Topic: The Antidote for Doubt [Joyce Meyer Devotional 2 October 2018]

…Blessed is the man who fears the Lord…He is not afraid of bad news; his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord. — Psalm 112:1, 7

You may know the story of Abraham (see Genesis 12:1–7, 21:7). Basically, God promised Abraham a son, but at the time he was 100 years old, and his wife was 90, so their childbearing years were long gone!

But Abraham knew God had spoken and was determined not to focus on the natural impossibility that he and Sarah could have a child. Instead, he planted his faith in God’s promise and held on to that promise by praising God. His story is so remarkable that Paul made reference to it in Romans 4:18–21.

Abraham had absolutely no reason to hope. In fact, if any situation has ever been beyond hope, it would be the possibility of two people past 90 being able to have a biological child.

Nevertheless, Abraham kept hoping; he kept believing God’s promise. He did not waver in his faith or question God’s promise. Instead, “he grew strong and empowered by faith” as he praised God.

The same thing will happen when you praise God. You gain more and more strength, your faith increases, and the things that are coming against you to defeat you are dissipated as you praise Him.

That’s why it’s important to be diligent to listen to praise and worship music. I encourage you to play it in your home and in your car; learn songs and sing them; thank God and praise Him!

Love God today: God never responds to complaining, but He does respond to praise and an attitude of gratitude.

Prayer Starter: Father, I choose to praise You today! I believe You are able to do the impossible in my life. Help me to see my circumstances with the “eye of faith.” In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

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From Joyce Meyer’s Ministries.

Making Quality Decisions (Part 3) by Pastor Faith Oyedepo

Topic: Making Quality Decisions (Part 3)

Dear Reader,

The mind of man is the seat of decision making. The quality of your mind determines the quality of your choices, which determines the quality of your life. God does not make choices for anyone; you make your choices by engaging your God-given instrument, your mind. So, if you must make the right choices, then your mind must be properly renewed. You must work on your mind. Proverbs 23:7 says: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…

Redemption gives you access to a regenerated mind, so you can give God rest. If you sharpen your mind appropriately, it will be easy for you to make godly choices that will give you joy, peace and rest. We have seen the importance of choice making and some people in the Bible who made the right choices in their lives. This week, I will be looking at how to make right choices.

New Birth

The journey to a renewed mind begins with being born again. As a believer, the Bible says that you have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16). If Christ never made wrong choices, it is possible for you also to keep making right choices, and new birth is the beginning of it all.

Also Read: Making Quality Decisions (Part 1) by Pastor Faith Oyedepo

Trying to be a believer does not make you one. No matter how long your pet lives with you, does it make that dog a human being? We have a dog that has been with us for almost eight years. But since it came to that house, it has never been given a room in the main house to sleep in. Nobody has ever remembered to buy it a Christmas dress, and it has never sat with us at the dining table for meals. Similarly, no matter how long you have been going to church, until you are born again, you are not a child of God, and you don’t have the mind of Christ. As long as you do not possess the mind of Christ, you will keep making wrong choices that will put you in trouble. That is why I said that the journey to making right choices begins with the new birth.

How to Renew Your Mind

One way to renew your mind is by studying and meditating on the Word of God. Romans 12:1-2 says: I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.

This scripture makes it abundantly clear that it is not enough to be born again, you must be set to constantly renew your mind. You must feed your mind with the right stuff, so it can be sharpened well enough to make right choices. Renew your mind; don’t leave it the same way it has always been.

You also renew your mind by rubbing minds with similar and/or superior minds. Listen to people wiser, older and more experienced than you are. Watch how they make choices and take actions, ask questions on why they made certain choices, learn from their mistakes, seek sincere advice on the issues of concern to you. These are effective ways you can seek right counsel for a well informed choice making. You can also sharpen your mind by listening to tapes or books of anointed authors. The Bible says: Wise friends make you wise, but you hurt yourself by going around with fools. Just as iron sharpens iron, friends sharpen the minds of each other (Proverbs 13:20; 27:17 CEV).

Proof of Right Choices

• Peace: Right choices are usually accompanied with peace (Psalm 25:12-13; 23:1-6).
• Joy: When you are on the right path, you experience unexplainable joy (Hebrews 12:2).
• Divine Strength: You get supernaturally energised when you make sound decisions. There is always strength to make the task that comes with great choices (Judges 6:14).

