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THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 30TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: DO YOU LOVE ME? TEXT: JOHN 21:15-19  15.  So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, [son] of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love You." He said to him, "Feed My lambs." 16.  He said to him again a second time, "Simon, [son] of Jonah, do you love Me?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love You." He said to him, "Tend My sheep." 17.  He said to him the third time, "Simon, [son] of Jonah, do you love Me?" Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, "Do you love Me?" And he said to Him, "Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You." Jesus said to him, "Feed My sheep. 18.  "Most assuredly, I say to you, when you were younger, you girded yourself and walked w

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 29TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: I GO A FISHING TEXT: JOHN 21:1-14  1. After these things Jesus showed Himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias, and in this way He showed [Himself:] 2. Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the [sons] of Zebedee, and two others of His disciples were together. 3. Simon Peter sa4id to them, "I am going fishing." They said to him, "We are going with you also." They went out and immediately got into the boat, and that night they caught nothing. 4. But when the morning had now come, Jesus stood on the shore; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. 5.  Then Jesus said to them, "Children, have you any food?" They answered Him, "No." 6.  And He said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find [some."] So they cast, and now they were not able

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 28TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: BE NOT FAITHLESS TEXT: JOHN 20:19-31  19.  Then, the same day at evening, being the first [day] of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, "Peace [be] with you." 20.  When He had said this, He showed them [His] hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. 21.  So Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you." 22.  And when He had said this, He breathed on [them,] and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 23.  "If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the [sins] of any, they are retained." 24.  Now Thomas, called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. 25.  The other disciples therefore said to him, &q

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 27TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: MASTER! TEXT: JOHN 20:11-18  11.  But Mary stood outside by the tomb weeping, and as she wept she stooped down [and looked] into the tomb. 12.  And she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. 13.  Then they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him." 14.  Now when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing [there,] and did not know that it was Jesus. 15.  Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?" She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, "Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have laid Him, and I will take Him away." 16.  Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and said to

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 26TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: THEY SAW AND BELIEVED TEXT: JOHN 20:1-10 1. Now on the first [day] of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw [that] the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 2. Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him." 3. Peter therefore went out, and the other disciple, and were going to the tomb. 4. So they both ran together, and the other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first. 5.  And he, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen cloths lying [there;] yet he did not go in. 6.  Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; and he saw the linen cloths lying [there,] 7.  and the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the li

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 25TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: LET US GO AGAIN TEXT: ACTS 15:35-41  35.  Paul and Barnabas also remained in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also. 36.  Then after some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us now go back and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, [and see] how they are doing." 37.  Now Barnabas was determined to take with them John called Mark. 38.  But Paul insisted that they should not take with them the one who had departed from them in Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work. 39.  Then the contention became so sharp that they parted from one another. And so Barnabas took Mark and sailed to Cyprus; 40.  but Paul chose Silas and departed, being commended by the brethren to the grace of God. 41.  And he went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. MESSAGE:  Paul and Ba

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 24TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: HOPE AGAINST HOPE TEXT: ROMANS 4:13-25  13.  For the promise that he would be the heir of the world [was] not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14.  For if those who are of the law [are] heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect, 15.  because the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law [there is] no transgression. 16.  Therefore [it is] of faith that [it might be] according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all 17.  (as it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations") in the presence of Him whom he believed -- God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; 18.  who, contrary to hope

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 23RD APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: SET ME AS A SEAL UPON THINE HEART TEXT: SONGS OF SOLOMON 8:5-7 5.  Who [is] this coming up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? I awakened you under the apple tree. There your mother brought you forth; There she [who] bore you brought [you] forth. THE SHULAMITE TO HER BELOVED 6.  Set me as a seal upon your heart, As a seal upon your arm; For love [is as] strong as death, Jealousy [as] cruel as the grave; Its flames [are] flames of fire, A most vehement flame. 7.  Many waters cannot quench love, Nor can the floods drown it. If a man would give for love All the wealth of his house, It would be utterly despised. THE SHULAMITE's BROTHERS MESSAGE:  Love is jealous and demands undivided commitment; love is strong and powerful and burns like a fire. Again, love cannot be drowned by flood and cannot be purchased with money. These are various attributes

