*DAILY DEW 28/DECEMBER/2022* *THE NEED FOR STRONG REPROOFS* _Key Bible Text:_ *"For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life"* (Proverbs 6:23 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ Without strong reproofs, permissiveness and looseness can very easily become the culture of your house, especially in how your leaders and workers are adorned. I remember years back, a young lady in the choir came to church wearing a see through dress to lead the singing. I came into the church and it was annoying as it was embarrassing. I stopped the singing, called her out, and told her to go home, change their dress and come back. She apologized and said that was all she could wear that Sunday Morning after the service. I gave her money after the service to go get a replacement, and told her to never dress like that anywhere, it was that bad, but she eventually dropped out of the church, but those that stayed on shared up in how they dressed and what they wore to church. The shock was the number of people that came to praise my courage to fix the shameful thing right and there. *Don't allow unruly people to create a counterculture in the house. If they cannot follow, peacefully ask them to leave!* It is why a Pastor must be of good courage. Some heretics cannot be admonished, and the cure is to reject and eject them out of the groups they seek to ruin, and as is always the case, they will move on, which is good for the church and them too. Don't allow one small girl to turn your hand and walk all over you; fix it. You cannot spend time teaching and then someone chooses to do as he or she pleases and walk all over the church, and dress like she is going to the club to lead singing in the church. I'd rather pray than have such singing. You cannot have a house full of scantily dressed ladies, and have the move the Spirit in signs and wonders, because we will have an explosion of naked boobs and bums! So the Holy Spirit would rather not deal. *Proper dressing should still be taught, and enforced among workers and leaders. We cannot keep looking the other way, and say, "the Holy Spirit will fix it!"* Despite Aarons flowing dresses, he was still to wear boxers from the waste to the thigh to prevent his nakedness from appearing by similitude to the people and before God. Ministering forbids nakedness. (NET) Exodus 28:42-43: "⁴² Make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked bodies; they must cover from the waist to the thighs. ⁴³ These must be on Aaron and his sons when they enter to the tent of meeting, or when they approach the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they bear no iniquity and die. It is to be a perpetual ordinance for him and his descendants after him." _MEDITATION:_ *"Set a standard for acceptable dressing in your house. Ensure no one in your workforce dresses and looks whorish, having eyes full of adultery. Don't discuss it, fix it."* *#Austine_Oviawe* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_DECEMBER* ❤ *#GuestMessage* 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/DECEMBER/2022* *3 Ways Missionaries Interact with Local Churches* (III) _Key Bible Text:_ *"Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching"* (Hebrews 10:25 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ Other churches are more obviously in process than their “healthy” or “unhealthy” counterparts. Perhaps they’re strong on some fronts, weak in others, and downright wrong on a few. They’re imperfect but aware of their imperfections, and (most importantly) willing to humbly learn and change. These are the churches we should work alongside. Missionaries should actively look for opportunities to draw them into greater alignment with the missionary task. But what are they to do with a truly healthy church, one which is dedicated to biblical truth and striving to perfect their walk together? First, they should thank God for the church’s existence. Then, work with and through them. They should intentionally look for opportunities to carry out the missionary task in cooperation with their leadership, and sometimes even as a part of their membership. _3. Missionaries Participate_ Missionaries must participate in healthy churches as members. They need church families. The churches who send them remain precious and important. They fill a role in missionaries’ lives that no other group can fill. But they still need the local church, whether it’s a cathedral in Lagos or a hut in Osun. This is firstly for their own good. Every single believer needs discipleship in the context of a local body of members with a diversity of gifts. Missionaries can’t spiritually survive, much less thrive, without a community of brothers and sisters coming around them and carrying out the functions of a church. They need biblical leadership, daily prayer, strong accountability, and quality teaching. A church family hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away simply can’t provide those things. _MEDITATION:_ *"Missionaries must participate in the local church because the local church is how the gospel spreads. The local bride of Christ, in all her glory, is God’s plan A for reaching the unreached. Churches are the very thing we came to plant, and how can we plant what we don’t personally prioritize?"* *#Sophie_Spencer* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_DECEMBER* ❤ *#GuestMessage* 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/DECEMBER/2022* *One son given, many sons received* _Key Bible Text:_ *"For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings."