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God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC:  THIS MOUNTAIN SHALL BE REMOVED TEXT: EXODUS 14:10-16  THURSDAY JUNE 1st  KEY VERSE: “Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it.” (Ezra 10:4). Patience and endurance are essential in the Christian life. Hence a believer facing some difficulties in life may encourage himself to be patient and endure more. However, you need to examine the matter well. It may be possible you are expected to do something about the problem. You may be waiting and enduring your problem due to your ignorance, fear, indecision, or laziness. Find out within yourself; the Holy Spirit is stirring some spiritual provocations within you against that problem.  In our key verse, Ezra was the appropriate person to initiate action. Both God and men were waiting for him and would support him. All he needed was fearlessness, courage, and action. This may be your situation. Arise for action and ...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC: DO NOT PROVOKE THE OTHER SIDE OF GOD TEXT: PSALM 37:17-20  TUESDAY MAY 30th  KEY VERSE: “For our, God is a consuming fire.” (Hebrews 12:29). When people say “The Lord is good all the time” and “all the time the Lord is good,” they are confessing the abundance of God’s grace, His unfathomable mercy, and immeasurable benevolence. The goodness of God is vast and beyond full understanding. God’s goodness is expressed in his patience with sinful mankind and his love for His enemies. He does not want anyone to perish, but wants all to come to repentance and be saved 1 Timothy 2:4). But God’s universal grace, love, and goodness as expressed to the righteous and wicked alike is not to be mistaken for the endorsement of wickedness amongst men.  Often, sinners tend to be carried away by the richness of God’s goodness and erroneously conclude that it is impossible for God to damn anybody to hell. Their ears are attentive to Satan wh...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC: HEAD COVERING AND GODLY DRESSING FOR HOLY WOMEN TEXT  1 Timothy 2:8-10  MONDAY MAY 29th  KEY VERSE: Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel. 1 Peter 3:3. From our text and key verse, we can learn the following about godly dressing. i. Modest Apparel. The godly woman's dress must be modest and appropriate, portraying her Christian faith and holiness. She must avoid both extremes, wretched or flamboyant appearance. ii. Sobriety. There must be self-control in the desire for clothing; no covetousness, wild desire, and worldliness. Be content with what you have. Avoid the insatiable desire for clothing and the love of clothes and shoes. If this happens, she will not be satisfied with it; she will waste divine resources and be liable for it before God. She must learn to give out the unwanted ones to the needy.  iii. Shamefacedness. This na...

God bless you for taking the time to study. LEARN SELF-REPORTING TO LEADERSHIP WHEN IN ERROR TEXT: LUKE 15: 11-18  SUNDAY MAY 28th  Key Verse: Luke 15: 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,  The text shows the return of the prodigal son to his father. His return and confession showed his situation report. His father accepted and forgave his sin beyond his expectation. In the same way if you as a minister find yourself in immorality, come low and report yourself to your leader. The devil overcame you but God has known and will want to welcome you back. Discipline yourself by reporting yourself. If it requires withdrawing yourself from church service, do it. Your life does not consist in the service you render in the church so seek heaven first and not service. Ask for prayers and pardon. That is what God is looking for. Follow the right way to get it right.  Reveal your secret sins even the o...

