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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Beauty for ashes
Beauty for ashes evokes a sense of restoration or comeback. It symbolises rising from destruction or desolation or receiving something good amid evil. This is God’s promise to you in this new month. He is giving you the oil of joy for mourning and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Freedom in forgiveness (2)
Accept God’s forgiveness: When God forgives us, He wipes the slate clean and remembers the offence no more. So, you must accept God’s forgiveness and move on, else you will continually dwell in self-condemnation. That voice of condemnation within you belongs to the devil. The bible calls him the ‘accuser of brethren’. Resist him and…
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Freedom in forgiveness (1)
Life would have happened to many of us by the time we hit midlife. Many of us are carrying around the yoke of unforgiveness, self-condemnation, and guilt. The woman with the spirit of infirmity was bent over and could not raise herself up.
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: The blessing of the ‘latter’
The word “latter” means occurring or situated nearer to the end of something than to the beginning. There are several scriptures that highlight the blessings of the “latter”. Job 8:7 says, “Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would increase abundantly”. Haggai 2:9 states, “The glory of this latter temple shall be greater…
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Prepare for the new thing
To receive the new, you must get rid of the old. Before God announced to the nation of Israel that He would do a new thing, He first instructed them to forget the former things. You cannot open a new chapter of your life if you keep reliving the previous one. Do you desire a…
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: The sufferings of this present time
As a child of God, you are not immune to pain and suffering. So, you may go through some painful stuff during your sojourn on earth. These are the “sufferings of this present time”. When Jesus Christ was about to leave the earth, He said to His disciples “in the world you will have tribulation;…
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Your jar of oil
Life had happened to this woman. Her husband was dead. She had no personal finances or investments. And now her nest was about to be emptied with the threat of her sons been taken as slaves. Finding herself at the end of the rope, she cried out to the prophet.
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: How deep are your roots?
The oak is a very tall tree between 40 and 80 feet and is said to surpass 300 years. A very interesting feature of the oak tree is the root system. It pushes downwards as deep as the height of the tree and branching out wide. It can withstand very strong storms like tornados. Even…
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Protect your self confidence
It is almost impossible to live a satisfying or fulfilling life by default, so much gets thrown at us daily. You need to intentionally protect your self-confidence if you desire to live a happier and more fulfilling life. Begin by observing and auditing your focus: Ask yourself regularly: “what am I focusing on and how…
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: The 3 Ps of living a life of influence
Not everyone who begins a race gets to the finished line. Some runners lose their balance and fall by the way, some get distracted, others become too weary to continue. Those who finish strong are the ones who never take their gaze off the finish line.