Jacob and God In a Wrestling Match

 

An Emoji Devotional for Wed, Jun 22, 2022

Topic: Jacob and God In a Wrestling Match

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He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God: yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Beth-el, and there he spake with us;

Hosea 12:3‭-‬4 

And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

Genesis 32:24‭-‬28 KJV

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

Matthew 23:37 KJV

For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Matthew 23:39 KJV

God tried to change Jacob's mind so he could accept the gospel of salvation through grace but he would not easy on God from the space of midnight till daybreak. Even before Jacob was born, he cheated his brother, and when he grew up, he fought against God.

Hosea 12:3. God came in a night, to conquer Jacob's dogma about self righteousness which he seems fight for until His joint was dislocated and He had to surrender with  understanding that No one can succeed by strength alone. 1Sam 2:9. Through what happened that night God made Jacob understood that what is not given from heaven cannot be received from heaven. He with Jesus the son of God without knowing. He asked him for blessings and also asked for His name. Because He knew that it is only the son of God could make him surrender in such feat. Genesis 32:17. If Jacob had received a name from Jesus that day, He would have named the place he had the fight with God "Jesus alter" But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, Neither have entered into the heart of man, The things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

1 Corinthians 2:9 KJV. In the day break, Jacob later surrendered His life by saying "I will not let thee go, except thou bless me". Before He thought he was blessed before he met Christ but not until He met with the Lord. He then realized that all his achievements without the Lord was not enough to acclaim as being blessed. Until He surrendered His life to Christ. Then the Lord asked Him "what is thy name?" and He said Jacob.  He did not add any other reputation to his name not even his surname as he totally agreed to receive the real blessing from his Lord and Saviour. After the Lord blessed Him. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

Genesis 32:30.

In the center of it all, God changed His name from Jacob to Isreal. He became born again to a new creature and his mind renewed. John 3:3, Romans 12:2

Prayer: How many times have I exalted my decisions above your will in my prayers to you.My Lord I surrender myself to your will. Please Let let your will be done in my life and bless me Lord today in Jesus name.

To every disadvantage there is an advantage

 

An Emoji Devotional for Mon, 20th June 2022

Topic: To every disadvantage there is an advantage

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Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. James 1:12

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28

Blessed be the God of Joseph who went ahead to save the tribe of Jacob from famine. It was Joseph who went through various phase of trials because he shared his dreams to his brothers. He got sold into slavery and suffered persecution in the house of his master. His loyalty got him into prison since he refused to sleep with his master Potiphar's wife. He was forgotten by his family and friend who promised redemption. But in the time of his disadvantages, he has learned divine given skills of wisdom and dream interpretation. What if Joseph had given up his dreams, what if he changed to a bad person because he felt dejected and betrayed by the people he loved. One good thing that is certain for those who continue in their godly race. They will come to a time of advantage no matter how many disadvantages they have faced in life. For those who loved God eternally, all things will work together for good. One day the begging Lazarus will rejoice in paradise in Abraham's Bosom.

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— 1 Corinthians 2:9

Prayer: God I pray that you make lines fall unto me in pleasant places in Jesus name. Amen

Tell Nay Sayers To Keep Quiet

 An Emoji Devotional for Sun, Jun 19 2022

Topic: Tell Nay Sayers To Keep Quiet

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Then the sons of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the Lord will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”

2 Kings 2:3 BSB

Tell nay sayers to keep silence. Refuse to cooperate with the devil by saying negative things. Be Spiritually alert. Let your spirituality be positively on steroids. Catch positive vibes and quickly reject negative energies

Like Elisha, Do not take alternative route, accept what God has promised you and stand by it.

Timidity is not the fruit of the Spirit - Avoid it. John 21:3

Avoid pride and anything that can sabotage your good news. Shun Disunity

Receive a personal word from the Holy Bible. Pray over the word you receive and listen to messages from ministers of God that will quicken your spirit.  

So not listen to naysayers as the will drain your useful energy.  It is not a time to get complacent. It is time to intensify your prayers. Pray until something happens. You cannot use bicycle prayers to get a Rolls Royce testimonies.

You need to preserve your good news. Beware of Goliath Brothers which are there to challenge you after victory. 2 sam.21:19

Once you are ready and determined, it time to pray more and serve God more. From heaven the Lord looks down to see if anyone is wise enough to search for him.

Psalms 14:2 

Your energy for achievements is important, keep it preserved with focused for God blessings. Do not listen to Naysayers and their distractions.

Prayer: Father I am your child and I love to worship you in Spirit and in truth. Give me the power to preserve my positive energies from nay sayers or any form of distraction. In Jesus name. 

Sodom and Gomorrah

 

An Emoji devotions for Sat, June 18, 2022

Topic Sodom and Gomorrah

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Finally, Abraham said, "Please don't get angry, LORD, if I speak just once more. Suppose you find only 10 good people there." "For the sake of 10 good people," the LORD told him, "I still won't destroy the city." Genesis 18:32

God also punished the evil cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. He burned them until there was nothing left but ashes. He used those cities as an example of what will happen to people who are against God.

2 Peter 2:6 

Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.

2 Peter 2:10 BSB

Congratulations to you, if you are someone who is wise enough to search for God. I am congratulating you because you are the first people God is looking for whenever he looks down from heaven to check on his creations. How did I know? In Psalms 14:2, The Holy Bible Tells us that  From time to time God would look down from heaven if anyone is wise enough to search for Him. 

