Promise Him

 An Emoji Devotional for 12 Oct, 2022

Topic: Promise Him

Highlights: I'll bring my righteousness near; it isn't far away. My salvation will not be delayed. I'll provide salvation for Zion and bring my glory to Israel. Isaiah 46:13

Have you been challenged by the most difficult situations of your life that everything seems to be on a standstill? You see, the way God works is His righteous judgment is approaching - that judgment which involves vengeance on His enemies, mercy and deliverance to His people. Now the promise you are going to make to God is not just by word but action speaks louder than voice.

First promise, Don't for once change your mind to doubt God. James 1:8

Second promise, to act according to Psalms 1:1 "Blessed is the person who does not follow the advice of wicked people, take the path of sinners, or join the company of mockers."

Thirdly, Rather, delights in the teachings of the LORD and reflects on his teachings day and night. PSALMS 1:2

If you continue to live up to your promise to God with your way of life, then be confident the your life is under process to be promoted to Psalms 1:3

Psalms 1:3 is the promotion to every life of all child of God who passed the test with their promise to God.

Psalms 1:3 "He is like a tree planted beside streams-- a tree that produces fruit in season and whose leaves do not wither. He succeeds in everything he does."

If you have not proceed to the next level since all these while, know that how to regroup yourself together with focus and single mind to live with your promise to scale through. Your promise is the key.

If you have been up with the promise, wait for salvation, It will not be delayed.

Isaiah 46:12 Listen to me, you stubborn people who are far from being righteous.

Isaiah 46:13 I'll bring my righteousness near; it isn't far away. My salvation will not be delayed. I'll provide salvation for Zion and bring my glory to Israel.

Maybe you are trying to be stubborn with self righteousness or using your knowledge to force-process your way to Psalm 1:3 listen to what the all time wisest man says in proverbs 3:5

Proverbs 3:5 says Trust the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding.

Proverbs 3:6 says In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths smooth.

Just promise him and keep to it, then leave the rest for God. Luke 9:62

Prayer: Lord I'm not fit to keep to my promise of life to you but I want you to help me in my journey with the grace given through Jesus Christ our Lord. For what is my gain if I lose my reward? Please come close and help me as you help Abraham, Isaac and Jacob through your Holy Spirit. In Jesus name I Pray. Amen.

Jesus Jesus Jesus (The Mighty Warrior)

 An Emoji Devotional for Thu, October 6, 2022

Topic: Jesus Jesus Jesus (The Mighty Warrior)

Highlights: 

But the LORD is with me like a mighty warrior; so my persecutors will stumble and not prevail. They will fail and be thoroughly disgraced; their dishonor will never be forgotten. Jeremiah 20:11

God gave Jeremiah the overview of his prophetic ministry. He even continued to plead God’s case against Judah during the time of Jerusalem’s destruction by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. (Jeremiah 1:3; 52:7-11).

We are in the generation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The favor of God will soon fall on a generation that want nothing more than Jesus! God is the One who promotes and the One who gives favor… and God will lift up the LIGHT of His COUNTENANCE upon us as they go forth sowing seeds of transformation and awakening. 

"Today I have put you in charge of nations and kingdoms. You will uproot and tear down. You will destroy and overthrow. You will build and plant.”

Jeremiah 1:10 

As the generation of Jesus Christ, we must chant his name with our life as our mighty warrior. We will not be victim of persecution anymore because in Matthew 28:18 When Jesus came near, he spoke to them. He said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me."

Are you a child of God facing challenges or persecution, call Jesus "The Mighty Warrior" to come to your rescue today".

in John 15:16 Jesus said "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you."

Like Jeremiah anyone who has given their lives to Christ has been chosen by the Mighty Warrior to bear fruit that will last, therefore whoever or whatever will stand against your fruitfulness is a persecutor which need to be dealt with.

Isaiah 49:13 says "Sing with joy, you heavens! Rejoice, you earth! Break into shouts of joy, you mountains! The Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on his humble people."

Isaiah 49:13 

Call on Jesus the Mighty Warrior today and report all the affliction and persecution to him. Call Him like when you call your last hope warrior to defeat and disgrace your persecutors today so that they will know that God is God and men are only mortals. Psalm 9:20

Prayer: Jesus Jesus Jesus My Mighty Warrior I call you against my persecutors. Henceforth, Make them fail and be thoroughly disgraced so that their dishonor will never be forgotten. Amen.

For The Love of God

 An Emoji Devotional for 3, October 2022

Topic: For The Love of God

Highlights: 

There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. Psalms 4:6

Light of countenance means the favor, kindness and smiles of God. In Genesis 6:8 The Bible says "But the Lord was pleased with Noah." While Noah found favor (grace) with the Lord, he still needed to obey Him so that he would not perish in the flood.  This means for the love of God we need to keep working in obedience to keep moving in our favor.

