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UNFRIENDLY FRIEND

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*FAITH NUGGETS*  (*DAILY DEVOTIONAL*) *UNFRIENDLY FRIEND * *GENTLE REMINDER, tomorrow is Sunday just trying to remind you sha* *Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings*.  *Gen.3.7* Let me start today by saying how curious i am in trying to know what made Eve to make sure that Adam eats from the tree of life, does it mean that she was not naked the moment she ate of the tree? If she became naked the moment she ate of the tree why did she give it to Adam? Was it because she saw it as the new normal? The bible made us understand that their eyes were opened the moment they ate of the tree but the truth of the matter is that both of them did not eat of it at the same time, does it mean that when the eyes of Eve got opened that she counted it an advantage to help her husband to come to that level of kn...

THE CONSEQUENCES IS YOURS

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*FAITH NUGGETS*  (*DAILY DEVOTIONAL*) *THE CONSEQUENCES IS YOURS* *Your dominion is established* *So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate*.  *Gen.3.6*  Remember that we said that the serpent twisted the whole thing because he knows that lies will never sell anywhere so for him to always have his way he tried as much as he could to make lies look like the truth so that people can buy it cheaply or fall or it cheaply  *The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding*. *Prov.9.10* Indeed Eve was wise but the kind of wisdom that she had was a pure kind of wisdom because the bible made us to understand that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, when she was obey...

THE CONSEQUENCES IS YOURS

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*FAITH NUGGETS*  (*DAILY DEVOTIONAL*) *THE CONSEQUENCES IS YOURS* *You will not lack* *So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate*.  *Gen.3.6*   We have talked so much about sycophancy and flattery and i have come to discover something that, after the serpent had succeeded in flattering Eve into error, I started looking for the serpent or waiting for the serpent to bear the consequences of Eves' error but the serpent was nowhere to be found.  Beloved, anybody can flatter you for all they care but no one will bear the consequences of the flattery for you. They will flatter you, collect all that they can get and leave you for the next person and leave you to bear the consequences of their flattery by yourself. ...

A SAINT IN ERROR

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*FAITH NUGGETS*  (*DAILY DEVOTIONAL*) *A SAINT IN ERROR * *You will not die* *So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate*.  *Gen.3.6*   We have said that one of the mechanisms with which the devil brings about our downfall is by sycophancy and we said that sycophants can stop at nothing until they flatter you into error because they will flatter you until they get something from you which is the principal reason they are flattering you in the first place.  Even when the flatterer knows that they are not telling you the truth they will still have to fan your ego and make you feel that you are the best thing that has ever happened to the world and they exaggerate to the point that you will have no option than to allow prid...

SYCOPHANCY

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*FAITH NUGGETS*  (*DAILY DEVOTIONAL*) *SYCOPHANCY* *You shall not die* *So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate*.  *Gen.3.6*  Today i want us to take a critical look at the worst cause of human downfall am talking about sycophancy. Sycophancy is a process whereby an individual is so much flattered to the point that the person begins to assume so much air to the point that the individual begins to raise his or her ego. One of the major problems of sycophancy is that it makes an individual to think that he is what he is not, it makes the individual to take the glory that belongs to God infact sycophancy will make one to think that he or she is God. Most times when one is been flattered the flatterer has a motive and the...

SYCOPHANCY

*FAITH NUGGETS*  (*DAILY DEVOTIONAL*) *SYCOPHANCY* *You shall not die* *So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate*.  *Gen.3.6*  Today i want us to take a critical look at the worst cause of human downfall am talking about sycophancy. Sycophancy is a process whereby an individual is so much flattered to the point that the person begins to assume so much air to the point that the individual begins to raise his or her ego. One of the major problems of sycophancy is that it makes an individual to think that he is what he is not, it makes the individual to take the glory that belongs to God infact sycophancy will make one to think that he or she is God. Most times when one is been flattered the flatterer has a motive and the...

