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*DAILY DEW 23/NOVEMBER/2022*
*TO BE PURE IN HEART IS THE HEART OF THE MATTER*
_Key Bible Text:_
*"Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."* (Matthew 5:8 (KJV))
_Bible Insight:_
Jesus made tough demands on those who wish to see God! If you are grown up, even if you are only eight years old, you will understand that it is humanly impossible to be pure in heart. If we want to see God, that is enter into His Kingdom, we have to be pure in HEART.
I am not necessarily speaking of sexual immorality although it is a very serious matter. Sexual impurity in thoughts starts to afflict some people from their early teen age, and the rest from the middle teen age to their grave. It is a sin with a tenacious hold on its victims. Where it cannot soil them on the outwards, it will reside and possess the inside—the heart.
I am focussed on anger in the heart, bitterness in the heart, pride in the heart, evil thoughts in the heart, vengeance in the heart, scorn and disdain in the heart, hate in the heart, prejudiice in the heart, cheating in the heart, assault and even murder in the heart, and envy, jealousy and theft, all in the heart.
What can a person do considering that only the pure in heart shall see God (Matt. 5:8)? The heart is hidden yet so delicate that it can attract and keep impureness for a life without being detected by an outsider. It is deceitful and desperately wickedness.
Though outsider may not see the heart or know what is going on there, God sees it clearly! So, Jesus shed His blood to wash clean our indelibly dirty heart. After washing, our heart sparkles! Halleluiah!
But then, the devil roams about with his filth and dirt buckets, seeking whom to dirty. And, oh, how easily it is to get dirty in heart! A sight, a word, a thought could dirty our hearts. We seem so vulnerable, yet God demands purity of the heart.
2 Corinthians 7:1 says we should cleanse ourselves of ALL filthiness of the flesh and of the SPIRIT. James 1:21 says we must lay aside ALL filthiness for God has not called us unto uncleanliness but unto holiness (1 Thess. 4:7).
So, we’ve got a job to do. We need to watch over our heart. We need to build a fence and a filter over our heart. We need to infuse it with the Spirit, immerse it in the Word and constantly sprinkle it with the Blood.
Should any atom of uncleanness sip in, we should immediately isolate it, and flush it out. The need for purity is uncompromising. We want to see God; don’t we?
_MEDITATION:_
*To keep a sparkling white cloth clean in a filthy environment requires being intentional and vigilant. The Word says, "Take heed to yourself..." It tells us to be "watchful and sober" and to "watch and pray". I have seen people jump off the sidewalk even before a car driving through a pool of dirty water gets to where they are.*
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*DAILY DEW 21/NOVEMBER/2022*
*TRAIN YOURSELF*
_Key Bible Text:_
*"But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, humility, and SELF-CONTROL. There is no law against such things as these."* (Galatians 5:22-23(GNB))
_Bible Insight:_
WHAT you do for yourself counts far more than all that others have done or can do for you.
Self-discipline is the most important feature in any life. Unless you put yourself under mental discipline, you will never develop the forces in you that are valuable to the commercial world.
Rule your temper so that no matter what happens, what is said or done, your temper will be under absolute control. The man who does not rule his temper can never achieve the success that belongs to him. He destroys the building that he erects. Govern your tongue, so that it will say nothing that will injure anyone around you.
Practically all the injury that is done to a character, to a business, a home, or a person, is done with words. It is tongue work. The man or woman who makes no contribution to destructive thought and talk is a valuable asset anywhere. He is deaf to anything that is destructive to another.
He is blind to anything that folks around him do. He cannot speak of it. He has mastery of himself. The efficiency of an office force is reduced sometimes 50 per cent by idle, unkind words. The man who can govern his temper, his
tongue and his appetite, though he has but mediocre ability, is bound to get to the top. Gaining the mastery of these will be among your first real victories.
_MEDITATION:_
*It is controlled power that is valuable. That waterfall is simply beautiful. It has no commercial value until it is harnessed. It is the harnessed ability in you that is worth while, ability under intelligent mastery.*
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*DAILY DEW 20/NOVEMBER/2022*
*CHURCH LEADERSHIP SELECTION*
_Key Bible Text:_
*"And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place. And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles."* (Acts 1:24-26 (KJV))
_Bible Insight:_
My Church had an election last week to choose our National leaders, it was a greatly successful exercise as all the people chosen are dependable, reliable and able under God's leading. Even it's through other methods, we may end up with almost the same team. I've since seen a lot of arguments on why a church should choose spiritual leaders through election, adjudged by some as carnal methodology.
What God does is that He appoint leaders! Whichever method a church adopted to get this done is left with the church after Prayers. There's no hard and fast rule in this.
God specifically made Adam and Eve, that didn't stop the Devil from shifting them! He audibly and physically related with Abraham, that didn't prevent Ishmael saga! He dramatically called Moses, but that didn't prevent the smitten of the Rock. Saul divinely became king, following the people's demand, but Saul still failed. No record of God calling Daniel, Shedrack, Meshach and Abednego, but they succeeded! Both Hezekiah and Ahab were Kings in Israel, their outcomes differ.
