Spiritual Digest for the Day 22Apr2016

BIBLE VERSE FOR THE DAY “Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord” (Psalm 27:14 NIV). ****************** QUOTE FOR THE DAY Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. - Saint Francis de Sales ******************** PRAYER/ACTION FOR THE DAY Lord, help me to always wait patiently for You.

Spiritual Digest for the Day 19Apr2016

BIBLE VERSE FOR THE DAY “Whenever a piece of pottery turned out imperfect, he would take the clay and make it into something else. Then the Lord said to me, ‘Don't I have the right to do with you people of Israel what the potter did with the clay? You are in my hands just like clay in the potter's hands’” (Jeremiah 18:4-6 TEV). ****************** QUOTE FOR THE DAY We are never too badly broken for God to reshape. He loves us in spite of our imperfections and past mistakes, and He desires to make us beautiful. - Cindy Hess Kasper ******************** PRAYER/ACTION FOR THE DAY Lord, reshape me in the shape You want me to be.

Spiritual Digest for the Day 06Apr2016

BIBLE VERSE FOR THE DAY “I say to myself, ‘The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.’ The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord” (Lamentation 3:24-26 NIV). ****************** QUOTE FOR THE DAY The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours. - John Piper ******************** PRAYER/ACTION FOR THE DAY Lord, help me to always wait patiently for You no matter my situation.

Spiritual Digest for the Day 05Apr2016

BIBLE VERSE FOR THE DAY “Friends love through all kinds of weather, and families stick together in all kinds of trouble” (Proverbs 17:17 MSG). ****************** QUOTE FOR THE DAY One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. - Clifton Fadiman ******************** PRAYER/ACTION FOR THE DAY Lord, help me to be a reliable friend to my loved ones.

YOU WILL LIVE AGAIN!

Dearly Beloved, YOU WILL LIVE AGAIN! "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease" (Genesis 8:22 NIV). One of my observations since the time I came to this western world has to do with the changes in the seasons of the year. Obviously, this will be so as somebody who was coming from a hot-climate area of Africa to a very cold-climate area of Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom. I came to this part of the world during the autumn season. As the season changed to winter, I watched as many plants and trees started becoming “dead” by shedding all their leaves. Throughout winter, a first timer in this part of the world would think that these plants and trees are lifeless and dry like the leafless trees in tropical part of the world. But, someone who is familiar with the seasons here knows that the leafless and seeming dry plants and trees are very lively. As the spring season started, I noticed that these seeming lifeless plants and trees have started budding flesh leafs. It seems new life is coming into them. I am inspired especially by this new life that is coming to the seeming lifeless plants and trees. If God can be fulfilling His promise in Genesis 8:22 in the lives of ordinary plants and trees, and they are coming back to life again, He will fulfil His promises in my life. No matter how lifeless I may seemingly be, I will blossom again. If an ordinary tree has hope when it is cut down that it will sprout again and that its new shoots will not fail (see Job 14:7), no matter my downfall, I will rise again. If tree’s roots grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil, and yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant (see Job 14:8-9), no matter my set back, I will progress in life. I join Prophet Micah to declare: “Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light” (7:8 NIV). The Lord took Prophet Ezekiel to the valley of very dry bones, and asked him if the dry bones could live again. The prophet could not answer in the affirmative. God asked him to prophesy to the dry bones. He did, and the dry bones came back to life (see Ezekiel 37). Are you feeling lifeless and hopeless in your situation? You will live again! There is hope for you. You may be in the winter time of your life, the spring time is coming when you will spring up. If the Lord is keeping His promise for ordinary plants and trees, He will fulfil His promises in your life. I say again, you will live again! In His service, Bayo Afolaranmi (Pastor). Prayer Point: Lord, bring me to the spring season of my life and let me flourish again.

Spiritual Digest for the Day 04Apr2016

BIBLE VERSE FOR THE DAY “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men” (Colossians 3:23 NIV). ****************** QUOTE FOR THE DAY Even when we have little choice in where or how we work, God calls us to know Him more fully — and He will show us how to serve Him — right now. - Randy Kilgore ******************** PRAYER/ACTION FOR THE DAY Lord, help me to see You at work in the people and places where I spend my time.

Spiritual Digest for the Day 02Apr2016

BIBLE VERSE FOR THE DAY “Do they not err who devise evil and wander from the way of life? But loving-kindness and mercy, loyalty and faithfulness, shall be to those who devise good” (Proverbs 14:22 AMP). ****************** QUOTE FOR THE DAY Acting foolishly, expecting God to bail you out when things go amiss, is not faith, it is presumption. Wisdom says do all you can, and then trust God to do what you cannot do. Faith and careful planning go hand-in-hand. They always have and they always will! - Bob Gass ******************** PRAYER/ACTION FOR THE DAY Pray that you will always act wisely as you apply your faith in God.