Daily Voice Devotional with Niyi Adekunle

Saturday 15 May 2021    Friendship Prayer. 6   Yesterday we discussed Abraham and his relationship with God, from Genesis 18: 17 - 28 we saw how God told Abraham about His plan to destroy a city and how Abraham through his friendship with God interceded for the city. In this account we see Friendship Prayer being demonstrated. Abraham was able to talk to God about the situation; he...

Friday 14th May     Friendship Prayer. 5    As we said, friendship prayer is that kind of prayer that helps us build intimacy with God. The life of Abraham stands out as one who practiced friendship prayer because of his intimacy with God. In fact, the bible says in James 2: 23 that Abraham was God’s friend. Let’s look at an account of His friendship prayer with God. &nbsp...

Thursday 13th May     Friendship Prayer. 4   The foundation of Friendship Prayer is intimacy, it is that close companionship with God where can talk to him freely as a father and he can talk to us freely as his children. The idea of intimacy with God runs is all through the Bible. Under the Old Testament, after the fall of man, they could not relate to God as the father but som...

DVD With Niyi Adekunle Wednesday 12th May Friendship Prayer. 3 I believe friendship prayer is the highest form of prayer and it is the most effective way to pray. Friendship prayer brings you into a deeper level of relationship with God and from that depth you are able to pray the will of God more accurately. Our relationship with God is based on a covenant. Romans 8: 15 says we have the spirit of...

Tuesday 11th May     Friendship Prayer. 2   How do you get babies or toddlers to learn how to talk? Did their parents have to teach them how to speak? Did they have to learn rules and regulations about speaking, the right and wrong way to ask for things etc? I do not think so. Babies and toddlers learn how to talk instinctively and by interacting with their parents. The point o...

Monday 10th May    Friendship Prayer. 1   Prayer is communicating with God, is not a monologue but a dialogue. The primary purpose of prayer is to fellowship with God.   Let read Ephesians 6:18 (NIV), 18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people....

Sunday 9 May    I want to pray but what do I say? 9   This is an age long question. People have been asking the question for decades and many are still asking today. Jesus’ disciples too asked a similar question because they wanted to be more effective and see more results in the place of prayer. They said to Him, “…Lord we can see your prayers are different from ours, teach us how...

 Saturday 8 May    I want to pray but what do I say? 8   All this week we’re looking at all the different “prayer point” that Jesus gave in the prayer model He gave to disciples, they are not statements He expected them to say verbatim, they were meant to be a prayer guideline to help them structure the things to say when they prayed. The guideline He gave them then is still ap...

Friday 7 May 2021 I want to pray but what do I say? 7 This is a question a lot of us have asked in one way or the other. Everybody wants to have a rich relationship with God but how do we build this relationship; how do we talk to this God, what do we say when it’s time to pray.   Luke 11: 3 (NLT) 3 Give us each day the food we need  Jesus told them to pray saying; “…give us each day the...

Thursday 6 May 2021 I want to pray, but what do I say? 6 God wants to hear you and I know a lot of us have things to say to God but sometimes the process of prayer can be very complicated, particularly if we are young believers or have not been taught well about prayer. All this week, we've been discussing some basic things we need to know when it comes to prayer. We’ve learnt that prayer can be t...

Wednesday 5th April I want to pray, but do I say? 5 Prayer is a very powerful exercise and it can equally be very frustrating. All the same, prayer, is one of the most important aspects of our covenant walk with God. That's exactly why we're taking time to talk about it all through this month. Luke 11:2 (NLT) Jesus said, “This is how you should pray: “Father, may your name be kept holy. May your K...

Tuesday 4th May 2021   I want to pray but what do I say?  4 Praying can be tough when you do not know what to say, as a new believer in the Christian faith, I remember how I struggled to pray for five minutes. My problem got compounded when I was invited to join a prayer group where I would be expected to pray for at least one hour. In my attempt to increase my prayer time, I listed out...

