*DAILY DEW 30/MARCH/2023* *THE CHURCH, DATING & CHOOSING A PARTNER* _Key Bible Text:_ *"Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord."* (Ephesians 5:19 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ There are unserious guys who start attending church when they are ready to settle down. The interesting thing is that there are also unserious ladies who do the same. My prayer is that they all either meet Jesus or satan should connect them together for marriage. We cover our innocent sisters and brothers. Amen! -- Adebowale Ibukun Tosin **** You must also know that the church is many things, for many, but most especially it is a spiritual hospital. Some are responding to treatment and take their regular check up and spiritual medication seriously, with daily dosage of the word and prayer according to prescription. Some others, are sadly, not responding to treatment, they scorn or shirk daily medication and some fail to attend to regular check up to begin with, only specializing in funerals, weddings, thanksgivings, and end of the year cross over services. Don't be fooled to assume that every brother or sister in church is really there for the purpose of becoming more like Christ. Hence, the most important thing you need to be when seeking a marriage spouse is how to become a better version of yourself. When you truly respond to treatment, and are becoming more like Christ, you will know the right persons who are also responding positively to treatment. It takes original to know an original because the deep ones will always attract the deep ones. (The deep calleth unto the deep) _MEDITATION:_ *"Becoming the RIGHT partner is MORE important than CHOOSING the RIGHT partner! A goat cannot choose a sheep. A sheep cannot choose a goat. Selah"* -- EDJ *#David_Joshua_Egbochuo* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_APRIL,2023* ❤ Links To Visit: *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *Telegram Group:* https://t.me/joinchat/NzXQlVc9Hx7LfaRSnh9fHg Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you...

*DAILY DEW 29/MARCH/2023* *PURPOSEFUL SINGING* _Key Bible Text:_ *"Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord."* (Ephesians 5:19 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ No matter how Christ-centred our songs are, I believe that building church/ministry on music apart from solid bible teaching and study is nothing but boosting dopamine levels. Bible study is the basis for appreciating spiritual songs. We've seen many singing, 'Agbani la gba tan o' (He that saves completely) yet struggling to believe Christ saves to the uttermost (Hebrews 7:25). Some are passionately singing, 'No guilt in life, no fear in death, this is the power of Christ in me', yet wallowing in guilt all their lives and are afraid of dying because of the fear of hell. It takes a systematic teaching of God's word to appreciate the summaries in these lyrics, without which, songs that ought to edify and assure our hearts would only rile up our emotions. And believe me, these musicians know what to play to make it look like everyone is edified. But it's when the music fades, we know those who truly understand the lyrics. _MEDITATION:_ *"The correct teaching of the Word should give birth to solid scriptural songs. And at the same time, songs must also lead to further and deeper appreciation of sound biblical truth. It is supposed to be an "iron sharpening iron" kind of relationship between spiritual songs and spiritual teachings"* -- EDJ *#Adebowale_Ibukun_Tosin* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_MARCH,2023* ❤ *#Guest_Message* Links To Visit: *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *Telegram Group:* https://t.me/joinchat/NzXQlVc9Hx7LfaRSnh9fHg Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you...

*DAILY DEW 28/MARCH/2023* *GOD'S FORGIVENESS* (II) _Key Bible Text:_ *"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."* (Romans 8:1 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ God has provided forgiveness for you in Christ - yes you! Don't let satan push you far away from God through voices of condemnation. No matter what you've done, there is forgiveness available in Christ. The blood of Jesus cleanses from all sins! "For God so loved the world..." Not an offensive verse until we expand...The world = The good, the bad, and the ugly. Further Expanded...Religious man...Prayerful man...Husband snatcher...Thieves and Robbers....Hoodlums....Murderers...Prostitutes...Betrayer...You can add to the list... The law of the land may convict and sentence, But Jesus has come to redeem and save you. He came so that anyone of these listed and more will be saved. It may be you or your family member or colleague at work. Christ has come to love you out of every lawlessness. No matter what you've done, His arms are widely opened for you now. _MEDITATION:_ *"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."* (John 3:16 (KJV)) *#Adebowale_Ibukun_Tosin* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_MARCH,2023* ❤ *#Guest_Message* Links To Visit: *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *Telegram Group:* https://t.me/joinchat/NzXQlVc9Hx7LfaRSnh9fHg Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you...

