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THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 30TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS FORETOLD TEXT: MARK 9:30-32 30.  Then they departed from there and passed through Galilee, and He did not want anyone to know [it.] 31.  For He taught His disciples and said to them, "The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him. And after He is killed, He will rise the third day." 32.  But they did not understand this saying, and were afraid to ask Him. MESSAGE:  Jesus Christ Himself made it clear to His disciples that; “The son of man will be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill Him; and when He is killed, after three days, He will rise” (Mark 9:31). However, not only did they not understand what He told them, the disciples were afraid to ask Him for explanation. The death and resurrection of Jesus is a strong bedrock of our faith. Going to church without this knowl

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 29TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: THE ANGELS OF GOD TEXT: REVELATION 12:7-12 7.  And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, 8.  but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. 9.  So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 10.  Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, "Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. 11.  "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. 12.  "Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 28TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE TEXT: MARK 9:14-29 14.  And when He came to the disciples, He saw a great multitude around them, and scribes disputing with them. 15.  Immediately, when they saw Him, all the people were greatly amazed, and running to [Him,] greeted Him. 16.  And He asked the scribes, "What are you discussing with them?" 17.  Then one of the crowd answered and said, "Teacher, I brought You my son, who has a mute spirit. 18.  "And wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I spoke to Your disciples, that they should cast it out, but they could not." 19.  He answered him and said, "O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to Me." 20.  Then they brought him to Him. And when he saw Him, immediately

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 27TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: JESUS CHRIST IS THE SON OF GOD TEXT: MARK 9:1-13 1. And He said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you that there are some standing here who will not taste death till they see the kingdom of God present with power." 2. Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and led them up on a high mountain apart by themselves; and He was transfigured before them. 3. His clothes became shining, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them. 4. And Elijah appeared to them with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus. 5.  Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" -- 6.  because he did not know what to say, for they were greatly afraid. 7.  And a cloud came and overshadowed them; and a voice came out

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 26TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: MAKE AN OFFERING AND SANCTUARY TO GOD FROM WILLING HEARTS TEXT: EXODUS 25:1-9 1. Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: 2. "Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring Me an offering. From everyone who gives it willingly with his heart you shall take My offering. 3. "And this [is] the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, and bronze; 4. "blue, purple, and scarlet [thread,] fine linen, and goats' [hair;] 5.  "ram skins dyed red, badger skins, and acacia wood; 6.  "oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense; 7.  "onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate. 8.  "And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. 9.  "According to all that I show you, [that is,] the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnis

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: ALL THE WORDS THE LORD HAS SPOKEN, WE WILL DO TEXT: EXODUS 24:1-18 1. Now He said to Moses, "Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar. 2. "And Moses alone shall come near the LORD, but they shall not come near; nor shall the people go up with him." 3. So Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words which the LORD has said we will do." 4. And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD. And he rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5.  Then he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the LORD. 6.  And Moses t

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 24TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: GOD’S PROMISES ARE SURE, STABLE AND CONCRETE TEXT: EXODUS 23:20-33 20.  " Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. 21.  "Beware of Him and obey His voice; do not provoke Him, for He will not pardon your transgressions; for My name [is] in Him. 22.  "But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. 23.  "For My Angel will go before you and bring you in to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off. 24.  "You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their [sacred] pillars. 25.  "So you

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 23RD SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: NONE SHALL APPEAR BEFORE ME EMPTY-HANDED TEXT: EXODUS 23:10-19 10.  " Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce, 11.  "but the seventh [year] you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave, the beasts of the field may eat. In like manner you shall do with your vineyard [and] your olive grove. 12.  "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the stranger may be refreshed. 13.  "And in all that I have said to you, be circumspect and make no mention of the name of other gods, nor let it be heard from your mouth. 14.  " Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year: 15.  "You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 22ND SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: NEVER JOIN THE MULTITUDE IN COMMITTING EVIL TEXT: EXODUS 23:1-9 1. "You shall not circulate a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. 2. "You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert [justice.] 3. "You shall not show partiality to a poor man in his dispute. 4. " If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. 5.  "If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying under its burden, and you would refrain from helping it, you shall surely help him with it. 6.  " You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his dispute. 7.  "Keep yourself far from a false matter; do not kill the innocent and righteous. For I will not justify the wicked. 8.  "And y

