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THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 5TH FEBRUARY, 2023 (SEPTUAGESIMA)   TOPIC: FOOD FOR THE DISCIPLES TEXT: MATTHEW 5: 1-12 (AMP) 1. Seeing the crowds, He went up on the mountain; and when He was seated, His disciples came to Him. 2. Then He opened His mouth and taught them, saying: 3. Blessed (happy, to be envied, and spiritually prosperous--with life-joy and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions) are the poor in spirit (the humble, who rate themselves insignificant), for theirs is the kingdom of heaven! 4. Blessed and enviably happy [with a happiness produced by the experience of God's favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His matchless grace] are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted! [Isa. 61:2.] 5. Blessed (happy, blithesome, joyous, spiritually prosperous--with life-joy and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless of their o

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 4TH FEBRUARY, 2023            TOPIC: THESE TIMES OF IGNORANCE TEXT: ACTS 17:17-END  17. Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there.  18. Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,” because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection. 19. And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new doctrine is of which you speak?  20. For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what these things mean.”  21. For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing. 22. Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopa

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 3RD FEBRUARY, 2023            TOPIC: TURNING THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN TEXT: ACTS 17:1-16 (AMP) 1. Now After [Paul and Silas] had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. 2. And Paul entered, as he usually did, and for three Sabbaths he reasoned and argued with them from the Scriptures, 3. Explaining [them] and [quoting passages] setting forth and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, This Jesus, Whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ (the Messiah). 4. And some of them [accordingly] were induced to believe and associated themselves with Paul and Silas, as did a great number of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women. 5. But the unbelieving Jews were aroused to jealousy, and, getting hold of some wicked men (ruffians and rascals) and loungers in the marketp

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 2ND FEBRUARY, 2023 (PRESENTATION OF CHRIST in6 THE TEMPLE)           TOPIC: AN OBEDIENT FAMILY TEXT: LUKE 2:22-35 (AMP) 22. And when the time for their purification [the mother's purification and the Baby's dedication] came according to the Law of Moses, they brought Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord--[Lev. 12:1-4.] 23. As it is written in the Law of the Lord, Every [firstborn] male that opens the womb shall be set apart and dedicated and called holy to the Lord--[Exod. 13:1, 2, 12; Num. 8:17.] 24. And [they came also] to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord: a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons. [Lev. 12:6-8.] 25. Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout [cautiously and carefully observing the divine Law], and looking for the Consolation of Israel; and the Holy Spirit was up

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 1ST FEBRUARY, 2023            TOPIC: ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR  TEXT: ACTS 16:16-40 16. Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling.  17. This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.”  18. And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out that very hour.  19. But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities. 20. And they brought them to the magistrates, and said, “These men, being Jews, exceedingly trouble our city;  21. and they teach customs which

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 31ST JANUARY, 2023            TOPIC: HAVE A GOOD TESTIMONY  TEXT: ACTS 16:1-15 (AMP) 1. And [Paul] went down to Derbe and also to Lystra. A disciple named Timothy was there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer [she had become convinced that Jesus is the Messiah and the Author of eternal salvation, and yielded obedience to Him]; but [Timothy's] father was a Greek. 2. He [Timothy] had a good reputation among the brethren at Lystra and Iconium. 3. Paul desired Timothy to go with him [as a missionary]; and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews that were in those places, all of whom knew that his father was a Greek. 4. As they went on their way from town to town, they delivered over [to the assemblies] for their observance the regulations decided upon by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem. 5. So the churches were strengthened and made firm in the faith

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 30TH JANUARY, 2023            TOPIC: GIVE SOMEONE A SECOND CHANCE TEXT: ACTS 15:30-41(AMP) 30. So when [the messengers] were sent off, they went down to Antioch; and having assembled the congregation, they delivered the letter. 31. And when they read it, the people rejoiced at the consolation and encouragement [it brought them]. 32. And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets (inspired interpreters of the will and purposes of God), urged and warned and consoled and encouraged the brethren with many words and strengthened them. 33. And after spending some time there, they were sent back by the brethren with [the greeting] peace to those who had sent them. 34. However, Silas decided to stay on there. 35. But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch and with many others also continued teaching and proclaiming the good news, the Word of the Lord [concerning the attainment through Christ