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FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED.  DATE: MONDAY MARCH 1 TOPIC: MY PEACE I GIVE TO YOU TEXT: Philippians 4:4-7 4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. 5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. 6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. KEY VERSE: John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.  John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.  My child, you must let My peace enfold you, and as it does so, do not look at yourself but at Me! It is truly a healing peace. It is all tha...

FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED.  DATE: SATURDAY FEBRUARY 27   TOPIC: SUPPORT EVANGELISM WITH YOUR MONEY AND MATERIAL RESOURCES TEXT: Acts 4:32-37 32 And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things common. 33 And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. 34 Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them and brought the prices of the things that were sold, 35 And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need. 36 And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, 37 Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostl...

FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED.  DATE: FRIDAY FEBRUARY 26   TOPIC: PLEA FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HOLINESS  TEXT: Luke 1:74-75 74 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, 75 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. KEY VERSE: Ephesians 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. I am pleading with you that you should be righteous and holy. The messengers of the Lord, ministers of the Lord are all pleading with you to be righteous and holy. Your leaders in the faith, your leaders in Holiness Revival Movement are pleading with you to be righteous and holy. I, Pastor Paul Rika, who has found grace in the sight of God to superintend over this Holiness Movement, I am pleading that you should be righteous and holy.  Your soul is also crying within you to r...

FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED. DATE: WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 24 TOPIC: DO NOT REJECT THE TRUTH OF GOD TEXT: Hebrews 3:7-12 7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, 8 Harden, not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me and saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known my ways. 11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. KEY VERSE: Hebrews 12:25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:  Today’s text says, “Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief ...

FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED.  DATE: TUESDAY FEBRUARY 23 TOPIC: NOT EVERY SICKNESS IS CAUSED BY SIN TEXT: James 5:13-15 13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. 14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. KEY VERSE: Psalm 41:3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing:  thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. There is a gospel that is in excess. It teaches that the righteous cannot fall sick. But that is not to say that the righteous must fall sick. The bible says in Isaiah 33:24, “And the inhabitants shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.”  In a special sense, God can manifest His power to the po...

FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED   DATE: MONDAY 22 FEBRUARY TOPIC: CALL UPON ME TEXT: Psalm 91:15-16 [15]He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him. [16]With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. KEY VERSE: Psalm 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.  Psalm 62:8, 11 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah. God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.  My child, call upon Me as soon as any hurtful or overwhelming situation arises – firstly so that you may learn the lesson I have for you in it; secondly, so that I may break the pattern of events before it becomes too burdensome for you. You know that I am more than equal to all the things which may threaten you or make you anxious. They remain – by My permission – ...

FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED DATE: SUNDAY FEBRUARY 21 TOPIC: DO NOT SACRIFICE YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS TO GET A MARRIAGE PARTNER TEXT: Daniel 3:16-18 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. 17 If it is so, our God whom we serve can deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. 18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. KEY VERSE: Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.  As a child of God, you must ensure you enter into marriage clean and undefiled. How do you do this? 1. Don’t defile yourself. Daniel purposed in his heart that he will not defile himself (Daniel 1:8). Can you also determine in your heart that no lady or no man will defile you before God? I am talking about a firm determ...

FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED DATE: SATURDAY 20 FEBRUARY TOPIC: WHAT KIND OF HEART DO YOU HAVE? TEXT: Mark 7:14-23 KEY VERSE: Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.  The heart is the main thing that produces the issues of life. Jesus says from the heart proceeds good things – good thoughts, good words and good works. Also, from the heart proceeds evil things such as evil thoughts, evil words and evil works. But whatever the heart produces is in your hands thereby making you responsible for a heart that does evil, a heart that speaks evil, a heart that produces evil. You are responsible because there is something you should have done with that heart which you failed to do. That is why you need to know the kind of heart you have so that you can do something about it. What kind of heart do you have? Is it one that produces good works or one from which proceeds evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousnes...

 FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED.  DATE: FRIDAY FEBRUARY 19 TOPIC: DO NOT GRIEVE YOUR MARRIAGE PARTNER BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO CHILDREN TEXT: Matthew 10:37-38  37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. KEY VERSE: Ruth 4:15 And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.  Love your wife as a Christian should do. Do not hate or despise her because she did not bear children for you. Love and cherish her, she will bless your life better than seven sons. You woman, submit to your husband fully. Love and obey him. Do not despise him because he could not get you pregnant. In Christ, he will do in your life both now and for eternity better th...

FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED. February Wednesday 17th TOPIC: IS ANYTHING TOO HARD TO GIVE UP FOR THE SAKE OF HEAVEN? TEXT: Genesis 21:8-12 KEY VERSE: Genesis 21:14, And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. In today’s devotional text, Sarah demanded of Abraham that he should send away both her maid Hagar and Ishmael her child, because she saw Ishmael despising her son Isaac. If Sarah’s demand had only involved Hagar, Abraham would have done it easily. But to demand that even his own son, his own blood who was his first child, should be cut off was too costly for him and Abraham took the matter to God so that God would rebuke Sarah for what she was saying. But instead of God rebuking Sarah for such a demand, He supported her and said “Abraham do what Sarah has said, that...

FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED.  DATE: TUESDAY FEBRUARY 16 TOPIC: IF YOU DENY GOD YOUR TITHE, HE TOO WILL DENY YOU AT DEATH TEXT: Hebrews 3:7-13 7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. 11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. 13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. KEY VERSE: Hebrews 3:8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:  Why don't you give tithes and offering ...

  FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED. February Monday 15th TOPIC: DON’T REJECT GODLY CORRECTION AND REBUKE –  IT IS FOR YOUR GOOD TEXT: Proverbs 15:10-12 KEY VERSE: Hebrews 12:8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.  If your pastor cannot rebuke you because you will get angry at his rebuke, then you are a bastard and not a child of God. As there are bastards in the society, so are there bastards in the church. They don’t have fathers, they don’t have mentors, they are bastards because they cannot take corrections; they cannot take rebuke; they get angry when they are reproved. They are bold-faced and the leader must not rebuke them. The word of God says if you cannot be rebuked, then you are a bastard. Sometimes, earthly fathers rebuke and chastise their children even in their innocence. What do the children do? Do they fight back because they were chastised in their innocence? No! They ...

FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED.  DATE: SUNDAY FEBRUARY 14   TOPIC: MAKE ETERNAL LIFE THE CORE MESSAGE ON PULPIT – Part 2 TEXT:  Colossians 1:27-29 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: 29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. KEY VERSE: 1 Corinthians 15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.  Prophesy is for our comfort, exhortation and edification but it is not the ultimate in Christian life because prophecy will cease. They are minor matters of the law, yet people spend their time on prophesy, manufacturing prophesies, running up and down for prophesies; but eternal life is not in it. Even sinners can give prop...

FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED DATE: FRIDAY FEBRUARY 12 TOPIC: SALVATION CAN BE LOST   TEXT: 1 Corinthians 15:1-2 1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you unless ye have believed in vain. KEY VERSE: Exodus 32:33 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, he will I blot out of my book.  Some people teach the false doctrine that salvation cannot be lost. According to their teaching, if somebody believes in the Lord Jesus Christ and his name enters the book of life, such a person can never miss going to heaven whatever sin he goes into committing after the profession of faith.  To them, the name of a child of God that entered into the book of life cannot be blotted out. With this, they give human beings license to commit every kind of sin without fear because...

FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED DATE: THURSDAY FEBRUARY 11 TOPIC: THE LORD IS ON THE SIDE OF THE RIGHTEOUS TEXT: Psalm 91:1-8 1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. 3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. 4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; 6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. 7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. 8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. KEY VERSE: Psalm 37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: b...

FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED.  DATE: WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 10 TOPIC: SAVE YOURSELF FROM THIS UNTOWARD GENERATION OF SINNERS TEXT: Revelation 18:4-5 4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. KEY VERSE: Act 2:40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.  God demands a life of inward and outward holiness void of envy, pride, anger, and all pollutions. You need to learn and possess inward and outward holiness. You must know that jewelry will defile you and that body painting and hair attachment are all articles of lies.  You even had your doubt about heaven, but you now know the consequences and danger of hellfire. Blessed are your ears for they have heard. You were complaining that there are...

FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED. TOPIC: GOD’S PROMISES OF PROTECTION, HEALING, AND DELIVERANCE February Monday 8th TEXT: Revelation 22:1-3 KEY VERSE: Exodus 15:26 ……. I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians:  for I am the LORD that healeth thee. God afflicts sinners with diseases but not His faithful children. He afflicts sinners because He says, I will put them upon your enemies but not upon you, as part of My judgment; for He is the God of judgment. For the children of God, God is their healer. When sickness comes upon them, God goes to heal them. You don’t call somebody a doctor when there is no sickness to treat. You don’t call somebody a doctor when there is nothing that he is doing in curing people, except he is an academic doctor. Deuteronomy 7:14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people:  there shall not be male or female barren among you or your cattle.  That is His promise. There shall be no...

FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED. TOPIC: EXAMINE YOURSELF February Sunday 7th TEXT: 2 Corinthians 13:5-8 KEY VERSE: Proverbs 4:26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. Sometimes, you need to look back in life to check where your feet have walked. Please, take time to examine the path of your feet, your walk through life, how was it. When you check the path of your feet, which places have you been to? Are the places you have been to good or evil? Whom have you been walking with? Which company have you been keeping through life? You are standing at a good point today but it is also good for you to look back with your minds eyes to trace your steps backwards. Which places were you regularly going to? Ponder, think about the path of your feet, consider your ways. Haggai 1:7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. You, consider. You, judge your ways. How have your ways been in the past? In your walk in life, in your family, i...

 FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED DATE: SATURDAY FEBRUARY 6 TOPIC: STRIVE FOR ETERNAL LIFE TEXT: Hebrews 11:13-16 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had the opportunity to have returned. 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. KEY VERSE: Proverbs 3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.  Eternal life was the drive of the patriots of old in their pilgrimage journey through the earth. That was what compelled them to reach the end in spite of a...

FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED.  DATE: FRIDAY FEBRUARY 5 TOPIC: TITHE DEFAULTERS ARE ROBBERS OF GOD! TEXT: Malachi 3:7-11 7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? 8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. 9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord...

FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED.  DATE: THURSDAY FEBRUARY 4 TOPIC: REPERCUSSIONS OF BACKSLIDING INTO SIN TEXT: Psalm 81:13-16 Ps 81:13-16 13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! 14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. 15 The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. 16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. KEY VERSE: Hebrews 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.  In today’s devotional text, the Lord was standing and seeing His people that have failed. He saw struggling that was not bringing result. Israel was on its own backing the Lord but going into dryness. The Lord was seeing them sitting under the scorching sun and the heat of the sun beating the...

FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED.  DATE: FEBRUARY 3 TOPIC: CHILDREN LEFT TO THEMSELVES WILL BECOME TOOLS IN THE HANDS OF THE DEVIL TEXT: 1 Samuel 2:12-21 KEY VERSE: 1 Samuel 2:12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord. In today’s devotional text, God described the sons of Eli this way: Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord. These were children of Satan. They were wicked children.  They could be occultic. They were demonic and probably wizards. They did not know the Lord. How did this happen? Eli, how did you live with your children and they came to the point that Satan fully took them over? How did you live with the children that they became wizards? How did they join occultism and became members of illuminati? How did you treat them? Eli! You did not train someone to replace you, even as the high priest? You were busy so much in this work that you forgot those that will succeed you? You did not kno...

FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD REMAIN BLESSED DATE: TUESDAY FEBRUARY 2 TOPIC: WEIGHTIER MATTERS OF CHRISTIANITY  TEXT: Jeremiah 22:15-16 15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord. KEY VERSE: Matthew 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Weightier matters of Christianity refer to matters that have greater weight in Christianity; matters of more significance or importance in Christianity. In today’s key verse, we see Jesus saying that paying tithes of mints and anise and cummin is mandatory because they are part of the law but there are more imp...