God bless you for taking the time to study. REMOVE SLANDERERS FROM THE HOUSE OF GOD TEXT: 2 Samuel 16:1-4  SATURDAY MAY 27th  Key Verse: Psalm 101:5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I cut off, Slanderers do not carry the message of love but of resentment. They are destroyers and not builders. Their aim is self-promotion and self-protection. When Ziba came to David in the wilderness as he fled from Absalom, to get David’s favour, he came with a slander against Mephibosheth. King David asked him of Mephibosheth his master, he said Mephibosheth was busy preparing himself in Jerusalem to be king saying, “Now the Lord shall restore to me the kingdom of my father that was snatched away from the hand of Saul.” David wondered why a lame man he has shown mercy should act this way knowing he saved him from death because of the covenant he made with Jonathan his father. With all he has done for Mephibosheth, why should he seek his hurt? He gave Ziba the vineyard he once re...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC: THE TRINITY OF THE GODHEAD TEXT: EPHESIANS 4: 4-6   FRIDAY MAY 26th  Key Verse: 1 John 5: 7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. There are many confusions, misconceptions, and errors circulating in Christendom concerning the idea of the divine Trinity in the Bible. The doctrine of the Trinity of the Godhead is a mystery. The word Trinity does not appear in the Bible, but we have a concept of it. The LORD our God is one God in three persons and three persons in one God. The three Persons are distinct or separate but are all equal and of the same essence and nature. (Deut. 6:4-5, Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord…). In the basic description of Him: God is Spirit, Light, Love, and a consuming Fire. His essential attributes:  God is Eternal, Immutable, Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent. Among His moral attributes are perfect hol...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC: LET BROTHERLY LOVE CONTINUE TEXT: HEBREWS 13: 1-4  THURSDAY MAY 25th  Key Verse: 1 John 4:7-8 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. We must be aware that many things come up in our lives to challenge the pure Christian love in the church, in the family, and in the marriage. Regardless of these things, we are admonished to ensure that brotherly love continues. We have to do good to entertain strangers. Or else we will be continually suspicious of everyone. We will always be fearing. There is no love at times, but the Bible tells us that perfect love casts out all fear. So, our love must be perfect; it must be intact else we cannot live a holy Christian life. Though there are challenges of ungodliness, which makes the relationship difficult, brotherly love must continue. We have to be patient and toleran...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC: SCRIPTURAL WATER BAPTISM TEXT: MARK 16: 15-18  WEDNESDAY MAY 24th  Key Verse: Matthew 28: 19, ‘Go ye therefore and teach all nation, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.’  The church, the leaders, and the new believer need to know very important facts concerning water baptism. 1. Water baptism is an emblem in the physical showing, (an outward act) that a person has now repented and has accepted a change of faith or belief. This was evident in the time of the Pharisees as a practice of Judaism.  2. John the Baptist, was asked by God, to baptize those who have repented to follow God (Baptism of John), yet the baptism of Jesus had not yet come. 3. Jesus also baptized those who believed in Him. 4. Paul had a similar activity according to 1 Corinthians 1:14. 5. Water baptism is not salvation. Water Baptism does not make anyone born again. It is a sign/emblem that they had become...

TOPIC: IMPLICATION OF DEVIATION FROM BIBLICAL TRUTH TEXT: GALATIANS 1: 6-12  TUESDAY MAY 23rd  Key Verse: Titus 1: 9, ‘Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.’ God wants us to be a debtor to the truth and be ready to preach it everywhere without fail and change. Paul was committed to this truth because he knew without a doubt that it was true. It came to him by revelation and he knew that it must not change because it is the perfect truth. He warns the people against deviation and never to be removed from it. We are admonished to hold fast to these faithful words as we have been taught, that we may be able by this sound doctrine to exhort and convince the gainsayers. Holding firm the word of truth, without changing, perverting, or diluting it. Preachers that are moving from church to church for money: they are preaching not for eternal salvation. They are established as a compan...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC: BELIEVERS’ WEAPONS AND ASSURANCE OF VICTORY TEXT: EPHESIANS 6: 10-18  MONDAY MAY 22nd  Key Verse: Philippians 2:10 ‘That at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow The believer should know that there are wiles, tricks, methods, devices, and strategies that Satan uses against Christians. Satan has planned an evil day for every believer, designed for the person’s ‘destruction. If you are not careful to keep watch over yourself, it will be easy for you to be captured by the enemy. If you are careless to begin to lie, steal, return to immorality, perversion, secret sin, worldliness and to compromise your faith, you have opened the door to the enemy, and have given Satan the power to activate your evil day. These behaviors mean that you would have walked from under the secret place of the Most-High, and forfeited the provision of the abiding presence and cover of the Almighty available to you. Satan begins to take you over. Believe...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC: SAUL WAS MIGHTY BUT HE TRUNCATED HIS DESTINY.                 Text: 1 Samuel 11:5-15.  SUNDAY MAY 21st  Key Verse: Hebrews. 