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(INTRODUCTION) HE WHO FINDS A WIFE

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  INTRODUCTION There is a question that every young man eventually faces, whether he voices it aloud or carries it silently in his heart: How do I find the woman I am meant to marry? Some men answer that question by waiting. They sit still, hoping that one day a wife will somehow appear — as if God were in the business of dropping fully formed marriages into the laps of passive men. Others answer it by rushing. They chase every pretty face, give their hearts away carelessly, and end up wounded and confused. And still others answer it by ignoring it altogether, burying themselves in work, in hobbies, or in fear, until the years quietly slip away. But Scripture gives a very different answer. Proverbs 18:22 declares, "He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the LORD." Notice the word finds. It is an active word. It speaks of searching, of moving, of taking responsibility. A man does not stumble into a godly marriage by accident. He does not receive a wife ...
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BREAKFAST WITH JESUS

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS Daily devotional Pastor Stanley 29th SEPTEMBER 2026   ETERNITY IN GOD   Acts 17:28 "For in him we live and move and have our being." As some of your own poets have said, "We are his offspring." (NIV)   On the Areopagus in Athens, Paul stood before the most intellectual minds of the ancient world and pointed them to a God they had not yet truly known. He did not argue from arguments first; he anchored them in reality: in him we live and move and have our being. Not merely exist, not merely function — live, move, have our being. Your heartbeat, your breath, your very continuity from moment to moment is sustained by the power of the Almighty. You are not a machine running on its own; you are sustained by the Everlasting God.   And then he went further: We are his offspring. Not accidental, not abandoned, not a cosmic experiment. You are of his kindred. In Christ, you are not just sustained by God — you are related to God. Your eternal destiny is no...
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BREAKFAST WITH JESUS

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BREAKFAST WITH JESUS Daily devotional Pastor Stanley 28th SEPTEMBER 2026 SEATED WITH CHRIST IN HEAVEN Ephesians 2:6 "And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus." (NIV) Do not miss the tenses here. Paul does not say God will raise you up or will seat you with Christ one day. He says God raised us up and seated us — already accomplished, already secured. The same power that burst the grave on the third day burst you out of the grave of the old man, and the same hand that installed Christ at the right hand of God installed you with Him in the heavenly realms. This is the New Creation's true address. You are not a spiritual beggar standing at the door of heaven asking to be taken in; you are seated — in authority, in favor, in unshakable position. Your territory, your destiny, your victory, your success and dominion was already settled at the cross and confirmed at the resurrection. Living from this seat changes everything. ...
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  BREAKFAST WITH JESUS Daily devotional Pastor Stanley 27th SEPTEMBER 2026 CHRIST IS YOUR LIFE Colossians 3:3-4 "For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory." (NIV) Notice the order of these verses. You died. Your life was buried with Christ. But the grave did not keep you — your new life was raised with Him and is now hidden with Christ in God. That hiddenness is not obscurity; it is protection. While the world measures you by works, circumstances, and man's opinions, your true self is concealed in the safest place in all existence: the heart of God Himself. And then Paul delivers the most staggering truth in all Scripture: Christ is your life. Not a gift you carry, not a virtue you maintain, not a relationship you manage — He is the very life you live. You do not strive to make Him shine in you; His appearing will be your appearing. The same glory that surrounds the Son...
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  BREAKFAST WITH JESUS Daily devotional Pastor Stanley 26th SEPTEMBER 2026   SET YOUR HEARTS ON THINGS ABOVE   Colossians 3:1-2 "Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things." (NIV)   Paul does not say "set your hearts on things above if you have been raised with Christ." He says "since, then" — because it is already true. Your old position in Adam was buried with Christ; your new life was raised and seated in heavenly places. What the Spirit has established in you, your heart must now mirror.   This is where the New Creation lives: not striving to become holy, but abiding in what you already are. Sin, negative circumstance, and failure are foreign to your spirit — they do not belong to your origin, and they do not have to occupy your thoughts. To set your heart on things above is to give your deepest affections their r...
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BREAKFAST WITH JESUS

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  BREAKFAST WITH JESUS Daily devotional Pastor Stanley 25th SEPTEMBER 2026   WE ARE NOT VULNERABLE   "Many are saying of me, 'God will not deliver him.' But you, LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high." — Psalms 3:2–3 (NIV)   Beloved, notice the contrast in this passage. There is the voice of the enemy, the voice of the world, and even the voice of the doubting mind, all saying the same thing: "He is finished. He has no way out. God will not deliver him."   It is a powerful lie, but it is still a lie. And the reason it is a lie is that it operates from the perspective of the natural, weak, exposed self. It looks at the branch and forgets the Vine. It looks at the soldier and forgets the Commander.   But then comes the declaration of the New Creation: "But you, LORD..." This two-word phrase shifts the entire battle from the realm of human vulnerability to the realm of divine invincibility. You are not vulnerable becau...
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BREAKFAST WITH JESUS

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  BREAKFAST WITH JESUS Daily devotional Pastor Stanley 24th SEPTEMBER 2026   THE NEW CREATION'S SECRET "I am crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." — Galatians 2:20 (NIV)   Beloved, Paul did not write this as a religious slogan. He wrote it as a settled fact — a declaration of who he really is in Christ. And it belongs to everyone that has been born again. Read the three tenses carefully, and let the Holy Spirit reveal their depth: "I am crucified with Christ" (past). The old man — that weak, fearful, performance-driven identity — is not just improved. It is dead. Buried. Finished. Whatever the old self was struggling with, it is no longer in charge. "It is no longer I who live" (present). Here is the pivot. The one now operating in your life is not your limited, natural self. It is Christ, living in you...
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