Good morning, brethren. 1. Morning devotion for today. i. 😀💝🌺🎁🌹🎀 MORNING TEA THE WORD FOR TODAY. SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2026. "BE PASSIONATE ABOUT IT (3)" ‘…Press toward the goal for the prize…’ Philippians 3:14 NKJV ALBERT SCHWEITZER said, ‘Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.’ When you feel passionate about something and allow yourself to pursue it, you position yourself to succeed in life. The majority of people in the world don’t follow their passion; as a result, they’re frustrated and unhappy. And you can see it in how they live their lives. Publisher Malcolm Forbes said, ‘The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living from what they enjoy.’ As a result, they simply endure their working lives instead of making the most of them. They live for the weekends. They try to hang on until retirement. That’s a shame, because your chance of success is directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do. Tommy Lasorda, manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, said, ‘The best day of my life is when I manage in a winning game. And the second best day of my life is when I manage in a losing game.’ In other words, every day he was involved in the game was a day he was living his dream. Are you? Dreams come true when gifts are set on fire with passion. The best career advice you will ever receive is to discover your God-given passion and follow it. Logan Pearsall Smith said, ‘There are two things to aim at in life; first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.’ So ‘press toward the goal for the prize’. Bible In A Year: Exo 33-35, Luke 14:25-35, Pro 7:6-9. Courtesy: Grace So Amazing Foundation🌹🎀 *To partner with us, kindly refer to page 9 of the hard copy edition or simply send us a WhatsApp message/call on +2348128000068.*🌹🌷🎀💝. ii. DEVELOP A HEALTHY SELF-IMAGE "For I know the plans I have for you' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." - Jeremiah 29:11 It is important to have a healthy self-image to be able to live a happy life. You have to base your view of yourself on what God's Word says about you. Do not base your self-image on what others are trying to tell you. For example, the fashion magazines, social media and the countless advertisements we constantly see. They all try to influence your mind. How do you see yourself? Do you feel good or bad when you look at yourself? Have you ever considered that the image you have of yourself might be wrong? Why is the question of how you feel about yourself so important? Because your actions, your speech and silence come from the person you have made of yourself. If you have created a self-image of being unworthy, unattractive and unimportant, then you will start to behave and speak as such: 'I can't do anything. I never succeed.' Dear reader, when you start to see yourself as God sees you, everything will be different. Such people are happy people. They know and believe that they were created in God's image and that God has crowned them with His glory. This makes them feel good even when everything is going wrong. God's children know that God loves them despite their mistakes and shortcomings! They say: 'The Father has good plans for me; plans with which He envisions my happiness and not misfortune. He wants to give me a good future and new hope.' God has given EVERYTHING to make us happy. His love for us is based on what Jesus, His Son, has done for us. You are a UNIQUE person. God loves you unconditionally! https://www.theblessingdevotional.com 2. Morning Prayer for today. i. Morning Prayer If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ⏤ 1 John 1:9 Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan. ⏤ John Bunyan Almighty and most merciful Father, we have erred and strayed from Your ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against Your holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done, and there is no soundness in us. O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare those, O God, who confess their faults. Restore those who are penitent, according to Your promises declared in Christ Jesus our Lord. And grant, O merciful Father, for Your sake, that we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, to the glory of Your holy name. We bless Your name, O God, our Father, that we can come to You with our confessions, assured that You will, for the sake of Jesus Christ, forgive us all our manifold transgressions. May we today have Your divine peace in our souls. May the love of Jesus also be in us, warming our hearts and making us more like You. Help us in all our work and duties. Let us not falter. Preserve us from laziness and carelessness. Make us diligent in our responsibilities. Strengthen us for all burden-bearing and cross-bearing, for all struggle and conflict. Let us not faint nor fail. Enable us to do every task in a way that pleases You. We ask also for wisdom that we may not make mistakes. Bless our influence on others; may it always be good and helpful. Give us the true spirit of neighborliness. May the mind that was in Christ Jesus be in us, making us humble and helpful. Grant these mercies and favors in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. https://www.youdevotion.com/daily-prayer/miller/62/morning #taptapstudio #youdevotion.Good evening, brethren. 1. Evening devotion for today. i. *DAILY WALK WITH CHRIST* (COCIN DEVOTIONAL) *DATE:* FRIDAY, 6TH MARCH, 2026. *SUB-THEME:* THE GRACE OF GOD IN DIFFICULT TIMES. *TOPIC:* PERSECUTION AND PAIN. *TEXT:* 2 TIMOTHY 3:10-15. 