*DAILY DEW 3RD/DECEMBER/2021* *As Jesus or As yourself?* (II) _Key Bible Text:_ *This is how we've come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow believers, and not just be out for ourselves.* (1 John 3:16 (The Message)) _Bible Insight:_ When Christmas is littered with new clothes, shoes, business boom and increase in commercial activities, ritual killings rumours, kidnappings, pick pocketing, one chance encounters, missing persons alert, Christmas rice and chickens to mention but a few, we easily miss the real focus of Christmas-- the Christ that was born to die, to rise and to reign eternally. We must never forget that Christmas is not about an opportunity to travel to the village with our latest show off biz efforts. Actually, we must however travel from John 3:16 to 1 John 3:16: Jesus threw a huge challenge at you and I, if we are truly his followers and not just some bunch of fun lovers, mistaking church for Christ, while also mistaking the Christ for the Chris, who happens to be our neighbor or some old school mate. Jesus indeed laid a different and more challenging rule with his life before he died on the cross. He said you ought to love as He himself loved- Not as you will like to love. In fact, not even as you will like to be loved. By the advent of John 13:34, Jesus overruled Mark 12:31 and everywhere else the position the commandment therein was contained. *And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.* (Mark 12:3 (KJV)) Please note this. This commandment along with the first part that says we should love God were the greatest commandments until Jesus began by saying, A NEW COMMANDMENT.... Jesus was fully aware that He was about to lay a new rule down. He was about to shift the goal post right in the middle of the match and like it or not, He had every right to! _MEDITATION:_ *When next someone says "Love your neighbour as you love yourself" Tell them that is the old rule. The new rule is to love as Jesus loves. May we receive grace to do likewise. Amen.* *#David_Joshua_Egbochuo* *#Friday_wisdomforliving* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#Supernatural_Supplies_Month* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#HTP2021_Loading* *#Hello_December* ❤ Links To Visit: Register for *HTP2021:* https://bit.ly/HTP2021_Registration *Podcast:* https://anchor.fm/daily-dew-devotional *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *DDDblog* http://dailydewdevotion.blogspot.com/2021/12/as-jesus-or-as-yourself-ii.html *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 2ND/DECEMBER/2021* *As Jesus or As yourself?* _Key Bible Text:_ *A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.* (John 13:34 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ One of the most outstanding things about the Christmas season is the birth of Christ. While we must remember or even celebrate this blessed season, we must never forget the spirit behind God's move and decision in sending His son Jesus. The answer to the why of Jesus' coming to earth is simply, LOVE. John 3:16 may have been abused but it cannot be overused or overemphasized. Jesus is God's decision born out of love. "For God so loved", he couldn't help but "gave His only begotten son". And even that had a reason, "that whosoever believes in Him, should not perish but have everlasting life". So God's love in sending Jesus was not exactly "reckless" but absolutely intentional and expedient. This love of God is under examination today because when John 13:34 is read, we do not always readily appreciate the depth and height and intensity of this new command Jesus gave us. In John 13:34 (Amplified) Jesus said, *"I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. _Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another."*_ Please do not miss the point in a hurry. This love in this new commandment is very well qualified and defined. It is love as Jesus loves. And that's quite huge. _MEDITATION:_ *Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.* (1 John 3:16 (KJV)) *#David_Joshua_Egbochuo* *#Thursday_wisdomforliving* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#Supernatural_Supplies_Month* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#HTP2021_Loading* *#Hello_December* ❤ Links To Visit: Register for *HTP2021:* https://bit.ly/HTP2021_Registration *Podcast:* https://anchor.fm/daily-dew-devotional *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *DDDblog* http://dailydewdevotion.blogspot.com/2021/12/as-jesus-or-as-yourself.html *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 1ST/DECEMBER/2021* *The Fear That Is Forbidden* _Key Bible Text:_ *For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control.