HAMMER WORD BIBLE CHURCH, ABAK, NIGERIA.⛪💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦Morning DEVOTION 5/7/2022🍎”… Beloved of God, Called to be saints. Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ”— Romans 1:7Message🍅We are very apt to regard the apostolic saints as if they were “saints” in a more special manner than the other children of God.All are “saints” whom God has called by His grace, and sanctified by His Spirit; but we are apt to look upon the apostles as extraordinary beings, scarcely subject to the same weaknesses and temptations as ourselves. Yet in so doing we are forgetful of this truth, that the nearer a man lives to God the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart; and the more his Master honours him in his service, the more also doth the evil of the flesh vex and tease him day by day. The fact is, if we had seen the Apostle Paul, we should have thought him remarkably like the rest of the chosen family: and if we had talked with him, we should have said, “We find that his experience and ours are much the same. He is more faithful, more holy, and more deeply taught than we are, but he has the selfsame trials to endure. Nay, in some respects he is more sorely tried than ourselves.” Do not, then, look upon the ancient saints as being exempt either from infirmities or sins; and do not regard them with that mystic reverence which will almost make us idolaters. Their holiness is attainable even by us.We are “called to be saints” by that same voice which constrained them to their high vocation.It is a Christian’s duty to force his way into the inner circle of saintship; the circle of the beloved, by being obedience to our heavenly calling. AND if these saints were superior to us in their attainments, as they certainly were, let us follow them; let us emulate their ardour and holiness.We have the same light that they had, the same grace is accessible to us, and why should we rest satisfied until we have equalled them in heavenly character?They lived with Jesus, they lived for Jesus, therefore they grew like Jesus. Let us live by the same Spirit as they did, “looking unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith” and our saintship will soon be apparent. As you keep looking unto him, you will be like him.So beloved keep looking unto Jesus in his word, in the Spirit and in his character, you will be more like him. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ galvanized your spirit to be like him in Jesus mighty name Amen.Prayers 🌈Heavenly Father, I thank you for your love and goodness over my life and family. I am grateful.Father, help me to attain to your will and purpose concerning my life and calling.Help me to stand on your divine covenants and promises.Strengthen me Lord to always do your blessed will in Jesus mighty name Amen.Father, hold me by your right hand of righteousness, and lead me the way so that I will not sink while trying to serve you.Deliver me Lord from evil people and children of disobedience from the path of my destiny fulfilment.Thank you Father for helping me to know your will concerning my life and walk in it.This day, my going out is blessed and my returning is blessed.Blessed be the name of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed me with all spiritual blessings in Heavenly places by Christ Jesus, Amen.Evening DEVOTION 💚”Trust ye in the Lord forever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength”. — Isaiah 26:4MESSAGE 💚Trust and obey, for there is no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey, is still a song of the saints.Seeing that we have such a God to trust to, let us rest upon him with all our weight; let us resolutely drive out all unbelief, and endeavour to get rid of doubts and fears, which so much mar our comfort; since there is no excuse for fear where God is the foundation of our trust. A loving parent would be sorely grieved if his child could not trust him; and how ungenerous, how unkind is our conduct when we put so little confidence in our heavenly Father who has never failed us, and who never will. It were well if doubting were banished from the household of God; but it is to be feared that old Unbelief is as nimble nowadays as when the psalmist asked, “Is his mercy clean gone forever? Will he be favourable no more?” David had not made any very lengthy trial of the mighty sword of the giant Goliath, and yet he said, “There is none like it.” He had tried it once in the hour of his youthful victory, and it had proved itself to be of the right metal, and therefore he praised it ever afterwards; even so should we speak well of our God, there is none like unto him in the heaven above or the earth beneath; “To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.” There is no rock like unto the rock of Jacob, our enemies themselves being judges. So far from suffering doubts to live in our hearts, we will take the whole detestable crew, as Elijah did the prophets of Baal, and slay them over the brook; and for a stream to kill them at, we will select the sacred torrent which wells forth from our Saviour’s wounded side. We have been in many trials, but we have never yet been cast where we could not find in our God all that we needed.Let us then be encouraged to trust in the Lord forever, assured that his ever lasting strength will be, as it has been, our succour and stay.Prayers 💚Heavenly Father, I thank you for your mercy and loving kindness.Father, today I pray that you bless and keep me from all evils.Father let your face shine upon me and my family and grant us peace. All round peace Lord is what I plead for: peace in my life, soul and spirit, peace in my family, peace in my community, peace in my church, peace in my state and peace in my country Nigeria.Let the peace of God that passes all human wisdom rest on me and my family in Jesus mighty name Amen.⛪⛪⛪⛪⛪⛪⛪⛪⛪Hammer Word Cares ♨️(for more help, counseling and deliverance, send SMS to +234903651642, hammerwordonlinechur@gmail.com)