Daily Journals February 2024

Day 2: 30th January 2024

Fact:

Gen 2:20

‘So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals…’

Insight: The Man had the ability to name all creatures, a testament to how creative he was, he named all the millions of species in the world.

Deed: I have capacity to do so much more, that there should be no limitation. I have power to create and device good things on earth.

Day 3 : 31st January 2024

Fact: Gen 3:21

‘The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.’

Insight: God’s love for mankind is constant it does not change.

Deed: I Thank God for his saving grace and care, that started right from the fall of man. I however commit not to take it for granted but to continuously Honor Him with my life.

Day 4 : 01/February/2024

Fact: Gen 4:6,

 “Why are you angry,” said the LORD to Cain, “and why has your countenance fallen? 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.” (Bereans Bible)

Insight: God has made providence for us to overcome Sin, If i stay in his presence I will master sin because He is all knowing he will give me insight to any appearance of Sin and provide a way to overcome.

Deed:I commit to live a victorious life over sin. So help me God.

Day 5 : 02 February 2024

Fact: Gen 5

Insight: At the end of a man’s life what really matters is their walk with the Lord and the legacy they live behind. For many men the only legacy they live is an offspring, while for others in addition to the offspring the fear of God.

Deed: I commit to live a Godly life so that in the account of my life a Godly legacy will be documented and that I will inspire my offspring's to follow suit. So, Help me God.

Day 6 : 03 February 2024

Fact: Gen 6

Insight: God hates wickedness - He planned to destroy the entire earth due to wickedness of humans. He however delights in anyone who lives a blameless life that is set towards him- He planned to save Noah with his family because he walked faithfully with Him.

Deed: I commit to walk faithfully with God and to live blameless before Him. That my life will bring delight to God and not regret. So help me God.

Day 7. 04 February 2024

Fact: Gen 7:

Insight: Life on earth was wiped out due to the wickedness of Man, Birds and all world animals were all killed due to man’s sins. The world even today suffers when Men act wickedly. Climate change and other acts that do not preserve the earth arise due to Man’s lack of righteousness and not walking with God, and it affects all life on earth.

Deed:  I commit to walk with God and to avoid wickedness in my life. So help me God. 

Day 8:05 February 2024

Fact: Gen 8: 20-22 ‘Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. 22"As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."  

Insight: The Lord God is righteous in every way He keeps his promise, He Destroyed all life on the earth as He had promised - except those he rescued together with Noah. God responds to our worship and sacrifice – He committed to never destroy life on earth as a response to Noah’s sacrifice.

Deed: I commit to a life of Worship and self-examination that I may remain in the Lord always, and that my heart may be inclined to the Lord’s ways.  So, help me God.  

Day 9: 06 Feb 2024

Fact: Gen 9: 7-11 7As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it." 8Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9"I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10and with every living creature that was with you-the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you-every living creature on earth. 11I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth." V22-23 22Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. 23But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness

Insight: God is a God of Covenants – He established a covenant with all creatures never to destroy them by flood and made a rainbow as a reminder.

God desires that men fill the earth – He blessed Noah just as he Did to Adam, to multiply and fill the earth.

Parents should be respected regardless of their status.

Deed:I commit to enjoy every earthly blessing promised by God, increase and security and to honor my parents always. So help me God.

Day 10: 07 February 2024

Fact: Gen 10:

V2: The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras.

V6: The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put and Canaan.

V22: The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.

Insight: All the sons of Noah multiplied according to Gods word. Japheth had 7 sons, Ham had 4 sons while Shem had 5 Sons.

God Keeps His Promises, His word is True.

Deed: I commit to read Gods word that I may arm myself with His Promises that I may live by them in my lifetime. So, help me God.

Day 11: 08 February 2024

Fact: Gen 11:

V1: Now the whole world had one language and a common speech ,V4: Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth. "V6: The Lord said, "If as one people speaking the same language, they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. V31: Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.

Insight: -          There is power in Unity of mind and purpose, a people of a common purpose can do anything they plan to accomplish.

-          When goals are set and not monitored, one may not accomplish them – Terah and his family set forth for Cannan but settled in Haran.

Deed: I commit to stay united to my Spouse, family, colleagues and friends, in all we set to do, so help me God.

