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THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 26TH NOVEMBER, 2021  TOPIC: LIVE TO PLEASE GOD TEXT: 1 THESSALONIANS 4:1-12 1. Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; 2. for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3. For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; 4. that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5.  not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6.  that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord [is] the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. 7.  For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. 8.  Therefore he who rejects [this] does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 25TH NOVEMBER, 2021  TOPIC: INCREASING AND ABOUNDING IN LOVE TEXT: 1 THESSALONIANS 3:6-13 6.  But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always have good remembrance of us, greatly desiring to see us, as we also [to see] you -- 7.  therefore, brethren, in all our affliction and distress we were comforted concerning you by your faith. 8.  For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. 9.  For what thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sake before our God, 10.  night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and perfect what is lacking in your faith? 11.  Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you. 12.  And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we [do] to you, 13.  so that He

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 24TH NOVEMBER, 2021  TOPIC: YOU SHALL NOT BE MOVED TEXT: 1 THESSALONIANS 3:1-5  1. Therefore, when we could no longer endure it, we thought it good to be left in Athens alone, 2. and sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow-labourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and encourage you concerning your faith, 3. that no one should be shaken by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are appointed to this. 4. For, in fact, we told you before when we were with you that we would suffer tribulation, just as it happened, and you know. 5.  For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter had tempted you, and our labour might be in vain. MESSAGE: Affliction, distress, suffering, persecution and pain sometimes characterise the life of a believer in Christ. In the passage we read Paul admonished

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 23RD NOVEMBER, 2021  TOPIC: MY CONVERT - MY JOY AND CROWN TEXT: 1 THESSALONIANS 2:17-20 17.  But we, brethren, having been taken away from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavored more eagerly to see your face with great desire. 18.  Therefore we wanted to come to you - even I, Paul, time and again -- but Satan hindered us. 19.  For what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? [Is it] not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming? 20.  For you are our glory and joy. MESSAGE: Today's passage expresses not just the passion, affection and love that Apostle Paul had for his converts in Thessalonica, but the longing in his heart to joyfully present the converts to the Lord Jesus in eternity as the fruit of his earthly mission. Thus he described them as his joy and crown (Phil. 4:1). Throughout His earthly ministry, Jesus was consumed with t

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 22ND NOVEMBER, 2021  TOPIC: LEADING BY EXAMPLE TEXT: 1 THESSALONIANS 2:9 - 16 9.  For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for laboring night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God. 10.  You [are] witnesses, and God [also,] how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you who believe; 11.  as you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father [does] his own children, 12.  that you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory. 13.  For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed [it] not [as] the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe. 14.  For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 21ST NOVEMBER, 2021  (TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY/CHRIST THE KING ) TOPIC: WHILE MEN SLEPT....  TEXT: MATTHEW 13:24-32  24.  Another parable He put forth to them, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25.  "but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. 26.  "But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. 27.  "So the servants of the owner came and said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?' 28.  "He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' The servants said to him, 'Do you want us then to go and gather them up?' 29.  "But he said, 'No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30.  'Let both grow together until the harvest, and at

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 20TH NOVEMBER, 2021  TOPIC: COST OF FOLLOWING AND PREACHING CHRIST TEXT: 1 THESSALONIANS 2:1 - 8 1. For you yourselves know, brethren, that our coming to you was not in vain. 2. But even after we had suffered before and were spitefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much conflict. 3. For our exhortation [did] not [come] from error or uncleanness, nor [was it] in deceit. 4. But as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tests our hearts. 5.  For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor a cloak for covetousness -- God [is] witness. 6.  Nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, when we might have made demands as apostles of Christ. 7.  But we were gentle among you, just as a nursing [mother] cherishes her