Building a Happy Home

Tuesday 4 October
READ: Gen. 2:15-25
MORE LESSONS: Col. 3:18-21

God has a plan for each of His children's home, presently or in the future. As the initiator of the institution of marriage, His desire is that no home fails. It is important for us as God's children, who want to be part of His heavenly desire in the place of marriage, to know God's original purpose for this institution and there are three major ones.
One, marriage was ordained for the mutual societal help and comfort which husband and wife ought to provide for each other, both in prosperity and adversity. Two, it was ordained in order that the natural instinct and affection implanted by God be allowed and directed aright, that is pure sexual life without fornication. Finally, it was ordained for procreation, that godly seeds may be raised on the earth.
Of all these, God's topmost priority from the beginning is not procreation, which unfortunately today is our number one purpose for marriage. His priority actually is for help, in prosperity and in adversity, And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him: v18. And God repeated this same thing in verse 20 …but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. Every other reason for marriage is God's plan but being an help is His priority. The question now is, “How helpful are you to your spouse or do you intend to be when you get married?” Until you are a helper to your spouse in all things: spiritual, physical, material, economic, health, etc, you are not yet building a happy home.
There are a few things and principles that God has set as standards and rules which, if applied, can make a happy home.
1. Husbands must love their wives unconditionally (Eph. 5:25).
2. Wives must submit to their husbands without reservation (Eph. 5:22).
3. In honour, they must prefer one another.
4. They must endeavour to keep the unity of the spirit.
5. They both must leave to cleave (Eph 5:31).
6. Finally, God hates divorce and husbands and wives must recognise and agree that according to God's Word, divorce is never an option (Mal. 2:16).
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Prayer/Action
* Father, help my home to fulfil the divine purpose for establishing it, in Jesus' name.
* Father, make me a true help and a complement for my spouse, in Jesus' name.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
Though my beginning be small, yet shall I greatly increase; I believe in the top and I shall get there, in the name of Jesus.

God’s Nature

Monday 3 October
READ: II Pe.t 1:4
MORE LESSONS: 1Jn. 2:12-20

We cannot get enough of the Word of God which brings God to us. The environment of Heaven finds expression in the Word of God. The more of the Kingdom of Heaven we want to experience, the more of the Word we must deliberately digest. Growing in the Word of God requires discipline and a lot of effort at first, but as we make a habit of reading and meditating on the Word, we soon begin to build our lives around it with ease. Every time we receive the Word, we receive God. All of this is simply to say that the reason God gave us His Word is to make us like Him.
Beyond the breakthroughs and miracles that we receive as we walk in God's Word, the ultimate invitation of God for us is to become like Him. This is the very heart -beat of the Father. God is building Himself into us by the instrumentality of His Word; He wants to totally transform us. This is the ultimate assignment of God's Word in us; to upgrade our present reality into God's realm of dominion. God is constantly changing our lives into His image. Through every victory, deliverance and healing, God is calling us to become channels of deliverance, healing and victory to the world around us. The life of God must be seen in and through our daily living, for this is the ultimate work of the Word in us. The Living Book is given to make us living books and epistles to our generation.
We are called Christians because our biggest responsibility is to be like Christ, walking in the divine nature of Christ; a life that absolutely portrays Heaven on earth. Jesus walked the earth many years and never fell sick, rather, He healed the sick. This is because no virus or disease can thrive in the divine nature of Christ, none, not one! The divine nature is an absolute supernatural life that natural people cannot resist. And this is one of the greatest tools for evangelism. God is calling us out of this present noise into maturity of soul and spirit. It is God's desire that every word of ours and deed beam the Gospel to that person who might never get to read a Bible, And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus,...: Col. 3:17. Let us live in the consciousness that we are the living epistles of the Gospel of Christ today. For it is only through contact with the Word that we can impact our world.

Prayer/Action
* Father, help me to devote myself to Your Word.
* Father, let me manifest the seed of God in me in my character.
* Because I have the nature of God, sickness, diseases and sin shall not reign in my body.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
In the name of Jesus, this month will not go without good results!

