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THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 1ST OCTOBER, 2023 (SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY) TOPIC: BE PROFITABLE WITH THEM TEXT: MATTHEW 25:14-30 14.  " For [the kingdom of heaven is] like a man traveling to a far country, [who] called his own servants and delivered his goods to them. 15.  "And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey. 16.  "Then he who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents. 17.  "And likewise he who [had received] two gained two more also. 18.  "But he who had received one went and dug in the ground, and hid his lord's money. 19.  "After a long time the lord of those servants came and settled accounts with them. 20.  "So he who had received five talents came and brought five other talents, saying, 'Lord, you delivered ...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 30TH SEPTEMBER, 2023  TOPIC: GOD'S JUDGMENT IS IMMINENT TEXT: HOSEA 8 1. "Set the trumpet to your mouth! [He shall come] like an eagle against the house of the LORD, Because they have transgressed My covenant And rebelled against My law. 2. Israel will cry to Me, 'My God, we know You!' 3. Israel has rejected the good; The enemy will pursue him. 4. "They set up kings, but not by Me; They made princes, but I did not acknowledge [them.] From their silver and gold They made idols for themselves -- That they might be cut off. 5.  Your calf is rejected, O Samaria! My anger is aroused against them -- How long until they attain to innocence? 6.  For from Israel [is] even this: A workman made it, and it [is] not God; But the calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces. 7.  " They sow the wind, And reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud; It shall never produce meal. ...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 29TH SEPTEMBER, 2023 (ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS) TOPIC: THE DEFEAT OF SATAN 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....

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 27TH SEPTEMBER, 2023.  TOPIC: THE URGENT CALL TO SEEK THE LORD TEXT: HOSEA 5:8-6:7 8.  " Blow the ram's horn in Gibeah, The trumpet in Ramah! Cry aloud [at] Beth Aven, '[Look] behind you, O Benjamin!' 9.  Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke; Among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure. 10.  "The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark; I will pour out my wrath on them like water. 11.  Ephraim is oppressed [and] broken in judgment, Because he willingly walked by [human] precept. 12.  Therefore I [will be] to Ephraim like a moth, And to the house of Judah like rottenness. 13.  "When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah [saw] his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria And sent to King Jareb; Yet he cannot cure you, Nor heal you of your wound. 14.  For I [will be] like a lion to Ephraim, And like a young lion to the ho...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 26TH SEPTEMBER, 2023  TOPIC: DANGER OF NEGLECTING THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD TEXT: HOSEA 4:1-13 1. Hear the word of the LORD, You children of Israel, For the LORD [brings] a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "There is no truth or mercy Or knowledge of God in the land. 2. [By] swearing and lying, Killing and stealing and committing adultery, They break all restraint, With bloodshed upon bloodshed. 3. Therefore the land will mourn; And everyone who dwells there will waste away With the beasts of the field And the birds of the air; Even the fish of the sea will be taken away. 4. "Now let no man contend, or rebuke another; For your people [are] like those who contend with the priest. 5.  Therefore you shall stumble in the day; The prophet also shall stumble with you in the night; And I will destroy your mother. 6.  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because y...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 25TH SEPTEMBER, 2023  TOPIC: GOD'S PROMISED RESTORATION OF HIS PEOPLE TEXT: HOSEA 2:14-23 14.  " Therefore, behold, I will allure her, Will bring her into the wilderness, And speak comfort to her. 15.  I will give her her vineyards from there, And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope; She shall sing there, As in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt. 16.  "And it shall be, in that day," Says the LORD, "[That] you will call Me 'My Husband,' And no longer call Me 'My Master,' 17.  For I will take from her mouth the names of the Baals, And they shall be remembered by their name no more. 18.  In that day I will make a covenant for them With the beasts of the field, With the birds of the air, And [with] the creeping things of the ground. Bow and sword of battle I will shatter from the earth, To make them lie dow...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 24TH SEPTEMBER, 2023  TOPIC: THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT TEXT: MATTHEW 22:34-40 34.  But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35.  Then one of them, a lawyer, asked [Him a question,] testing Him, and saying, 36.  "Teacher, which [is] the great commandment in the law?" 37.  Jesus said to him, " 'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' 38.  "This is [the] first and great commandment. 39.  "And [the] second [is] like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' 40.  "On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."   MESSAGE:  One would wonder how the entire laws of God and all that the prophets spoke about will be so simply summarised by Jesus Christ our Lord and Master in: “Love the Lord... with all... and your neighbo...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 23RD SEPTEMBER, 2023  TOPIC: ALL THINGS TO THE GLORY OF GOD. TEXT: 2 CORINTHIANS 10 1. Now I, Paul, myself am pleading with you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ -- who in presence [am] lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you. 2. But I beg [you] that when I am present I may not be bold with that confidence by which I intend to be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. 3. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4. For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5.  casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 6.  and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. 7.  Do you look at things accordi...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 22ND SEPTEMBER, 2023  TOPIC: UNDERSTANDING THE PLACE OF GIVING IN MINISTRY TEXT: 2 CORINTHIANS 9 1. Now concerning the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you; 2. for I know your willingness, about which I boast of you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal has stirred up the majority. 