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TOPIC: It's All Part Of The Process.

MEMORY VERSE: Romans 8:28 (KJV) 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.

READING: Isaiah 48:10-12.
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When you begin to see yourself as one who is being prepared by God for a task ahead, you would know that everything happening to you is working out for your good.

What doesn't kill you, they say, makes you stronger. God is using your challenges and everything that you are facing to prepare you for something better. God is bringing out a message from your mess and a testimony from your tests. It is when you have been broken that you can qualify for remoulding and it is when you have been brought low that you can be lifted up.

In divine preparation, everything is a raw material. Problems, trials, ups and downs, It doesn't matter whether it pleases you or not. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you've made. They are like the fire that God is passing you through to become Gold.

Everything is working out well for your good. God hasn't forgotten you. If you want to be prepared by God, you need to learn to see everything that you go through as being part of His process. For God wouldn't let them to consume you.

Complain less, pray more, count your blessings and count everything that happens to you as all joy. It's all part of God's plan. They are stories that will be told one day. God is giving you ashes for beauty and shame for Fame. It may not always be easy, but it's all part of the process.

Be encouraged in the Lord.

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE: Two very key things to learn from Job's story is that: Except God permits the enemy, he can not strike. And the reason why God permits him, is because God knows that just like job, His children shall always overcome the devil. Be not afraid!

PRAYER: O Lord, deliver me from every form of ignorance, in the name of Jesus.

©️ ANTHONY AKHIGBE.

HOPE FOR DAILY LIVING.
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TOPIC: Divine Education.
MEMORY VERSE: Mark 1:12
And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
READING: Romans 8:17-19.
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The divine education that we are talking about today, is divine preparation.
Divine preparation will make you discover and rediscover your potentials. It will train you and add value to your gifts. It will position you for divine opportunities. The message can neither be over preached nor the ministry over reached.
Beloveth, God is still in the business of preparing His children for their divine assignments. No matter your degree, social status, or background, when it comes to your divine destiny, it takes divine preparation to venture into it.
Asides lack of identity of purpose, many people are failing even in their purpose today because they've refused to be schooled or didnt finish their divine education before manifesting. And the big tragedy there is that such people have mostly relied on their earthly skills and knowledge to fulfill destiny.
But see, you can not learn what God has called you to do or become in any earthly school. Neither can any earthly qualification stop or qualify you. It is only added as a raw material to what God is making you to become. Earthly education is secondary to what divine education will do as regards your divine purpose.
Beloved, you may not have the necessary qualifications to get to where God is taking you to, but be not dismayed. God who has chosen you, knew of those things before He chose you. And that is the reason for divine preparation.
Today, you need to decide to be well educated in your divine field of purpose before manifesting.
MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE: When something happens before it supposed time, it doesn't live to the expected time.
PRAYER: I shall not be a dropout from God's school of divine preparation, in the name of Jesus.
©️ Anthony Akhigbe.

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TOPIC : Helpers Of Destiny

MEMORY VERSE: Romans 16:3 - Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus.
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In life, and in destiny fulfillment, everyone needs help. To be able to do something : means someone somewhere might have taught you how to do it, or better still, someone helped you in doing it. Every destiny has it helpers ordained by God to help in fulfilling them. Hence the name "destiny-helpers".

One of the major problems this generation has today, is the inability or unwillingness of people to seek for help.

Isn't it strange that somebody would need help and still not ask for it?

Isn't it lamentable that somebody would SEE help and still not go for it?

Someone said; a closed mouth is a closed destiny. So, it's not always the fault of satanic forces at times, but that some people can be the cause of their problems; because of their unwillingness to seek or ask for help.

Even in divine preparation, God would be bringing into your life people who has gotten passed the stages you presently find yourself in. And why? So that they can also help you get through that process. But if you don't ask for their help, they might as well just come and go as if God never sent helpers to you.

Some helpers are meant to teach you, some to empower you, and some serves as links to other helpers. Regardless, you can't afford to miss any. While some freely offers their helps whether or not you ask them for it, some would wait until you ask them for it before they can help you, just to be sure of your seriousness.