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 21ST SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: SONS AND HEIRS OF GOD TEXT: GALATIANS 4:1-6 1. Now I say [that] the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all, 2. but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father. 3. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. 4. But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5.  to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. 6.  And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!" MESSAGE:  In today’s lesson, Paul made it explicit that when the Galatians and indeed all men were helpless children, they were under the servitude of the law. When they believed in Jesus Christ, they became sons

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 20TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: RESPECTING HUMANITY TEXT: EXODUS 22:16-31 16.  " If a man entices a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall surely pay the bride-price for her [to be] his wife. 17.  "If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the bride-price of virgins. 18.  " You shall not permit a sorceress to live. 19.  " Whoever lies with an animal shall surely be put to death. 20.  " He who sacrifices to [any] god, except to the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed. 21.  " You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22.  " You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. 23.  "If you afflict them in any way, [and] they cry at all to Me, I will surely hear their cry; 24.  "and My wrath will become hot, and I will kill you

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 19TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: RESTITUTION TEXT: EXODUS 22:1-15 1. "If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and slaughters it or sells it, he shall restore five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep. 2. "If the thief is found breaking in, and he is struck so that he dies, [there shall be] no guilt for his bloodshed. 3. "If the sun has risen on him, [there shall be] guilt for his bloodshed. He should make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 4. "If the theft is certainly found alive in his hand, whether it is an ox or donkey or sheep, he shall restore double. 5.  " If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed, and lets loose his animal, and it feeds in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard. 6.  " If fire breaks out and catches in thorns, so that

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 18TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: LOVE IS ESSENTIAL TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 13:1-13 1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2. And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3. And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor,] and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. 4. Love suffers long [and] is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5.  does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6.  does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7.  bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8.  Love never fails. But whether [there

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 17TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: A GENUINE CHILD OF GOD TEXT: ROMANS 12:9-21 9.  [Let] love [be] without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. 10.  [Be] kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another; 11.  not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; 12.  rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer; 13.  distributing to the needs of the saints, given to hospitality. 14.  Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15.  Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. 16.  Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion. 17.  Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men. 18.  If it is possible, as much as depends on you, l

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 16TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: SALVATION THROUGH OBEDIENCE TEXT: ROMANS 11:25-26 25.  For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26.  And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; MESSAGE:  Paul today, concludes the argument against those who feel that God has not fulfilled his promises in reference to Israel. He wants to correct those Gentiles who may have become somewhat spiritually arrogant because of the casting off of the Israel. It was true that the majority of national Israel did not obey and believe in Jesus; they fell because of unbelief in Jesus.Paul warns that God still requires obedience from all who come to Him th

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 15TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: SALVATION TO THE GENTILES TEXT: ROMANS 11:11-24 11.  I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation [has come] to the Gentiles. 12.  Now if their fall [is] riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness! 13.  For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, 14.  if by any means I may provoke to jealousy [those who are] my flesh and save some of them. 15.  For if their being cast away [is] the reconciling of the world, what [will] their acceptance [be] but life from the dead? 16.  For if the firstfruit [is] holy, the lump [is] also [holy;] and if the root [is] holy, so [are] the branches. 17.  And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were gra

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 14TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST IN YOU TEXT: Philippians 2:5-11 5.  Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6.  who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7.  but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, [and] coming in the likeness of men. 8.  And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to [the point of] death, even the death of the cross. 9.  Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10.  that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11.  and [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father. MESSAGE:  The reading of today’s chapter introduces the humility of our Saviour, Jesus Chr

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 13TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: MERCIFUL BUT JUST TEXT: ROMANS 11:1-10 1. I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of Benjamin. 2. God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying, 3. "LORD, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life"? 4. But what does the divine response say to him? "I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal." 5.  Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 6.  And if by grace, then [it is] no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if [it is] of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work. 7

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 12TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: POWER OF HEARING TEXT: ROMANS 10:16-20 16.  But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?" 17.  So then faith [comes] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 18.  But I say, have they not heard? Yes indeed: "Their sound has gone out to all the earth, And their words to the ends of the world." 19.  But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says: "I will provoke you to jealousy by [those who are] not a nation, I will move you to anger by a foolish nation." 20.  But Isaiah is very bold and says: "I was found by those who did not seek Me; I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me." MESSAGE:  What do you listen to and what do you feed your mind with? What you hear can affect your being, your life, your actions, and most times, control you. What you hear affect

