Christian Digits

😀🌹🌺🎁🎀💝 MORNING TEA. THE WORD FOR TODAY
MONDAY APRIL 18, 2022.
"FORGIVE AND FORGET"
“Put up with each other.” Colossians 3:13 CEV

BUILDING A successful relationship calls for focusing on the other person’s strengths instead of their weaknesses. Concerning marriage, Benjamin Franklin said, “Keep your eyes wide open beforehand and half shut afterwards.” It’s a mistake to rush into a lifetime relationship without taking time to get to know the other person. Without due diligence on the front end, you are sure to have problems on the back end. But an important relationship principle lies in learning to forgive and forget. American politician Edward Wallace Hoch is attributed with saying, “There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us, to talk about the rest of us.” Forgetting can be harder when the offense is great. Small offenses can usually be forgiven quickly; big ones involve a healing process. But until you decide to forgive and forget, the process can’t even start. Paul writes: “Be gentle, kind, humble, meek, and patient. Put up with each other…forgive anyone who does you wrong, just as Christ has forgiven you. Love is more important than anything… It is what ties everything…together” (vv. 12-14 CEV). One author puts it this way: “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can‘t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” In other words, when it comes to facing facts you can’t change, pray for grace and learn to live with them. Why do we need to forgive and forget? Because God says so! You are not designed to carry the physical and mental stress that comes with harboring resentment. Added to which, “You might be needing forgiveness before the day’s out” (Galatians 6:1 MSG).

Soul Food Reading: Jam 3-5, Luke 23:13-25, Ps 7:10-17, Pro 10:17-18. Courtesy Grace So Amazing Foundation 🌹🌺🌷🎀

😀💝🌹🎁🌺🎀 MORNING TEA. THE WORD FOR TODAY
WEDNESDAY APRIL 13, 2022.
"LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITY (1)"
“Satan…incited David to take a census of Israel.” 1 Chronicles 21:1 NIV

FRESH FROM a major victory over the Philistines, King David made a major mistake. Instead of trusting God for his next battle, he conducted a census designed to measure his military power and determine his chances of winning. As a result, seventy thousand Israelites perished. This story teaches us three very important lessons about leadership responsibility: (1) As a leader, you’re Satan’s special target. He knows that in order to get to others, he must go through you, so he will use every strategy he has to bring you down. “Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census.” The average board of directors would probably have considered it a good idea, but God saw it as an act of arrogance and unbelief. (2) Don’t be presumptuous. Don’t let your last victory make you overconfident about your next battle. There will never be a time when you don’t need God! The fact that God had just granted David a great victory should have made him more, not less, dependent on God. Paul wrote, “Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. He has made us competent” (2 Corinthians 3:5-6 NIV). (3) Listen to wise counsel. Joab, one of David’s generals, warned him he was making a grave mistake. “The king’s word, however, overruled Joab” (1 Chronicles 21:4 NIV). You may have great gifts, but you don’t have all the gifts. Where you have blind spots, others often have 20/20 vision. “In the multitude of counsellors there is safety” (Proverbs 11:14 KJV), so listen to the people God put in your life to guide and protect you.

Soul Food Reading: Dan 5-7, Luke 22: 47-53, Ps 103:1-12, Pro 10:13. Courtesy Grace So Amazing Foundation 🎀🌹🌺🌷

SEEK DAILY (NBC)

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13

*SEEK AND SAVE THE LOST*

TEXT: LUKE 19:1-10

“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” Luke 19:10, NIV

Bishop David Oyedepo believes that he was commissioned into the gospel ministry with the following statement. “The hour has come to liberate the world from all oppressions of the devil through the preaching of the word of faith, and I am sending you to undertake the task.” Every Christian has this kind of calling.

Jesus was very clear about His mandate to save the lost souls that He went about seeking people who are lost. He preached in different places. He was conscious of people’s need of salvation. In today’s passage, we observe how in spite of the crowd and the criticism of the people, Jesus was rather moved by Zacchaeus’ need of salvation. He went to be with Zacchaeus in his house and brought salvation to him.

We must be like Jesus. There are lost souls in different locations round about the world and we need to go and seek them to preach the good news to them, and encourage them to reciprocate to others. Since our Lord came to seek and save, we also must continue to seek and save sinners. Jesus saved you and commissioned you to seek the lost.

