Author: oracle4christ

Date: Thursday, 10^th July, 2025

Text:  John 14:16-18

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

In Genesis 1:26a, God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” There, he was not talking to himself, but to the Trinity in Council or Godhead. 1 John 5:7 says, “There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.” The Holy Spirit is the third person in the Godhead as you can see.

When our Lord Jesus Christ was about to depart from the earth, he promised his disciples saying, “And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.” John 14:16-18

Jesus is the Comforter who comforts us in all our troubles. But while he was about to depart he promised another Comforter. He already warned us that in the world we shall have tribulation: but he encouraged us to be of good cheer; because he has overcome the world. John 16:33a.

The Holy Spirit therefore is the current Comforter on Earth. Jesus healed while on Earth (Mark 5), the Holy Spirit also heals now; Jesus taught (Matthew 5-7); the Holy Spirit teaches now- John 14:26.

It is important to live holy in order to enjoy the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Sin is a reproach which hinders the move of the Holy Spirit in the life of any believer.

Prayer Nugget: Father, I will live holy, please let your Spirit live and dwell in me forever in Jesus name.

Bible in One Year: Proverbs 30-31

Date: Wednesday, 9^th July, 2025

Text:  Psalm 51:17

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

As humans with very limited view and understanding we make our assessment of people based on  their physical appearances as reflected by their actions, but the Almighty God looks deeper- 1 Samuel 16:7. He looks at the heart. He doesn’t just assess us based on our deeds or actions but by the intentions behind our actions- Proverbs 16:2.

A man can give all his belongings to the poor, not for the love of the benefactors but for some selfish reasons. In 1 Corinthians 13:3, Paul the apostle said, “If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.”

There is a state of heart that attracts the attention of God and there is another that repels him. The word of God says, “A broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.” Psalm 51:17.

A contrite heart hates past sins with a resolve to forsake them and make amends.

God values true repentance and humility over self justification and excuses. This was why David found God’s forgiveness and favour after confessing his sins and repenting from them; whereas his predecessor, Saul fell out of divine favour. He was all out to give excuses and justify his errors-1 Samuel 15; 2 Samuel 11-12.

A broken and contrite heart, characterized by sorrow for sin and a sincere desire for forgiveness and change, is welcomed and valued by God.

Action Nugget: Ask God for a contrite heart and a broken spirit which attracts his attention.

Bible in One Year: Proverbs 24-29

Date: Tuesday, 8^th July, 2025

Text:  Mark 8:22-25

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

This second half of the year, I pray for you that the Lord will complete what he has started in your life. In today’s text, the Lord came to Bethsaida, where some people brought a blind man to him and begged him for a divine touch. Jesus took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village.

After spitting on the man’s eyes, Jesus placed his hands on him and asked him, “Can you see anything?” The man looked up and said, “Yes, I can see people, but they look like trees walking around.” Jesus again placed his hands on the man’s eyes. This time the man looked intently, his eyesight returned, and he saw everything clearly.” Mark 8:22-25

I don’t know how the first half of this year has been. You probably have experienced the move of God in some way but things are still not as good as you expect. I encourage you to be hopeful. Just like the man in today’s text, what you need is a second touch from the lord and he will settle your case.

He will touch you one more time and things will begin to realign in your favour. The lines will fall for you in pleasant places and your joy will be full in Jesus name.

Prayer Nugget: Father, please, touch me one more time and let things work perfectly in my favour in Jesus name.

Bible in One Year: Proverbs 18-23

Date: Saturday, 5^th July, 2025

Text:  Matthew 18:18-20

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

As we round off on these marital success series, it is important to note that the marital union instituted by God is a threat to the kingdom of Satan. I will explain why.

Our Lord Jesus Christ  in today’s text says, “Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.  In the eighteenth verse, the Lord says, “Verily I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

In verse 20 the Lord concluded saying, “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” Matthew 18:19, 18, 20

This brings us to the tenth principle of marital success which is the Principle of Agreement Prayers. There is a saying that a family that prays together stays together. In the place of agreement prayers, the husband and wife in unity are a formidable force who wields great spiritual force against the kingdom of darkness.

This is the very reason why the enemy does everything to put the family asunder. We must therefore, do everything to keep the fire of the family altar burning. A hot stove does not harbor cockroaches. The powers of darkness find it difficult and impossible to carry out their evil agenda in a family that prays consistently in unity. We must, therefore, keep the unity of the marriage intact.

In 1 Peter 3:7, the word of God says, “Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”

Make it a habit to settle all disputes quickly. Offenses will always come, but forgive each other in advance and don’t allow unforgiveness, anger, bitterness, unresolved conflicts and other devices of the enemy to steal the love and unity in the family.

Action Nugget: Guard your family unity jealously; regularly pray together because a family that prays together stays together.

