Daily Glory Devotionals for today

Day 4 12 PILLARS OF BESTLIFE- PROSPERITY

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. 2 Corinthians 8:9

Main text: Job 22: 21- 30

At Bestlife we believe that the redemption plan guaranteed a wealthy life for us. “Christ became poor so that you can become rich”. In redemption, the ransom must be paid before an exchange can take place. So Christ took our place; first he became sin, so we can become righteous. Secondly, he took our sickness and disease so we can enjoy divine health and healing. Here, he became poor so that we can become rich. So how can you be saved and not be rich; it’s is complete package. The new creation has no business with poverty. Psalm 105: 37 say “He also brought them out with silver and gold, and there was none feeble among His tribes”. Note the phrase ‘he also’- meaning, it is part of the package.

Suppose you are very poor before you became a Christian, you will not remain so. Colosians 1: 12 say ‘Christ has qualified you as a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light’. The Christian is an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ. All the wealth in this world belongs to you if you’re born again. You’ve inherited all the blessings of Abraham. Righteousness, prosperity, healing and health, success, progress and spiritual advancement are all yours now. Once you accept this truth in your spirit, and allow it dominate your thinking it’ll be impossible for you to walk in lack. Christ took upon Himself, not only the sins of the world, but also the effects of sin, one of which is poverty. You must reject it.

There are three causes of poverty of a believer- Ignorance, fear and laziness. Get into the word to understand the untold wealth available to you in Christ. Stop living in fear and start believing that God wants you to be rich. Whatever your hand find to do, do it with all your might for ‘the diligent hand make rich”. Be conscious of your prosperity not lack. Christ has made you rich already. Christ already paid the price for your prosperity; you must reject debt or lack. Put your angels to work, they are sent by God to help you prosper. Whether he is rich or poor, each believer has a mansion in heaven. If you believe you will make heaven why don’t you believe you will make it on earth. Say ‘Christ has made me rich; I refuse to be poor’.

Prayer for today
I am redeemed from poverty, lack and debt. I am qualified in Christ to partake of the inheritance of the saint in life. I am abundantly supplied. I released angels to gather my wealth and glory from all corners of the earth to me. I will lay up gold and silver as dust in Jesus name.

Daily Glory Devotional

A NEW CREATION
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17

Main text: 2 COR. 5:17-21

When you’re born again, you are a brand new baby; a new person. You have no spiritual past at all. Satan has nothing on you. If there is anything that’s not of God in your life—something that hurts, binds or limits you—rebuke it and it’ll be gone. They are old things that have passed away. The failures, sickness, poverty, and defeats of the past are all gone. God says so. Therefore, you must learn how to live your new life just as a newborn baby must learn to do certain things in this world.

You have a new life in Christ, eternal life and this life destroys sickness and disease, poverty and failure even death because it’s the life of God. You may say, “But I still feel the pain or effect of sickness or disease in my body, even though I’m born again”; refuse to fear. Rather, keep declaring, “I have a new life, and it’s the Christ-life; it destroys all forms of sickness and disease from my body.” Say it out loud every day.  Keep speaking out your faith like that, trusting what God has said: He’s called you to glory and virtue, not to poverty, sickness or death.

You have a new name, a new status in Christ. You have been redeemed and freed from the bondage of Satan and sin (Romans 8: 2). God has “…reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ….” Reconciliation means you are no longer God’s enemies; you’ve been accepted in the beloved. It also means your life must be the true reflection of God’s image and likeness from now on. Whenever you look at any area of your life; maybe your health, your finance or career and it does not reconcile with what the word say, reject it in the name of Jesus. Live with this consciousness, and there’ll be no room for poverty, defeat, failure or sickness in your life. Say: I am a reflection of God’s glory!

