Hello My Friend; Good day.
Our reading for today is from Jeremiah chapter 46. Jeremiah also prophesied about other nations other than Israel and Judah. This chapter is particularly about the defeat of Egypt by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. This war brought about the transfer of world domination from Egypt to Babylon. Please note that from the beginning of time and the recorded history, this defeat of Egypt indicated the first time any other nation and race dominated the world other than the Africans and the Black race. The life application Bible translation says in verses 8-9, "It is the Egyptian army, boasting that it will cover the earth like a flood, destroying every foe. Then come, O horses and chariots and mighty soldiers of Egypt ! Come, all of you from Cush and Put and Lud who handle the shield and bend the bow !" The African Heritage Edition of King James calls them Ethiopians and Libyans and the Lydians. The Ryrie study Bible says: "O warriors-men of Cush and Put who carry shields." No mention of London, France, Germany, or Italy is made here. This commercial is just to serve notice that this Bible is an African Book and Africans wrote it about themselves. They have to love it and read it and not allow any other people to steal their legacy.
The footnote by the Ryrie version on verse 9, says that men of Cush (Upper Nile region) and Put (N. coast of Africa), and men of Lydia (inhabitants of Asia Minor) were employed as mercenaries by the Egyptians is erroneous and total falsehood which the Europeans writers have perpetrated through the centuries to hide the African involvement and ownership of the Biblical story. It begs the Big question then, who are the Egyptians? Are they not those the Bible calls Put? Were they not Black and Africans?
Look at verses 27 and 28. The message turns again to the Jews who escaped to Egypt and comforts them that though they were punished for a minute due to idol worship, God will surely save them out of the distant places and their descendants from the lands of their exile.
My Friend, lets face it. Today, it does not matter what color or race you belong. God punished both Egyptians and the Jews because of the worship of idol gods instead of the one true God. God is calling the wrold to come to Him through His Son Jesus Christ so we can all belong in one family of faith. Halellujah. Amen.
Prayer for today: (adapted from Ephesians 4:13): Lord help us to build your Church, the Body of Christ and reach unity in faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature and attain the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. For His sake and in His Name we pray. Amen.
Apostle Ndueso Udoiwod.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Daily Devotion and Meditation on the Word of God on January 30, 2009
Hello My Friend; Good day.
Our reading for today is from Jeremiah chapter 45. This is a very short chapter which should have been appended to chapter 36. In the 4 th year of the reign of Jehoiakim, 605 B.C., Jeremiah told Baruch to write on the scroll everything he would dictate and go to the Temple to read it out to the people. At that time Prophet Jeremiah had been banned from entering the Temple because of his controversial prophecies. Baruch carried out this instruction and got into a lot of trouble and threats to his life. Please refer to Jeremiah chapter 36 and re-read it.Look at 36:19: "Then the officials said to Baruch, you and Jeremiah, go and hide. Don't let anyone know where you are." So you know, after king Jehoiakim had burnt the scroll, he ordered the arrest of Jeremiah and Baruch(36:26).
Due to this threats, Baruch was afraid and began to complain openly about how much trouble was out there for him saying: "Woe to me ! The Lord has added sorrow to my pen. i am worn out with groaning and find no rest."(verse 3). We should understand that it was no easy task to write the prophecies with pen and ink. So Baruch was right. In fact he had to write it over after the king had burned the first scroll. Then after that to face the threat of death. Some of us have not suffered like that yet we complain. But listen to the Word of the Lord to Baruch: "Should you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not. For I will bring disaster on all people, declares the Lord, but wherever you go I will let you escape with your life."(verse 5). Baruch had the whole chapter 45 of Jeremiah recounting God's message to him. God does not promise us riches and fame, but He promises to be with us. Baruch was given an assurance of God's protection during troubling times. Think about it like this. You were in a place like Iraq during the invasion and God sent the Prophet to tell you that nothing will harm you. That would be a great news. My friend, God does not forget our good deeds. He constantly things about those who obey His laws. Hallelujahs. Amen.
Prayer for today: (Adapted from Psalm 25) : Remember, O Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are of old. Show us your ways, guide us in your truth, and teach us for you are God our Savior and our hope is in you all day long. In the Name of Jesus we pray. Amen.
Apostle Ndueso Udoiwod.
