace, we are tempted to become negative and ungrateful; get distracted from carrying-out the Lord's purpose and plan for our lives; and have taken our eyes off God who is the only source of true and lasting peace. We only see the tree for the forest.

Whatever we are facing that gives us cause for mental or emotional turmoil or distress, we need to bring it to the Lord's attention. He is the only one to give us peace and He is the only solution. He will speak peace into every storm.
The peace that comes from the Lord is the only one that can banish all worry and distress from our hearts and minds.

But there must be permanent communion with the Lord and permanent obedience to His laws.
We must at the same time have absolute control over our passions, lusts, desires and charachter.

Prayer
I receive the peace of the Lord; therefore nothing shall disturb my mind, no circumstances shall entangle me in guilt or grief because You Lord are my arm of support, my only souce of peace, my shield of protection and my light to see.

I forsake the illusion of my competency and cast myself on You oh Lord, so that nothing shall separate me from your love in Jesus name.

Wednesday, 17th August 2016
Bible verse: Psalms 119:165
Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

Message
It is the love of laws of God, and the belief that the law of God is in accordance with justice, that provides peace to our minds.
If we obey God's Word, we shall stay away from so many problems and troubles; and many pitfalls in this life that bring unnecessary heartaches and headaches will be avoided.

Beloved, obedience is peace because with obedience comes a clear and clean conscience.
A clear and clean conscience promotes peace of mind.

When there is peace we have great calmness of mind even amidst the troubles, the disappointments, and the reverses of life. We shall have intense enjoyment and real success in life never to be troubled and anxious of anything.
God will never allow the trouble to overwhelm you. He will make you experience calmness in the situation.

Prayer
Dear everlasting Father, grant me the peacefulness of a restful heart.
A heart obedient to loving the law of God, not only with delight in the vehicle of its expression, but with inward submission to its behests.
Let your love be a motivating factor to have peace with myself, peace with all mankind so far as lies in my power and an absolutely perfect peace with and in God in Jesus name.

Tuesday, 16th August 2016
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
It is only by God's sufficiency that we have been able to do anything.

Everything we need to be what God wants us to be, and what is needed to bring us to the place where God wants us to be has been spiritually manifested.
All we have to do is learn to appropriate what God has already provided in us through his power, his presence, his Spirit and allow the Spirit to carry us in the Spirit.

Just learn to rely on God's sufficiency trust His overcoming power and be obedient to His words.
Remember, Gideon's insufficiency was met with the Lord's sufficiency.


Prayer
O Lord, let my soul be delivered from the forces of evil, all satanic powers, and let my eyes be controlled by the Holy Spirit in Jesus name.

Let Your grace that sufficed saints of old, make me strong and make me bold in Jesus name.

Monday, 15th August 2016
Bible verse: Psalm 73:26
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Message
Brethren, it is a fact that many at times life doesn't always turn out the way we expect it - feel rejected, betrayed, fruitless and/or disappointed.
You might be physically and spiritually tired and weakened, emotionally exhausted or weary, God is here promising to give you the strength you need for every trial.

But you must trust Him for it, have confidence in Him and be patient.
He is all-powerful, has a limitless supply of strength and He is big enough to take your anger, your pain, your failures and your questions.

Yes! Ask the Lord in prayer to supply your need.

Prayer
Oh heavenly Father, I pray that You let Your enduring strength revive me.
Please take me by my right hand, lift me up and let my bones receive strength in the name of Jesus.

Thank you father for being my strength.