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THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 31ST MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: LIVING IN HOPE FOR RESURRECTION TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 15: 1-34 1. Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, 2. by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain. 3. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4. and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, 5.  and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. 6.  After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. 7.  After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. 8.  Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time. 9.  For I am th

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 30TH MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: GOD OF ORDERLINESS TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 14: 21-40 21.  In the law it is written: "With [men of] other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people; And yet, for all that, they will not hear Me," says the Lord. 22.  Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophesying is not for unbelievers but for those who believe. 23.  Therefore if the whole church comes together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in [those who are] uninformed or unbelievers, will they not say that you are out of your mind? 24.  But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an uninformed person comes in, he is convinced by all, he is convicted by all. 25.  And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed; and so, falling down on [his] face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you. 26.  How is it then

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 29TH MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: DESIRE SPIRITUAL GIFTS TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 14: 1-20 1. Pursue love, and desire spiritual [gifts,] but especially that you may prophesy. 2. For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands [him;] however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries. 3. But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men. 4. He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church. 5.  I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies [is] greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive edification. 6.  But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you unless I speak to you either by revelation, by knowledge, by prophesying, or by teaching? 7.  Even things without life, whethe

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) TOPIC: THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE DATE: TUESDAY, 28TH MARCH, 2023  TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 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 [t

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 27TH MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: THE SAME SPIRIT TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 12: 12-28 12.  For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also [is] Christ. 13.  For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body -- whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free -- and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. 14.  For in fact the body is not one member but many. 15.  If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? 16.  And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? 17.  If the whole body [were] an eye, where [would be] the hearing? If the whole [were] hearing, where [would be] the smelling? 18.  But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. 19.  And if they

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 26TH MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: ABSOLUTE ALLEGIANCE TEXT: JOHN 12: 20-32 20.  Now there were certain Greeks among those who came up to worship at the feast. 21.  Then they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus." 22.  Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn Andrew and Philip told Jesus. 23.  But Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified. 24.  "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. 25.  "He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26.  "If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him [My] Father will honor. 27.  " Now My so

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 25TH MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: THE RIGHT ENVIRONMENT FOR GOD'S USE TEXT: LUKE 1: 26-38 26.  Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27.  to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin's name [was] Mary. 28.  And having come in, the angel said to her, "Rejoice, highly favored [one,] the Lord [is] with you; blessed [are] you among women!" 29.  But when she saw [him,] she was troubled at his saying, and considered what manner of greeting this was. 30.  Then the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31.  "And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name JESUS. 32.  "He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David.

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 24TH MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: CLEAVE UNTO THE LORD AND LIVE TEXT: DEUTERONOMY 4: 1-25 1. "Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I teach you to observe, that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you. 2. "You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. 3. "Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal Peor; for the LORD your God has destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal of Peor. 4. "But you who held fast to the LORD your God [are] alive today, every one of you. 5.  "Surely I have taught you statutes and judgments, just as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should act according [to them] in the land which you go to possess. 6.  "Therefore be careful to observe [them;] for

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 23RD MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: VICTORY IS OF GOD TEXT: DEUTERONOMY 3: 1-8 1. "Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan; and Og king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. 2. "And the LORD said to me, 'Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand; you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.' 3. "So the LORD our God also delivered into our hands Og king of Bashan, with all his people, and we attacked him until he had no survivors remaining. 4. "And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 5.  "All these cities [were] fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many rural towns. 6.  "And we utterly des

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 22ND MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: A TOOL FOR FULFILLING NEGATIVE PROPHECIES TEXT: DEUTERONOMY 2: 27-37 27.  'Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the road, and I will turn neither to the right nor to the left. 28.  'You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink; only let me pass through on foot, 29.  'just as the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land which the LORD our God is giving us.' 30.  "But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as [it is] this day. 31.  "And the LORD said to me, 'See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to possess [it,] that you may inherit h

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 21ST MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: HEARING FROM GOD TEXT: DEUTERONOMY 2: 1-26 1. "Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness of the Way of the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke to me, and we skirted Mount Seir for many days. 2. "And the LORD spoke to me, saying: 3. 'You have skirted this mountain long enough; turn northward. 4. 'And command the people, saying, "You [are about to] pass through the territory of your brethren, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore watch yourselves carefully. 5.  "Do not meddle with them, for I will not give you [any] of their land, no, not so much as one footstep, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau [as] a possession. 6.  "You shall buy food from them with money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink. 7.  "For the LORD your God

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 20TH MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: COSTLY ASSUMPTION TEXT: LUKE 2: 41-52 41.  His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. 42.  And when He was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast. 43.  When they had finished the days, as they returned, the Boy Jesus lingered behind in Jerusalem. And Joseph and His mother did not know [it;] 44.  but supposing Him to have been in the company, they went a day's journey, and sought Him among [their] relatives and acquaintances. 45.  So when they did not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking Him. 46.  Now so it was [that] after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. 47.  And all who heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers. 48.  So when they saw Him, they were amazed; and His mo

