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God bless you for taking your time to study. TOPIC: BEWARE OF LOSING A GREAT MINISTRY TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 1: 3-10  SUNDAY JANUARY 1st  KEY VERSE: Revelation 3: 11, ‘Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.’ God has brought us into a great ministry. He has sought us out and brought us in His own divine way. We have to be careful not to lose the blessings of this great calling. We are here to render acceptable service for Him, and He will surely reward us for our service. There are those who nearly lost out, such as Jonah, Onesimus, the Levites at the time of Moses. These nearly missed the divine call and instruction, but were restored by the mercies of God, so that they could redeem themselves from destruction. Many people reject God due to carnal wisdom, impatience, emotional feelings, pressure of men etc. Though they are called by God, they failed, and begin to act like those who were not called, yet they ran. The grace of God recove...

God bless you for taking your time to study. CHRISTIAN UNITY IN EXPECTATION OF THE RAPTURE TEXT: JOHN 14:1-3  SATURDAY DECEMBER 31st  Key verse: 2 Thessalonians 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, From the beginning, God exists in three Persons. We cannot talk in detail about Him because it is not given to us on earth to know the fullness of God. The secret things belong unto Him. It is the things that are revealed to us that are for us and our children. God exists in three Persons which is revealed to us in a redemptive way through His Son, Jesus Christ. When Christ came to the world to save mankind, He died and resurrected and when He was to ascend, He told His followers that He is coming back again. He returned to heaven after death and resurrection and promised to come back again. The rapture shall fulfill the promise made in John 14. It will only be experienced by believers to reward them for th...

God bless you for taking your time to study. TOPIC: THE HUMBLE LIFESTYLE OF ELIZABETH TEXT: LUKE 1: 5 – 7  FRIDAY DECEMBER 30th  Key verse: Luke 1: 45: And blessed is she that believeth: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord There is hope for the barren and those stricken in an age that is desirous of having children if they remain faithful and believe in the miracle-working God. Elizabeth and Zachariah were both righteous before God and walked in the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless (verse 6). Many in our days today would have gone to seek help from Satan to get children, not knowing that God is in the knowledge of the situation for Divine Plan. God delayed childbearing to coincide with the coming of John the Baptist as the forerunner of Jesus Christ. For impatience, some have gone to the queen of the coast to collect children because of delay in childbearing thereby throwing away the good plan of God to have their...

God bless you for taking your time to study. TOPIC: LABOUR DILIGENTLY TO RAISE CHILDREN FOR HEAVEN. TEXT: MATTHEW 19: 13-15  THURSDAY DECEMBER 29th  Key Verse: 3 John 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.  Raising children that will enter heaven will require everything we have. It has required the best the Father has, in giving us His Son, Jesus Christ. It will require the impartation of the Holy Spirit and continued perseverance for us to raise children for heaven. We have learned about raising children in the way they should go so that as they grow up, they will not depart from it. Yet we see our children departing from the truth after we have prayed and fasted and shouted and carefully rebuked them. What else ought to have been done? Ephesians 6:4 And ye Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.  Have you been provoking your children? Have you shown them that sin has to ...

God bless you for taking your time to study. TOPIC: GOD HAS NOT SOLD HIS CHILDREN TO ANY MINISTER TEXT: 1 PETER 5:1-3  WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 28th  KEY VERSE: Ephesians 6:9 And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him. Today’s lesson is a revelation to Sister Linda Paul Rika on holiness preachers: A pastor that attended the conference was a stern holiness minister. His servant remained standing by him. Jesus told him, “You put on a hard face and are not cheerful because you want people to fear you. This is not Christianity! The scripture says to rejoice always in the Lord. The fruit of the Spirit is joy. Your attending minister has been standing in fear of you. You have not allowed him to sit down. You have made yourself the subject of ministry, not the Lord. You teach your members this way and you are their fear, not God.  With this attitude, it is not easy for ...

God bless you for taking your time to study. TOPIC: ETERNAL SECURITY; A DOCTRINE FROM THE PIT OF HELL TEXT: EZEKIEL 3:20, 21  TUESDAY DECEMBER 27th  Key verse Ephesians 4:14 - That we henceforth are no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; The doctrine of eternal security is a teaching that states, “Once saved, always saved”. It says that once a person is born again by trusting in Jesus, he cannot be eternally condemned or damned in hell even if he backslides. Those who hold this doctrine teach that “Anyone who has believed in Christ can never miss heaven; no matter how he sins. This is a false teaching from the pit of hell.  This doctrine strengthens the power of the flesh and gives license to sin. It makes Christian discipline and striving after holiness to be optional.  Hear this warning from the Lord “Behold, all souls are mine; as the so...

