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*DAILY DEW 8/OCTOBER/2022*
*"STAYING PASSIONATE"* (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. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, LEST YE BE WEARIED AND FAINT IN YOUR MINDS."* (Hebrews 12:2-3 (KJV))
_Bible Insight:_
One of the devices of the enemy is to steal your joy! When you lose your joy or enthusiasm, you will have a drop in your passion, or lose your passion completely.
The enemy comes in subtle ways. Well meaning engagements and activities can become sources of joy theft for the enemy. Even people around you can become channels the enemy use to take away your joy in the service you render to God. Beware! Guard your joy! Guard your joy! It ensures your passion is maintained.
Indeed, the challenge before us is clear-- keep your spiritual fervency or passion! Don't let anyone or anything steal your joy as you serve the Lord. Your joyful heart in service unto God, is sometimes even more important than your getting everything right! God checks the heart, more than he inspects the acts!
Endure difficult situations and people that you encounter as you strive to serve God acceptably. But don't let your joy be lost. Don't let your passion drop. Overcome temptations as they come your way. When you let sin in, you will suffer loss of joy! Don't let sin rule you!
_MEDITATION:_
*"If you don't protect your joy, you will lose your passion with time! Fervency is a necessity for acceptable service in God's kingdom! It is not enough you are serving, you must serve acceptably. To serve God acceptably, you must keep your spiritual fervor, that is, your fervency or passion!"*
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*DAILY DEW 7/OCTOBER/2022*
*"STAYING PASSIONATE"*
_Key Bible Text:_
*"Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with the Lord's people who are in need. Practice hospitality."* (Romans 12:11-13(NIV))
_Bible Insight:_
The number one thing the enemy loves to steal from believers is the Passion for God and the ways of God. Everything believers go through can become traps the enemy designed, primarily targeted at taking away that passion in them for God! Once that's achieved, the faith of the believer is already overpowered or endangered or almost so.
The 21st century believer has so many hurdles like distractions and demands that easily sap one's energy. These are not new per se, but only come in more steady or subtle ways that end up taking one off balance easily. The greatest strategy of the enemy today is to preoccupy the believer so much that there will be a drop in the level of one's devotion, passion and consecration to God, if care is not taking.
Writing by divine prophetic insight, the scriptures warns us *"Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord"* King James version says, *"Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord"* Be aware that "business" is not limited in this context to financially related transactions. Slothfulness is never encouraged in every endeavour of a believer.
The challenge before us is clear-- keep your spiritual fervor! Fervency is a necessity for acceptable service in God's kingdom! It is not enough you are serving, you must serve acceptably. To serve God acceptably, you must keep your spiritual fervor, that is, your fervency or passion!
_MEDITATION:_
*"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. THE ZEAL OF THE LORD OF HOSTS WILL PERFORM THIS."* (Isaiah 9:6-7 (KJV))
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*DAILY DEW 6/OCTOBER/2022*
*"FOLLOWING JESUS"* (II)
_Key Bible Text:_
*"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him."* (John 14:6-7 (KJV))
_Bible Insight:_
Find Jesus, find God! Know Jesus, Know God. No Jesus, No God. Miss Jesus, Miss God. Follow Jesus, Follow God. There is no other way!
Jesus is the express image of the Godhead bodily. (Heb 1:3) To know Jesus is to emulate him, to do things the way that he approves of. To follow in His footsteps and examples.
When Jesus said "I am the way, the truth and life" he offered himself as the high standard of every life of value, purpose and impact! Your success is found in him. Your hustle or labour must be to succeed in Him, to become like Him. All other labours are nothing but vanity.
Only the maker of man and creator of the universe can give the final verdict and only revelation of what life is, and ought to be!
When we say things like "follow who know road", always remember that only Jesus is worthy of being followed. Does this mean that we can't follow men or women that know what is right? Not at all! But in all your following, let Jesus be the ultimate example to follow!
Anyone who doesn't value Jesus, must be considered with great caution!!
_MEDITATION:_
*"Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour."* (Ephesians 5:1-2 (KJV))
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*DAILY DEW 4/OCTOBER/2022*
*"Brethren, Pray For Us"*
_Key Bible Text:_
*"Brethren, pray for us."* (1 Thessalonians 5:25 (KJV))
_Bible Insight:_
Paul was writing to the church at Thessalonica when he said that-- Brethren, pray for us! It was one of his concluding requests as he was about to sign off from the first letter he wrote to the Thessalonians.
If you look at the request carefully, you will notice that the "US" in question were all ministers of the Gospel. You will see the trio when you check chapter 1 verse 1 of the same first letter:
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thessalonians 1:1 (KJV) )
And that request was consistent, even to other churches as well. For instance, he wrote to the Roman church *"Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that YE STRIVE TOGETHER WITH ME IN YOUR PRAYERS TO GOD FOR ME"* (Romans 15:30 (KJV))
The question is, when last did you pray for your pastors and all who minister to you in word and prayer? Do you consistently pray for them!? Do you remember them at all? Or you forget that they too are humans, men or women with needs, and challenges and temptations and all?
Beloved, spend time regularly praying for your pastors and those who labor in the word and prayer for you. Don't ever forget, that if your pastors/leaders are blessed and getting it right in all good things, you will be among those to reap of the blessings, either directly or indirectly!
Don't forget to send a prayer to God today and always for your pastors and other spiritual leaders. I stand on behalf of so many pastors and spiritual leaders out there, and make a passionate plea with you today, "BRETHREN, PRAY FOR US!"
_MEDITATION:_
*"Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.* (2 Thessalonians 3:1-2 (KJV))
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*DAILY DEW 3/OCTOBER/2022*
*"BITTER TRUTH"*
_Key Bible Text:_
*"I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive."* (Acts 20:35 (KJV))
_Bible Insight:_
We just throw around fancy words in the body of Christ; words that have no biblical support whatsoever. For instance, 'You aren't going to the labour market, it's a favour market'. That's how we've produced people seeking a raise through their praise without working real hard and smart.
Well, the reality is that the bible doesn't suggest anything close to this where work or career is concerned. At Acts 20:35, Paul says he laboured day and night to cater for himself and the necessities of others. At 2 Thessalonians 3:7-8, he says he and his team worked with labour and toil night and day, so as not to be a burden to anyone. At Ephesians 4:28, the believer is instructed to labour with his hands.
Isn't it amazing that to qualify to be admitted into this so-called 'favour market', you have to labour to read, study hard to pass exams and interviews? Employer of labour, not favour. Yes, you can be favoured anywhere but that doesn't change the fact that you are in a labour market. The problem is that many assume the word 'labour' is a curse. No, it isn't. There's 'good labour' and there's 'labouring in vain'. As a matter of fact, Proverbs 13:11 says he who gathers by labour will increase, as opposed to gaining wealth through dishonesty.
Labour isn't a negative word. In fact, the work of God on the earth today is described as labour. Another word for 'labour' is work. So, imagine saying, I don't have a work desk, it's a mercyseat🤦 Alright, sha work hard on this your mercyseat.
_MEDITATION:_
*"Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee."* (Psalms 128:1-2 (KJV))
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