The journey to making right choices, begins with new birth. Until you are born again, your mind is not renewed to make right choices. This is by confessing your sins and accepting Jesus as your Saviour and Lord. Peradventure you are not born again and you want to accept Jesus as your Lord and personal Saviour, then say this prayer in faith: Dear Lord Jesus Christ, I come to You today. I am a sinner. Forgive me my sins and cleanse me with Your Blood. I accept You as my Lord and personal Saviour. Make me a child of God today. Thank You for delivering me from sin and satan to serve the living God and thank You for accepting me into Your Kingdom.

Congratulations! If you prayed this simple prayer of faith with me, you are now born again and a child of God. He loves you and will never leave you. Read your Bible daily, obey God’s Word and seek Christian fellowship (John 14:21).

With this, you are guaranteed all-round rest and peace in Jesus’ Name! Call or write to share your testimonies with me through [email protected], 07026385437 OR 08141320204.

For more insight, these books authored by me are available at the Dominion Bookstores in all Living Faith Churches and other leading Christian bookstores: Marriage Covenant, Making Marriage Work, Building A Successful Home and Success in Marriage (Co-Authored)

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Pastor Faith Oyedepo is the wife of Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide a.k.a. Winners’ Chapel, and Senior Pastor of Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland, Ota, Nigeria.

Topic: Giving Self for Others [Teens Open Heaven 2 October 2018]

Memorise: I am the Good Shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. John 10:11

Read: Genesis 22:6-9 (KJV)

Bible In One Year: Isaiah 24-26, Ephesians 4

MESSAGE:

Are you outstanding in prayer? When negative situations challenge any member of your family or even your friends, do you go into the place of prayer on their behalf? Do you ever even feel the need to pray for them?

Jesus Christ was outstanding in prayers. He took prayer to the limits. Most of the times He prayed, He did so alone. He separated Himself from the crowd just to pray. How often do you take out time to seriously pray? How often do you pray for other people? Do you know that praying for other people releases a new level of blessings to you? When Job prayed for his friends in Job 42:10, he was able to access a brand new level of blessings. Some blessings are attached to the prayers you pray for your friends.

Action Point: Intercede for you family members and friends throughout today.

Also Read: Teen Open Heaven Daily Devotional by Pastor Adeboye

Hymn 13:

1. Is your life a channel of blessing?
Is the love of God flowing through you?
Are you telling the lost of the Savior?
Are you ready His service to do?

Chorus:
Make me a channel of blessing today,
Make me a channel of blessing, I pray;
My life possessing, my service blessing,
Make me a channel of blessing today.

2. Is your life a channel of blessing?
Are you burdened for those that are lost?
Have you urged upon those who are straying
The Savior who does on the cross

3. Is your life a channel of blessing?
Is it a daily telling for Him?
Have you spoken the word of salvation
To those who are dying in sin?

4. We cannot be channels of blessing
If our lives are not free from sin;
We will barriers be and a hindrance
To those we are trying to win.

Daily Devotional for Teen’s guide was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical church in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer’s Ministries.

MFM Mountain Top Life Daily Devotional 2 October 2018 By Dr. D.K Olukoya – Repossessing Your Total Freedom

TOPIC: Repossessing Your Total Freedom (Mountain Of Fire and Miracle Ministries, MFM Daily Devotional 2 October 2018)

FIRE SCRIPTURE: Genesis 1:26-28

MEMORY VERSE: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” – John 3:16

The MESSAGE:

God put father Adam and mother Eve in the beautiful Garden of Eden to dress and keep it. They were given the freedom to name all creatures, multiply as they wanted, commune with God, and to do everything except eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. A time came when they lost the freedom to a slave master (Devil) because of disobedience. Adam and Eve are the progenitors of the entire human race and we are the progenies. Since they lost their freedom to the devil, Adam and Eve as well as the entire human race came under the bondage of slavery under the slave master, the devil. Beloved, that was a disaster in the history of man. However, God wanted man back to Himself. So, right there in the Garden of Eden, He promised a Saviour who will deliver man from the grip of the devil. At the fullness of time, God finally sent His only Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who laid down His life. He was hung on the cross, laid in the grave, but finally, He conquered the power of the grave and destroyed the slave master, the devil. There and then, man’s total freedom was restored through the redemptive power of God.

Jesus declared total freedom for man, so you are no more under any slave master. Beloved, your assignment today is to examine yourself. Are you under the slave master or any of his cohorts? To be free from the slave master, you must surrender your life to Christ who has come to deliver you from the grip of the slave master.

A young man from the eastern part of the country once told me of how his master whom he had served for so many years refused to let him go. He came to church and within six months of prayers and deliverance, the obviously occult man who was his master became so sick and in his sickness, he invited the young man and settled him. The young man gained his freedom and possessed his possession. You too can gain your freedom; believe on the Lord Jesus, accept His redemptive work for you at Calvary and pray the prayers below violently.

