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THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 30TH JUNE, 2023  TOPIC: PEACEFUL DISPUTE RESOLUTION TEXT: ACTS 6:1-15 1. Now in those days, when [the number of] the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint against the Hebrews by the Hellenists, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution. 2. Then the twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, "It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God and serve tables. 3. "Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of [good] reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business; 4. "but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word." 5.  And the saying pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch, 6.  whom they set

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 29TH JUNE, 2023 (ST. PETER THE APOSTLE DAY) TOPIC: JESUS IS THE CHRIST TEXT: MATTHEW 16:13-20 13.  When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?" 14.  So they said, "Some [say] John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." 15.  He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" 16.  Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." 17.  Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed [this] to you, but My Father who is in heaven. 18.  "And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. 19.  "And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and wh

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 28TH JUNE, 2023  TOPIC: OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MEN TEXT: ACTS 5:17-42 17.  Then the high priest rose up, and all those who [were] with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with indignation, 18.  and laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison. 19.  But at night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said, 20.  "Go, stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this life." 21.  And when they heard [that,] they entered the temple early in the morning and taught. But the high priest and those with him came and called the council together, with all the elders of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought. 22.  But when the officers came and did not find them in the prison, they returned and reported, 23.  saying, "Indeed we found the prison shut securely,

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 27TH JUNE, 2023  TOPIC: BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT TEXT: ACTS 4:33-5:16 4:33.  And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all. 34.  Nor was there anyone among them who lacked; for all who were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold, 35.  and laid [them] at the apostles' feet; and they distributed to each as anyone had need. 36.  And Joses, who was also named Barnabas by the apostles (which is translated Son of Encouragement), a Levite of the country of Cyprus, 37.  having land, sold [it,] and brought the money and laid [it] at the apostles' feet. 5:1. But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession. 2. And he kept back [part] of the proceeds, his wife also being aware [of it,] and brought a certain part and laid [it] at

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 26TH JUNE, 2023 TOPIC: BOLDNESS TO SPEAK IN THE NAME JESUS CHRIST TEXT: ACTS 4:1-32 1. Now as they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them, 2. being greatly disturbed that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3. And they laid hands on them, and put [them] in custody until the next day, for it was already evening. 4. However, many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand. 5.  And it came to pass, on the next day, that their rulers, elders, and scribes, 6.  as well as Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the family of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem. 7.  And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, "By what power or by what name have you done this?" 8.  Then Peter,

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 24TH JUNE, 2023 (ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST DAY) TOPIC: NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD TEXT: LUKE 1: 57-66 57.  Now Elizabeth's full time came for her to be delivered, and she brought forth a son. 58.  When her neighbors and relatives heard how the Lord had shown great mercy to her, they rejoiced with her. 59.  So it was, on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him by the name of his father, Zacharias. 60.  His mother answered and said, "No; he shall be called John." 61.  But they said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name." 62.  So they made signs to his father -- what he would have him called. 63.  And he asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, saying, "His name is John." So they all marveled. 64.  Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue [loosed,] and he spoke, praisi

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 23RD JUNE, 2023  TOPIC: FULFIL YOUR VOWS TO THE LORD TEXT: JUDGES 11: 29-40 29.  Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, and passed through Mizpah of Gilead; and from Mizpah of Gilead he advanced [toward] the people of Ammon. 30.  And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD, and said, "If You will indeed deliver the people of Ammon into my hands, 31.  "then it will be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the people of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD's, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering." 32.  So Jephthah advanced toward the people of Ammon to fight against them, and the LORD delivered them into his hands. 33.  And he defeated them from Aroer as far as Minnith -- twenty cities -- and to Abel Keramim, with a very great slaughter. Thus the people of Ammon were subdued

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 22ND JUNE, 2023  TOPIC: SHUN UNGODLY AMBITIONS AND EVIL ASSOCIATIONS  TEXT: JUDGES 9:22-57 22.  After Abimelech had reigned over Israel three years, 23.  God sent a spirit of ill will between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech, 24.  that the crime [done] to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might be settled and their blood be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who aided him in the killing of his brothers. 25.  And the men of Shechem set men in ambush against him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who passed by them along that way; and it was told Abimelech. 26.  Now Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him. 27.  So they went out into the fields, and gathered [grapes] from their vineyards and trod

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 21ST JUNE, 2023  TOPIC: THE LORD IS MIGHTY IN BATTLE TEXT: JUDGES 7:1-25 1. Then Jerubbaal (that [is,] Gideon) and all the people who [were] with him rose early and encamped beside the well of Harod, so that the camp of the Midianites was on the north side of them by the hill of Moreh in the valley. 2. And the LORD said to Gideon, "The people who [are] with you [are] too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me, saying, 'My own hand has saved me.' 3. "Now therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, 'Whoever [is] fearful and afraid, let him turn and depart at once from Mount Gilead.' " And twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained. 4. But the LORD said to Gideon, "The people [are] still [too] many; bring them down to the water, and I will test them f