The Lord looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God. All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

Psalms 14:2‭-‬3 BSB

The story is short. No one was looking for God in Sodom and Gomorrah except Lot and their family. They were not up to ten in numbers, there is no amount of intercession that could save them. Simply because there were no good people in the city. God had to removed lot and his family out of Sodom and Gomorrah. Even when Lot's wife looked back to the city when it was being destroyed, she paid for it with her dear life. For her heart was with Sodom and Gomorrah and not with God. She will be a salt for the goats in the mountain because goats were symbols of disobedient children. 

Give your life to Christ, seek God in the right way which is through Jesus Christ. John 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to adore him.

Lot and his two daughters escaped the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah but the destructive way of Sodom and Gomorrah did not escape them. Genesis 19:30-38 as His daughters raped their father to raise children for their lineage. 

The world is going viral on the pathway of Sodom and Gomorrah. God is still looking down each day to find good people who adore him in Spirit and in truth. Will he find you? Lot lived right and was greatly troubled by the terrible way those wicked people were living. He was a good man, and day after day he suffered because of the evil things he saw and heard. So the Lord rescued him.

2 Peter 2:7‭-8 Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob. Selah

Psalms 24:6 

Prayer: God if I can seek your face in spirit and truth that will make you to love me and bless me. Give me grace to honor and adore you. 

It is God that Justify

An Emoji Devotions for Fri June 17, 2021

Topic: It is God that Justify

"No Enchantment Neither is There Divination Against God's Elect"

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What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

Romans 8:31‭-‬33 KJV

God is not a man, that he should lie; Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? 

Numbers 23:19‭

From Ellicott Commentary - All things shall be freely given to the Christian. Nothing can frustrate this: either on the side of God, for when He justifies none can condemn; or on the side of Christ whose death, and resurrection, and ascension, and intercession are pledges that nothing can separate us from His love.

What have we to fear? When God pronounces our acquittal there is none who can pronounce our condemnation. Literally, God is He who justifies, who then can condemn? And answering to this in the next verse we have, Christ is He that died, &c. This is the two-fold answer to the question, "Who shall come forward to accuse God's elect?" It is a conclusive reply to this to state the relation in which the accused stand to God and to Christ.

Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, Neither is there any divination against Israel: According to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought! Numbers 23:23

Prayer: I am God's elect. I am highly ordained. I am an ambassador of Christ. I carry His seed which is the Holy Ghost in my Spirit. I receive Mercy!

NOTE: For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.

Isaiah 54:10 KJV

What God Wants

An Emoji Devotional for Thu, 16th June 2022

Topic: What God wants

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But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Matthew 9:13

God prefer to show mercy to repentant sinners. He said, "if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14

The intent of God is to show mercy to His children who humble themselves and seek His face and turn from their wicked ways. Psalm 24:6 says "Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek your face, God of Jacob."

Our heart should know it is time to seek the face of God for mercy and compel us to seek God's face without prejudice. Such is the heart that God desire in Psalm 27:8 - "My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face, LORD, I will seek."

However if our heart goes astray and we forget the importance of seeking God's face when it gets to us as recommended by our heart - if that is what you want, then you are on your own.

It faith when your heart recommends to you that it is time to seek God. "And, “But my righteous one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back.” Hebrews 10:38

Have you forgotten that the whole purpose of God's love is to show mercy to all who come to repentance by believing in Jesus Christ His only begotten son? Do not cloud yourself with principles of religious beliefs that had secluded out the mercy of God by seeking him in humility. Live in a way that God wants and preach it to those who refuse to understand what God wants.

Prayer: Father thank you for showing me mercy. Give me a heart of humility that seek your face and hope in your mercy. In Jesus name. Amen

Be Powerful

An Emojis Devotional for Sunday 12, June 2022

Topic: Be Powerful

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Finally, let the mighty strength of the Lord make you strong.

Ephesians 6:10 

Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might: The apostles have been with Jesus, they have seen miracles and listened to His teachings. They have learned practical approach of how the Holy Spirit operates among crowd, elders, and authorities. They have seen how the scripture is being fulfilled. They were convinced about being strong in the Lord and they knew what God could do. In their eyes, The Lord told them "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” (Matthew 10:19) and they believed because they have practiced it and it worked for them. About 72 of His disciples at the same time testified in Luke 10:17 that "When the 72 followers returned, they were excited and said, “Lord, even the demons obeyed when we spoke in your name!"

One of them is Apostle Paul, He has performed so many miracles through the power of the Holy Ghost. He has faced persecution in different cities where He peached Jesus. He was bitten by snake without being harmed. He is the one telling you to be: Be Powerful - If you say, yes I want to be powerful, But How? It is simple: Let the mighty strength of the Lord make you strong. In order words Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. "I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it." Psalm 81:10

If you stay under grace of God's power which is available to all His Children, you will conquer and win most of life situations. Are you born again? Have you accept the Lord Jesus into your heart. It is a blessing to be a Christian. No other way but Yahweh. 

If you are born again. Pray for power under anointing of the Holy Spirit and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ to fill you up today.

Prayer:I pray for power under the anointing of the Holy Spirit and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ to fill me up today in Jesus name.