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE:
IF THE SON OF GOD SHALL MAKE YOU FREE, YOU SHALL BE FULLY FREE.

PROPHETIC WORD:
Receive the power to rule and reign.

PRAYER POINTS:

MORNING
1. Lord Jesus, Saviour of my soul, come into my heart today, in the name of Jesus.
2. I surrender my life to You, Lord, in the name of Jesus.
3. Lord Jesus, forgive me all my sins and write my name in the book of life, in the name of Jesus.

EVENING
4. I receive the mandate from the work of Jesus on the cross to repossess my freedom, in the name of Jesus.
5. I release myself from every ancestral pollution, in the name of Jesus.
6. I break the hold of any power over my life, in the name of Jesus.
7. Every strong man of death assigned to enslave, I bind you, die, in the name of Jesus.

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MOUNTAIN TOP LIFE is a daily devotional by Dr. D.K Olukoya (General Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries, Worldwide)

Flatimes Notice Board: Until you are born again, God ever abiding presence will never be with you. You must be born again to enjoy continuous victory. Please say the displayed prayer below in faith:

Lord Jesus, come into my life. I accept You as my Lord and Personal Saviour. I believe in my heart You died and rose from the dead to save me. Thank You Lord for saving me, in Jesus name Amen.

If you just prayed the prayer of salvation online please send your testimonies and prayer request to [email protected], 07026385437 OR 08141320204.

Topic: Magnify Your God [TREM 2 October 2018 Daily Devotional]

Do you know you can make God bigger? Now I’m not referring to making Him bigger in size, but in your perception of Him. You have the power to make Him either big or small. Most of us have become so good at enlarging the problem, and minimizing God, and His Word. We place more value on our problem than we do on God. The centurion said to Jesus, I’m not worthy for you to come to my house, all you need to do is speak the Word, and I know that your Word would be honored.

It all depends on what you place a premium on. Do you place a higher value on who God is than your challenges. When you understand that your challenges are small compared with the Almightiness of our God, then it changes everything. This is why our ministry’s mission statement clearly states: “Here we do not look at the ‘bigness’ of your problems, but at the ‘Bigness’ of our God”. Our God is the Almighty! When the doctor comes with negative reports, don’t place a premium on that report, but rather on the Word that tells you that by His stripes, you were healed.

You can magnify the Lord and make Him and His Word bigger than any problem. Do it by glorifying, praising and thanking Him. There are several people who overcame their dire situations in the scriptures, search out those people and meditate on the word. Make it more real to you than the problem. You must get to a place where God’s word is true and where He is greater than any situation.

The songwriter sang, “Our God is greater, Our God is stronger, God you are higher than any other, Our God is greater, awesome in power Our God”. These are the truth about God that we must live by daily. We serve a Mighty God.

Further Reading: Psalms 104:1-35

Daily Bible Reading: Morning- Isaiah 14-16; Evening- Ephesians 5:1-16

“If you missed yesterday devotional click HERE to read TREM Daily Devotional by Dr. Mike Okonkwo’’

Written by Dr. Mike Okonkwo; Is the Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM); a versatile man of God with over 30 years of dedicated service unto the Lord.

Topic: Courageous David [DCLM Daily Manna 2 October 2018 Daily Devotional]

Text: 1 Samuel 17:25-37 (KJV)

Key Verse: “And David said to Saul, Let no man’s heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine” (1 Samuel 17:32).

MESSAGE:

William Wilberforce was born at a time when slavery was acceptable in the society. But after he had an encounter with Christ, his perception of slave trade changed. Amidst strong and bitter opposition from his critics, Wilberforce fought for the abolition of slave trade in British territory. In the midst of bitter conflict, he said, “So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the slave trade’s wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.” What a man!

Today’s passage centres on David. He was on an errand from his father to see the welfare of his elder brothers who followed King Saul to battle the Philistines. When David got to the battlefront and heard the bragging of Goliath, he wondered aloud why no one was challenging the giant. Being confident of God’s power to protect him, he courageously offered to defend His name. Initially, no one supported David, but upon his persistence, King Saul reluctantly agreed to let him fight Goliath alone. David went ahead to the battle and with his faith fully grounded in the unfailing power of God, he triumphed.

David could have developed cold feet like Saul and the other soldiers. But he did not. You too must learn to stand for what is right even when you lack supporters.

