JUSTIFYING YOUR CALLING AND ELECTION- (PART 4)

31^ST MARCH

TEXT: 2 Peter 1:10-11 (AMP)
¹⁰ Because of this, brethren, be all the more solicitous and eager to make sure (to ratify, to strengthen, to make steadfast) your calling and election; for if you do this, you will never stumble or fall.
¹¹ Thus there will be richly and abundantly provided for you entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

There is nothing like a sure word from the Lord. The closing of verse 10 is such a powerful promise yet not many can see the opportunity in it. It says “; for if you do this, you will never stumble or fall.” What a promise? Has it ever occurred to you that it is possible to a live an unending victorious Christian life?  It says you will never fall. Yet it does point out that the individual has a role to play; if you do this… therefore it is obvious that if you fail to do what is expected of you then you will fail. 

Somehow some people feel that God created and blessed some people with certain advantages that makes them more successful than others but this is not true. Most of the time, people who run to such conclusion are only trying to explain away their weakness. The word says if you do this, you will never fall. therefore you fell because you refused to do that which is expected of you. When most student fail the secondary school certificate exams they will say “They gave me…” but when they pass the exam in flying colours they will say “I got or I scored…” in other words, failure is because they did not want you to pass the exam but when the result is good it is because you know how to answer the questions. If you fail to prepare for your exam you will fail just the way you will fall if you fail to eagerly evaluate your spiritual journey to see to it that you are on the right path of glory. 

If you have veered off the plan and purpose of God for your life, it will be wise for you to humble yourself before God and ask for help. 

Glory Realm Devotional

By: Rev. Igho Lewis Yegbeburu

 www.gloriousfountain.org

. JUSTIFYING YOUR CALLING AND ELECTION- (PART 3)

March  28^TH

TEXT: 2 Peter 1:10-11 (AMP)
¹⁰ Because of this, brethren, be all the more solicitous and eager to make sure (to ratify, to strengthen, to make steadfast) your calling and election; for if you do this, you will never stumble or fall.
¹¹ Thus there will be richly and abundantly provided for you entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

A careful study of this chapter from verse 1 will reveal to us the reason for verse 10 and 11. In verse 1 Peter made it clear that he is talking to people who have obtained a precious faith through Christ.

 In verse 2 he made it clear that we have access to multiple manifestation of the grace and peace of God through our knowledge of Christ who called us to glory and virtue. 

And verse 3 reveals to us that his divine power has given access to all things that pertain to life and godliness and again he said this is through the knowledge of Christ who called us to glory and virtue.

Verses 4 to 7 reveals to us that the glorious promises of Christ has made us to be partakers of a divine nature that empowers us to escape the corruption of this world. Yet we are encouraged to add virtue to our faith and to virtue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity. 

Verses 8 and 9 makes us understand that the man who has this will not be unfruitful or barren but the one who lacks this is blind and cannot see afar off and has forgotten he was purged from his old sins. With this understanding it becomes clear that Peter was addressing Christians in this passage therefore the call in verse 10 and 11 is for us Christians to become serious about running the Christian race to the very end.

If a man wish to find excuse why he want to remain passive in his faith there would always be those who will be there to encourage him on that path but those who want to make it to the end will have no pity on their flesh. 

Where do you belong?

Glory Realm Devotional

By: Rev. Igho Lewis Yegbeburu

www.gloriousfountain.org

THE PLACE OF SURRENDER (PT 3.)

27^TH MARCH

MEMORY VERSE: Rom 12: 1

(I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.)

TEXT: John 12:24-25

24, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

    25, He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

Since we are the vessels that God use to enhance worship, if the vessel is defiled, the worship becomes defiled. So there is the absolute necessity for each one of us to surrender our lives to Him.

The importance of holiness in our worship experience cannot be over emphasized. Holiness is an attribute of God, it is a nature of God and He expects us to live a holy life. When we come before the Lord with filthy hands, that kind of worship will not be acceptable to God. The way we live our life matters to God. God wants to use and consecrate any life, no matter your standing or position. There is a call to holiness, to a deeper hunger and passion for God. If we are ever going to see the move God in our time like we’ve read in the scriptures and learnt from history of the past, then we will need to get beyond the surface thing; we will need to go very deep with God.

ACTION POINT

There is no limit to who God can use to bring glory to His name. He is looking for who to use today. Would that be me or you?

Glory Realm Devotional

BY: Rev. Igho L.Y

www.gloriousfountain.org

THE MANIFEST PRESENCE OF GOD (PART 7)

26^TH MARCH

TEXT: Exodus 33:1-7 (KJV) : Exodus 33:1-7 (KJV)
¹  And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
²  And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
³  Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
⁴  And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
⁵  For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
⁶  And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
⁷  And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, thatevery one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.

