HORM Devotional

Matthew 12:40: For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fishfor three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

DAILY READING; 2 Corinthians 10; 2 Kings 23:36-24:20; Habakkuk 1

‘Harrowing of Hell’ is an Old English term that refers to the day after the crucifixion.
In Christian theology, it refers to the time period between Good Friday – and Easter Sunday.
It’s also recognized as Holy Saturday, which is the day Christians are commemorating today.
The day before, in Jerusalem in A.D. 30, the Sanhedrin had arrested Jesus and charged Him with blasphemy — a charge punishable by death under Jewish law. But the Jews did not have the authority to carry out such a penalty and had convinced the occupying Roman army that Jesus was also guilty of sedition and inciting people to rebel against Rome. The Roman procurator, Pilate, couldn’t find serious fault with Jesus but eventually succumbed to the demands of the Jews. Jesus was crucified and buried in a tomb.
The day following the Crucifixion was the Jewish Sabbath, a day given to God, when no work could be done. For the grief-stricken followers of Christ, that Sabbath must have been a day of gloom and darkness.

But on that Saturday, while the disciples mourned, unknown to them, Christ was alive in another realm. He had gone down to hell to defeat the devil and win complete victory for humanity.
Jesus totally devastated the kingdom of darkness and left hell in shambles, triumphing over the devil, and disarming all principalities and powers.

Colossians 2:15 says, “Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it”.

Jesus took the key of death from the devil and defeated death’s terror to hold us down. Through His victory, we now have resurrection power. No matter how terrible any condition, through Christ we can arise from it. Because He lives, we live also.

In Revelation 1:18 Jesus says: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death’.

After Jesus had sealed the devil’s defeat, He arose from the grave and appeared to His disciples.
Imagine the joy of these disciples as they saw Jesus again! Their mourning was turned into dancing, their darkness was turned into light and their night was turned into day.
Through His death and resurrection, Jesus has given us total victory and liberty in life. Negative situations no longer have the final say over our lives. No matter the negative medical verdict or financial reports you may face today, they can be overturned by the power in the Blood of Jesus.
We are truly grateful for what Christ has done for us.
For our sake, Jesus was willing to pay whatever price was needed to deliver us from hell, death and the grave.
Today, let us praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank our faithful Lord for His finished work on the Cross.

PRAYER: Lord, I thank You for the price you paid at Calvary to set me free. Please help me to live a life that continually brings glory to You. May my zeal for Your kingdom never wane in Jesus Name.
QUOTE:
The battle you are faced with today is a good warfare because God has already foreordained victorious end for you. WORDBITE 222

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John 8:32 “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

DAILY READING – 2 Corinthians 9; 2 Kings 22:1-23:35; Nahum 3

Imprisoned for more than 45 years for a murder he didn’t commit, Richard Phillips spent more time behind bars than any other wrongfully imprisoned person in America.
After serving 46 years in prison, Richard Phillips at age 73, was exonerated in 2018, making him the longest-serving U.S prisoner to be cleared.
Phillips was a 27 years old auto worker in Detroit, when in June 1971, he was accused to be an accomplice in a murder case. In October 1972, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. And for the next 46 years, Phillips’ contention that he was innocent fell on deaf ears.
While in prison, he refused to give up hope, he spent the time becoming an accomplished artist and produced many paintings which he hoped to sell when he regained his freedom.
Things began to look up for him, when in 2010, the man who had initially implicated him, confessed to the police that he had lied about Phillips. He told a parole board that he was the one that had committed the murder and that Phillips had nothing to do with it. Four years later, in 2014, Phillips was granted a new trial. And in this trial, the judge overturned his murder conviction and declared him innocent. And after 46 years, Phillips finally walked out free from prison.
Outside the prison walls, Richard Phillips found success as an artist. The sale of his paintings made while in prison, earned him enough income to buy a house and start living a comfortable life.
His financial fortune increased further when he found he was eligible to receive up to $2,250,000 through a wrongful Imprisonment Compensation Act which grants $50,000 for every year that a person was wrongfully imprisoned.

