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THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 3RD FEBRUARY, 2022  TOPIC: LOVE  TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 13 1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2. And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3. And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor,] and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. 4. Love suffers long [and] is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5.  does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6.  does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7.  bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8.  Love never fails. But whether [there are] prophecies,

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 2ND FEBRUARY, 2022 (THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST) TOPIC: THE HUMAN NATURE OF CHRIST TEXT: HEBREWS 2:14-18 14.  Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 15.  and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 16.  For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham. 17.  Therefore, in all things He had to be made like [His] brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things [pertaining] to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18.  For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted. MESSAGE: Jesus Christ is the eternal God - the Messiah "Who took on human nature of flesh and blood (Jo

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 1ST FEBRUARY, 2022  TOPIC: IDOLATRY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES TEXT: HOSEA 9 1. Do not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like [other] peoples, For you have played the harlot against your God. You have made love [for] hire on every threshing floor. 2. The threshing floor and the winepress Shall not feed them, And the new wine shall fail in her. 3. They shall not dwell in the LORD's land, But Ephraim shall return to Egypt, And shall eat unclean [things] in Assyria. 4. They shall not offer wine [offerings] to the LORD, Nor shall their sacrifices be pleasing to Him. [It shall be] like bread of mourners to them; All who eat it shall be defiled. For their bread [shall be] for their [own] life; It shall not come into the house of the LORD. 5.  What will you do in the appointed day, And in the day of the feast of the LORD? 6.  For indeed they are gone because of destruction. Egypt shall gather them u

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 31ST JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: THE EFFECT OF ISRAEL'S SEVERANCE FROM GOD 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 pro

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 30TH JANUARY, 2022 (FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY)  TOPIC: CHRIST HEALS A LEPER  TEXT: MARK 1:40-45 40.  Now a leper came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, "If You are willing, You can make me clean." 41.  Then Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out [His] hand and touched him, and said to him, "I am willing; be cleansed." 42.  As soon as He had spoken, immediately the leprosy left him, and he was cleansed. 43.  And He strictly warned him and sent him away at once, 44.  and said to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing those things which Moses commanded, as a testimony to them." 45.  However, he went out and began to proclaim [it] freely, and to spread the matter, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter the city, but was outside in deserted pla

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 29TH JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: TREAT GOD'S COVENANT WITH UTMOST HONOUR AND RESPECT  TEXT: HOSEA 6:7-11; Hosea 7:1-2 7.  "But like men they transgressed the covenant; There they dealt treacherously with Me. 8.  Gilead [is] a city of evildoers, [And] defiled with blood. 9.  As bands of robbers lie in wait for a man, [So] the company of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Surely they commit lewdness. 10.  I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: There [is] the harlotry of Ephraim; Israel is defiled. 11.  Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you, When I return the captives of My people. 7:1. "When I would have healed Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, And the wickedness of Samaria. For they have committed fraud; A thief comes in; A band of robbers takes spoil outside. 2. They do not consider in their hearts [That] I remember all their wickedn

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 28TH JANUARY, 2022  TOPIC: STOP PROMOTING EVIL  TEXT: HOSEA 5:8-6:1-6 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 house of Judah. I, [even] I, w