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EPISODE 962 – PRAYING FOR GOD’S PEOPLE

CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

The Love-Life Agency

Giving is a continuous demonstration of love for God. Enjoy more and more grace to give more and more into the spread of the gospel. Shalom Aleichem.

Apostle Bennie

Author

Thursday 11th, September, 2025

PRAYING FOR GOD’S PEOPLE

“Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints”

Ephesians 6:18 (KJV)

No believer or saint in Christ is an Island. Every individual is part of the community of the saints.

Though individual skill and strength were important, they won battles by their battle formations. The Testudo shield formation was one of their exceptional strategies to withstand the attacks of the enemy and advance towards the enemy’s gates.

Paul instructed that as soldiers in Christ, we must take up the shield of faith. And when each believer takes up their shield, they fight individually and corporately.

We are strong as saints when we stand together in this fight of faith. We defend, support and strengthen one another to enforce our victory in Christ and prevail over every situation.

The Lord knows the believer is not called to stand alone; thus, He incorporates everyone who becomes born again into Himself.

“For by [means of the personal agency of] one [Holy] Spirit we were all, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free, baptized [and by baptism united together] into one body, and all made to drink of one [Holy] Spirit.” 1 Corinthians 12:13 (AMPC)

In Christ Jesus, there is no individualism. Your well-being is not enough when the well-being of other saints is compromised.

This is why you don’t only pray for yourself, but you must also become an intercessor.

You must be intentional about making prayers and supplication for other saints.

All believers or saints in Christ Jesus are of one body. When the hand is in pain, the whole body is in pain. You can’t have pain in your leg, and have the lungs rejoice.

The discomfort of one body part is the discomfort of the whole body.

This is why you must pray for one another. You must pray for the saints.

To make supplication simply means to humbly make a request or petition.

To make supplication for the saints is to humbly and earnestly make a request for the saints.

Praying for the saints must be done with all perseverance. Don’t quietly watch your fellow saints go through pain and challenges.

Instead of sitting back to complain about the failures of others, you can make supplication for them.

Read Ephesians 6:18 in the Amplified:

“With all prayer and petition pray [with specific requests] at all times [on every occasion and in every season] in the Spirit, and with this in view, stay alert with all perseverance and petition [interceding in prayer] for all God’s people.” Ephesians 6:18 (Amplified Bible)

This is one of the signs of spiritual maturity: Praying for God’s people!

Selflessness is a sign of maturity.
The “babe” in Christ doesn’t pray for others. He or she is only concerned about himself (or herself).

The more you pray for others, the less you get troubled or anxious about your challenges. Praying for others also means looking away from your situation and entrusting it to the hands of Jesus.

When you spend time making supplication for others, all you are saying is, “Lord, please take care of my situation, as I stand in the gap for others”.

Let God handle your business as you make supplication for others.

Think about fellow saints in your community or city. Pray for their growth, their effectiveness in serving the Lord, and their strength and focus in the gospel of Jesus.

Set a time aside today and pray for the brethren.

Hallelujah!

DIG DEEPER

(Acts 12:5-14; 2 Thessalonians 3:1; 1 Timothy 2:1; 2 Corinthians 9:14)

WE PRAY

– We pray for all saints that amidst all the distractions and pressures of this postmodern society, they shall not grow weary in faith, love and in doing the Lord’s work.

– We pray that all the saints shall grow in the consciousness of our oneness in Christ Jesus.

BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2025

1 YEAR PLAN
Jeremiah 10-12

2 YEARS PLAN
1 Samuel 15

DECLARE THESE WORDS:

– I refuse to live isolated and selfish.

– I seek for the well-being of all the saints.

– I grow in love for the saints.

– I make supplication for the saints as my habit.

– I see every believer as a brother and I make supplication for them.

Thank you Lord Jesus!

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September 11, 2025

EPISODE 961 – DON’T BE QUIET, SPEAK FORTH THE WORD

CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

The Love-Life Agency

Don’t be afraid or careful to talk to the Lord about all that concerns you. He is the good Shepherd-King! Hallelujah!

Apostle Bennie

Author

Wednesday, 10th September, 2025

DON’T BE QUIET, SPEAK FORTH THE WORD

“And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God…Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”

Mark 11:22, 24 (ESV)

Have you ever been in a moment when you felt so much faith but didn’t see the results of your prayer?

