FOR MEN SERIES

HONOUR YOUR WIFE (LESSON ONE)

Honour has a rule of engagement: "Honour is only given unto whom honour is dew." (Rom 13:7) That is to say that honour should be given to those who deserve it.
One of the persons amongst others in your life that deserve to be honoured is your wife.
1 Peter 3:7 says "In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God's gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be hindered" (NLT).
You see that honour was demanded from the husband. This is because man in his natural state is egocentric and will never put down his crown for a woman. God by this is bringing humility into the union. A man that is not humble is not broken and love does not flow in the atmosphere of pride.
"God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble." (James 4:6). God has no dealings with a proud man. Let me reinterate it: God has no transaction with a proud man. Hence a husband with  pathologic ego,  self esteem or pride will experience resistance from God. If a husband honours his wife it flows back to back. Because honour flows back to people who gives honour. By so doing you will not be seeking to honoured by your wife, you naturally will get it back.
Points to note from our anchor text:
1. Treat your wife with understanding:
A failure is a product of wrong understanding. It is a product of little or no understanding. Many marital unions today is failing because the man have not stepped up. Step out of that traditional mindset. Step out of those information that is toxic to marriage. Step into a new attitude character and personality through which love flows cheaply and freely.
Understanding is a product of proper study and insight. If you don't understand your wife, you will dishonour her.
2. Your wife is a seed of grace: One thing you must appreciate is that apart from been husbands and wives, you have another bond in God through grace. You two are citizens of the kingdom of God and heirs of salvation. So you don't relate based on the constitution of men but of God. In God's kingdom God values and cheerishes us, we must do same to our spouses.

SECRETS OF HONOUR

1. Honour is not demanded, honour is earned.

2. Honour is to be engaged

3. Honour shows or proofs value

4. Honour flows in te direction it is willingly expressed

5. Honour discolours familiarity and boosts rarity :It means that if honour makes your wife a rare asset to you and not one cheap entity.

LOVE AND HONOUR

1. Love expresses itself anywhere honour is resident

2. Honour is what gives value to love

3. Honour and humility flows together, and where humility is genuinely present grace is present. Since grace is uncommon ability Sotherefore grace will give you will give you ability to uncommonly love your spouse.

LOVE UNDER ATTACK

TREASURES OF GRACE (DAILY DEVOTIONAL)
WENESDAY, 9TH JULY 2017

TOPIC: LOVE UNDER ATTACK

SCRIPTURE: And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax gold | Matthew 24:12