Prayer for today
I walk in newness of life, living out the glorious life of Christ predestined for me from the foundation of the world. I’m chosen, royal, peculiar, excellent, and full of glory. I walk in victory and dominion today and always in Jesus name

Daily Glory Devotional

Prayer for today
I walk in newness of life, living out the glorious life of Christ predestined for me from the foundation of the world. I’m chosen, royal, peculiar, excellent, and full of glory. I walk in victory and dominion now and always in Jesus name!

Daily Glory, Monday September 3, 2018

SANCTIFIED BY GRACE

Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 2 Corinth 7: 1

The second kind of grace that God gives us is sanctifying grace. God said you must be holy for is holy (1 Peter 1: 16). 1 John 3: 9 say ‘No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God’. However, the good news is: whatever God require you to do he empowers you to do it. Sanctifying grace works in you to become like Christ. Heb 12:15-16 say ‘Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright’. Stop living like a profane believer. Grace is available for you to live holy; tap into it. 

God uses his word to sanctify his children John 17: 17 say “Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth”. Focus on the word. Take note of the conviction in your heart as you encounter the word. Every time you hear the word, it will seem like God is talking to you about dealing with that same sin or character flaw. That’s God dealing with you and helping you get your life cleaned up. It is not condemnation but conviction of sin; Romans 8: 1 say ‘there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus’. Conviction comes from God and condemnation comes from the devil. Conviction draws your attention to a sin in your life and it shows you the way out but condemnation brings guilt to your heart. God’s sanctifying grace brings conviction and empowers you to change and become more like Christ. Tap into the sanctifying grace

Further study Romans 6: 1-7

Prayer for today
Father I thank you for your love for me. I tap into the sanctifying grace for victory and dominion over sin. As I perfect holiness in the fear of the lord, I have victory over all works of evil today in Jesus name

All your enemies will fall before you!

1 Sam 14. The Philistine came against Israel. They had what will look like 30,000 armoured tanks, 9,000 warplanes and unnumbered foot soldiers but Saul had only 600 men with him and the entire army of Israel  had only two swords. But that vast fell defeated before Israel. Our great is our God.

I decree that no matter how weak or small they thought you are, everyone that rise against you and your family today, will fall before you in Jesus name.

FACTS ABOUT SEEDTIME AND HARVEST

Whatever you sow you will reap (good or evil) Gal. 6: 7-8
You will reap more than you more.
The more you sow ,you will reap much more 2 Cor. 9: 6
The kind of seed you sow determines the kind of harvest you get. Everthing produce after its own kind. Gen. 1: 11, 24
You reap also what other sow Jn. 4: 38; Deu. 6: 11;
You determine the seed, but God controls the harvest. Matthew 9: 38; 1 Cor. 3: 6
He decides time you reap Gal. 6: 9
He decides the quantity you reap 1 Cor. 3: 6;
He decides who reaps John 4: 38
You can either reap 30, 60 and 100% depending the aforementioned.
A seed is powerless or useless until it is planted John 12: 24
The growth of a seed is not hindered or disturbed by other seeds. They can grow together. Matth 13: 30
A seed is persistent and indestructible except by fire. Whether you sleep or are awake, a seed can continue to grow. Mark 4: 27
A seed grows in secret and unnoticed. Mark 4: 27- 28
Everything you desire can be acquired by getting and planting the right kind of seed
If you don’t give up doing good or sowing, you will reap full harvest Gal. 6: 9; Psa. 126: 6; Eccl 11: 1-6. The same is true for those who don’t give up doing evil or committing sin

