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God's blessings will continually accompany you for dedicating time to your studies Testimony Of God’s Call By Pastor Paul Rika (Part 2) Saturday 2nd May Text: Psalm 25: 1-5 Key Verse: Psalms 25:4 “Show me Thy ways, O Lord, teach me Thy paths.” I went to Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. In 1986, I attended a program organised by Ben Oruma, the chaplain of Kongo campus, but before the program, George Adeboye was invited from Kwara State by the Fellowship of Christian Students, FCS. At that time, I was the general coordinator of the Deeper Life Campus Fellowship in ABU. While he was ministering, he said, “There is a young man here, something is going on inside your spirit concerning going to full-time after school. Listen to me carefully. Concerning going on full-time after the school you are presently in. The Lord says I should say unto you, ‘As long as ye desire to go, your NYSC posting shall be to such a place as I desire, and you will be starting from there. This will certain...

God's blessings will continually accompany you for dedicating time to your studies Testimony Of God’s Call By Pastor Paul Rika (Part 1) Friday 1st May Text: Jeremiah 1:4-8 Key Verse: Psalms 25:9 “The meek will He guide in judgement, and the meek will He teach His way.” When I got born again, the zeal was heavy upon my life. I had finished my primary school at that time. I told God, “Lord, if You help me to be able to read and write, that is, if You help me pass through education, I am going to preach Your word.” In 1984, I was praying at night in an open field, a football field. I was in the College of Preliminary Studies at that time. As I was praying, I saw myself entering into a Divine presence, and I went into a covenant and said, “Lord, I am going to preach Your word all over the world after my National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) assignment.”  I was asked a question, “In which way? Part-time or full-time?” (Part-time means that you will be doing secular work while preaching. T...

God's blessings will continually accompany you for dedicating time to your studies  Priscilla’s Christian Qualities Thursday 30th April  Text: Acts 18: 1-3 Key verse: Proverb 13:20. “He that walketh with the wise man shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed” Priscilla was a daughter of God and the wife of Aquila. Paul got attracted to them and stayed with them because they were into the same profession of tent-making. That was a great privilege to Aquila’s household. To be effective and fruitful in the Christian life and ministry, you should learn from those the Lord has advanced, who have proven testimonies of holy Christian life and ministry. People should take advantage of the truth that comes out of these ministers of the gospel, in order to be blessed. It will be miserable for one to be married to a true minister of God and yet miss the privilege of entering Heaven. Priscilla remains a good example. She allowed herself to be mentored by Apostle Paul when...

God's blessings will continually accompany you for dedicating time to your studies The Beauty Of Planning Wednesday 29th April  Text: Luke 14:28-32 Key Verse: Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterward build thine house. Proverbs 24:27 A plan is a set of intended actions, having the same relationship, through which one expects to achieve a goal. Planning gives the planner a clearer view and understanding of what it takes to achieve his goal; how to achieve it and when to achieve it. Creation of the earth is an expression of a beautiful plan by the only wise God. In divine plan, in order to have Night and Day, He first created darkness and light. He called the darkness ‘Night’ and the light ‘Day’. God created grasses, herbs and trees after He created the earth from where they will grow. In the same way, God created water before He created fishes. The beauty of planning! He that fails to plan has planned to fail; he has signed for the degrading ...

God's blessings will continually accompany you for dedicating time to your studies Believers’ Victory Over Temptations, Persecutions And Sufferings Tuesday 28th April  Text: Matthew 5: 9-12 Key Verse: Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all Psalms 34: 19. Temptation is that which entices one to act contrary to the will of God. The mission of temptation is to make the believer commit sin and suffer the penalty of sin in hell. The devil is the tempter, and his target is the believer. It is not a sin to be tempted, but it is however, a sin to yield to temptation. Jesus instructed believers to watch and pray to avoid being victims of temptation (Mathew 26:41). King Solomon advised, “My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not (Proverbs 1:10).” The Philistines promised to reward Delilah handsomely if she could entice Sampson to disclose the source of his strength. Sampson could not withstand the temptation and became a victim of his we...

God's blessings will continually accompany you for dedicating time to your studies. The Wife As A Servant To Her Husband In Marriage (Part 2)  Monday 27th April  Text: Colossians 3:18-25   Key Verse: 1 Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.  Do Unto Him As Unto The Lord: Do whatever you must do for your husband as unto the Lord. Though he may not deserve it, God deserves it. Do it to him, for God’s sake. Let God know you are righteous, and He will reward you. I know of a woman, a government worker, whose husband abandoned. He deserted the marriage to marry another woman, leaving the woman and their children for about twelve years. Then, the husband encountered Jesus, repented, sent away the second woman and returned to his wife. He knelt before his wi...