In the New Testament, Judas was not chosen via election! The Lord chose him after prayers through the night. Stephen and Philip were selected by men! However, they were better than Judas, chosen directly by Christ himself.
My argument is that it's not the method that is the problem, it's the person's involved. I know churches that chose through prophesy, vision, and revelation. Others choose based on experience and years of service, others do theirs through biological relationship. Whichever way, all that matters is for God to be glorified.
Jesus chose siblings! If it's today, it will be misunderstood. The next Church leader after Jesus was his brother James! Who was still an unbeliever when Peter and co were already apostles! If it's today, social media will be on fire.
_MEDITATION:_
*Brethren, we all can't use the same method. Each church should do what they think is best according to the leading of the Holy Spirit.*
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*DAILY DEW 19/NOVEMBER/2022*
*STRIVING AGAINST DISUNITY & DIVISIONS IN THE BODY* (II)
_Key Bible Text:_
*"And they sang a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation."* (Revelation 5:9)
_Bible Insight:_
Folks want to teach the deep things of Paul and new creation realities and so on. They want to be champions of faith and grace and custodians of the truth, but that truth has not affected them. Many love the teachings of Paul but do not understand the secrets of Paul.
Paul was a man who had been a Pharisee. Pharisees were the Hebrew of Hebrews. They took the law of Moses very seriously and upheld it rigorously. They despised non-Jews and would have nothing to do with them. They were infidels. Even Samaritans who were part Jew and part Gentile were outcasts.
Yet after Paul had an encounter with Jesus, he began to call Ephesians and Thessalonians, dear brethren. He began to live with them, talk with them, walk with them and share life with them. He wrote
Colossians 3:11
In this new life, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized, slave, or free. Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.
The secrets of the life of Paul which many miss as they read his scriptural writings are what made his teaching so powerful and relevant to date. They are what qualified him to write two-thirds of the epistles. The man embodied new creation realities. He knew what the new man was, what grace was. He really encountered Jesus.
From the days of Paul till now, many genuine men of God have fallen short of the glory of God because they do not have this understanding. Somehow, the grace of God has been unable to make all old things pass away and everything become new.
They still hold on very strongly and deeply to tribal and racial matters. The Cross and Death of Christ has not reached there, and therefore the Spirit and the Resurrection cannot work there. God cannot use them as He wants to. As He used Paul. Only that which has been touched by the death of Christ may experience the life of Christ, for it is resurrection life.
For, it is good when the lion and the lamb, the snake and the chick, the tiger and the rabbit stay together in harmony; but the greater miracle is when the Chinese and the Ghanaian, the Indian and the Brazilian, the Fulani and the Igbo, live and worship together as brothers and sisters.
This is real Christianity.
_MEDITATION:_
*I pray that the church becomes dead to what Jesus died for so that we may live as He lives. I pray that we be not conformed to this world but become transformed by the renewing of our minds so that we may prove in our generation what is that perfect will of God. I pray that His servants begin to be made free to demonstrate His life by the truth that is in Christ Jesus.*
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*DAILY DEW 18/NOVEMBER/2022*
*STRIVING AGAINST DISUNITY & DIVISIONS IN THE BODY*
_Key Bible Text:_
*"For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another."* (Romans 12:4-5 (KJV))
_Bible Insight:_
The degree of strong tribalism seen with Christians, especially among pastors, in the way they think and talk, is astonishing. It may stay hidden on Sundays when everyone is in church mode, but comes out when things get personal with them in life.
Pastors who are sound teachers of the word and full of the Spirit who have not allowed the blood of Jesus wash away this illness, are many.
Many of us know of the Azusa Street revival of 1906. God used a man called William Seymour. It was a revival of the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues and other manifestations of the gifts of the Spirit.
For several years, people of all races, black and white, men and women, high and low class gathered in the same building on Azusa Street in San Francisco, to experience the love and power of God. Everything men were doing, women were also doing. There was no discrimination. It was a mighty revival that spread throughout the world
Thing is, a few years before when Seymour heard of tongues and desired it. He traveled to a holiness Bible College in Kansas where Charles Parham, a white man, was teaching it. He had to sit outside because he was black. He left without receiving the baptism of the Spirit, but received it later.
When the revival broke out, Parham came down to California to visit and when he was allowed to speak, this man of God spoke against whites and blacks sitting together and worshipping God together. He said it was wrong! They had to tell him to go and not come back.
He was not the only one who thought like that. Most white preachers who were supposedly filled with the Holy Spirit could not overcome racism. This things were amazing to read. That at the height of spiritual atmospheres, strong carnality could thrive.
_MEDITATION:_
*Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another.* (Romans 12:9-10 (KJV))
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