Bible in One Year: Proverbs 12-17

Date: Thursday, 3^rd July, 2025

Text:  Ruth 1:16-17

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

There will be challenges in any marriage. It takes determination and focus to sail through. When the storms of marriage come, not every marriage survives it. Some are blown away by it; some marriages sink permanently, never to rise again. But if Jesus Christ is in your ship, you can rest assured that you will rise above the storms.

This brings us to the ninth principle of marital success known as the Principle of Unwavering Commitment. Other words for ‘unwavering’ are resolute, firm, fixed, steadfast etc. To be commitment is to be dedicated to a cause, activity, etc. to be unwaveringly committed in marriage is to be resolutely loyal in marriage. It is not to share your marital commitment with another but with your spouse.

Ruth demonstrated this kind of unwavering commitment. She was married to Mahlon, one of Naomi’s sons for roughly ten years before he died. Her commitment for her husband was so strong that even after his death, when her mother-in-law encouraged her to depart from her and seek another life Ruth replied saying:

“Entreatme not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; for wherever you go, I will go; and wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, And your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me.” Ruth 1:16-17

She had tasted the love her husband shared with her and the goodness of the God of Israel, whom her husband served, and she was so determined to cling on until death separated her from her mother-in-law. Despite her husband’s death, she was loyal to her husband’s family, even though she had no child for the late husband. Death was not strong enough to kill her love for her husband’s family.

Most other women would have disregarded their old mother-in-laws as ‘archaic and old school’. Not so with Ruth. She respected the wisdom of the elderly mother-in-law and submitted to her authority. Eventually, it paid off because her mother-in-law made sure that God settled her; she remarried and became the great grandmother of King David and the matriarchal progenitor of our Lord Jesus Christ- Ruth 4:18-22; Matthew 1:1-16.

Ruth’s unwavering commitment gave her a permanent place among the greatest women on Earth. Up till today, her name is mentioned all over the world.

Action Nugget: Determine to be unwaveringly committed to your spouse, come what may.

Bible in One Year: Proverbs 8-11

Date: Wednesday, 2^nd July, 2025

Text:  Ecclesiastes 4:9-11

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

The word of God says, “Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?” Ecclesiastes 4:9-11

Marriage is not a union between two perfect spouses. Each individual in the union has his or her own strengths and weaknesses. The beauty of the union is that they perfect each other’s areas of strengths and weaknesses. Where the husband is weak, the wife is strong and where the wife is weak the husband is strong.

This brings us to the eighth principle of marital success called the Principle of Complementarity.

Complementarity between a husband and his wife relationship refers to the way the two of them being individuals’ different, and often with opposite qualities and needs fit together, creating a sense of completeness and balance. It’s when one spouse’s strengths compensate for the other’s weaknesses, and vice versa, leading to a more harmonious and fulfilling union.

Today, we see so many husbands and wives competing instead of complementing each other. This is very wrong. If you are a husband married to a wife who earns more than you, don’t feel inferior or intimidated. In a godly home, her own financial strength is meant to compensate for your own weakness.

Do everything to promote each other’s areas of strength and cover up for each other’s areas of weakness. Let the name of Christ be glorified in your home.

Prayer Nugget: Father, I receive understanding and wisdom to complement and not to compete with my spouse in Jesus name.

Bible in One Year: Proverbs 4-7

Date: Tuesday, 1^st July, 2025

Text:  Genesis 17:1-27

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

Happy new month folks! Welcome to the seventh month and the beginning of the second half of the year. The word of God says, “The glory of the latter house shall surpass the former.”- Haggai 2:9. We are also assured that better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof- Ecclesiastes 7:8. On the authority and strength of these scriptures, I decree that the second half of this year shall be more glorious than the first half in Jesus name. Again I decree that the second half of this year shall be better than the first in every ramification in Jesus name.

When it was time for God to fulfill his 25-year old promise to Abram, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.” Genesis 17:1. It was a divine requirement for the Lord to perfect all that concerned Abram. In Romans 6:1, the Holy Spirit through Apostle Paul asked, “Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?” The answer came in the second verse saying, “God forbid!”

Abram cooperated with God by obeying him. He rededicated his life to God by going through the painful process of circumcising himself and every male member of his household- Genesis 17:9-27.

There was a paradigm shift in the life of Abram- his name and that of his wife were changed. Not long after these experiences, their long awaited child of promise was born; God perfected all that concerned them and their reproach was taken away- Genesis 21:1-7.

There is someone reading this devotional, God is about to perfect all that concerns you but he is asking you to walk before him and be perfect. Rededicate your life to Christ in obedience. Separate yourself unto him in holiness. Turn your back completely to the world and its sinful pleasures and focus your attention unto Christ alone who is the Author and Finisher of our faith.

God will finish what he has started in your life and perfect all that concerns you in Jesus name.

Let us pray!

