DAILY WORD
(Week 25 January 2021 – 31 January 2021)
All Bible references are taken from New King James Version(NKJV) of the Holy Bible. Monday, 25th January 2021
Forgiveness is An Important Virtue.
Philemon 1: 12 I am sending him back. You therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,
The restoration process will start when there is forgiveness. There can be many offensive events, which requires great spiritual strength to forgive. However we cannot achieve that task without God and therefore it is an important virtue that a believer is blessed with. Yet this restoration process requires both parties to become aware of their individual short comings and make effort to put things right. Our effort to restore and repair a relationship is commendable before God and He will empower us to achieve the goal. Let us learn to forgive and bring restoration.
Prayer: Heavenly Father, teach me to forgive and bring restoration to the relationships that I have forsaken. In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen.
Colossians 3: 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do
(Contributed by Rev. Ebenezer David)
Read The Bible In One Year Morning Matthew 16 Evening Exodus 12-13
Tuesday, 26th January 2021
God Will Restore Righteousness.
Isaiah 1: 24 – 26 24 Therefore the Lord says, The LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, “Ah, I will rid Myself of My adversaries, And take vengeance on My enemies. 25 I will turn My hand against you, And thoroughly purge away your dross, And take away all your alloy. 26 I will restore your judges as at the first, And your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.”
When everything around us goes haywire and wickedness begins to thrive, God will intervene and restores the situation. This will result in the removal of those that promote wickedness and righteousness will be restored. God’s hand is against iniquity and He will remove every impurities just like a refiner, who refines gold or silver. Do not think that wickedness can continue and permanently control everything. Only the righteous are preserved and will remain although for a little while they may be hidden. Therefore continue in righteousness because God will restore righteousness.
Prayer: Heavenly Father, teach me to be patient in every situation although the wicked can arise for a moment. I know You will restore righteousness and I will not be put to shame. In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen.
Isaiah 61: 7 Instead of your shame you shall have double honor, And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they shall possess double; Everlasting joy shall be theirs.
(Contributed by Rev. Ebenezer David)
Read The Bible In One Year Morning Matthew 17 Evening Exodus 14-15
Wednesday, 27th January 2021
God is above everything.
Isaiah 10:12-15 12Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Lord has performed
all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, that He will say, “I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty looks.”
13 For he says:
“By the strength of my hand I have done it,
And by my wisdom, for I am prudent;
Also I have removed the boundaries of the people, And have robbed their treasuries;
So I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man. 14 My hand has found like a nest the riches of the people,
And as one gathers eggs that are left, I have gathered all the earth;
And there was no one who moved his wing, Nor opened his mouth with even a peep.”
15 Shall the ax boast itself against him who chops with it?
Or shall the saw exalt itself against him who saws with it?
As if a rod could wield itself against those who lift it up,
Or as if a staff could lift up, as if it were not wood!
God does not like an arrogant person. In the passage above, Isaiah the prophet is talking about King Assyria. He was a very proud man. He thought that all the fame that he had was from his own strength and wisdom. The ‘I’ in him made him to depend on his own ability. He did not acknowledge God.
In the New Testament, Jesus told the people about a parable of a rich fool. This rich man’s ground yielded plentifully. Instead of giving thanks to God for his blessings, he thought within himself, saying, “What shall ‘I’ do?...to store my crops?”
He planned everything according to his own ability and wisdom. “This is what I will do!” But God calls him a fool because he did not acknowledge God at all. His life was taken away from him that very night.
Just take a moment and examine our lives. Many times we have been depended on our strength, our own ability and wisdom. There are times we forget to acknowledge what God has done in our lives. When we do not acknowledge God, arrogance and pride will slowly set in our hearts. And this is a danger to our lives. Let us repent and acknowledge that God is above everything. He is the only source of our lives. Without Him we cannot survive.
Luke 12:15-21 15And He said to them, “Take heed and beware
of covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.” 16 Then He spoke a
yielded plentifully. 17 And he thought within himself, saying,
‘What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?’ 18 So
he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.” ’ 20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul
will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’ 21 “So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
(Contributed by Regina Ebenezer – church worker)
Read The Bible In One Year Morning Matthew 18:1-20 Evening Exodus 16-18
Thursday 28th January 2021
Those who call upon God will never be put to shame.
