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THE CHOSEN DAILY DEVOTIONAL DATE: Wednesday 24th June 2020. TOPIC: Pursue Peace Earnestly II TEXT: 1 Sam. 25:10,13, 23-24, 33-34.  MESSAGE Talking about the pursuit of peace, the scriptures urges us in psalms 34:14, "Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it." let us see from our text, an evil man named Nabal - churlish and evil in his doing; David - a good man even after the heart of God and Abigail - the peacemaker - a bridge builder with a beautiful contenance at heart. Firstly we have the man called Nabal, a son of Balial and full of foolishness has already beaten the drums off war to a Warlord called David who was an angry man because he was hungry at the time and In dire need of food supply for himself and His army. The report given to Abigail by the servant of Nabal who overheard Nabal's railings said he gave a reproachful reply to David's men. From a wider perspective we are told of the help David and his Men had rendered to them by being not on...

THE CHOSEN DAILY DEVOTIONAL DATE: Tuesday 23rd, June 2020. TOPIC: Pursue Peace Earnestly 1 TEXT: Heb. 12:13-15  MESSAGE It is the duty of Christians even when in a suffering state and face-off to follow men with peace. Two wrongs cannot make right. It is not Mathematics where two negatives become plus . Wrong is wrong. We have to prove ourselves as God's children to follow the examples of Christ especially at the scene of His arrest where He picked up the ear of Marcus and divinely gummed or restored it. It shows maturity and Christianity, if we follow the path of peace even with those who are instrumental to our suffering. It is a hard and difficult lesson which should be highly attained for those who profess Christianity which Christ himself has called us into. It is almost a compulsion but necessary to live peaceably with all men as Roman 12: 18 states "If it is possible for as much as it lieth in you, live peaceably with all men."  Verse 14 of our text instructs  ...

THE CHOSEN DAILY DEVOTIONAL DATE: Monday, 22nd June, 2020. TOPIC: THE FULLNESS OF TIME  TEXT: GAL. 4:1-7 MESSAGE Everything about this life is linked with time, and it's under divine timing and programming. God's dealings with us are usually time based. Every thing or any thing God is doing is perfectly arranged under His divine timing because He is God of plan and purpose. He told Abraham about the future of his descendants, of how they would suffer and be in bondage in a foreign land at the fullness of time. He, God would liberate them. Verse 4 and 5 of our text say... "But when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth His son made of a woman under the law to redeem them that are under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons".  In this same vein, God gave a promise after the fall of man in the Garden of Eden concerning the seed of the woman i.e Messiah.  Eventually, God kept to His promise at the fullness of time, as He sent the deliverer to the hum...