Daily Devotional With Murphy Eyenike

I have just one word for someone listening in this morning, "your Redeemer lives". Don't give up on God, don't give up on your dreams. You will flourish and prosper again, in Jesus' mighty name.

Grief is real, pain is real, and they don't have to be or come as a result of our actions or sins like Eliphaz is insisting. I pray that for your pain, the Lord will comfort you, he will give you beauty for ashes and the oil and fragrance of joy in place of the heaviness you currently feel in Jesus' name.

Job's one complaint was that there was no mediator between him and God. As you see him struggle to understand and explain what he was going through, you cannot but that God for giving us Jesus; our mediator with the Father, our advocate, redeemer and friend. Father we thank you specially today for giving us Jesus.

What does evil happen to the good, is it because they sinned? Is it a reward for an evil that might have committed previously? Today's devotional will answer so of these questions as Job speaks in response to his friend Eliphaz. Job will also give us an understanding of how someone grieving feels.

One of the most difficult questions people struggle with is understanding why bad things happen to good people. Job's story is a classic series that will open our eyes to human frailty, how difficult it can be to hold on to ones integrity, trusting God, etc. The book of Job has a tonne of wisdom to teach us. For one I pray this morning that the Lord will keep you from evil in Jesus name.

You can imagine the irony, on a day the Jews were set to be destroyed, God used Esther and Mordecai to give them a fighting chance and ultimately victory over their enemies

So many lessons to take away from our reading today. First, we already saw Esther turn to prayer and fasting in the face of a situation some might think warrants more of scheming and planning. Prayer is powerful, it connects you to a power source that is way beyond your abilities. Secondly, we learn from Mordecai who despite having been honoured and his arch enemy humiliated, he does not try to ro...

Today's devotional begins the accounts of Esther, how she became queen, the conspiracies to destroy the Jews and how God used her to save them. The book of Esther is about humility, courage and boldness, prayer in the face of fear and many more. The book has just 10 chapters so you can read this in a few hours. Learn from Esther that humility can take you from rags to riches, from being a slave to...

"Remember me for the good things I have done." The book of Nehemiah concludes with his various reforms and prayers that God would remember him. We also finally learn why it was so challenging to build, there were insiders aligned with the enemy, some were even related by marriage. Lessons, both our good and bad deeds will be remembered, the question is what would you be remembered for.

Nehemiah together with Ezra and the other Levites and priest held a national reading day of the word of God, the effect and outcome were amazing, there was a genuine desire individually to repent and make the needed changes to make right the way they were living. What's usually your response at reading and hearing the word of God?

Nehemiah shows tremendous focus and resilience in other to be able to complete the wall. However Sanballat, Tobiah and Geshem tried, they could not distract Nehemiah, not even to have a meeting with them.

We start a new book again today, the book of Nehemiah. The events of the book takes place just after the second group of exiles led by Ezra the priest had returned back to Jerusalem. While Zerubbabel focused on rebuilding the destroyed temple and Ezra on restoring the people back to spiritual worship, Nehemiah's focus will be on rebuilding the broken down walls around the city of Jerusalem. If you...

The book of Ezra concludes with the returning exiles confronting those who had inter-married from other nations. While a seemingly harmless mistake, the people remembered this was part of the sins God warned them would lead them away from him to worship other gods. For Christians today, while inter-marriage might sound uninteresting, see the implications of what it eventually leads to; a differenc...

What do you when you have enemies actively confronting you or wanting you to fail? Someone who say, fight back. For the children of Israel, luckily, they had prophets telling them the mind of God and to take courage. When faced with a challenge, you either of one choice; become distracted and embroiled in irrelevances, or keep your focus on the price. The children of Israel chose wisely. Second le...

The book of Ezra fills in the gap information we might have missed and an account of the exiles back to Jerusalem from Babylon. With a key focus on two issues the returning exiles face; struggle and resistance towards building the temple and their desire for spiritual reformation and fellowship with God. Ezra has a lot to teach us. With characters like, Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, the prophets H...

Manasseh's is a thorough lesson of not following others to commit evil. He leads the nation into step idolatry but later repents, the nation will not listen and follow him, even his own son, Amon will choose to follow his father's earlier wicked years. Lastly, king Josiah, even though he knew all of his actions would not change anything and the fact God already promised the tragedy on the nation w...

King Ahaz legacy is a 180 degree from the way he lived, his son, Hezekiah is everything his father wasn't. If you read Ahaz's account in 2kings, you would have known that God was so angry he offered his son as human sacrifices that he decided Judah would Israel in exile. As such, the Assyrians were a torment to Judahl. When Hezekiah became king, God changed his mind and defended Judah again. There...

Quite disconcerting, the trend continues, a king will come, they will seek God wholeheartedly and become successful, but at the height of their success, pride will lead to their downfall. That is the story of Amaziah and Uzziah. A man of God once told us, "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - E. A. Adeboye. As we read through the Bible, this is one lesson to make a prayer poi...

Israel's next 3 kings after Jehoshaphat; Jehoram, Ahaziah and Joash can all literally trace their failures as kings to being in alliance with the kings of Israel, and the one who laid the foundation, though he was a good king, was Jehoshaphat. Alliances matter, the company you keep matters, they can literally be the difference between success and failure. Lastly, the priest, Jehoiada, a lot to lea...

Did you know that PRAISE is one of your most powerful weapon as a Christian. Yes, praise is actually one of your most lethal weapon for spiritual warfare. How? For one, God inhabits the praises of his people (Psalms 22:3) wherever God is praised, God is present. Why? Because his glory, he will not share or give to anyone (Isaiah 42:8). No one can receive his praise on his behalf, that would be ido...

Today's Bible reading focuses on king Asa's reign and the lessons from there. Asa's story can also be found in 1Kings chapters 15. Reading his accounts from both books actually gives us a better perspective of his story. Lesson one, Asa faced an army of about 1,000,000 men from Ethiopia and Libya, he calls on God and wins despite the fact the odds were against him because he had a much more smalle...

As king Solomon's reign ends, we see a trend begins as each king after him comes and go. Just as Solomon started so well and seemed to turn away from the Lord only as he became successful and older, most of the kings after him will do the same, they start well, become successful and then turn against God. Our second lesson today comes from the splitting of Israel into the northern and southern tri...

King Solomon outdid himself during the temple's dedication, it was big, it was loud, and the heavens heard. One thing was clear, during the period Solomon built the temple and dedicated it, he was focused on God and on following the instructions his father David left behind for him. Very important lessons for us today to paying attention to our temples. Secondly, as Solomon, the Levites and priest...

Building and furnishing the temple that Solomon built took careful preparation first by David and then king Solomon himself. The temple was covered in gold, it was truly magnificent. Today, you and I are like that temple, God expects us to equally take care of our bodies.

As David concludes his reign, he gives his son Solomon his final advise and makes a request in prayer to God; "And Solomon, my son, learn to know the God of your ancestors intimately", he then prayed, "give my son Solomon the wholehearted desire to obey all your commands, laws, and decrees, and to do everything...". May our children desire to seek, to know, and love God for themselves.