*DAILY DEW 27/MARCH/2023* *GOD'S FORGIVENESS* _Key Bible Text:_ *"The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins."* (Acts 5:30-31 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ With one sentence, Christ paralysed the accusers of the woman caught in adultery: 'He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone'. They all walked away dropping their stones. People who were sitting in judgment over another had their own consciences judge them guilty. In that event, we see that what's prevalent in the world is hypocritical judgment; sinners judging sinners, but Christ came to heal sinners with the gift of no condemnation. By this, the sinner is empowered to go and sin no more! (JOHN 8:3-11). The offer of God to everyone who repents/believes is FORGIVENESS of sins (Acts 2:38; Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:14). There is no gospel if this fact is unknown to the hearers. God has provided forgiveness in Christ and everyone can receive freely as they turn to God by faith in the finished work of Christ. Who are the believers? The forgiven ones! The bible says Jesus hated lawlessness/sin (Hebrews 1:9). However, He was spitefully called the friend of sinners (Luke 7:34), by the religious rulers of His day but He took that as a compliment knowing that a doctor wouldn't be ashamed of being seen with the sick. He came to set us free from sin, and so He had to dwell with sinners to get the sin out of them. _MEDITATION:_ *"Note the word 'friend'; He was in their midst as one who loved their souls. He was friendly, merciful & compassionate. Jesus, the hater of sin, and the friend of sinners. Know the difference!"* *#Adebowale_Ibukun_Tosin* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_MARCH,2023* ❤ *#Guest_Message* Links To Visit: *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *Telegram Group:* https://t.me/joinchat/NzXQlVc9Hx7LfaRSnh9fHg Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you...

*DAILY DEW 26/MARCH/2023* *Where Are the Elijahs of God?* (IV) _Key Bible Text:_ *"Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God."* (1 Kings 18:38-39 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ Later, Elijah’s prayer at Carmel was a masterpiece of concise praying. ‘‘Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again’’ (I Kings 18:37). *E. M. Bounds is right in saying that short, powerful public prayers are the outcome of long secret intercession.* Elijah prayed, not for the destruction of the idolatrous priests, nor for thunderbolts from heaven to consume rebellious Israel, but that the glory of God and the power of God might be revealed. We try to help God out of difficulties. Remember how Abraham tried to do this, and to this day the earth is cursed with his folly because of Ishmael. On the other hand, Elijah made it as difficult as he could for the Lord. He wanted fire, but yet he soaked the sacrifice with water! God loves such holy boldness in our prayers. ‘‘Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession’’ (Psalm 2:8) Oh! my ministering brethren! Much of our praying is but giving God advice! Our praying is discolored with ambition, either for ourselves or for our denomination. Perish the thought! Our goal must be God alone. It is His honor that is sullied, His blessed Son who is ignored, His laws broken, His name profaned, His Book forgotten, His house made a circus of social efforts. Does God ever need more patience with His people than when they are ‘‘praying’’? We tell Him what to do and how to do it. We pass judgments and make appreciations in our prayers. In short, we do everything except pray. No Bible School can teach us this art. What Bible School has ‘‘Prayer’’ on its curriculum? The most important thing a man can study is the prayer part of the Book. But where is this taught? _MEDITATION:_ *"Let us strip off the last bandage and declare that many of our presidents and teachers do not pray, shed no tears, know no travail. Can they teach what they do not know?"* *#Leonard_Ravenhill* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_MARCH,2023* ❤ *#Guest_Message* Links To Visit: *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *Telegram Group:* https://t.me/joinchat/NzXQlVc9Hx7LfaRSnh9fHg Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you...

