Our Daily Manna October 31, 2017: ODM devotional – Teach Thyself! Judge Thyself!

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Our Daily Manna October 31, 2017: ODM devotional – Teach Thyself! Judge Thyself!

Topic: Teach Thyself! Judge Thyself! [Tuesday, October 31, 2017]

Basic Scriptures: Romans 2: 16-24

Hypocrisy is “claiming to have moral standards or believes to which one’s behavior does not conform.” It is pretense! In fact, the ancient Greek word for HYPOCRISY comes from the word for a stage actor or one who wears a mask.

It is not necessarily the fact that they sin that makes men/ women hypocrites, it’s the fact that they don’t acknowledge it. They don’t admit that their lives contradict what they say. They are not authentic but impostors!  Consider this:

A dentist may tell his patients not to eat candy (sweet), but he/she goes home and enjoys sweets. A pastor can declare fasting, but he /she eats and eats and eats! A policeman/woman can warn a crime, but secretly commits or sponsors crimes! When you call yourself a vegetarian but secretly eats meats above all else, you are a hypocrite! Hypocrisy is when you forgive in the daylight but remain bitter at night! Hypocrites teach one thing and live the opposite.

In a sense, we are all hypocrites because nobody is perfect, but deliberate hypocrisy is poison! Our emphasis today is that you must be an example in whatever you do and wherever you are. Let your light so shine that men will not doubt your God or your faith. Yes, you will be criticized if you are making progress in life and ministry, but never invite undue attacks on your lifestyle. Note Vs. 21-24 or basic scripture. Is there anything you are preaching against that you are practicing secretly?  THIS IS HYPOCRISY and the LORD hates it! Remember also that if you live in a glass house, you don’t throw stones.

Roman 2:21 says: “Thou therefore which teacheth another teach not thou thyself?” As 2017 ends and 2018 begins, teach thyself! Judge thyself! What heaven knows about you is more important than what people think about you! Read the Basic Scripture again and let heaven rejoice that you were born! Amen!

Prayer Points: Take any song of worship as led.

1. Pray about today’s word as it has touched you.

2. Repent from any way in which your life has brought shame to the name of God in the past.

3. O Lord, let my life advertise and declare Your glory.

4. O Lord, hide me inside your power and presence in Jesus name. Pray for leaders in your local church and nation.

5. All agents sent to paralyze my life, dry up today in Jesus name (Pray it very well)

Pray about today generally as led now.

By Bishop (Dr) Chris E. Kwakpovwe (Cek)
Publisher/Writer Of ODM And

Rev (Mrs) Flora E. Kwakpovwe (Fek)
Co-Publisher/Writer Of ODM.


Seeds of Destiny 31 October 2017 by Pastor Paul Enenche — Living In Joy: A Key To Divine Health

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Seeds of Destiny 31 October 2017 by Pastor Paul Enenche — Living In Joy: A Key To Divine Health

Topic — Living In Joy: A Key To Divine Health [Tuesday October 31, 2017]

Scripture: A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. Proverbs 15:13

Thought For The Day: The fullness of joy equals the presence of God.

Jesus Christ is our perfect example in life and ministry. We are created to live like Him in all areas of life.

It has been confirmed that one of the key secrets of our Master Jesus was the continuous merriment and excitement in which He existed and operated. It was such a contagious dimension of joy that He distributed joy everywhere He went. Everywhere He saw someone in tears, the counsel was ‘weep not’ (Luke 7:13). He dissipated pains and sorrows as He wiped away tears from the faces of people.

Joy is therapeutic and merriment is medicinal. Depression is destructive; nothing sustains affliction and oppression like depression.

No wonder, Proverbs 15:15 says, All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. The depressed person is an afflicted person. The absence of merriment is the confirmation of affliction. Depression breaks the spirit and removes the body’s defences or immunities (Proverbs 18:13).

What then are the benefits of a life of Joy?

1. Joy supplies strength, energy and vitality (Nehemiah 8:10b). Medically, joy releases high amount of stress-reducing hormones like endorphins.

2. Joy invites the Presence of God. The fullness of joy equals the presence of God (Psalm 16:11).

My counsel is, make the choice for joy. Joy is not a gift of the spirit; it is a choice.

Remember This: The fullness of joy equals the presence of God.

Assignments:

1. Avoid depressive thoughts, company and activity.

2. Live in the atmosphere of praise.

Prayer: O LORD, I receive the grace to be joyful always.

For Further Understanding, Get This Message: Conditions For Divine Health

Daily Reading: Lamentations 4:1 to 5:22, Hebrews 2:1 to 18, Psalm 103:1 to 22, Proverbs 26:23.

Quote: It takes the Presence of God in your life to take you through the journey of life. Culled from ALABASTER BOX by Dr Becky Enenche

Amazing Fact: A Chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.

Today In History: TODAY IN HISTORY: 31/10/1864 – Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. State.

