Waves of Babylon

An Emoji Devotions for Wed 21 July 2021

Topic: Waves of Babylon

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Then I heard another voice from heaven shout, “My people, you must escape from Babylon. Don't take part in her sins and share her punishment.

Revelation 18:4 CEVDCI

At one point we were all surrounded by the Babylonian waves. It is what we see around us every day. Have you ever had noises coming from somewhere and you asked someone 'What is that noise? And they answered "That noise is coming from  Babylon". While you are still wondering what is Babylon? Then someone answered - "yes Babylon is the city of the fallen people. it is a place where demons live. a home for every dirty spirit . A home for every dirty bird. A home for every dirty animal which people hate.  Prostitutes makes men become drunk in Babylon. Babylon gives people enough space to have sex in a wrong way. Like this, it has caused people from every country to turn away from God. Even kings and Presidents who rule on the earth have chosen the Babylonian style. The cultist of Babylon has exchanged expensive things from the people on earth. As a result, the Babylonian has become rich by enticing people with their lifestyles.’

 Revelation 18:2‭-‬3 

The waves coming from Babylon is like  sounds of people partying life away. Today Everyone wants to party and get entertained in the Babylonian style. Even on camera, They fight for money in Babylon, they set themselves nude in Babylon, they sing wild songs in Babylon. The Babylonian don't play by the rules. All they want is money and drinks, smokes, drugs, sex everyday in Babylon. They upload it on the media for all to see and they pay celebrities money to show people the Babylonian way of life.

There are guns and blood sheds in Babylon - The prostitutes and filth stay in Babylon. They have done very bad things. Their sins have reached as high as heaven . Just like the days of Sodom - God knows about all the wrong things that they do in Babylon.’

Do you think God is not watching?

Revelation 18:4 says "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues."

 

Some Father, mother and children even a whole family have died in Babylon and some are dying because they are following the trending waves of Babylon. There is Babylon on every social media websites. On mobile phones, radio, computer and tv. If you are still alive and you are living in the Babylonian style, God is asking you to come out now. 

Jesus Christ is saying "Come unto me, all you that are tired and are tied with heavy burden (of Babylon), and I will give you rest.

Matthew 11:28 

Don't be deceived, Jesus is the only solution. Babylon is a home of devil - a punisher while Jesus is a saviour who wants you to be with him in heaven. Choose wisely today in everything you do and don't get used to waves of Babylon blowing in everyone's mind. Accept Jesus as your Lord and savior today.

Prayer: God please keep me on your side till the end. Let your Holy Spirit guide and protect me from waves of Babylon the fallen. In Jesus name. Amen.

Oil Of Joy

An Emoji Devotions for Mon 19th July, 2021

Topic: The oil of joy

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The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’ Matthew 25:8

People need oil to function. But there is a special oil called the oil of joy. Nehemiah 8:10 - "Nehemiah told the people to eat special food and to drink sweet drinks. Nehemiah also told the people to give food and drink to those who had none. He told the people that they should not be sad. They should not be sad because they were giving pleasure to God. This would make them strong. The joy of the Lord is your strength.

When there is Joy in your life, you will be strong. But Joy is one of the special features of the Holy Spirit. It is a sign that you have the Holy Spirit and that is why is mentioned immediately after Love in the Fruits of the Spirit Galatians 5:22 - They are the first three things that work together to birth the rest of the Fruits. When love is mixed together with joy and peace balance. yummy delicious! And once you have the first three you should have the rest. 

In the arrangements of the Fruits of the Spirit Love is followed by Joy and Peace. Joy is sitting in between Love and Peace. Think about it. This is not the type of joy derived from a grove party or by winning a lottery. It's not yoga mantra kind of joy that only last for a moment of pose. It is the Joy that has Love and Peace on both sides. The joy that comes from being born again. Even the worldly people are coming to realized that Happiness is Free when they see a joyous believer in Christ. They could not just figure out that such Joy comes through salvation of our Lord Jesus Christ. We hope they believe and accept it before it's too late.

You have that Joy of salvation because You have received a new life. It is not people that gave you this new life so therefore no matter what people say and do will not take your joy away. You know there's a human kind of life which does not continue for ever. You are not living as a man, you are living as Christian unto God. Once you do something that offends people, they will change against you. But God's new life does not come to an end and the joy that comes with it does not come to an end too. So this makes you happy and the happiness cannot be controlled by anyone. Congratulations! You have been born again into a new life, because you believed God's message - you should be happy. That message continues to be true and it does not change.

1 Peter 1:23 

As from now, no one can control my joy in Christ and if anyone ask me what is the source of my joy. I will tell them it is God that gives me joy. I will lead them to salvation of Jesus Christ so that they too will all have Joy in full. 