*DAILY DEW 25/MARCH/2023* *Where Are the Elijahs of God?* (III) _Key Bible Text:_ *"Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee."* (1 Kings 17:9 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ *The difficulties to world evangelism are legion. But difficulties give way to determined men.* ‘‘Got any rivers you think are uncrossable? Got any mountains you can’t tunnel through? God specializes in things thought impossible, And He can do what no other pow’r can do.’’ *The price is high. God does not want partnership with us, but ownership of us.* Elijah lived with God. He thought about the nation’s sin like God; he grieved over sin like God; he spoke against sin like God. He was all passion in his prayers and passionate in his denunciation of evil in the land. He had no smooth preaching. Passion fired his preaching, and his words were on the hearts of men as molten metal on their flesh. But ‘‘the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord’’ (Psalm 37:23). The Lord said to Elijah, ‘‘Hide thyself,’’ and again, ‘‘Show thyself.’’ It would be wrong to hide when we should be rebuking kings for His sake; it would be wrong to preach if the Spirit is calling us to wait upon the Lord. _MEDITATION:_ *"We must learn with David, ‘‘My soul, wait thou only upon God’’ (Psalm 62:5). Who of us dares to invite the Lord to cut out all our props? God’s ways are not our ways. His ways are ‘‘past finding out,’’ but He reveals them unto us by His Spirit. God ordered Elijah to Cherith, then to Zarephath—to lodge at a swank hotel? No! No! This prophet of God, this preacher of righteousness, was commanded by the Lord to stay at the home of an impoverished widow!"* *#Leonard_Ravenhill* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_MARCH,2023* ❤ *#Guest_Message* Links To Visit: *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *Telegram Group:* https://t.me/joinchat/NzXQlVc9Hx7LfaRSnh9fHg Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you...

*DAILY DEW 24/MARCH/2023* *Where Are the Elijahs of God?* (II) _Key Bible Text:_ *"And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over."* (2 Kings 2:14 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ Brethren, if we will do God’s work in God’s way at God’s time with God’s power, we shall have God’s blessing and the devil’s curses. When God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil will open the door of hell to blast us. God’s smile means the devil’s frown! Mere preachers may help anybody and hurt nobody; but prophets will stir everybody and madden somebody. The preacher may go with the crowd; the prophet goes against it. A man freed, fired, and filled with God will be branded unpatriotic because he speaks against his nation’s sins; unkind because his tongue is a two-edged sword; unbalanced because the weight of preaching opinion is against him. The preacher will be heralded; the prophet hounded. Ah! brother preachers, we love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, reformers: our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys, Asburys, etc. We will write their biographies, reverence their memories, frame their epitaphs, and build their cenotaphs. We will do anything except imitate them. We cherish the last drop of their blood, but watch the first drop of our own! John the Baptist did well to evade prison for six months. He and Elijah would not last six weeks in the streets of a modern city. They would be cast into a prison or mental home for judging sin and not muting their message. The enemy has come in like a flood. Is there no Spirit- filled messenger today, armed with all the panoply of God, to lift up a standard against him? One place alone will keep the heart in passion and the eyes in vision—the place of prayer. This man Elijah, with a volcano for a heart, and a thunderstorm for a voice, came to the Kingdom for such a time as this. _MEDITATION:_ *"The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known. There is no fault in God. He is able. God ‘‘is able to do . . . according to the power that worketh in us.’’* *#Leonard_Ravenhill* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_MARCH,2023* ❤ *#Guest_Message* Links To Visit: *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *Telegram Group:* https://t.me/joinchat/NzXQlVc9Hx7LfaRSnh9fHg Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you...

*DAILY DEW 23/MARCH/2023* *Where Are the Elijahs of God?* _Key Bible Text:_ *"Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months."* (James 5:17 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ To the question, ‘‘Where is the Lord God of Elijah?’’ we answer, ‘‘Where He has always been—on the throne!’’ But where are the Elijahs of God? We know Elijah was ‘‘a man of like passions as we are,’’ but alas! we are not men of like prayer as he was! One praying man stands as a majority with God! Today God is bypassing men—not because they are too ignorant, but because they are too self-sufficient. Brethren, our abilities are our handicaps, and our talents our stumbling blocks! Out of obscurity, Elijah came on to the Old Testament stage, a full-grown man. Queen Jezebel, that daughter of hell, had routed the priests of God and replaced them with groves to false deities. Darkness covered the land and gross darkness the people, and they were drinking iniquity like water. Every day the land, fouled with heathen temples and idolatrous rites, saw smoke curling from a thousand cruel altars. All this was among a people who claimed Abraham as their father, and whose forebears had cried unto the Lord in their trouble and He had delivered them out of all their distresses. How the God of Glory had departed! the salt had lost its savour! the gold had become dim! But out of this measureless backsliding, God raised up a man— not a committee, not a sect, not an angel—but a MAN, and a man of like passions as we are! God ‘‘sought for a man,’’ not to preach, but ‘‘to stand in the gap.’’ As Abraham, so now Elijah ‘‘stood before the Lord.’’ Therefore the blessed Holy Spirit could write the life of Elijah in two words: ‘‘He prayed.’’ No man can do more than that for God or for men. If the Church today had as many agonizers as she has advisers, we would have a revival in a year. Such praying men are always our national benefactors. Elijah was such. He had heard a voice, seen a vision, tasted a power, measured an enemy, and, with God as partner, wrought a victory. The tears he shed, the soul agonies he endured, the groans he uttered, are all recorded in the book of the chronicles of the things of God. At last Elijah emerged to prophesy with divine infallibility. He knew the mind of God. Therefore he— one man—strangled a nation and altered the course of nature. This ‘‘crag of a man’’ stood as majestic and immovable as the mountains of Gilead, as he shut up the heavens with a word. By the key of faith, which fits every lock, Elijah locked heaven, pocketed the key, and made Ahab tremble. _MEDITATION:_ *"Though it is wonderful indeed when God lays hold of a man, earth can know one greater wonder— when a man lays hold of God."* *#Leonard_Ravenhill* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_MARCH,2023* ❤ *#Guest_Message* Links To Visit: *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *Telegram Group:* https://t.me/joinchat/NzXQlVc9Hx7LfaRSnh9fHg Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you...