Jeremiah 33:3 ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’
God has promised us through His word that whenever we call upon Him, He will answer us. In the Bible, whether it is in the Old Testament or New Testament, whoever sincerely called upon God for help, God has helped them and saved them miraculously. The prophets, the priests, the warriors, the kings, those who were carried to another nation as captives like Daniel, those who were wrongly accused and put in the prison like Joseph, anyone for that matter, when they were in trouble,
they called upon the Lord in prayer and He answered them and delivered them.
When Jesus was on the cross, the criminal who acknowledged Him as the Savior of the world, who said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom”. And immediately Jesus answered him and said, “Today you will be with Me in Paradise.”
God is not a respecter of a person. There is no partiality in Him. He does not show favoritism. Anyone who calls upon the Lord will be saved.
Luke 23:40-43 40 But the other, answering, rebuked him,
saying, “Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this Man has done nothing wrong.” 42 Then he said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when
You come into Your kingdom.” 43 And Jesus said to
him, “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”
(Contributed by Regina Ebenezer – church worker)
Read The Bible In One Year
Morning Matthew 18:21-35 Evening Exodus 19-20
Friday, 29th January 2021
Train and Correct your child, it will turn out for your good.
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go,And when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 29:17 Correct your son, and he will give you rest; Yes, he will give delight to your soul.
Training and correcting is tedious, and not something, that one enjoys in doing, but on the long run, the end result brings tremendous joy. A child is ‘fresh and young’ in a world of ‘interaction’, and a child left to himself / herself (Proverbs 29:15), will continuously get into all kinds of problems, this is where ‘Training and Correction’ plays an important role. May God the Holy Spirit help and give the parents wisdom in training and disciplining their children with the love of Jesus.
Proverbs 29:15 The rod and rebuke give wisdom,
But a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
(Contributed by Rev. Johnathan)
Read The Bible In One Year Morning Matthew 19 Evening Exodus 21-22
Saturday, 30th January 2021
“You are my friends”.
John 15:13-14 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do
whatever I command you.
The Lord Jesus Christ says that we are His friends, if we do whatever He has commanded. There is an old hymn that we used to sing:
What a friend we have in Jesus All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry Everything to God in prayer! Oh, what peace we often forfeit! Oh, what needless pain we bear! All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer.
The only way we communicate with this Friend is by prayer, and this Friend will share ‘secrets’, that is, things that He has heard from the Father God with us (verse 15). Let us continue to do what this Friend has commanded, and He will always be our ‘Faithful and True Friend’ forever and ever. May God the Holy Spirit help us to walk in this Friendship.
John 15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.
(Contributed by Rev. Johnathan)
Read The Bible In One Year
Morning Matthew 20:1-16 Evening Exodus 23-24
Sunday, 31st January 2021
Walk humbly with your God.
1 Kings 21:21-25 21 ‘Behold, I will bring calamity on you. I
will take away your posterity, and will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both bond and free. 22 I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked Me to anger, and made Israel sin.’ 23 And concerning Jezebel the LORD also spoke, saying,
‘The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.’ 24 The dogs
shall eat whoever belongs to Ahab and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the field.” 25 But there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do wickedness in the sight of the LORD, because Jezebel his wife stirred him up.
King Ahab was a wicked king. The Bible says that there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do wickedness in the sight of the Lord because Jezebel his wife stirred him up. So, God sent the prophet Elijah to proclaim a judgment on him. But as soon as he heard the pronouncement of the judgment, king Ahab repented and humbled himself before God. When God saw how he humbled himself, He promised that He would not bring calamity during his days.
God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. When we humble ourselves before God, He forgives us.
1 Kings 21:27-29 27 So it was, when Ahab heard those words,
that he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his body, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about mourning. 28 And
the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 29 “See how Ahab has humbled himself before Me?
Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity in his days. In the days of his son I will bring the calamity on his house.”
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O man, what is good;
And what does the LORD require of you But to do justly, To love mercy,
And to walk humbly with your God?
(Contributed by Regina Ebenezer – church worker)
Read The Bible In One Year
Morning Matthew 20:17-34 Evening Exodus 25-26
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