Insight: The Master has left us with a commission to seek and save the lost.

Prayer: Lord, help me to be true and focused in soul winning.

RBT Passage: 1 Kings 10-12

Spiritual Digest for the Day 13Apr2022

BIBLE VERSE FOR THE DAY
“For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2 NKJV).

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QUOTE FOR THE DAY
Determine not to know any other thing apart from the cross and the empty tomb of Jesus Christ as you witness about Him in your day-to-day endeavours. - Bayo Afolaranmi

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PRAYER/ACTION FOR THE DAY
Pray that you will not let anything divert your attention away from the cross of Jesus Christ and His resurrection.
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Have a wonderful Wednesday.

Command the Morning from Rehoboth Christian Assembly, Samaru Zaria.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022.

GOD IN EVERY DISTRESS IV

PSALM 107:23-31

For the past three days we have considered the fundamental and major needs of man- habitation, food, health, freedom which the devil sends distresses to. Today, we shall be yet considering an aspect that is faced with challenges and how God is able to bring us out of the distress associated with that aspect. To survive, man needs to engage in some form of economic activity. Some in professional pursuit, some in businesses, farming, trading etc. The Psalmist in our text refers to those who are exposed to dangers at sea. Though the Israelites didn’t deal much in merchandise, yet their neighbours the Tyrians and Zidonians did, and for them is this part of the Psalm referred. Mariners, merchants, fishermen, passengers and all those that do business in great waters are exposed to related hazards such as tempests, stormy winds and waves. When these winds beat against their lives, vessels and cargo, they cry unto the Lord and He brings them out of their distresses. He makes the storm calm and the waves still. In the course of our economic activities, we are exposed to many risks like failure, bankruptcy, harsh business environment, unfavourable economic policies of government, competition, loss etc. The devil who is chief at destroying any profitable venture toss our businesses and means of livelihood and sometimes we get to our wits’ end not knowing what to do or who to turn to for help. It is at such time we should cry out to God. Are you at the verge of closing up your business because of huge debts? Are you at the verge of losing your job because of imminent downsizing in your sector? Have you failed several times because of the risk associated with your line of business? Don’t be discouraged, God is able to calm every storm against your business or work. He will cause a quiet in your place of work and the odds won’t be against you any longer. He will bring you to your desired haven. He will bring you to your place of promotion in business and work. He will enlarge your borders in business and work from today in Jesus’ name.

PRAYER: Almighty Father, I thank you because you are capable of calming all my business storms. Still every storm against the works of my hand in Jesus’ name.

😀🎀💝🎁🌹🌺 MORNING TEA. THE WORD FOR TODAY
TUESDAY APRIL 12, 2022.
"UNDERSTANDING YOUR WILLPOWER"
“Don’t cherish exaggerated ideas of yourself…have a sane estimate of your capabilities.” Romans 12: 3 PHPS

WE HAVE exaggerated ideas about our capabilities. We like to think we can do it all. But no matter how disciplined you are or how hard you try, without a “sane estimate of your capabilities,” you’re setting yourself up to fail. John Ortberg says: “Willpower is…finite…You don’t get separate stockpiles for different areas…That’s why a long list of New Year’s resolutions is almost certainly doomed…It takes a whole lot of willpower to get on an exercise…program to lose weight…If you add on the list: get on a budget…keep your office clean, and read Calvin’s Institutes every week, you set yourself up for failure…For most of us…our wills get depleted…more quickly than our bodies.” Ortberg suggests these: (1) Schedule your most important tasks for when your willpower is strongest. For many people, that’s the morning. One study shows prisoners have a better shot at parole if their case is heard in the morning when the judge has a higher reserve of willpower and is more inclined to take a chance. (2) Spend willpower wisely by not taking on too many tasks at once, even after you have prayed about them. Generally, God works through your will, and He seldom gives you a free pass to disregard the laws of finitude He created. (3) Set goals—but not too many. Lacking a few, we drift, but having an overabundance means we worry about them, accomplish less, and suffer emotionally and physically. (4) Remember that the one act of your will that replenishes willpower instead of depleting it is surrender. God meant for prayer, solitude, worship, and meditation to be done in a way that restores us.

Soul Food Reading: Dan 3-4, Luke 22: 39-46, Ps 130, Pro 10:12. Courtesy Grace So Amazing Foundation 🌷🎀🌹🌺