MFM Mountain Top Life Daily Devotional 25 March 2019 By Dr. D.K Olukoya – Dangers of Leaving God Out Of the Calculation (I)

TOPIC: Dangers of Leaving God Out Of the Calculation (I) (Mountain Of Fire and Miracle Ministries, MFM Daily Devotional 25 March 2019)

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Joshua 19-21; Luke 2:25-52

FIRE SCRIPTURE: Genesis 12:10-15

MEMORY VERSE: “And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.” – Genesis 12:7

The MESSAGE:

God gave Abraham the land of Canaan where all the promises made to him were to be accomplished. It was Abraham’s personal decision to go down to Egypt without consulting God and obviously this was outside the plan of God. The decision eventually made Abraham to take over the control of his life from the hands of God who had made wonderful promises to him. He left God out of his calculations and soon became a victim of self-imposed circumstances.

In the first instance, he considered a strange land better than the one God had given him because of the famine in Canaan. He failed to realise that God alone is in control of circumstances. You are safer in a famine in His will than in a palace out of His will. The will of God will never lead you where the grace of God cannot keep you. Abraham failed the test of circumstances and turned from the will of God. Once in Egypt, Abraham faced a new set of problems. If you run away from one test, you will soon face another. Once you enroll in “the school of faith”, you are not allowed to “drop out” just because of one failure. God has purposes to fulfil in you and through you; He will do all that is necessary to make you succeed (Psalms 138:8; Philippians 1:6).

In Canaan, all Abraham had to deal with was a famine; but in Egypt, he had to engage in deception as a means of survival. This is what often happens to many people who leave their homeland for uncertain opportunities in a strange land. Abraham moved from trusting to scheming as he abandoned his altar in Canaan. When you stop trusting God’s word, you start leaning on man’s wisdom; and this leads to trouble. When you find yourself scheming in order to escape problems with people, beware, worse trouble is coming! Abraham also moved from confidence to fear. When you are in the place of God’s choice, you do not need to be afraid for faith and fear cannot dwell in the same heart. The fear of God is the fear that conquers every fear, but the fear of man brings a snare (Proverbs 29:25). God had repeatedly said, “I will” to Abraham, but now Abraham was saying “They will” (Genesis 12:12). He took his eyes off the Lord and started looking at people.

Another change took place in Abraham’s life. He moved from “others” to self. He lied and traded off his wife so that it might be well with him. As the husband, Abraham should have thought first of his wife before going to Egypt, and not thinking selfishly of his own safety upon getting to Egypt. This shows that a husband operating outside the will of God can bring untold trouble to his wife and family. His lie led to the near loss of his wife if not for divine intervention. By this, he moved from bringing blessing to bringing judgement upon Pharoah and his household. Abraham lost his testimony before unbelievers and had to face embarrassment and rebuke.

Abraham eventually learned his lesson, repented and went out of Egypt. When you disobey the will of God, the only right thing to do is to go back to the place where you left Him and make a new beginning. No failure is permanent in the school of faith. Abraham went back to his tent and altar and the life of a pilgrim and stranger. If your altar is presently abandoned or sick, retrace your steps, go back to the Lord and firm up your relationship afresh that it may be well with you and your household. The peace of God be with you, in Jesus’ mighty name.

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE:
NEVER ABANDON YOUR ALTAR AND NEVER LEAVE GOD OUT OF YOUR CALCULATIONS.

PROPHETIC WORD:
Heaven shall favour you today.

PRAYER POINTS:

MORNING

1. O God my Father, have mercy on me and deliver me from lying lips, in the name of Jesus.
2. Every spirit of insecurity making me to shift my Christian grounds, release me and die, in the name of Jesus.
3. Every embarrassment and ridicule I have suffered resulting from lying lips, blood of Jesus, wash it away from my life, in the name of Jesus.
   EVENING
4. Powers that have captured my most precious gift, release it now by fire, in the name of Jesus.
5. O God my Father, I return to You today, revive Your fire in my life, in the name of Jesus.
6. My altar, receive fresh revival fire, in the name of Jesus.
7. My Father, I come before You today, lead me in the way I should go, 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)

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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.