Our reading for today is from Jeremiah chapter 45. This is a very short chapter which should have been appended to chapter 36. In the 4 th year of the reign of Jehoiakim, 605 B.C., Jeremiah told Baruch to write on the scroll everything he would dictate and go to the Temple to read it out to the people. At that time Prophet Jeremiah had been banned from entering the Temple because of his controversial prophecies. Baruch carried out this instruction and got into a lot of trouble and threats to his life. Please refer to Jeremiah chapter 36 and re-read it.Look at 36:19: "Then the officials said to Baruch, you and Jeremiah, go and hide. Don't let anyone know where you are." So you know, after king Jehoiakim had burnt the scroll, he ordered the arrest of Jeremiah and Baruch(36:26).
Due to this threats, Baruch was afraid and began to complain openly about how much trouble was out there for him saying: "Woe to me ! The Lord has added sorrow to my pen. i am worn out with groaning and find no rest."(verse 3). We should understand that it was no easy task to write the prophecies with pen and ink. So Baruch was right. In fact he had to write it over after the king had burned the first scroll. Then after that to face the threat of death. Some of us have not suffered like that yet we complain. But listen to the Word of the Lord to Baruch: "Should you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not. For I will bring disaster on all people, declares the Lord, but wherever you go I will let you escape with your life."(verse 5). Baruch had the whole chapter 45 of Jeremiah recounting God's message to him. God does not promise us riches and fame, but He promises to be with us. Baruch was given an assurance of God's protection during troubling times. Think about it like this. You were in a place like Iraq during the invasion and God sent the Prophet to tell you that nothing will harm you. That would be a great news. My friend, God does not forget our good deeds. He constantly things about those who obey His laws. Hallelujahs. Amen.
Prayer for today: (Adapted from Psalm 25) : Remember, O Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are of old. Show us your ways, guide us in your truth, and teach us for you are God our Savior and our hope is in you all day long. In the Name of Jesus we pray. Amen.
Apostle Ndueso Udoiwod.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Daily Devotion and Meditation on the Word of God on January 29, 2009
Hello My Friend; Good day.
Our reading for today is from Jeremiah chapter 44. This message from the Lord came to Jeremiah in the year 580 B.C. while he was forced to go to Egypt by those Jews who escaped from Jerusalem to Egypt. God had sent several prophets to warn them but they refused to listen(vvs 4-14). The Queen of Heaven who the Jews were worshpping in Egypt was a name for Ishtar, the Mesopotamian goddess of love and war. When the Jews escaped to Egypt, they began again to worship her. They even thought that the reason things went bad for them was because they failed to worship the Queen of Heaven the right way. They failed to recognize that their involvement in worshipping the idol was the root cause of their dispersion from their land. Read up on Jeremiah's response to them in verses 24-30.
The people of Judah never learned any lesson from their past mistakes so they kept on repeating the same over and over again. To fail to learn from a mistake is to guarantee repeated failures. The past should be a school for the future. God swore by His Great Name it will do them no good by seeking His help and blessings. God will watch over them but not for good. He swore to see to it that evil befell them(verses 26-28). These were very powerful statements. God's promises are timeless and subject to contextualization. We may not be living in Jerusalem but if we do the same things as the Jews did, the same curses apply. Let me ask you my friend, what are your idols? What do you hold as the Queen of Heaven? Are you aware that by doing so you are creating enmity between you and your God? DEPART FROM THEM AND RETURN TO YOUR GOD AND BE BLESSED. Halellujah. Amen.
Prayer for today: Dear Lord, we sing in our song:" You are the Lord, that is your Name. You will never share your glory with anyone; you will never share your glory with anybody; Almighty God, that is your Name". You will never share your glory even with the so-called "Queen of Heaven". Help us to put you at the center of our lives so that you bless us with all heavenly blessings. So that you watch over us for good and protect us from all evil. We pray in the Name of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
Apostle Ndueso Udoiwod.
Our reading for today is from Jeremiah chapter 44. This message from the Lord came to Jeremiah in the year 580 B.C. while he was forced to go to Egypt by those Jews who escaped from Jerusalem to Egypt. God had sent several prophets to warn them but they refused to listen(vvs 4-14). The Queen of Heaven who the Jews were worshpping in Egypt was a name for Ishtar, the Mesopotamian goddess of love and war. When the Jews escaped to Egypt, they began again to worship her. They even thought that the reason things went bad for them was because they failed to worship the Queen of Heaven the right way. They failed to recognize that their involvement in worshipping the idol was the root cause of their dispersion from their land. Read up on Jeremiah's response to them in verses 24-30.
