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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