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Day 124: Jesus is Faithful Read: Psalm 102;  Proverbs 30:32-33; Colossians 2; Deuteronomy 1-2 Deuteronomy‬ ‭2:7, 36‬ ‭NIV‬‬ “The LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you, and you have not lacked anything. From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the gorge, even as far as Gilead, not one town was too strong for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.” ‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭2:7, 36‬ ‭NIV‬‬ http://bible.com/111/deu.2.7,36.niv Indeed, it was a miracle how the Israelites were taken care of by God when they were in the wilderness for 40 years.  In Deuteronomy 8:4, it was recorded that "For all these forty years your clothes didn't wear out, and your feet didn't blister or swell.” And in today’s passage, we saw how God watched over them throughout the whole journey and they lacked nothing. Not one town was

Day 123: What an Inheritance We Have in Jesus Read: Psalm 101; Proverbs 30:27-31; Colossians 1; Numbers 35-36 It is so good to make Scriptures as prayers. Why not say this prayers in Colossians 1:10-12 today? Prayers:- We continually ask You, God to fill us with the knowledge of Your will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,[e] 10 so that we may live a life worthy of the Lord and please You in every way: - bearing fruit in every good work, - growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to Your glorious might so that we may have great endurance and patience, 12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified us[f] to share in the inheritance of Your holy people in the kingdom of light. Amen. O! What a privilege that we share in the inheritance of God’s holy people. The Bible is clear that inheriting eternal life is synonymous with entering the Kingdom. At the judgment, the righteous will inherit the Kin

Day 122: Privileges As Leaders Read: Psalm 100;  Proverbs 30:24-26; Philippians 4; Numbers 33-34 Numbers 34: 16  And the  Lord  spoke to Moses, saying,  17  “These  are  the names of the men who shall divide the land among you as an inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.  18  And you shall take one leader of every tribe to divide the land for the inheritance.  19  These  are  the names of the men: from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;... We saw how God instructed Moses to delegate the job. Further, God systematically selected a leader for each tribe to help Eleazar and Joshua. The names that we are familiar would be Joshua and Caleb. We knew how both Joshua and Caleb were faithful and courageous from the very beginning of surveying the Promised Land and now God gave them more duties as leaders. The principle in God's Kingdom is that God rewards faithfulness and consistencies. More privileges are given to leaders when more responsibilit

Day 121 - Let Us Be Encouragers Read: Psalm 99;  Proverbs 30:20-23; Philippians 3; Numbers 31-32 Numbers 32:9-12 “For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which the LORD had given them. So the LORD’s anger was aroused on that day, and He swore an oath, saying, ‘Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the LORD.’ From the passage above, we can take note of the consequences of discouraging fellow believers. The Lord's anger was aroused. To me this is serious. We are to do all that we can to please God. However, by virtue of discouraging any of our brothers and sisters in Christ, we may arouse the anger of ou

Day 120: Obedient and Submit to God Read: Psalm 98;  Proverbs 30:16-19; Phillipians 2; Numbers 29-30 " Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain. For I have no one like-minded, who will sincerely care for your state. For all seek their own, not the things which are of Christ Jesus. But you know his proven character, that as a son with his father he served with me in the gospel.” ‭‭Philippians‬ ‭2:12-16, 20-22‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ http://bible.com/

Day 119: Privilege to Pray and Intercede Read: Psalm 97;  Proverbs 30:13-15; Phillipians 1; Numbers 27-28 “being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ; And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labor; yet what I shall choose I cannot tell. Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel,” ‭‭Philippians‬ ‭1:6, 9-11, 21-22, 27

Day 118: Do Everything With Our Utmost Best Read: Psalm 96; Proverbs 30:10-12; Ephesians 6; Numbers 25-26 Numbers 25:11 & 13 ““Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites. Since he was as zealous for my honor among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal. He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”” ‭‭ Dictionary.com explains zealous as fervent, diligent, devout and passionate. All these attributes are God-honouring and very much advocated in the Bible. For instance, Apostle Paul said this in 1 Corinthians 26:13-14, "“Keep your eyes open, hold tight to your convictions, give it all you’ve got, be resolute, and love without stopping.” Henceforth, let us put in our heart, soul and mind in whatever our hands find to do and do it with our utmost ability as it not only pleases our Make

Day 117: Say and Do What the Lord Requires of Us Read: Psalm 95; Proverbs 30:7-9; Ephesians 5; Numbers 23-24 A Call To Worship “Oh come, let us sing to the LORD! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭95:1-2‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ http://bible.com/114/psa.95.1-2.nkjv "So he answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak what the LORD has put in my mouth?” “God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good? Behold, I have received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it. “He has not observed iniquity in Jacob, Nor has He seen wickedness in Israel. The LORD his God is with him, And the shout of a King is among them. So Balaam answered and said to Balak, “Did I not tell you, saying, ‘All that the LORD speaks, that I must do’?”” ‭‭Numbers

Day 116: Set Reminder Read: Psalm 94;  Proverbs 30:4-6; Ephesians 4; Numbers 21-22 “Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD that He take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.”” ‭‭Numbers‬ ‭21:7-8‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ http://bible.com/114/num.21.7-8.nkjv It is noteworthy that the Israelites who repented took an extra effort to make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole. It shall be a sign to remind them that whenever they look at the pole, they shall live. What a great way! May we have a sign just to remind us NOT to sin again in any particular weakness that we have. Let it serve as a reminder and to show to God that we are sincere to overcome the weakness and I verily believe God will honour us. God set the rainbow

Day 115:  Fear God  Read: Psalm 93; Proverbs 30:1-3; Ephesians 3; Numbers 19-20 ““Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.”” ‭‭Numbers‬ ‭20:8‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ “Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank.” ‭‭Numbers‬ ‭ 20:11 ‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ http://bible.com/114/num.20.11.nkjv http://bible.us/114/num.20.8.nkjv “Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” This was the water of Meribah, because the children of Israel contended with the LORD, and He was hallowed among them.” ‭‭Numbers‬ ‭ 20:12-13 ‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ http://b

Day 114: Be A Problem-Solver; Not A Complainant  Read: Psalm 92; Proverbs 29:25-27; Ephesians 2; Numbers 17-18 “And it shall be that the rod of the man whom I choose will blossom; thus I will rid Myself of the complaints of the children of Israel, which they make against you.” And the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Aaron’s rod back before the Testimony, to be kept as a sign against the rebels, that you may put their complaints away from Me, lest they die.”” ‭‭Numbers‬ ‭17:5, 10‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ http://bible.com/114/num.17.5,10.nkjv God hates complainers. In this passage we can see that God insitituted sign as a way to remind the Israelites not to complain further. God was willing to forgive and forget and put away all their previous complaints. What is required was just that they must remember not to complain again. Let us take heed and not to complaint but pray and ask God to reveal to us the root cause and be a problem-solver. Amen! #devotion #complaint #problemsolver #grac