For 46 years Philips was kept in bondage because the truth was hidden. But once the truth became known his freedom was immediately secured.
Humanity was kept in bondage until one day, 2000 years ago, God sent the truth in the person of Jesus, to invade the earth and set captives free.
Establishing this truth was the mission of Jesus into the world.
Before His crucifixion, Jesus stood before the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate and proclaimed “For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth.” [John 18:37-38].
Jesus brought the truth of God’s Word into the world to shatter the oppression of darkness.
He sent His Word to heal us and deliver us from destructions.[ Psalm 107:20]
But due to lack of understanding, people remain bound in oppression and suffer unnecessarily because they lack a personal revelation of the truth that sets free.
Hosea 4:6 says that God’s people perish because of lack of knowledge.
When you are armed for the battle with the truth of Gods Word, you will overcome the principalities, powers and spiritual wickedness fighting your destiny (Ephesians 6:12).
Life is essentially a warfare, it is through engaging the weapon of God’s Word that we can secure total freedom from the enemy.
As a blood-bought covenant child of the living God, it is your portion to live in dominion, therefore do not give room to any oppression through spiritual ignorance.
When you gain knowledge of the truth through indepth study of God’s Word, you will successfully break free from every captivity and bondage.
Today, let us determine to seek for the key of knowledge that will unlock every prison door.and usher us into the fruitful and fulfilling life, Christ died to purchase for us at Calvary.

PRAYER: Lord, Today I invoke the speaking of the Blood of Jesus against everything fighting my destiny. I declare that by the mystery of the Blood I have broken free from every captivity, to live in dominion and victory in Jesus Name.
QUOTE;
There is something that God has placed within you that the world is eagerly awaiting to see. WORDBITE 222..

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Philippians 3:10 ‘That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

DAILY READING; – 2 Corinthians 8; 2 Kings 20-21; Nahum 2

In the early 20th century, John Graham Lake operated in one of the most powerful and awe-inspiring gifts of healing that the world has ever seen.
Because of John Lake’s Healing Rooms ministry in Spokane, Washington, the city was declared the ‘healthiest city in the world’ between the years of 1915-1920.
After his death, John G. Lake’s healing rooms were closed down in 1935. But in the mid 1990s, a man felt led by the Spirit to reopen them. Cal Pierce was a California real estate developer who for twenty-five years served in Bethel Assembly of God Church as a board member and elder.
In 1996, Cal, felt a desperate hunger to learn all he could about healing, past revivals, and movements of the Holy Spirit. After long hours of prayer and a 40-day fast, Cal felt a calling to go and reopen John G. Lake’s Healing Rooms in Spokane, Washington.
At the end of the fast, he said the Holy Spirit directed him to re-dig those generational wells of healing that John G. Lake had in Spokane.
In 1997, Cal and his wife moved from California, to Spokane where they purchased the original property of John Lake’s healing rooms. On July 22, 1999, the Healing Rooms were officially reopened. From there, they started their Healing Rooms Ministries which has moved around the world, with nearly 400 Healing Rooms established in over 20 countries.

Reopening the healing rooms was aimed at reigniting the streams of divine healing and miracles that flowed during the time of John G. Lake’s ministry.
Just as God’s power mightily flowed through great men like John Lake, so should it be flowing through every believer today.
Jesus died at the Cross to raise a peculiar people who will live in the power of His resurrection, manifesting signs and wonders to the world.
Redemption, disallows us from living as natural men, because we have been translated to the supernatural realm and moved from the terrestrial to the celestial.
We are redeemed to be world changers, trail blazers, and pillars of light in our families, communities, offices and nations, whom men look up to for answers and solutions.
But all these will only come into manifestation when we pay the price of pressing into spiritual depths where the power of God resides.
There are mighty manifestations of power and glory, miracles signs and wonders, awaiting those who will launch out into the deep for a net-breaking encounter.
Therefore let us refuse to live ordinary, mediocre lives of no impact to our world. Like Paul, our hearts should pant after knowing Christ and the power of His resurrection [Philippians 3:10-11].