*DAILY DEW 22/MARCH/2023* *FORMING THE RIGHT CONVICTIONS* (IV) _Key Bible Text:_ *"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night."* (Psalms 1:1-2 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ As we add a few more examples of positive and Bible based convictions, pls remember that convictions are not formed overnight. They take study of God's word, and intentional application of the word. 4. I am totally convinced that I need a daily dosage of prayer and the Word to live a "successful" Christian life on earth. No believer can build and develop proper christian faith and lifestyle after the example of Christ, without prayer and the word. And there can be no good success without continuous taking heed to the word and prayer. 5. I am convinced that money MUST never become a god or master over me but a servant. The love of money is the root of all evil. The ability to never allow money to lord it over one, is the greatest skill and grace a believer must possess. 6. I am convinced about the need to walk in integrity. The need for integrity in this day and time cannot be overemphasized. There is so much compromise going on. Many double standards, and hipocrisy in the land. May God grant us help to be faithful and not compromise. 7. I am convinced about the need to be a witness for Jesus. Jesus calls us to be His witnesses. Preacher or no preacher, pastor or no pastor, evangelist or no evangelist, student or no student, businessman (woman) or not, career person or not, every beliver is called to be a witness. _MEDITATION:_ *"The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous."* (Psalms 1:4-5 (KJV)) *#David_Joshua_Egbochuo* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_MARCH,2023* ❤ Links To Visit: *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *Telegram Group:* https://t.me/joinchat/NzXQlVc9Hx7LfaRSnh9fHg Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you...

*DAILY DEW 21/MARCH/2023* *FORMING THE RIGHT CONVICTIONS* (III) _Key Bible Text:_ *"One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind."* (Romans 14:5 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ Every goal getter and achiever takes time to form the right conviction about every important subject or matter. They don't leave them to chance or stay indifferent. They consciously work towards having netter knowledge, which inturn leads to a proper solid conviction on the matter. I suggest the following areas as aspects needing deliberate and intentional formation of conviction. In other words, the following issues are well settled for me. I can only grow positively in my convictions about them. I suggest you adopt them too. 1. I am totally convinced that only Jesus can save. There is no other name given amongst men by which we must be saved. (Acts 4:12) 2. I am thouroughly persuaded that without Holiness no eyes shall see the Lord. I rest my conviction on this issue, in this verse among many others: *"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure."* (1 John 3:2-3 (KJV)) No one truly believes in Jesus and his second return or rapture, while at the same time, compromising, excusing, tolerating and indulging in habitual sins. 3. I am totally convinced that sex outside of marriage is sin. I never try to excuse it or rationalize such acts as cohabitation or sex before marriage. As one who once erred in the distant past, I don't forget in a hurry how the Holy Spirit kept dealing with me back then, until I repented and shunned such works of darkness. *Let marriage be held in honor (esteemed worthy, precious, of great price, and especially dear) in all things. And thus let the marriage bed be undefiled (kept undishonored); for God will judge and punish the unchaste [all guilty of sexual vice] and adulterous.* Hebrews 13:4 (Amplified) _MEDITATION:_ *"If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."* (John 13:17 (KJV)) *#David_Joshua_Egbochuo* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_MARCH,2023* ❤ Links To Visit: *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *Telegram Group:* https://t.me/joinchat/NzXQlVc9Hx7LfaRSnh9fHg Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you...