Daily Devotional With Murphy Eyenike

Welcome to our daily devotional. I recorded this the last time we read through the Bible, the message then is as real as it was then today. Peter warned us about false teachers and their false teachings, and how we ought to handle them; ‭‭2 Peter‬ ‭2:1‭-‬3‬ ‭NLT‬‬ [1] But there were also false prophets in Israel, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will cleverly teach destructive...

Is your faith growing? This is one of the themes in Peter's second letter. "In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affecti...

In the end, we are temporary residents in this world. We are ambassadors of the kingdom of God. We live by different rules; ‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭2:11‭-‬12‬ ‭NLT‬‬ [11] Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and foreigners” to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls. [12] Be careful to live properly among your unbelieving neighbors. Then even if they accuse you of doin...

CHOSEN - Called out ones. "But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God's very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light." 1 Peter 2:9 NLT. The Greek word for chosen is eklektos which means; elects, or the called out ones from amongst a group for a reason....

What makes prayer powerful? "Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three and a half years!" James 5:16-17. I once received this question and I believe answering to...

The book of James was written to admonish believers. "Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing." James 1:2‭-‬4 NLT. Troubles and challenge...

The message to conclude the book of Hebrews cannot be clearer, those who have gone ahead of us have set an example for us to follow; "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by ke...

‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭11:39‭-‬40‬ ‭NLT‬‬ [39] All these people earned a good reputation because of their faith, yet none of them received all that God had promised. [40] For God had something better in mind for us, so that they would not reach perfection without us. They, and I am talking about those who have walked with God by faith, despite their unique challenges, earned a good reputation. What would be...

The line-up of believers in Hebrews 11 represent for us, those who despite the challenges they faced, and some of their situations were so dear, held on to their faith. And so the Bible says; ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭11:1‭-‬2‬ ‭NLT‬‬ [1] Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see. [2] Through their faith, the people in days of old earned a good reputation. If they e...

‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭10:19‭-‬23‬ ‭NLT‬‬ [19] And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. [20] By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. [21] And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house, [22] let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusti...

What are the differences between the Old and New testament? What are the implications of the priesthood, the sacrifice, changing? ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭9:13‭-‬15‬ ‭NLT‬‬ [13] Under the old system, the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer could cleanse people’s bodies from ceremonial impurity. [14] Just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify our consciences from sinful deeds so tha...

Christ, our High priest. ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭8:6‭-‬8‬ ‭NLT‬‬ [6] But now Jesus, our High Priest, has been given a ministry that is far superior to the old priesthood, for he is the one who mediates for us a far better covenant with God, based on better promises. [7] If the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need for a second covenant to replace it. [8] But when God found fault wit...

Jesus Christ - The Perfect High Priest. The Old and New testaments are what they are, covenants God entered into with mankind, backed and maintained by the life of its priest. The priest the one who administered the law and brought the people's offering to God. "So if the priesthood of Levi, on which the law was based, could have achieved the perfection God intended, why did God need to establish...

‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭6:16‭-‬18‬ ‭NLT‬‬ [16] Now when people take an oath, they call on someone greater than themselves to hold them to it. And without any question that oath is binding. [17] God also bound himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he would never change his mind. [18] So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchang...

‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭4:15‭-‬16‬ ‭NLT‬‬ [15] This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin. [16] So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most. In today's devotional, we continue to follow the thought of the writer showing it readers that C...

Aaron the high priest had to offer sacrifices first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. In that way, he felt their humanity. He felt their weaknesses because he was like us. Christ, also had to become like us, not in terms of sin, because he never sinned, but he walked and lived like a man so he could be empathetic to our shortcoming because like us, he was tempted to sin. This...

Though the writer of the book of Hebrews is not clear, the message it deliver is clear and resounding; Christ is supreme over everything the Old testament stood on. The book was written to a Jewish-Christians who considering converting back to Judaism until the persecution by the emperor subsided. The message of the book of Hebrews is; Jesus is greater than the angels, than; Moses, the giver of th...

Just like there was a reward for the people's obedience, there was a steep penalty for disobedience; ‭‭Leviticus‬ ‭26:14‭-‬17‬ ‭NLT‬‬ [14] “However, if you do not listen to me or obey all these commands, [15] and if you break my covenant by rejecting my decrees, treating my regulations with contempt, and refusing to obey my commands, [16] I will punish you. I will bring sudden terrors upon you—was...

‭‭Leviticus‬ ‭25:17‭-‬18‬ ‭NLT‬‬ [17] Show your fear of God by not taking advantage of each other. I am the Lord your God. [18] “If you want to live securely in the land, follow my decrees and obey my regulations. Again, as the point has been emphasized over and over again; love for God is displayed by how we treat others. Here the Lord was telling Israel that he would measure how much they reverr...

In today's devotional, we read about appointed festivals and special days of assembly for the people of Israel. Each day was special and was often a ceremonial acknowledgement of a special day in the life of the nation. There were specific laws guiding the nation on exactly what to do and how to mark each. We class these laws as ceremonial laws, they are on the large part, not applicable to Christ...

In today's devotional, we observed a key things that stand out as the Lord guides the children of Israel by giving them his laws. The Lord makes it clear who and what makes them holy. It wasn't the sacrifices they brought. It wasn't the blood of the animals that was shed, it was the Lord himself. ‭‭Leviticus‬ ‭22:31‭-‬32‬ ‭NLT‬‬ [31] “You must faithfully keep all my commands by putting them into p...

In today's devotional, we see the link between obedience to God's law and worship, and the close relationship between our love for God and people. God instructed the children of Israel to obey him because He was the Lord their God; ‭‭Leviticus‬ ‭18:30‬ ‭NLT‬‬ [30] So obey my instructions, and do not defile yourselves by committing any of these detestable practices that were committed by the people...

The day of atonement is one of the most significant day in the nation of Israel. It's spiritual significance is so unique because it is the one day of the year where the entire nation standstill because of the high priest will be able to enter into the holy of holies. On this day, the high priest starts by offering a sacrifice first for his own sin. Then 2 goats are picked and with one chosen as a...

In today's devotional, we completed our reading on what the children of Israel were expected to do whenever they became ceremonialy unclean. The lesson here is that; while they trembled in fear whenever they came into the presence of God, in the New Testament, the Bible says to come with boldness; ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭4:14‭-‬16‬ ‭NLT‬‬ [14] So then, since we have a great High Priest who has entered heaven,...

In today's devotional, we read about the situations in which the people became ceremonialy unclean, that meant they could fellowship with God or people and had to separate themselves for a period depending on the severity of the situation. We do not make our application to the book of Hebrews today but pointed out why we can understand why the apostle Peter told God he could not est the animals Go...