The power and glory we see upon great servants of God, were always preceded by their desperate spiritual hunger.
Likewise, to encounter God’s power we must be hungry for it because it is a law of the spirit that only the hungry gets filled.
Just as great men like John G. Lake mightily manifested God’s power in their generation,let us seek to be the channels through which healing streams will flow to bring deliverance to our own world.

PRAYER:
Lord, Please help me to pay whatever price is required of me to seek Your face diligently, until I encounter Your resurrection power that will bring healing and deliverance to people in my generation in Jesus Name.
QUOTE
Illuminate your world for you are a star destined to shine. WORDBITE 222

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Revelation 12:11 ’And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.’

DAILY READING -2 Corinthians 5:11-6:13; 2 Kings 18; Micah 7

In 2022, a man lost a seven-year legal battle against a Belfast bakery that refused to make him a cake emblazoned with the message “support gay marriage”. The European court of human rights ruled that his claim was inadmissible.
This man had been in a legal battle with Ashers bakery owned by Christians because they refused to accept his order to bake a cake and write on it a message that promoted homosexuality. Ashers bakery owners Daniel and Amy McArthur had refused to do so because of their belief as they profoundly disagreed with the message.
In the court case, the owners of Ashers bakery clearly pleaded their case, stating why they declined to fulfill the order for a pro-gay cake. They were so persuasive in their argument that the Court saw reason with them and ruled in their favor.
The high court agreed that they could not be compelled to promote a message that went against their beliefs. The court found that there was no discrimination on the part of the bakers on the grounds of religious bias. Therefore, all charges of discrimination lodged against Ashers bakery owners were dismissed. This UK court decision was celebrated by Christians as it secured a major legal victory for freedom of conscience.

The owners of Ashers Bakery won in the court, because they effectively pleaded their case.
Spiritually we should know how to effectively plead our case in other to gain victory. And one way of sure victory is when we plead the Blood of Jesus.

“Pleading the blood” is actually a legal term. It is like a lawyer pleading his case before the judge. When the enemy accuses us, we do not plead ‘guilty’ or ‘not guilty’, we simply plead the Blood. When Jesus shed His blood on the cross, He accomplished total redemption for us. The Blood of Jesus reversed every curse of the law against us. That includes sickness, disease, poverty, lack, depression, addiction or any type of bondage to sin. By the shed Blood the hold of sin and satan is broken over our lives forever.
Therefore by reason of the Blood, the enemy has no legal right to any part of your life. When you plead the Blood, you have laid your case to rest by invoking the eternal price paid for your redemption. Therefore by the Blood you are freed from every demonic harassment
If the enemy comes to attack in any area, you simply plead the Blood of Jesus. When you plead the Blood, you paralyze all satanic oppressors delegated against you. When you plead the Blood of Jesus, The Holy Spirit lifts a standard against every flood coming against you. The mystery of the Blood Covenant is so essential in the days that we live in. Thus, it is expedient that we engage the demands of the mystery of the Blood in order to command victory over the forces of wickedness. Nothing can stand against the power of the Blood! Indeed the Blood of Jesus is an unbeatable weapon in the battles of life. Today, as you engage the Blood, God will pass divine judgment against every enemy of your life and establish your permanent victory over them.

PRAYER: Lord, I thank You for the power in the Blood of Jesus. Today, by the Blood, I have surely overcome in every area of my life in Jesus Name.
QUOTE;
God’s word is God’s ‘prescription’ for every area of your life, let God’s word fix that situation in your life. WORDBITE 222

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Deuteronomy 28:7 “The Lord will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way, but flee before you seven ways.’