The people of Judah never learned any lesson from their past mistakes so they kept on repeating the same over and over again. To fail to learn from a mistake is to guarantee repeated failures. The past should be a school for the future. God swore by His Great Name it will do them no good by seeking His help and blessings. God will watch over them but not for good. He swore to see to it that evil befell them(verses 26-28). These were very powerful statements. God's promises are timeless and subject to contextualization. We may not be living in Jerusalem but if we do the same things as the Jews did, the same curses apply. Let me ask you my friend, what are your idols? What do you hold as the Queen of Heaven? Are you aware that by doing so you are creating enmity between you and your God? DEPART FROM THEM AND RETURN TO YOUR GOD AND BE BLESSED. Halellujah. Amen.
Prayer for today: Dear Lord, we sing in our song:" You are the Lord, that is your Name. You will never share your glory with anyone; you will never share your glory with anybody; Almighty God, that is your Name". You will never share your glory even with the so-called "Queen of Heaven". Help us to put you at the center of our lives so that you bless us with all heavenly blessings. So that you watch over us for good and protect us from all evil. We pray in the Name of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
Apostle Ndueso Udoiwod.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Daily Devotion and Meditation on the Word of God on January 28, 2009
Hello My Friend; Good day.
Our reading for today is from Jeremiah chapters 42 and 43. Johanan and his army captains, bent on going into Egypt for political asylum instead of going to Babylon went to Jeremiah to pray to his God to show them if it was wise to go to Egypt. Jeremiah accepted the request and went on a ten day prayer session. Johanan and his associates spoke a curse on themselves after knowing that her intention was to go to Egypt. Ten days later the Lord gave his reply to Jeremiah and warned that they should not go to Egypt. The Lord regretted that he had punished them and promised to be merciful. Jeremiah delivered the message to them and warned: "Never forget the warning I have given you today. if you go, it will be at the cost of your lives. For you were deceitful when you sent me to pray for you"(verses18-20).
In chapter 43, Johanan and his friends told Jeremiah that his message from the Lord was a lie. They refused to obey the Lord and stay in Judah, so they headed for Egypt even forcing Jeremiah to go with them. So they entered Egypt in disobedience to the Lord and went as far as Tahpanhes. There in Tahpanhes, God spoke to Jeremiah and told him that he would send for his servant Nebuchadnezzar and he will come and set his throne in Egypt at the very spot Jeremiah laid a stone. They thought that God will spare them if Jeremiah was with them. Ultimately, Nebuchadnezzar invaded Egypt in 568-567 B.C. and crushed Egypt just as they did Jerusalem.
Once delivered from Egypt under Moses and Aaron, Israel had no business going back to Egypt except the Lord directs.
The people of Israel had their God and their prophet consistently speaking to them and warning them against evil, but they chose to go the other way. And so it is in our day and time. Many people dispise great leaders and messages from God because they have a mind-set to pursue their own ways. It is our duty to seek God's face, bring messages, and warn the people. The choice to hear and repent lies with individuals as the final destiny is in theirs hands. Halellujah. Amen.
Prayer for today: Dear God, Your love is everlasting love. Help us to listen to the voice of counsel and warning from your Word so we can repent and be saved. Let not the desire to go back to Egypyt just for the sake of the good things of Egypyt continue to drive us, but let us move from the wilderness into the promised land and be blessed through the One who was sent to save Israel and the whole world. Amen.
Apostle Ndueso Udoiwod.
Our reading for today is from Jeremiah chapters 42 and 43. Johanan and his army captains, bent on going into Egypt for political asylum instead of going to Babylon went to Jeremiah to pray to his God to show them if it was wise to go to Egypt. Jeremiah accepted the request and went on a ten day prayer session. Johanan and his associates spoke a curse on themselves after knowing that her intention was to go to Egypt. Ten days later the Lord gave his reply to Jeremiah and warned that they should not go to Egypt. The Lord regretted that he had punished them and promised to be merciful. Jeremiah delivered the message to them and warned: "Never forget the warning I have given you today. if you go, it will be at the cost of your lives. For you were deceitful when you sent me to pray for you"(verses18-20).
In chapter 43, Johanan and his friends told Jeremiah that his message from the Lord was a lie. They refused to obey the Lord and stay in Judah, so they headed for Egypt even forcing Jeremiah to go with them. So they entered Egypt in disobedience to the Lord and went as far as Tahpanhes. There in Tahpanhes, God spoke to Jeremiah and told him that he would send for his servant Nebuchadnezzar and he will come and set his throne in Egypt at the very spot Jeremiah laid a stone. They thought that God will spare them if Jeremiah was with them. Ultimately, Nebuchadnezzar invaded Egypt in 568-567 B.C. and crushed Egypt just as they did Jerusalem.