What hinders people from asking for help? Fear, pride/ego, & ignorance. While some are afraid to ask for help, some others are too big to ask, and some doesn't even know they need help.

May you be delivered from any of those groups in Jesus name.

Today, if you find yourself reading this devotional; it means you need help and you need to start seeking for it. God is saying that there are helpers around you if you don't know. And although some might have left due to your ignorance of who they are, but you mustn't repeat that same mistakes with the rest around you.

There is still hope for you.

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE: Destiny helpers don't carry their mission's statement on their heads. It's only left for you to pray to God to reveal them to you and be nice to everyone around you.

PRAYER: My Father, open my eyes to see my helpers, and bring back those that has left me, in the name of Jesus.

© Anthony Akhigbe.

Peter, the apostle, warned people about ALL MOGs (False Prophets and Teachers), from about 2000 years ago.

2 Peter 2 vs 1-7 (ERV)
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1. In the past there were false prophets among God’s people. It is the same now. You will have some false teachers in your group. They will teach things that are wrong—ideas that will cause people to be lost. And they will teach in a way that will be hard for you to see that they are wrong. They will even refuse to follow the Master who bought their freedom. And so they will quickly destroy themselves.
2. Many people will follow them in the morally wrong things they do. And because of them, others will say bad things about the way of truth we follow.
3. These false teachers only want your money. So they will use you by telling you things that are not true. But the judgment against these false teachers has been ready for a long time. And they will not escape God who will destroy them.

4. When angels sinned, God did not let them go free without punishment. He sent them to hell. He put those angels in caves of darkness, where they are being held until the time when God will judge them.

5. And God punished the evil people who lived long ago. He brought a flood to the world that was full of people who were against God. But he saved Noah and seven other people with him. Noah was a man who told people about living right.

6. God also punished the evil cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. He burned them until there was nothing left but ashes. He used those cities as an example of what will happen to people who are against God.
7. But he saved Lot, a good man who lived there. Lot was greatly troubled by the morally bad lives of those evil people. 8 This good man lived with those evil people every day, and his good heart was hurt by the evil things he saw and heard.

HOPE FOR DAILY LIVING.
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TOPIC: A Cry For Divine Help
MEMORY VERSE: 2 Chronicles 20:9
If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
READING: Mark 10:46-52.
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The cry for help is a cry of faith. And just like bartimaeus , it is a cry of mercy. Some people who are not yet getting help are that way because they haven't started crying for it.
The cry for help is an intensified version of asking for help. It takes passion and sometimes aggression to "cry" for something.
For you to cry for something means it pains you so much that you just can not keep it to yourself any longer or continue with that situation anymore that you urgently need help. Thus, a cry for divine help could also be seen as a sign of enough-is-enough.
See beloved, due to the nature of some problems, the prayers needed for them could require that you cry to God to intervene into that situation. You would also agree with me that the way a sick person would pray to God is different from the way someone in the middle of an accident would shout the name of Jesus.
Crying for divine help tells God that you can not take it anymore and that you urgently need His help.
In our bible reading today, despite how people tried to stop the blind man from shouting for help, he didn't stop. That is a very good example of crying for divine help.
What is God saying to you today? God is simply saying that you need to start crying to Him in situations that requires His urgent attention if you really want to get out of it.

There is still hope for you.

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE: If you are still looking at people, and at your surrounding before crying for help, then it means your problem isn't that serious.
PRAYER: Today!! let my cry get to heaven and send help to me, in the name of Jesus !!!
©️ Anthony Akhigbe.

Peter, the apostle, warned people about ALL MOGs (False Prophets and Teachers), from about 2000 years ago.

2 Peter 2 vs 1-7 (ERV)
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1. In the past there were false prophets among God’s people. It is the same now. You will have some false teachers in your group. They will teach things that are wrong—ideas that will cause people to be lost. And they will teach in a way that will be hard for you to see that they are wrong. They will even refuse to follow the Master who bought their freedom. And so they will quickly destroy themselves.
2. Many people will follow them in the morally wrong things they do. And because of them, others will say bad things about the way of truth we follow.
3. These false teachers only want your money. So they will use you by telling you things that are not true. But the judgment against these false teachers has been ready for a long time. And they will not escape God who will destroy them.