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 20TH JUNE, 2023  TOPIC: VICTORY THROUGH HIS PRESENCE TEXT: JUDGES 6:1-40 1. Then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD. So the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years, 2. and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made for themselves the dens, the caves, and the strongholds which [are] in the mountains. 3. So it was, whenever Israel had sown, Midianites would come up; also Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them. 4. Then they would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep nor ox nor donkey. 5.  For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, coming in as numerous as locusts; both they and their camels were without number; and they would enter the land to destroy it. 6.  So

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 19TH JUNE, 2023  TOPIC: YOU CAN ARISE TEXT: JUDGES 5:1-31 1. Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying: 2. "When leaders lead in Israel, When the people willingly offer themselves, Bless the LORD! 3. "Hear, O kings! Give ear, O princes! I, [even] I, will sing to the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel. 4. "LORD, when You went out from Seir, When You marched from the field of Edom, The earth trembled and the heavens poured, The clouds also poured water; 5.  The mountains gushed before the LORD, This Sinai, before the LORD God of Israel. 6.  "In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, In the days of Jael, The highways were deserted, And the travelers walked along the byways. 7.  Village life ceased, it ceased in Israel, Until I, Deborah, arose, Arose a mother in Israel. 8.  They chose new gods; Then [there was] war in the gates; Not

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 18TH JUNE, 2023 (SECOND SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY) TOPIC: ABIDING IN GOD'S LOVE TEXT: JOHN 15:5-11 5.  "I am the vine, you [are] the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6.  "If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw [them] into the fire, and they are burned. 7.  "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8.  "By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. 9.  " As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10.  "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. 11.  "These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in yo

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 17TH JUNE, 2023  TOPIC: THE VIRTUE OF PATIENCE TEXT: JAMES 5:1-20 1. Come now, [you] rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon [you!] 2. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3. Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. 4. Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5.  You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6.  You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you. 7.  Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See [how] the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 16TH JUNE, 2023  TOPIC: DRAWING CLOSER TO GOD TEXT: JAMES 4:1-17 1. Where do wars and fights [come] from among you? Do [they] not [come] from your [desires for] pleasure that war in your members? 2. You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. 3. You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend [it] on your pleasures. 4. Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5.  Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously"? 6.  But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble." 7.  Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee fro

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 15TH JUNE, 2023  TOPIC: TAMING THE TONGUE TEXT:JAMES 3:1-18 1. My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. 2. For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he [is] a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. 3. Indeed, we put bits in horses' mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body. 4. Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires. 5.  Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles! 6.  And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. 7.  For every kind of beast and bird, of rept

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 14TH JUNE, 2023  TOPIC: PUTTING FAITH TO WORK TEXT: JAMES 2:1-26 1. My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [the Lord] of glory, with partiality. 2. For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in filthy clothes, 3. and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, "You sit here in a good place," and say to the poor man, "You stand there," or, "Sit here at my footstool," 4. have you not shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? 5.  Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world [to be] rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? 6.  But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts? 7.

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 13TH JUNE, 2023  TOPIC: ACTIVE FAITH IN TIMES OF TRIALS  TEXT: JAMES 1:1-27 1. James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad: Greetings. 2. My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3. knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4. But let patience have [its] perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 5.  If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6.  But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7.  For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8.  [he is] a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. 9.  Let the lowly brother glory in his exaltation, 10.  but the rich in his humil

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 12TH JUNE, 2023 (ST. BARNABAS THE APOSTLE DAY- SHIFTED) TOPIC: BE AN ENCOURAGER TEXT: ACTS 11:19-30 19.  Now those who were scattered after the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to no one but the Jews only. 20.  But some of them were men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus. 21.  And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord. 22.  Then news of these things came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch. 23.  When he came and had seen the grace of God, he was glad, and encouraged them all that with purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord. 24.  For he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great many people were added to

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 11TH JUNE, 2023 (FIRST SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY) TOPIC: REMAIN CONNECTED TO JESUS THROUGH THE WORD  TEXT: JOHN 15:1-5 1. "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2. "Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every [branch] that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3. "You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4. "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 5.  "I am the vine, you [are] the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. MESSAGE:  Using the analogy of the vine in our text today, Apostle John reminds us that we are designed and called unto kingdom fruitfulness. The only condition for this fruitfulness, is continually abiding in t

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 10TH JUNE, 2023  TOPIC: WORSHIP THE ONE TRUE GOD TEXT: 2 KINGS 17:24-41 24.  Then the king of Assyria brought [people] from Babylon, Cuthah, Ava, Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed [them] in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they took possession of Samaria and dwelt in its cities. 25.  And it was so, at the beginning of their dwelling there, [that] they did not fear the LORD; therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which killed [some] of them. 26.  So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, "The nations whom you have removed and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the rituals of the God of the land; therefore He has sent lions among them, and indeed, they are killing them because they do not know the rituals of the God of the land." 27.  Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, "Send there one of the priests whom you brou

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 9TH JUNE, 2023  TOPIC: THE RESULT OF REBELLION TEXT: 2 KINGS 17:1-23 1. In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah became king of Israel in Samaria, [and he reigned] nine years. 2. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel who were before him. 3. Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him; and Hoshea became his vassal, and paid him tribute money. 4. And the king of Assyria uncovered a conspiracy by Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and brought no tribute to the king of Assyria, as [he had done] year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison. 5.  Now the king of Assyria went throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria and besieged it for three years. 6.  In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in