God is kind to you, see where you would have been today without God. Anyways we cannot be without Him, however our love and obedience to His command has kept us till this moment. God's moment is the best and we should keep looking up to him for better moments than where we were at present

by still working things out like Noah until the promised time has come. 

For the love of God, you will receive kindness from God when you continue doing what will keeps you on His favor list. Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn't leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing. Luke 15:5

By the smile of God, Psalms 23:1 the Good Shepherd our Lord will show His great compassionate love for all who continue living for the love of God. which  means they will never lack anything good, they will be safeguard, they will feast at God's table and enjoy the perfume of Goodness and Mercy. Psalms 23

Continue your workings for the love of God each moment you remember where you are and where you will be forasmuch you know that your labour will never be in vain. Remain blessed.  1 Corinthians 15:58

Prayer: Heavenly Father my honor is in you. Please safeguard my life and give me grace to continue living for your love in peace and happiness in Jesus name. Amen 

Every Demon making you Uncomfortable will go

 An Emoji Devotional for Tue 27 September 2022

Topic: Every Demon making you Uncomfortable will go

Highlights:

 "Ask, and you will receive. Search, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened for you. St. Matthew 7:7

 "Go and say to Hezekiah, 'This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David says: I've heard your prayer. I've seen your tears. I'm going to give you 15 more years to live. Isaiah 38:5

Have you ever been sick or felt uncomfortable in life before. Naturally or unnaturally things could that make one uncomfortable may occur by internal or external forces. Our life must depend on higher power to save us from the invader. No argument, it's not everything that's demonic but somehow if things gets out of hand or gets out of control. You need to pray. There was a day I felt so sick and was at the point of dying then I quote God's word in Psalms 118:17

"I will not die, but I will live and tell what the LORD has done."

Suddenly the sickness went off like as if the night suddenly turns into day and I was made whole. But some long time back when I had similar experience, I had to quote several words of God and prayed with many declarations before I got my healing.

The difference is there are demons making people's life uncomfortable and what makes them likewise uncomfortable is when make healthy declarations concerning ourselves from the Bible and having faith that they are powerful and working. And that's it! Uncomfortable situation will say bye bye to you.

So when you are faced with a situation that make your life feel uncomfortable, speak the word of God to yourself and believe you are someone special by the word.

Prayer: Father it is written, no weapon formed against me shall prosper in Jesus name. Amen

The NEW Wine

 An Emoji Devotional for Wed 21 Sept, 2022

Topic: The New Wine

Highlight:

Nor do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins burst, the wine runs out, and the skins are ruined. Rather, people pour new wine into fresh skins, and both are saved." St. Matthew 9:17

If you really want to see great transformation in your life. You have to change your ways to the body of Jesus Christ. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. Isaiah 55:8

What are God's thoughts? Sure they are good thoughts for us according to Jeremiah 29:11. We need to demonstrate that we live in God's thoughts so that our faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power. You have to demonstrate the power of the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 2:4-5. Not folding your hands looking at the world passing you by. You must declare the will of God for your life like someone with spiritual eyes. Have you ever seen someone in charge of an office who keeps quiet when communicating with their subject? They must say something. 

So is why you need a new wine to demonstrate the power of Holy Spirit of God. 1 Corinthians 2:12 Now, we didn't receive the spirit that belongs to the world. Instead, we received the Spirit who comes from God so that we could know the things which God has freely given us.

If you don't control the world, the world will control you even if you are God's child. 

What are the things God has freely given us: It is the grace and Spirit of eternal life of Jesus Christ to impact our world into the way it should be (God's way) in divine order. You need new wine to get this done. Not like the way we get intoxicated with the canal wine to misbehave - God forbid!. The new wine gives divine wisdom that reveal the true definition of God's people demonstrating God's power. You cannot know take new wine to demonstrate properly unless you change the wineskin with which you were known for unless you will limit or defeat the manifestation of the real you when the new wine gets into you.

The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments. 1 Corinthians 2:15-16

The new wine makes us become highly intellectual instead of intoxicated as well as more than highly intellectual because it is the same Spirit in the blood of Jesus Christ. To make you see into the difference between the dream and the reality; then you can no longer take the shadow for the substance. It is like the parable of "... treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field." Matthew 13:44

Change your wineskin: When you have discovered the new wine, you change your wineskin. It will cost you letting go of certain unacceptable things in your life. Then you begin with demonstrating power of God's spirit, You may be judged for it, condemned because of this, depreciated, slandered every day of your life, but the arrow flights of human judgment fall far short of you. Hebrews 12:14 says "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:" 

Remember this is not just a physical fight to flout orders but a decision to fight spiritually against principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness of darkness in high places who wants to subjugate you into injustice of life. Ephesians 6:10-12. The new wine will make you see these things and give you the courage to make moves (demonstrate) to deal with them.