10:39: “But we are not of the those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul;  The Lord raised Saul for greater exploits but had a truncated destiny. To truncate means, to cut off short, to maim, or to reduce to a stub. Beware of a great fall. Soul started from well but he was careless. Always ask for God's grace. Stand up for what is right even if you are standing alone. Don't fear, no man will be able to harm you. Take complicated matters to God. Address that matter before God squarely. God loves the humble. Saul, he was humble from the beginning until pride swallows him up. The choice of Saul was a divine call. If Satan pushes you to the wall, do not quit, there is a man of Galilee. Jesus is the Lion of the tribe of...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC: GOD WILL WORK OUT HIS WILL IN YOUR LIFE Text: 1 Samuel 9:1-3, 6-10  SATURDAY MAY 20th  Key Verse: Hebrews. 10:23. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering, (for he is faithful that promised).  I f God has given you a promise, He will work it out. God will do it and it shall come to pass. Beloved, God keeps his promises. It is not your business to bother on how God will accomplish it. God will carry you through every storm in life and honour you. The infallible power of God will work out His plan in your life. Saul has been wondering how will this promise will come to pass. 1 Sam. 9:21. Allow God to do it. May God bring us into a practical relationship with Him.  The Bible said, “Abraham believed God and it was counted for him as righteous. Samuel was used to the voice of God. 1 Sam. 9:16.” Tomorrow about this time I will send thee a man from the land of Benjamin and you shall anoint him to be cap...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC: THE DANGER OF IGNORANCE IN CHRISTIANITY Text: Leviticus 4:1-5  FRIDAY MAY 19th  Key Verse: Leviticus 5:17 "And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord, though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity" Ignorance means that you do not know the law. It means you do not know the way which is dangerous. If you step on a snake ignorantly, does it stop it from biting you? Ignorance is like one carrying a letter, not knowing the content of the letter, just like Uriah that carried a letter that killed him. It is like you are in a place and you did not know what that place is made of and that the place is meant for you. Ignorance is just like a student who did not know there will be exams, and because he didn't know he went away. If you park your car where you should not park, the Traffic officer will ask why you parked there. They will tell y...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC: FEAR NOT, I AM YOUR GOD, I WILL HELP YOU Text: Isaiah 41:10, 13-14  THURSDAY MAY 18th  Key Verse: 2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of a sound mind. This is God’s promise to His people. Fear not. Fear not your enemy, because, since the fall of man, his problem has been fear. Fear of the enemy, fear of failure, fear that evil will last long in your life. The problem of man is fear. But God’s word says to you, “Fear not”, I will help you. Whatever the situation or the circumstance or the condition you are going through, God is saying to you – fear not. He will help you. Believe God in His promise to keep you. He is your God and He cannot lie. Hebrews 6:18, That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. God is up to what He says. He is equal to the task to help anybod...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TRINITY OF THE GODHEAD REVEALED IN THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST Text:  Luke 3:21-22  WEDNESDAY MAY 17th  Key Verse: Matthew 3:16-17 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him and was the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: In the baptism of Jesus Christ, we see the Trinity of the Godhead clearly revealed. There is something to learn from the above verses, the Father was in heaven and the Holy Ghost descended in the shape of a dove from heaven and miraculously rested on Jesus. Note the following: Jesus was in human shape; Holy Ghost was in dove shape. The Father was in His power in Heaven. Can we say the Holy Spirit is a dove? No. He is God! What about Jesus that took the body of a man? Was Jesus a man? Who is He? He is God! God can take any shape He desires to fulfill a purpose that is in His heart. So, even though Jesus took the shape of a m...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC: IT IS GOOD TO MARRY   TUESDAY MAY 16th  Text:  Genesis 2:18-25 Key Verse: Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremonger s and adulterers God will judge. Marriage was instituted by God from the beginning of the creation of man. God Himself said it is not good that the man should be alone. He made a woman to be a man’s companion as a wife. Therefore, when you come of age as a man you need to marry. Similarly, a woman needs to be a wife to a man when she comes to that age. Marriage is a good and honorable thing. That a man gets married to a woman is something that God, angels, men, and women on earth honour. If the departed saints would hear of it, they would honour it. The church and society honour it. The parents of both spouses honour it. There is a respect the world gives to those who are married, whether they are educated or not, rich or poor, godly or not. There is an honor your...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC: PRAY IN RIGHTEOUSNESS  MONDAY MAY 15th  Text:  Proverbs 15:28-29 Key Verse: Proverbs 16:13 Righteous lips are the delight of kings, and they love Him that speaketh right. God wants you to ask anything! Whatsoever you can ask that will move God to demonstrate His power in your life and cause His Name to spread all over and move people to give glory to Him everywhere that is what God wants. But He says you must ask in righteousness: “If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you” (John 15:7).  Make sure you are living a Christian life. Make sure you are an obedient child of God. Make sure you are committed to the ordinance of Christ, that you abide in Christ and the word of truth abides in you. Make sure you are living by the word in your personal life, in your marital life, and in your family life; you are living by the word in your business life; you are living ...