Once delivered from Egypt under Moses and Aaron, Israel had no business going back to Egypt except the Lord directs.
The people of Israel had their God and their prophet consistently speaking to them and warning them against evil, but they chose to go the other way. And so it is in our day and time. Many people dispise great leaders and messages from God because they have a mind-set to pursue their own ways. It is our duty to seek God's face, bring messages, and warn the people. The choice to hear and repent lies with individuals as the final destiny is in theirs hands. Halellujah. Amen.
Prayer for today: Dear God, Your love is everlasting love. Help us to listen to the voice of counsel and warning from your Word so we can repent and be saved. Let not the desire to go back to Egypyt just for the sake of the good things of Egypyt continue to drive us, but let us move from the wilderness into the promised land and be blessed through the One who was sent to save Israel and the whole world. Amen.
Apostle Ndueso Udoiwod.
Daily Devotion and Meditation on the Word of God on January 27, 2009
Hello My Friend; Good day.
Our reading for today is from Jeremiah chapter 41. It is a very tragic, bloody, and barbarous story in this chapter. The evil that men do leaves after them, but the good is often entered with the bones, so Shakespeare had written. Though descended from the royal line of King David, the activities of Ishmael did not portray royalty. He acted as a bandit, a terrorist, a gorrilla leader. After treacherously killing Gedaliah, the Babylonian appointed governor for Jerusalem at the dinner table the governor provided to honor him and his ten friends, Ishmael also killed some 80 good honest men who came from Shechem, Samaria, and Shiloh to Jerusalem, with heads shelved and in sack-clothes to lament the ashes of the Temple of the Lord and their fallen beloved City. He pretended to be in sympathy with them, tricked them to the area and killed 70 of them, but ten tricked him and escaped. Ishmael made captives of the rest of the people left in Mizpah-the king's daughters. Johanan and his military men left their post and that was the reason Ishmael had his way to kill Gedaliah and the Babylonian guards. Johanan also made another mistake of leading all the survivors whom he recovered from ishmael on their way to Egypt. We shall see in our next reading, chapter 42 that it was a Big mistake to go to Egypt.
There are many lessons to be learned from this story:i. the pretended friendhip; the one who ate Gedaliah's bread lifted up his hand to kill him; 2. Gedaliah's naivity of not listening to the warning given to him in chapter 40 and allowing Johanan to be away from his duty; prophet Jeremiah had warned that it was better to go into captivity than remain in Jerusalem. Surely the bitterness of captivity was past, but death still lingered because there is no rest for the wicked.
Prayer for today: O Lord, our times are in your hand. Give us the wisdom and discernment to know and enemies who come to us in disguise of friendship. Draw good people to us and lead the wicked away from us through the power of the One who can save us to the uttermost. Amen.
Apostle Ndueso Udoiwod.
Our reading for today is from Jeremiah chapter 41. It is a very tragic, bloody, and barbarous story in this chapter. The evil that men do leaves after them, but the good is often entered with the bones, so Shakespeare had written. Though descended from the royal line of King David, the activities of Ishmael did not portray royalty. He acted as a bandit, a terrorist, a gorrilla leader. After treacherously killing Gedaliah, the Babylonian appointed governor for Jerusalem at the dinner table the governor provided to honor him and his ten friends, Ishmael also killed some 80 good honest men who came from Shechem, Samaria, and Shiloh to Jerusalem, with heads shelved and in sack-clothes to lament the ashes of the Temple of the Lord and their fallen beloved City. He pretended to be in sympathy with them, tricked them to the area and killed 70 of them, but ten tricked him and escaped. Ishmael made captives of the rest of the people left in Mizpah-the king's daughters. Johanan and his military men left their post and that was the reason Ishmael had his way to kill Gedaliah and the Babylonian guards. Johanan also made another mistake of leading all the survivors whom he recovered from ishmael on their way to Egypt. We shall see in our next reading, chapter 42 that it was a Big mistake to go to Egypt.
There are many lessons to be learned from this story:i. the pretended friendhip; the one who ate Gedaliah's bread lifted up his hand to kill him; 2. Gedaliah's naivity of not listening to the warning given to him in chapter 40 and allowing Johanan to be away from his duty; prophet Jeremiah had warned that it was better to go into captivity than remain in Jerusalem. Surely the bitterness of captivity was past, but death still lingered because there is no rest for the wicked.
