Topic: Discovering My True Self [Our Daily Bread 9 February 2019 Devotional]
Bible in a Year: Leviticus 6–7; Matthew 25:1–30
We know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. – 1 John 3:2
Today’s Scripture & Insight: 1 John 2:28–3:3
Who am I? That’s the question a faded stuffed animal asks himself in the children’s book Nothing by Mick Inkpen. Left in a dusty corner of an attic, the animal hears movers call him “nothing” and thinks that’s his name: Nothing.
Encounters with other animals spark memories. Nothing realizes that he used to have a tail, whiskers, and stripes. But it’s not until he meets a tabby cat who helps him find his way home that Nothing remembers who he truly is: a stuffed cat named Toby. His owner lovingly restores him, sewing on new ears, tail, whiskers, and stripes.
Whenever I read this book, I think about my own identity. Who am I? John, writing to believers, said that God has called us His children (1 John 3:1). We don’t fully understand that identity, but when we see Jesus, we will be like him (v. 2). Just like Toby the cat, we will one day be restored to the identity intended for us, which has been marred by sin. For now, we can understand that identity in part, and we can recognize the image of God in each other. But one day, when we see Jesus, we will be fully restored to the identity God intended for us. We will be made new.
Today’s Reflection Where do I find my identity? According to Scripture, how does God view me?
Topic: Behind Every Challenge [DCLM Daily Manna 9 February 2019 Daily Devotional by Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi]
Text: John 9:1-7 (KJV)
Key Verse: “Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him” (John 9:3).
MESSAGE:
We should follow the example of our Lord Jesus Christ in His perception of intricate problems. While here in the world, He encountered difficulties that both His disciples and those outside expected Him to deal with. There was a wide gulf between the two on how they viewed such issues. Where others saw a crisis and despair, our Lord interrogated them with an opportunity to behold the glory of God. An understanding of these contrasting positions is key to building our faith.
When Jesus saw a man blind from his birth, His followers asked an intriguing question: “Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?” Their poser sprang from an erroneous Jewish tradition that physical infirmity was the consequence of the breach of God’s laws. Instead of going into arguments about Jewish customs, He educated them about the dynamics of the kingdom of God, pointing out that what the ordinary eyes saw as problems were opportunities for God to exhibit His glory. In other words, behind every apparent enigma, there is an opening for God to perform and attract praises to His name. Jesus moved on to prove His point by healing the blind man in a dynamic manner.
As believers, we should not fret or panic when difficulties arise in ministry or secular life. We must trust Him for the right solution that only heaven can provide. And we must obey without hesitation what He asks us to do as the blind man did and got his blessing.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Be prepared for God’s miracles when difficulties arise as you stand your ground.
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.
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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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Open Heaven 9 February 2019 Prayer Points on Today – Conformed To His Image?
Conformed To His Image?
1.Lord, I worship You, because You are the source of infinite, true and unadulterated wisdom.
2.Thank You, Father, for destroying the stronghold of ignorance in my life, and for opening my eyes to divine truth and wisdom, through the salvation of my life.
3.Thank You, Father, for using the foolish and weak things of this world to confound the wise and mighty, so that no flesh will glory in Your presence.
4.Father, in anyway I have fallen short of your glory, please, have mercy and forgive me, in Jesus’ name.
5.Father, I empty myself of worldly and satanic wisdom, please, fill me with godly, divine and pure wisdom from above, and use me mightily for Your glory, in Jesus’ name.
6.Father, increase me in faith and knowledge of Yourself, through Christ Jesus, my Lord and Saviour, in Jesus’ name.
7.Father, come and dwell in me and I in You, so that through me, You can confound the wise and mighty, and achieve Your purpose, in Jesus’ name.
8.Father, let every Goliath, intimidating, oppressing and threatening me, fall down and be beheaded by his own sword, in Jesus’ name.
9.Father, Let Me Be Conformed To The Image Of Christ, In Jesus’ Name.
10.Father, please, help me to live through today, without committing a single sin, in Jesus’ name.
11.Father, perfect and complete, all the projects that Your son, Pastor E.A. Adeboye, have laid his hands upon, in Jesus’ name.