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC: GOD IS PLANNING A GOOD MARRIAGE FOR YOU Text:  Jeremiah 29:11-14  SUNDAY MAY 14th  Key Verse: Proverbs 18:22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD. God said here that He will turn your captivity away from you. Whatever renders you captive that you cannot marry will be taken away from you. He wants you to marry. Forget the fact that you are alone in that nation. God has said you will marry. Forget the fact that you are a young person sitting in a congregation and every other person is married and you do not see a single lady there. Forget that fact because the creator said you will marry. Forget the fact that you are a widow and many young ladies are around. You may think, “When will all the young ladies marry before they consider me for marriage?” The Creator says you will marry.  Mobilize Prayer Partners If your prayer alone does not work, mobilize prayer partners; seek prayers ...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC: CHILD TRAINING REQUIRES LABOUR  Text:  Genesis 18:17-19  SATURDAY MAY 13th  Key Verse: Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Child training is a labour. It is a work to be done. It involves vision and action, because the Bible says, "In the way he should go." You must design the way you want your child to go. Child training is an activity that takes time. It means, you must create time to be with the child. You have to reduce your involvement in other things for the training. How do you put people in a class for training when the teacher is not there for them? You have to create time for the child. Child training is a challenge. It is a challenge because many things go against it. What do we say about the lazy man? What about the man who occupies himself with other things? What about the traveling man? What about the man that stays too far away from th...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC: THE EXISTENCE OF GOD  FRIDAY MAY 12th Text:  Genesis 1:1-5 Key Verse: Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.  This Scripture is saying that in the beginning, before anything existed, there was God. God existed before everybody, before everything. Before anything you can imagine.  This scripture also tells us that God is the One that created the heaven and earth. In the beginning God…!  The first in existence is God; the first person in heaven is God, the first person in the world is God; the first person everywhere in the whole universe is God.  God's existence is beyond human comprehension. He existed from eternity past gloriously and made everything that exists, perfectly. The earth is, because God lives. The reason why you are living now is because of God, whether you know it or not. What has sustained you to this day is God. He exists from generation to generation, time to ti...

God bless you for taking the time to study. HOLINESS REVIVAL MOVEMENT WORLDWIDE, HOREMOW DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY PASTOR PAUL RIKA INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR  DATE: THURSDAY MAY 11, 2023 TOPIC: BE STRONG IN THE LORD    TEXT: EPHESIANS 6:10-18 10. Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.  11. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.  12. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.  13. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.  14. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;  15. And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;  16. Above all, taking the shield of fait...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TITLE: TAKE HEED LEST THOU FALL  WEDNESDAY MAY 10th  TEXT: 1 Corinthians 10:1-5 Key Verse: 1 Corinthians 10: 11-12. 11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world have come. 12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he falls. We desire that you will be in heaven and I trust, that is also what you desire. What I am sharing with you will keep you steadfast on your way until you enter heaven. Many times, parents warn their children as they play and jump about, “Be careful, else you will fall.” This also refers to us, who are children of God. In our text Paul wrote to warn the Corinthians and of course, all Christians that we should know that the Jews all left Egypt on their way to the Promised Land. They all passed through the red sea and all ate of manna that fell from heaven; they all drank of the rock smitten, which rock was Christ...

God bless you for taking the time to study TOPIC: PASSION FOR PERSONAL PURITY  TUESDAY MAY 9th  Text: Matthew 5:6-8 Key Verse: Psalms 139:23-24 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Hunger and thirst! Remember the word passion, it stands for a force inside you; a strong desire inside you looking for a state of purity and a heart of Holiness. Let us see that passion, let us see that force, let us see you running, let us see you panting, let us see you weeping, let us see you doing all you can, let us see you crying and longing, for you shall be filled. God will fill you and give you purity. He who sees your struggle will satisfy you and you shall be filled. You see a man that does not want any wicked way in him does not accept it. Such a person will do all he can to fight against wickedness in his heart. He will cry “God, I cannot take this wickedness in me, come and help ...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC: THE PURITY IN CHRIST  MONDAY MAY 8th  Text: Hebrews 7:25-27 Key Verse: 1 John 3:3 And every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. The scriptures describe Jesus when He came as a human being like us. What was His quality? What was His attribute? How did He live? What was His life? The Bible says He is Holy. Jesus as a human being came to His own and lived among us; He was holy, pure, and undefiled. No dirty thing was in Him – in life, in language, in actions; in everything, nothing dirty was found in Him. He was undefiled; he was harmless, not hunting people about, not rude, not proud, and nothing in Him will make Him harm people. That is how Jesus was. He was separate from sinners. He did not live like a sinner. He did not share life with sinners. He did not live in sin with sinners. He lived separate lives, not like a drunkard, fornicator, or one who lusts after women or men, a thief, or a liar...

