Month: February 2025

Date: Saturday, 8^th February, 2025

Text: Hebrews 6:13-15

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

The word of God is full of precious promises. His promises are reliable and certain. However, in order to actualize the wonderful promises of God, there is need to be patient. Patience is necessary because God’s timing may not necessarily be our own timing.

For those who are willing to patiently wait for the fulfilment of his promises, he makes everything beautiful at the right time.

When God made his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for him to swear by, he swore by himself, saying, “I will surely bless you and give you many descendants. And so after waiting patiently, Abraham received what was promised-Hebrews 6:13-15

Have you been trusting God to fulfil a particular promise in your life? God cannot lie; his word will surely come to pass. He will never lie because he is not a man.  Why not keep reminding him of his promises and pray until your joy is full?

He will never disappoint you, just trust and obey. There is no other way to be happy in Jesus.

Prayer Nugget: Ask for the grace to wait on Him until His promises are fulfilled in your life.

Bible In One Year: Numbers 3-4

Date: Friday, 7^th February, 2025

Text: John 3:30

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

At the beginning of his earthly ministry, the followership of Jesus Christ was increasing and that of his forerunner, John the Baptist’s was decreasing his disciples were jealous and worried that they were losing their membership to Christ. Then John made the statement saying, “He must increase, but I must decrease.” John 3:30.

That statement also means, “He must become greater; I must become less.” By this statement he exalted Christ and humbled himself. When we get out of the way and let God accomplish what He intends, then much is accomplished.

The flesh must be subdued and mortified in us if the Spirit of Christ must increase in us. Naturally, the human nature wants to seek for attention and show off. The popular worldly slogan is that, ‘If you have got it, flaunt it’. For example some ladies believe that if they have beautiful skins, they should wear skimpy clothes that will make the whole world see it. Men with athletic bodies also want to show it to the world by unbuttoning a half portion of their shirts.

When your major aim is to draw undue attention to yourself you are giving glory to yourself and not God. What you are doing is that you are claiming that all you have or have achieved are by your power and wisdom.

 Paul the Apostle asks^{, “}For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?” 1 Corinthians 4:7

Testimony sharing must be with humility and not sound as though one is boasting. All that we do must be to the glory of God and not to draw attention to ourselves.

Prayer Nugget: I clothe myself with the garment of humility; from now on Christ must increase, while the flesh in me must decrease in Jesus name.

Bible In One Year: Numbers 1-2

Date: Thursday, 6^th February, 2025

Text: 1 Samuel 30:1-8

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

Joy is a fruit of the Holy Spirit, sorrow is not. Satan shoots the arrow of sorrow into the life of a man so as to discourage him and bring depression into his life. It’s like falling into a dark and deep pit. At this point the soul is downcast and head is bowed down.

David was a man that faced intense enmity and persecution in his life. At a point he was on self exile in the foreign land of the philistines. Men with troubles and discontentment gathered around him and he became their leader. So many times he was homeless and hungry, having to depend on proceeds from raids.

At a point he and his men became victim of raids and he lost everything including his family and those of his followers. They got back to their base and found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive. So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep.

 David was greatly distressed because his men lost confidence in his leadership and were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the Lord his God.

The word of God confirms that David spoke to himself he said, “My soul is downcast within me; Why, my soul, are you downcast?  Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.” Psalm 42:5,6

David encouraged himself in the Lord, prayed to his God for guidance on the way forward. God spoke to him and he pursued his enemies, overtook them and recovered all. Weeping indeed endured for a night but joy came in the morning – Psalm 30:5.

Are you discouraged and downcast? Put your hope in the Lord and speak to your soul. Darkness will be dispelled, your joy is coming in the morning You are bouncing back and getting stronger.. in Jesus name.

Prayer Nugget: Every arrow of sorrow fired against my soul; go back to the sender in Jesus name.

Bible In One Year: Leviticus 26-27

Date: Wednesday, 5^th February, 2025

Text: 1 Samuel 8:4-22

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

You can’t know the right spouse to marry by mere looking. Marriage is God’s idea and institution, so he alone knows the depths. Some say, ‘shine your eyes and choose whoever you want’. They forget that sight can be deceitful. Proverbs 31:30 says, “Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.” Outward appearances can be misleading. Today, many have missed it in life and in marriage because they trusted their senses more than God.