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 19TH MARCH, 2023 (MOTHERING SUNDAY) TOPIC: HEAR YOU HIM! TEXT: MATTHEW 17: 1-13 1. Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves; 2. and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. 3. And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him. 4. Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here; if You wish, let us make here three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." 5.  While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!" 6.  And when the disciples heard [it,] they fell on their faces and were greatly afraid. 7.  But Jesus came and touched them and said

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 18TH MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: WHAT IS YOUR DESIRE? TEXT: MARK 10: 33-52 33.  "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death and deliver Him to the Gentiles; 34.  "and they will mock Him, and scourge Him, and spit on Him, and kill Him. And the third day He will rise again." 35.  Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Him, saying, "Teacher, we want You to do for us whatever we ask." 36.  And He said to them, "What do you want Me to do for you?" 37.  They said to Him, "Grant us that we may sit, one on Your right hand and the other on Your left, in Your glory." 38.  But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" 39. 

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 17TH MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: DEAL WITH THE UNREGENERATE HEART TEXT: MARK 10: 1-32 1. Then He arose from there and came to the region of Judea by the other side of the Jordan. And multitudes gathered to Him again, and as He was accustomed, He taught them again. 2. The Pharisees came and asked Him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce [his] wife?" testing Him. 3. And He answered and said to them, "What did Moses command you?" 4. They said, "Moses permitted [a man] to write a certificate of divorce, and to dismiss [her."] 5.  And Jesus answered and said to them, "Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. 6.  "But from the beginning of the creation, God 'made them male and female.' 7.  'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8.  'and the two shall become one flesh'; so t

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 15TH MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: THE GLORY OF HIS PRESENCE TEXT: MARK 9: 3-30 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 of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son. Hear Him!" 8.  Suddenly, when they had looked around, they saw no one anymore, but only Jesus with themselves. 9.  Now as they came down from the mountain, He commanded them that they should tell no one the things they had seen, till the Son of Man had risen from the de

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 14TH MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: LIVING BELOW EXPECTATION TEXT: MARK 8: 11-9: 2 11.  Then the Pharisees came out and began to dispute with Him, seeking from Him a sign from heaven, testing Him. 12.  But He sighed deeply in His spirit, and said, "Why does this generation seek a sign? Assuredly, I say to you, no sign shall be given to this generation." 13.  And He left them, and getting into the boat again, departed to the other side. 14.  Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, and they did not have more than one loaf with them in the boat. 15.  Then He charged them, saying, "Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod." 16.  And they reasoned among themselves, saying, "[It is] because we have no bread." 17.  But Jesus, being aware of [it,] said to them, "Why do you reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 13TH MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: THE POWERFUL AND MERCIFUL GOD TEXT: MARK 7: 24-8: 10 24.  From there He arose and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And He entered a house and wanted no one to know [it,] but He could not be hidden. 25.  For a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard about Him, and she came and fell at His feet. 26.  The woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. 27.  But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw [it] to the little dogs." 28.  And she answered and said to Him, "Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs." 29.  Then He said to her, "For this saying go your way; the demon has gone out of your daughter." 30.  And when she had come to h

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 12TH MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: FOLLOWING AFTER JESUS TEXT: LUKE 9: 18-27 18.  And it happened, as He was alone praying, [that] His disciples joined Him, and He asked them, saying, "Who do the crowds say that I am?" 19.  So they answered and said, "John the Baptist, but some [say] Elijah; and others [say] that one of the old prophets has risen again." 20.  He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered and said, "The Christ of God." 21.  And He strictly warned and commanded them to tell this to no one, 22.  saying, "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day." 23.  Then He said to [them] all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. 24.  "For whoever desire

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 11TH MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: DEDICATED TO THE LORD TEXT: LEVITICUS 27:26-34 26.  ' But the firstborn of the animals, which should be the LORD's firstborn, no man shall dedicate; whether [it is] an ox or sheep, it [is] the LORD's. 27.  'And if [it is] an unclean animal, then he shall redeem [it] according to your valuation, and shall add one-fifth to it; or if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation. 28.  ' Nevertheless no devoted [offering] that a man may devote to the LORD of all that he has, [both] man and beast, or the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted [offering is] most holy to the LORD. 29.  'No person under the ban, who may become doomed to destruction among men, shall be redeemed, [but] shall surely be put to death. 30.  'And all the tithe of the land, [whether] of the seed of the land [or] o

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, MARCH 10TH, 2023 TOPIC: THE BELIEVER'S WORDS TEXT: LEVITICUS 27:1-25  1. Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2. "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When a man consecrates by a vow certain persons to the LORD, according to your valuation, 3. 'if your valuation is of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. 4. 'If it [is] a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels; 5.  'and if from five years old up to twenty years old, then your valuation for a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels; 6.  'and if from a month old up to five years old, then your valuation for a male shall be five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver; 7.  'and if from sixty years old and abov

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 9TH MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: CHASTENING FOR REFORMATION TEXT: LEVITICUS 26:22-46 22.  I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your highways shall be desolate. 23.  ' And if by these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me, 24.  then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins. 25.  And I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; when you are gathered together within your cities I will send pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26.  When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied. 27.  ' And after all this, if you do not obey Me,