Charles F. Parham was a key figure in the spread of Pentecostalism in the 20th century.
Despite being greatly anointed, he faced great oppositions and resistance to his ministry.
It seemed that Charles Parham’s battles started even from the womb as he suffered serious ailments from infancy.
At six months of age, he was stricken with a fever that left him bedridden. And then for the next five years of his life, he was plagued with dramatic spasms. At the tender age of seven, he lost his mother to a terminal sickness. Her parting words to him were, “Charlie, be good.”
Overwhelmed by grief and loneliness after his mother’s death, he tried to be good, as his mother had admonished him and began to seek God. By the age of nine, Charles felt the call to ministry and dedicated his life to serve God.
As he grew older, he trained to become a minister and God used him to introduce to Churches in America the power of the Holy Spirit.
At a time when divine healing and moves of the Spirit had scarcely been heard of, the ministry of Charles Parham demonstrated the power of the Holy Spirit through miracles, signs and wonders.
This attracted relentless backlash against him by those who opposed his teachings, but Charles Parham stood for the truth.
Though several men sought to destroy him, they couldn’t touch the pillar of strength that was built within his spirit through fellowship with God’s Spirit and His Word. Charles Parham remained steadfast in his calling and his ministry eventually contributed to over two million conversions.

In 2 Kings 6, prophet Elisha came under attack when the king of Syrian sent his army to arrest him.
But the anointing upon the prophet was so strong that the whole Syrian army could not overcome him. In fact, the Syrians were so afraid of the prophet that they sent thousands of troops, chariots, horses, all to capture one man who was filled with the Spirit of God.
Elisha had no military power, but he had the anointing of God upon his life. The fact that he operated a higher power made him indefatigable and caused him to overcome the oppositions.

As a believer, the mighty power of Christ at work in your life ensures you can never be defeated or silenced by your adversaries. Though they may gather against you, they will all surely fall for your sake. Though they may come against you one way, they will scatter from you in seven ways.
No matter how tough the battle, you are not supposed to back down, rather you are to stand your ground and fight the good fight of faith. The reason it’s called a good fight is because the enemy has already been defeated. This is what Jesus ensured for us at Calvary.
Despite the setbacks and trials we may sometimes face, through the redeeming Blood of the lamb, we are destined to always experience the victory.
Christ’s sacrifice at the Cross, has given us a divine advantage in life. Though we may sometimes pass through the water and fire, we are programmed to come out into a wealthy place.
Never allow challenges, negative people or circumstances to deter you. No matter how impossible things may look like, focus on following God’s plan through prayers and consistent study of the Word.
This will cause you to operate in great power and faith so that you truly become unstoppable.

PRAYER: Lord, please help me to always focus on Your Word so that I can possess the faith to overcome all oppositions and arrive at the great destiny You have ordained for me in Jesus Name. .
QUOTE :
The tests you are going through in life today is not for your destruction, it is for your testimony. – WORDBITE

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Isaiah 14:27 “For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?”

DAILY READING • 2 Corinthians 4:1-5:10; 2 Kings 17; Micah 6

As a born again Christian, Evander Holyfield believed that God had called him into the boxing arena for a divine purpose. This seemed obvious by his remarkable rise in the sport. By 1993 he was the holder of the WBA and IBF titles.
But only a year later, on April 26, 1994, at age 31, Evander Holyfield was forced to retire from boxing due to a heart condition.
Doctors discovered this ailment, when Evander was hospitalized following a grueling 12-round boxing match in which he had lost his championship titles to his opponent. After the fight, Evander suffered from shoulder soreness, dehydration and a cut eye. While he was being treated for these, tests revealed a worse situation with his heart.
Doctors found Evander had a condition known as a ‘stiff heart. “
Thereafter, he was medically advised to retire from boxing..At that point, it appeared the door had slammed shut on his budding career.
Despite the devastating situation, Evander believed God could give him a miracle. So he went into fervent prayers asking God to turn around the situation.
Seven months later, a miracle indeed happened as another round of tests revealed that doctors had misdiagnosed his condition. They found nothing was wrong at all with his heart.
Evander told them that God had totally healed him.
When he got out of the hospital, the first thing he did was get on a treadmill and really push himself to prove his heart was perfectly sound.
Soon after, he returned back to his boxing career and went on to win back his lost titles. Evander eventually made history as the only fighter to have won the heavyweight title five times.

