*DAILY DEW 27/SEPTEMBER/2023* *Longsuffering* (V) _Key Bible Text:_ "*Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting."* (1 Timothy 1:16 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ God would never achieve his purpose for mankind without longsuffering. This is one key attribute of God. God suffers long with mankind. This is what helped Paul eventually transform from the persecutor of Christians to the preacher of Christ. As it with God, so it is with us-- without longsuffering, we will never achieve purpose or anything of worthwhile value. Longsuffering helps us stick to the pursuit of purpose. You keep doing what you know is right not because it is easy but because it is right. You keep walking and working towards living a life that pleases God. Longsuffering will make the difference between believers who will burn out, and fizzle out, and believers who will endure to the end and be saved. Longsuffering will make you shine in your business, or profession as you deal with all the difficult challenges that comes with it with grit and grace. Longsuffering is the attribute that will make a student stick to the demands of excellence through practice and laborious studies. Longsuffering is the quality that will keep couples working on getting it right in their marriage in a world that celebrates feminism and single parenthood. Longsuffering is the ingredient that will make you fit for purpose in the hands of God, so you can rise and live as light in a world of darkness where we hold forth the light of God. Longsuffering is the missing method or missing attribute, when people give up, turn from good to bad, refuse to obey God, love to follow the crowd, do things that feels good even when it is evil, and live a sheer life of compromise, lukewarmness and lawlessness. _MEDITATION:_ *In the final analysis, longsuffering will separate the winners from the losers* *#David_J_Egbochuo* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_SEPTEMBER,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 26/SEPTEMBER/2023* *Longsuffering* (IV) _Key Bible Text:_ "*But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, LONGSUFFERING, and plenteous in mercy and truth. O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid."* (Psalms 86:15-16 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ How is longsuffering the foundation for faith, Meekness, temperance (self control)? Faith is the headquarters of longsuffering if I may say. It is holding tenaciously and even stubbornly on the word of God even in the face of doubts and delays. Faith professed without the friction of a delay or strong opposition or contradiction is nothing but child's play. You cannot be a man or woman of faith except in the midst of challenging situations. That's why longsuffering is needed. When you can't slog it out with longsuffering like Job or Jesus on his way to the cross or Elijah who kept praying until the sign of rain appeared, where is your faith? Meekness! When Moses stood like a rock of defence for the people of Israel, you would think that the church of Israel was made up of very loyal and obedient congregation. Alas, the contrary was the case. Moses by meekness could care, defend and intercede for the stubborn israelites because of longsuffering. If you don't agree, search deeper and you will see. Self-control is the brain box of longsuffering. Without it, there can be no longsuffering. As true as that is, yet, self-control cannot function for long without longsuffering. So after a while, self control will grow weak, and would then rely on longsuffering to keep going. It is just like most African parents, self control parents longsuffering. But after a good while, longsuffering, like grown children, will then turn around to care for their aged parents of self-control. _MEDITATION:_ *What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction* Romans 9:22 (KJV) *#David_J_Egbochuo* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_SEPTEMBER,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 25/SEPTEMBER/2023* *Longsuffering* (III) _Key Bible Text:_ "*Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ."* (2 Timothy 2:3 (KJV) _Bible Insight:_ How is longsuffering the foundation for gentleness or goodness? Gentleness is becoming a not very common quality as the days go by. These days, the gentle people are easily taken for granted, sidelined and sometimes outrightly canceled. Don't you think so? Well, the truth remains that gentleness remains a fruit of the spirit. The hustle and bustle of life and the woke generation spirit can never remove gentleness as a fruit of the Spirit. It therefore requires some measure of longsuffering to stick to the quality of gentleness. Need I say more? Goodness? Really? In a world where people almost always end up regretting after doing good!? Have you not experienced one of such yourself? Or have you not heard? Well, that is it! Goodness has never been under threat like it is these days. "Who being good help" or "who goodness help" will soon be a trend in a generation where the mohbads of this world are the celebrities. Selah If you don't still see how longsuffering is necessary for goodness, well, maybe you really need to show more goodness to more people. You'll see the link, I bet you. _MEDITATION:_ *The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.* (2 Peter 3:9 (KJV)) *#David_J_Egbochuo* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_SEPTEMBER,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 24/SEPTEMBER/2023* *Longsuffering* (II) _Key Bible Text:_ "*Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him ENDURED THE CROSS, DESPISING THE SHAME, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."* (Hebrews 12:2 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ How is longsuffering the foundation of other fruits of the Spirit!? Charity suffers long! Charity could never suffer long without long suffering. Love is kind!? How can love be kind towards those that are not kind without long suffering? What of Joy? Take Elder James' advice for isntance...James 1:2 (KJV) *My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations"* How can you ever do such without longsuffering? Joy in the face of divers temptations!? That is longsuffering in action! What of peace? How can we be peacemakers if we are not long sufferers? If we don't have sweetness of spirit that is the mark of longsuffering, how can we talk peace? Peace is pronounced where & when trouble, strife and quarels are commonplace. The man who brings peace in the face of strife and rancour can only do such in the spirit of longsuffering! Behold Jesus! When Simon Peter cut off Malchur's ear that night Jesus was to be arrested, who defended Malchur and rebuked Peter? Jesus! The very man Peter was set to fight for. Jesus healed the man's ear! How could he without longsuffering, knowing fully well he had spent that very night crying that God should take the cup away if possible!? Yet, He was busy making peace with people who wanted anything but peace! If that is not longsuffering, then what is longsuffering? How do you see longsuffering in the other fruits of the Spirit? _MEDITATION:_ *"A generation that does not like the word 'suffering' would rather cancel longsuffering or at least replace it with endurance and perseverance. But nothing expresses the idea better than the very word -- longsuffering" -- E.D.J *#David_J_Egbochuo* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_SEPTEMBER,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 23/SEPTEMBER/2023* *Longsuffering* _Key Bible Text:_ "*Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, LONGSUFFERING."* (Colossians 3:12 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ Why did God give us longsuffering!? Without longsuffering, we will never be able to grow in Christian character. But what is longsuffering? It is to suffer long, for short. It is having the strength to face difficult or painful or inconvenient situations with stamina and endurance and doing so with grace and a positive attitude. God knew the sort of stuff that mankind has become. He knows mankind will have a very inseparable desire to inflict pain on fellow men out of greed and selfishness. God also knows that to become all he created us to be and live in his purpose, we must learn to thrive in the midst of the darkness and dark ways of this world. Hence, longsuffering is not in the category of "gifts of the Spirit" that is sort of optional. Rather, longsuffering is compulsory for every believer as a fruit or "follow come" feature expected of every believer of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is to your advantage that you develop longsuffering which you already have a deposit of. To wish it away is a sign of chronic ignorance and small mindedness. Without longsuffering many other fruits of the spirit will never have their maximum operation-- e.g. Love, Joy, Peace, Self Control, Gentleness all have a strong foundation in longsuffering. How? Think about it. _MEDITATION:_ *"Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up"* (1 Corinthians 13:4 (KJV)) *#David_J_Egbochuo* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_SEPTEMBER,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.....