DIVINE WORD MINISTRIES

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 8th JULY 2025 PRAY UNTIL YOU FIND PEACE Philippians 4:6-7 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (NIV) The Word admonishes us not be worried or anxious about anything, and asks us to pray and present our requests to God.  The first answer to pray is peace not what you ask for or pray about. What you pray about or ask for is in the peace that you received. So when you pray look for peace first.  Circumstances might push you to the wall but you must resist getting overwhelmed and worried by them. Instead of giving place to anxiety pray until you find peace within. If you have pressure and unrest without only peace from within can subdue it.  The Bible says do not be worried about anything, but in every situation pray, ...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 7th JULY 2025 ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE Mark 9:23 "’If you can’?" said Jesus. "Everything is possible for one who believes." (NIV) The Lord Jesus said if you can believe, everything is possible for the one who believes. He meant it. He doesn't exaggerate. If He said so, then it is true; everything and anything is possible.  Where does the power that makes anything possible come from? Not from man. That's the problem, when we find ourselves in a situation we measure ourselves with it and doubt if it could be possible. Yeah of course, we worry because we think we can't handle the situation. But if we would measure the situation with God we would be at peace; free of anxiety and worries.  Matthew 19:26 Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." It is through God that we get things done. All things are possible for us through God. And that by ...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 6th JULY 2025 PRAYER IS THE ANSWER Acts 12:4-5 After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover. So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him. (NIV) We will draw a lesson and exposition from the account Peter's arrest and the church's reaction to it. Peter was arrested and put in prison by king Herod, he intended to bring him out after the Passover for trial and then execute him. But the church had an answer to his plan, and it was prayer. The Bible says "...but the church was earnestly praying to God for him." Before king Herod arrested Peter he had arrested James and have him killed. He succeeded to kill him because the church didn't pray. The church learned their lesson, so when he arrested Peter they resolved to prayer. Acts 12:1-3 It was abo...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 5th JULY 2025 DO IT IN WORD  Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. (NIV) The above verse of the scriptures clearly implies that we can do things in words. It says, and whatever you do in word or deed. Let us read it without "or deed." Let us read thus (And whatever you do in word, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.) You can do things with your words. Your words are potent because you were born of the Word of God. There is energy and ability in your spoken word to cause to happen whatever you say.  Doing things in word is doing things in faith. Faith has to do with His Word not your word. That means unless you speak His Word or speak in agreement with His Word it will not produce positive result. You do things through God's Word in your mouth.  The Bible tells ...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 4th JULY 2025 GOD'S WORD IS GOD'S ESSENCE John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (NIV) There are people who say we will find out about God when we get to heaven. But God's Word has already revealed everything He intends for us to know, and whatever else He want us to know in heaven will be revealed in heaven through His Word. God's Word is God's essence. Some wish they could see God and really express themselves to Him. If you were with God physically you would still relate with Him by His Word. Jesus' disciples walked the street with Him yet it was through the Word they knew Him and related with Him. The scriptures (the written word) is meant to direct us to the living Word. If you read the written word and not find the living Word and come to Him you have not read the written word. John 5:39-40 You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in t...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 3rd JULY 2025 ONLY ONE GOD Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. (NIV) Man will always want a god. All through the history of man, even through Bible days man had always wanted a god. Deep the down in the inner recesses of man he knew there is God but doesn't know what He is like and how to reach Him. So man through history has represented the god he could conceive in the form of create images and other things.  The God of heaven was known only to the nation of Israel but not to other nations, yet other nations sought a god to worship because they knew there must be a god. So they made idols in different forms as they deemed okay and worshipped it.  1 Chronicles 16:26 For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the LORD made the heavens. There is only one God my brothers and sisters, the God who made the heavens and the earth. He is our God and Father.  Part of the law of Moses reads "H...

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS A daily devotional Pastor Stanley 2nd JULY 2025 WALK IN THE WAY OF LOVE Ephesians 5:1-2 Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. (NIV) In our previous article we learnt that love is the most excellent way to live life. Today's topic says "walk in the way of love." This calls for action. It's not enough to know or understand the way of love, unless we walk in it there is no blessing.  Our theme scripture admonishes us to follow God's example and walk in the way of love. God walked in the way of love when He gave His Son for us. Christ walked in the way of love when He willingly gave Himself up as the sacrificial payment for our sins. Walking in the way of love calls for action.  In following God's example of love you will have to act your love. The way of love is the way of giving. Every time love com...