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 22ND APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: HIS DESIRES ARE TOWARD ME TEXT: SONGS OF SOLOMON 7:10-8:4 10.  I [am] my beloved's, And his desire [is] toward me. 11.  Come, my beloved, Let us go forth to the field; Let us lodge in the villages. 12.  Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us see if the vine has budded, [Whether] the grape blossoms are open, [And] the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love. 13.  The mandrakes give off a fragrance, And at our gates [are] pleasant [fruits,] All manner, new and old, Which I have laid up for you, my beloved. 1. Oh, that you were like my brother, Who nursed at my mother's breasts! [If] I should find you outside, I would kiss you; I would not be despised. 2. I would lead you [and] bring you Into the house of my mother, She [who] used to instruct me. I would cause you to drink of spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate. (TO THE DAUGH

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 21ST APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: OPEN TO ME TEXT: SONGS OF SOLOMON 5: 2-6:3 5:2. I sleep, but my heart is awake; [It is] the voice of my beloved! He knocks, [saying,] "Open for me, my sister, my love, My dove, my perfect one; For my head is covered with dew, My locks with the drops of the night." 3. I have taken off my robe; How can I put it on [again?] I have washed my feet; How can I defile them? 4. My beloved put his hand By the latch [of the door,] And my heart yearned for him. 5.  I arose to open for my beloved, And my hands dripped [with] myrrh, My fingers with liquid myrrh, On the handles of the lock. 6.  I opened for my beloved, But my beloved had turned away [and] was gone. My heart leaped up when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. 7.  The watchmen who went about the city found me. They struck me, they wounded me; The

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 20TH APRIL, 2022 TOPIC: … I FOUND HIM… TEXT: SONGS OF SOLOMON 3:1-11 1. By night on my bed I sought the one I love; I sought him, but I did not find him. 2. "I will rise now," [I said,] "And go about the city; In the streets and in the squares I will seek the one I love." I sought him, but I did not find him. 3. The watchmen who go about the city found me; [I said,] "Have you seen the one I love?" 4. Scarcely had I passed by them, When I found the one I love. I held him and would not let him go, Until I had brought him to the house of my mother, And into the chamber of her who conceived me. 5.  I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the gazelles or by the does of the field, Do not stir up nor awaken love Until it pleases. THE SHULAMITE 6.  Who [is] this coming out of the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With al

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 19TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: THE LITTLE FOXES TEXT: SONGS OF SOLOMON 2:8-17  8.  The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes Leaping upon the mountains, Skipping upon the hills. 9.  My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, he stands behind our wall; He is looking through the windows, Gazing through the lattice. 10.  My beloved spoke, and said to me: "Rise up, my love, my fair one, And come away. 11.  For lo, the winter is past, The rain is over [and] gone. 12.  The flowers appear on the earth; The time of singing has come, And the voice of the turtledove Is heard in our land. 13.  The fig tree puts forth her green figs, And the vines [with] the tender grapes Give a good smell. Rise up, my love, my fair one, And come away! 14.  "O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, In the secret [places] of the cliff, Let me see your face, Let me hear your voice; For your voice [is] s

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 18TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: WHILE THE KING SITTETH AT HIS TABLE… TEXT: SONGS OF SOLOMON 1: 9-2:7 9.  I have compared you, my love, To my filly among Pharaoh's chariots. 10.  Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, Your neck with chains [of gold.] THE DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM 11.  We will make you ornaments of gold With studs of silver. THE SHULAMITE 12.  While the king [is] at his table, My spikenard sends forth its fragrance. 13.  A bundle of myrrh [is] my beloved to me, That lies all night between my breasts. 14.  My beloved [is] to me a cluster of henna [blooms] In the vineyards of En Gedi. THE BELOVED 15.  Behold, you [are] fair, my love! Behold, you [are] fair! You [have] dove's eyes. THE SHULAMITE 16.  Behold, you [are] handsome, my beloved! Yes, pleasant! Also our bed [is] green. 17.  The beams of our houses [are] cedar, [And] our rafters of fir. 18. I [am] the rose of Sharon,

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 17TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: …ONE DIED FOR ALL… TEXT: 2 CORINTHIANS 5:14-6:2 14.  For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; 15.  and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. 16.  Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know [Him thus] no longer. 17.  Therefore, if anyone [is] in Christ, [he is] a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18.  Now all things [are] of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19.  that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliat

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 16TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: BELIEVE THE SCRIPTURE TEXT: JOHN 2:18-22 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 up." 20.  Then the Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?" 21.  But He was speaking of the temple of His body. 22.  Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said. MESSAGE:  Doubts and arguments are strong tools in the hands of Satan to stop any man from believing and exploring the truths of God’s words. The Jewish authorities demanded that Jesus should perform a miracle to prove His legitimacy to do what He did in the

