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THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 1ST FEBRUARY, 2022  TOPIC: IDOLATRY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES TEXT: HOSEA 9 1. Do not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like [other] peoples, For you have played the harlot against your God. You have made love [for] hire on every threshing floor. 2. The threshing floor and the winepress Shall not feed them, And the new wine shall fail in her. 3. They shall not dwell in the LORD's land, But Ephraim shall return to Egypt, And shall eat unclean [things] in Assyria. 4. They shall not offer wine [offerings] to the LORD, Nor shall their sacrifices be pleasing to Him. [It shall be] like bread of mourners to them; All who eat it shall be defiled. For their bread [shall be] for their [own] life; It shall not come into the house of the LORD. 5.  What will you do in the appointed day, And in the day of the feast of the LORD? 6.  For indeed they are gone because of destruction. Egypt shall gat...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 31ST JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: THE EFFECT OF ISRAEL'S SEVERANCE FROM GOD TEXT: HOSEA 8 1. "Set the trumpet to your mouth! [He shall come] like an eagle against the house of the LORD, Because they have transgressed My covenant And rebelled against My law. 2. Israel will cry to Me, 'My God, we know You!' 3. Israel has rejected the good; The enemy will pursue him. 4. "They set up kings, but not by Me; They made princes, but I did not acknowledge [them.] From their silver and gold They made idols for themselves -- That they might be cut off. 5.  Your calf is rejected, O Samaria! My anger is aroused against them -- How long until they attain to innocence? 6.  For from Israel [is] even this: A workman made it, and it [is] not God; But the calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces. 7.  " They sow the wind, And reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud; It shall never pro...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 30TH JANUARY, 2022 (FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY)  TOPIC: CHRIST HEALS A LEPER  TEXT: MARK 1:40-45 40.  Now a leper came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, "If You are willing, You can make me clean." 41.  Then Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out [His] hand and touched him, and said to him, "I am willing; be cleansed." 42.  As soon as He had spoken, immediately the leprosy left him, and he was cleansed. 43.  And He strictly warned him and sent him away at once, 44.  and said to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing those things which Moses commanded, as a testimony to them." 45.  However, he went out and began to proclaim [it] freely, and to spread the matter, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter the city, but was outside in des...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 29TH JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: TREAT GOD'S COVENANT WITH UTMOST HONOUR AND RESPECT  TEXT: HOSEA 6:7-11; Hosea 7:1-2 7.  "But like men they transgressed the covenant; There they dealt treacherously with Me. 8.  Gilead [is] a city of evildoers, [And] defiled with blood. 9.  As bands of robbers lie in wait for a man, [So] the company of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Surely they commit lewdness. 10.  I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: There [is] the harlotry of Ephraim; Israel is defiled. 11.  Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you, When I return the captives of My people. 7:1. "When I would have healed Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, And the wickedness of Samaria. For they have committed fraud; A thief comes in; A band of robbers takes spoil outside. 2. They do not consider in their hearts [That] I rememb...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 28TH JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: STOP PROMOTING EVIL  TEXT: HOSEA 5:8-6:1-6 8.  " Blow the ram's horn in Gibeah, The trumpet in Ramah! Cry aloud [at] Beth Aven, '[Look] behind you, O Benjamin!' 9.  Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke; Among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure. 10.  "The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark; I will pour out my wrath on them like water. 11.  Ephraim is oppressed [and] broken in judgment, Because he willingly walked by [human] precept. 12.  Therefore I [will be] to Ephraim like a moth, And to the house of Judah like rottenness. 13.  "When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah [saw] his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria And sent to King Jareb; Yet he cannot cure you, Nor heal you of your wound. 14.  For I [will be] like a lion to Ephraim, And like a young lion to the house of Juda...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 27TH JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: NOTHING IS HIDDEN BEFORE GOD  TEXT: HOSEA 5:1-7  1. "Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For yours [is] the judgment, Because you have been a snare to Mizpah And a net spread on Tabor. 2. The revolters are deeply involved in slaughter, Though I rebuke them all. 3. I know Ephraim, And Israel is not hidden from Me; For now, O Ephraim, you commit harlotry; Israel is defiled. 4. "They do not direct their deeds Toward turning to their God, For the spirit of harlotry is in their midst, And they do not know the LORD. 5.  The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Therefore Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; Judah also stumbles with them. 6.  "With their flocks and herds They shall go to seek the LORD, But they will not find [Him;] He has withdrawn Himself from them. 7.  They hav...