Monday 7 January 2019,

Rhapsody of Realities TeeVo,
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome,

GOD IS NEVER LATE,
(He Is Merciful And Wants Everyone Saved),

📖TO THE BIBLE 2 Peter 3:9 MSG
“God isn’t late with his promise as some measure lateness. He is restraining himself on account of you, holding back the End because he doesn’t want anyone lost. He’s giving everyone space and time to change.”

LET’S TALK➡
One time in Scripture, God sent Jonah to a city called Nineveh to warn the people to turn away from their sins. Jonah thought God was too compassionate and forgiving, and that He would change His mind about destroying them. Rather than going to preach to them, he declined and went towards Tarshish (Jonah 1:3). On his way there, on a ship with other mariners, a mighty storm ensued and when his co-travellers realised that his disobedience to God was responsible for their trouble, they cast him out of the ship into the sea. The Bible says God prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah in the sea, and he was in the fish’s tummy for three days and three nights (Jonah 1:17).

Eventually, Jonah prayed to God and the fish vomited Jonah upon the dry land (Jonah 2:10). Now he was ready to follow God’s initial instruction and thus went to preach in Nineveh. As he did, the people were converted but Jonah felt offended and complained to God (Jonah 4:2 AMPC). God chided Jonah: “…should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons not [yet old enough to] know their right hand from their left…” (Jonah 4:11 AMPC). He felt they were ignorant; therefore, He had to be merciful to them.

It’s the same scenario today; there’re many people who, on a Sunday morning during service, would rather play football or video games. The Lord expects us to reach them with the Gospel. He loves them and wants to show them mercy. They’re missing the way, walking in darkness, not knowing the truth, but we’re the custodians of the truth. We must, therefore, keep praying and travailing for them to come to the knowledge of the truth, even as we proclaim the truth.

🔥Go Deeper🔥
2 Corinthians 5:18; Nehemiah 9:31

🙋‍♂Pray
Dear Father, my passion for lost souls is stirred with renewed commitment, and I declare that the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ blazes intensely in the hearts of the ignorant and unconverted around the world today, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

🗓Daily Bible Reading
ONE YEAR: Matthew 6:1-18, Genesis 18-19
TWO YEAR: Acts 7:33-42, Nehemiah 11

▶Act
Reach out to those people you haven’t spoken to in your neighbourhood today and tell them of God’s mercy, love and compassion for them.

RHAPSODY OF REALITIES DAILY DEVOTIONAL;

10TH JANUARY , 2019 BY PASTOR CHRIS OYAKHILOME;

SPIRITUAL INSIGHT;

[For I always pray to] the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the deep and intimate knowledge of Him (Ephesians 1:17 AMPC).

Something beautiful transpired in John 20:2122, after the resurrection of Jesus. While His disciples were in a room, He came in among them and the Bible says He “…breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost.” Luke 24:45 gave us a clearer insight into what Jesus actually did to the disciples; it says, “Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures.”

He granted them spiritual insight. Suddenly, they understood why Christ had to suffer, and the glory that was to be revealed. Prior to that time, He had shared the same thoughts with them, but they didn’t quite get it. Peter, for one, rebuked Him when He said He would have to be crucified on the Cross. But after He opened their understanding, they became spiritually enlightened! They had insight.

Insight means clear, deep, and usually sudden understanding and perception of a situation, subject, or mystery. It’s one of the many blessings of having the Holy Spirit in you: He gives you insight into mysteries and secrets. He grants you unusual perception and understanding of the inner workings of things, their compositions, functionalities, etc.

There’re certain things that would have been difficult for you to understand, but because of the ministry of the Holy Spirit in your life, the intricacies of those things are unveiled to you. You can always trust Him for insightful knowledge that gives skill, understanding, and great amplitude of comprehension.

PRAYER

Dear Father, you’ve granted me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of you; the eyes of my understanding are flooded with light to know and walk in your perfect will. I have skill, discernment, rare understanding, and function with the spirit of excellence, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

FURTHER STUDY:

Ephesians 1:17-18; 2 Timothy 2:7 AMPC

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Matthew 8:1-27 & Genesis 25-26

2-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Matthew 5:11-20 & Genesis 10

Saturday, January 5 2019;
Rhapsody of Realities TeeVo;
👤Pastor Chris Oyakhilome;

LEAVE THE BABY STAGE
(Keep Growing In God’s Word

📖TO THE BIBLE Hebrews 6:1 NIV
“Therefore let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God”

LET’S TALK➡
There’re three kinds of men the Bible talks about: the old man, the new man, and the spiritual man. The old man is the natural man. The new man is the person who’s born again; his spirit is recreated. However, that new man isn’t all that God is looking for. He wants the new man to become spiritually mature—the spiritual man. Being born again is only the beginning of your journey with the Lord; you have to grow up and become mature.

1 Peter 2:2 says, “Like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation” (NASB). This isn’t referring to the growth of your physical muscles, but your spirit. It’s talking about spiritual growth. The one who’s spiritually mature in Christ has a very different lifestyle from the one that’s still a baby in Christ. In fact, they don’t speak the same language. Whereas the latter is easily overwhelmed by circumstances and adversities of life, the former walk in dominion and has life under control.

The Bible says spiritual babies, are in bondage to the elements of this world (Galatians 4:3). No wonder He wants us to become mature in Christ. He doesn’t want you being tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine, rather, He wants you to come to the place of perfection, completeness and spiritual maturity. It’s a place of power and glory. It’s a place of joy, peace, fulfillment, and success. It’s the place where divinity reigns!

By yielding yourself to the Word, and allowing it to gain the dominion in your spirit, soul, and body, you’re catapulted to higher realms of glory. No matter how glorious your present level is, there’s more in God; there’s a greater glory. Therefore, keep growing in, and by, the Word!

🔥Go Deeper: Colossians 2:6-7; Ephesians 4:11-14

Speak🗣
I’m thoroughly nourished and fortified for the victorious life by the Word, through study and meditation. I make progress by the Spirit, and my profiting by the Word is unstoppable. As I grow in, and by the Word, the realities of the Kingdom are unveiled to me by the Holy Spirit; the glories of the Kingdom are revealed in me in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

📚Daily Bible Reading
ONE YEAR: Matthew 5:1-20, Genesis 12-14
TWO YEAR: Acts 7:12-21, Nehemiah 9

▶Act
Study, memorise and meditate on 1 Corinthians 2:12-15 today.

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