Topic: The Importance of Joy and Merriment [Seeds of Destiny 24 February 2019 Devotional]

SCRIPTURE: A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Proverbs 17:22

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: The atmosphere of Joy transmits healing because joy attracts God’s Presence.

It has been established that the atmosphere of God’s Presence is the atmosphere of joy, jubilance and merriment. That is why people become depressed when they neglect the atmosphere of God’s Presence. If you want to overcome depression, crave for and embrace the Presence of God

Praise and worship provokes the Presence of God. People who are given to praising God are carriers of His Presence.

Now, what is the importance of joy and merriment?

1) Joy is therapeutic and medicinal (Proverb 17:22).

Joy usually accompanies praise and worship. This joy, in turn, supplies medicine and healing to the body. The atmosphere of joy, therefore, transmits healing because joy attracts the Presence of God and the Presence of God is pregnant with healing and deliverance. That is to say, praise escalates joy which in turn invites God’s Presence and when God steps in, healing takes place.

The Presence of God has nothing to do with sorrow and depression. Depression, therefore, is the devil’s key for disconnecting people from God’s Presence.

2) Praise connects the saints with the benefits of redemption (Psalm 67:3-5).

The flow of joy triggers the release of God’s goodness encapsulated in the redemption package.

Beloved, I curse every root of depression, dryness and sickness in your life; you shall live in perpetual joy and celebration in the Name of Jesus.

Remember this”: The atmosphere of Joy transmits healing because joy attracts the Presence of God.

ASSIGNMENTS:

1. Make up your mind to maintain your joy at all cost by engaging in praise and worship to God.
2. Forgive in advance all offences that can tamper with your joy.

PRAYER: O Lord, help me to maintain a constant atmosphere of joy and celebration. Help me not to dwell in the realm of depression, Lord in Jesus’ Name.

FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: THE ATMOSPHERE OF PRAISE AND WORSHIP (PART 2).

DAILY READING: Leviticus 15:1 to 16:28, Mark 7:1 to 23, Psalm 40:11 to 17, Proverbs 10:13 to 14.

AMAZING FACT: The oldest known goldfish lived up to 43 years of age. Its name was Tish.

TODAY IN HISTORY: 24/02/1582 – Pope Gregory XIII corrected the Julian calendar.

QUOTE: In the life of a worshipper, the threshing floor beautifully expresses the importance of divine dealings to bring about a change, repentance or transformation. Culled from, THE PROTOCOL OF THE ARK by Dr Becky Paul-Enenche

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.

Topic: A More Excellent Way [DCLM Daily Manna 24 February 2019 Daily Devotional by Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi]

Text: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 (KJV)

Key Verse: “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity” (1 Corinthians 13:13).

MESSAGE:

The world’s notion of love is at variance with heavenly love, which transcends the loose definition of love in its filial, limited and selfish perspectives. God-like love is what a writer calls “true love to God and man, a benevolent disposition of mind towards our fellow Christians, growing out of a sincere and perfect devotion to God”.

This chapter dwells on charity (love). It is meant to correct the wrong notion the Corinthian Christians had over the possession of spiritual gifts as “all in all”. The thrust of the message is that, a mere possession of those gifts does not necessarily portray a higher spiritual stand before God. Gifts not ministered with perfect love is vain and worthless. Love is a virtue that makes other gifts meaningful and useful. God is love, and if you would love, you must abide in Him and He in you.

The essential virtue, capable of producing the greatest impact with spiritual gifts is charity. What are its components? It is patient, kind, not inflated with its own importance. It does not brag and knows no enemy. It does not behave itself unseemly, neither is it temperamental. This charity rejoiceth in the truth, finds no pleasure in evildoing and does not hold on to memory of any wrong against it. It is all enduring absolutely trusting, bears everything with triumphant fortitude and never for once, cease to hope.

Every other gift will dry up and soon be forgotten. But love is convincingly permanent, overwhelmingly complete and incontrovertibly supreme. A writer once said that “faith without love is cold and hope without love is grim. Love is the fire which kindles faith and is the light which turns hope into certainty”.

Thought For The Day: Love is supreme; Jesus’ love proves this.

The Bible In One Year: Luke 20-21

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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.

Prayer Points on Today’s Open Heaven 24 February 2019 – Are You A Stumbling Block?

1.Thank You, Father, for Your grace and mercy that have brought me this far in life, I am indeed very grateful, my daddy. (Click HERE for Open Heaven 24 February 2019)

2.Thank You, Father, for always making all things work together for my good and favour, as I place my trust in You.

3.Father, in anyway I have fallen short of your glory, please, have mercy and forgive me, in Jesus name.

