God can rise like the stars for you

 

An Emoji Devotions for Wed 14 April 2021

Topic: God can rise like the stars for you

Highlights:

But the people who trust the Lord will become strong again.
They will be able to rise up as an eagle in the sky.
    They will run without needing rest.
    They will walk without becoming tired. Isaiah 40:31

When God become a rising star for you, there will be a promotion to higher level in your life. There are some people who God wants to bless but they need to open up. Let's say for example someone whom God is planning to make to a multimillionaire but is lazy. Take a look at the highlighted verse and you will see that people who trust God are strong. Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Samuel are strong. When they rise, it goes in a acceleration of an eagle to the sky. This is not about trusting God alone but it's about opening up a platform for God to perform wonders. Thses people are never consumed with tiredness of waking up to start another life's battle to prepare a ground for divine action.

Do you see the widow of Zarephat, She was surviving by God's grace in times of famine till it was her last meal and God sent the prophet Prophet Elijah to her home. The prophet asked for water and food, but the one she had was the one she wants to eat with her son and died but she obeyed the servant of Most High God and prepared their last for him. Afterwards God did a miracle for their family. Their jar of flour was not used up and their jug of oil never run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land.’” 1 Kings 17:15

Where God has begun work for grace, he will perfect it, provided you open up and follow up by faith. There is a promise for everyone of us in the Bible and when you pick it up and follow it up,God will turn into a rising super star for you.  "When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person." Job 22:29

Prayer: In Jesus name, My father I am grateful to you that you are interested to star in my life's expectations. I pray that you give me the surface that you can breathe your life and establish me as your holy mountain unto yourself in Jesus name. Amen

Testimonies: How Emoji Devotions has been a blessing to me

 

Testimonies: How Emoji Devotions has been a blessing to me

Whenever I'm faced with challenges and my internal harmony is almost shifting towards fear and worries, what I do is go to the emoji Devotions page and read at least three random topics. And I receive immediate strength and change of mindset to carry-on.

Many lives have been transformed through the daily devotion. People have given their lives to Christ and we have received lots of testimonies.

Duck from USA says; "I am one of the reader of your devotions and it has changed my life"

He is one of the numerous readers of the daily Devotional content.

 Emoji Devotions is a daily Devotional written and inspired by the Holy Spirit. It discusses the word of God on surface level a transparent in-depth from the Bible in relations to our daily lifestyle. It is the latest version of Bible study. 

Some of the topics are: "Laban's Syndrome", "Easy", "Close to the tree of life", "travail", "can I pray and believe someone into eternal life?" "mercy" and lots more. These topics are Divine revelation beyond contextual meaning to heal and to preserve lives.

My advice to all Devotional readers is to continue reading the Devotional daily with hope in the Holy Spirit for whatever they desire. Each Devotions comes with prayers which spiritually inspired and once prayed having faith in God, will lead to positive transformation in your life. Thank you to all our readers as we usher you into divine manifestations in the Holy Spirit. God bless you all. Amen

Can I pray and believe someone into life eternal?

 

An Emoji Devotions for Mon, 12 April, 2021

Topic: Can I pray and believe someone into life eternal? 

By Hans Ulrich Wenger

Highlights: When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the man, “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.” He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!” (Mark 2:5; 10–12)

In the Gospel of Mark we read a very astonishing story. Jesus was in Capernaum healed people and preached the Gospel. Same brave men wanted to bring a paralyzed friend, carried by four,  to Jesus, but Jesus was in the house and around the house was a big crowd gathered. It was impossible for them to enter the house. So the four men climbed on to the roof of the house, heaved the man up, opened the roof and lowered him down into the house in front of Jesus’ feet. 