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 15TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: ONE PERFECT SACRIFICE TEXT: HEBREWS 10:1-10  1. For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. 2. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. 3. But in those [sacrifices there is] a reminder of sins every year. 4. For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. 5.  Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me. 6.  In burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin You had no pleasure. 7.  Then I said, 'Behold, I have come -- In the volume of the book it is written of Me -- To do Your will, O God.&

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 14TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: PARTAKE RESPONSIBLY TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 11:23-29  23.  For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the [same] night in which He was betrayed took bread; 24.  and when He had given thanks, He broke [it] and said, "Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me." 25.  In the same manner [He] also [took] the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink [it,] in remembrance of Me." 26.  For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till He comes. 27.  Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks [this] cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 28.  But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 13TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: …AND…THE COCK CREW TEXT: LUKE 22:54-71  54.  Having arrested Him, they led [Him] and brought Him into the high priest's house. But Peter followed at a distance. 55.  Now when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat among them. 56.  And a certain servant girl, seeing him as he sat by the fire, looked intently at him and said, "This man was also with Him." 57.  But he denied Him, saying, "Woman, I do not know Him." 58.  And after a little while another saw him and said, "You also are of them." But Peter said, "Man, I am not!" 59.  Then after about an hour had passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, "Surely this [fellow] also was with Him, for he is a Galilean." 60.  But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you are saying!" Immediately, while he

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 12TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: THE TRUE MEASURE OF GREATNESS TEXT: LUKE 22:24-38  24.  Now there was also a dispute among them, as to which of them should be considered the greatest. 25.  And He said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those who exercise authority over them are called 'benefactors.' 26.  "But not so [among] you; on the contrary, he who is greatest among you, let him be as the younger, and he who governs as he who serves. 27.  "For who [is] greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves? [Is] it not he who sits at the table? Yet I am among you as the One who serves. 28.  "But you are those who have continued with Me in My trials. 29.  "And I bestow upon you a kingdom, just as My Father bestowed [one] upon Me, 30.  "that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the t

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 11TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: PROVIDED AS PREDICTED TEXT: LUKE 22:1-23  1. Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread drew near, which is called Passover. 2. And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might kill Him, for they feared the people. 3. Then Satan entered Judas, surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered among the twelve. 4. So he went his way and conferred with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray Him to them. 5.  And they were glad, and agreed to give him money. 6.  So he promised and sought opportunity to betray Him to them in the absence of the multitude. 7.  Then came the Day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover must be killed. 8.  And He sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat." 9.  So they said to Him, "Where do You want us to prepare?" 10.  And He said to them, "Behold, when you have entered th

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 10TH APRIL, 2022 (PALM SUNDAY)  TOPIC: BEHOLD HE COMES… TEXT: ZECHARIAH 9:9-12  9.  " Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He [is] just and having salvation, Lowly and riding on a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey. 10.  I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim And the horse from Jerusalem; The battle bow shall be cut off. He shall speak peace to the nations; His dominion [shall be] 'from sea to sea, And from the River to the ends of the earth.' 11.  " As for you also, Because of the blood of your covenant, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. 12.  Return to the stronghold, You prisoners of hope. Even today I declare [That] I will restore double to you. MESSAGE:  Today is Palm Sunday: A Day set aside among Anglicans and some other churches to commemorate the Triumphal Entry of Jesus

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 9TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: THE POTTER AND THE CLAY TEXT: JEREMIAH 18:1-12  1. The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying: 2. "Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear My words." 3. Then I went down to the potter's house, and there he was, making something at the wheel. 4. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make. 5.  Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying: 6.  "O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter?" says the LORD. "Look, as the clay [is] in the potter's hand, so [are] you in My hand, O house of Israel! 7.  "The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy [it,] 8.  "if that nation against whom I have

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 8TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: FALSE AND TRUE TRUST TEXT: JEREMIAH 17:5-18  5.  Thus says the LORD: "Cursed [is] the man who trusts in man And makes flesh his strength, Whose heart departs from the LORD. 6.  For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, And shall not see when good comes, But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, [In] a salt land [which is] not inhabited. 7.  "Blessed [is] the man who trusts in the LORD, And whose hope is the LORD. 8.  For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit. 9.  " The heart [is] deceitful above all [things,] And desperately wicked; Who can know it? 10.  I, the LORD, search the heart, [I] test the mind, Even to give every man according to