12.Father, bless Your son, that You have been using to prepare these prayer points, beyond measures; help him to overcome every challenge of getting these prayer points across to Your children timely, on daily basis, 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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Open Heaven 9 February 2019 Prayer Points on Today – Conformed To His Image?
RCCG Fasting Prayer Points for 9 February 2019 – DAY 30: PRAYER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
DAY 30: PRAYER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE (SATURDAY 9th Feb 2019)
Intense praise and worship
Thank God for a new day and for the salvation of your soul
Thank God for being the desire of all Nations, always in control of time and seasons. Hag 2:7
Thank God for His sovereign Power to answer all prayers John 14:13-14
Pray for protection, strength and perseverance for poor communities who are being pushed further into poverty by the changing climate. Psa72:4
Pray for the global church to be bold and speaks out as the voice of God, pray for governments to respond positively.
Pray for government that as they respond, they will know the right thing to do towards climate control
Pray for the United Nations organs and governments across the world to take the urgent and ambitious action needed. To avoid the hazards of climate change.
Pray for divine intervention to slow down climate change and prevent occurrence of natural disasters in nations
Pray that our nation through carelessness will not fall on the negative sides of this year prophesies Joel 2: 32
Topic: Life-Changing Power [Billy Graham Devotional 9 February 2019]
I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. — Galatians 2:20
One day, by a simple act of faith, I decided to take Jesus Christ at His word. I could not come by way of the intellect alone; no one can. That does not mean that we reject reason. God has given us minds and the ability to reason wherever reason is appropriate, but the final and decisive step is taken by faith. I came by faith. Does it work when a person comes, repenting of his sins, to receive Christ by faith? I can only tell you that it worked in my own life. Something did happen to me. I didn’t become perfect, but the direction of my life was changed. I found a new dimension to life. I found a new capacity to love that I had never known before.
Prayer for the day: The day I received You, Lord, it was a childlike act of faith. My whole life was changed!
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.
Ashers Baking Company has decided against pursuing a legal costs order against the Equality Commission in Northern Ireland – the public body which initiated proceedings in 2014.
The McArthur family, which owns the firm, was defended by legal experts at the Christian Institute. The organisation said it spent more than £250,000 on the case.
In October last year, the family successfully appealed at the Supreme Court in London against previous rulings that it had breached discrimination laws.
The case ignited when a gay rights activist was declined an order for a cake decorated with the words “Support gay marriage”. The McArthurs objected on the grounds of their Christian beliefs.
“Due to the generosity of Christian Institute supporters, Ashers are not out of pocket as a result of defending this legal action.”https://t.co/wryaK12wv1
A ruling by Belfast County Court which found the McArthurs had acted with discrimination was later upheld by the Court of Appeal in Belfast – prompting an appeal bid to the Supreme Court.
But five judges at the Supreme Court determined that the objection Ashers had made was at “being required to promote the message on the cake – not to the man.”
During previous stages of the case, Ashers has argued that each side should pay its…
Sadiq Khan said the way some members of the Windrush generation had been treated amounted to a “stain on the nation’s conscience”.
He told Premier: “There is no better example of the advocacy role of churches in our city and country than the fantastic role they’ve played helping the Windrush generation, their children and their descendants.”
The Labour politician spoke as he unveiled £20,000 to help affected families seek legal advice via the Windrush Justice Fund and apply via the Home Office Windrush scheme for citizenship.
The Windrush scandal is a stain on our nation’s conscience, shining a light on an immigration system not fit for purpose. As Mayor, I’m proud that Londoners have already raised £20k for the Justice Fund, which why I’ve doubled it with an additional £20k. https://t.co/Lw4zSqoVjS
A special service at Westminster Abbey in central London last June was held to celebrate the contribution they – and their descendants – have made to British life (pictured below). The Windrush generation was named after a ship which brought migrants from the Caribbean to Britain in 1948.
Mr Khan continued: “I’ve been so impressed by the advocacy and…
Federal Court Rules Christian Student Group Cannot be Removed from University for Biblical View on Marriage
The University of Iowa cannot remove a Christian student group’s registered status after the group prohibited a gay student from a leadership role, a federal court has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Stephanie M. Rose approved a permanent injunction that forces the University of Iowa to reverse its decision and recognize Business Leaders in Christ as a registered student organization.