As the man never says a word in the whole story, it may well be that even his speech was paralyzed. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” Now wait a minute. Has not everyone to repent for himself? What is Jesus saying here? But this was not the only question in the room. Now, some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, “Why does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, “Why are you thinking these things? Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat and walk’?Everybody in the crowd knew that Jesus question could not be really answered, as both words are not in man’s competence. With his action Jesus made, however clear that it is never wrong to care for a beloved person.  The group of man, cared for the paralyzed fellow, they believed for him and they acted decisively for him. Jesus sees that and he acknowledges it immediately. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” 

This is encouraging! How many people have prayed for loved ones, have believed for them and acted for them, but never saw a result. Often times I encounter people, who are disappointed with prayers because of this. The person they prayed for, they believed for, they cared for so much and they brought  before Jesus every day, suddenly passed away and it seemed as everything would have been in vain. Do not think like that. The story of the paralyzed man does show us that there is a chance. Therefore carry on with your prayers and believe on. I am thinking of that single mother whose son did not find his inner peace in life. He kept being thrown back and forth. Since he was born, the mother prayed for him, believed for him and she brought him before the throne of grace every single day. As the boy was thirty one years old he committed suicide, because of an unfulfilled love. The mother was devastated, but the extraordinary story from Mark 2, has restored her hope and her faith. Finally Jesus makes clear that he has the power to forgive sins, by healing the paralyzed man and to show to the crowd that for God nothing is impossible. Jesus said then to the crowd: But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the man, “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.” He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”We may not understand it, but we know that his ways are higher than ours and his thoughts are way greater and bigger than our thoughts. (Isaiah 55: 8 – 9) 

Prayer: Heavenly Father, let me be a person who cares for my beloved ones, who prays for them, who believes for them and who acts for them, if necessary. Thank you that you honor my faith.

Nurtured like newborn babies

Today's Devotional

 An Emoji Devotions for Sun 11 April, 2021

Topic: Nurtured like newborn babies

By H. U. Wenger

Highlights: Like newborn babies, (quasi modo geniti infants) crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. (1. Peter 2:2 – 3)

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 1. Peter 1:3 – 6)

In the old church and in the church year even now, todays Sunday is called “quasi modo geniti infants”, like newborn babies. Babies crave nourishment, but there is not much available that could feed them and make them grow. The reflex to suckle from the breast of the mama is inborn to them. Peter praises God that he has given us a new birth through the resurrection of Christ Jesus. Now, as we became newborn babies in Christ, we need nourishment to grow. Growth is, however, not all we need. We have to learn how to crawl, how to walk, how to behave and how to act in the new life. 

The only nourishment that can bring us forward is the word of God, is the Holy Bible. As I was a child, able to read, it was even for kids unthinkable to go to the worship service without having the own Bible on them. Everybody was asked to read, reflect and examine, whether the speaker was preaching the truth. I must confess that I did not do much searching of the scriptures, but at least I did read the given passages of scripture on my own. Evangelistic preaching is unfortunately often times geared to call people to a decision for Christ, but it does not do enough to teach the newborn Christians that everything they need in the new life flows out of scripture. Scripture is the only pure spiritual milk and without enough of it we succumb to retarded, malnourished and distorted followers of Christ who will often much more react according to generally accepted rules of society than according to the resurrection power of Christ. 

We are born into a living hope through the resurrection of Christ Jesus. The living hope is nothing else but the resurrected Jesus himself. In his earthly life, he only said what he heard the Father say, and he only did what he saw the Father do. Before he left to take his place at the right side of the Father, he told us at least twice: “As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” (John 20, 21 compare John 17, 18) He oriented himself on the Father and we must orient us on him, if we want to be his children and his disciples. When you are suffering on a unfulfilled life, when you are missing the resurrection power in your daily routine, just turn to studying scripture and begin to live out, whatever scripture tells you. Do not consider what your society or your congregation thinks. Do what you feel compelled to do according to scripture.

