God’s Oracle Devotionals

Date: Friday, 8^th March, 2024

Text: Psalm 103:8-11

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

Apart from Justice another essential Christ mentioned is Mercy. It can be defined as compassion that forbears punishment even when justice demands it.

When God was eulogizing himself in the front of Moses, he described himself as “The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin.” Exodus 34:6-7

In today’s text the Psalmist describes God’s nature this way, “The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger forever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.” Psalm 103:8-11

Mercy triumphs over judgement. For example, the thief on the Cross deserves to end up in Hell but because he repented and asked for mercy, he was forgiven and even though he suffered physical pain, shame and punishment, he was set free from eternal punishment. Christ tempered justice with mercy- Luke 23:39-43.

In some occasions, however, mercy can be denied and previous forgiveness withdrawn; if the recipient of mercy fails to extend mercy to others- Matthew 18:21-35. The word of God says, “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.”  Matthew 5:7. Judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful- James 2:13.

May you be a recipient of God’s abundant mercy this day in Jesus name.

Prayer Nugget: Father, I will not take your mercy for granted. Please, grant me grace to always extend your mercy to others in Jesus name.

Date: Thursday, 7^th March, 2024

Text: James 2:2-4

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

Justice is the quality of being fair. It is also known as equity or fairness.

Our Lord Jesus Christ identified it as one of the three essentials apart from mercy and faithfulness- Matthew 23:23

In order to properly understand justice, we may need to look at the opposite, namely injustice.

A simple illustration of injustice is demonstrated in James 2:2-4 which says, “Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,” have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

It is justice that makes God not leave the guilty unpunished; but punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation- Exodus 34:7b. Justice makes God not to spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment- 2 Peter 2:4.

It is this justice that made God not to have spared his own Son, but delivered him up for us all- Romans 8:32a

Justice is embedded in the followings Laws of Harvest which says the following:

Firstly, “What a man sows, he shall reap. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.” Galatians 6:8

Secondly, “Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously”- 2 Corinthians 9:6

Justice is the nature of God. And if we profess to be God’s bonafide children, why should we be any different?

Prayer Nugget: Father, I ask that you give me the grace to always live a life of fairness and equity in Jesus name.

Date: Wednesday, 6^th March, 2024

Text: 2 Corinthians 13:14

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

The final prayer of Paul for the Corinthian church has become one of the most popular ways by which most Christian churches or assemblies end their prayer sessions. It goes thus, “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.” 2 Corinthians 13:14.

If you look closely into that benedictory prayer, you will see the trinity clearly represented therein. Let’s break it down: “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ (God the Son); the love of God (the Father) and the communion of the Holy Ghost (God the Holy Spirit) be with you all.” Wow! What an invocation of divine blessings! That is one of the highest packages of blessing any man can get.

Most of us just say the prayer casually without the consciousness of the wonderful blessings in it. From now on let us learn to say the prayers in a heartfelt, intentional and prophetic way and we will activate the blessings loaded therein.

The Love of God mentioned in the benediction was the third essential we identified yesterday. One evidence that a man loves God is obedience to His word.Christ said, “If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter (the Holy Spirit), that he may abide with you forever.” John 14:15-16

A life of obedience attracts the presence and indwelling of the Holy Spirit into the life of a man.

When your heart is full of God’s love, it spills to your neighbour. Forgiveness becomes easy and there is no room for malice or bitterness. The results are answered prayers, unity and progress.

Prayer Nugget: Father, I ask for a yielded heart that readily obeys your word and the continuous indwelling of the Holy Spirit in Jesus name.

Date: Tuesday, 5^th March, 2024

Text: 1 John 4:7-11

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

In addition to Faith and Hope, the third essential in our walk with God is Love. Apostle Paul wrote, “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:13.

Love, selfless love is greater than any spiritual gift.

If you want to summarize all God’s commandments into two sentences, it will be “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself”- Luke 10:27

Today’s text puts it this way, “Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.” 1 John 4:7-11.

All our actions are weighed by God; he looks at the motives behind all we do. Actions motivated by love for God and humanity (not selfish interests or self recognition) carry God’s blessings and have eternal rewards.

If there is anything we need to daily pursue, it is to live a life of love.

Prayer Nugget: Father, I receive grace to love like Christ did in Jesus name.

Date: Monday, 4^th March, 2024

Text: Romans 5:5-8

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

Besides Faith, the second essential Apostle Paul identified is Hope. Hope has the element of trust. Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary defines hope as, “To trust in, wait for, look for or desire something or someone; or to expect something beneficial in the future.” It is to ‘put confidence in’ or ‘to take refuge in’ someone or something.

The word of God warns us not to put our trust in riches, idols, foreign powers, military might, princes, other humans, beauty, education or personal achievements. In fact we are also warned not to put our trust or confidence in our own wisdom or understanding- Proverbs 3:5-6.

We are expected to put our trust in God’s love, ordinances, teaching; in his word and salvation. Prophet Jeremiah referred to God as the Hope of Israel; he said, ‘^“O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters.” Jeremiah 17:13

Hope in God does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us- Isaiah 49:23c; Romans 5:5-8. Therefore, if Christ is in you, you have the hope of glory- Colossians 1:27.

Those who live and die in Christ have the hope of rising again unto glory- 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18.  However, those who die without Christ have no hope. For them is reserved everlasting burning in the blackest darkness- the Lake of Fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth forever- Revelation 20:15-20.

This is why the hope of the believer transcends this material world. Apostle Paul said, “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable”- 1 Corinthians 15:19

If you are not yet in Christ, what are you waiting for? Run to Jesus today and put your hope in Him.