4. When angels sinned, God did not let them go free without punishment. He sent them to hell. He put those angels in caves of darkness, where they are being held until the time when God will judge them.

5. And God punished the evil people who lived long ago. He brought a flood to the world that was full of people who were against God. But he saved Noah and seven other people with him. Noah was a man who told people about living right.

6. God also punished the evil cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. He burned them until there was nothing left but ashes. He used those cities as an example of what will happen to people who are against God.
7. But he saved Lot, a good man who lived there. Lot was greatly troubled by the morally bad lives of those evil people. 8 This good man lived with those evil people every day, and his good heart was hurt by the evil things he saw and heard.

HOPE FOR DAILY LIVING.
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TOPIC: The Cry For Divine Mercy.
MEMORY VERSE: Luke 18:39 - And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
READING: Matthew 9:27-31.
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A cry for divine help is a cry for divine mercy. Divine Mercy is the exact prayer point needed in every crucial situations. Regardless of the sinful state of the victim involved, asking for divine mercy would qualify such a person for divine help. Divine Mercy prevails over judgement. God who rules from the throne of grace, sits on the seat of mercy. It is when mercy has refused to say no, that grace wouldn't be withdrawn or wasted. Mercy is not only for sinners. It is for anyone still sinning. No one can outgrow God's mercy. Salvation itself is God having mercy on those who has been destined for destruction.
In reference to some biblical examples: The woman of Canaan whose daughter was possessed by the devil, got Jesus to heal her child by crying to Him for mercy (Matt. 15:22-28). The two blind men whom Jesus healed by the wayside first cried to Him for mercy (Matt. 20:30-34). Bartimaeus, whom was before known as blind-bartimaeus, had his sight restored by crying to Jesus for mercy (mark 10:46-52). And so on like that.
Today, God is specially addressing those whose situations needs Divine Mercy, but has refused to ask for it, pay more attention to it, or are ignorant of it. And just in case you fell into any of those categories, God is urging you to start asking and crying for His Divine Mercy, if you really want His divine intervention in your situation. In other words, change your prayer point!
There is still hope for you.
MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE: The blood of Jesus washes away sins. But only the mercy of God can save from the punishment of sin.
PRAYER: Jesus Christ the Son of God; have mercy upon me, and ... (mention what you want Him to do for you) ... In the name of Jesus.
© Anthony Akhigbe.

Peter, the apostle, warned people about ALL MOGs (False Prophets and Teachers), from about 2000 years ago.

2 Peter 2 vs 1-7 (ERV)
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1. In the past there were false prophets among God’s people. It is the same now. You will have some false teachers in your group. They will teach things that are wrong—ideas that will cause people to be lost. And they will teach in a way that will be hard for you to see that they are wrong. They will even refuse to follow the Master who bought their freedom. And so they will quickly destroy themselves.
2. Many people will follow them in the morally wrong things they do. And because of them, others will say bad things about the way of truth we follow.
3. These false teachers only want your money. So they will use you by telling you things that are not true. But the judgment against these false teachers has been ready for a long time. And they will not escape God who will destroy them.

4. When angels sinned, God did not let them go free without punishment. He sent them to hell. He put those angels in caves of darkness, where they are being held until the time when God will judge them.

5. And God punished the evil people who lived long ago. He brought a flood to the world that was full of people who were against God. But he saved Noah and seven other people with him. Noah was a man who told people about living right.

6. God also punished the evil cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. He burned them until there was nothing left but ashes. He used those cities as an example of what will happen to people who are against God.
7. But he saved Lot, a good man who lived there. Lot was greatly troubled by the morally bad lives of those evil people. 8 This good man lived with those evil people every day, and his good heart was hurt by the evil things he saw and heard.