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 26TH JANUARY, 2022  (TIMOTHY AND TITUS, COMPANIONS OF PAUL)  TOPIC: GOD IS DEPENDABLE  TEXT: TITUS 1:1-5 1. Paul, a bondservant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect and the acknowledgment of the truth which accords with godliness, 2. in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began, 3. but has in due time manifested His word through preaching, which was committed to me according to the commandment of God our Savior; 4. To Titus, a true son in [our] common faith: Grace, mercy, [and] peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior. 5.  For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you -- MESSAGE: Today, Apostle Paul reminds us of one of the attributes of God in verse 2 of our text, wherei...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 25TH JANUARY, 2022  (CONVERSION OF APOSTLE PAUL)   TOPIC: CALLED BY GRACE AND REVELATION OF CHRIST  TEXT: GALATIANS 1:11-16a  11.  But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. 12.  For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught [it,] but [it came] through the revelation of Jesus Christ. 13.  For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and [tried to] destroy it. 14.  And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. 15.  But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called [me] through His grace, 16.  to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 24TH JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: DON'T SHIFT BLAME TEXT: HOSEA 4:1-16 1. Hear the word of the LORD, You children of Israel, For the LORD [brings] a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "There is no truth or mercy Or knowledge of God in the land. 2. [By] swearing and lying, Killing and stealing and committing adultery, They break all restraint, With bloodshed upon bloodshed. 3. Therefore the land will mourn; And everyone who dwells there will waste away With the beasts of the field And the birds of the air; Even the fish of the sea will be taken away. 4. "Now let no man contend, or rebuke another; For your people [are] like those who contend with the priest. 5.  Therefore you shall stumble in the day; The prophet also shall stumble with you in the night; And I will destroy your mother. 6.  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge,...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 23RD JANUARY, 2022 (THIRD SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY)  TOPIC: OBEDIENCE  TEXT: JOHN 2:1-12 1. On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.  2. Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding.  3. And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.”  4. Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come.” 5. His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.” 6. Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece.  7. Jesus said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.  8. And He said to them, “Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast.” And they took it.  9. W...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 22ND JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: ISRAEL'S UNFAITHFULNESS CONDEMNED  TEXT: HOSEA 2:2-17 2. " Bring charges against your mother, bring charges; For she [is] not My wife, nor [am] I her Husband! Let her put away her harlotries from her sight, And her adulteries from between her breasts; 3. Lest I strip her naked And expose her, as in the day she was born, And make her like a wilderness, And set her like a dry land, And slay her with thirst. 4. "I will not have mercy on her children, For they [are] the children of harlotry. 5.  For their mother has played the harlot; She who conceived them has behaved shamefully. For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, Who give [me] my bread and my water, My wool and my linen, My oil and my drink.' 6.  " Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And wall her in, So that she cannot find her paths. 7.  She will chase h...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 21ST JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: TOTAL ALLEGIANCE FROM GOD'S PEOPLE  TEXT: HOSEA 1:1- 2:1  1. The word of the LORD that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. 2. [When] the LORD began to speak by Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea: "Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry And children of harlotry, For the land has committed great harlotry [By departing] from the LORD." 3. So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. 4. Then the LORD said to him: "Call his name Jezreel, For in a little [while] I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, And bring an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. 5.  It shall come to pass in that day That I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel." 6.  ...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 20TH JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: DESTRUCTION OF SINFUL PEOPLE  TEXT: AMOS 9  1. I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said: "Strike the doorposts, that the thresholds may shake, And break them on the heads of them all. I will slay the last of them with the sword. He who flees from them shall not get away, And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered. 2. "Though they dig into hell, From there my hand shall take them; Though they climb up to heaven, From there I will bring them down; 3. And though they hide themselves on top of Carmel, From there I will search and take them; Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea, From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them; 4. Though they go into captivity before their enemies, From there I will command the sword, And it shall slay them. I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good." 5....