TYPES OF SEED
Whatever is happening to you is rooted in a seed planted in your life
Spoken word seed. Every word is a seed. Pro. 13: 2; 18: 20; Jn 6: 63
Careless word – mother of Jabez – affects your destiny
Evil words or tongue of the wicked- creates battles for you
Word of faith  Matt. 17: 20 moves mountain and creates your expereince
Word of salvation 1 Peter. 1: 23; luke 8: 11 brings more souls to the kingdom
Time seed Gen. 8: 22. You either waste it or invest it. Whatever you spend your time doing will determine the quality of your life. What makes you a proffessional is when you spent 100,000 hours on a career. What makes you a master is spending 10,000 hours studying a subject. I wonder what you planned to become watching tv for 20 hrs a day? Or sleeping for 16 hours?
Money seed. You either spend it or invest it. What you do with money determines your financial future.
Love seed. You must give it to get it. If you sow hatred, you create enemies.
Peace seed James. 3: 18. Heb. 12: 14.
Righteous seed. Hos. 10: 12.
Kingdom seed Matth.13: 31. When you become born again, the kingdom of God comes alive in you.
Relationship seed. It can be evil or good. Matth. 13: 38. The kind and quality of friends you keep determines your future.
Evil seed Matt.13: 24- 30. Wickedness is real and they are on fulltime job planting wickness.
Sin seed Pro. 22: 8; 1 Jn. 3: 9. The reason why you commit sin is because sin is in you and producing fruits of iniquity.

In closing, today the almighty God will uproot everything he has not planted in your life according to Matth 15: 13. And according to Matthew 7: 19 Whatever tree that is producing sickness, poverty, shame, death etc in your life, what will happen to it? It will cut down and cast into fire. That fire today is the consuming fire of the Holy ghost.

If you don’t like the harvest you have, remove the seed and sow the seed of what you desire.
But be careful what you plant into your life and the word you allow to enter your heart.
Whatever you desire, first of all, sow the word of faith seed daily and keep sowing it into your life.
Whatever you don’t want, uproot by the fire of the Holy spirit through warfare prayers.
You must deal with the seed of sin in your life otherwise it will corrupt the good harvest God wants to give you by living holy lives
Never leave your life fallow and be always vigilant (night vigil), keep sowing good seeds otherwise your enemies will sow weeds. Don’t sleep like unbelievers. 1 Thess. 5: 6 (if any bad thing happens to you, you have slept. It is time to wake up)

UNVEILING THE MYSTERY OF SEEDTIME & HARVEST

JOHN 4: 35- 38; PSA. 126: 5-6; GEN 8: 22
INTRODUCTION
Everyone has a heaven over him. Your heaven maybe opened or closed. If your heaven is closed, life becomes hard. The purpose of open heaven is for the showers of blessings to falls. The purpose of showers is for bumper harvest. Harvest is what determines the quality of life. It defines your glory. Whatever you have or desire to have is what is called harvest while the power to acquire what you desire is packaged in a seed. Understanding the workings of seedtime and harvest places within your reach the ability to enjoy divine covenant blessings.

What is seed? Everything you do or any actions you undertake is a seed that produces an harvest. Whatever is happening to you is rooted in a seed planted in your life before. Whatever you have is either a seed or an harvest. If what you have is what you desired then it is an harvest. If what you have cannot meet your need, then it is a seed.

Seed is anything that has the ability to reproduce or multiply itself. John 12: 24. A seed can be good or evil. Anything that creates a result or consequence (harvest a.k.a testimony, future, blessing, prosperity, marital bliss, success, good health, children etc.). If you destroy or eat the seed, you have sabotaged the harvest.

Your life right now maybe in the seedtime or harvest. If you are in school, it is seedtime. The day you graduate, harvest season should start. Life is regulated in seasons. There is a time to sow and a time to reap Eccl. 3: 2. As long as earth remain seedtime and harvest will not seize... Your seed is what creates new season for you. Many of us are eating the fruit of what we did in our youth, when you were unmarried. Some of us call it enjoyment but it has damaged our joy in future.

Your seed is what creates your future. If you refuse to sow anything, sleep or play during sowing season, you will have no future. Your seed is the only power you have over your future. You can change your future by changing your seeds. Psa. 126: 6 he who goes out weeping carrying precious seed will doubtless return with singing bearing the harvest…what you are willing to sow is what determines the joy you will experience in life.