Day 12: 09 February 2024

Fact: Gen 12:

V1: The Lord had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.

V2: "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing."

V3: I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.

Insight

-       Th Lord required Abram to separate himself / to be set apart in order to bless him.

-       The Lord’s Purpose was to make Abram a blessing to the whole world.

Deed: I commit myself to Obey God’s direction through His word that I may fulfill His purposes for my life. So, help me God.

Day 13: 09 February 2024

Fact Gen 13: V 8-9 So Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers. 9Is not the whole land before you? Let's part company. If you go to the left, I'll go to the right; if you go to the right, I'll go to the left." V 14-16 The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, "Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west. 15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. 16I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.

Insight: There was another separation for Abram from his nephew Lot. Abram was willing to take any part of the land because he was sure of Gods blessing wherever he could go, he was therefore willing to give Lot the first choice of where to occupy when parting.

- The Lord assured Abram of Inheritance to his offsprings even after Lot left. Abram may have been thinking that Lot was the heir but God clarified by speaking in the absence of Lot.

Deed: I commit myself to believe in God even when there seems to be delays, I also commit to Gods divine alignment in my life, not to fight when He separates me from certain people and circumstances. So help me God.

Day 14: 11th February 2024

Fact Gen 14: V 11-12; 11The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food; then they went away. 12They also carried off Abram's nephew Lot and his possessions, since he was living in Sodom.

V14 ;14When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as

V16; 16He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other people.

V18-20; 18Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, 19and he blessed Abram, saying, "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth. 20And blessed be God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand." Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

 Insight - It is the Lord who gave victory to Abram against four Kings, who terrified kings of Sodom and Gomorrah; Abram gave glory to God and made a commitment not to pay himself for victory granted by God - Abram refused to take anything belonging to the Kings of Sodom and Gomorrah; Abram received a blessing from a mysterious king of Salem – Priest of the Most high who he gave 10%. Of everything as thanks giving to God.

Deed: I commit myself to give God glory for the victories I gain in my life, because it is always, He doing it for me

Day 15: 12th February 2024

Fact Gen 15:

V1-4; After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.2; But Abram said, "O Sovereign Lord, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus? 3 And Abram said, "You have given me no children; so, a servant in my household will be my heir." 4Then the word of the Lord came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir."

V6 - Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness

Insight: - Abram was honest in his encounter with the Lord. His greatest fear was being inherited by a servant. He shared his heart out and the Lord heard him.

-Abram had faith that Gods promises would come to pass and for that he was considered righteous.

Deed: I commit myself to believe God even for those things I consider impossible, I choose to believe God today, Help my unbelief Sovereign God!

Day 16: 13th February 2024

Fact: Gen 16:1-4 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar;2 so she said to Abram, "The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her." Abram agreed to what Sarai said. 3So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. 4He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

V12He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."

Insight: Abram and Sarai seem to have given up on the promise of receiving their own child from their own loins.  The alternative they choose – a child through Hagar - was not any better.  The child Hagar gave birth to, is promised to be a trouble to his brothers.

Deed: I commit to wait on God even when it seems like things are not going in my expected direction. His direction though it tarries is the best. So help me God.

Fact: Gen 17:1-27

Insight: God is a God of everlasting Covenant – He introduces the Separation of the Flesh by circumcision, the flesh is now to surrender to God even the foreign – and that becomes a sign of obedience to the covenant; He changes Abram to Abraham and Sarai to Sarah; God is specific in his instructions to Abraham – He promised a son the following year and Kings in Abraham and Sarah’s generations; Abraham obeys by circumcising all males in his household including himself.

Deed: I commit to obey Gods instructions as Abraham did, even when my flesh will be inflicted by pain as away to obedience; so help me God.

Day 18: 15th February 2024

Fact: Gen 18:1-3,10-12;16-17;32-33 

Insight: God makes a definite promise to Abraham, next year such a time; Abraham treated his experiences with God with Keenness and did not let opportunity to slip away – he offered to refresh the three men and received his promise. God confines in Abraham the things he is about to do – destroy Sodom and Gomorrah; Abraham intercedes for Sodom and Gomorrah upon hearing the judgement.

