*DAILY DEW 21/JUNE/2022* *UNDERSTANDING PRINCIPLES OF THE KINGDOM:Seeds of Destiny* (III) _Key Bible Text:_ *"And he said to them, If you are not clear about this story, how will you be clear about the others? The seed is the word."* (Mark 4:13-14 (BBE)) _Bible Insight:_ Our focus will now be on non-obvious seeds that are critical in destiny determination _Types of seeds_ (Cont'd) 3. THE WORD OF GOD IS A SEED!! The Word of God is a seed. And it produces after its kind. You can plant the Word! According to Mark 4:13-14, the key to understanding the parables of Jesus about the Kingdom, is to understand that the Word is a seed! Thus, it can be planted. *_And he gave them teaching about a number of things in the form of stories, and said to them in his teaching, Give ear: A man went out to put seed in the earth: And while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside, and the birds came and took it for food. And some went on the stones, where it had not much earth; and it came up straight away, because the earth was not deep: And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root, it became dry and dead. And some went among the thorns, and the thorns came up, and it had no room for growth and gave no fruit._* (Mark 4:2-7) The seeds being planted in the story is the Word of God. There are always four types of places into which the seed of the Word of God may be planted. The first three are as follows:- 1.Wayside, 2.Stones (rock), and 3. Thorns. All three places do not allow for the growth of the seed of the Word. However, there is a fourth-- The good earth/ground! *"And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, coming up and increasing, and giving thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much. And he said to them, Whoever has ears, let him give ear."* (Mark 4:8-9) The Farmer could be your Pastor, an evangelist in the bus, a friend or counselor. YOUR response to the Word you hear, determines whether you belong to any of the first three or the good earth/ground! _MEDITATION:_ Say with me today: *“IT IS UP TO ME TO BE A GOOD GROUND FOR THE SEED OF GOD'S WORD. MY LIFE SHALL ALWAYS BE A GOOD GROUND FOR THE WORD OF GOD, I BEAR FRUITS THAT GLORIFIES GOD IN JESUS NAME.* *#David_Joshua_Egbochuo* *#Tuesday_wisdomforliving* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#Year_of_Big_Favours* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Guest_Message* *#Hello_June* ❤ (Culled from Evangelist K.C. Onyegbuna's Sunday's Message (19/06/22)) 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 *WhatsApp Group:* http://bit.ly/The_David_Generation Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you...

*DAILY DEW 20/JUNE/2022* *UNDERSTANDING PRINCIPLES OF THE KINGDOM:Seeds of Destiny* (II) _Key Bible Text:_ *"And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.."* (Genesis 1:11(KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ _Types of seeds_ 1. AGRICULTURAL SEEDS. This is the literal type of seed that everyone is familiar with. It is the seed we use in agriculture to plant trees or other kinds of agricultural plants. This is used for food generation. There are subsistence farming and commercial farming whereby these seeds are explored and maximized. A nation that does not invest in its agriculture will never become a great nation because no single individual can survive without directly and indirectly consuming agricultural produce. 2. BIOLOGICAL SEEDS. This is another type of natural seed that we can easily relate with. It refers to the reproductive and creative ability of other living things, apart from agricultural kinds, to reproduce its kind. We see this both in animals and in humans. Back in those days, this seed was referred to as seed of copulation as found in Leviticus 15:16: *"And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even."* Again, this seed has its guiding rules and principles in the Kingdom. It is not to be "used" except within the context of marriage as stated in Hebrews 13:4 (KJV) that *"Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge."* Hence this seed must never be planted outside the garden of marriage and even in marriage, common sense dictates that it should be planted with wisdom. Enough said. _MEDITATION:_ *“We shall explore other kinds of seeds that are not too obvious as seeds but are actually seeds in principle. What examples of such seed comes to mind?"* *#David_Joshua_Egbochuo* *#Monday_wisdomforliving* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#Year_of_Big_Favours* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Guest_Message* *#Hello_June* ❤ (Culled from Evangelist K.C. Onyegbuna's Sunday's Message (19/06/22)) 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 *WhatsApp Group:* http://bit.ly/The_David_Generation Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you...

