OUR PRAYERS FOR YOU IN THE YEAR 2018

Dearly Beloved, OUR PRAYERS FOR YOU IN THE YEAR 2018 Praise the Lord! He has demonstrated His faithfulness again in enabling us to start another year. Happy New Year (2018). Opeyemi (my wife), Boluwatife, IfeOluwa, Michael, Abraham (my children) and I are welcoming you to this New Year with these prophetic prayers adapted from Psalm 128 (AMP). This New Year: - You will be blessed and sheltered by God’s favour; - You will eat the fruit of the labour of your hands; - It will be well with you; - Your family shall be like a fruitful vine within the innermost part of your house; - You will see the prosperity of where you dwell this year and all the days of your life; - Indeed, you will see the goodness of your generations. - Peace be upon you this year in Jesus’ name. Amen. Happy and prosperous New Year! In His service, Bayo Afolaranmi (Pastor), Baptist Building, Oke Bola, PMB 5113, Ibadan 200001, Nigeria +2348055159591 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spiritualdigest2003/ https://www.facebook.com/PastorBayoAfolaranmi (Facebook Fan Page) https://www.facebook.com/afolabayo https://twitter.com/spiritualdigest

Spiritual Digest for the Day 01Jan2018

BIBLE VERSE FOR THE DAY “Oh, bless our God, you peoples! and make the voice of His praise to be heard, Who keeps our soul among the living, and does not allow our feet to be moved” (Psalm 66:8-9 NKJV). ****************** QUOTE FOR THE DAY The old year now has passed away; we thank you, O our God, today that you have kept us through the year when danger and distress were near. - Johann Steuerlein ******************** PRAYER/ACTION FOR THE DAY Thank God for keeping you alive to witness another year.

WHAT IS YOUR REPORT CARD FOR THE YEAR?

Dearly Beloved, WHAT IS YOUR REPORT CARD FOR THE YEAR? “So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom” (Psalm 90:12 NKJV). When I was in the primary school in the late 70s and early 80s, we used to look forward to the last day of the school term when every pupil would line up on the assembly ground to be given his/her end-of-term report card where he/she would find what he/she scored in each subject and his/her position in the class. It used to be a day of joy for brilliant pupils who would be firstly called to receive their report cards with possible prizes, and a day of sadness for other pupils that were not that brilliant because they would be called last with no prizes. While the brilliant pupil would be glad and proud to show their report cards to anyone, those that had bad reports would be ashamed to do so. This is the end of another year. Imagine it is the end of a school term where you will line up on the assembly ground before God to be given report card for what your actions, inactions, words, and thoughts have been this year. What will be your report card? Will you be among those that God will call first to reward for best results this year? Will you be proud to show other people your report card for this year? The psalmist prayed to God to teach us to number our days so that we may gain a heart of wisdom. If you number your months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds this year, how many of them have you used to please God? How many of them have you used meaningfully for your own good? How many of them have you used for the benefit of others around you? If God is to rate you this year, what will be your score? If God is to reward you for your actions, inactions, words, and thoughts this year, what kind of reward will you get from Him? Job asked his friends: “Will it be well when [God] searches you out?” (13:9 NKJV), and Apostle Paul emphatically told the Galatians: “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life” (6:7-8 NKJV). If you have done well this year, congratulations! Determine to do better this coming year. It is a pity if you have done woefully in the year. However, you have the opportunity to turn a new leaf and do better this coming year. What is your report card for the year? In His service, Bayo Afolaranmi (Pastor). Prayer Point: Pray that you will be able to do far better next year in serving God and the humanity.

Spiritual Digest for the Day 30Dec2017

BIBLE VERSE FOR THE DAY “Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out! ‘For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become His counselor?’ ‘Or who has first given to Him and it shall be repaid to him?’” (Romans 11:33-35 NKJV). ****************** QUOTE FOR THE DAY God is not what you imagine, or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed. - Saint Augustine ******************** PRAYER/ACTION FOR THE DAY Reveal Yourself more unto me, O Lord!

Spiritual Digest for the Day 29Dec2017

BIBLE VERSE FOR THE DAY “A heart full of joy and goodness makes a cheerful face, but when a heart is full of sadness the spirit is crushed” (Proverbs 15:13 AMP). ****************** QUOTE FOR THE DAY With a happy heart, happy from the inside out, we can respond to surprising circumstances with a genuine smile, inviting others to embrace the hope and peace they too can experience with God. – Elisa Morgan ******************** PRAYER/ACTION FOR THE DAY Pray that you will be happy and be able to spread that happiness to other people around you.

Spiritual Digest for the Day 28Dec2017

BIBLE VERSE FOR THE DAY “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another” (John 13:34 NKJV). ****************** QUOTE FOR THE DAY An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. - Martin Luther King, Jr. ******************** PRAYER/ACTION FOR THE DAY Pray that you will be able to have concerns for other people around you.

Spiritual Digest for the Day 27Dec2017

BIBLE VERSE FOR THE DAY “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:6-7 NKJV). ****************** QUOTE FOR THE DAY The peace of God is the inner calm or tranquillity that comes from a confident trust in God who hears our cries. - Sim Kay Tee ******************** PRAYER/ACTION FOR THE DAY Pray that you will be able to have the inner peace that always trusts in God even in crisis.