God bless you for taking your time to study. TOPIC: EVANGELISM BY PERSONAL TESTIMONY TEXT: JOHN 4: 39-42  MONDAY DECEMBER 26th  Key verse: John 4:29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?  From the above text, we see that the woman of Samaria immediately received Jesus, when she was convinced that He was Christ. The next thing she did was go into evangelism. Immediately she received the experience of salvation, she went about preaching to people through her testimony of saving grace. This is natural. It happens to everybody that encounters the saving power of our Lord Jesus Christ. The demons-podemon-possessedalso authorized to preach Jesus after his deliverance and salvation. Mark 5: 18-20  18. And when He came into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed to Him that he might be with Him. 19 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord...

God bless you for taking your time to study. TOPIC: THE POWER AND THE GREATNESS OF GOD TEXT: ISAIAH 40:25-31  SUNDAY DECEMBER 25th  Key verse: Psalms 62:11 - God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.  God is great! God is awesome!! God is powerful!!! By His power, He created the universe; He formed the mountains, the oceans, the waters, the sun, the moon and the innumerable stars in the space. Below is somebody's account of the awesome power of God: “The universe is astonishingly grand. Right now the moon is moving around us at nearly 2,300 miles per hour. Our earth is moving around the sun at 66,000 miles an hour. Our sun (solar system) is one of 200 billion other stars and there are trillions more planets in our galaxy, and that galaxy is just one of 100 billion other galaxies hurtling in the space” Astounding!  The great God created them all! He created the world and hang it on nothing! None is like unto Him. Now imagine this Go...

God bless you for taking your time to study. SCRIPTURAL PATTERN OF WATER BAPTISM  TEXT: ACTS 8:26-38   FRIDAY DECEMBER 23rd  Key verse: Mark 16:16-He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.  Water baptism is by single immersion. The word, ‘baptism’ means buried. It means you died and are buried with Christ and as you rise up from the water, you are rising with Christ to newness of life. This is symbolic; that you are identified with Jesus. Only those who have believed the gospel of Christ should be baptized. It is not for children. If you baptize them it has no meaning. Somebody who does not believe cannot be baptized. You may argue that you want them to serve God later. Pray for them and wait till they believe the gospel else there is nothing you can do about it. Do not baptize infants and children because you will confuse them.  Now look at this evil doctrine as it plays out. When the infants grow up after...

God blessed you for taking your time to study. GOD HAS ASCERTAINED THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF MEN. TEXT: DANIEL 6: 1-23  THURSDAY DECEMBER 22nd  Key Verse: Ezekiel 14:14 “Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD“ Daniel was rewarded with a promotion by the king of Babylon for his faithfulness and righteousness. This did not go down well with the princess who conspired against him. Though they could not find fault with Daniel except in the matters of his God. They succeeded, and a decree was signed for nobody to worship any God for 30 days except king Darius. In verse 10 “Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being opened in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime”. They found Daniel praying and reported to the king. When the king discovere...

God bless you for taking your time to study. TOPIC: GLEANING THE FIELDS TO GATHER SOULS FOR CHRIST TEXT: COLOSSIANS 4:7-18  WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 21st  KEY VERSE: John 4: 38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labor: other men labored, and ye are entered into their labors. Continuation of the testimony of Mummy Mallum On the 13th of January 2013, the Lord said, “HOREMOW members are not the only ones that will make heaven but they will be used to pick out the elect from everywhere, the Lord working through them. This is what HOREMOW is supposed to do. Tell the leadership of HOREMOW that their work is gleaning, not gathering a crowd. Do not aim at crowds. You are to crystallize out people ready for rapture and you know that this cannot be crowded. Therefore, go quickly through communities, and those that are Christ's will hear you and come out.”  The Lord said, “Let HOREMOW leaders identify quickly those who show signs of belonging to Christ and embrace them and pre...