Monday 3rd May 2021 I want to Pray but what do I say. 3 What exactly is prayer? Prayer is simply talking to God.  Effective prayer is a two - way communication, it is not a monologue. It is one thing for us to talk to God and another thing entirely for us to be able to listen to Him communicate back to us. Luke 11:1-4 (NLT), Once Jesus was in a certain place praying. As he finished, one...

Sunday 2nd May 2021     I want to pray but what do I say? 2    What exactly do you say when you pray? When Jesus prayed in the Gethsemane, he scolded His for not being able to pray with Him for one hour. Knowing what to say when you pray is one of the ways to improve your prayer life.   Let read Luke 11:1-4 (NLT), Once Jesus was in a certain place prayi...

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Saturday 1st May 2021    Prayer.   Prayer is such an amazing spiritual exercise and gift that God has given us to communicate with Him. It is also one of the most misunderstood activities in our walk with God. Having been Christian and serving as a pastor for a while, I’ve seen people’s attitude to prayer. Prayer services are usually the least attended event in most church...

Friday 30th April    The Power of Repetition.   2 Kings 13:19 (GNB) This made Elisha angry, and he said to the king, “You should have struck five or six times, and then you would have won complete victory over the Syrians; but now you will defeat them only three times.”   During the king’s visit to Elisha in his old age, just before he died, Elisha gave him a prophetic instruct...

 Thursday 29 April 2021    The Power of Repetition 4   A lot of us have the wrong concept of repetition and it started when we were children.  My first understanding of the word "repetition" or "repeat" was related to not doing well in an exam and based on that you are told to repeat the class. Even though the reason you are told to repeat was to strengthen your understand...

 Wednesday 28th April  The Power of Repetition 3   In the story of creation, the most common term used was “God said”. Have you ever considered why this was so? Everyday day of creation, God had to say something before creation happened. Why didn’t He just say everything at once “Let there be sky, sea, Land, sea and air animals, plants, sun etc”? He went through the daily repet...

Tuesday 27th April  The Power of Repetition 2   Bruce Lee, the martial arts legend once said, “I do not fear the man who can do 10000 different kicks, but I fear the man who can do one kick 10000 times. Bruce Lee is simply talking about the expertise one would have developed after practicing a single kick 10000 times.   The power of repetition is simply time commitment. Repetit...

 Monday 26th April    The Power of Repetition.   Repetition is powerful and awesome in our lives. It helps us to develop mastery. When we go over something over and over again, that process helps us to develop mastery. It infuses us with power and allows our spirit to gain a deeper level of insight and knowledge. Besides, repetition helps us to develop discipline and reap...

Sunday 25th April    Courage to Start Again 7   In the book " Life is Tremendous " by Charles Jones, he said this; " You'll be the same person you are today in the next five years except for the people you company with and the book you read."   By this he meant that your life will be influenced by the people you company with and the materials (books, CDs, etc) that you consume....

 Saturday 24th April  Courage to Start Again 6 We have had some time to discuss the life of Moses and his past struggles. The first time Moses tried to execute his God given dream, he failed woefully that he had to run away from Egypt. He had become so deflated and disillusioned over his forty stay in Midian that he could not see God bringing the children of Israel out of Egypt. Everythi...

Friday 23rd April Courage to Start Again 5. To the person that has jaundice, everything appears yellow! Problems have a way of shading our perspective. We all have challenges and that is not the issue, the issue is how we go through these challenging seasons. We will either allow problems to define use and keep us down or we allow God's Person, Presence and His Word permeate our minds and elevate...

Thursday 22nd April  Courage to Start Again 4   Judges 6:11-16 (GNB) 11Then the LORD's angel came to the village of Ophrah and sat under the oak tree that belonged to Joash, a man of the clan of Abiezer. His son Gideon was threshing some wheat secretly in a winepress, so that the Midianites would not see him. 12The LORD's angel appeared to him there and said, “The LORD is with...