When you are ready to take on the challenge! Do it with confidence that Christ got your back. "For if you eat the bread or drink the cup unworthily, not honoring the body of Christ, you are eating and drinking God's judgment upon yourself." 1 Corinthians 11:29

Prayer: Holy Spirit pour your New Wine into my spirit's throat in Jesus name, Amen.

Life without the Holy Spirit

 An Emoji Devotional for Mon, 19th September 2022

Topic: Life without the Holy Spirit

Highlights:

You haven't received the spirit of slaves that leads you into fear again. Instead, you have received the spirit of God's adopted children by which we call out, "Abba! Father!" Romans 8:15

 

Wisdom can give you Nothing that satisfies without the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit makes life fulfilled for believers. Our Lord Jesus say that not even Solomon in all his majesty was dressed like one of these flowers (which is made by divine wisdom) because though Solomon was wise he worries a lot about many things. "Don't deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise in the ways of this world, you should give up that wisdom in order to become really wise." 1 Corinthians 3:18


Our heart will be where our treasure is. If our heart will treasure what is spiritually designed we will be fulfilled. Don't ever worry and say, 'What are we going to eat?' or 'What are we going to drink?' or 'What are we going to wear?'
Everyone is concerned about these things, and your heavenly Father certainly knows you need all of them.
But first, be concerned about his kingdom and what has his approval. Then all these things will be provided for you. So don't ever worry about tomorrow. After all, tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

At the same time the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we don't know how to pray for what we need. But the Spirit intercedes along with our groans that cannot be expressed in words.
The one who searches our hearts knows what the Spirit has in mind. The Spirit intercedes for God's people the way God wants him to. The Just shall live by faith. Hallelujah!

Prayer: Holy Spirit please help me in my weaknesses.

God’s appointed times – the feast of Trumpets

 An Emoji Devotional for Thu,15 Sept. 2022

Topic: God’s appointed times – the feast of Trumpets

By Pastor Hans Ulrich Wenger

Highlights: 
Listen, I tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed – in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. (1 Corinthians 15:51 – 52)

For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord for ever. Therefore encourage one another with these words. (1. Thessalonians 4 :16 – 18)

In Leviticus 23 God gives Moses his appointed festivals he wants him to proclaim to the people as his holy convocations. In the Christian Community I grew up, I got familiar with the spring festivals but I never heard anything about the fall festivals until I studied theology. Certainly the feast of Passover, the feast of Unleavened bread, the feast of the First Fruits and the feast of Weeks (Pentecost), which have all been fulfilled through the coming of Christ Jesus as Messiah into our world, are central for our salvation and deserve to be observed with joy and thankfulness.

With the pouring out of the Holy Spirit over the Disciples of Christ, however, the countdown for the next appointed feast began. Jesus promised to come back and to suddenly and unexpectedly snap his Disciples away from the earth to reunite with them in the heavenly realm. The sounding of the trumpets was for the Israelites always either a call for decampment or a call for gathering together. 

God orders Moses in Numeri 10 to manufacture two silver trumpets. He gives him advice, how the trumpets should be blown for gathering the leaders and the whole community, as well as for the call to break-up.

The feast of Trumpets marked in Israel the beginning of an agricultural and civil New Year and therefore remains for outsiders often hidden behind the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah). The real New Year, however, begins in spring with the Jewish month Nisan. This year the feast of Trumpets starts on the evening of September 25th and ends on the evening of September 27th.

It is the commencing of the 10 days of awe for the Jewish people, which is a time of dedication and repentance with view to the day of Atonement, the most important feast in the Jewish calendar, that takes place on the 10th day of the 7th month, which corresponds in our calendar with the evening of the forth till the evening of the 5th October.

I want to motivate myself and you to earnestly celebrate the feast of Trumpets. We do not know, when the last trumpet will be blown, but we can know for sure that our reuniting with the Lord will somehow be in connection with the feast of trumpets. The Lord is about to pick up his bride. How can we know this? In Matthew 24 Jesus talks about the end of the end time. In the verses 32 to 34 he tells us to learn from the parable of the fig tree: “Now learn this lesson from the fig-tree: as soon as its twigs become tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.” With this Jesus confirms the prophecies of the Old Testament. According to Joel 1, 6 – 7 and Hosea 9, 10 Israel is God’s fig tree. All the signs Jesus mentions in Matthew 24 are fulfilled today and Israel is a green and blossoming nation.

It is therefore certain that his coming is near, right at the door. Let us joyfully wait for the sounding of the last trumpet. We have nothing to lose here, but we have everything to gain with his coming and in the future with him.

Dear Lord Jesus, take everything away from me, which hinders me in my life with you. Please give everything to me, which foster and enhance my walk with you. Let me be yours, and yours alone and snap me away into your presence with the sound of the last trumpet. 

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