*DAILY DEW 19/JUNE/2022* *UNDERSTANDING PRINCIPLES OF THE KINGDOM:Seeds of Destiny* _Key Bible Text:_ *"While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."* (Genesis 8:22 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ Every domain of existence operates on a set of law and principles that govern everything under that domain. Seed sowing and harvest reaping are kingdom principles that must be taught and practiced by every Kingdomite. *_And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth: But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it._* (Mark 4:30-32 (KJV)) Seeds produces after its kind. The harvest takes the nature of it's kind. The harvest is always greater than the seed. The kingdom operates by seed times and harvest times. Seeds are determinants of destiny. The seed you sow will determine the harvest you get. We shall consider the types of seeds that exists, most of which actually influenced destiny or determine destiny when well maximized and invested in. _MEDITATION:_ *“And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good."* (Genesis 1:11-12 (KJV)) *#David_Joshua_Egbochuo* *#Sunday_wisdomforliving* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#Year_of_Big_Favours* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Guest_Message* *#Hello_June* ❤ (Culled from Evangelist K.C. Onyegbuna's Sunday's Message (19/06/22)) 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 *WhatsApp Group:* http://bit.ly/The_David_Generation Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you...

*DAILY DEW 18/JUNE/2022* *You’ll Never Wish You Did Less* (V) _Key Bible Text:_ *"Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord."* (1 Corinthians 15:58 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ _Jesus Was Not Joyless_ Despite all sin, suffering, and the sorrowful state of the world, Jesus was driven by the joy of completed mission (Hebrews 12:2). Despite harassed and helpless sheep, and a desperate shortage of laborers, Jesus promised a plentiful harvest full of the redeemed from every tribe, tongue, and nation (Revelation 5:9). This is the joy Jesus saw. He is not just God, but a God over his people — many of whom are largely unknown and do not know him yet. If Jesus was joyous against all odds, so shall we his people. Let us fix our eyes on him and pray, give, go, and send in joyful anticipation that there is no greater joy than to have throngs of largely unknown peoples known by our heavenly Father. As John states, there is “no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth” (3 John 4). Let us walk in such a way that our heavenly joyfulness will one day include today’s unknown and unreached peoples. Robert Savage said, “The command has been to ʻgo,ʼ but we have stayed — in body, gifts, prayer, and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth. But 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland.” May we not be added to them, but may we boldly risk for the sake of the nations. We can rest assured that no one will ever enter heaven saying, “I wish I had done less for the nations.” _MEDITATION:_ *“We can rest assured that no one will ever enter heaven saying, ‘I wish I had done less.’”* *#Andrew_Knight* *#Saturday_wisdomforliving* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#Year_of_Big_Favours* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Guest_Message* *#Hello_June* ❤ 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 *WhatsApp Group:* http://bit.ly/The_David_Generation Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you...

*DAILY DEW 17/JUNE/2022* *You’ll Never Wish You Did Less* (IV) _Key Bible Text:_ *"Or imagine a woman who has ten coins and loses one. Won't she light a lamp and scour the house, looking in every nook and cranny until she finds it? And when she finds it you can be sure she'll call her friends and neighbors: 'Celebrate with me! I found my lost coin!' Count on it--that's the kind of party God's angels throw every time one lost soul turns to God."* (Luke 15:8-10 (The Message)) _Bible Insight:_ _Harassed, Helpless, Forgotten_ Jesus knew his world and “he had compassion for them” (Matthew 9:36). Jesus’s heart broke for the shepherdless sheep, and all too often ours does not. Instead of focusing on whether the proverbial man on the desert island will go to hell if he has never heard the gospel, Christ’s commissioned church is more concerned with who will go to him. We grieve that many who hear do not go to him, and that many do not go to him because they never had the chance to hear. Jesus’s compassion came as a result of the people’s lostness coupled with the lack of laborers to find them. When only 1 out of every 5,000 professing Christians goes overseas (a mere 0.02%), when there are over three billion harassed and helpless unreached souls at large, we must constantly “pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest” (Matthew 9:38). Buy a map. Open it. Pore in prayer over its people and places. Many have done so only to find their hearts opened in the process. Let us pray too, with Bob Pierce, founder of World Vision, “Let me be broken with the things that break God’s heart.” Our self-sent God in Christ is the foremost of all missionaries and mobilizers. *He was sent to save, and he sends all he saves.* Someway, somehow, and somewhere he commissions you and all the Christians around you. When only $1.66 of every $100,000 of Christian income is given to the unreached and only 0.05% of Christian income goes to international missions at all, it’s not too hard to see why more can’t be sent. In fact, it becomes unclear if we are sending at all given such low numbers. _MEDITATION:_ *"If ten men are carrying a log — nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end — and you want to help, which end will you lift on?"* — William Borden, missionary candidate as he reflected on the numbers of Christian workers in the U.S. as compared to those among unreached peoples in China *#Andrew_Knight* *#Friday_wisdomforliving* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#Year_of_Big_Favours* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Guest_Message* *#Hello_June* ❤ 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 *WhatsApp Group:* http://bit.ly/The_David_Generation Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you...