Kobojunkie well done o, who gave you this work? It must be very tiring

VLTA:
Kobojunkie well done o, who gave you this work? It must be very tiring

Well, Jesus Christ lashed out at Scribes,Pharisees, and MOGs... Teachers of the Law who were not chosen by God to Teach His people but assigned themselves as Teachers/gods over His people anyways.

It was only as part of the old Covenant that MOGs known as 'men of God' were set up to teach God's people, the descendants of Israel, about God's commandments and ways. However, the office was hijacked by men who took to installing themselves according to their own rules, as leaders over God's own people, setting themselves up as dictators over God's people where it God and matters that concern God. With His New Covenant, God declared that the office of MOGs null and void. Instead, as part of His new Covenant, God declared He alone will teach His flock about Himself.

So your MOGs, who pretend to be of Jesus Christ, were never set up as Teachers over God's people... they were simply meant to preach the good news of Jesus Christ to those who were not saved... not to install themselves as managers over those who were, but instead, these men have

1. Set themselves up as 'spiritual' leaders/authorities over Jesus Christ's flock

Matthew 20 vs 24-28 (ESV)
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25. So Jesus called the followers together. He said, “You know that the rulers of the non-Jewish people love to show their power over the people. And their important leaders love to use all their authority over the people.
26. But it should not be that way with you. Whoever wants to be your leader must be your servant.
27. Whoever wants to be first must serve the rest of you like a slave.
28. Do as I did: The Son of Man did not come for people to serve him. He came to serve others and to give his life to save many people.”

2. Spiritual 'Abbas over those they have been sent out to preach the good news of the Kingdom of God to

Matthew 23 vs 8-9
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8. But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.[c]
9. And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

3. Planted themselves as go-betweens between God and His flock

Matthew 6 vs 24 (ERV)
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24. “You cannot serve two masters at the same time. You will hate one and love the other, or you will be loyal to one and not care about the other. You cannot serve God and Money[d] at the same time.

4. Established themselves as teachers teaching doctrines and traditions different from what Jesus Christ taught them

Matthew 23 vs 10-12
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10. Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ.
11. The greatest among you shall be your servant.
12. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

5. To add insult to the pile, your MOGs add rules/commandments to the set of rules that God has set up for His people to obey.

Mark 7 vs 1-13 (ERV)
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1. Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem,
2. they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed.
3. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly,[a] holding to the tradition of the elders,
4. and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.[c])
[b] 5. And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?”
6. And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,
“‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me;
7. in vain do they worship me,
teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

8. You leave the commandment of God and hold to the (doctrines and rules)** tradition of men.”
9. And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!
10. For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’
11. But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God)[d]—
12. then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,
13. thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”

** substituted from another Bible translation for better understanding of what is impacted

If you study the Old Covenant Teachers of the Law, you will find that these were the same infractions Jesus Christ leveled against them while He was here on earth. And He did warn us, using the Old Covenant Teachers of the Law as examples, against men who would establish themselves in a similar manner over His own followers, all while pretending to come to us in the name of God.

I can go on but the truth is, your MOGs exist in direct disobedience to the very commandments of Jesus Christ. Peter, the apostle, warned people about ALL MOGs (False Prophets and Teachers), from about 2000 years ago.

2 Peter 2 vs 1-7 (ERV)
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1. In the past there were false prophets among God’s people. It is the same now. You will have some false teachers in your group. They will teach things that are wrong—ideas that will cause people to be lost. And they will teach in a way that will be hard for you to see that they are wrong. They will even refuse to follow the Master who bought their freedom. And so they will quickly destroy themselves.
2. Many people will follow them in the morally wrong things they do. And because of them, others will say bad things about the way of truth we follow.
3. These false teachers only want your money. So they will use you by telling you things that are not true. But the judgment against these false teachers has been ready for a long time. And they will not escape God who will destroy them.

4. When angels sinned, God did not let them go free without punishment. He sent them to hell. He put those angels in caves of darkness, where they are being held until the time when God will judge them.