3. Yet I have sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this respect, that, as I said, you may be ready; 4. lest if [some] Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to mention you!) should be ashamed of this confident boasting. 5.  Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go to you ahead of time, and prepare your generous gift beforehand, which [you had] previously promised, that it may be ready as [a matter of] generosity and not as a grudging obligation. 6.  But this [I say:] ...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 20TH SEPTEMBER, 2023  TOPIC: GOD LOVES A CHEERFUL GIVER TEXT: 2 CORINTHIANS 8:1-24 1. Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia: 2. that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their liberality. 3. For I bear witness that according to [their] ability, yes, and beyond [their] ability, [they were] freely willing, 4. imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. 5.  And not [only] as we had hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and [then] to us by the will of God. 6.  So we urged Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also complete this grace in you as well. 7.  But as you abound in everything -- in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love ...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 19TH SEPTEMBER, 2023  TOPIC:  IF ANY MAN BE IN CHRIST... TEXT: : 2 CORINTHIANS 5:1-21 1. For we know that if our earthly house, [this] tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 . For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, 3. if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4. For we who are in [this] tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5.  Now He who has prepared us for this very thing [is] God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. 6.  So [we are] always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7.  For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8.  We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 17TH SEPTEMBER, 2023 (FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY) TOPIC: HELL IS REAL TEXT: LUKE 16:19-31 19.  "There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. 20.  "But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate, 21.  "desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22.  "So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. 23.  "And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24.  "Then he cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.' 25.  ...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 16TH SEPTEMBER, 2023  TOPIC: PHARAOH'S DOOM TEXT: EZEKIEL 32:1-17 1. And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth [month,] on the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2. "Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: 'You are like a young lion among the nations, And you [are] like a monster in the seas, Bursting forth in your rivers, Troubling the waters with your feet, And fouling their rivers.' 3. "Thus says the Lord GOD: 'I will therefore spread My net over you with a company of many people, And they will draw you up in My net. 4. Then I will leave you on the land; I will cast you out on the open fields, And cause to settle on you all the birds of the heavens. And with you I will fill the beasts of the whole earth. 5.  I will lay your flesh on the mountains, And fill the valley...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 15TH SEPTEMBER, 2023  TOPIC: LET ANY ONE WHO THINKS HE STANDS, TAKE HEED! TEXT: EZEKIEL 31:1-18 1. Now it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third [month,] on the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2. "Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: 'Whom are you like in your greatness? 3. Indeed Assyria [was] a cedar in Lebanon, With fine branches that shaded the forest, And of high stature; And its top was among the thick boughs. 4. The waters made it grow; Underground waters gave it height, With their rivers running around the place where it was planted, And sent out rivulets to all the trees of the field. 5.  'Therefore its height was exalted above all the trees of the field; Its boughs were multiplied, And its branches became long because of the abundance of water, As it sent them out. 6.  All the birds of ...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 14TH SEPTEMBER, 2023 (HOLY CROSS DAY) TOPIC: JESUS HUMBLED HIMSELF 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:  In Jesus we see perfect humi...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 12TH SEPTEMBER, 2023  TOPIC: THE DESTRUCTION OF TYRE TEXT: EZEKIEL 27:27-36 27.  " Your riches, wares, and merchandise, Your mariners and pilots, Your caulkers and merchandisers, All your men of war who [are] in you, And the entire company which [is] in your midst, Will fall into the midst of the seas on the day of your ruin. 28.  The common-land will shake at the sound of the cry of your pilots. 29.  "All who handle the oar, The mariners, All the pilots of the sea Will come down from their ships [and] stand on the shore. 30.  They will make their voice heard because of you; They will cry bitterly and cast dust on their heads; They will roll about in ashes; 31.  They will shave themselves completely bald because of you, Gird themselves with sackcloth, And weep for you With bitterness ofG heart [and] bitter wailing. 32.  In their wailing for you They w...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 11TH SEPTEMBER, 2023  TOPIC: TYRE, A NATION THAT HAD RICHES BUT ABANDONED GOD  EZEKIEL 27:1-26 1. The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, 2. "Now, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre, 3. "and say to Tyre, 'You who are situated at the entrance of the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coastlands, thus says the Lord GOD: "O Tyre, you have said, 'I [am] perfect in beauty.' 4. Your borders [are] in the midst of the seas. Your builders have perfected your beauty. 5.  They made all [your] planks of fir trees from Senir; They took a cedar from Lebanon to make you a mast. 6.  [Of] oaks from Bashan they made your oars; The company of Ashurites have inlaid your planks [With] ivory from the coasts of Cyprus. 7.  Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was what you spread for your sail; Blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was what covered you. 8.  "...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 10TH SEPTEMBER, 2023  TOPIC: MISSING LINK TEXT: LUKE 10:25-37 25.  