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 19TH JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: EMPTY RELIGION TEXT: AMOS 8 1. Thus the Lord GOD showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit. 2. And He said, "Amos, what do you see?" So I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me: "The end has come upon My people Israel; I will not pass by them anymore. 3. And the songs of the temple Shall be wailing in that day," Says the Lord GOD -- "Many dead bodies everywhere, They shall be thrown out in silence." 4. Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, And make the poor of the land fail, 5.  Saying: "When will the New Moon be past, That we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, That we may trade wheat? Making the ephah small and the shekel large, Falsifying the scales by deceit, 6.  That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of sandals -- Even sell the bad wheat?" 7.  The LORD has s...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 18TH JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: SERVING THE LORD WITH UNWAVERING CONVICTION  TEXT: AMOS 7 1. Thus the Lord GOD showed me: Behold, He formed locust swarms at the beginning of the late crop; indeed [it was] the late crop after the king's mowings. 2. And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said: "O Lord GOD, forgive, I pray! Oh, that Jacob may stand, For he [is] small!" 3. [So] the LORD relented concerning this. "It shall not be," said the LORD. 4. Thus the Lord GOD showed me: Behold, the Lord GOD called for conflict by fire, and it consumed the great deep and devoured the territory. 5.  Then I said: "O Lord GOD, cease, I pray! Oh, that Jacob may stand, For he [is] small!" 6.  [So] the LORD relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," said the Lord GOD. 7.  Thus He showed me: Behold, the Lord stood on a wall...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 17TH JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: LEARN TO PUT THE NEEDS OF OTHERS BEFORE YOURS  TEXT: AMOS 6 1. Woe to you [who are] at ease in Zion, And trust in Mount Samaria, Notable persons in the chief nation, To whom the house of Israel comes! 2. Go over to Calneh and see; And from there go to Hamath the great; Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. [Are you] better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory? 3. [Woe to] you who put far off the day of doom, Who cause the seat of violence to come near; 4. Who lie on beds of ivory, Stretch out on your couches, Eat lambs from the flock And calves from the midst of the stall; 5.  Who sing idly to the sound of stringed instruments, [And] invent for yourselves musical instruments like David; 6.  Who drink wine from bowls, And anoint yourselves with the best ointments, But are not grieved for the affliction of...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 16TH JANUARY, 2022 (SECOND SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY) TOPIC: FOLLOW ME TEXT: JOHN 1: 43 51  43. The following day Jesus wanted to go to Galilee, and He found Philip and said to him, "Follow Me." 44. Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.  45. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and also the prophets, wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”  46. And Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”  48. Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”  49. Nathanael said to Him, “How do You know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”  50. Nathanael answered and said to Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 15TH JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: SERVANTS OF CHRIST TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 4:1-21 1. This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed.  2. Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.  3. I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself.  4. My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me.  5. Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God. 6. Now, brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, “Do not...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 14TH JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: BUILDING CORRECTLY TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 3:1-23 1. Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ.  2. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.  3. You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans?  4. For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere human beings? 5. What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task.  6. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.  7.  So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 13TH JANUARY, 2022   TOPIC: WISDOM OF GOD TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 2 1. And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.  2. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.  3. I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling.  4. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,  5. so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power. 6. We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.  7. No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.  8. None ...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 12TH JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC:  THE LIMITATION OF MAN'S WISDOM TEXT:  1 CORINTHIANS 1:18-31   18. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.  19. For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;  the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.” 20. Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?  21. For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.  22. Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom,  23. but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,  24. but to those whom God has called, bo...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 11TH JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: MAINTAINING UNITY IN THE BODY OF CHRIST TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 1:1-17 1. Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, 2. To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours: 3. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 4. I always thank my God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus.  5. For in him you have been enriched in every way—with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge—  6. God thus confirming our testimony about Christ among you.  7. Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.  8. He will also keep you firm to the end, so th...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 10TH JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: GOD HAS GIVEN US ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST TEXT: 1 JOHN 5: 1-12   1. Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.  2. This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands.  3. In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome,  4. for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.  5. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. 6. This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.  7.  For there are three that testify:  8....

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 9TH JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: THE ANOINTING OF DAVID TEXT: 1 SAMUEL 16:1 - 3, 13 1. The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to be king.” 2.  But Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears about it, he will kill me.” The Lord said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’  3. Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what to do. You are to anoint for me the one I indicate.” 13.  So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon David. Samuel then went to Ramah. MESSAGE: "Fill your horn with oil," - Fine olive oil, carried in a ram's horn, was useful for anointi...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 8TH JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: GOD WANTS US TO LIVE A LIFE FULL OF LOVE TEXT: 1 JOHN 4:7-21 7. Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.  8. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.  9. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.  10. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.  11. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.  12. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 13. This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.  14. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 7TH JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: GOD'S LOVE FOR HIS CHILDREN TEXT: 1 JOHN 3 1. See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.  2. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.  3.  All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure. 4. Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.  5. But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin.  6.  No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. 7. Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is r...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 6TH JANUARY, 2022 (EPIPHANY DAY)  TOPIC: THE SAVIOUR APPEARED FOR THE SALVATION OF ALL NATIONS TEXT: JOHN 1:29-34 29. The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!  30.  This is the one I meant when I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’  31.  I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel.” 32.  Then John gave this testimony: “I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him.  33.  And I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’  34.  I have seen and I testify that this is God’s Chosen One.” MESSAGE: Joh...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 5TH JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: THE ZEAL FOR MY FATHER'S HOUSE  TEXT: JOHN 2:13-25  13.  Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14.  And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers doing business. 15.  When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers' money and overturned the tables. 16.  And He said to those who sold doves, "Take these things away! Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise!" 17.  Then His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up." 18.  So the Jews answered and said to Him, "What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?" 19.  Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it...