DIVINE VISITATION

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*LET US PRAY* *(PRAYER FOR THE WEEK)*. *DIVINE VISITATION*. *Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, For He has visited and redeemed His people*, *Luke 1:68*. We are grateful oh Lord 🎵 🎵🎵, 🎶 🎶 🎶 we are grateful oh Lord our God 🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶, for all you have done for us,🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶, alleluia we are grateful 🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶, we are grateful indeed oh Lord. Indeed we are not great fools to forget all that you have done for us Lord. We are indeed very grateful oh Lord. Beloved i pray for you and with you that as you step into this beautiful week made by the Lord for you and i to be glad that you will experience divine visitation that will turn your life around for good by the power in the name of Jesus. In life nobody has ever encountered God and remains the same, I pray for you today that you will have an encounter with this good and gracious God that will make you begin to experience His goodness and benevol...

THE GREAT CONFUSION

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*FAITH NUGGETS*  (*DAILY DEVOTIONAL*) *THE GREAT CONFUSION* *Happy Sunday beloved* *So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate*.  *Gen.3.6*  This verse started by saying that when the woman saw, the word "when" is not a statement of a set time but a time that one chooses to do something so when the woman had been fully convinced she then saw the question that you and i need to ask is "did she not see it before or was she not seeing before. She has been seeing the tree before but now she " saw" the word saw here speaks of reconsideration, it speaks of making up your mind to give it a trial it speaks of trying to give it the kind of attention that you never did before. It means trying to do it no matter the consequences. ...

LUST OF THE EYE

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*FAITH NUGGETS*  (*DAILY DEVOTIONAL*) *LUST OF THE EYE * *Keep moving forward* *GENTLE REMINDER* *tomorrow is Sunday and i trust God that you will be in His presence* *So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate*.  *Gen.3.6*   Apart from the areas of concentration that Uncle John told us about us concerning the devil and our obedience to God there are few other things that i want us o take a look at today as it has to with us in the economy of salvation.  Let us take time to take a look at the major area of concentration of the serpent which Uncle John calls pride, if not pride what will make the woman think that she is not like God and wants to be more like God? No wonder the bible warns that p...

LUST OF THE EYE

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*FAITH NUGGETS*  (*DAILY DEVOTIONAL*) *LUST OF THE EYE* *Keep moving forward* *So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate*.  *Gen.3.6*  What we know is that apart from being tempted with what is around us the other ways we can be tempted is about what appeals to us, what we admire and what we wished we had as against what we have already, remember that we said that the woman was around the tree and from the fact the the bible made us to understand the she "saw" means that she has been admiring the tree before.  According to Uncle John, there are three areas that the devil concentrates on whenever he wants to tempt us and Uncle John gave us the list and they are 1 the lust of the flesh, 2 the lust of the eyes, and the pride of li...

TEMPTATION IS NOT SIN

*FAITH NUGGETS*  (*DAILY DEVOTIONAL*) *TEMPTATION IS NOT SIN* *Be above only* *So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate*.  *Gen.3.6*   We have been talking so much about the discussion between the woman and the serpent but it must be made clear here that the serpent did not give the woman the tree to eat neither did the serpent force the woman to eat of it, the serpent only presented the tree to the woman in such a way that the woman will desire the tree. Let me start by saying that temptation is not a sin but the fall into temptation is what makes it a sin, ordinary temptation is just a suggestion to do what will make you disobey God or what you have vowed never to do and permit me to state it here that what the devil uses in...

DEATH IS NOT AN END BUT A MEANS TO AN END

*FAITH NUGGETS*  (*DAILY DEVOTIONAL*) *DEATH IS NOT AN END BUT A MEANS TO AN END* *You are the next to be celebrated* *Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. For God knows that on the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil*."  *Gen.3.4*.  Finally for this discourse let us take a look at the last line of lies that the serpent told in this verse so that we can move on to the other verses. The serpent told the woman that "For God knows that on the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil*." Now having seen what it means for her eyes to be opened let us now look at what it means by "knowing good and evil*."   The "to know" that is used here is not about knowledge like i know that my name is Lucky, no sir, what it means is "to know it by experien...