Well, sometimes, during such moments, you may not be acting in faith. You may be acting confidently in your own efforts.

There are times people believe in their efforts made in prayer rather than in the ability of God. You will always be disappointed if you look at yourself.

To have faith is to have confidence in God and His saving ability. Faith is not vim!

Faith is not how you feel. Faith is not waiting for a change. Faith is believing without a doubt in your heart that the change has happened and you have received it.

The faith of God in your heart cannot fail.

Jesus didn’t have any doubt in His heart when He spoke to the fig tree. The fig tree didn’t shrivel up simply because Jesus is the Saviour of the world or because He is God. If that was the case then there was no need for Jesus to tell His disciples, “let the faith of God be in you.”

With such a response, Jesus was explaining to the disciples the secret to causing changes.

Jesus went on to make the disciples understand that they can speak to anything at all by the faith of God.
As He spoke to the fig tree, they can also speak to the mountains.

How is it possible to speak to the mountain to move?

It is by believing in your heart that whatever you say will happen because you have the faith of God.

“Jesus replied, “Let the faith of God be in you! Listen to the truth I speak to you: If someone says to this mountain with great faith and having no doubt, ‘Mountain, be lifted up and thrown into the midst of the sea,’ and believes that what he says will happen, it will be done. Mark 11:22-23 (TPT)

For Jesus to use this example that the disciples can say to a mountain be lifted and thrown into the sea, it means they can speak to change every situation.

If you can have the faith of God in your heart, you can speak to that infirmity in your body to be moved and be lifted into the sea.

If a mountain will disappear at the word spoken in faith, then that kidney condition will disappear from your body; the cancer in the breast will leave; the growth in your brain will disappear, the health condition in your lungs will disappear as you will not doubt in your heart.

To doubt is to be uncertain or to be afraid that what you have said will not happen. And mostly people doubt because they esteem the situation rather than the power of God. Others also doubt because they look at themselves and their incapabilities rather than the ability of God.

All things were made by the word of God. Therefore, when you speak forth God’s word and you believe in your heart, the change will happen!

Don’t keep quiet to watch the mountains before you. You can speak to it now according to the word of the Lord.

That heart disease or cancer, or tumour of any kind can desiccate completely or wither from the root.

Speak forth the word of God in faith without any doubt in your heart!

Hallelujah.

DIG DEEPER

(Mark 16:20; Matthew 21:21; Mark 9:23; Psalm 62:8; Psalm 50:15)

WE PRAY

We speak to any mountain in our lives to be removed and lifted into the sea. We speak to any unwanted condition in our lives to be uprooted in the name of Jesus.

BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2025

1 YEAR PLAN
Jeremiah 7-9

2 YEARS PLAN
1 Samuel 14

DECLARE THESE WORDS:
– I have absolute confidence in God.

– I live by the word of God amidst all confutative opinions.

– I have the faith of God.

– I don’t doubt the word of God.

– The faith of God in my heart cannot fail.

Oh thank you Lord Jesus!

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September 10, 2025

EPISODE 960 – TRUE DISCIPLESHIP

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The Love-Life Agency

You must be intentional about making prayers and supplication for other saints. This is one of the signs of spiritual maturity: Praying for God’s people! Let God handle your business as you make supplication for others. Selah.

Apostle Bennie

Author

Tuesday, 9th September, 2023

TRUE DISCIPLESHIP

“Jesus said to the people who believed in him, “You are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings.”

John 8:31 (NLT)

We are in a generation where there is an abundance of information and pluralism of thoughts, concepts of life and teachings.

There have been more teachers in our time than ever.

This is because of the several media platforms available now. This wasn’t the case in few years back.

Some people lack the integrity and skill to be teachers. Yet now, with internet data and a smartphone, everyone wants to create content and to share their opinions or assumptions as authentic knowledge. And you will have some gullible people running after those thoughts.

Every disciple of Jesus must give attention to only the teachings of Christ.

Your mark of discipleship is TO CONTINUALLY REMAIN FAITHFUL TO THE WORD (or teaching of Christ).

It is not how long you have been a disciple of Jesus, it is how long you will continue to be a disciple of Jesus.

You must intentionally imbue focus in the teachings of Christ.