MEMORY VERSE: 1 John 4:7

DIGGING DEEP: However great sin is, Gods love is stronger. However strong the power of sin is, the power of Gods love is stronger. Iniquity does not threaten God's love for man, sin can not incapacitate or end God's love. Because Gods love is constant and instant. God loves a sinner but only dislikes what he does. But sin in man will incapacitate man and kill the spirit of man from responding to the love of God. Sin blinds the eyes of men from seeing and accepting the love of the Father.
Love will continually exist in a potential state until it is been reciprocated by responding in accepting it. The power of God's love can never be experienced until one responds to it.
Inability to respond to God's love is missing God's amazingness and grace.
The people who are true threats the the devil are those who thoroughly and totally love the Lord.
That is why the devil fights the hearts of people never to fall in love with the things of God.
That is where the devil is out to fight the Church of this age. The devil is attacking love for God in the hearts of believers. He knows that if you love God you will be godly and not wordly. The enemy tries to attack the most Valuable things in the believer by so doing can gun down even the great amongst God's elect.
How does the enemy try to work this out? It is by introducing the virus of iniquity into God's people.
Iniquity is not just "accidental" sin but it is sin that has become a stronghold, it is lawlessness that is persistent and consistent up to the point of becoming an habit, character or nature. This gross lawlessness becomes a cloud upon the soul of a man and makes sin a daily unavoidable culture.
The implication of this scenario is that it gradually kills the love of God in you. That is why we must be very careful not carefree, we must be sensitive and give no room to the enemy. We must not be taken with the attitude of "it doesn't matter" and the mind set that "grace covers sin" and miss out of the kingdom of God. This is satanic lies that makes people comfortable in error and sin.
What is the love of God? 
1. The Love of God is identifying with Jesus (Mark 8:38): There are many today who have not identified with Christ as their Lord and saviour and there are those who have fallen from loving God. They now identity themselves with the works of darkness. These ones use to serve God but now are servants of the devil. They have totally backslided and have left the faith after they have loved this present world. Today i urge you not to loose your identity with Jesus. Let people know you where ever you are that you are for Jesus. You don't have to live a double standard life but let your life be hundred percent Jesus.
2. The love of God is loving what God loves: God loves righteousness if you love Him, you will definately love righteousness.
3. To love God is to be on fire for Him: If you love God, you will be on fire for Him. You can't love God and be cold for God. Naturally, love often comes with a burning desire for that person you love. So it is with your love for God. Your heart burns for Him, your all burns for Him. Beloved nothing sets us on fire and makes us kingdom firebrands like our love for God.
Finally, love is the highest asset of a believer. Anything that can take away God's love in you is a threat to you entering the kingdom. Anything that empowers iniquity in you has the capacity of quenching God's love in you. So deal with it in prayer and in all vigilance.
I pray for you that in this changing world, your love for God won't be squashed in Jesus' name.


PRAYER: O Lord forgive me of any hidden sin in Jesus' name.
Every cloud of iniquity hanging around me, i command you to disappear now in Jesus' name.
I declare that i love you with all of my heart in Jesus' name

QUOTE: Nothing extinquishes God's love from the heart of man like iniquity - Dr. Dabbas Joel

DAILY READING: Isaiah 65

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SOUL ECSTASY

TREASURES OF GRACE (DAILY DEVOTIONAL)
TUESDAY, 8TH AUGUST 2017

TOPIC: SOUL ECSTASY

SCRIPTURE: 15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever | 1 John 2:15-17

MEMORY VERSE: 1 John 2:15

DIGGING DEEP: One of the basic reasons why God gave man a spirit is for relationship with Him. God relates with the regenerated human spirit because He Himself is a Spirit, hence been a spirit makes it simple to relate with man.
The immaterial controls the material realm. For instance if you want to help someone, it starts from within you before it bursts into the physical. The soul of man is the centre that connects the immaterial to the material realm. It is the seat of Intelligence, desires, emotion, feelings, and character. What we call human nature is seated in the soul of a man.
There is always a flux that pulls the soul of a man into holiness and righteousness. The soul is the seat of our dealings in the flesh. It is a conduit between your spirit and your body. The activities your soul permits shows what has gained total rule in your life. Hence the soul is the constituency of the most powerful in your life. If flesh relates more with the soul then sin rules but if your spirit is taken by the Holy Spirit of God then your soul will be be under God's control and your body will conform.
The soul is the battle ground between the spirit of man and flesh. So it contains evidence of what has transpired in your life. A totally regenerated person has his soul, spirit and body under the control of God and such becomes true members of His body, bone and blood.
If we must truly become sons of God there are three ectasy we must consciously and deliberately resist; and also allow the power of God to pull us from. These three are:
1. THE PRIDE OF LIFE: This simply means selfglory. And any selfglory equals vainglory. It is an element of vanity. It is to be pumpous, and exalting self. It is raising self above God. This is what brought Lucifer down to eternal condemnation and judgement. God does not hesitate to bring down anything that tries to exalt itself above Him. Pride sponsors arrogance and arrogance births rebellion; and rebellion is the trigger of destruction. Pride is the seed of flesh that tries to gain control over the soul of men while humility is the seed of the Spirit of God that rules our spirit and influences our soul.  Proud people don't have regard for God. They take pride in the knowledge they have acquired, take pride in their wealth and so on. Because of this ostentatiousness they have no regard for God and have become atheists hence have sold their soul to the devil.
2. THE LUST OF THE FLESH: This simply means desires (the soul is the seat of desires) or appetite of the flesh. In Greek lust means to be hot after something. It is the burning desire to sin. For instance it is the burning desire to steal, to cheat, to lie, to be insincere with your spouse, to do anything that is anti the will of God.
3. THE LUST OF THE EYES: This means desire to see what is not in God's will. Such as the inordinate desire to see a new dress, new car, to look at a woman lustfully, to watch pornography and so on. The eyes is one major portal of perception and avenue for temptations. It is a major link to the soul of a man and has capacity to fuel desires, and emotion. David was drown into sin by the lust of the eyes. Lust of the eyes is one of the major element the devil uses to entice and attack man. It was what the devil used to decieve eve and defeat man. The devil pulled that same string on Jesus but was unable to prevail.
Job said that "I have made a Covenant with my eyes that i will not look at a woman lustfully" (Job 31:1).
When these three elements invades the soul of a man, the person becomes worldly, ungodly and the love of God is terminated from such a one.
Finally, God wants you to be for Him and hence you must dedicate yourself  and your soul to Him so that you can come into total governance of God.
I pray for you today may your life become the dwelling place of God.