When we stand strong in faith, God’s purpose in our lives, can never be stopped nor thwarted.
When you are a child of God, the power pushing you forward will always be greater than whatever is trying to push you down.
Anytime a door attempts to close against you, be assured that God is able to open up better and greater doors before you.
Redemption has repositioned us to triumph always through the victory Christ won at Calvary. Indeed by the power of His shed Blood, the door of progress can never be shut against us.
Our portion is always forward ever and backward never.
By the grace of this resurrection season, it is certainly the time to arise from every stagnancy and limitation. It is our season of triumph over every force trying to hold us down or hinder our upward mobility.
Just as death and the grave could not stop Jesus from resurrecting, no power of hell can stop you from arising and shinning.
There’s resurrection power at work in your life, therefore you cannot be stranded in any situation.
Because you are born of God you are destined to always overcome.
Truly by the power in the Blood of Jesus, nothing can stop the fulfilment of God’s divine plan and purpose for you this year..

PRAYER; Father I thank You for establishing Your divine purpose in my life. By Your power I shall never be stranded in life, rather I shall triumph always in Jesus Name.

QUOTE;
Trials, oppositions, resistances are oftentimes only an indication that your promotion is around the corner. WORDBITE 222

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Exodus 12: 13 ‘And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt’

DAILY READING ; Corinthians 2:5-3:18; 2 Kings 15-16; Micah 5:2-15

The month of April usually means a season of growth when nature bursts forth with a bright and colorful new look.
April is a month of the spring season, when trees and flowers begin to sprout and flourish once again. During the preceding winter season many trees and bushes would have lost their leaves, but as spring comes, they begin to grow again new leaves and flowers. Indeed April is recognized as a season of new growth, new life and new beginnings
Spiritually also, April is a month that marks a new beginning of change and renewal. Often the celebrations of Easter and the Passover take place in April. While the resurrection of Christ marks a new day for Christians, the Passover is considered a ‘new year’ for the Jews.
The Passover marked a New Year and new beginning for the Jews as they came out of 430 years of bondage in Egypt.
Their deliverance from Egypt was part of God’s plan in preparing the world for the Messiah. Centuries later, Jesus came and died on the cross and shed His Blood to give mankind new life and new hope.
A new beginning became possible because Christ shed His Blood at Calvary and paved a new and living way for us. And through His death and resurrection , He ushered us into a new life, new day and new season.

We can therefore connect to the spiritual significance of this season and claim a new day in our health, family, marriage, finances, business, etc
The celebration of the Passover and Christ’s resurrection in this month are pointers to God’s mighty power to deliver us from every plan of the enemy.
Just as the angel of death passed over the Israelites, so shall every plague Pass over our households. And just as Jesus defeated the devil and triumphed at the Cross, so shall we defeat every attack against us and triumph always.
Indeed by reason of this season we can claim our escape from every oppression. Surely affliction cannot arise a second time and whosoever the son of God has set free, is free indeed.
With the new hope, April offers, let us begin to praise God in advance for what He is set to do in this significant month. Surely through the Blood of Jesus it is our season to experience amazing breakthroughs and greater open doors in our lives and in all our endeavors.

PRAYER: Father, I thank You for a new beginning in this month of April where we celebrate Christ’s death and resurrection. I thank You for the new and amazing things You are set to do in my life in this special season, surely I have total victory by the Blood, in Jesus Name.
QUOTE :
For you to enjoy victory in the Kingdom of God, you need to develop a Kingdom mindset, that thinks in line with the Word of God. – WORDBITE 222

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Hebrews‬ ‭10‬:‭19‬-‭20 ‘Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;”
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DAILY READING; 2 Corinthians 2; 2 Kings 15-16; Micah 5:2-15

Micah Stampley grew up in a rough community where gang violence and drugs were common. He witnessed and felt directly the negative impact of living in such a rough neighborhood.
They were five boys in his family, and their father was a pastor. But as they grew older his brothers became drug dealers through wrong influences in their neighborhood. It would have been easy for Micah to have succumbed to a similar fate, but something held him back. As a young boy Micah was quite active in the singing ministry in their Church and he also had a deep involvement in sports.
The consequence of drugs dealing led to the early death of three of Micah’s brothers, and even his only remaining brother ended up with a 20 years jail sentence.
Micah himself, would also been a victim of drug violence, when one day a drug dealer walked up to him and pulled a gun to his head.
In the brief moment before he would be shot, in his mind, Micah promised God that if he was delivered, he would use the rest of his life in God’s service. Immediately, Micah made that promise to God, the man who was about to shoot him, brought his gun down and ran away.
Micah would later discover that his mother had been on her knees interceding for him at that very moment.
From that day forward, Micah dedicated his life to serving God through music. Since his debut album in 2005, Micah Stampley has seen the hand of God on his life and ministry as he is celebrated today as one of leading Gospel artistes in the world.