 However, do consider that you are born into a living hope and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. Gods’ way to nurture you and me is through his scripture. It is the nourishment we need to grow strong and which enables us to truly be his followers as salt of the earth and as light of the world. By following him like he followed his Father, we will become more and more the city on the hill. The world has become a dark place, full of evil. What God has declared as good, is called bad and what he designated as evil is called bad. In this situation we need to let our light shine, brighter and clearer than ever.

 Therefore let us crave pure 

spiritual milk and proclaim the glory of God with our lives. Good is the Lord – good and full of life is the word of the Lord because his word is he himself. (John 1, 1 – 5) 

Prayer: Father I praise you for your provision, for your goodness, for your love and for your mercy. Open the scriptures to me so that I may grow and become stronger in you. Make true for me what you promise in John 7:38: “Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” Amen.

Cure for the burden of my age

An Emoji Devotions for Sat, 10th April 2021

Topic: Cure for the burden of my age

By H.U Wenger

Highlights: Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2. Corinthians 4:16 – 18)

Do not cast me away when I am old; do not forsake me when my strength is gone (Psalm 71, 9)

Apostle Paul and his companions go through such big troubles in Asia that they think about their own demise. “We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.” (2. Corinthians 1:8 – 9) God miraculously saves them and Paul exclaims in the second chapter: “But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.” (2. Corinthians 2:14) Christ has won all the battles and the apostle knows himself as a part of his triumph and considers it a privilege to suffer with Christ. Every suffering and every trouble is for him not only a difficulty or bad luck, but as well a possibility for the revelation of Christ’s glory.

“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. (2. Corinthians 4, 8 – 11) 

The writer of Psalm 71 lives with a similar attitude, even if he is more concerned about his old age, he makes very clear that he trusts the Lord unwaveringly and that above all, he wants to praise his faithfulness. “In you, Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame. … From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb. I will ever praise you. … My mouth is filled with your praise, declaring your splendor all day long. Do not cast me away when I am old; do not forsake me when my strength is gone. For my enemies speak against me; those who wait to kill me conspire together. … As for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more. My mouth will tell of your righteous deeds, of your saving acts all day long— though I know not how to relate them all.

 I will come and proclaim your mighty acts, Sovereign Lord; I will proclaim your righteous deeds, yours alone. … Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up. You will increase my honor and comfort me once more. I will praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God; I will sing praise to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel. My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you— I whom you have delivered. My tongue will tell of your righteous acts all day long, for those who wanted to harm me have been put to shame and confusion.”

Paul and the writer of Psalm 71 are not occupied with their own lives, but rather with the glory of God. Every age has its own challenges that are unescapable. We can get lost in turning around ourselves, or we can thrive by concentrating on the bigger truth, on the giver of life and of his might and glory. 

Prayer: Lord Jesus, let me concentrate on your kingdom and its righteousness so that I can minimize the concerns and the sorrows about my sufferings and challenges of my little life. 

Adopted into eternal salvation – do you trust it?

 

Today's Devotional

An Emoji Devotions for Fri, 9th April 2021

Topic: Adopted into eternal salvation – do you trust it?

By H. U. Wenger

Highlights: But now, this is what the Lord says— he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.” (Isaiah 43, 1 – 2)

What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? (Romans 8, 31 – 32)

In the Gospel of John, chapter three, Jesus explains to the Pharisee Nicodemus that everybody who wants to get into the kingdom of heaven must be born again. In chapter 1 of the same Gospel John makes clear that whosoever receives Jesus and believes in his name, has the right to become a child of God, born of God, and that means born again. In the Old Testament God has always searched for the children of Israel. With accepting Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we spiritually become seed of Abraham and with that a non-Jewish Jew. This is exactly why the promise of Isaiah 43 applies for you and me. But, do I believe it? How many times do we fear human beings, cooperations, judgment of society and much more? How easily do we fear to not be enough, to be inferior and deficient? And yes, without being HIS child, I am weak, not enough and deficient, but he redeemed me with his father, he created me in his image, he knows me by my name and he explicitly assures me that I belong to him. I am one of his genial thoughts and he created me for exactly the time within which he has put me into being. He has made me wonderful and special and all my days were written in his book long before any one of these days came into being. He does not promise me a life free o suffering and trouble, but he promises to me that no challenge will be able to destroy me. Therefore: “Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” (Isaiah 41, 10) Could we wish for a better new family? 