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 7TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: HOPE AMIDST DISASTER TEXT: JEREMIAH 16:10-17:4  10.  " And it shall be, when you show this people all these words, and they say to you, 'Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? Or what [is] our iniquity? Or what [is] our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?' 11.  "then you shall say to them, 'Because your fathers have forsaken Me,' says the LORD; 'they have walked after other gods and have served them and worshiped them, and have forsaken Me and not kept My law. 12.  'And you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, each one follows the dictates of his own evil heart, so that no one listens to Me. 13.  'Therefore I will cast you out of this land into a land that you do not know, neither you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods day and night, where I will not s

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 6TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: THE EDIBLE WORD TEXT: JEREMIAH 15:10-21 10.  Woe is me, my mother, That you have borne me, A man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent for interest, Nor have men lent to me for interest. Every one of them curses me. 11.  The LORD said: "Surely it will be well with your remnant; Surely I will cause the enemy to intercede with you In the time of adversity and in the time of affliction. 12.  Can anyone break iron, The northern iron and the bronze? 13.  Your wealth and your treasures I will give as plunder without price, Because of all your sins, Throughout your territories. 14.  And I will make [you] cross over with your enemies Into a land [which] you do not know; For a fire is kindled in My anger, [Which] shall burn upon you." 15.  O LORD, You know; Remember me and visit me, And take vengeance for me on my persecut

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 5TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: A CRY FOR HELP! TEXT: JEREMIAH 14: 1-22 1. The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts. 2. "Judah mourns, And her gates languish; They mourn for the land, And the cry of Jerusalem has gone up. 3. Their nobles have sent their lads for water; They went to the cisterns [and] found no water. They returned with their vessels empty; They were ashamed and confounded And covered their heads. 4. Because the ground is parched, For there was no rain in the land, The plowmen were ashamed; They covered their heads. 5.  Yes, the deer also gave birth in the field, But left because there was no grass. 6.  And the wild donkeys stood in the desolate heights; They sniffed at the wind like jackals; Their eyes failed because [there was] no grass." 7.  O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, Do it for Your name's sake; For our backslidi

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 4TH APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: PRESERVED FOR A PURPOSE TEXT: JEREMIAH 11:18-28  18.  Now the LORD gave me knowledge [of it,] and I know [it;] for You showed me their doings. 19.  But I [was] like a docile lamb brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised schemes against me, [saying,] "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more." 20.  But, O LORD of hosts, You who judge righteously, Testing the mind and the heart, Let me see Your vengeance on them, For to You I have revealed my cause. 21.  " Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of Anathoth who seek your life, saying, 'Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, lest you die by our hand' -- 22.  "therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sw

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 3RD APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: A BETTER LANGUAGE TEXT: HEBREWS 12:18-29  18.  For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest, 19.  and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard [it] begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. 20.  (For they could not endure what was commanded: "And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow." 21.  And so terrifying was the sight [that] Moses said, "I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.") 22.  But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23.  to the general assembly and church of the firstborn [who are] registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24. 

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 2ND APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: A PLOT AGAINST JEREMIAH TEXT: JEREMIAH 11:18-12:6  18.  Now the LORD gave me knowledge [of it,] and I know [it;] for You showed me their doings. 19.  But I [was] like a docile lamb brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised schemes against me, [saying,] "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more." 20.  But, O LORD of hosts, You who judge righteously, Testing the mind and the heart, Let me see Your vengeance on them, For to You I have revealed my cause. 21.  " Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of Anathoth who seek your life, saying, 'Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, lest you die by our hand' -- 22.  "therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by th

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 1ST APRIL, 2022  TOPIC: SUSTAINING DIVINE COVENANT TEXT: JEREMIAH 11:1-17  1. The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2. "Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; 3. "and say to them, 'Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "Cursed [is] the man who does not obey the words of this covenant 4. "which I commanded your fathers in the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, 'Obey My voice, and do according to all that I command you; so shall you be My people, and I will be your God,' 5.  "that I may establish the oath which I have sworn to your fathers, to give them 'a land flowing with milk and honey,' as [it is] this day." ' " And I answered and said, "So be it, LORD." 6.  Then the LORD said to me, "Proclaim all t