* (Hebrews 2:10 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ Merry Christmas beloved, and happy new year in advance. May the Love of God expressed through the son of God, make you become all that God purposed to achieve through the birth of the son in a sinful world on men! Lisa Bevere was right. She said Jesus became like us, so we can become like him! Indeed, a season like this must make us REMEMBER why Jesus came in the first place. It would amount to sheer abuse and misuse to miss the main reason for His birth into this world like a mere man! That reason is totally divine, missionary and for the salvation and transformation of the lives of men! To remake man, and restore the lost dignity of man, God decided to come down like a man and walk the streets of men to the cross of calvary, where the job of saving men, paying the price for their sins, and giving them all it takes to become like him, was finished! As we celebrate this Christmas season, we must consciously reflect on the reason for the season-- The Birth & Life of Jesus Christ! And as we do, we must examine ourselves to confirm if the birth of the son of God, has translated to the rebirth of our souls in the son of God! May we enjoy the season, but even more, may we REMEMBER that the essence of the first coming of Christ was to make us become like him, so we can be better prepared to receive His second coming! What if each time we celebrate Christmas, God desires more than ever before that we make ourselves ready for His second coming? What if each time we sing all the Christmas Carols, heaven waits in earnestness that we spread the news of His first coming and why He came, so that men will believe and be saved in readiness for His second coming?! I am positive that God is not as excited at the past, (His birth) as He is about the future (His second coming)! Therefore, by all means let's celebrate His birth, but even more, let's prepare and anticipate His second return! For His coming into this world, was to raise men and women that will become like him, and seek His kingdom and His righteousness! Amen _MEDITATION:_ *"The son of God became the son of man that the sons of men might become the sons of God -- C S Lewis* *#Sophie_Spencer* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_DECEMBER* ❤ *#GuestMessage* Links To Visit: *Register4HTP2022:* https://bit.ly/HTP2022_ACTIVATED *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/DECEMBER/2022* *3 Ways Missionaries Interact with Local Churches* (II) _Key Bible Text:_ *"I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church."* _Bible Insight:_ The circumstances of a church’s birth will set the course of its life, and an unhealthy church can be a blight on its community and an ordeal to restore to health. Church planters have the privilege and responsibility of getting young churches started off right. Far better to raise a new church up in the way it should go than to leave a string of mistakes for later generations to correct. What about when churches are no longer new? How should missionaries relate to churches that have already been planted and growing for a while? _2. Missionaries Partner_ There are certainly many parts of the globe without a single gathering of local believers, but wherever there are healthy congregations within physical reach, missionaries must partner with them. After all, they cannot bypass the church in order to plant the church! Whenever possible and beneficial for reaching the unreached, missionaries must collaborate with existing churches. Tragically, some churches are decidedly unhealthy, and missionaries must work around those congregations. But writing off a church as “unhealthy” should never be taken lightly. And it should never be upon the basis of nonessentials like instruments in worship or order of service. An unhealthy church is one which is willfully disobedient. It not only falls short of the biblical directives for church life, but it also exhibits no desire to repent and change. And a missionary who decides, after much prayer and seeking of wise counsel, to refuse partnership with an unhealthy church must do so with a posture of grace and a resolution to continue praying for their repentance. _MEDITATION:_ *"The local bride of Christ, in all her glory, is God’s plan A for reaching the unreached."* *#Sophie_Spencer* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_DECEMBER* ❤ *#GuestMessage* Links To Visit: *Register4HTP2022:* https://bit.ly/HTP2022_ACTIVATED *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/DECEMBER/2022* *3 Ways Missionaries Interact with Local Churches* (I) _Key Bible Text:_ *"Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus: Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ."* (Romans 16:3-5 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ Missionaries have a difficult relationship with the local churches around them on the field. In the mythology of missions, the missionary has risen above such paltry things as potlucks and committee meetings. They’ve “graduated” from church. And what’s more, by the very nature of their occupation, missionaries often must live and work in places where a local body of believers is practically impossible to come by. In reality, missionaries and local churches need each other. The exact parameters of the relationship between the two may change or be otherwise dependent on circumstance. 1. Missionaries Plant:- The missionary’s first and most obvious responsibility to local churches is to facilitate their planting. Therefore, a missionary must know what a healthy church looks like, for how can he replicate what he’s never seen? Scripture leaves ample room for local expression and glorious diversity between congregations, but we can’t compromise on the theological essentials of the church. This is Christ’s body, not ours. We have no right to take liberties with the bride of Christ. Although no church is perfect in these matters, a healthy church will nevertheless adopt a posture of obedience to Scripture, striving for God’s ideal and trusting him to bless their obedience. Conversely, as important as it is not deviate from biblical direction in church planting, missionaries must be equally careful not to confuse essentials with nonessentials. A healthy church can’t function without biblical preaching, but that preaching can be done on a rooftop or under a tree. Biblical leadership is indispensable, but that leadership can be paid, unpaid, or bivocational. The standard set by Scripture is high enough without stacking it with trivialities. Missionaries must know which issues to hold with tight fists and which to hold with open hands, and they must be careful never to let nonessential matters cause unnecessary division or enmity. _MEDITATION:_ *"The circumstances of a church’s birth will set the course of its life."* *#Sophie_Spencer* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_DECEMBER* ❤ *#GuestMessage* Links To Visit: *Register4HTP2022:* https://bit.ly/HTP2022_ACTIVATED *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...