DIVINE WORD MINISTRIES

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 26th MAY 2026 TWO-WAY CHANNEL Philippians 4:15 Moreover, as you Philippians know, in the early days of your acquaintance with the gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, not one church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving, except you only; (NIV) The Apostle Paul made a remarkable statement "the matter of giving and receiving" while addressing the Philippian church. Giving is not one way; when we give it creates another way, making it a two-way channel. Giving and receiving goes together. Everyone who gives sincerely, joyfully and willingly also receives.  Not many people are aware or practise this ministry. Giving and receiving is actually a ministry, and very few people practise it deliberately. Train yourself to always give for Kingdom work and other good works, and when you do always expect to receive, because it is a matter or ministry of giving and receiving. Givers receives. Not only to reward them fo...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 25th MAY 2026 CONTINUE TO LIVE FOR HIM Colossians 2:6 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, (NIV) To live in Him is to live for Him. You can't be in Christ and not live for Him. Because if you are in Him, He is in you and lives through you. If you have received Him as Lord; that is, if you have confessed His lordship over your life and are yielded to His lordship and leading then you won't struggle at all to live for Him.  Living for Him requires a mind made-up. You have to make up your mind completely to live for Him. Because unless you do if you encounter challenges you might likely turn back on Him. In living for Him there are oppositions but He has given us victory over them all.  Apostle Paul was resolute, in Philippians 1:21 he says "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain." Simply he meant, if I am to go on living I will continue to live for Christ. ...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 23rd MAY 2026 GUARD AGAINST THE FLESH Galatians 5:24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. (NIV) The flesh has its own passions and desires which are contrary to those of the Spirit. Galatians 5:17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. Though you are born again if you don't guard against the flesh you would find yourself gratifying the desires and passions of the flesh. The body (the flesh) you live in is natural to this world, this world is its natural domain. But your spirit is from above. Your body naturally lives and relates with this world but you will have to consciously and deliberately give attention to your spirit in order to express its nature, desire and passion through your body.  You have to deliberately guard your spirit ...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 22nd MAY 2026 NOT ON YOUR MERIT Ephesians 2:4-5 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions —it is by grace you have been saved. (NIV) One of the reasons we struggle to walk in God's perfect will is reliance on our own works and merit. Every man was born a sinner. Through the transgression of Adam sin passed unto every man. Every one sinned and fell short of the glory of God. Some might boast about their moral uprightness. Moral uprightness is not bad, but it is not righteousness. Moral uprightness is living up to the moral standard of a society. Righteousness is living in the standard that grace has brought us into. People fail in their walk with God because of reliance on merit; some hold onto their religious efforts and moral fit. But every man has deficiency without Christ. Christ alone is man's sufficiency. Amid all our short coming...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 21st MAY 2026 CALLED TO GLORY AND EXCELLENCE 2 Peter 1:3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, (ESV) It has always been the plan and dream of God to fill man with His glory. He had always wanted man to carry and dispense His beauty. The first man sinned and fell short of the glory. But God restored man to glory through Christ. Romans 3:23-24 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,  In the days of Moses God gave the Israelites the law which made them different from the rest of the world. God wanted a people that would bear His glory; through the law He offered the Israelites the opportunity to experience His glory if they would obey the law. For the law came with glory.  2 Corinthians 3:7-8 Now if the ...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 20th MAY 2026 LIVE IN HIS REST Hebrews 4:10 for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. (NIV) You entered God's rest when you got born again and received the Holy Spirit. After God finished the creation of the world He rested. He hadn't been doing anything actively. His Spirit does everything as required. It was by the Holy Spirit Jesus did the Father's work in the earth, and it was the same Holy Spirit who raised Him from the dead.  When you received the Holy Spirit He brought you into God's rest. You ceased from your own work, yes if you actually surrendered your life to the Holy Spirit completely then whatever He does through you is the Father's work not yours. He takes your job, business, career and your every endeavour as God's work. Everything you are about is God's business. You ceased from your own work; you are in His rest now. That's why Jesus cam...