4.Father, in anyway I have shared Your glory, with You, by taking the place of the Holy Spirit, in decision making in Your church, please, have mercy and forgive me, in Jesus name.

5.Father, please, give me an obedient and submissive spirit, that is willing to accept Your Will, instead of rejecting and rebelling against it, in Jesus name.

6.Father, please, open my eyes to recognise anyway I am being a stumbling block to others, in Jesus name.

7.Father, let me never be a tool in the hand of the devil, to be used to discourage, persecute or pervert Your Will, in the life of any child of God, in Jesus name.

8.Father, please, help me to quickly restitute my evil deeds of being a stumbling block to any innocent child of Yours, before the axe of Your judgement falls upon me, in Jesus name.

9.Father, let every stumbling block that the enemies has placed on my way, be the stepping stone to my breakthroughs and miracles, in Jesus name.

10.Father, go ahead of Your son Pastor E.A. Adeboye, and remove every stumbling block of the enemies, on his way, in Jesus name.

11.Father, bless Your son, that You have been using to prepare these prayer points, beyond measures, and all those who have been rebroadcasting them, in Jesus name!

12.Father, let every challenge, hindrance and obstacle of getting these prayer points across to Your children, timely, and on daily basis be removed, in Jesus name.

13.Your Personal petitions. (Philippians 4:6)

14.In Jesus name I pray. (John 14:13-14; 15:16)

15.Thank you Father for answered prayers. (1 Thessalonians 5:18).

These prayers have no expiry date! Please, pray them, irrespective of the time they get to you. Remain blessed, in Jesus name.

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Prayer Points on Today’s Open Heaven 24 February 2019 – Are You A Stumbling Block?

Topic: Caught Unawares? [Open Heavens for Teens 24 February 2019]

Memorise: “I must work the works of Him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.” – John 9:4

Read: John 9:1-4

1 AS HE passed along, He noticed a man blind from his birth.
2 His disciples asked Him, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?
3 Jesus answered, It was not that this man or his parents sinned, but he was born blind in order that the workings of God should be manifested (displayed and illustrated) in him.
4 We must work the works of Him Who sent Me and be busy with His business while it is daylight; night is coming on, when no man can work.

Bible In One Year: Numbers 11-13, Mark 5:21-43

MESSAGE:

There are two important appointments for everyone on earth: the appointment with death and life. If a fellow keeps the appointment with life which is through Jesus Christ, he will escape the appointment with death. But if a fellow misses the appointment with life, death becomes inevitable. This appointment leads to the worst life in eternity.

Nobody wishes to die young, but our wish does not stop young ones from dying. Jesus knew this, he knew that the time He had on earth was very limited (33 years), so He spent His days on earth doing the works of His Father. He didn’t go about chatting or sleeping, he went about doing good (Acts 10:38).

Don’t feel you are too young to make an impact in your world. Don’t say you don’t have time for evangelism. Do everything you can per time as you do not know what the next moment holds. You are not too young to preach in your church, Jesus started having deep Biblical conversations with Pastors before He was even a teenager (Luke 2:41-47). Do the work of your Father when you are still young and vibrant because what will count at the end of your stay on earth is how well you did.

Key Point:

You are not too young to start making an impact.

Also Read: Teen Open Heaven Daily Devotional by Pastor Adeboye

Hymn 7:

1. I am Thine 0 Lord, I have heard Thy voice,
And it told Thy love to me;
But I long to rise in the arms of faith
And be closer drawn to Thee.

Draw me nearer, nearer blessed Lord
To the cross where Thou hast died;
Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer blessed Lord,
To Thy precious, bleeding side.

2. Consecrate me now to Thy service, Lord,
By the pow’r of grace divine;
Let my soul look up with a steadfast hope,
And my will be lost in Thine.

3. Oh, the pure delight of a single hour
That before Thy throne I spend,
When I kneel in prayer, and with Thee, my God
I commune as friend with friend!

4. There are depths of love that I cannot know
Till I cross the narrow sea;
There are heights of joy that I may not reach
Till I rest in peace with Thee.

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: Quiet Awe [Our Daily Bread 24 February 2019 Devotional]

Bible in a Year: Numbers 9–11; Mark 5:1–20

How many are your works, Lord! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. – Psalm 104:24

Today’s Scripture & Insight: Psalm 104:10-24

My life often feels frenzied and hectic. I hurry from one appointment to the next, returning phone calls and checking items off my seemingly infinite to-do list while on my way. Out of sheer exhaustion one Sunday, I collapsed into the hammock in our backyard. My phone was inside, as were my children and husband. At first I planned to sit for just a moment or two, but in the undistracted stillness, I began to notice things that invited me to linger longer. I could hear the creak of the hammock swinging gently, the buzz of a bee in the nearby lavender, and the flap of a bird’s wings overhead. The sky was a brilliant blue, and the clouds moved on the wind.