God bless you for taking your time to study. NO PRAYER, NO ANSWER        TUESDAY DECEMBER 20th  TEXT: MATTHEW 7: 7-11 Key verse: Hebrews 4:16, “Let us, therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” We must engage in prayer if we want answers from God. Asking, seeking, and knocking is divine duties that Jesus taught His disciples to do, even when the circumstances look odd or difficult. God places a high premium on prayer and even Jesus understood and demonstrated this in His earthly life and ministry. For sure, God has perfect knowledge of every situation; God knows exactly what His son required on earth; He knows the attacks of Satan upon His children; He also knows the brutal persecution of His children by Satanic powers over the nations, the murder, and the bloodshed. Yes, He can do something about it but He demands that we pray. God is always waiting in the house of prayer for us to come bo...

God bless you for taking your time to study. TOPIC: WORSHIPPING GOD IN THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS TEXT: PSALM: 96: 4-10  MONDAY DECEMBER 19th  Key verse: 1 Chronicle: 16:29 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name, bring an offering and come before him, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. God is holy and deserves respect and honor. God cannot behold evil. He is just and righteous. God is the Creator of heaven and earth and everything in it. He is mighty. No one can deal with Him in sin because He cannot behold evil. So, any man that worships Him should worship and praise Him in the beauty of holiness because He is holy. Some churches today have lost or deviated from the true service of worshipping God. They serve and worship God carelessly in sin, not fearing God but God is not like man-made gods that you can deal with anyhow. Psalm: 47:7-8 For God is the king of all the earth, sing ye praises with understanding. God reigneth over the heathen, God sitteth upon the th...

God bless you for taking your time to study. IS IT PROPER TO PLAIT THE HAIR WITH THREAD? TEXT: ROMANS 12; 1-2      SATURDAY DECEMBER 17 Key verse: 1 Peter 1: 14-16 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.  Should women plait or weave their hair? There is the braiding that is ungodly which worldly women do. When you see them you know that it is the spirit of the world. There is the hairdo of women professing godliness which has nothing to do with the fashions of the world. It does not affect the person who wears it. Satanic business is not there. She does not take glory in it at all. It does not entice people as a center of attraction. It is not done to achieve cosmetic beauty. It is only a way of dressing your hair. It is a kind of plaiting aimed at keeping the hair of women lon...

God bless you for taking your time to study. AVOID WRONG CHOICES AMONG MIXED MULTITUDES  TEXT:  DEUTERONOMY 30:19 FRIDAY DECEMBER 16th  Key verse: 1 Thessalonians 5: 22 Abstain from all appearance of evil The world is made up of mixed multitudes, comprising believers and unbelievers. There is also a mixed multitude in our modern churches. Even among the few holiness churches, the enemy Satan infiltrates his agents, lukewarm Christians, and backsliders, whose duty is to divert and confuse the genuine ones. If you are among the faithful and genuine Christians, take heed to avoid falling into their traps. These agents of the devil love to stay among believers but are never ready to repent and change. They appear serious; possibly dress well as Christians, and join the workforce but they have their assignment to accomplish for the devil whose aim is to destroy. And no marvel: for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14) Be wise and make a good...

God bless you for taking your time to study. DISCIPLINE YOUR CHILDREN       THURSDAY DECEMBER 15th  TEXT: PROVERBS 13: 24 Key verse: Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. (Proverbs 19:18) God wants you to discipline your children in a godly way. Our today’s text is saying you should apply discipline to your child quite early in life. Do not be so merciful and compassionate that you cannot use a cane to beat your child. Your child is not too young to receive the cane; God who created the child says “I have put miracle power in the cane as I put miracle power in the rod of Moses. It will change your child.” Do not toy with the cane. Do not joke or take discipline with the cane casually.  Buy a cane and keep it in the house and let your child know about it. Tell your child to touch it, tell him “it is waiting for you, “and that child will be conscious of that cane. The word of God says that in beating the child you are...