Prayer Nugget: Lord Jesus, I put my hope in you alone for the rest of my life.

Date: Sunday, 3^rd March, 2024

Text: Mark 11:22-24

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

Yesterday, we identified Faith as one of the essentials in our relationship with the Lord.

To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see. It was by their faith that people of ancient times won God’s approval. Hebrews 11For example, Abraham believed what God said and it was credited to him as righteousness.

It was faith that made Abraham obey when God called him to go out to a country which God had promised to give him. He left his own country without knowing where he was going. It was faith that made Abraham able to become a father, even though he was too old and Sarah herself could not have children. He trusted God to keep his promise and God honoured his faith by giving them Isaac in their old age.

Jesus once said to his disciples, “Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them– Mark 11:22-24.

The just shall live by his faith. Habakkuk 2:4. When God says something and you believe and act on it, you have demonstrated faith. To do otherwise is to demonstrate doubt and unbelief.

Faith is a spiritual shield that quenches the fiery darts of the evil one- Ephesians 6:16

Every child of God is able to defeat the world. And we win the victory over the world by means of our faith. Who can defeat the world? Only the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God- 1 John 5:4-5. Through the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, we can be made right with God and be restored to God’s original design for our lives. We must first place our faith in Jesus before we can fully access the power of God.

Prophetic Nugget: Receive the grace to be full of faith in Jesus name.

Date: Saturday, 2nd March, 2024

Text: 1 Corinthians 13:13

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

Apostle Paul identified three essentials of the Christian faith, namely faith, hope and love- 1 Corinthians 13:13.

Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him- Hebrews 11:6

So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God- Romans 10:17.

So the mother of faith is the word of God. When we hear the word of God and understand it, faith is born and as the word takes root in our hearts, faith grows.

Faith is in levels. There is little faith and there is great faith; there is weak faith and there is strong faith.

So the more of the word of God you expose yourself to, the more opportunity you give to your faith to grow and the more you will be empowered to please God.

The more the faith, the less the fear. Fear and faith cannot cohabit. Faith is light, fear is darkness.

When faith comes, fear disappears. 

Prayer Nugget: Father, I ask for grace to daily delight in your word so that my faith can grow in Jesus name.

Date: Friday, 1^st March, 2024

 Text: Exodus 19:1-9

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

Thank God for seeing a brand new month. This month we are marching forward in Jesus name. No more delay, no more stagnation, no more retardation in Jesus name. May the hand of the Lord be upon us for unusual speed and progress. May the Lord in His grace provide power, strength, and courage to the weary, weak, and downtrodden, even as we are willing to be patient and wait on Him. God will cause us to mount up on eagles’ wings in Jesus name.

Let us Pray.

Prayer Nuggets:

1. Father, thank you for bringing me safely into the month of March.

2. Thank you Lord for your desire to carry me up with wings like an eagle.

3. Father, please open my eyes and heart to realize and repent from any sin that has been holding me down and preventing my flight upwards in Jesus name.

4. Father, please replace my weakness with your strength in Jesus name.

5. In Jesus name, no more delay, stagnation or retrogression in Jesus name

6. I redeem every day in this month with the blood of Jesus.

7. Father, please cause me to mount up on Eagle’s wings in Jesus name.

8. You may please, kindly add your own prayer nuggets.

Happy New Month

Date: Wednesday, 28^th February, 2024

Text: Matthew 6:31-34

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

There was the story of a corporate executive manager who was always met by a preacher for an appointment to hear the word of God, but he always declined because he was “very busy” and had no time. Then one day he got a call from his doctor that he has been diagnosed of Cancer and that he had only a few months to live.

Suddenly, the one who had always complained of ‘no time’ had plenty of time to listen to the Word of God. May you not get to that point where God has to use a terminal disease or calamity to get your attention in Jesus name.

What exactly are people busy doing that so chokes up their time? Jesus described those distractions as life’s worries, riches and pleasures- Luke 8:14. They are worldly pursuits borne out of anxieties of what to eat, or drink, what to wear and where to live- basically the cares of this life..

In Matthew 6:31-34, Jesus described these as the things the pagans are always concerned about- things that our Father in heaven knows that we need. Instead of focusing on vanities, Christ taught that we are supposed to be concerned above everything else with the Kingdom of God and with what he requires of us, and he will provide you with all these other things.

In Luke 12:15, the Lord went on to say , “Watch out and guard yourselves from every kind of greed; because your true life is not made up of the things you own, no matter how rich you may be.”

But godliness with contentment is great gain; for we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.- 1 Timothy 6:8-10.

Prophetic Nugget: Receive grace to pursue the Kingdom essentials in Jesus name.

Date: Tuesday, 28^th February, 2024 

Text: Luke 10:38-42

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

We all want many things but need only a few. The things you want can be done without but the things you need are essential to your survival.  In the midst of all the hustle and bustle of daily life only very few things are really needed for our spiritual and by extension physical survival.

According to today’s text, as Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”

“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “You are worried and upset about many things,but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.” Luke 10:38-42

So many today are so busy with the non-essentials that they miss the essential. When you call for Bible Study during the week, you will hardly see a good number of attendees. The excuses they give is busyness. They have no time for both personal and corporate Bible study.

Everybody is busy but you will create time for what is important to you. This is why the Twelve Apostles gathered all the disciples together and told them, “It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables. Brothers and sisters, choose seven men from among you who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will turn this responsibility (of food sharing) over to them and will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word.” Acts 6:2-4

Action Nugget: Don’t be distracted, focus on the essentials.