I found myself moved to tears in response to all God had made. When I slowed long enough to take in the many wonderful things within my eyesight and earshot, I was stirred to worship in gratitude for God’s creative power. The writer of Psalm 104 was equally humbled by the work of God’s hands, noting “you fill the earth with the fruit of your labor” (v. 13 nlt).

In the midst of a harried life, a quiet moment can remind us of God’s creative might! He surrounds us with evidence of His power and tenderness; He made both the high mountains and branches for birds. “In wisdom [He] made them all” (v. 24).

Today’s Reflection
Lord, Your creation amazes me. You made all things through Your limitless power, inviting us to enjoy the beauty You’ve surrounded us with. Help me to notice Your works and worship You in quiet moments.

If you missed yesterday devotional, please click to read “Our Daily Bread Devotionals HERE”

This message was written By Kirsten Holmberg [Our Daily Bread Ministries.]

Open Heaven 24 February 2019 Sunday Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Are you a Stumbling Block?

Topic: Are you a Stumbling Block? (Open Heaven 24 February 2019)

Memorise: “And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.”- Mark 9:42

Read: 1 Corinthians 8:9-12 (KJV)

9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.

10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol’s temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;

11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

Bible in One Year: Acts 8-9, Isaiah 46

Open Heaven 24 February 2019 Sunday MESSAGE:

The Holy Spirit often depicts the Christian life as a race. Stumbling blocks are obstacles place along the course of this race in order to trip people and bring them down as they try to reach the finishing line. Stumbling blocks are not meant for unbelievers; rather, they are deliberately designed as obstacles on the way of young or immature Christians that are not yet properly established in the Christian faith. In several portions of the Bible – fourteen to be precise – God speaks about stumbling blocks in very strong terms, as seen in today’s memory verse. The unfortunate thing about stumbling blocks is that even fellow believers can be used as stumbling blocks by the enemy. The question is, are you a stumbling block?

A common scene on the street of many Nigerian cities these days is law enforcement agents and traffic control officers rushing in on unsuspecting drivers to arrest them for breaking traffic laws. In some cases, you can easily tell from the vehicle number plates that such drivers are strangers who may not be conversant with certain traffic rules peculiar to that city. Often, the traffic signs showing these rules are well hidden in places that are not easily visible to naive drivers. These officials are usually well positioned to warn and educate these strangers about the rules before they break them, but they do not, preferring instead to prey on their ignorance. In the language of the Bible, such officers have made themselves stumbling blocks to these road users. The Bible speaks against being a stumbling block to your neighbor or putting on the way anything that may cause him or her to fall (Romans 14:13). Also, Romans 13:10 states that love does not commit evil against his neighbor. If indeed we are truly born again, we will find it extremely difficult to place obstacles on the way of anyone, especially children of God, being our brothers and sisters in the Lord.

God takes the issue of stumbling blocks very seriously. Children of God should stop messing around with fellow Christians. God is jealous for His people; remember that we were all bought with the precious Blood of Jesus. We are therefore precious in His sight. Anyone who tries to corrupt, mislead, deceive, outsmart, or trap a child of God is in danger of God’s judgment (Mark 9:42). No one should be identified as the reason for another’s fall. I decree in the Name that is above all other names that anyone setting you up for failure, downfall or problems shall be buried in the sea of life today in Jesus’ Name.

Open Heaven 24 February 2019 Sunday Prayer Point:

Father, please open my eyes to recognize any way I am being a stumbling block to others in Jesus’ Name.

Also Read: Open Heaven 23 February 2019 – The Devil Unmasked

Open Heaven 24 February 2019 Sunday Hymn 5: Let Others See Jesus In You.

1. While passing thro’ this world of sin,
and others your life shall view,
Be clean and pure without, within;
Let others see Jesus in you.

Chorus:
Let others see Jesus in you,
Let others see Jesus in you.
Keep telling the story, be faithful and true;
Let others see Jesus in you.

2. Your life’s a book before their eyes,
They’re reading it thro’ and thro’
Say, does it point them to the skis,
Do others see Jesus in you?

3. Then live for Christ both day and night,
Be faithful, be brave and true,
and lead the lost to life and Christ.
Let others see Jesus in you.

Open Heaven 24 February 2019 Sunday 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 24 February 2019 Sunday Daily Devotional

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.