Dunamis International Gospel Centre (DIGC), is a powerfully anointed church, headquartered at Abuja, Nigeria, with Dr 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.


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Pakistani Christian is Attacked for Faith and for Displaying Cross

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Pakistani Christian is Attacked for Faith and for Displaying Cross


Pakistani Christian is Attacked for Faith and for Displaying Cross


A Pakistani Christian man who moved to the UK in order to escape persecution in Pakistan was recently attacked for his faith and for displaying a cross.


According to ChristianToday.com, Tajamal Amar, 46, works as a delivery man. He was recently knocked unconscious outside a fast food restaurant. He was taken to the hospital where he was diagnosed with a broken nose.


Amar claims he was targeted for his Christian faith and because he was displaying a Christian cross as well as Remembrance Day poppies in his delivery vehicle.


The area where Amar works is heavily populated by Pakistanis, most of whom are Muslim. Like in Pakistan, Christians are often on the receiving end of discrimination or violence stemming from religious differences.


“Several times, local Pakistani people in Derby have taken offence from the fact that I am Christian,” Amar testified, according to the Sunday Times.


“Freedom of religion should be the right of any British citizen but today I feel unsafe, even then nothing will stop me going to church,” he continued.


He also added that he had the Remembrance Day poppies on his vehicle to show his support for the British Armed Forces and the work they do.


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The Little Monk from the Small Town who Changed the World: Reflections on the ’95 Theses’ on their 500th Anniversary

The date was October 31, 1517, and the setting was the Empire of Germany and the remote northeastern town of Wittenberg ruled by Frederick the Wise, Prince of Electoral Saxony. It was not business as usual in Wittenberg that day, for on the Catholic Church’s liturgical calendar, it was the annual festival of All Saints’ Eve. The following day, November 1, marked the special time of year when the church paid special honor to the dead who had achieved enough holiness to enter the gates of heaven and behold the Lord of glory. (All Souls’ Day on November 2 offered prayers and intercessions for those who were still being sanctified in the postmortem fires of purgatory.)

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Indulgences had been available in the church since the Middle Ages. In exchange for the giving of alms towards a religious cause, penitent sinners could be remitted part or all of the acts of penance, or temporal discipline, required for their sins. The abundant merit of Jesus Christ and all the saints in heaven’s treasury was at the disposal of the clergy to withdraw and deposit in the spiritual accounts of needy sinners at their discretion. Now, following a papal bull promulgated in 1476, indulgences could even be purchased on behalf of loved ones suffering in purgatory—one of the many forms of late medieval religious devotion that historians have called “the cult of the living in service of the dead.”1 The archbishop of Mainz would receive a portion of the sales to pay off a bank loan funding the…

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Pro-lifers Protest UN Proposal to Endorse Abortion, Euthanasia


Pro-lifers Protest UN Proposal to Endorse Abortion, Euthanasia


Pro-life governments and nongovernmental organizations have asked the United Nations Human Rights Committee to amend its draft of a legal commentary endorsing abortion and euthanasia.

The UN’s proposed commentary on Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights retains the commitment to recognize and protect “the right to life of all human beings” but doesn’t name the unborn as human beings. It also forbids pro-life laws that “jeopardize [mothers’] lives or subject them to physical or mental pain or suffering” and encourages member states to allow doctors to “facilitate the termination of life” for terminally ill patients.

The United States and other countries, as well as nongovernmental organizations, submitted briefs asking the UN to revise the commentary, with many specifically requesting it include the unborn and other vulnerable groups.

“While securing the lives of some, but not others, the draft is arbitrary, and even discriminatory, in singling out certain developmental stages and diagnoses that are deemed less worthy of human life protections,” the National Catholic Bioethics Center wrote.

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Michigan Megachurch Spent $28.5M on Expansion So People Can Be ‘More Merciful and Hospitable’

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(Photo: Facebook)Eucalyptus paneling being installed on the ceiling of the Gathering Place at Calvary Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in June 2017. This area (located across from the Sanctuary) will be a place for community gatherings, large group Bible Studies, and events.

Calvary Church, a 3,000-member church in Michigan, recently revealed that it spent some $28.5 million to expand its facilities on its 26-acre campus to help people become “more merciful and hospitable.”

Associate Pastor Tom Olsson told MLive that while the church now has more seats, the expansion wasn’t driven by a need to increase the congregation.

“We’re trying to do this so people can be more merciful and hospitable; so that people will be more welcoming here,” Olsson said, explaining that the expansion work involved more than two years of planning.

The expanded worship sanctuary of the church, which previously seated 1,450 people, now seats 2,050 worshipers, Olsson explained. The church now also boasts a prayer garden, a fellowship hall and a gathering area that seats up to 600. There is also new, expanded space for the church’s children’s ministry, which overall increased the church’s space by 75,000 square feet.

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