There is no shortcut to victory. Victory lies in overcoming obstacles everyday. Obstacles may come in the form of oppositions, challenges or criticisms. But victory lies in depending absolutely on God’s promises and doing what is right.

Thought For The Day: Every accomplishment begins with the determination to win.

Bible Reading In One Year: Matthew 1; Luke 2:1

If you missed yesterday devotional, please click to read Deeper Christian Life Ministry, DCLM Daily Manna HERE

DCLM Daily Manna was written by Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi; is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church situated at KM 42 on the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Nigeria.

Flatimes’ Notice Board: Until you are born again, God ever abiding presence will never be with you. You must be born again to enjoy continuous victory. Please say the displayed prayer below in faith:

Lord Jesus, come into my life. I accept You as my Lord and Personal Saviour. I believe in my heart You died and rose from the dead to save me. Thank You Lord for saving me, in Jesus name Amen.

If you just prayed the prayer of salvation online please send your testimonies and prayer request to [email protected], 07026385437 OR 08141320204.

Topic: The Future of Filth [Seeds of Destiny 2 October 2018 Daily Devotional]

Scripture: Her filthiness clung to her skirts; she did not consider her future. Her fall was astounding… Lamentations 1:9. (NIV)

Thought For The Day: There is no destiny for the dirty, there is no future for the filthy and there can be no prospect for the polluted.

Sometime ago, after I finished preaching, I made an altar call. As I was about leading the people in the prayer of repentance, a lady suddenly fell and we thought she fell under the Power of God, not knowing she had fainted and slumped. After the prayer, I touched her and discovered that she was lifeless. I did everything I could medically to resuscitate her but all to no avail. There was no sign of life in her. So, I cried to God with passion, “Oh Lord, this lady must not die; please bring her back to life.”

While I was still praying, she jerked back to life. When asked what happened, she said that when she slumped, she saw herself at the other side of eternity; she saw people jubilating on one side and other people screaming in torment on the other side. Then an Angel asked her, “Where do you want to go?” She said, “The side where people are rejoicing.” The angel said, “You are dirty and too filthy to go there, people like you cannot step in there”.

It was at that juncture where she was about to be sent to hell that God intervened in answer to my prayer for her and gave her a second chance.

Beloved, she would have gone to hell because of filthiness had God not intervened. The truth is, there is no destiny for the dirty, there is no future for the filthy and there can be no eternal prospect for the polluted. The destination of sinners is eternal damnation in hell fire. But that shall not be your portion, in Jesus’ Name! Therefore, make up your mind to repent from every sin and remain pure in the sight of God.

Remember This: There is no destiny for the dirty, there is no future for the filthy and there can be no prospect for the polluted.

Assignments:
1. Go through the message for today again.
2. Repent of every sin and determine to maintain a conscience void of offence towards both God and men.

Prayer: Lord, I ask that You cleanse me from every filthiness by the Blood of Jesus. Baptize me with the grace to maintain a conscience void of offence towards You and towards men O Lord, in Jesus’ Name.

FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: HELL IS REAL.

Quote: The way of integrity is stronger than the way of compromise at any time. Culled from WHO ARE YOU? By Dr. Paul Enenche

Amazing Fact: Tigers are completely blind for the first week of their life.

Daily Reading: Isaiah 66:1-24, Philippians 3:4 to 21, Psalm 74:1 to 23, Proverbs 24:15 to 16

Today In History: 02/10/1528 – William Tyndale, the renowned English Reformer and Bible translator published his famous work The Obedience of a Christian Man.

Don’t Forget To Attend: The two Power-Packed Communion Services tomorrow by 4:45pm and 6:30pm respectively. Invite your friends and loved ones. God bless you.

Also Read: Click HERE to read Other Inspirational Messages by Pastor Paul Enenche

Today’s devotional was written by Pastor Paul Enenche of the Dunamis International Gospel Centre (DIGC), headquartered at Abuja, Nigeria, with Pastor Paul and Becky Enenche, as the Senior Pastors. It is a power-packed arena where God’s Presence, Principles and Power are at work for the salvation, healing and restoration of human destinies and dignities

Flatimes Notice Board: Until you are born again, God ever abiding presence will never be with you. You must be born again to enjoy continuous victory. Please say the displayed prayer below in faith:

Lord Jesus, come into my life. I accept You as my Lord and Personal Saviour. I believe in my heart You died and rose from the dead to save me. Thank You Lord for saving me, in Jesus name Amen.

If you just prayed the prayer of salvation online please send your testimonies and prayer request to [email protected], 07026385437 OR 08141320204.