DIVINE WORD MINISTRIES

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 28th MARCH 2025 THERE IS A SPIRITUAL HOUSE 1 Peter 2:5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (NIV) The Church is a body. This body is a spiritual house built with the spirits of those who are born again. Every Christian is a living stone with which this house is built.  Every house is meant to be inhabited. This house is inhabited by God, He lives in this house by His Spirit.  Ephesians 2:21-22 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit. Every individual Christian is God's house. His conducive dwelling place. It is a spiritual house; that is, your spirit. God lives in your spirit not actually your physical body. Your physical body is only subject to expre...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 27th MARCH 2025 CELEBRATE IN ADVANCE Isaiah 54:1 "Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband," says the LORD. (NIV) When you find God's word like this very scripture you celebrate it in advance. That's what God meant when He said "Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy,"  He said to the barren woman, even to Israel, "Celebrate in advance" because I am about to change the situation. He says the same thing to us today! 'Celebrate in advance!' Maybe you find yourself in a situation you don't want to be, and you are trying to come out of it, perhaps there is a situation you want to change, it could be your health, business or marriage. When you find God's word concerning such don't wait until y...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 26th MARCH 2025 DON'T EXPECT THEM TO ACCEPT IT EASILY 1 Corinthians 2:14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. (NIV) In the course of preaching the Gospel of Jesus we encounter people who disagree with our message and argue about its authenticity. It sounds foolish to them because they do not understand it, and it takes only the Spirit of God to understand the things of God.  The message of the Gospel of Jesus is not for the senses. It is not something the most sensually intelligent person can easily accept. Don't expect people without the Spirit of God to easily accept the Gospel we preach.  Aside that the natural senses cannot accept the things of the Spirit the devil has also blinded the minds of unbelievers. So you see their situation is very complicated, unl...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 25th MARCH 2025 FACE THE FACT WITH TRUTH Romans 4:19 Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead —since he was about a hundred years old —and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. (NIV) Ignoring the facts of your challenges is not faith, and it won't change the situation either. Our father Abraham whom we just read about in our opening verse faced the fact that his body was as good as dead, he acknowledged that he was about a hundred years old and could not impregnate a woman, and that Sarah's womb was also dead. He acknowledged and faced the facts. He didn't hide from the obvious facts, and then say "I am not old, I am not yet a hundred years old, Sarah's womb is not dead." Faith is more than that. Faith is not a denial of facts but denying the facts the power to control your life.  What Abraham did was to face the facts of his circumstances with the truths of God. He ha...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 24th MARCH 2025 NOT BY THE STANDARDS OF THIS WORLD 2 Corinthians 10:2-3 I beg you that when I come I may not have to be as bold as I expect to be toward some people who think that we live by the standards of this world. For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. (NIV) There are those who have observed us and tried so hard to know why we do what we do and how we do them. They think we live by the standards of this world, they use all worldly parameters to try to ascertain our level and the force behind us to no avail. They have failed in all their attempts to size us, but they are not aware --- "For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does." They don't know and they can never know about us, because we are discerned only through the Spirit. 1 Corinthians 2:14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them f...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 23rd MARCH 2025 THERE IS FREEDOM 2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. (NIV) Did you just read that? Have you received the Spirit of the Lord? It is for freedom. Do you live in this freedom? Our theme scripture says "...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." Live in freedom Brother! Living in the freedom which Christ brought you into is dependent on, firstly, whether or not you have the Holy Spirit, secondly, on knowledge. Not many people are aware that there is freedom. My brothers and sisters, there is absolute freedom in Christ. Romans 8:9 You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. If you are born again then you have the Spirit of Christ; the Spirit of the Lord, and it is for freedom...