And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested Him, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" 26.  He said to him, "What is written in the law? What is your reading [of it?"] 27.  So he answered and said, " 'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,' and 'your neighbor as yourself.' " 28.  And He said to him, "You have answered rightly; do this and you will live." 29.  But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" 30.  Then Jesus answered and said: "A certain [man] went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded [him,] and departed, leaving [him] half dead. 31.  ...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 9TH SEPTEMBER, 2023  TOPIC: ONE BODY, DIFFERENT PARTS TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 12:1-11 1. Now concerning spiritual [gifts,] brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant: 2. You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, however you were led. 3. Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit. 4. There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5.  There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. 6.  And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. 7.  But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit [of all:] 8.  for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9.  to another faith by the same Spir...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 8TH SEPTEMBER, 2023 (NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY) TOPIC: REDEMPTION IN CHRIST 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: At the peak of time, the plan of God to save man came to pass in a virgin called Mary being pregnant by the power of the Holy Ghost as prophesied by Prophet Isaiah. This pregnancy resulted in the birth of Jesus Christ the Saviour of the world. Christ's birth and death redeemed man from the slavery of the law and the age-long relationship that w...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 6TH SEPTEMBER, 2023  TOPIC: KEEP THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 11:1-17 1. Imitate me, just as I also [imitate] Christ. 2. Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things and keep the traditions just as I delivered [them] to you. 3. But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman [is] man, and the head of Christ [is] God. 4. Every man praying or prophesying, having [his] head covered, dishonors his head. 5.  But every woman who prays or prophesies with [her] head uncovered dishonors her head, for that is one and the same as if her head were shaved. 6.  For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered. 7.  For a man indeed ought not to cover [his] head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man. 8....

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 5TH SEPTEMBER, 2023  TOPIC: TAKING THE GRACE FOR GRANTED TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 10:1-31 1. Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, 2. all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3. all ate the same spiritual food, 4. and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. 5.  But with most of them God was not well pleased, for [their bodies] were scattered in the wilderness. 6.  Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. 7.  And do not become idolaters as [were] some of them. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." 8.  Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day tw...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 4TH SEPTEMBER, 2023  TOPIC: FOR THE PRIZE'S SAKE TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 9:1-27 1. Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? 2. If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. 3. My defense to those who examine me is this: 4. Do we have no right to eat and drink? 5.  Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as [do] also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? 6.  Or [is it] only Barnabas and I [who] have no right to refrain from working? 7.  Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock? 8.  Do I say these things as a [mere] man? Or does not the law say the same also? 9.  For it is written in ...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 3RD SEPTEMBER, 2023  TOPIC: KEEP PRAYING TEXT: LUKE 11:1-13 1. Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, [that] one of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples." 2. So He said to them, "When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as [it is] in heaven. 3. Give us day by day our daily bread. 4. And forgive us our sins, For we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one." 5.  And He said to them, "Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves; 6.  'for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him'; 7.  "and he will answer from within and ...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 30TH AUGUST, 2023  TOPIC: WHO TO OBEY - GOD OR MEN? TEXT: JEREMIAH 38:15-28 15. Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "If I declare [it] to you, will you not surely put me to death? And if I give you advice, you will not listen to me." 16. So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, "[As] the LORD lives, who made our very souls, I will not put you to death, nor will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life." 17. Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "Thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: 'If you surely surrender to the king of Babylon's princes, then your soul shall live; this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and your house shall live. 18. 'But if you do not surrender to the king of Babylon's princes, then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans; they shall burn it with fire, and yo...

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 1ST SEPTEMBER, 2023  TOPIC: PRIDE DESTROYS TEXT: JEREMIAH 50:1-21 50:1. The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon [and] against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. 2. "Declare among the nations, Proclaim, and set up a standard; Proclaim -- do not conceal [it -- Say,] 'Babylon is taken, Bel is shamed. Merodach is broken in pieces; Her idols are humiliated, Her images are broken in pieces.' 3. For out of the north a nation comes up against her, Which shall make her land desolate, And no one shall dwell therein. They shall move, they shall depart, Both man and beast. 4. " In those days and in that time," says the LORD, "The children of Israel shall come, They and the children of Judah together; With continual weeping they shall come, And seek the LORD their God. 5.  They shall ask the way to Zion, With their faces toward it, [saying,] 'Com...