It is not too late to give your life back to God. Accept Jesus as the truth you need to find your way to God and you will receive Eternal life. Close your eyes and believe in Jesus Christ and pray in His name to God to give you His Holy Spirit. Do not do things the old way. Learn God's way by reading A Holy Bible each day and you enjoy the Joy of God.

Isaiah 61:3 - To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the Lord , that He may be glorified.”

Prayer: O Lord I want you to be glorified in my life. Please give me the irreplaceable joy of Holy Spirit that cannot be exchanged for anything else in this world in Jesus name. Amen. 

Milky Meek

 

An Emoji Devotions For Sat 17th July

Topic: Milky Meek

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God blesses those people who are humble. The earth will belong to them!

Matthew 5:5 

When you reach the land flowing with milk and honey as promised by God in Exodus 3:17 then you would have turned into the Milky Meek because the earth belongs to the humble person. Satan loses its powerful battles against humble people. A meek person is an humble person who conquers all and takes all. 

 In fact, God treats us with even greater kindness, just as the Scriptures say, “God opposes everyone who is proud, but he blesses all who are humble with undeserved grace.”

James 4:6 

We are talking about Humility to God which is beyond gentleman act but being submissive to the will of God. Our Lord Jesus Christ is a very humble person while on earth. In His prayers "Thy will be done on earth as it is heaven" shows that He will obey God's will with willingness of heart in both sides. What about you? 

The proud are always doing things in their own ways which somehow seems right but in the end leads to their destruction. A proud person cannot face the devil in life's experience because they do not want to submit to the leadership of God. Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18 yet "God blesses those who are humble (meek), for they will inherit the whole earth. Matthew 5:5

The great people of all time are humble people. Charles G Finney, John Wesley, Enoch Adeboye, Kenneth Copeland are all humble people. God resists the proud. It is what it is that only the meek person will live long to inherit the whole earth. This only can happen by being saved through the grace of confessing and accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. There's no other way. A humble person will rather submit to the Lordship of Jesus Christ and commit to do His will. 

"He will protect his faithful ones, but the wicked will disappear in darkness. No one will succeed by strength alone." 1 Samuel 2:9

Prayer: God please bless me with your mercy and fill me with meekness and humbleness that delights your Holy Spirit. In Jesus name Amen.

There's a River

 

An Emoji Devotions for Thu 15th July 2021

Topic: There's a river

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There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. Psalms 46:4

I do hear people say things like " there is a restaurant over there, they have delicious delicacies big people do go there to eat." "There is a very big dog in that house it can bark woof woof". How many of you have heard about people using something to describe a place. Something like there is a white house with black gate in the entrance of that street. The river, flowing calmly and smoothly along in the city of the Lord as stated in our highlighted verse, may be only a symbol of the peace and blessing of the Divine presence. As a Christian, you should give room to that river of Divine presence to flow through you.  Do you carry divine presence of God with you? Do you know that the divine presence of God makes the heaven glad about you? Do you know that if you carry divine presence the angels will hover around you like an orbit even though you do not see them. When you carry divine presence of God, you carry life of God, you carry joy and you carry the map of a hopeful destiny with you. 

"You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand" Psalm 16:11

The Holy Spirit is the divine presence of God. He is a helper that protects and guides his own. If you don't genuinely accept Jesus as your Lord and savior, you cannot have the Holy Spirit divine presence with you. Be born again today. The old sinful way of life cannot help but destroys. It is the divine presence that gives us joy and success. 

Never stop reading the Bible and keep praying always. It is where you will find the divine presence of God. If you obey Jesus completely, you will have good success. Joshua 1:8.

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. It is the Holy Spirit divine presence of the most High God. Choose Him today so that your tomorrow will be filled with joy forever. Amen

Prayer: Holy Spirit please come and show me the way to genuine salvation of your divine presence in Jesus name. Amen

Remember

 

An Emoji Devotions for Tue, July 13 2021

Topic: Remember

Highlight: Remember your Creator in the days of your youth ... Ecclesiastes 12:1

In the days when you have the chance to yield easily. When the tempter has not come to tell you to eat the forbidden fruit. Remember God Before you reach the point of making rash decisions while your mind is still in good shape to follow His will. Before you start with things that gets you carried away. Remember God before you reach the point of confusion when you are still ripe before you get burnt up and do not know what exactly the will of God is. When you are still a virgin and your thoughts are not covered with wrong options.  

In the beginning, God comes first to create the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1, Remember Him first in the beginning of every thing you do.  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1. Which of God's words do you know that should come in the beginning of every thing you do? 