* (2 Timothy 1:7 (AMP)) _Bible Insight:_ There is a fear that encourages timidity, cowardice, lack of selfconfidence (Christ based confidence), tendency to quit, low self esteem etc. This fear, we are reminded, has no place in our recreated human spirit. This fear has nothing to do with the fear of God, which teaches us to walk away from ungodliness and walk confidently in righteousness. Paul charged his son Timothy, do not cower in fear. This fear breaks marriages. This fear hinders business owners from taking calculated risks. This fear demotivates. This fear triggers self defeat. This fear makes anyone who is its victim a loser or a quitter. God does not want any of His children to live with such fears. This new month make up your mind, to walk devoid of a fear that fails to recognize the victorious person you are in Christ. This fear has torment and it is not the kind that God desires for His children. Say "no" to it and go ahead and press into all of God's promises to you even as you recognize that Christ in you is the hope of glory. _MEDITATION:_ *For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.* (Romans 8:15 (KJV)) *#David_Joshua_Egbochuo* *#Wednesday_wisdomforliving* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#Supernatural_Supplies_Month* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#HTP2021_Loading* *#Hello_December* ❤ Links To Visit: Register for *HTP2021:* https://bit.ly/HTP2021_Registration *Podcast:* https://anchor.fm/daily-dew-devotional *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *DDDblog* http://dailydewdevotion.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-fear-that-is-forbidden.html *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 30TH/NOVEMBER/2021* *A DIFFERENCE LIKE A WIDE OCEAN* (II) _Key Bible Text:_ *That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world* (Philippians 2:15 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ The Holy Ghost. Even they with whom you roll, will quickly realise that something is off about you. You are there, and may look like them, but still you cannot hide. Jesus cannot really be hidden. For no one lights a candle and puts it under a bushel. And that is salvation, the eternal lighting of your inner lamp. Christ in you is an illuminated destiny, a lighthouse of the most high and the heavenly, a beacon in the darkness which cannot be obscured, and so therefore, neither can you. Your essence has been forever changed. You are now a stranger in this world. If this is not your experience; if you feel at home where you once belonged before you met Jesus, so that church things are an addition, just a new activity so that you rock the club on Friday night and rock the service on Sunday morning. Then your rocking of this age is simply evidence that you are not standing on the Rock of Ages *That will be a plastic cross dripping with zobo. And a 'tokunbo' salvation. Yes.* _MEDITATION:_ *Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; (1 Peter 2:11 (KJV)) *#Ebele_UzoPeters* *#Tuesday_wisdomforliving* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#Supernatural_Supplies_Month* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#HTP2021_Loading* *#Guest_Message* *#Hello_December* ❤ Links To Visit: Register for *HTP2021:* https://bit.ly/HTP2021_Registration *Podcast:* https://anchor.fm/daily-dew-devotional *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *DDDblog* http://dailydewdevotion.blogspot.com/2021/11/a-difference-like-wide-ocean-ii.html *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 29TH/NOVEMBER/2021* *A DIFFERENCE LIKE A WIDE OCEAN* _Key Bible Text:_ *Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?* (2 Corinthians 6:14 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ No matter how funky you are, if Christ has truly begun to live in your heart; even with your jeans and neck chains, you can never be mistaken for the world. As you sit in the party and roll with the guys ...inside of you, you will feel the difference between yourself and clubbers and party goers...a difference like a wide ocean. You will also feel the acute painful desire to share what you have become, to baptise them in that ocean. It is called compassion. You can wear all the shredded jeans and even put a stud on one ear, but you will know that you can never be like them anymore. You will feel that something stands between them and you. It's called the Cross. The precious blood of Jesus. You will feel like a stranger in those clothes, because your body is now a temple made for white robes. Something will always be bubbling on the inside that all the loud and tapping music and activity cannot match. Or Someone. Bubbling up to eternal life. Constraining love. Restraining grace. Imperturbable peace. Incontrovertible wisdom. Convicting righteousness. _MEDITATION:_ *And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?* (2 Corinthians 6:15 (KJV)) *#Ebele_UzoPeters* *#Monday_wisdomforliving* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#Supernatural_Supplies_Month* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#HTP2021_Loading* *#Guest_Message* *#Hello_November* ❤ Links To Visit: Register for *HTP2021:* https://bit.ly/HTP2021_Registration *Podcast:* https://anchor.fm/daily-dew-devotional *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *DDDblog* http://dailydewdevotion.blogspot.com/2021/11/a-difference-like-wide-ocean.html *Telegram Group:* https://t.me/joinchat/NzXQlVc9Hx7LfaRSnh9fHg *WhatsApp Group:* http://bit.ly/The_David_Generation Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you...