Prayer Nuggets:

1. Thank you father for your mercy and grace in the first half of this year.
2. Father, thank you for bringing me into this new half.
3. By the blood of Jesus I break away from everything tying me down in worldliness.
4. Father, by the strength of your Holy Spirit I will walk before you and be perfect in Jesus name.
5. Father, please perfect all that concerns me in this new month in Jesus name.
6. Father, please, let the second half of this year be better and more glorious than the first in Jesus name.
7. Add your own prayer requests.

Bible in One Year: Proverbs 1-3

Date: Monday, 30^th  June, 2025

Texts:  Proverbs 5:18-20

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

If your marriage must succeed you must engage the seventh principle called the Contentment principle.

To be contented is to be happy and satisfied with what you have. Without this virtue, you won’t be happy even if you marry one hundred spouses. If you don’t believe me ask the woman at the well.

The woman at the well thought she was going to get a better spouse so she kept divorcing them one after the other hoping to get a better man. She didn’t even after 5 husbands. She got tired of getting married and started flirting around the sixth man who was not her husband. This was her condition before she met Christ- John 4:1-19.

Covetousness is the result of lack of contentment and we are warned not to covet a neighbour’s spouse. Even though king David already had four spouses, he still coveted another person’s wife, namely Bathsheba before God’s hammer of judgment landed on him- 2 Samuel 11-12:1-20.

His Son, king Solomon even explored more looking for something he couldn’t get in 700 wives of royal birth. He still coveted after 300 other women called concubines- 1 Kings 11:3.

At the end of the day, he realized that everything was vanity upon vanity. He came to the reality that all he accumulated gave him no sense of fulfillment but found that they were ultimately futile, empty, and without lasting value. It’s like chasing the wind or trying to grasp smoke. 

The word of God says, “Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth. As a loving deer and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and always be enraptured with her love. For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, and be embraced in the arms of a seductress?”Proverbs 5:18-20

Changing spouses or accumulating them does not still satisfy until you embrace the virtue of contentment in Christ Jesus.

Key Nugget: Godliness with contentment is great gain- 1 Timothy 6:6.

Bible in One Year: Psalm 141-150

Date: Sunday, 29^th  June, 2025

Texts:  1 Timothy 5:8. 2 Thessalonians 3:10

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

Mutual Responsibility is the sixth principle that ensures marital success. In marriage each spouse has his or her own duty.

Right from the very beginning the man has been saddled with the responsibility of working in the Garden Of Eden and keeping it. He is expected to use the proceeds to take care of himself and his household- Genesis 2:15.

Therefore, scripturally speaking the husband, being the head of the family has the duty of being the bread winner or chief provider of the family.

Again, the word of God says, “But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel- 1 Timothy 5:8. 2 Thessalonians 3:10 also says, “If a man will not work, he shall not eat.”

Marriage is hard work. It is not for idle and lazy people. As as the head of the family, the husband should derive joy and find fulfillment in providing for his family. It is an aberration to abandon this responsibility to the wife- even if she earns more than him. The wife is only supposed to be an help meet- someone who assists on the side, not the chief provider.

However, the wife is not also expected to be idle.  A virtuous woman as seen in Proverbs 31 is a very dutiful wife who complements the efforts of her husband and takes charge of the affairs of her household to ensure nothing goes wrong.

If your marriage must work, each of the spouses must ensure that he or she does not drop the ball at any point in time but fulfills his or her God-given responsibilities.

Action Nugget: Pray and plan to be responsible in taking charge of the affairs of your home.

Bible in One Year: Psalm 134-140

Date: Saturday, 28^th  June, 2025

Text:  Proverbs 18:21

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

The fifth principle necessary for marital success is the Mutual Communication Principle. Your spouse is supposed to be your gist partner, your closest confidant. Communication can be either verbal or non-verbal. Your spouse is supposed to understand your body language. He or she should hear you even when you have not verbally said anything.

The story was told of a policeman who had served in different part of Nigeria for a period of thirty five years. Routinely, he was moved to different states of the nation during his time in the Nigerian police force. During this time, he didn’t move with his family but left them in the town where he had his own personal landed property.

Eventually he was retired. At this time he no longer travelled as he used to do but was always with his wife under the same roof. He discovered that he always had quarrels with his wife. It was as if they were two strangers forced to live under the same roof- after about four decades of marriage! It was as if they then started courtship all over again.

Before then he had been a visiting husband who only came home once in a while. The family was financially stable but mutual communication was very poor due to proximity issues. Mutual communication enhances closeness. You may find it challenging to understand somebody you don’t frequently talk to.

After a while the frequent heated arguments and quarrels between the couple reduced to the barest minimum because they eventually became close and understood each other via frequent mutual communication.

The word of God says, “The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” Proverbs 18:21

Action Nugget:Invest in mutual communication between you and your spouse and enjoy the life-giving benefit of your tongue.

Bible in One Year: Psalm 120-133