• When the manifestation of the presence and power of God is only heard or seen from afar it is an indication that something is wrong. You can lay hands on the sick in your neighbor hood and the healing power made manifest, they don’t have to come to church first. We can stand by the road corner and something is going on wrong with somebody that’s obvious demonic and attack and you can say in the name of Jesus and then everything is restored back to order. You must have heard this story, somewhere in Lagos many years ago in a bus a young man mistakenly stepped on one baba’s leg and the baba was angry and said you stepped on my leg. The young man said am sorry, baba was angry because he had some certain powers to depend upon, that he s depending on. He said for stepping on my leg take off your shirt, the young man took off his shirt. People where begging and baba was doing some incantation and everything and said now take off your trousers, and he took off his trousers, the young man is no longer in his senses again. Now he was moving to go further, a young Christian stepped in and said baba he has been begging you leave him alone. Baba said do you want to be part of it? He said no, this young man has been begging you leave him alone. Then the baba started incantation to include this young Christian, he made a very big mistake, he touched a tongue talking Christian. As he was making his incantation this person went off in tongues, baba was to command “take off your clothes”, the young Christian said you take off your own (yes, back to sender) and baba began to dance Ajasco, It was a divine supernatural turn around. That was how that young man was delivered that day and everything the baba intended for him came upon himself. If that young believer who came in had no authority he would just say let me mind my business.

May the Lord find you worthy when he needs someone to bring glory to his name.

Glory Realm Devotional

By Rev. Igho Lewis Yegbeburu

www.gloriousfountain.org

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES TO WORSHIP 2

TUESDAY 25TH

 (Mark 7:5-13)

Thank God for disappointing every attempt of the enemy to frustrate your spiritual growth.

Give thanks to God for every worship leader who contributes to the planning and leading of worship. Ask God to divinely inspire them.

Think about any significant spiritual encounter in your life and thank God for that opportunity.

CONTEMPLATION

“Sometimes the religious arena can be very intricate, bearing traces of the coup d’état. In a place where everyone appears to be innocent, friendly, and spiritually inclined, it is so difficult to imagine the presence and degree of frenzy on display. The quietude notwithstanding, it may not take that long for you to realize you have walked into a battlefield. ”p. 29 FFPW.

Before anyone comes to a place where they express an outburst of anger there has been a cold war all this while which is often covered by a religious and hypocritical actions and words. Whenever the hidden selfish motives of our heart are allowed to guide our decisions in a place where the Holy Spirit seeks to glorify Jesus there will be problem (see Gal. 5:17). When we seek to be seen heard and recognized, we are more desperate to winning the favour of people with sugar-coated words than to influence them for the kingdom purpose. This is the Absalom spirit of rebellion and coup d’état (see 2 Sam. 15:1-5). The word of God admonishes us to guard our heart with all diligence (Prov. 4:23).  When you suddenly become lukewarm and passive in supporting anyone assigned to kingdom duties, chances are that you are gradually drifting away into error.

PRACTICAL  ISSUES

When there is acrimony, strife, segregation, faction, and discrimination in a place the potential of there cannot be fully realized. Those who no longer stand the fighting and evil scheming will either opt for a more peaceful and passive stand or quietly leave the church.

See Romans 12:8, 14:19 and Hebrews 12:15      

GLORY REALM DEVOTIONAL

REV. IGHO Y.

www.gloriousfountain.org

JUSTIFYING YOUR ELECTION & CALLING- (PART 2)

24^TH MARCH 2014

2 Peter 1:10-11 (AMP)
¹⁰ Because of this, brethren, be all the more solicitous and eager to make sure (to ratify, to strengthen, to make steadfast) your calling and election; for if you do this, you will never stumble or fall.
¹¹ Thus there will be richly and abundantly provided for you entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

 There are many who think they are part of the kingdom of God because they were born into a Christian family and have been in church right from their birth. They know all the religious prayer, recitations and response but they have no intimate and passionate relationship with Christ. 

A Christian without Christ is a dangerous crisis in the church. Such kind of persons function by the tradition and religion of the denomination and finds it very difficult to agree with a man who is speaking or acting by the leading of the Holy Spirit because he is strange to the life in the Spirit. Amos 3:3 says two cannot walk together except they agree. Therefore there will always be clashes and opposition simply because this is a mixed multitude. It is very imperative that we ensure that each of us and every one of us are saved and eager to live for Christ. The end of verse 10 of our text tells us that if we fail to do this we will stumble or fall. 

This accounts for the inconsistency in some lives. This is also a strong reason why many churches and ministries struggle to fulfil their purpose in life. Many of them were in a hurry to become the fastest growing or the biggest church and in the process they ignore this all important counsel of God. If we must fulfil destiny we must see to it that we are living the life mapped out for us by the Lord. 

Do something about it today.

 Glory Realm Devotional

By: Rev. Igho Lewis Yegbeburu

www.gloriousfountain.org

THE PLACE OF SURRENDER (PT 2.)

21^ST MARCH

MEMORY VERSE: Rom 12: 1

(I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.)

TEXT: John 12:24-25

24, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

    25, He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

It’s required that we lay down our gifts or talents before the Lord for them to be useful in His service. God cannot be glorified by that which we refuse to lay down before him. Abandon your life, your cares and gifts to Him and you will be amazed at what He will do with you. He is able to cause you to boom and blossom like Aaron’s rod (see Num 17:7-8).

Until a vessel is empty and made available to be filled, it cannot be filled. Until we are desperately hungry for the presence of God and surrender for Him to when we lay down everything that would have taken His place in our lives, we will never experience the manifest glory of God.

ACTION POINT

As we willingly decrease for Him to increase, surrender from our heart to the Lord becomes a reality and we simply want to live for His glory.