It is interesting how some believers turn to the myths and old fables of this world.

The people of the world cannot teach you the reality of the Kingdom.

For example, your unbelieving lecturer doesn’t have the spiritual understanding of the kingdom life.

Therefore, he/she doesn’t have the authority to teach you how to fellowship with God. He is not the one to tell you how you should be attending Church meetings.

The people of this world have their terms, and as you are in Christ, you function by a different set of rules.

You cannot be in Christ and think like the world.

You must uphold and esteem the teachings of Christ in your heart.

A true disciple of Jesus, is a deviation to the systems of this world.

He/she doesn’t live by the thought patterns of this world; but delights in the Word of Christ.

He/she doesn’t interpret love as the people of this world do. A true disciple of Jesus walks in the unconditional love of Christ.

A true disciple is a doer of the word of Christ and not a hearer only. He/she follows and continues in Christ no matter the storm, suffering or persecution.

The persuasion of a true disciple is that nothing can separate him/her from the love of Christ.

Dear Disciple of Jesus, do what the Lord tells you to do through His word, not what the world informs.

ARE YOU A TRUE DISCIPLE OF JESUS?

Selah

DIG DEEPER

(Colossians 3:16; John 15:8; John 13:35; Romans 8:37-39; Colossians 1:28-29; 2 John 1:9; John 15:7-8)

WE PRAY

– That the delight and persuasion of the word of God shall be intensified in our hearts more and more; to make us doers of the word and not hearers.

– That he word of Christ shall deeply dwell in our hearts and we shall not yield our minds to the old fables and false teachings of this world.

BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2025

1 YEAR PLAN
Jeremiah 4-6

2 YEARS PLAN
1 Samuel 13

DECLARE THESE WORDS:
– I don’t patten my life according to the standards of this world.

– I walk in the unconditional love of Christ.

– I delight myself daily with the word of Christ.

– Nothing can separate me from the love of Christ.

– I continue in Christ no matter the storm, sufferings and persecutions.

– I am a true disciple of Christ.

Hallelujah!!!!

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September 9, 2025

EPISODE 959 – YOU HAVE A BLESSED LIFE

CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

The Love-Life Agency

Stop being satisfied with the sand bathing. Go beyond the shores of the Spirit, and dive deep into the ocean of the Spirit to experience and enjoy the wisdom of God.

Apostle Bennie

Author

Monday, 8th September, 2025

YOU HAVE A BLESSED LIFE

“The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands”

Deuteronomy 28:12 (NIV)

It’s easy to feel less blessed when you’re overwhelmed with challenges. Sometimes, when it seems like nothing seems to work, you will feel like God’s promises aren’t for you.

You look at others and feel they are blessed, and everything works successfully in their lives.

You may also wonder if it is possible for a person to have:

– Beautiful marriage and blessed children

– Prosperous career or profession, and business

– Outstanding Ministry

– A dignified and peaceful life.

Beloved, this is God’s design for your life.

You can enjoy a life more beautiful and glorious than it was in “Eden”.

Let this sink deep in your heart; the outcome of your life is what you believe with your heart.

Do you believe that you can have a life full of glory and beauty?

Hear this, all things are possible to them that believe (Mark 9:23).

“All things” here means all things. Whether you read it in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, English, etc.

ALL THINGS MEANS ALL THINGS!

Whatever you believe will gravitate towards you.

Do not accept the idea that your life is full of struggle.

Hold on to the word of God.

As you act in complete obedience of faith to the word of God, you will see the manifested glory of the word. The blessing of the word of God is not for some limited people.

It is for those who believe!

Maintain this strong mentality of faith that you are a blessed man.

Let it be your consciousness that your hands are so blessed that everything you touch will turn to gold. Wherever you go and whatever you do is prosperous because God is with you.

No matter the challenge, you will emerge strong, with mighty testimonies

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through fire, you will not be scorched, Nor will the flame burn you.” Isaiah 43:2 (AMP)

No challenge is bigger than you. Whatever you come in contact with, you will become the center of attraction.

Always see yourself as one with blessed hands.

The more you think this way, the more all things align for your good.

Oh Hallelujah!

DIG DEEPER

(Deuteronomy 28:1-14; Job 23:10; Deuteronomy 30:9; Genesis 39:3)

WE PRAY

That we will grow deep in the consciousness that whatsoever our hands touch will turn into gold.

BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2025

1 YEAR PLAN
Jeremiah 1-3

2 YEARS PLAN
1 Samuel 12

DECLARE THESE WORDS:

– Whatever I touch turns to Gold.

– I am a blessed man.

– Wherever I go and whatever I do is prosperous because God is with me.

– No matter the challenge, I will emerge strong with mighty testimonies.

– No challenge is bigger than me.

– Whatever comes in contact with me will become the center of attraction.

– I have blessed hands.

Oh Hallelujah, glory!

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September 8, 2025

EPISODE 958 – DON’T ALLOW YOUR EMOTIONS TO LEAD YOU

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The Love-Life Agency

Let this sink deep in your heart, the outcome of your life is what you believe with your heart. Selah.

Apostle Bennie

Author

Sunday, 7th September, 2025

DON’T ALLOW YOUR EMOTIONS TO LEAD YOU

“Delight yourself also in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart”.

Psalm 37:4 (NKJV)

The Lord did not give you your emotions to guide you. Your emotions are measuring instruments of your soul. It helps you ascertain the frequency of your impressions of a matter.

Don’t allow your emotions to lead you.

Your emotion or the deep seat of your desire has been exposed to the corruptibility of the flesh before you got born again.

The flesh has always had its way of governing or influencing the soul of a man. A man’s soul includes the will, the mind and the emotions. For you to express God, your mind must be renewed by the word, your will must submit to God’s will and your emotions must be immersed and trained with the deep desires of God.

This is the work of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God.

“For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12 (AMPC)

Every part of your being has its own intelligence. From your spirit, through to your soul, to the physical parts of your body and even to the smallest cell within you has its own intelligence.

When the word of God permeates your entire being as you continuously meditate on it, it nourishes and also cultivates the intelligence of your entire being.

This is why meditation is important. Meditation is not just a matter of thinking about something. Through meditation, you are immersed into a particular thought pattern. Meditation creates within you a deep and lasting impression.

Through meditation, you are able to repeat a certain line of thought in your heart.

“Repetition is the law of deep and lasting impressions.”

Every single person is involved in meditation one way or the other.

There is always a line of thought you are repeatedly exposing your mind, your will and emotions to.

And the more you expose your heart to these thoughts, the more they become the impressions of your emotions. And the more you exercise or give yourself to certain passions the more they rule and drive your reactions.

This is why God is interested in the focus of your emotions or your heart’s delight.

The more you meditate on the love of God and cultivate your heart to express that love, the more it dominates your passions.

The reason most people are quick to spend time watching a Hollywood movie, Bollywood movie or an African movie is how they have trained the desires of their heart.

The more you give your time and attention to something the more you create deep cravings for it in your heart.

This is why when you have to pray, there is always a fight within your entire being. Deep within your spirit, there is the prompting to pray. Your mind is aware of the benefits of prayer, yet your will is struggling between the craving of your flesh and the prompting of your spirit.

It will amaze you to know that the craving of your flesh travels through the impressions of your emotions. Your flesh uses the force of the desires hewn from your emotions to influence your actions.

Channel your emotions towards the Lord. Allow the word of God to saturate your desires.

Selah.

DIG DEEPER

(Mark 12:30; Job 22:26; Job 27:10; Psalm 69:9; John 2:17; Psalm 73:25; 1 Peter 1:13)

WE PRAY

We pray declaring our emotions to be expressed according to the light of the word of God. And not by the passions of the flesh.

BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2025

1 YEAR PLAN
Isaiah 64-66

2 YEARS PLAN
1 Samuel 11

DECLARE THESE WORDS:

– I don’t isolate my emotions from the Lord.

– My emotions and desires are focused on the Lord.

– My whole being is soaked and saturated deeply into the Holy Spirit.

– I am not led by my emotions.

– My delight is in the Lord.

Oh Hallelujah!

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September 7, 2025

EPISODE 956 – DON’T DELAY

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The Love-Life Agency

Beloved, this is a fruitful week for you. Step out with that conviction and bear fruits unto Christ. Shalom Aleichem!

Apostle Bennie

Author

Friday, 5th September, 2025

DON’T DELAY

“We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent us. The night is coming, and then no one can work.”