Trusting the Lord II

Sunday 2 October
READ: Prov. 3: 5 - 6
MORE LESSON: Psa. 20: 7 - 8

The text says, Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight: Prov 3:5-6 (NIV). There is a God that can make your path straight and deliver you from all the crooked paths in destiny. There is a God who can rescue you from the crises that rule over the world. There is a God that can establish your feet and give you all the good of life to bountifully enjoy. He is only asking one thing from you; that you trust Him with all your heart. Trusting in the Lord will make you have access to all His treasure and will establish you, keep you from evil and level all mountains on your path.
God's requirement for access to His blessing is trust. He wants this trust to be done with all the heart. This is the admonition in the text of today, God is looking for people that will demonstrate such absolute and unwavering confidence in Him that He will be moved to act on their behalf. God is actually proud of people who trust in Him regardless of situations and boasts about them to all Heaven, earth and hell (Job 1: 8). If you can hold on to God without looking sideways or seeking anything from any man, He will move on your behalf.
There are signs that show when a man is truly trusting in God with all His heart. Such a man does not seek alternative to God. Whatever he commits to God, he waits for God to do it. Praying to God and still pulling carnal strings is not trust. Trust is trust when it is absolute. Secondly, a person who trusts in the Lord does not doubt for one second what God has promised him. When you trust in God with all your heart you have no business contemplating 'what if God fails?' for a second. When you trust, your heart is set like a flint on the Lord. Thirdly, a man who trusts in God with all his heart stays on God without ever making negative comments or expressions. His confessions are positive and consistent. He doesn't say "God will help me today" and tomorrow he says, " It is like this faith thing is not working.'' When a man trusts God, his confession is absolutely committed to declaring positively about the promises of God. Do not waver in your thought, imagination and speech. Don't let your confession contradict your confidence in the Lord. Your access to the Lord's blessing is in your unflinching trust in the Lord.

Prayer/Action
* No matter the situation and story, I will trust and wait on the Lord.
* Today, I receive the grace to trust and hold on to God.
* I declare like Job that my Redeemer lives and He will not fail me.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
I proclaim setback for every satanic agent sent against my year this month, they will no more make progress, in the name of Jesus.

Trusting the Lord I

Saturday 1 October
READ: Prov. 3:5-6
MORE LESSON: Psa. 118: 8-9

I discussed with some Europeans sometimes ago and I realised that the advancement in technology is fast taking the place of God in people's lives. Technology has provided so many solutions and promises that men's trust has unconsciously shifted from God to science. This is not limited to Europe, Asia and America, even in Africa, men have now somehow found it easy to forget the supreme God and look quickly to technology for answers to questions they have. People look to science for healing, for children, for making ends meet. As good as science is, it is limited. Only God the maker of Heaven and earth deserves our unreserved and absolute trust.
Solomon was a man that was highly blessed by God in wisdom and wealth and this is what he has to say, trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and he will make your path straight: Prov. 3:5-6 (NIV). If any man had any basis to trust money, medicine, qualification or intelligence, it should have been Solomon who had gold like sand in the land of Israel. Yet in all that he had, he admonished mankind to trust in the Lord. It is by trusting in the Lord that you can prevail and excel in every situation and condition of life. Don't let anything take the place of God in your heart. Whatever situation you find yourself, positive or negative, you have to make sure that your trust is in the Lord and not in anything else. Believe Him and His Word, put your absolute confidence in Him that He will do whatever He says He will do .
It is in the face of alternatives in life that we know who is trusting and who is merely acting up. When the world suggests alternatives that are contrary to the Scripture, a man of trust will stand resolute on the Word of God. When several things present themselves as if they are alternatives to God, then the man of trust will choose God no matter the consequence. Even when you use science and technology, let your trust be in God. There is a formula that will never fail in the face of any challenge, situation and circumstance, it is absolute and unwavering trust in God. Make sure that your heart never trusts in anything else other than the Lord, Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee: Isa.26:3; Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies: Psa. 40:4; Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is: Jer. 17:7.

Prayer/Action
* Pray that nothing will take the place of God in your life.
*Pray that your trust will not shift away from God.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
Father, thank You for having mercy over Nigeria, the enemy shall no longer overturn her from today, in the name of Jesus.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY NIGERIA