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Topic: You Are God's Favorite [Monday February 13, 2017] Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings. —  Psalm 17:8 What does it mean to be a favorite? It means to be particularly favored, esteemed, and preferred. It means to enjoy special attention, personal affection, and preferential treatment, even without being deserving of it. There is nothing about you or me or anyone else that can cause us to become God's favorite. He chooses us for that place of honor and esteem by an act of His sovereign grace. All we can do is receive His gracious gift in an attitude of thanksgiving and humility. Now when I talk about being the favorite of God, I must make something clear. Because God is God of all His creation, and because He has a personal relationship with each one of His children, He can say to every single one of us at the same time, and sincerely mean it, "You are the apple of My eye; you are My favorite child." It took a while for me to c...

Topic: How Leaders Emerge [Monday February 13, 2017] Leadership emerges via constantly thinking about the well being of others. Thinking of others is thinking as a leader. Size of your heart and scope of your thought for others is what defines spread of your oversight. Only those who think people can be trusted by God to lead people. Think people to lead people, think well of people to lead well the people. Real leaders don’t really think of leading or plan to lead; they just think of people’s wellbeing and in the process find themselves ahead taking the lead.

Topic: The Secret of Longevity [Monday February 13, 2017] Scripture:  Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.   Psalm 150:6 Thought For The Day: True worship keeps people alive to fulfil their purpose on earth. The Will of God for His children is to live a long and fulfilled life. The Bible recorded that when Moses was one hundred and twenty years old, his natural force was not abated (Deuteronomy 34:7). Therefore, it is not the Will of God for any sickness or work of diabolism to cut us short before our time. One of the secrets of longevity is living a life of praise and worship. True praise and worship is the reason for long life and purposeful existence. True worship keeps people alive to fulfil their purpose on earth. When you are a genuine worshipper, witches and wizards will keep getting frustrated because they can do nothing about you. When you are deep in worship and praise, you cannot be cut short by any devil. When God told Hezekiah th...

Topic: Attention [Monday, 13th Feb. 2017] And the Lord came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth.  1 Samuel 3:10 In 1 Samuel 3, the Lord first called Samuel in verse 4. Because Samuel did not know the Lord, and His Word was not yet revealed to him (verse 7), he thought it was Eli calling him. Most of us, like Samuel, do not recognise the voice of the Lord, so we miss His calling, and thereby miss out on the things He wants to accomplish through us. Verse 7 of 1 Samuel 3 gives us two reasons why we don't recognise the voice of God. First, we don't know Him (John 10:14‭, ‬27). If we know Him and belong to Him, we'll know His voice. We can know Him through the study of the scriptures. Second is that His Word is not yet revealed to us. Christ again in John 16:12 told the disciples "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now." There are things He says, and wants ...

A Promise For You From Bible Promises: Topic: Consequences of Greed [13/02/2017] So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.  Proverbs 1:19. 2 Kings 5:20-27 Greed is a selfish and excessive desire to have more of something (especially money) than is needed. Merriam Webster Dictionary. When you begin to hoard money like goods for the unborn generation, it means you are greedy. Whenever you desire more than what you need per time, it result to you being greedy. Jesus said we should pray that God should give to us our daily bread. It was greed that made the supply of manna for the Israelite in the wilderness to bred worms, and stank. God told them, take the one you and your family can eat a day, don't keep to the next day. When greediness was involved, the leftover began to bred worms. Ex 16:15-20 One of the consequences the above scripture mention is that, greediness takes away the life of the greedy. If this is the only c...

Topic: You Can Open That Door [Monday February 13, 2017] Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. -  Matthew 7:7 How long has it been since you were backed into a corner, hemmed in by a seemingly insurmountable problem? If you're anything like most folks, it hasn't been very long. Some of us spend years trying to work our way out of financial binds only to end up more bound by debt than ever. Others work fanatically on marriages that, despite their best efforts, deteriorate from year to year. Still others fight battles against fear or depression, drug addiction or disease. Deep within our hearts, each of us knows there must be an answer to the problem we face. But often it seems to be out of reach, hidden behind a door that's locked tightly against us. What I want you to know today, however, is this: we can open that door! Jesus Himself has given us the keys. Right now you may be facing a situation that looks u...

Topic: The Death of Doubt [Monday February 13, 2017] Read: John 11:1–16, Bible in a Year: Leviticus 14; Matthew 26:51–75 Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.  John 20:25 We know him as Doubting Thomas (see John 20:24–29), but the label isn’t entirely fair. After all, how many of us would have believed that our executed leader had been resurrected? We might just as well call him “Courageous Thomas.” After all, Thomas displayed impressive courage as Jesus moved purposefully into the events leading to His death. At the death of Lazarus, Jesus had said, “Let us go back to Judea” (John 11:7), prompting a protest from the disciples. “Rabbi,” they said, “a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, and yet you are going back?” (v. 8). It was Thomas who said, “Let us also go, that we may die with him” (v. 16). Thomas’s intentions proved nobler than his actions. Upon Jesus’s arrest, Tho...