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Category: Faith
DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONALS: DECEMBER 9 LOOK BACK AND THANK GOD (1) SCRIPTURE: PSALM 71: 5 – 8; 144: 1
Evidences abound that human beings are too forgetful, especially when it comes to casting one’s mind to recollect one good thing someone has done to that individual. The usual practices of…
DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONALS: DECEMBER 8 HEART OVERFLOWING IN JOY (2) SCRIPTURE: PSALM 45: 7; 145: 1 – 2
Yesterday’s devotional reflected on a tongue of whose heart is always overflowing in joy. The belief of the devotional was built on the fact that for a heart to overflow in…
DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONALS: DECEMBER 7 HEART OVERFLOWING IN JOY (1) SCRIPTURE: PSALM 45: 1 – 2
IN Hebrew Bible, heart of man is where one makes choices motivated by desires. The heart is also the center of man’s intellectual and emotional life. External actions of human beings…
DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONALS: DECEMBER 2 EXPRESSING WONDERFUL WORKS OF GOD (2) SCRIPTURE: PSALM 111: 3 – 4; 145: 10 – 12; ISAIAH 43: 21
Yesterday’s devotional made readers to know that God our Almighty Father feels good when human beings express His wonderful works. Expression of God’s wonderful works forms part of our praising and…
DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONALS: DECEMBER 1 EXPRESSING WONDERFUL WORKS OF GOD (1) SCRIPTURE: PSALM 40: 5; 118: 17 – 18
One of the best ways to show appreciation to somebody who did a great work for you is telling others what the person has done for you. Every normal person feels…
DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONALS: NOVEMBER 29 CHRISTIANITY AND TRADITION OF MEN (1) SCRIPTURE: MARK 7: 8 – 9; COLOSSIANS 2: 8
Jesus Christ and Apostle Paul referred to a particular tradition in the Bible that conveys negative meaning. They called this tradition a “tradition of men.” This is addressing man-made tradition. Something…
DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONALS: NOVEMBER 24 NEITHER DO I CONDEMN YOU (2) SCRIPTURE: JOHN 8: 2 – 11
As studied yesterday, the Jewish men came testing Jesus with an alleged culprit who supposedly had committed adultery. Jesus knew their mind that He was the one they are coming to…
DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONALS: NOVEMBER 23 NEITHER DO I CONDEMN YOU (1) SCRIPTURE: JOHN 8: 2 – 11; DEUTERONOMY 17: 6; LEVITICUS 20: 10
Doctrine of condemnation is as old as humanity. Every human being is a judge over all other persons around him/her. Irony of life is that many people see themselves more righteous…
DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONALS: NOVEMBER 22 DANGER OF WALKING IN DARKNESS (4) SCRIPTURE: ISAIAH 30: 21; JOHN 14: 26
Walking in darkness as in living according to the dictates of the world rather than living in the words of God that Jesus brought has so many dangers or consequences. These…
DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONALS: NOVEMBER 18 THE WICKED WILL NOT GO UNPUNISHED (2) SCRIPTURE: ISAIAH 48: 22; PROVERBS 6: 12 – 16
Yesterday’s devotional contained summary of a wicked person in Psalm 10: 2 – 10. We are going to see more of the profiles of a wicked person today in Proverbs 6:…
DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONALS: NOVEMBER 15 OUGHT TO WALK AS JESUS WALKED (1) SCRIPTURE: 1 JOHN 2: 6
Christianity is an organization well known for strictly built on the foundation of “rightness and uprightness” that a known member ought not to be seen doing anything wrong. The believers in…
DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONALS: NOVEMEBER 13 PROSPERITY OF THE SOUL (1) SCRIPTURE: 3 JOHN 2; MATTHEW 10: 28
In the ordinary it could be hard to talk about doing something to prosper one’s soul. The word “soul” is defined by many schools of thoughts according to their perspectives. This…
DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONALS: NOVEMBER 11 NO MORE WALLS (1) SCRIPTURE: EPHESIANS 2: 13 – 14
Apostle Paul, in his passion to abolish the hostile laws of inequality of superiority against the “inferiority groups” by the Jews against the Gentiles talked about how the death of Jesus…
MAN AND SPIRITUAL CONFLICTS (2) SCRIPTURE: GALATIANS 5: 16
Readers were told the simple ways Christians are engaged in Spiritual Conflict which is in the opposing roles played by the sinful nature of man and the Holy Spirit who are…
DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONALS: NOVEMBER 9 MAN AND SPIRITUAL CONFLICTS (1) SCRIPTURE: GALATIANS 5: 16 – 17
There have been constant struggles between a natural influence and a spiritual influence battling to gain control of human beings. People have tried hard to classify the natural influence as “the…
DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONALS: NOVEMBER 8 LEADERSHIP YOU ARE BAPTIZED INTO (2) SCRIPTURE: 1 CORINTHIANS 10: 8 – 9
As studied yesterday, the leader with whom someone is baptized into him/she and his/her leadership commands great respect from the followers. Both the leader whose personality the followers are baptized into…
DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONALS: NOVEMBER 7 LEADERSHIP YOU ARE BAPTIZED INTO (1) SCRIPTURE: 1 CORINTHIANS 10: 1 – 6
Practical observations of the leaders and the led reveal sordid fact which is, most people under a leader tend to be dominated by the most characteristics or features of the leader….
DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONALS: NOVEMBER 5 THE PLACE WHERE YOU ARE (1) SCRIPTURE: GENESIS 12: 4 – 6
During our sojourns on earth we passed through many things as life progresses. Journey through life has never been straight and smooth. There could be a time of joyous movements, or…
DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONALS: NOVEMBER 4 ALTAR OF REMEMBRANCE (3) SCRIPTURE: GENESIS 35: 1 – 9
We are still looking at the need to raise altar or build altar in remembrance of what God has done for us. In the times of the Old Testament days, physical…