Miracles in serving God

Exo 23: 26 You shall serve the Lord and he shall bless your bread and water (prosperity), he shall take away sickness from among thee (good health), nothing in your land will be barren nor suffer miscarriage (fruitfulness)

I met a man who received a special miracle recently. He had an accident and the doctors had to put an iron inside his leg to enable him walk again. After he was discharged from hospital, he said to himself that the devil is a liar. No matter what happens, he will forever serve God. I think at that point , the devil loss all the battle over him. He was a genuine lover of God.

He devoted his life to evangelism and soul winning. With so much pain in his legs he will go out everyday in the  morning and sometime in the evening to preach the gospel for a long time.. I guess God was watching out for his faithfulness. But he never gave up. After several months pass, one day, he went out in the evening as usual, came home and had his bath and meal. And he slept. When he woke up the following morning, he met the iron rods that the doctors put inside his legs neatly laid right beside him. He stood up and began to walk freely. God gave him a brand new bones from the storehouse in heaven.
[10/12, 11:58 AM] Ayo: God is real and his wonders and miracles are real whether you know it or not. The brother didn't bother to pray about the situation for a day, he just kept serving God the best way he came. The God who is ever faithful to his covenant then did his own part.

As you serve the Lord in BICC, he will perform all his words in your life in Jesus name.

Be genuine lover of God

David, a man after God's heart.
How can a murderer and adulterer be God's friends? Answer: God is not man. His ways are different. However something must have qualified David for this special place in God's heart. My guess is you will say, he loves to praise God. He is a giver. He fears God. And so on. He is all of that but the basic thing is....
David is a lover...a complete and genuine lover of God. He loves God.

God sent David on an assignment and before he came back, the enemy destroyed his house, properties, and kidnapped all his family members. Oh he cried until he had no more strength for tears. He could have said, God has disappointed him. Or say there is no God. He could have decided to go try other means, or bow to other god. But know, David encouraged himself in the Lord. He strengthened himself. Even while he tried to encouraged his friends who suffered the same loss, they spoke of stoning him. But he insisted, that God is good and there is no evil in him at all.

I have walked with God for over 24 years. In the early days, I found it great. Whenever I prayed, I got speedy answers. I thought that was Christianity, sweet experience. Soon God began to teach me that the attention I got those days was because I was still a baby. Every genuine mother will rush to the cries of their baby. But the older we get, the more he teaches us maturity. He wants us to get stronger because life is not designed to be easy. And when it hits us, it is not because God does not see, or loves or cares or answers prayers. God is good. You must show to him that it not his blessings or goodness that drew you to him but his love was what compelled you.

David was a genuine lover of God. Therefore he became God's favorite man of all time. Jesus then asked Peter, do you love more than these? Do you love me more than your desires for miracles and blessings? When we pass the test of love, then we with occupy a special place in God's heart and agenda.

May God make us genuine lover of God

God is not a game!

God is not a game!

A king in Israel wanted to go to battle and his friends advised him to seek the help of God's prophet. He said he does not need any man of God but his friends insisted that unless he does not need his assistance, he must ask for the blessings and prayers of a man of God before they proceed. The king eventually hired some prophets who told him want he would love to hear. The lord is with you o king, go to this battle, you will defeat all your enemies....they all prophecied

His friend, not satisfied, ask, is there no other prophet in this land. The king said , there is one more but he does not like me and does not prophecy anything good about me. His friend insisted that the prophet must be brought in and let's hear what God has put in his mouth.

They brought in the prophet and he said the mind of God to the king. The king would not return from that battle. His heart is not straight with God. He only wanted to use God but didn't want God to use him

Beloved, God is not a game. Don't play him. He looks at the heart not at the face. The question, why are you seeking God? Is it not because of the miracles you desire? Or because you love him?

If you love him, you will never be disappointed in him. You will stand firm in faith no matter the circumstances. You will never stop praying or stop attending services. You will never stop giving and supporting kingdom project or the poor. You will never give up, because you are not seeking him not for you want from him but because you love him, even if he kills you , you will keep trusting him.