John 9:4 (NLT)

Beloved God has trusted you with His glorious gospel.

To carry out the assignment to spread the gospel is to carry out God’s great plan.

Though God’s plan is eternal, it is to be accomplished in time. God’s eternal plan of salvation has been programmed to be accomplished in time.

God, who has been in all eternity, entered time (which is a spot in eternity) and was revealed (as Jesus) to fulfil the eternal purpose and plan.

Our Lord Jesus said:

“We need to be energetically at work for the One who sent me here, working while the sun shines. When night falls, the workday is over.” John 9:4 (MSG)

Every saint must have this mind-attitude set of Jesus.

There is a time bound to this work. It is not going to continue forever.

A day is going to come when soul-winning will end.

There is an expected time in God’s eternal calendar when the gospel must reach all men, then the end shall come.

And day by day, the end of this work draws close.

You can’t afford to procrastinate. You have to get up and be about the Father’s business.

We are in the harvest season for souls. This season will be over soon. The question at the end will be: HOW MANY SOULS DID YOU GATHER FOR THE LORD?

This is why you are here, beloved, to accomplish the task of saving men.

This is the harvest time, ACT QUICKLY AND ENERGETICALLY.

During our Bible reading plan last two years, Proverbs 10:5 caught my attention again.

“A wise youth harvests in the summer, but one who sleeps during harvest is a disgrace” Proverbs 10:5 (NLT)

Are you wise, or are you a disgrace?

You must know the season you are in and get serious with this ministry task. Make the most of this opportunity, for the time comes when there will be no such opportunity.

Look at the same verse in the Passion Translation:

“Know the importance of the season you’re in and a wise son you will be. But what a waste when an incompetent son sleeps through his day of opportunity!” Proverbs 10:5 (TPT)

Act quickly on the ideas the Lord is putting in your heart.

The things the Lord is inspiring you to do are the things He wants to do. Be the body and the person the Lord will use to accomplish His task quickly.

Don’t hesitate!

Don’t make excuses!

Don’t think it is not time yet!

The time is now.

You are in the body of Christ at such a time to accomplish your purpose.

Get to work quickly and energetically.

Don’t delay with that giving. Don’t delay with the outreach plan. Don’t delay with those great ideas.

Shalom.

DIG DEEPER

(Philippians 3:13-14; 2 Timothy 4:7-8; John 4:34-36; Romans 13:11-12; 1 John 2:18)

WE PRAY

– The grace to be diligent in work the Lord has entrusted unto us.

– That we will not cast away our confidence in the work of ministry, rather hold on steadfastly till the end working diligently with a strong sense of urgency.

BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2025

DECLARE THESE WORDS:

– I refuse to procrastinate what the Lord has instructed me to do.

– I don’t give excuses.

– I don’t hesitate.

– I act now.

– I get the job done on time.

– Whatever the Lord has entrusted into my hands to do, I do it with all diligence and I see the results thereof.

– I am a faithful laborer.

– I labour in and out season.

– I get myself busy with the Lord’s assignment.

– I don’t waste the grace of God bestowed unto me.

– I make each day count for the assignment the Lord has entrusted unto me.

– I go every length to get the job done.

– I keep a sense of urgency in all things.

Ohh Hallelujah!!! Gloreeeey!

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September 5, 2025

Tag: daily devotional

EPISODE 962 – PRAYING FOR GOD’S PEOPLE

CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

The Love-Life Agency

PRAYING FOR GOD’S PEOPLE

EPISODE 961 – DON’T BE QUIET, SPEAK FORTH THE WORD

CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

The Love-Life Agency

DON’T BE QUIET, SPEAK FORTH THE WORD

EPISODE 960 – TRUE DISCIPLESHIP

CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

The Love-Life Agency

TRUE DISCIPLESHIP

EPISODE 959 – YOU HAVE A BLESSED LIFE

CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

The Love-Life Agency

YOU HAVE A BLESSED LIFE

EPISODE 958 – DON’T ALLOW YOUR EMOTIONS TO LEAD YOU

CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

The Love-Life Agency

DON’T ALLOW YOUR EMOTIONS TO LEAD YOU

EPISODE 956 – DON’T DELAY

CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

The Love-Life Agency

DON’T DELAY