She said in her opinion that the school applies its human rights policy “unevenly.”
“The Constitution does not tolerate the way defendants chose to enforce the human rights policy,” she said. “Particularly when free speech is involved, the uneven application of any policy risks the most exacting standard of judicial scrutiny, which the defendants have failed to withstand.”
The university had threatened to strip the group of its registered status after the group barred a gay student from taking on a leadership role. The university said that action violated the school’s human rights policy.
Senior counsel Eric Baxter, of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the group representing the student organization, called the judge’s ruling a “win for basic fairness.”
The group released a statement after the court ruling, saying “universities can’t target religious student groups for being religious.”
Open Heaven 9 February 2019 Saturday Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Conformed To His Image?
Topic: Conformed To His Image? (Open Heaven 9 February 2019)
Memorise: “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”- 2 Corinthians 3:18
Read: 2 Corinthians 3:6-18 (KJV)
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Bible in One Year: John 3-4, Isaiah 36:4-20
Open Heaven 9 February 2019 Saturday MESSAGE:
The purpose of our redemption is to transform us into the image and likeness of God. The Holy Spirit reveals this to us in Romans 8:29, where He says:
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.”
This has been God’s desire from the very beginning (Genesis 1:26-27). Soon after creation, the serpent lured Adam and eve into sin and they fell, thereby rejecting goodliness and embracing worldliness with its devilish undertones. To redeem us to Himself, God sent His Beloved Son to be the Savior of the world (1 John 4:14). Through His sacrifice, God’s salvation is freely made available to all. Those who genuinely receive His salvation become partners of His divine nature and are expected to follow in His footsteps through their lifestyles (2 Peter 1:4, 1 Peter 2:21). In essence, God is calling all mankind to repent from their evil way and put on a new man, who is created after God in holiness and righteousness (Ephesians 4:24).
“16 They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not; 17 They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths. 18 They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.” – Psalm 135:16-18
It is clear from these verses that God knows that worshipers take after the God or gods they worship. He therefore ordained that His worshipers should be conformed to the image of His Son, so that they may worship Him in Spirit and in Truth (John 4:24). The essence of Christian fellowship therefore is to be transformed to the image of the Almighty God through Jesus Christ His Son, who is set before humanity as the model of the redeemed life. Understanding the nature of God and obeying His commandments are keys to living this transformed life. As we behold the glory of God in the place of worship and personal fellowship, we are transformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ in faith, obedience and total submission to God’s will. To be Christ-like is not a mere human effort to imitate Jesus; rather, it is the work of the Holy Spirit in a believer submitted to His Lordship, making him or her more like Jesus in faith, sanctification, holiness, evangelism and the work of ministry.
Open Heaven 9 February 2019 Saturday Prayer Point:
Holy Spirit divine, I yield to your work of transformation in my life, help me to conform completely to the image of Jesus Christ in character and glory in Jesus’ Name.
Open Heaven 9 February 2019 Saturday 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 9 February 2019 Saturday 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 9 February 2019 Saturday 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.
Speaking exclusively to People magazine, the friend, who wished to remain anonymous, said: “Meg is extremely faithful.
“We pray a lot together. We meditate. She has had, and especially has now, a very close relationship with God.”
Meghan, 37, was baptised and confirmed in the Church of England at a private ceremony led by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
However, the American actress has remained rather private about her faith.
“A deep sense of gratitude and humility has guided her,” the friend continued. “We can still be modern women and feel all the feels [sic] with feminism and be strong moms and strong wives but understand that [our] relationship [with God] is so critical.”
Another close friend also called rumours that Meghan had insisted for St George’s Chapel to be sprayed with air freshener ahead of her wedding, “outrageous”.
The unnamed long-time friend added: “I can’t think of anything more ridiculous.
“If people knew how spiritual she is and how serious and respectful she takes her relationship with God, she would never ask for something like that.
“The day after the wedding I said, ‘You were so serene’. She has a huge loving fondness for Archbishop Welby. She’s like, ‘I’m there, I’m with Harry, I’m with you guys, and I’m with the leader of my church’.
“She doesn’t think about the narrative: ‘What will people…
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