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Topic Stop Bullying [Open Heavens for Teens 25 March 2019]

Memorise: “Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.” – Isaiah 35:3
(Give strength to hands that are tired and to knees that tremble with weakness. GNT)

Read: Matthew 15:1-2

1.Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,

2.Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Bible In One Year: Joshua 14-15, Luke 4:33-44

MESSAGE:

Bullying is intentionally abusing, intimidating or aggressively dominating someone else. Bullies are those who chose to make other people feel unsafe and afraid. The most common type of bullying is physical bullying like picking on someone obviously smaller than you and beating them up. But there is also another form of bullying, that you must be aware of and desist from. This is verbal bullying, it is intentionally saying hateful and hurtful things about someone, it also involves intentionally spreading rumours, persistent teasing and name calling.

You must always remember that God loves everyone on earth and he cares very deeply for everyone of us. It is with this same love and care that God expects us to treat everyone we meet. In fact, when you decide to treat people badly, God is unhappy (Matthew 25:34-44). You are to be good to everyone, you are to treat everyone with respect and honour. As Christian, you are the one to stand up against bullies. You should be fighting for and shielding the weak around you.

Key Point:Make it a point of duty to treat everyone you meet with love and respect.

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.

Topic: Be Sensitive [Billy Graham Devotional 25 March 2019]

If a person isn’t loving and kind, it shows that he doesn’t know God—for God is love. — 1 John 4:8 (TLB)

Jesus wept tears of compassion at the graveside of a friend. He mourned over Jerusalem because as a city it had lost its appreciation of the things of the Spirit. His great heart was sensitive to the needs of others. To emphasize the importance of man’s love for men, He revised an old commandment to make it read, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart . . . and thy neighbor as thyself.” This generation is rough and tough. I heard a little boy boasting one day about how tough he was. He said, “On the street I live on, the farther out you go the tougher they get, and I live in the last house.” Until you have learned the value of compassionately sharing others’ sorrow, distress, and misfortune, you cannot know real happiness.

Prayer for the day: Lord Jesus, sensitize my heart with Your compassion so that I may truly love.

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Written by Billy Graham, Founder of Billy Graham Evangelistic Association(BGEA). BGEA exists to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ by every effective means and to equip the church and others to do the same.

Open Heaven 25 March 2019 Monday Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Sinner Turned Saint

Topic: Sinner Turned Saint (Open Heaven 25 March 2019)

Memorise: “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.”- 1 Timothy 1:15

Read: 1 John 1:7-10 (KJV)

7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Bible in One Year: Ephesians 1-3, Jeremiah 5:1-17

Open Heaven 25 March 2019 Monday MESSAGE:

Some people make defeatist statements about sin in order to justify their sinful lifestyle. Such people admit that everyone born of a woman is a sinner, but they hypocritically ignore the fact that has made provision available to turn every sinner into a saint by the power of atonement in the Blood of Jesus. One of the foremost apostles of Jesus Christ, Paul, in today’s memory verse affirms that a sinner can become a saint if he or she is willing to be transformed. The unwillingness of a sinner to be transformed into a saint through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ is what condemns him or her to eternal damnation. John 3:18-19 says:

“18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.”