PRAYER: O God, i ask that You gain absolute dominion over my entire beign in Jesus' name.

QUOTE: The soul is the battle ground between the spirit of man and flesh - Dr. Dabbas Joel

DAILY READING: Isaiah 62

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THE SOUL FANTASY

TREASURES OF GRACE (DAILY DEVOTIONAL)
MONDAY, 7TH AUGUST 2017

TOPIC: THE SOUL FANTASY

SCRIPTURE: Then the dust [of mortals] goes back to the ground as it was before, and the breath of life goes back to God who gave it | Ecclesiastes 12:7 (GOD'S WORD® Translation)

MEMORY VERSE: John 3:16

DIGGING DEEP: God created man in the most unique way. Before He created man, He made everything available unto man and empowered man with everything needed to be in charge of all creation. But this was not enough; for mans uniqueness to be solidly established God had to breathe into man and this breath made man a living soul. This breath is not oxygen, if not man wouldn't have been anything different from an animal.
 "The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living soul” ( Genesis 2:7 ). This evidently shows that man was never a product of evolution, nor a product of any molecule or particulate matter. Man is simply a product of God.
The breath did three things unto man:
a. It made man into a living soul.
b. It gave an extra-natural or an extra-physical identity and existence unto man.
c. It opened the account of time and eternity for man.
Man has two parts the temporal and eternal part.
The temporal is the body which our text says will return to the earth. The body decomposes and passes away. The eternal is lying in the core of everyones spirit. Just like you normally yearn to go back home after a long day so it is with our spirit it yearn for its true home.
I am sure there are times you just begin to imagine how does life after death looks like, where are all those that are died. You try to picture the extra-natural existence and all that sorrounds it. This is what is called the fantasy of the soul.
But i need you to understand that the life after here is real, it is true. God did not just send you to the world to merely exist, but to live His life. That was the reason for His breath in you. The world beyond this earth is not a broken dot, not at all!!! it is a continuum of the life you lived here. Your activity in this body determines your place in eternity.
If you live the life of sin in the body, you will spend eternity in hell; but if you spend your life living for God and in righteousness, you will spend eternity with God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (NLT) says that "Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God." 

Today has you move around don't live life just existing, don't live for your own self, live it for God who gave you breath. Live it to praise Him. Live it to please Him.

Finally, every mortal will vacate this earth into eternity with God or eternity in hell, but i urge you to live for God.