As we turn the focus to ourselves we are feeding disbelieve. By turning our eyes to Christ according to Hebrew 12, 2 we are building up our belief and trust together with anticipation of the future joy. : “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” We need to firmly hold to the promises God has given us in the same way that Jesus trusted the promises the Father had given him. Doubts are a distraction from the fact that we cannot find any life outside of Christ Jesus and with that an open door for back sliding into sin. Jesus has achieved a prefect victory and therefore the only thing that can be against us are defeated entities, that must flee before the God given faith and its power. Therefore, let us rejoice and move forward as participants of his glorious victory!

Prayer: Dear God, let me never forget that you have accepted me as your child through the sacrifice of your son, Christ Jesus. Thank you that you are my Father through him. I repent of all wavering thoughts and thank you that you remain my Father forever. I long to see the glory of your salvation with my eyes and I thank you for the powerful faith you have given me. 

Adam, where are you? Man, woman, where are you

 An Emoji Devotions for Thu, 8 April 2021

Topic: Adam, where are you? Man, woman, where are you?

By H.U Wenger

Highlights: But the Lord called to the man: “Where are you?” He answered: “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.” (Genesis 3:9 – 10)

Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account. (Hebrew 4:13)Adam and Eve lived in the best possible environment, surrounded by the purest and deepest love, but through the seducing words of the serpent they began to crave for more.

 But, is there actually more available than they had? No, no not really, but I think they were not aware of it. They were just put into that magnificent garden, knowing nothing of heartache, stressful moments, loneliness, the power of love and missing something. God has shown them his perfect love, but they themselves had not yet grown their own love for God and for everything he had provided for them. First John 4:18 tells us: “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” Adam was very conscious that he had crossed a line that he was disobedient to the word of God and he feared his punishment and his nakedness. Moments ago, he was perfectly clothed in the love of God and never wasted a thought about his nakedness.

Now, as he knows himself guilty, the very same nakedness makes him be afraid of his own creator, of his father. The same principle applies still today. As soon as we tolerate sin in our lives, we cannot rejoice anymore in the love of God. It separates us from him and makes us afraid and it really should. Hebrews 4:13 shows us that nobody, no creature can hide from God. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account. We do not know what would have happened, if Adam and Eve would have run to God immediately after they realized their nakedness, telling him, we have sinned against you and it has become a terrible, live shattering problem. Can you help us? We know, however, what is happening today, when we ran towards him and confess our sins. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” Think of his perfect love to us and approach him now to confess, not just your own sins, but all sins you have taken with you from society or from your philosophy.

 Whatever in this world you may support that it is not in the Lord’s will, will backfire on you. How can I be a Christian and support people or institutions who are for abortion, same sex marriage, bashing Israel, taking down the authorities, practices that lead to vice, immorality and unrighteousness? Whenever things like those are in our lives, let us run immediately to the Lord, give account to him and repent. Let us get rid of everything he despises. It will lead all of us into a holier live and bring us deeper into his love, so that we will not have any fear anymore, not matter what is going to happen. Only Jesus Christ can set us free. Let us love him, as he has loved and loves us. To him be glory, praise, adoration and exultation. In him alone we can get what we need for life eternal. Let us seize everything than brings us closer to him. Let us throw out everything that separates us from his holiness. Halleluja!

Prayer: Dear Lord Jesus, I do thank you that absolutely nothing is hidden from your eyes. Help me to fully trust your love and always run towards you, when I am or feel guilty. Let me never forget that you are absolutely and unchangeably good and that you have mercy and grace for me no matter what may have happened in my life. Thank you for your love and your patience with me.