DIVINE WORD MINISTRIES

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 20th JUNE 2025 HUMBLE YOURSELF Luke 18:14 "I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted." (NIV) God delights in exalting people. All through the Bible we see how He exalted many. For instance, David. David was the last born of his parents. And his parents were not prominent in the land of Israel. David was not regarded even among his family, such that when Samuel the Prophet came to anoint one of Jese's sons to be king, David was not invited. No one thought he could be part of such a meeting. But God anointed him to be king, exalted him and made him great. What was David's role? Humility. David was humble, and God exalts the humble.  Watch your life; watch pride and arrogance. Most often people do not recognize they have become proud and arrogant. Be humble enough to listen to wha...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 19th JUNE 2025 INSIST ON WHAT YOU WANT Luke 18:1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. (NIV) Jesus told a parable to show us to pray always and never to give up. The Lord knows there is the tendency to give up praying if we experience delay in answers. He told a parable of a woman who wanted justice and kept going to the judge even though the judge put her off many times. She was not deterred, rather she insisted on what she wanted and got it. Luke 18:2-3 He said: "In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ’Grant me justice against my adversary.’ The judge was never going to grant her justice. He only did not because it was her right but because of her insistence and persistence.  Luke 18:4-5 "For some time he refused. But finally he said to h...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 18th JUNE 2025 VICTORY OVER DEATH 1 Corinthians 15:55-57 "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (NIV) 1 Corinthians 15:57 "But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." is a continuation of the preceding verses 55th and 56th. It's answer to the questions in verses 55th and 56th. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Victory over what? Victory over sin and death. Think about it! The Christian has victory over death through the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus' death and resurrection was for man. His victory over death was for man not for Himself. A Christ...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 17th JUNE 2025 NO WEAPON SUCCEEDS AGAINST YOU Isaiah 54:17 no weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and this is their vindication from me," declares the LORD. (NIV) A Christian will always have oppositions. Being good as a person or Christian doesn't exempt one from opposition, enemy and rivalry. There are people who will set themselves against you to fight you just because you follow what is good. Most especially when your good course hinders their evil agenda. Don't be surprised when people stand against you and your good course. And never you get frightened, intimidated or give up. The Bible says no weapon forged against you shall prevail. It doesn't matter who they are, what they have or how many they are, they cannot succeed against you. You have a role to refute or condemn every word spoken against you. Deli...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 15th JUNE 2025 OVER ALL; THROUGH ALL; IN ALL Ephesians 4:6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. (NIV) When the Bible says "God is over all" it means He is in charge over everything; everything is subject to Him. When it says "He is through all" it means He expresses Himself through all or everything expresses Him. When it says "He is in all" it means His essence is in all. When we relate this definition to the new creation it makes it more beautiful. God is over you as a new creation. He expresses Himself through you. And He lives in you. He is over everyone of us, through everyone of us, and in everyone of us. This is what makes the Christian life a Christian life - God alive in you. The beauty and definition of Christianity is God over you, through you and in you. God over you means He is Lord over you. Until and unless you submit to His Lordship He cannot live in yo...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley  14th JUNE 2025 FAITH, LOVE AND HOPE 1 Thessalonians 1:3 We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. (NIV) Our Christian life is enveloped in these three; faith, love and hope, without these there is no Christianity.  We received the life of God through faith in Jesus Christ and all He has done for us. We express the life of God through love. In Christ we have received and experienced the love of God. Loving God and loving people is the only genuine proof that we have the life of God.  Our hope in the Lord's return keeps us aglow for His work and also to endure through difficult times. Faith, love and hope are central to our Christian walk.  Our work or manifestation of the power and glory of the Kingdom of God is by faith.  Our labour or service in the Kingdom is by love.  And our endurance...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 13th JUNE 2025 BUILD YOURSELF UP Jude 1:20 But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, (NIV) Apostle Jude admonish us to build ourselves up in our most holy faith. Our most holy faith has to do with our highest revelation of the Word, and to build ourselves up in our highest revelation of the Word requires meditation on the Word and praying in the Holy Spirit. Praying in the Holy Spirit is praying in tongues.  When we meditate on the Word we have pictures of greater insight into our reality in Christ, and then we are built up, edified and stabilized in that reality.  Praying in tongues does the same thing. When you pray in tongues your mind broadens to comprehend and apprehend the realities and truths of the Gospel. These truths builds you up, emboldens and energizes you. 1 Corinthians 14:4 Anyone who speaks in a tongue edifies themselves, but the one who prophes...