Good-life Daily Devotional

By Rev. Michael Benson Ajayi Luke 7:33-34 KJV  "For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!        Matt 22:19-21Show me the coin used for paying the tax." They brought him a denarius,  and he asked them, "Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?"  "Caesar's," they replied.Then he said to them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."          The religious extremists of Jesus’ time thought of many ways by which they could truncate His ministry and in one instance they hatched the idea of setting a cultural trap by asking this very dishonest question . The inscription on the coin was Ceaser’s  claim to divinity and as emperor. Ceaser desired to be worshi...

By Rev.Michael Benson Ajayi . John 5:16-27, ".....And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him because he had done these things on the sabbath day."         When the Israelites left Egypt in a process known as the exodus, there were approximately  six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children (Exodus 12:37).  They had been slaves to the Egyptians for 430 years (Exodus 12:40).  God miraculously fed  the Isrealites with manna during their journey in the wilderness to the promised land .         They gathered manna everyday except on the seventh (Exodus 16) this was compensated by the fact that they gathered  twice as much manna on the sixth day . This event was a prelude to the observance of the seventh day as a  Sabbath day in the ten commandments given to Moses on Mt. Sinai on the two tablets of stone (Ex. 20:8-11).       ...

By Rev. Michael Benson Ajayi "...Jesus said to him, Go your way; your son lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken to him, and he went his way......" John 4:46-54       There was no physical contact between Jesus Christ and the child. Neither was any of His disciples sent with the boy's father to affect the cure where the boy was. Verse 53 says  all He did was speak and the son was instantly healed, hallelujah.     Notice , Jesus did not say money (miracle seed) be given to the disciples to travel to the village to uproot a charm or destroy a shrine or pray a special all-night prayer or bathe in a river or eat a special food or any of those religious rituals that tends to glorify Satan and diminish the power of God that are often displayed in religious places of worship. God is all powerful and is present everywhere and can affect a change anytime and anyhow He so desires.   ...

By Rev. Michael Benson Ajayi . "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound"; Isa 61:1 NKJV"             Children learn by cognitive recognition, and are very impressionable; it for this reason that the period of a person's childhood remains the best time to give the direction God wants them to follow . Children raised in an abusive environment grow up to become men or women with a lot of distrust and fears as a result of the unhealed past emotional scars .       It is a known fact that  hurting people hurt others in response to pain.A wife could take revenge against a husband for a crime done against her by her dad during her childhood, likewise a man could transfer the aggr...

By Rev. Michael Benson Ajayi Mark 6:52, "For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened."       Rebellion against Godly authority results in a heart that is insensitive to the leading of the Holy Spiri t. This is what it means to have a hardened heart. If you dropped a ball from the second floor of a building unto a mattress : it is most likely to remain on the mattress or within its vicinity . The same cannot be said about a hard surface , the harder the surface, the farther the ball will bounce off and away from it . So it is with a hardened heart,  it is non-receptive to God's blessing . To be "hardened"  means "to  be unyielding, make calloused, cold in spirit, or insensitive to."    .  It is a stranger to the dynamics of the Spirit . It is typical of those who practice religion ;they are insensitive to the feelings of others and major reason for marital failure.This is what happens to the fellow...

Rev. Michael Benson Ajayi Matt 13:14” In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:"'You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving’’       The theory of determination or determinism which suggests that our belief in God has been predetermined runs contrary to the principles of the Christian faith and portrays God as unjust . It is the same when one says God’s favour is not fair.  And very often those who preach this doctrine quote the aforementioned scripture.       The belief in determinism is against man's right to choose. In mark 11: 23-24 the scriptures says”.. whatsoever you desire when you pray…”…if determinism was the case , we should not have desires and not be held accountable for our actions and decisions since they have all been predetermined .    Going by this theory, some persons were never given the opportunity by God to believe ...

By Rev.Michael Benson Ajayi Mark 11:22-23 "Have faith in God," Jesus answered. "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. NIV        To better understand what it means to believe ; imagine meeting a friend who is a lion trainer for a circus and he invites you to join him to feed three fully grown lions in a cage with a promise that you would not be mauled by the beasts .  If you believe him, you will gladly join him in the lions cage. The same is with God, if you are not willing to put your life on the line for Him, then you do not truly believe in God. To doubt God is equal to saying He is untrustworthy: a liar       .  We are enjoined to have faith and not doubt. Every believer has faith (Rom 12.3), but most believers also have an abundance of doubt that negates their faith. Doubt is l...