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THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 5TH MARCH, 2022  TOPIC: LEANING ON GOD TEXT: JEREMIAH 10:17-24  17.  Gather up your wares from the land, O inhabitant of the fortress! 18.  For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will throw out at this time The inhabitants of the land, And will distress them, That they may find [it so."] 19.  Woe is me for my hurt! My wound is severe. But I say, "Truly this [is] an infirmity, And I must bear it." 20.  My tent is plundered, And all my cords are broken; My children have gone from me, And they [are] no more. [There is] no one to pitch my tent anymore, Or set up my curtains. 21.  For the shepherds have become dull-hearted, And have not sought the LORD; Therefore they shall not prosper, And all their flocks shall be scattered. 22.  Behold, the noise of the report has come, And a great commotion out of the north country, To make the cities of Judah desolate, a den of jackal

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 4TH MARCH, 2022  TOPIC: WORSHIP THE ONLY TRUE GOD TEXT: JEREMIAH 10:1-16  1. Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel. 2. Thus says the LORD: "Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, For the Gentiles are dismayed at them. 3. For the customs of the peoples [are] futile; For [one] cuts a tree from the forest, The work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. 4. They decorate it with silver and gold; They fasten it with nails and hammers So that it will not topple. 5.  They [are] upright, like a palm tree, And they cannot speak; They must be carried, Because they cannot go [by themselves.] Do not be afraid of them, For they cannot do evil, Nor can they do any good." 6.  Inasmuch as [there is] none like You, O LORD (You [are] great, and Your name [is] great in might), 7.  Who would not fear You, O King of the nations?

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 3RD MARCH, 2022  TOPIC: A CALL TO DEPEND ON GOD TEXT: JEREMIAH 9:12-24  12.  Who [is] the wise man who may understand this? And [who is he] to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why does the land perish [and] burn up like a wilderness, so that no one can pass through? 13.  And the LORD said, "Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice, nor walked according to it, 14.  "but they have walked according to the dictates of their own hearts and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them," 15.  therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. 16.  "I will scatter them also among the Gentiles, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I will send a sword after them until I have c

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 2ND MARCH, 2022 (ASH WEDNESDAY)  TOPIC: A CALL TO REPENTANCE TEXT: JEREMIAH 8:18 - 9:11  18.  I would comfort myself in sorrow; My heart [is] faint in me. 19.  Listen! The voice, The cry of the daughter of my people From a far country: "[Is] not the LORD in Zion? [Is] not her King in her?" "Why have they provoked Me to anger With their carved images -- With foreign idols?" 20.  "The harvest is past, The summer is ended, And we are not saved!" 21.  For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt. I am mourning; Astonishment has taken hold of me. 22.  [Is there] no balm in Gilead, [Is there] no physician there? Why then is there no recovery For the health of the daughter of my people? 23. Oh, that my head were waters, And my eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For the slain of the daughter of my people! 24. Oh, that I had in the

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 1ST MARCH, 2022 (SHROVE TUESDAY)  TOPIC: REPENT AND AVOID GOD’S WRATH TEXT: JEREMIAH 8:1-16  1. "At that time," says the LORD, "they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves. 2. "They shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked, which they have sought and which they have worshiped. They shall not be gathered nor buried; they shall be like refuse on the face of the earth. 3. "Then death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of those who remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them," says the LORD of hosts. 4. " Moreover you shal

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 28TH FEBRUARY, 2022  TOPIC: OBEY MY VOICE AND WALK IN ALL MY WAYS TEXT: JEREMIAH 7: 21-34  21.  Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. 22.  "For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices. 23.  "But this is what I commanded them, saying, 'Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.' 24.  "Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels [and] the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward. 25.  "Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising u

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 7TH FEBRUARY, 2022  (QUINQUAGESIMA)  TOPIC: APART WITH THE LORD ON THE MOUNTAIN  TEXT: MARK 9:2-9 2. Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and led them up on a high mountain apart by themselves; and He was transfigured before them. 3. His clothes became shining, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them. 4. And Elijah appeared to them with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus. 5.  Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah"  6.  because he did not know what to say, for they were greatly afraid. 7.  And a cloud came and overshadowed them; and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son. Hear Him!" 8.  Suddenly, when they had looked around, they saw no one anymore, but only Jesus wit