Our Daily Pill: Daily Motivation to Help You Discover and Release the Greatness Within

By Dr. Eric Ibegbu MD FACG

In a life full of hustles and bustles, with the on-the-go mentality, we all need that boost to help us get up and navigate life. In Our Daily Pill, author Dr. Eric Ibegbu offers a thirty-day devotional to help you jumpstart your day and set you on a perpetual path to success in life, relationships, and health.

Dr Ibegbu, both a physician and a preacher, understands the nuances of navigating a busy and demanding career and balancing the demands of being a husband and a father while maintaining relevance in a digital age. Based on scripture, each day’s topic includes a variety of themes, from forgiveness to gratitude to wholeness and more.

Our Daily Pill carries the transformational power of God’s ever-living word. It helps you become all you were created to be, even if your circumstances are not perfect.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Mar 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9781973687023

Dr. Eric Ibegbu MD FACG

Dr. Eric Ibegbu, MD, FACG a board-certified gastroenterologist, earned his medical degree and completed his fellowship in gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Florida Health Sciences Center in Jacksonville, Florida. Dr. Ibegbu began ministry service while in medical school in Nigeria, West Africa and has been involved in pastoral and leadership work around the world. He and his wife, Dr Shelley Ann Ibegbu are ordained ministers of the gospel. They speaks at conferences and seminars in both Medical and Biblical forums.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Day 1:     Steve Jobs’s Last Words

Day 2:     Honor

Day 3:     Mankind

Day 4:     Love Without Words

Day 5:     Ambassadors

Day 6:     Authenticity

Day 7:     Stick-To-Itiveness

Day 8:     Honeybees

Day 9:     Forgiveness: Part I

Day 10:   Forgiveness: Part II

Day 11:   Forgiveness: Part III

Day 12:   Gratitude

Day 13:   Salt

Day 14:   Vision

Day 15:   Goshen

Day 16:   Wholeness

Day 17:   Rainbow

Day 18:   Promotion

Day 19:   Time

Day 20:   Identity

Day 21:   Fear

Day 22:   Dreams

Day 23:   Focus

Day 24:   Mistakes

Day 25:   Excuses

Day 26:   Consistency

Day 27:   Peace

Day 28:   Deer

Day 29:   Eagles

Day 30:   Wisdom

INTRODUCTION

As a kid, I was an avid reader. I probably read every commando comic book ever written and every story series like the Famous Five by Enid Blyton. That love helped me tremendously as a medical student in Nigeria, West Africa. Lacking in audiovisual aids for learning, the average medical student depended exclusively on textbooks and imagination to grasp the concepts of medicine and surgery. I read excellent cornerstone books like Guyton’s Physiology, Bailey and Love’s Short Practice of Surgery, and Gray’s Anatomy, which for so many years was a textbook to me and not a TV show.

I always knew I wanted to write, but I neither knew a topic or even where to begin. For years, my wife would tell me that one day, my name would be on book covers that would be read all over the world. I’d say, Okay, yeah. All the while, I was thinking, You just don’t have the time to write."

After all, I had a busy medical practice, my wife and I were the senior pastors at Living Water Ministries International, and we had a young, growing family. With ministry, family, and running a busy medical practice, I had no time to write.

About four years ago, we structured our ministry commitments. It had become apparent that we could no longer devote the time to a full-time ministry and still meet our other obligations. This was a particularly difficult time for me since I felt like I would not be fulfilling my call without a pulpit. This is also a significant juncture to encourage anyone reading this who also thinks that God only works in one dimension to arise and see that he is a multidimensional God.

I began to realize that Paul, the man credited for writing two-thirds of the New Testament, probably spent less than his entire ministry life in traditional pulpit ministry. On the contrary, he spent a lot of his time incarcerated, which allowed him the opportunity to sit down and write.

If Paul merely crisscrossed the nation preaching face-to-face to believers, it would be unlikely that he would have written anything, thereby limiting his impact and legacy to the few thousands who may have attended his meetings rather than the countless billions that have been touched by his writings and letters to the churches.

I now know that this book and the series to follow will reach many future generations.

In my early walk with God, as a second-year medical student, the one book I credit with changing my life and strengthening my faith was written by Pastor Benny Hinn. I opened up Good Morning, Holy Spirit one evening, and I didn’t close it until I finished the last word. I read the book in one night. I pray that Our Daily Pill will be such an experience in your