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 11TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: LIFE IS A CHOICE TEXT: 1 KINGS 3:5-12 5.  At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, "Ask! What shall I give you?" 6.  And Solomon said: "You have shown great mercy to Your servant David my father, because he walked before You in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You; You have continued this great kindness for him, and You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as [it is] this day. 7.  "Now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king instead of my father David, but I [am] a little child; I do not know [how] to go out or come in. 8.  "And Your servant [is] in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted. 9.  "Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 9TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: THE POWER OF FAITH TEXT: ROMANS 9:30-33 30.  What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith; 31.  but Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness. 32.  Why? Because [they did] not [seek it] by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone. 33.  As it is written: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense, And whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame." MESSAGE:  The great contrast according to our text today is that the Israelites who sought for righteousness could not find it, while the Gentiles who never followed after righteousness realised it. The difference between their approaches is that the former sought to have it by the works of the law, w

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 8TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: FULLNESS OF TIME TEXT: GALATIANS 4:4-7 4. But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5.  to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. 6.  And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!" 7.  Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. MESSAGE:  The fall of man in the Garden of Eden was to be his end and that of his destiny in God. According to the word of God, “……for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Gen. 2:17). As a result of the fall, Man inherited the nature of Satan, and the imaginations of his heart became evil. God in declaring judgment on the serpent, manifested His kindness and love towards man by t

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 7TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: BURDEN FOR THE LOST TEXT: ROMANS 9:1 - 29 1. I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, 2. that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. 3. For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh, 4. who are Israelites, to whom [pertain] the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service [of God,] and the promises; 5.  of whom [are] the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ [came,] who is over all, [the] eternally blessed God. Amen. 6.  But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they [are] not all Israel who [are] of Israel, 7.  nor [are they] all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, "In Isaac your seed shall be called." 8.  That is, those who [are] t

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 6TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: EVER ENDURING LOVE OF CHRIST TEXT: ROMANS 8:31-39 31.  What then shall we say to these things? If God [is] for us, who [can be] against us? 32.  He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33.  Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? [It is] God who justifies. 34.  Who [is] he who condemns? [It is] Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35.  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [Shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36.  As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." 37.  Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38. 

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 5TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: FUNCTIONAL PRAYER TEXT: ROMANS 8:26-30 26.  Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27.  Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit [is,] because He makes intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God. 28.  And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to [His] purpose. 29.  For whom He foreknew, He also predestined [to be] conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30.  Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. MESSAGE:  Prayer is important in that it affords a Chri

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 4TH SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: THE WISDOM THAT COMES FROM GOD TEXT: ISAIAH 50:4 – 9a 4. " The Lord GOD has given Me The tongue of the learned, That I should know how to speak A word in season to [him who is] weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear To hear as the learned. 5.  The Lord GOD has opened My ear; And I was not rebellious, Nor did I turn away. 6.  I gave My back to those who struck [Me,] And My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting. 7.  " For the Lord GOD will help Me; Therefore I will not be disgraced; Therefore I have set My face like a flint, And I know that I will not be ashamed. 8.  [He is] near who justifies Me; Who will contend with Me? Let us stand together. Who [is] My adversary? Let him come near Me. 9.  Surely the Lord GOD will help Me; Who [is] he [who] will condemn Me? Indeed they will a

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 3RD SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: JUSTIFIED AND SET FREE TEXT: ROMANS 8:1 - 17 1. [There is] therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God [did] by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4. that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5.  For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those [who live] according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6.  For to be carnally minded [is] death, but to be spiritually minded [is] life and pe

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 2ND SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: THE WEAKNESS OF THE FLESH TEXT: ROMANS 7:1-25 1. Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? 2. For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to [her] husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of [her] husband. 3. So then if, while [her] husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. 4. Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another -- to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. 5.  For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our mem

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 1ST SEPTEMBER, 2022  TOPIC: WHOSE SERVANT ARE YOU? TEXT: ROMANS 6:15 - 23 15.  What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! 16.  Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin [leading] to death, or of obedience [leading] to righteousness? 17.  But God be thanked that [though] you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. 18.  And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19.  I speak in human [terms] because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members [as] slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness [leading] to [more] lawlessness, so now present your members [as] slaves [of] righteousness for holiness. 20.  For when you were slaves of sin, you were free i