His Voice Devotional

Text: Genesis 45:5  Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. It's clear that Joseph was a prototype of our Lord Jesus Christ in many ways, especially by the very kind of attitude he put up after his betrayal of his envious brothers. He forgave them unconditionally.  Today, we shall be  looking at the different attitudes Joseph demonstrated right from the time his brothers sold him out into slavery. Joseph gave a magnanimous pardon to his brothers just as Jesus gave to the people who nailed him to the cross. He said, *"...Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do...."  Luke 23:34.* Joseph also handled his brothers like they did not know what they were doing.  The hardest thing to give to your enemies is love, and that's exactly what the Lord is asking you to give them. Jesus said in Matthew chapter five verse 44 - *"But I say unto you, Love your enemies..." ble...

Text :  Isaiah 64:8. But as for you, O LORD, you are our Father; and we are clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hands.*  Yesterday, we considered the story of Joseph and how God passed him through process. He passed through the process without compromising at any stage and he  came out a complete, and perfect product in God's hand.  Today, we shall be considering another man who went through his process and came out whole and complete.  Today, we shall be looking at the life of David. As a young boy growing up in Jesse (his father's) house, he had learnt how to lead flock of sheep. He was a shepherd boy, while his brothers were soldiers.  Little did he know that God was preparing and processing him to lead His most cherished nation (Israel).  *Sometimes, God may decide to process a man after his own heart in the wilderness and not in the palace.*  God processed and perfected David in the wilderness. Even when he found his way...

Text: Genesis 9:1. And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. Fruits are not only pleasant to the eyes, they are nutritional to the body. In the same way, any life that is bearing fruit will not only be pleasant to the people around him, he or she will bring health to those who eat thereof. Once your life starts producing the God-kind of fruit, don't expect that every one around you will sing your praise, rather your fruit will attract all kinds of people towards you and this comes with its challenges. There is a very big Mango tree next to my building. It's in an unfenced piece of land. This tree produces a lot of fruit. You can't walk past it without noticing how very fruitful this tree is. This tree attracted lots of people to itself because of its very many fruit. Some people come so very early in the morning (while we are still sleeping) to pluck mangoes from this tree. All through the day, this tree hardl...

Text : Jeremiah 17:5 & 7 "Thus says the LORD:  Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, Whose heart departs from the LORD....Blessed [is] the man who trusts in the LORD, And whose hope is the LORD."   If a man placed a  curse on another man, God can override and cancel such curse. But if  God placed a curse on a man, no man can deliver  such one from such curse and its impact. So, when God says cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, then you must closely pay attention to yourself in order to ensure that your trust is not in any man. To avoid a curse from God, you must ensure that you wholly and completely trust and lean on Him. When you trust God, He will bless you abundantly. You  shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will cease from yieldin...

Text : Colossians 3:5 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. God's word says that if any man is in Christ, old things are passed away, and all things have become new.(2 Corinthians 5:17).  These old things are the constituents of your old conversations (behaviour) and your members which are upon the earth. Hence, the scripture is asking you to put to death your members which are on the earth: these members are fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Having become a new creature in Christ Jesus, you now have the responsibility of mortifying, that is, putting to death all the fleshly works which you used to walk in.  Romans chapter six verse six has made it very clear that your old man (old self) has been crucified with Christ.  *knowing this, that our family old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done ...

Text :  1 Peter 2:11 Beloved, I beg [you] as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, As children of God, we are sojourners and pilgrims in this world. Hence, the scripture strongly admonishes us to abstain from fleshly lusts. Today, we shall be looking at the fleshly lusts that are waging war against our souls. Galatians 5:19 says that "...the works of the flesh are evident..."  This means that the presence of fleshly lusts are revealed through certain manifestations  in our lives. These are adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like..." (Galatians   5: 19-21). The presence or manifestation of any of the above is a full proof that fleshly lusts are waging war against your soul already. And that's the reason the concluding part of verse 21 says, *"... those ...