DIVINE WORD MINISTRIES

  BREAKFAST WITH JESUS Daily devotional Pastor Stanley 9th OCTOBER 2026 CREATED FOR MY GLORY Scripture — Isaiah 43:7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him. (NIV) Notice what God does not say. He does not say, whom I created for his own glory. He says, for my glory. You were not formed to be the source of the light, but the vessel that carries it. A mirror is not diminished by reflecting a face — it is fulfilled by it. The moment you try to generate glory from yourself, you go dim; the moment you receive His and reflect it, you shine. This is why the same hands that formed you also made you: the workmanship and the purpose are His, and you were never meant to supply what you were only meant to display. The important aspect is the name. Everyone who is called by My Name. In the very verse before this, He says, I have redeemed you, I have called you by your name, you are mine. (Isaiah 43:6) Redemption is ...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS Daily devotional Pastor Stanley 7th OCTOBER 2026 GROW IN GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE Scripture — 2 Peter 3:18 "But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen." (NIV) Peter closes his letter not with a warning but with an invitation: grow. And notice what he does not say. He does not say grow in your righteousness — you already have the same righteousness as Jesus, for He gave you His own. What increases is the outward expression of what God has already placed inside you. Grace, in this verse, is more than unmerited favour. It is the outward reflection of the inner working of the power of God — the beauty of the Spirit showing through a human life. When grace is genuinely at work in you, it cannot be concealed. Barnabas came to Antioch and saw the grace of God in that church. People should look at you and say, "I see Jesus in you." Here is the sobering part. Some believers have been in...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS Daily devotional Pastor Stanley 6 t h OCTOBER 2026 REFUSE TO FAINT Scripture — Proverbs 24:10 "If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small." (KJV)   The day of adversity is not an accident, and it is not a sign that God has left you. Scripture calls it "the evil day" — the day when your faith is tested. Some believers dread these seasons and pray never to pass through them, but to avoid every situation that challenges your faith is to checkmate your own promotion. God tells you to count it joy when trials come, because He knows that victory is already in your spirit. Fainting, then, is not caused by the size of the problem but by the measure of strength you are drawing on. Many give up too soon in the middle of their God-given assignment and conclude that the difficulty must mean the dream was never from God. But a command from God never promised the absence of adversaries. Moses did not know the Egyptian army would follow — an...

  BREAKFAST WITH JESUS Daily devotional Pastor Stanley 5th OCTOBER 2026 ACKNOWLEDGE THE GOOD THINGS IN YOU Scripture — Philemon 1:6 "...that the sharing of your faith may become effective by the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus." (NKJV) Paul does not pray that Philemon receive something new. He prays that what is already in him would become effective. The good things are already there — in Christ Jesus — but they remain dormant until they are acknowledged. This is where many believers go wrong. Some only look for and acknowledge the negative things in their lives: "I'm so impatient. My life is full of fear. I don't know what's happening to me." Talking yourself down like that makes your faith defective and ineffective. Your confession does not change what is in you — but it determines whether what is in you ever gets out. So the word is not casual agreement; it is epignosis — exact, absolute knowledge. God is telling you...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS Daily devotional Pastor Stanley 4th OCTOBER 2026 THERE IS GOOD IN THE LAND Scripture — Isaiah 1:19 "If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land." (NIV) The Bible says the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. That means the goodness of God is not something you have to go hunting for — you do not have to look for His favour or chase after His blessing. Right where you are, in the land where you live, there is more than enough of God's goodness available for you and to you. What determines whether you enjoy it is not the economy, and not which government is in office; God owns the land, and He has already told you there is good in it. So why are some believers eating only the trouble of the land — its frustration, its lack, its poverty? The reason is simple: they are not walking in the light of God's Word. And notice that the condition has two parts. Some people are willing but not obedient; others are obedient but...

Daily devotional Pastor Stanley 3rd OCTOBER 2026   BE ON YOUR GUARD Scripture — 2 Peter 3:17-18 (NIV) "Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen."   This is Peter's last letter, and he ends like a watchman who has done his duty. He does not say "so that you may not lose your salvation." He says your secure position — the standing God has given you is secure. What he warns against is being carried away from the enjoyment and stability of what is already yours. A ship at anchor is safe in the harbour; the danger is not the anchor breaking but the cable being dragged by a current the crew refused to notice. Notice the two movements of the verse: be on your guard, and grow. Guarding is defensive; growth is offensive. Pet...