PRAYER: I refuse to live an anti-God life. My everything will do what pleases God in Jesus' name

QUOTE: Life is a continuum not a broken sequence - Dr. Dabbas Joel

DAILY READING: Isaiah 61

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BENEFIT OF LOVE

TREASURES OF GRACE (DAILY DEVOTIONAL)
SUNDAY, 6TH AUGUST 2017

TOPIC: BENEFIT OF LOVE

SCRIPTURE: Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue;  and the smell of the garments is like the smell of lebanon |  Songs Of Solomon 4:11

MEMORY VERSE: Psalm 18:1

DIGGING DEEP: The relationship between the Church and Christ is likened to a marriage relationship between the husband and wife (Ephesians 5:25-32). 
We are in a sacred Covenant relationship with God. An intimate relationship of love, affection and sacrifice. A deep romantic union with the Lord. That is why if you are truly in Covenant relationship with God, you will fall in love with Him over and over again. An irrepressible love keeps gushing out of you unto area. This gives you a personal identity with God, a very solid personal relationship with God and you can boldly say that "I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine..." (SOS 6:3). 
From our anchor Scripture today, you'll notice that when you are in a love relationship with the Lord, you will experience the following:

1. CEASELESS RELEASE OF HIS WORD: "Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue..." The Hebrew word for “dripping” is natap, which means “to drop of its own accord.” Gods' word is as honey and even far sweeter than it (Psalm 119:103). Word deficiency is sponsored by relationship deficiency. You can not be in a love relationship with God and lack insight, revelation, and illumination of His word. It drops for you freely and with ease. If you are a pastor, rather than searching and suffing the internet for messages to preach or teach, just be in a love relationship with God and He will pour His heart to you and through you to His people. Hence, His word in you is always fresh and new.

2. CEASELESS BLESSINGS: "...the smell of the garments is like the smell of lebanon." One common feature in relationship with God is the flow of the blessing. God is never stingy with blessing people who are in love with Him. Abraham was a lover of God and God transplanted him from poverty into wealth, from the cursed to the blessed. David a deep lover and seeker of God he was left and abandoned in the bush. His destiny was confined amongst animals, no one gave him any chance to be great, even his own father forgot him when prophet Samuel came to anoint a king for Isreal. His brothers want to shut him down at the slightest of opportunities; yet God took him from the bush to the palace. From rejection to acceptance, from the abused to the celebrated, from the one his brothers don't want to listen to the one a whole nation listens to. Genesis 27:27 says "...the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed."
I decree and declare that you will love the Lord totally, the Lord will give you ceaseless blessings in Jesus' name.

PRAYER: O God, fill me with love for you in Jesus' name.

QUOTE: Deep love for God equals deep relationship, communion and communication with God - Dr. Dabbas Joel

DAILY READING: Isaiah 61

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COVENANT INTELLIGENCE

TREASURES OF GRACE (DAILY DEVOTIONAL)
WEDNESDAY, 2ND AUGUST 2017

TOPIC: COVENANT INTELLIGENCE

SCRIPTURE: My Covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that has gone out of My lips | Psalm 89:34