The Blood of Jesus conquers death, hell and the grave and enables us to escape the snares of the fowler.
It is the plan of the enemy to steal, kill and destroy, and while he fights everyone on the earth, his battle is most especially fierce against Christian families.
This is why as a believer, you can’t afford to have a docile approach to life, because there is battle against you and your loved ones, whether you are aware of it or not.
To be victorious, we must live a life of spiritual fervency and be ever ready to overcome by the Blood. It doesn’t matter that you have been called by God and ordained for a glorious destiny, you will have to live battle ready in order to triumph against the fierce resistance of hell.
The secret of our victory is in the breakthrough power of the Blood of Jesus. It is the force that halts the attacks of the enemy, destroys barriers, and breaks open every prison door.
Through the Blood we are liberated from family bondages, separated from generational curses and guaranteed a brighter future.
Today is the first day of April, which is a month that brings a resounding message of hope, rebirth and renewal as we celebrate Christ’s death and resurrection.
Let us tap into the reason for the season and demand our resurrection from every pit of sickness, poverty, limitation, redundancy, etc. Certainly, the power that raised Christ from the grave is able to raise us out of every low point of life and take us to the high places ordained for us by God.

PRAYER: Father, I thank You for this brand new month. Surely, by power in the Blood of Jesus, my household and I have been exempted from every evil and ushered into greater open doors of success in every area in Jesus Name.
QUOTE :
The truth of God’s Word in the life of a believer is always reflective, the results can never be hidden. – WORDBITE 222.

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Galatians 6:10 “As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.”

DAILY READING; 2 Corinthians 1:1-2:4; 2 Kings 14; Micah 4:1-5:1

George Washington Carver’s mother was a black American slave and died shortly after he was born. Orphaned as an infant, George grew up on the farm of his mother’s former master, Moses Carver, whose surname he was given.
George spent his early years shuffled between foster homes. Early in life, he developed a keen interest in plants and at age 11, he left for the nearby town of Neosho to seek education in a school for African American children.
After walking eight miles to Neosho, he arrived after dark and when he saw a barn, he went in there to sleep.
The next morning, the owner of the barn, Mariah Watkins found the tired boy asleep and took him in to live with her family since her house was close to the school.
Mariah Watkins was a deeply religious woman and positively impacted George’s life by taking him to Church, introducing him to Jesus and teaching him to read the Bible. The Bible she gave George, he carried it for the rest of his life.
Mariah Watkins was trained as mid-wife and known for medical skills. She also had knowledge of medicinal plants. George immensely benefitted from her knowledge of plants and with the mark Maria left on his life, George would later make a great impact on the world.
After further education, George Washington Carver went on to become an acclaimed agricultural scientist and inventor who developed hundreds of products. He is recognized as a father of modern agriculture and was a friend to many prominent people including three American presidents.

The positive deposits we make in the lives of people can make them go far in life, just as Maria Watkins’ influence strengthened George Washington Carver to make a world impact.
In our lifetime, we will have many opportunities to either positively or negatively influence people and make an impression on their lives.
Influence can be described as the force and power of our deeds and the impact we make on the lives of others.
Influence is never neutral. Every interaction you have with another person either adds value to them or subtracts value from them.
Everybody has influence over somebody. Sociologists tell us that even the most introverted person will influence about ten thousand people in their lifetime.
Just as the sun influences the earth, our lives are constantly influencing many people in different ways, seen and unseen.
If influence is so powerful then we should be concerned about how we are influencing our world for Christ.
Today, we have been sent as representatives of Christ to the world.
As a believer, you’re like a walking light bulb in a dark world.
Everywhere you go, the atmosphere should shift. Lives are to be changed and destinies recovered.
Instead of only focusing on our lives and our loved ones, let us step out to make deliberate deposits of goodness in the lives of others. Instead of being paper millionaires let us seek to become people millionaires by sowing good seeds in as many people as we possibly can. This will open doors to amazing blessings and impact our generations to come.
On this last day of the month of March let us thank God for the great impact He has made in our lives. Truly God has been good to us and we are very grateful.
At the same time let us ask Him for the grace to accept the spiritual responsibility of diligent study of the Word so that its divine impact on our lives will empower us to positively influence others and greatly affect our world.