Even if he slays me, I will keep trusting him. I love him.

When God sees that you are a genuine lover, then he will make all things work together for your good. The miracles you seek will be delivered. Your expectations will be granted. But you must seek his kingdom and his righteousness first. If you are steadfast in his presence, then  the good thing you desire will be delivered. Then the day of visitation will come. Let's love him and seek him not for what we want but because we love God.

Today's Message by Ayo Ibukun, Lead Pastor

Victory through Praise
Praise is more than an act of worship, it is an act of warfare.
At the shout of praise Jericho walls scratched
When Paul and silas sang and praised, there was an earthquake, prison doors were opened and chains were broken

Praise delights God
Praise provokes divine intervention

When you breakthrough in prayer , God sends an angel settle your matter. E.g. the case of Hezekiah and Peter 2 Chron. 32 and Act 12

When you breakthrough in praise, God undertakes for you personally. E.g a similar case of Jehoshaphat and Paul in 2 chron. 20 and Act 16

Benefits of praise
1. Through praise you execute judgement on your enemies 2 chron. 20: 22
2. Through praise you enter spiritual realm, realm of angels and the presence of God. Psalm 100: 4
3. Praise destroys the spirit of heaviness Isaiah 61: 3
4. Praise brings God's intervention Psalm 22: 3
5. Praise brings increase and prosperity Psalm 67:5
6. Praise brings the earthquake of deliverance, chains are broken, prison doors are opened Act 16: 26

Praise the Lord at all times in all situation 1 Thess. 5: 18
Make a habit and routine of praising God. Psalmist said 7 times a day will I praise you Psalm 119: 164

CAREER AND BUSINESS SUCCESS SEMINAR

Mark this date and make plans to attend

7 Decisions that decide your prosperity: 1. Your decision to write out a list of specific goals and keep them in front of you everyday. 2. Your decision to become a lifetime learner. Get a knowledge map of what you want to learn every month. Whatever is missing in your life is something you are unwilling to trade your time for. Time is what you invest to either create or receive an experience. 3. Your decision to show honor to the scriptural chain of authority. Whoever you authorize to give you instructions is the key to your wealth. 4. Your decision to excel in solving problems for someone who trusts you. 5. Your decision to make the Holy Spirit your lifetime Counselor. 6. Your decision to pursue mentorship from uncommon financial achievers. 7. Your decision to sow seeds into the work of God with persistent expectation. - Dr. Mike Murdoch

There are 3 ways to become a businessman; you either become an inventor, an investor or an innovator. An inventor is someone who makes something new out of creation. An innovator is someone who improves on something that already exist, either a product or a service. While an investor is the person put money in an existing successful business.

The question is can everyone do business? I heard that entrepreneurs are born with certain qualities and if you don’t have those qualities, you cannot be one. What a fallacious statement. Any ordinary person can become an entrepreneur. You could become self employed, go into partnership, invest in a franchise, buy an existing business, launch a new service or improve on an existing one. You could rent an office, get a shop, a kiosk, and work from home, set up a website or a showroom. You could work on your own, work in a team or a play a middle man between a buyer and seller. You can setup a tiny or retail outfit to target a particular market or a big company to target the mass market. This is what entrepreneurship is about.

Living by Purpose

Spend today and the entire week thinking and praying about your life's purpose. If you knew you can start over, if you knew it is impossible to fail, if you had all the time and resources at your disposal, what would you choose to do? Imagine yourself to be a hero/ heroine, how would you describe that hero/ heroine in one statement...break your answers down to reflect the following; 1. Spiritual 2. Career or business 3. Academics 4. Marriage 5. Social contribution Send your response as a comment below or a personal chat to me @ ayo.adesomoju@yahoo.com