TRUST AND OBEY

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*FAITH NUGGETS*  (*DAILY DEVOTIONAL*) *TRUST AND OBEY* *Continue to be fruitful* *Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. For God knows that on the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil*."  *Gen.3.4*. There is a song that goes thus "trust and obey, there is no other way, to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey" to trust is to abandon your plan and your will to the one you trust and to obey the one you trust is a sign that you are not compelled to trust but that you trusted willingly and wholeheartedly and the song told us that it is the only way to be happy in Jesus. Why many of us consider the task of obeying as being too difficult i want to ask us if we have ever taken the cost of the consequences of disobedience? If to obey is difficult what of the risk and the pain of disobedience. Anyway disobedience...

BE LIFTED

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*LET US PRAY* *(PRAYER FOR THE WEEK)*. *BE LIFTED *. *And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen*.  *Gen.8.5*  We are grateful oh Lord 🎵🎵 🎵🎶🎶🎶, we are grateful oh Lord our God, 🎵 🎵 🎵 🎶 🎶 🎶 for all you have done for us, alleluia 🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶, we are grateful oh Lord 🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶, we are grateful oh Lord. Indeed we are not great fools to forget all that you have done for us Lord. We are indeed very grateful Lord.  Dearly beloved, i pray for you and with you that just as the water that destroyed others kept the boat of Noah and his family up above destruction so shall whatever that destroyed others make you to be above only by the power in the name of Jesus.  By the grace of exemption may whatever that destroyed others exempt you and your family and may no calamity know or iden...

OBEDIENCE

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*FAITH NUGGETS*  (*DAILY DEVOTIONAL*) *OBEDIENCE* *Happy Sunday beloved* *Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. For God knows that on the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil*."  *Gen.3.4*. We are still tracing the lines of lies of the serpent and we have seen that the eyes of the woman was actually opened as promised by the serpent but that it was only opened to what God never wanted them to know, yes you heard me right, God never wanted them to know shame, God never wanted them to know sickness and diseases and God ultimately never wanted them to know death and the only remedy for all these was nothing but obedience. The devil told her that her eyes will be opened but never told her what her eyes will be opened to, yes, her eyes got opened but not to what she thought her eyes will be opened to, the devil will always sho...

THEIR EYES WERE INDEED OPENED

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*FAITH NUGGETS*  (*DAILY DEVOTIONAL*) *THEIR EYES WERE INDEED OPENED* *Above only is your portion* *GENTLE REMINDER* tomorrow is Sunday please try to be in His presence for your present* *Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. For God knows that on the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil*."  *Gen.3.4*. Can you imagine the serpent telling the woman that she will not surely die that God was only telling her lies that the moment she eats if the tree that she will know that God was actually telling her a lie that the only thing that will happen to her was that her eyes will be opened.  The woman actually believed the serpent against believing in God and indeed her eyes were opened. Now let us see who the liar really is, did the eyes of the woman get opened when she ate of the tree? Yes. Then why...

TWISTED

*FAITH NUGGETS*  (*DAILY DEVOTIONAL*) *TWISTED* *You are unstoppable so keep shining* *Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. For God knows that on the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil*."  *Gen.3.4*. As we continue to expose the lies of the devil let us see how the devil usually twist the bible to deceive us because as it was in the beginning is now and it will continue to be if we refuse to do the needful by knowing the line of lies of the devil and by making sure that we say no to the devil anytime any day he brings up this lines of lies our way.  Did God really say that anyone that eats from the tree will die? Yes, He did. Why did God say so? Because for every cause there is a consequence. If God really said that anyone that eats of the tree shall die and Adam and Eve did not die when they ate of the tree, does i...