10 You, however, have observed my teaching, my conduct, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my perseverance, 11 my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. Psa 34:19 Act 13:50 Act 14:2 Act 14:19 2Co 1:10 [Psa 34:18] 12 Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, Mat 16:24 Luk 24:26 Joh 17:14 Act 14:22 1Th 3:3 [Psa 34:19] 13 while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But as for you, continue in the things you have learned and firmly believed, since you know from whom you have learned them. [1Ti 4:6] 15 From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. *TOPIC:* PERSECUTION AND PAIN. *THE MESSAGE:* it is human to question God's goodness and sovereignty in intense pain and persecution due to despair. Paul endured persecution and suffering, but he trusted God for deliverance. He charged Timothy to remain faithful to the faith and maintain sound teaching to refute the influence of deceptive teaching of evildoers and impostors. Paul also charged him not to be surprised when people misunderstand, criticize, or even try to hurt him because of his faith. People who obey God and live for Him will be persecuted because Christianity stands as an indictment against them. Christians should not fail to hold on to their faith in God in the face of hostility, pain, adversity, and political marginalization. Christ counts you worthy to suffer for Him. He will help you to be steadfast. *REFLECTION:* Even in adversity, grace abounds. *PRAYER:* Lord, give me grace to be steadfast in the face of persecution. Amen. *MEMORY VERSE FOR THE MONTH:* ROMANS 8:28. And we know that in all things, God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. *TODAY'S BIBLE READING PLAN:* JOSHUA 18-21. ii. Skip to content Dalily Devotional by Elizabeth Haworth Posted onMarch 6, 2026 by Editor Governed By God Christian Applications Store:: Christian devotional App Store; Explore Recommended Christian Books and Devotionals Fall of Man Adam was created in the image and likeness of God, but sin damaged that likeness when he believed the lie and deceit of the enemy and Adam rebelled against God. And since that first sin of disobedience, which caused all humanity to be imputed with a sin nature, there has only been one man who lived in the image and likeness of God – one man who lived as God intended that man should live – in total dependence upon Him. Perfect Man For thirty-three years the Lord Jesus walked this earth and lived as God intended man to live. Throughout His life Jesus lived a normal life.. a perfect life – the sort of life that God intended all men to live. Jesus lived His life in complete submission to the Father and in total dependence upon His God – led by the Spirit of God. Invisible God God is Spirit and no man has seen God at any time, and yet the invisible God has declared Himself in the Person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. And Jesus revealed the invisible God and made Him known to a lost world. The unique and only begotten Son of God, Who from eternity past was in the intimate presence of the Father, and resting on His bosom declared Him – revealed Him, interpreted Him. and made Him known. Dependant Living God in His grace and wisdom chose to come to earth, in the person of the incarnate Son of God. He clothed Himself with our humanity and lived His life as a perfect man. God in His wisdom and grace chose to be born as a man and to behave throughout His lifetime as God intended man to live. And for 33 years Jesus demonstrated the life God created man to live – dependant upon God, and only saying and doing the perfect will of God. Perfect Obedience The eternal Son of God willingly emptied Himself of His glory as God, and humbly clothed Himself in the flesh of humanity, in order to live His life as God intended man to live – walking in spirit and truth and living in perfect obedience to His Father in heaven. Throughout His life, the Lord Jesus demonstrated man in submission to Deity as well as God being lived through the man – man governed by God as God intended from the beginning. Image of God Fallen man was created in the image of God, but it was only when the God lived His life through the man Christ Jesus that He was able to say, He who has seen me has seen the Father and the words that I speak I do not speak of My own authority but the Father Who dwells in Me, does the work. Governed by God Though He was fully God, the Lord Jesus lived His life as fully man, demonstrating to you and me what it means to live in spirit and truth.. what it means to be led by the Spirit and submitted to Him – what it means to live in complete and utter dependence upon God.. what it means to be governed by God. As Christ humbly lived in utter dependence and willing obedience to the Father – in the same way, He wants us to live in utter dependence upon Christ Jesus, and in willing obedience to the Son – from this day forward to His praise and glory. AMEN. Post navigation Previous Post Previous Today Proudly powered by WordPress. 2. Evening Prayer for today. i. Evening Prayer Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded. ⏤ James 4:8 God shapes the world by prayer. ⏤ E.M. Bounds O God, our Father, we hunger for more life. We have gone through this day longing for life, yet how little life we have had! Our souls have felt empty of You. Our hearts have been crying out for more and more life. Reveal Yourself to us. Bring us into closer and closer personal friendship with Jesus. This is what we crave—friendship with Jesus. It is not enough for us to know Jesus as our Savior and our Lord; we long to come into deeper and closer personal friendship with Him. Show us how to have more of Jesus in us. Whatever hinders us from welcoming Him into our hearts, help us to find it and cast it out, so that Jesus may receive a glad welcome into our deepest affection. May we be blessed by the experiences of today. May they all work for our good. Some things have not gone according to our plans. We hoped for things we did not receive. Help us to know that Your way is better than ours, and help us to cheerfully give up our way for Yours. If we are not fully submissive, forgive us, and teach us how good it is to accept our Father’s way. We pray for Your church. It is in many fragments; we pray that soon Your people may be one. Bring Christians nearer together in love, faith, and life. While there is separation, may You overrule all divisions for good. May hearts be drawn together, and thus may Your people become one in spirit and effort. Save Your true disciples everywhere from sectarianism and from all that fosters differences. May Your Holy Spirit be given in such measure that all denominational lines may melt away. Hear us in our prayer tonight, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. https://www.youdevotion.com/daily-prayer/miller/61/evening #taptapstudio #youdevotion.