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THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: WEDNESDAY, 8TH MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: WHOLEHEARTED DEVOTION TOWARDS GOD TEXT: LEVITICUS 26: 1-21 1. 'You shall not make idols for yourselves; neither a carved image nor a [sacred] pillar shall you rear up for yourselves; nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I [am] the LORD your God. 2. You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I [am] the LORD. 3. ' If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them, 4. then I will give you rain in its season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5.  Your threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing; you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. 6.  I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none will make [you] afraid; I will rid the land of evil

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: TUESDAY, 7TH MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: HOLDING GOD BY HIS WORD TEXT: LEVITICUS 25:19-44 19.  'Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill, and dwell there in safety. 20.  'And if you say, "What shall we eat in the seventh year, since we shall not sow nor gather in our produce?" 21.  'Then I will command My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three years. 22.  'And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat old produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you shall eat [of] the old [harvest.] 23.  ' The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land [is] Mine; for you [are] strangers and sojourners with Me. 24.  'And in all the land of your possession you shall grant redemption of the land. 25.  ' If one of your brethren becomes poor, and has sold [some] of his possession, and if his redee

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: MONDAY, 6TH MARCH, 2023  TOPIC: COHABITATION OF THE RICH AND POOR TEXT: LEVITICUS 25: 1-18 1. And the LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, 2. "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a sabbath to the LORD. 3. 'Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its fruit; 4. 'but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the LORD. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard. 5.  'What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine, [for] it is a year of rest for the land. 6.  'And the sabbath [produce] of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you,

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SUNDAY, 5TH MARCH, 2023 (SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT) TOPIC: THE WORTH OF A SOUL TEXT: LUKE 15: 1-10 1. Then all the tax collectors and the sinners drew near to Him to hear Him. 2. And the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, "This Man receives sinners and eats with them." 3. So He spoke this parable to them, saying: 4. "What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? 5.  "And when he has found [it,] he lays [it] on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6.  "And when he comes home, he calls together [his] friends and neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!' 7.  "I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentan

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: SATURDAY, 4TH MARCH, 2023          TOPIC: THE RIGHT HEART DISPOSITION TOWARDS GOD'S WORD  TEXT: MARK 4:1-35 1. And again He began to teach by the sea. And a great multitude was gathered to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat [in it] on the sea; and the whole multitude was on the land facing the sea. 2. Then He taught them many things by parables, and said to them in His teaching: 3. "Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow. 4. "And it happened, as he sowed, [that] some [seed] fell by the wayside; and the birds of the air came and devoured it. 5.  "Some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth. 6.  "But when the sun was up it was scorched, and because it had no root it withered away. 7.  "And some [seed] fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no crop. 8.

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: FRIDAY, 3RD MARCH, 2023          TOPIC: REQUIREMENT FOR EFFECTIVE DISCIPLESHIP TEXT: MARK 3:14-35 14.  Then He appointed twelve, that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach, 15.  and to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons: 16.  Simon, to whom He gave the name Peter; 17.  James the [son] of Zebedee and John the brother of James, to whom He gave the name Boanerges, that is, "Sons of Thunder"; 18.  Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the [son] of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Cananite; 19.  and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him. And they went into a house. 20.  Then the multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. 21.  But when His own people heard [about this,] they went out to lay hold of Him, for they said, "He is out of His mind." 22.  And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION) DATE: THURSDAY, 2ND MARCH, 2023          TOPIC: THE MINISTRY OF MERCY TEXT: MARK 2:24-3:1-13 24.  And the Pharisees said to Him, "Look, why do they do what is not lawful on the Sabbath?" 25.  But He said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and those with him: 26.  "how he went into the house of God [in the days] of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the showbread, which is not lawful to eat, except for the priests, and also gave some to those who were with him?" 27.  And He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. 28.  "Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath." 3:1. And He entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a withered hand. 2. So they watched Him closely, whether He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might [a]accuse Him.  3. And He said to th