The Israelites wanted to choose a physically impressive king. So they got Saul, tall and handsome young man. He was a head taller than all Israel and was from a rich family. By their own worldly standards, he had all the physical features of a king. But did they meet up with God’s standards? No!

The elders of Israel missed out on the most important criterion for the right kingship- a godly heart. Saul’s heart was not right with God. He failed woefully as king. The Spirit of God departed from him after two years of his reign due to disobedience- I Samuel 15. Insanity marked the remaining 38 years of his reign; he eventually committed suicide in a battle where Israel suffered terrible defeat in the hands of her enemy, the Philistines.

When God was ready to choose his own king, his criteria was different. He didn’t go to the house of the rich and influential, rather he sent Samuel, the prophet and Kingmaker to Bethlehem, in the house of an unpopular and poor family of Jesse.

Even in the house of Jesse, among the 8 sons God did not choose the physically impressive military personnel among them. Concerning each of the first seven sons presented for kingship by Jesse, their father, the word of God says, “But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7

David, a shepherd boy, the youngest and eight son of Jesse was God’s choice. He was described as a man after God’s own heart. Concerning him the Lord said, “I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.” Acts 13:23b.

He was a man that loved the Lord and had absolute faith in Him. He never went to battle without consulting the Lord. He never relied on his own abilities. He had a grateful heart. Even when he sinned he owned up and never tried to cover it up. He had a soft repentant heart. David had an uncommon passion for God. Even when God disqualified him from building the temple, he insisted on sponsoring the project.

He was truly a man that loved the Lord with all his heart, no wonder God chose him.

Prayer Nugget: Father, by your grace I will never walk by sight anymore but by your word and Spirit in Jesus Name

Bible In One Year: Leviticus 24-25

Date: Tuesday, 4^th February, 2025

Text: 2 Corinthians 5:6-7

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

We walk by faith and not by sight- 2 Corinthians 5:7. Most people miss out on God because they follow their physical senses. They always try to figure everything out with their human mind. They have forgotten that God’s ways are not our ways, neither are his thoughts our thoughts. So if you must successfully walk with God, don’t let your human reasoning stand in the way.

Our human brains don’t have the capacity to fully comprehend the workings of God. That is why we must not trust in our own understanding but to acknowledge him in all our ways. On Christ the solid rock we must stand, all other grounds are sinking sands.

There is a way that seems right to a man but the end is destruction. When he gives an instruction why not obey without reservation?

Naaman, the leprous Army general would have lost out of his miracle if he hadn’t obeyed by dipping himself in Jordan River seven times 2 Kings 5.

When Lot was to choose between Canaan and Sodom/Gomorrah, he allowed his human senses to take the lead. He looked around and saw that the whole plain was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, so Lot chose for himself the whole plain near Sodom and Gomorrah. Little did he know that the land of his choice was on God’s judgment list- Genesis 13, 14 and 19.

What is seen is temporal but what is unseen is permanent- 2 Corinthians 4:18. In other words, the things we can physically see in this world are temporary and fleeting while the true and lasting realities, often considered spiritual or divine, are unseen and permanent. This underscores the importance of focusing on eternal values rather than material things. 

Prayer Nugget: Father, I receive grace to always work by faith and not by sight in Jesus name.

Bible In One Year: Leviticus 22-23

Date: Monday, 3^rd February, 2025

Text: Ephesians 1:3-14

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

Let’s say you are on an adventure to explore an Island with some friends and you happen to have a telescope with you, it gives you an advantage of vision over others. You can see objects from afar whenever you use the device.

Believers in Christ who are filled with the Holy Spirit have so many advantages afforded by the Holy Spirit in a world full of darkness. Being in Christ you are seated with him in the heavenly places far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come- Ephesians 1:21.

Let’s assume you want to buy a smart phone and in order to demonstrate your commitment to the seller, you pay a deposit in advance. In a similar manner the Holy Spirit is the Father’s deposit in every believer who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of our purchased possession to the praise of God’s glory- Ephesians 1:14.

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth that gives the advantage of guidance into all truth and reveals what is going to happen in the future- John 16:13. So many people are eager to know what the future holds. In Christ you are covered because that is the advantage of the Holy Spirit.

Live in complete obedience to the will of the Father, habitually fellowship with the Holy Spirit and begin to enjoy his special advantages.

Prayer Nugget: Father, from today, help me to always enjoy the Spirit’s advantage in Jesus name.

Bible In One Year: Leviticus 16-21