PRAYER; Father, please help me to accept the spiritual responsibility of prayers and study of the Word so that my life will be shine as a living epistle and godly example to all who come my way in Jesus Name.
QUOTE;
Hang around those who feed and challenge your dream.. WORDBITE 222.

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Deuteronomy 28:13 ~ And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them.

DAILY READING; 1 Corinthians 16; 2 Kings 12-13; Micah 3

Paul J Meyer was a remarkable Christian businessman who inspired countless lives to success during his lifetime.
Paul Meyer’s extraordinary life and legacy seem unlikely for a boy born into a poor immigrant family in 1928. As a young boy, his parents were so poor that Paul’s first bicycle was salvaged from a junk yard. But Paul’s parents gave him something far greater than material wealth — they instilled in him strong Christian values along with a robust work ethic.
As a child, Paul’s jobs included working in the orchards and vineyards with migrant farm workers, working in a cannery, trimming trees, and digging tree stumps.
After a particularly grueling workday, young Paul asked his mother, “Am I going to have to do manual labor all my life?” His mother’s insightful response profoundly influenced Paul’s life. She put her hands on her son’s head, looked straight into his eyes, and said, “You have everything right in here to do anything and be anything you want.”
At that moment Paul knew the choice was his, to be successful or not.
Paul gave himself to serving God and working hard, and gradually rose from his humble beginnings of earning $5 to one day earning $20 million.
In 1960, at the age of 32, Paul founded the Success Motivation Institute, dedicated to “motivating people to their full potential,”. Over the course of 50 years, Success Motivation Institute grew into an international group of companies marketed in more than 60 countries and in 23 languages with total sales in excess of $3 Billion.
Paul Meyer operated his business based on Biblical principles. His foundation has donated Millions of dollars to Christian Ministries and other charitable works.
Paul Meyer’s life indeed proved that with strong faith in God and enough determination, anyone can change their story and rise to great success and achievement.

Success is not accidental. To get where you want to be, you have to be intentional.
In every success story you’ll find struggles and setbacks, but you’ll also find tenacious faith that refuses to give up until the goal is achieved.
From Paul Meyer’s life, we see the remarkable turnaround God can cause in the life of a person who makes a definite choice to succeed.
The truth is that life does not get better by chance; it gets better by the choices we make.
The entire 28th chapter of Deuteronomy is dedicated to making the choice to serve God and be blessed or not to serve Him and be cursed.

When we make the choice to serve God, He promises to set us up on high above all nations of the earth. This means we can rise from any low point of life. By making the choice to honor God in our endeavors we will enjoy divine upliftment and elevation.
God has a master plan of success for us, however, it is the choices we make that determines if we ever see their manifestations.
To succeed in life, there are principles that must be followed. There are keys that must be applied to open the great doors of opportunity we desire.
The level of our pursuit of God determines the level of blessings and prosperity we enjoy in life.
It doesn’t matter how disadvantaged your beginning may have been, as you step out on faith, doing your best and trusting in God, the big breaks will eventually come.
The choices we make each day, ultimately affects our future. Let us therefore decide today to place our ultimate value on God, and surely, He will turn around our story; He will elevate us to be the head and not the tail, above only and never beneath.

PRAYER
Lord, please help me to make the choice to always diligently study Your Word and obey Your commands. I know that when I seek You first, then indeed, every other thing shall be added unto me, in Jesus’ Name.
QUOTE
The tests you are going through in life today is not for your destruction, it is for your testimony. – WORDBITE 222

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