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DAIILY INSIGHT BROOK
TUESDAY, 9 JUNE, 2020
TOPIC - HOPING AGAINST HOPE
TEXT - Romans 4:16-25

To hope against hope means to allow the hope of God's possibility swallow up the hope of man's impossibility. From today's passage, we see Abraham manifesting such a hope that cuts across all natural expectations.

While all the elements of hope around him negated God's promise of giving him a son when he and his wife were passed the age of childbearing, Abraham held steadfastly to the promise. From human point of view, the promise was absurd yet Abraham took God for His word.

Abraham's hope was strengthened by God's conviction that every impossibility was possible with God. He convinced himself that God was greater than the promise and that His power could make things happen.

Has God make a promise to you and every visible factor that could strengthen your hope of obtaining the promise is negating the possibility and fulfillment of the promise? Remember that God is greater than any promise and that "faithful is He who has promised" (Heb 10:23).

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DAILY INSIGHT BROOK
MONDAY, 8 JUNE, 2020
TOPIC - OUR SOURCE OF HOPE
TEXT - ISAIAH 59:15-21

Praise be to Jesus who offers hope that is beyond this life and all its limitations. When all men failed God, Jesus arose personally for our help.

The text for today shows that isreal's waywardness reached an alarming level that prophet Isaiah associated them with "the blind who groped for the wall and stumbles at noonday as in the night". But, in the midst of such cloud of uncertainty, God, the Almighty Redeemer, promised to visit Zion and those who repent of their sins. He assured them that His Spirit and word shall not depart from them.

Is your "sin state" so high that you have lost hope of receiving forgiveness? Do you assume you have wandered so far away from God to the point of no return? There is good news for you. God, who is able to redeem you from sin, death and hopelessness is about to forgive you and give you his spirit and word to abide in and with you. He is the source of hope In that your hopeless condition.

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DAILY INSIGHT BROOK
THURSDAY , 4 JUNE, 2020
TOPIC - Wisdom Lifestyle 2
TEXT - James 3v13-18

The manner at which wisdom as expressed in our present society is such that if Cain where to be around now, he would have claimed to have used sense in deceiving his brother - Abel to death, and Jacob too would have claimed a display of wisdom for usurping the position and blessing of his brother, Esau. You must have heard people saying 'i used sense/brain for him*. Infact, wisdom is the word some people use to justify and beautify lies.

Whereas, Wisdom is not merely using 'sense', but rather having a good sense or judgement and an ability to do things better. It is therefore not wisdom when it is an action taken or not taken as a result of bitterness, envy or selfish ambition. Such display of sense/ wisdom according to James is does not come from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, and of the devil. The best such lifestyle could yield is disorderliness and promotion of evil practices.

But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Wisdom is only traceable to lives where the aforementioned are consistently exhibited, as lifestyles.

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