DIVINE WORD MINISTRIES

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 31st DECEMBER 2024 HITCH UP YOUR CHARIOT 1 Kings 18:44 The seventh time the servant reported, "A cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea." So Elijah said, "Go and tell Ahab, ’Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’" In Bible days chariot was a form of a vehicle. It was for mobility. Elijah told king Ahab to get his chariot ready and ride off before the rain comes otherwise he couldn't ride in the heavy rain which was about to fall.  There is the sound of a heavy rain that is coming in the coming year. And you need to prepare your chariot.  1 Kings 18:41 And Elijah said to Ahab, "Go, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain." In this coming year there is the sound of great things and abundance but only those who prepare their chariots will enjoy it. In the coming year whatever you have been waiting for will come but you will have to be well prepared t...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 30th DECEMBER 2024 YOUR POSSESSION BUT A FIGHT TO FIGHT Deuteronomy 7:1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations —the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you — (NIV) When God brought the Israelites into the land He gave them as possession they found many nations there -- Nations that were larger and stronger than they.  The land was their possession given them by God yet they had a fight to fight, enemies occupied their possession.  You may ask, why would an enemy take charge of a possession given to one by God? No possession is without a possessor, at least there would be an illegal possessor. The land was legally the possession of the Israelites but there were illegal possessors in charge.  Everything the Bible declares to be ours in Christ are truly ours; divin...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 29th DECEMBER 2024 COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS Genesis 24:35-36 The LORD has blessed my master abundantly, and he has become wealthy. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys. My master’s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and he has given him everything he owns. (NIV) Abraham sent his servant to go to his relative to get a wife for his son Isaac. When he found Rebekah a daughter of Bethuel, a relative of Abraham, he followed her to her house to see her people. When everyone was seated and was time for Introduction he counted before the people the blessings God had blessed Abraham with. He said in Genesis 24:35-36 "The LORD has blessed my master abundantly, and he has become wealthy. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys. My master’s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and he has given him ...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 28th DECEMBER 2024 SUBSTANCE OF THANKS Proverbs 3:9-10 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. (KJV) When we thank God for what He has done for us we honour Him. Thanking Him is honouring Him. And the Bible says honour the Lord with thy substance. Substance of thanks makes our thanks genuine; it validates our thanks to God.  Anybody could offer words or speak words of thanks but those words are validated or deemed genuine when there is substance to prove it. Substance proves words of thanks. The degree of thanks is measured by the degree of substance. And the degree of substance is measured by the integrity and genuineness of one's heart.  Honour the Lord ...with the firstfruits of all thine increase. -- Proverbs 3:9.  Honour the Lord with your first and best. When you bring your thank o...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 27th DECEMBER 2024 WORDS OF THANKS Ephesians 5:20 always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. (NIV) When we thank God the words we utter matters the most. It's important you listen to what you say to God when you give thanks. Your words should convey or carry what you thank Him for you. True thanksgiving is a testimony. If you don't find a testimony in your thanks to God it is not from your heart. If you searched your heart you would find tangible things to thank God for.  When our theme scripture says "always giving thanks to God the Father for everything." It doesn't mean everything you don't know. But everything you do know. You may thank God generally for all things but thanking Him for specific things is recognition and appreciation. And that is acknowledgment.  When you thank God for specific things you are acknowledging Him as your source, ability, wi...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 26th DECEMBER 2024 IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO KNOW, LIVE IT John 13:17 Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them. (NIV) The Scripture is for doing. The Word of God is for living. It's not just so should know but so we could live what we know. The Word of God is not merely to enlighten us or get us informed but a light to live by. The Bible is not a mere history book so we could read and know what happened in history. The Bible shows us the life to live. Our theme scripture says "Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them." -- John 13:17 The blessing is not in knowing but in doing. It's not enough to know, live in the reality of what you know.  There are people who believe in paying of tithe and the blessings that follows, yet they are not faithful in tithing. There are those who believe in divine health yet they are never healthy for once. They believe in divine healing...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 25th DECEMBER 2024 (Merry Christmas to you) THE ROCK HIGHER THAN I  Psalms 61:2 From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than I. (NIV) The Rock higher than I is Christ. He is the Rock of salvation, to whom anyone could run to and be saved. If you are faced with problems and circumstances that you cannot handle what you need is the Rock higher than you. Life's problems and challenges calls for spirituality. When problem knocks you need something higher than the natural. And there is one answer, Christ the Rock.  1 Corinthians 10:4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. This verse tells us that the Rock from which the Israelites drank water in the wilderness was Christ -- Exodus 17:6. That water saved their lives; that water is salvation. From Christ - the Rock comes salvati...