5. And God punished the evil people who lived long ago. He brought a flood to the world that was full of people who were against God. But he saved Noah and seven other people with him. Noah was a man who told people about living right.

6. God also punished the evil cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. He burned them until there was nothing left but ashes. He used those cities as an example of what will happen to people who are against God.
7. But he saved Lot, a good man who lived there. Lot was greatly troubled by the morally bad lives of those evil people. 8 This good man lived with those evil people every day, and his good heart was hurt by the evil things he saw and heard.

Happy weekend beloved.

Our devotional returns by Monday

Stay connected.

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TOPIC : God Is Not Done With You.

MEMORY VERSE : 1 Samuel 30:6
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

READING : Judges 20:20-35.
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You are not a failure. Neither does God sees you as one even when you fail. It doesn't matter your mistakes. God is bringing a message out of your mess.

Beloved, God is not yet done with you. So don't give up. If God hasn't given up on you, then why should you give up on yourself?

Who is man and what value does his opinion gives to your life that would make you to start thinking lowly of yourself?

If you are still alive today and not amongst those whose dead bodies are six feet underground, it's because God is saying "I'm not done with you".

Life is not just for living-- It is for a purpose. So, the fact that you are still alive despite all what you've been through shows that God still has a special plan for you.

Mistakes doesn't stops a royalty from being royalty. Neither will yours stop you from being a Child of God and who God wants you to be.

The devil wants you to always think lowly of yourself because according to the bible --- For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. (Prov. 23:7)

Also, the devil wants you to always dwell on the past so that you won't move forward. And personally, I haven't seen someone going forward while facing backwards at the same time.

You see, no matter what you've done, God will never see you the way you, or others sees yourself. And this is because God is still in the business of bringing out the best in people.

God is an expert in turning ugly situations into beautiful stories. Everything is working out for your good, including your present situation. And like I always say "if you are not yet where God has shown to you in your dreams, then that is not your final destination." thus, God is still taking you farther.

Our God is not a God of unfinished or abandoned projects. We serve a God of Perfection. You are one of God's projects and you are not finished until your story is perfected.

Be encouraged in the Lord.

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE: Even Jesus wanted to quit at some point. But He didnt. Why? Because He knew that God wasn't through with Him yet, thus He asked that God's will and not His own will, be done.

PRAYER: Every spirit of worry and anxiety, every spirit of wasters, your time is up, come out and die by fire, in the name of Jesus.

©️ Anthony Akhigbe

Hallelujah

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TOPIC: Why You Have Not Been Hearing From God Clearly

MEMORY 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.

READING: 1 Samuel 30:1-8.
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Today, we shall be discussing a major factor in people's lives that stops them from hearing from God clearly.

Discouragement is a form of spiritual oppression. A discouraged person is someone who has refused to be encouraged. Discouragement is not from God, but from the devil. Discouragement is revealed as an hindrance to hearing from God clearly because according to our reading today, David had to first encourage himself in the Lord before He could go and enquire from Him. Why did David encourage Himself? Because he was discouraged, because there was no one to do that for him, because as a king he couldn't continue weeping with the people who looked up to him, and because you don't go to God discouraged if you want to get His help (heb. 11:6).

Seeking the face of God in discouragement tells that you don't believe God can answer you. Discouragement makes you to see problems and not solutions. I may not have any "secrets" or "keys" to give to you in order not to feel discouraged, but here's my candid advice: if you want to come out of discouragement, I mean if you want to stop feeling discouraged, you simply have to encourage yourself.

Stop waiting for people to encourage you before you encourage yourself, as they might also be in need of help. Refusing to be encouraged shuts out the Holy spirit from comforting you. Therefore the first way to hearing from God clearly in any situation you may find yourself in, is to be encouraged. And not just encouraged in yourself, but in God who can help you.

Be encouraged in the Lord.

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE: "And David encouraged himself in the Lord" is a way of saying "And David trusted in the Lord". You can only enter into your rest when you have trusted in God's help.

PRAYER: Every Problems that has formed an umbrella over my head, scatter by fire, in the name of Jesus.

© Anthony Akhigbe.