God bless you for taking your time to study. TOPIC: SAMUEL’S EXEMPLARY LIFE OF PURITY TEXT: 1 Samuel 1: 12-20  WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 14th  Key verse: Matthew 12: 13b. For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh Hannah was barren because the Lord shut up her womb and her adversaries will not let her rest by constantly provoking her. She went up to the Lord in prayers to seek God’s intervention for a child and the Lord answered her. Many will fall prey to the devil by going to seek children from him because of delay in childbearing and because of mockery. Some delays may be because God wants it so for Divine purposes. We saw it in the case of Elizabeth the wife of Zachariah, whose childbearing was delayed by God to usher in the forerunner of Christ. Abraham’s wife, Sarah, also experienced a delay to actualize the promise of God to Abraham to make him the father of nations through Isaac. The case of Hannah was not different as the Lord was in full knowledge to bring in ...

God bless you for taking your time to study. TOPIC: PRESERVING INNOCENCE FOR THE SAKE OF HOLINESS TEXT:  MATTHEW 18, 1-7  TUESDAY DECEMBER 13th  Key Verse: Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.  Parents cannot guarantee that their children will become holy or stay in holiness. Why does your child need a smartphone? Do you know all the apps on your children’s phones? Do you know what social media websites they frequent? Do you know if they are on dating apps? Do you check the history of their websites? Do you know what music is on their playlists? Restricting their liberty may be a way of protecting their innocence because preserving their innocence will make their transition into holiness smoother. If they have not been initiated into anything d...

God bless you for taking your time to study. JEWELLERY IS FORBIDDEN IN THE SCRIPTURES FOR HOLY WOMEN  TEXT EXODUS 3:21-22    SUNDAY DECEMBER 11th  KEY VERSE: JEREMIAH 4:30 ‘And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou deckest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou retest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life’ Considering our text today many Christians may use it to support the use of jewelry. They may argue that God instructed Israelites to collect this jewelry and put them on their sons and daughters. One basic truth Christians need to understand is that apart from the use of these things in body adornment; jewels are treasures, wealth, and money. Their use in body adornment is forbidden for the righteous. Christians must understand that God had reasons why He gave such instructions for the Israelites to collect those jewels. First a...

God bless you for taking your time to study. THE POWER OF THE TONGUE  SATURDAY DECEMBER 10th  TEXT: JAMES 3:1-11  Key verse: Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.  Bible reveals that there is power in the tongue of every man because man is made in the image of God. This power is of two kinds, the power of good and evil, blessing and cursing, and life and death. “Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse” (Deuteronomy 11:26) Man can invoke either one of these power by the use of his tongue and reap the reward thereof. Jesus reiterated this truth in the New Testament when He said that the word spoken by man can bring justification or condemnation in Matthew 12: 37 “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words, thou shalt be condemned” God commands men not to speak evil against one another, not to curse one another.  Bible accounts and the contemporary world reve...

God bless you for taking your time to study. TOPIC: BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT: A BOOST IN EVANGELISM     TEXT: ACTS 1: 1-5   FRIDAY DECEMBER 9th  Key verse: Acts 1:8. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost comes upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.   Jesus Christ and the apostles preached that one who is born again is promised baptism in the Holy Spirit. This is called, “the promise of the Father”. Baptism in the Holy Spirit is the infilling of a believer with the power of the Holy Spirit. This is required for effective and fruitful Christian service. The initial evidence of the baptism in the Holy Spirit is speaking in other tongues by the enablement of the Holy Spirit. Every believer in Christ has the Holy Spirit (the Spirit of Christ) in him or her but not every believer is baptized or filled with the Holy Spirit in baptismal measure. T...

God bless you for taking your time to study. DOUBLE TESTIMONY OF CONVERSION AND RESTITUTION (2) TEXT: ROMANS 8: 35-39  THURSDAY DECEMBER 8th  Key verse: Rom. 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Continuation of double testimony: Sister Grace counseled her and prayed with her that God will intervene and that the man will throw out her property from the house with his own hands. Within 2 weeks, the man threw her property outside and shouted that she should leave his house. We bless God. She knew the truth and cried to God. ‘Some powers are keeping me from obeying the truth, deliver me O LORD.’ As she left the man's house, his first wife returned a week after because having repented, she knew the truth and cried to God, “O LORD, deliver me from whatever made me leave my home and my marriage” and God broke the yoke and reunited them.  Let the power of God destroy every power holding...

