God's blessings will continually accompany you for dedicating time to your studies. As A Child Of Promise, Don’t Disappoint God Thursday 2nd April Text: 1 Samuel 1:9-20 Key Verse: Titus 1:9 “Holding fast the faithful word as he had been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.” God knows those who are His, and He watches over them even as they are young and growing up. We can see in our text that Samuel was a child of promise. His mother got him through her fervent prayer to God. There was a covenant between Hannah and God: that if God would remember her and give her a man-child, she would give him unto the Lord all the days of his life. Many parents made this type of agreement with God, maybe as a result of a delay in childbearing. Some others, as they got born again and became Christians, said, “Every one of our children shall be committed unto the Lord,” and so dedicated them to the Lord in the church. People witnessed it and ...
God's blessings will continually accompany you for dedicating time to your studies Judas Iscariot: The Unfaithful Apostle Wednesday 1st April Text: Matthew 26: 47-50 Key Verse: Matthew 26: 54 "But how then shall the scripture be fulfilled, that thus it must be?" Judas Iscariot was one of the apostles of Jesus Christ and was the one that kept the purse. This shows the kind of trust conferred him by the Lord. It was unfortunate that he was the one that betrayed the Master for a sum of money. His love for money also showed when Mary anointed the Lord with a costly ointment, he complained that such oil could have been sold and given to the poor. The Bible says that he only said so for his selfish purpose and not for the love he has for the poor. The second time the Lord was anointed was at Bethany when a woman came with alabaster box of very precious ointment. This time it was the disciples that saw it as a waste and felt it could have been sold and given to the poor. It is ...