Live with Expectation

By ApostleRichard

It was around midday on a Thursday, while I was relaxing in my room, when suddenly I received an overwhelming instruction of the Holy Spirit to write a thirty-one day devotional.

Immediately I grabbed my tablet and started typing what the Spirit instructed me to do.
It was like living waters that flowed from my belly as the Holy Spirit first gave me the daily topics
to write down.

Afterward I received direct inspiration to pen down words of wisdom and knowledge, including all the bible verses that give insight to the relevant daily topics. Therefore I believe I cannot take any credit in the smallest measure when it comes to the publishing of this devotional; it is a directive of the Holy Spirit, and I have completed this project in obedience for
God’s glory, honour and praise.

• Language: English
• Publisher: ApostleRichard
• Release date: Jul 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005613747

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Foreword

This Devotional is written to encourage all those who are struggling in their daily walk with God.

The focus is on the real issues of life on a daily basis. It is penned in simplicity, and it is very practical and influential to Strengthen and Encourage those who seek to understand their divine calling as ambassadors for Christ.

The Holy Spirit inspired and guided me every step of the way to put this book into your hand. I’m humbled by this great work of the Holy Spirit, therefore I give God glory, honour and praise.

This thirty-one day devotional will influence and impact your life.

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Day 1

You Are Made in the Image of God

(Genesis 1:26) Then God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

What a privilege to know you are beautifully and wonderfully made: you have your own unique fingerprint, and there’s not a single person on earth that equals yours. There is nothing that any human being contributed to exist and dwell on the face of the earth. God purposed in His heart to create man in His image and likeness. It is a journey that we need to take and explore daily. You are not born without a divine purpose on the earth. The whole of humanity must carry out their personal assignment to fulfil and complete God’s original design for man. His divine wisdom in creating mankind is visible in all aspects of our existence. We are a replica of God’s image and likeness, therefore we have a legal right to rule and reign with Him. In God’s great design of mankind, we cannot fathom the precise and accurate measurement of His wisdom. No other human being can or will ever be able to duplicate what He created. It’s a supernatural work of our Creator.

(Genesis 1:27) So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them.

It implies that all that God has belongs to you legally. All the promises are your inheritance, and it secures you of no lack, need, or want.

(Genesis 1:29) And God said, See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the land and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food.

His ability, strength, power and authority are your inherent blessings.

(Genesis 1:28) And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth.

When you become a born-again Christian, you qualify as an heir of God’s divine kingdom. You now live in the sphere of the Supernatural.

(John 15:19) If you were of the world, the world would love his own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

You have no ordinary lifestyle any longer.

(2 Peter 1:4) By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature.

There’s no need to search and fight for the kingdom, for it has been given to you as a gift, something that you possess. God’s kingdom is everything that God is - His nature, His power, His love, His wealth, His abundance, His ability, His virtue, His righteousness and His life.

(Luke 17:20-21) Asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He replied to them by saying, The kingdom of God does not come with signs to be observed or with visible display, Nor will people say, Look! Here [it is]! or, See, [it is] there! For behold, the kingdom of God is within you [in your hearts] and among you [surrounding you].

Take up your Kingdom position and represent God with great power and authority".

Prayer:

Lord, help me to comprehend the reality of my existence and to live in the power of Your greatness, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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Day 2

God will Sustain You

(Psalm 55:22) Cast your burden on the Lord, And He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.

By His great wisdom God first established the sustainable requirements for generation after generation to dwell on the face of the earth. God created man after He made sustainable provisions. God in His infinite wisdom made sure longevity for all living species, including human beings, was possible. It’s His way of allowing humanity to exist on the earth. It would be impossible for mankind to live on earth without God’s intervention, so His ability and creativity is visible in all of creation. Man has the inherent ability to grow and multiply: it was God’s idea to give increase to every living thing including mankind, and because of the seed every living thing can reproduce of its own kind, exactly how God has purposed it to be. Everything was created with precision and accuracy according to God’s divine purpose, and He will never have lack