Prayer for today: O Lord, our times are in your hand. Give us the wisdom and discernment to know and enemies who come to us in disguise of friendship. Draw good people to us and lead the wicked away from us through the power of the One who can save us to the uttermost. Amen.
Apostle Ndueso Udoiwod.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Daily Devotion and Meditation on the Word of God on January 26, 2009.
Hello My Friend; Good day.
Our reading for today is from Jeremiah chapter 40. Jeremiah found favor with Nebuzaradan, commander of the Babylonian guard who released him at Ramah. Ramah, a city five miles north of Jerusalem was the place where the captives were screened before being sent to Babylon. Jeremiah was given an option to stay in Jerusalem or go to Babylon where he would be cared for. He chose to stay in Jerusalem with the poor remnants of his people. He was a type of Moses who prefared to remain with the suffering Hebrews in Egypt rather than remain in the palace of Pharoah. The commander gave him money and provisions and said these words of recognition:"The Lord your God decreed this disaster for this place. And now the Lord has brought it about; he has done just as he said he would." Gedaliah who was made a puppet governor of Jerusalem by the commander was foolish and could not listern to the warning of danger from Ishmael and his band of guerrillas.
The object lesson here focuses on the choices of two key people. Jeremiah was free to go anywhere, but he chose to remain in Jerusalem. It was better for him to be poor in his home land than to have great comfort and power with the wicked. He preferred hardship in Judah than the favor of an evil king in Babylon. Though hated by the Judean remnants, he maintained the reputation of being loyal to his people and not looked upon as a traitor. For Gedaliah, he was foolish to ignore the warnings of danger. He did not belong in the Royal line of David and was unqualified to rule as governor in Jerusalem. He was contented to serve as a puppet to Babylon. Listen to what he said to the leaders of the Jewish guerrilla bands: "Stay here and serve the king of Babylon and all will be well."(verse 9b). Such a position was unacceptable to the Jewish guerrillas. He had to die.
Prayer for today: Lord, thank you for saving Jeremiah the true Prophet and giving him the courage to remain with the poor remnants in the land under unfavorable conditions. Teach us to choose suffering with the poor and the dispossessed rather than rejoyce in the palaces of evil kings and unworthy leaders. This we pray through the One who came down from heaven to save us and be with us. Amen.
Apostle Ndueso Udoiwod.
Our reading for today is from Jeremiah chapter 40. Jeremiah found favor with Nebuzaradan, commander of the Babylonian guard who released him at Ramah. Ramah, a city five miles north of Jerusalem was the place where the captives were screened before being sent to Babylon. Jeremiah was given an option to stay in Jerusalem or go to Babylon where he would be cared for. He chose to stay in Jerusalem with the poor remnants of his people. He was a type of Moses who prefared to remain with the suffering Hebrews in Egypt rather than remain in the palace of Pharoah. The commander gave him money and provisions and said these words of recognition:"The Lord your God decreed this disaster for this place. And now the Lord has brought it about; he has done just as he said he would." Gedaliah who was made a puppet governor of Jerusalem by the commander was foolish and could not listern to the warning of danger from Ishmael and his band of guerrillas.
The object lesson here focuses on the choices of two key people. Jeremiah was free to go anywhere, but he chose to remain in Jerusalem. It was better for him to be poor in his home land than to have great comfort and power with the wicked. He preferred hardship in Judah than the favor of an evil king in Babylon. Though hated by the Judean remnants, he maintained the reputation of being loyal to his people and not looked upon as a traitor. For Gedaliah, he was foolish to ignore the warnings of danger. He did not belong in the Royal line of David and was unqualified to rule as governor in Jerusalem. He was contented to serve as a puppet to Babylon. Listen to what he said to the leaders of the Jewish guerrilla bands: "Stay here and serve the king of Babylon and all will be well."(verse 9b). Such a position was unacceptable to the Jewish guerrillas. He had to die.
Prayer for today: Lord, thank you for saving Jeremiah the true Prophet and giving him the courage to remain with the poor remnants in the land under unfavorable conditions. Teach us to choose suffering with the poor and the dispossessed rather than rejoyce in the palaces of evil kings and unworthy leaders. This we pray through the One who came down from heaven to save us and be with us. Amen.
Apostle Ndueso Udoiwod.
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