Of David, when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, so that the king drove him away. I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise will always be on my lips. Psalms 34:1 

It is God that gives wisdom, it's same God that gives direction. Wisdom and Power comes from God. He is the controller of the universe. Only God can deliver, only His words can heal. It is the best option to put God first. Remember Him in the days of your youth. Reverence him when everything is still young, when there is still time, when there is still power. Before you get used up by life's experience before you begin to wonder if anything can move you anymore. Remember now thy creator before time runs out! 

Prayer: Lord you have done so much for me in the name of your dear Son. I will not forget talking about your goodness in the land of the living. Give me the grace and power to put you first at all times in Jesus name. Amen

Who is the Number One?

 

An Emoji Devotions for Mon 12th July, 2021

Topic: Who is the number one?

By H.U. Wenger

Wherever human beings are in groups together, the very question arises without anyone uttering it. It belongs to the group dynamic to somehow figure out who is top and who is bottom. The bible tells us a story of two competing groups, the shepherds of Abram and the shepherds of Lot, who tried to settle the matter in a fight, so that it developed very quickly to a matter of the chiefs. 

Highlights:  So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives. (Genesis 13:8)

Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. (Romans 12:9 – 10)

The quarrel between the shepherds had a reason. There was just not enough water and food for the livestock when the large herds of the two men stayed together. 

Abram quickly realized that the only solution to the problem was to create more space and that meant the two men could not dwell any longer in the same location. 

If you have a quarrel in the family or marriage, look if there is enough space for everybody. Often time it gets easier to be together, when each part has the freedom to be enough with him or her. 

A German Psychotherapist coined the sentence: “I can better live with you, when I am more with me.” The way the bible tells us the story, it is quite clear that Abram is the senior chief. He most likely would have had any right, to say where he wants to live and where Lot should go. He, however, invites Lot to separate from him and to choose where he wants to dwell. Lot made his choice with astute human calculation. Abram remains on the lesser land, but has made the better deal anyway. 

He makes peace by taking himself back and giving Lot the honor of choice. Abram displays here the attitude of Christ according to Philippians 2:5 – 11:  “In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God, something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 

And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Humility and a mindset of servitude is generally a sign of true greatness in the kingdom of God. 

The only way to be the number one leads over being the servant for everyone. Jesus displayed this through his whole life on earth, but especially when he was washing his disciple’s feet. (John 13:1 – 17) In this event he made clear that he expects them to follow his example.  ‘When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.’ (John 13:12 – 15)

“For it is the one who is least among you all, who is the greatest.”  (Luke 9:48b)

Prayer: Lord God, please help me to be a faithful servant. I long to be great as everybody does. Let me be your servant and show me how to use my gifts to serve my fellow human beings. Keep me from false pride. Amen. 

You are mine

 

An Emoji Devotions for Sun, 11th July 2021

Topic: You are mine!

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.” (Isaiah 43:1)

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38 – 39)

God’s history with the people of Israel is very special, because it does not follow the rules of genealogy but the rules of promise and belief. In Romans 9 – 11 the Apostle Paul makes clear that in Jesus everybody who comes to him and believes in him will be counted as a child of Abraham and therefore be an Israelite in the spirit. On the other hand a Jew who does not seek the Lord will not be counted to the children of Abraham. Paul writes: What if he (God) did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory—even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? As he says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people; and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,” [Hosea 2: 23] and, “In the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ” [Hosea 1:10] (Romans 9:23 – 26).  

Only a remnant of the original people of Israel will eventually get saved and with them many people out of the nations. It is crucial to acknowledge that the promise and the warning of the Isaiah prophecy apply to the Jews and to the followers of Christ out of the nations.  “For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. 

As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”[Isaiah 28: 16]For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”[Joel 2:32] (Romans 10:10 – 13)

 Now, as we have established that the Isaiah text applies to all believers in Christ, we can state for sure, that you are created, formed and treasured by the creator of the universe and that he redeemed you and calls you by your name. You will not always be safe and secure. Water and fire may trouble you, but nothing can overcome you according to the following verses in Isaiah 43 and according to Romans 8:38 – 39. You do not need to be afraid. You are under the watch of the good shepherd. What do you think the Lord may call you for by your name?

Could it possibly be that he wants you to confess and spread the good news that for your neighbor the same riches are available? Before Jesus parted from his disciples he assured them that he has been given all authority in heaven and on earth and he gave them a mission:  Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” (Matthew 28:18 – 20)

Prayer: Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for creating and gifting me to serve for your glory. Show me how I can praise you with my existence and how I can spread your wonderful Gospel to other people. Thank you for never having to stand alone as you are with me to the very end, so that I can say no to fear and boldly proclaim your name and your salvation. Amen