Every one of us will eventually end up in business someday. Either you start at 16 while in College or at 60 after retiring from a salaried job, one day you will go into business. Jesus said ‘Do business till come’! Luke 19: 13. Paul also advise that ‘each one should mind their business… work with his own hand’

Entrepreneurial culture in Africa is so low. We were all raised to go to school, study hard, get good grades from grad school, get a good job and start making money. Until recent times, entrepreneurship is not being taught as part of school curriculum. We have conditioned to be salary earners and corporate slaves. All we do is helping others achieve their dream and we are paid enough to bring us to work the next day. No one can get rich working for another man. Did you know that about 95% of the legitimately richest persons in the country today are entrepreneurs and self employed while the remaining inherited their wealth; not a single salary earner is on the list?

START THE BUSINESS NOW!

Every one of us will eventually end up in business someday. Either you start at 16 while in College or at 60 after retiring from a salaried job, one day you will go into business. Jesus said ‘Do business till come’! Luke 19: 13. Paul also advise that ‘each one should mind their business… work with his own hand’

Entrepreneurial culture in Africa is so low. We were all raised to go to school, study hard, get good grades from grad school, get a good job and start making money. Until recent times, entrepreneurship is not being taught as part of school curriculum. We have conditioned to be salary earners and corporate slaves. All we do is helping others achieve their dream and we are paid enough to bring us to work the next day. No one can get rich working for another man. Did you know that about 95% of the legitimately richest persons in the country today are entrepreneurs and self employed while the remaining inherited their wealth; not a single salary earner is on the list? Did you know that most people usually don’t know what to do with their retirement or severance package? This is because they did not pay attention to entrepreneurship throughout their work life. Many end up losing huge amount of hard earned money and life savings to fraudsters, bad business decisions, and trial and error in business. There are 3 ways to become a businessman; you either become an inventor, an investor or an innovator. An inventor is someone who makes something new out of creation. An innovator is someone who improves on something that already exist, either a product or a service. While an investor is the person put money in an existing successful business. The question is can everyone do business? I heard that entrepreneurs are born with certain qualities and if you don’t have those qualities, you cannot be one. What a fallacious statement. Any ordinary person can become an entrepreneur. You could become self employed, go into partnership, invest in a franchise, buy an existing business, launch a new service or improve on an existing one. You could rent an office, get a shop, a kiosk, and work from home, set up a website or a showroom. You could work on your own, work in a team or a play a middle man between a buyer and seller. You can setup a tiny or retail outfit to target a particular market or a big company to target the mass market. This is what entrepreneurship is about. \

I WILL DO MY BEST TO DIE EMPTY

One day I will stand before God...how soon, I cannot tell...& he will do an audit of my life, a final exam, before I enter eternity...What would matter ultimately...is not what others think or say about me...not my title, degrees, job, properties, cars, or businesses...but what God says about me...what I did with Jesus...what I did with everything he gave me...my gifts, talents, money, opportunities, relationships and resources...whether I spent it selfishly on myself and my family or did I use them for the purposes God made me for'...Aside this nothing else would matter...while I wait for the day, I will do my best to die empty!

KEEP RUNNING, KEEP WINNING, GET TO THE FINISH LINE

Dear Pastor and to whom it may concern... The game of soccer teaches many great lessons.... Spectators pay to watch players... commentator analyse their performance...but only the players nd their coaches get paid.... Spectators hurls insults or praises, depending on their mood but the players keep on playing regardless...because...their eyes is on the joy and prize...of winning. If you are the player...whoever the spectators are...Let them whine, just make sure you win...that's all that matters! ...Even when you fall...stand up! Don't despair! The prize is not only for who finishes first but for all finishes! The race is not a competition...it's about completion!

At the Judgement Seat of Believers' works....unfortunately the Righteous Judge will not entertain excuses or explanations...Your works, only our works, will speak for us....

Otherwise Eternity will not suffice for judgement because I know of some who have 'genuine' excuses or explanations for why we ain't doing the job the Lord left us to do....