YOU CANNOT GIVE WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE

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*FAITH NUGGETS*  (*DAILY DEVOTIONAL*) *YOU CANNOT GIVE WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE * *Keep flourishing* *Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. For God knows that on the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil*."  *Gen.3.4*.  As we continue to expose the lies of the father of all lies let us also take a look at some of the lies that he told the woman about God concerning eating of the tree and making her eyes open. From their discussion you will agree with me that the serpent made the tree and food a weapon to deceive the woman.  Wait a minute, are you thinking what i am thinking? Ok let us take a look at the tree and food from our traditional way of worship for those of us who think that Christianity has come to destroy our traditional way of worship. The two things that characteristics our traditional religion are...

GENDER EQUALITY

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*FAITH NUGGETS*  (*DAILY DEVOTIONAL*) *GENDER EQUALITY* *Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. For God knows that on the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil*."  *Gen.3.4*. By telling the woman that her eyes will be opened the serpent was implying that once the woman disobey God that she will have the kind of knowledge that will make her to be equal to God or independent of God hence God had to hide it from her because God does not want her to be His equal. Trust women with a gender equality mentality. The serpent was telling her that the moment she eats of the tree that she will have a higher kind of wisdom and that her state in life will be so elevated such that her consciousness and knowledge of God and things round her will be top notch and second to none exactly the way it is with God. By telling the woman that...

IF THE DEVIL REALLY KNOWS THE SECRET WOULD HE HAVE GIVEN IT TO YOU?

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*FAITH NUGGETS*  (*DAILY DEVOTIONAL*) *IF THE DEVIL REALLY KNOWS THE SECRET WOULD HE HAVE GIVEN IT TO YOU? * *Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. For God knows that on the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil*."  *Gen.3.4*. Today we will continue our exposure of the lies of the devil because like we said if we don't we too may fall to that trap and far be it from us that we fall prey to the devil like the woman did in the name of Jesus. We are still looking at what the devil meant when he told the woman that her eyes will be opened. By telling the woman that her eyes will be opened the serpent was telling her that she needs to know what God knows as such she needs to break out of God's authority and rulership in order words the devil was introducing pride to the woman like how can you obey God when you too can be Go...

NO MORE COVERING

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*LET US PRAY* *(PRAYER FOR THE WEEK)*. *NO MORE COVERING *. *And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen*.  *Gen.8.5*  We are grateful O Lord 🎵 🎵 🎵 🎶 🎶 🎶 we are grateful O Lord 🎵 🎵 🎵 🎶 🎶 🎶 our God 🎵 🎵 🎵 🎶 🎶 🎶 for all you have done for us 🎵 🎵 🎵 🎶 🎶 🎶 alleluia 🎵 🎵 🎵 🎶 🎶 🎶 to say Lord that we are grateful is understatement but because our vocabulary fails us we still remain grateful and thankful to you and you alone. Thank you father in Jesus name.   Beloved i pray for you and with you that just as God used water to drown Noah and his families' past may that same God use whatever He wants to use in place of water to destroy any of your past that does not want you to enjoy the glory of your present and later by the power in the name of Jesus. Just as God used water to...

YOU CANNOT LOOK LIKE WHO YOU DISOBEY

*FAITH NUGGETS*  (*DAILY DEVOTIONAL*) *YOU CANNOT LOOK LIKE WHO YOU DISOBEY* Happy weekend and enjoy your Sunday beloved* *Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. For God knows that on the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil*."  *Gen.3.4*. Let us continue to expose the lies of the devil reasons being that we don't want to fall prey to the devil again especially as his lies most times look good enough to subscribe to. We have talked about the devil lying to the woman that if she disobeys God that she will be like God. Wait a minute how can you look like whom you choose to disobey because by disobedience you are telling the one you disobey that he has no part in you and that you have no love for him and there is no connection between both of you so how can you look like that same person? Anyway that is the d...