God is not interested in condemning anyone, and this is why He says to all in Isaiah 1:18-19:

“18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:”

Jesus is still calling all those who labor and are heavy laden under the yoke of sin to come to him for rest (Matthew 11:28). When anyone comes to Jesus with a repentant heart and cry for mercy, He will abundantly pardon their sins (Isaiah 55:7). It is therefore important for people to take responsibility for their sins in order to receive pardon. Many people shift the blame for their sinful lifestyle to everything but themselves. Instead of acknowledging and confessing their sins and deciding to abandon the sinful act that have held them bound or so long, they keep making excuses. For example, some thieves and harlots will blame their sinful lifestyle on the economic recession in their country. If you have been wallowing in sin and passing the blame, I invite you today to come to Jesus Christ for pardon and experience a pleasant turnaround. In prayer, acknowledge and confess all your sins, asking Jesus to cleanse you with His Blood and to receive you into His family. Also, promise Him never to go back to your old lifestyle again. If you do this, Christ will cleanse you and transform you into a new creature in Him as He promised in 2 Corinthians 5:17.

Open Heaven 25 March 2019 Monday Action Point:

Share the good news in today’s devotional with those in your neighborhood and with those within your sphere of influence on social media.

Also Read: Open Heaven 24 March 2019 – The Word Prospers

Open Heaven 25 March 2019 Monday Hymn 6: Have You Been To Jesus For The Cleansing Power?

1. Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Are you fully trusting in His grace this hour?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

Chorus:
Are you washed in the blood,
In the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb?
Are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

2. Are you walking daily by the Savior’s side?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Do you rest each moment in the Crucified?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

3. When the Bridegroom cometh will your robes be white!
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Will your soul be ready for His presence bright,
And be washed in the blood of the Lamb?

4. Lay aside the garments that are stained with sin,
And be washed in the blood of the Lamb;
There’s a fountain flowing for the soul unclean,
O be washed in the blood of the Lamb.

Open Heaven 25 March 2019 Monday Daily Devotional 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. The Open Heavens devotional application is available across all mobile platforms and operating systems: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Nokia, Windows Mobile and PC. Open Heaven 25 March 2019 Monday Daily Devotional.

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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.

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Rhapsody of Realities 25 March 2019 By Pastor Chris Oyakhilome – The Message of Faith

Topic: The Message of Faith

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17).

When Jesus ministered, faith came alive in the hearts of His hearers. He let them know who God is, His eternal will, and what He’s already done for them. He said, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you” (Matthew 7:7). In Mark 11:22-23, He taught the people, saying, “…Have faith in God. 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.”

Neither the Pharisees nor the Sadducees ever taught the people about having the God-kind of faith, about believing and receiving. Many were enthralled by His message, because it inspired faith in their hearts towards God. They had thought that God only blessed whomever He chose. They had assumed that God wasn’t concerned about them. But Jesus taught that God loves everyone unconditionally, and all it takes to receive from Him is to simply believe: “…If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth” (Mark 9:23).

As they watched Him cast out devils, open blind eyes, unstop deaf ears, and even raise the dead with an unusual demonstration of authority, many were convinced and had faith in the Father’s love for them. The Bible says many believed in His name, when they saw the miracles that He did (John 2:23). His message made it possible for them to believe and relate to a God that they couldn’t see physically. He made the Father real to them through His message of faith.

That’s the same message He sent us to preach and teach around the world. He said in John 20:21, “…as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.” If today, you’re faced with a situation that seems to have defied solution, you can trust God for a miracle. It makes no difference what the case is; only believe! It makes no difference if it’s a dead womb, a dead body, a dead business, or some other problem. He’s the God who “quickens” the dead! He gives life to the dead, and can breathe life into any seemingly dead situation. Glory to His Name forever!

PRAYER
Dear Father, you’re the great God of glory, and I worship you for your greatness, your love, your mercy, and your kindness. Thank you for giving me a victorious and glorious life in Christ; I win today and always, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

FURTHER STUDY:
Hebrews 11:1 AMPC; 2 Corinthians 4:18

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
Luke 6:1-16 & Deuteronomy 29-30

2 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
Matthew 25:31-46 & Exodus 34

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Rhapsody of Realities 25th March 2019 Devotional was written by Pastor Pastor Chris Oyakhilome (D.Sc., D.D.). President of Loveworld Inc. aka Christ Embassy Int’l.