God bless you for taking the time to study. RIGHTEOUSNESS REDUCED TO ONE FAMILY IN NOAH’S DAYS Text: Genesis 6:5-9  SUNDAY MAY 7th  Key Verse: Matthew 24:37 “But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the son of man be.” God looked upon human beings and saw that every man was sinful and wicked, every man was thinking evil, planning evil, working out evil, and every imagination of the thought of man was evil continually. Satan took over all the religious gatherings. What is seen in Psalms 14 is a repetition of the days of Noah. We are seeing in our time too that some things are bringing the world to this state.  Psalm 14:1-3 1 “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. 2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. 3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy; there is none that d...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC: TRUE AND FALSE DOCTRINE IN CHRISTIANITY Text: Galatians 1:6-9  SATURDAY MAY 6th  Key verse: Songs of Solomon 2:15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes. Christian faith is very tender any false doctrines coming in can damage it. The Christian faith is very tender which is why you must be careful what you hear the enemy can damage it and Satan uses various means to damage it. These people were preached to by Paul the correct gospel of Christ was delivered unto them but foxes came in, false teachers came in with false doctrines affected their lives, Paul called that bewitchment who has bewitched you, so by this working of the devil in the church of Christ even by the activities of witchcraft the believers got affected the faith of many got twisted little things were introduce to the Christian faith and destroyed it because the Christian faith is tender and if you believe any ...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC: SANCTIFICATION IS REQUIRED TO ENTER HEAVEN TEXT: EPHESIANS 5: 25-27   FRIDAY MAY 5th  Key verse: 1 Thessalonians 5: 22 “Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.” As Jesus prayed, He said, “Thine they were, and You have given them to Me. They have become mine.” He said this before he died showing that those, He was praying for to be sanctified, were already believers. This was because the sacrifice for believers' sanctification was included in the redemptive plan of the Cross. The cross is first a sacrifice for sinners’ salvation, then a sacrifice for believers’ sanctification. You have married already just as He has gotten the Church already to Himself and gave Himself for it. He died for them so that He might sanctify them. It means to give you a step above salvation requires appropriating the benefits of the death of Christ. To bring you to holiness requires the application of the victory through the death ...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC: HOLINESS MUST BE THE FOUNDATION OF OUR SERVICE. TEXT: HEBREWS 9:27   THURSDAY MAY 4th  Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Always say, “I am a worker or leader today if it pleases You, but if otherwise, you want another person, I submit.” That is holiness. That makes God to have His way. The football coach can replace anyone on the team because he wants them to score and win. What if they all say, “Don't touch me?” They will fail to achieve their goal and may lose the game. All they are looking for is how to win. If they notice that you are tired or not following the game plan, you may be withdrawn, and another person takes over. We want to win and when we win, we will all rejoice together.  Choristers should not sing as in competition and carnality. Self-seeking or self-promo...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC: WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO PERSUADE PEOPLE?  Text: Acts 26:15-18  WEDNESDAY MAY 3rd  Key verse: Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me Today's key verse is a guide to what you are to persuade the people about. The LORD is saying, Go and open their eyes because their eyes are closed. They are in darkness that they cannot see with their eyes. They don't see and they don't know. What a spiritual darkness. This is a terrible spiritual darkness. For one to be blind and never know that he is blind! Is a serious problem. God says they need the opening of their eyes. It means understanding must come in. They do the things they do because of their lack of understanding. My people perish for lack of knowledge.  You have a mandate to open their eyes '...

God bless you for taking the time to study. TOPIC: QUALITIES OF ACCEPTABLE AND REWARDABLE SERVICE TEXT: 1 PETER 5: 1-6  TUESDAY MAY 2ND  Key verse: Hebrews 11:6 “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” (I).  Faith: Faith says God calls you and will reward you. Do not allow any situation to distract you.  (ii).  Faithfulness: Do it according to pattern; according to Divine specification.  (iii).  Humility: Be humble so you can perform service unto God. If you see yourself as highly placed, you may be directing works to younger ministers under you to do while some of these works may be for you. Where other people are assigned responsibilities and you are left out, God must have chosen somebody at that time to do it, so be humble and listen. (iv).  Holiness: Cloth yourself with the garment of holiness as a believer.  (v)....