MEMORY VERSE: Malachi 3:6

DIGGING DEEP: A Covenant is a written or an unwritten truce between a Covenantor and a Covenantee with terms and condition applied, if not broken releases benefits. God is the Covenantor, we are the covenantee. A Covenantor makes a covenant in favour of the covenantee. That is to say that God's Covenant with us is in our best interest. He has nothing to benefit we are the ones benefitting. It is commensal in nature.
Covenant is a platform whereby God makes us beneficiaries of His good treasure.
Covenant is a platform that tests the faithfulness of man verses the faithfulness of God. It tests the integrity of man verses the integrity of God. It is a system that strengthens your obedience. It is not competition between man and God, it is an opportunity given to you by God to help you develop a relationship with Him and make you spiritually and physically responsible in practising His words.
Covenant Intelligence is knowing the contents and intents of Divine Covenant, understand it, apply and act upon it's terms and possess all of it's benefits.
Many claim different Covenants from Scriptures but has never manifested in their lives. Covenant is never activated only by proclaimation. Covenants that is only proclaimed is powerless.
What is keys to Covenant Intelligence?
1. Covenant is always preceeded by an encounter: This is the first principle of Covenant Intelligence. God does not enter into Covenant with people that don't know Him. The highest form of Covenant Intelligence is when your life is in Covenant with God. Every Covenant in Scripture is birthed out of encounter with God. The more you yearn for Him, the more you love God and do what is pleasing in His sight, the more you enjoy the Covenant. God does not express Himself to people who haven't given their lives unto Him.
2. Covenants are studied and understood: A Covenant you have no knowledge of will not yield anything for you. Covenant that is gotten by revelation has the capacity to find fulfilment in your life cheaply.
3. Covenants are enforced by obedience: Obedience is the strongest cord of faith. Because it only takes obedience to respond to the word of God without needing any proof. Abraham's walk of faith started with simple obedience to God's instruction and that was what metamorphosed his destiny forever.
Finally, God keeps to His path of the agreement, He never breaks a Covenant, and He is more than willing to bless you with all the blessings attached to it.

PRAYER: O Lord i refuse to just be aware of your Covenant promises for my life but to be work by it in Jesus' name.
I recieve grace to be obedient unto your commandments.

QUOTE: God's commandments is key to amendment of our life   - Dr. Dabbas Joel

DAILY READING: Isaiah 59

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RESULTS OF GOD'S HELP

TREASURES OF GRACE (DAILY DEVOTIONAL)
TUESDAY, 1ST AUGUST 2017

TOPIC:  RESULTS OF GOD'S HELP

SCRIPTURE: God is my refuge and strength,a very present help in trouble, therefore will i not fear, though the earth be removed though d mountains be carried into the midst of the sea | Psalm 46:1-2

MEMORY VERSE: Isaiah 50:7

DIGGING DEEP: God is the most reliable help i Know. Our anchor Scripture reveals what happens to you when you have God's help:
a. You have security and strength: The strength of the president of a nation is in the military might and economic strength it possesses. If God is your helper, you have the most powerful military back up. If God is your refuge, you can't be living life as a refugee. What it means is that if God is all you have, you have all your needs met. God's help is unlimited, but mans help is limited.
b. You Enjoy Ceaseless And Timely Help: His help is ever present. In the night, in the day, in the face of storms, in the fire and so on. He is not limited by space, time or distance. His help is always readily available to you.
What are some of the results of been helped by God?
1. The help of God is our escape route from shame and reproach (Isa. 50:7-9): One major experience where ever  helplessness exist is shame. The arrival of God's help is the termination of shame. A story was said of a Sister who lost her job and her rent was due. The owner comes around to mock her and finally gave her a twenty four hour ultimatum to either pay or move out. The next day she was evicted. She was in tears on the street when she recieved a call for a job she never applied for. She went for the interview, was given the job, with apartment and official car attached. God stepped in and pulled her from shame. I decree over your life, any form of embarasement you are going through right now may the help from above settle it now in Jesus' name.
2.  The help of God empowers you to be focused on your goals (Isaiah 50:7): It gives you the inner energy to focus of your dream. Many people have dreams, but no help from anywhere that can enable them to focus and achieve it. Isaiah said 'God will help me, then will i set my face like a flint and i won't be afraid.' Help from God keeps you from distractions and empowers your focus.
3. The help of God terminates poverty, lack, empty-handedness and scarcity (Psalm 40:17): Divine intervention produces Divine supply. 'My God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus' (Philippians 4:19).
4. The help of God repairs lives and destinies (Hosea 13:9): Divine help is a product of His mercy. His mercy is stronger than any judgement, and overrides any form of accusation. God's help can correct your errors and colour your destiny.
I pray for you today, recieve help from above in Jesus' name.

PRAYER: Dear Lord send me help today in Jesus' name.

QUOTE:  If God is your refuge, you can't be living life as a refugee   - Dr. Dabbas Joel

DAILY READING: Isaiah 58

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