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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...