God bless you for taking your time to study. THINGS TO AVOID IN MARRIAGE  WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7th  TEXT: EPHESIANS 5: 22-26 Key verse: 1 Peter 4: 8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. 1. Avoid Pride. Pride goes before a fall. Do not become proud because of your beauty. Do not be proud because you earn a lot of money. Do not be proud because you are from a royal family and the other person is from a poor family. Do not allow these things to affect your attitude. They are immaterial. Your spouse is saved by grace. You are saved by grace. Your spouse has access to the God of heaven as you have access to the God of heaven. Who maketh thee to differ one from another? What do you have that you were not given? (1 Corinthians 4:7).  2. Avoid anger. Proverbs 22:24; Make no friendship with an angry man, and with a furious man thou shalt not go.  The relationship is terrible when your spouse is an angry perso...

God bless you for taking your time to study. ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM  TEXT: EPHESIANS 4:3-6  TUESDAY DECEMBER 6th  Key verse: Ephesians 4:4-5-There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism,  There is one body; the church. This one church has the property that makes it one. So, if where you are is a church of Christ, it must have this property. It says, there is one body; the body of Christ. That church should be part of the body of Christ, and if it must be part of the body of Christ, the Bible says it should also be controlled, ruled, directed, formulated, and regenerated by one Spirit; the Spirit of God. That church must be the handwork of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of God has worked in that church. The people are born again; the people are living in the liberty of God, free from sin. For where the Spirit of God is, there is liberty; liberty from sin, freedom from the devil.  One...

God bless you for taking your time to study. DANIEL’S EXEMPLARY RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HOLINESS  TEXT: DANIEL 1: 1-8   MONDAY DECEMBER 5th  Key verse: Daniel 1:8 “But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.” The practice of righteousness is not communal, it is individualistic. In today’s text, Daniel expressed what was in him irrespective of the other three Hebrew children. Whatever their thoughts and whether their godliness could take what he has taken now, was not considered by Daniel. He didn’t consult with them. Daniel purposed it in his heart. What brought about this purpose of heart? Remember these children selected to be trained for intelligence were to be given the king’s special food.  Among the Moslems for instance, whenever an animal is to be slaughtered, they must chant something: “Th...

God bless you for taking your time to study. TOPIC: HAVE YOU CAUGHT THE VISION OF END-TIME REVIVAL?  TEXT: HABAKKUK 2: 1-4   SUNDAY DECEMBER 4th  KEY VERSE: Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. Continuation of the testimony of Mummy Mallum The Lord lamented, “Some of the leaders have even gone although the program has not ended. If they knew that I was going to be present physically, both those that didn't come because they said that they had their program and those that left before closing time would have all waited patiently for Me. Due to unbelief, they are not here now. They don't just believe that I Am here. How can you go away from My presence? How can you leave Me here when I have not finished? Some have gone already. They don't understand.”  They have not caught the vision of end-time revival yet. Some people say that HOREMOW is not the only place where people can be holy but many have...

God bless you for taking your time to study. JOIN THE GREAT MEN OF FAITH          SATURDAY DECEMBER 3rd  TEXT: HEBREWS 11: 7-11, 17 - 31 Key verse: Hebrews 12: 23 “To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect” Just and righteous men live by faith. The great men of old lived by faith according to the passage of Hebrews. Each one had a significant feat that was exercised. Everyone fulfilled exploits in their day and time which was recognizable and admirable to the extent of notable inclusion in the hall of faith. Enoch walked with God. It was daily trust in God that sustained him. Paul set his eyes on Jesus and showed that a holy life was possible by faith. Daniel and the three Hebrew young men, as just men were delivered from the lions and the fiery furnace by faith.  Elijah did great miracles and was supernaturally sustained by faith. Pete...

God bless you for taking your time to study. SUPERIORITY OF CHRISTIANITY OVER OTHER RELIGIONS  TEXT: JOHN 14: 1-7         FRIDAY DECEMBER 2nd  Key verse: John: 3: 16- For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Jesus Christ is the Saviour of the world. Jesus, Himself is God. He is superior to all men, acclaimed gods, prophets, or masters of other religions in the world. Christianity began through Jesus Christ. When someone says he is a Christian, it means that he is a follower of Jesus Christ. On earth, it is widely believed that Abraham is the father of many nations. Abraham had two prominent sons; Isaac and Ishmael. God had chosen that the Saviour would come from the lineage of Isaac, not Ismael. Isaac gave birth to two sons; Esau and Jacob but God chose Jacob to achieve His plan. God planned that the Messiah would come from the lineage of David, of the ...