Deed: I commit to treat my encounters with God sacred; the reading of scriptures where I commune with His word and in prayer where we talk. So, help me God

Day 19: 16th February 2024

Fact: Gen 19:1-3. The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2"My lords," he said, "please turn aside to your servant's house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning." "No," they answered, "we will spend the night in the square." 3But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. V5-8 5They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them." 6Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him

7and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing. 8Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."

Insight: Lot had been trained by Abram to sense God, when he saw the angles, he noted them and invited them. Even in the midst of a perverted Sodom and Gomorrah Lot had kept his daughters pure – they were virgins.Deed: I commit to be sensitive to Gods presence and decern when he speaks. I also commit to train my children in righteousness regardless of my surrounding. So help me God 

Day 20: 17th February 2024

Fact: Gen 20. 1-2 Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar, 2and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, "She is my sister." Then Abimelech king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.

V6-7 Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her. 7Now return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, you may be sure that you and all yours will die."

Insight: God can keep one safe even in the hands of ungodly people - He kept Sarah untouched in the hands of King Abimelek. God can keep even the ungodly from Sinning for the sake of His people – He Kept King Abimelek from touching Sarah. God can punish an entire household for the sin of one man – he kept all women from conceiving in Abimelek’s house due to Abimelek’s sin of taking Abraham’s wife. God is the one who closes and opens wombs; He had closed Sarahs womb, he had closed the wombs of all women in Abimelek’s household and opened them when Abraham prayed.

Deed: I commit to have confidence in God alone and to give Him room to fight my battles; both those am aware of and even those am not aware. So, help me God

Day 21: 18th February 2024

Fact: Gen 21. 1-4 Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. 2Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. 3Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. 4When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. 4When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him.

Insight: God Keeps His promises; he gave a son to Abraham and Sarah at the time he promised. Abraham was obedient to God; he named the child Isaac as commanded by God and also circumcised him on the eighth day as instructed in the Covenant with God.

Deed: I commit to wait on God and His promises, I also commit to obey Him and Keep His commands, So help me God.

Day 23: 20th February 2024

Fact: Gen 23. 1-4 Sarah lived to be a hundred and twenty-seven years old. 2She died at Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep over her. 3Then Abraham rose from beside his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites. He said, 4"I am an alien and a stranger among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my dead." V15-16 "Listen to me, my lord; the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver, but what is that between me and you? Bury your dead." 16Abraham agreed to Ephron's terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weight current among the merchants.

Insight: God gave Sarah life enough to Mother her son Isaac to adulthood. She died at 127 years. Abram did not settle for a free burial site, he endeavored to buy it at full price for generations.

Deed: I commit to live a just life and to pay the full cost of my investments for my generations. So, help me God.

Day 24: 21st February 2024

Fact: Gen 24. 1-7 Abraham was now old and well advanced in years, and the Lord had blessed him in every way. 2He said to the chief servant in his household, the one in charge of all that he had, "Put your hand under my thigh. 3I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living, 4but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac." 5The servant asked him, "What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the country you came from?" 6"Make sure that you do not take my son back there," Abraham said. 7"The Lord, the God of heaven, who brought me out of my father's household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, 'To your offspring I will give this land'-he will send his angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there. V12-14,

Insight: Abraham Knew his calling was for generations, his generations were to occupy the land in which he was a foreigner, he was keen to ensure Isaac remained in that land and not go back to his people; God answers prayer – He answered Abraham’s servant’s prayer to the very description. Abraham was generous – He loaded the Camels with gifts, and Rebeka’s family responded to this generosity with favor; Abraham had trained his servant to depend on God for guidance – he prayed and the Lord heard him.

Deed: I commit to train my children and those around me to depend on God for all things in life. I also commit to train my children to remain in the Lord and their generations too, to guide and make preparations even to such things as who to marry, So, help me God.

Day 25: 21st February 2024

Fact: Gen 25:5-11. 5Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac. 6But while he was still living, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east. 7Altogether, Abraham lived a hundred and seventy-five years. 8Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and full of years; and he was gathered to his people. 9His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, 10the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah. 11After Abraham's death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi.

Insight: God gave Abraham enough time to father Isaac, He lived about 75 years after Isaac was born dying at 175 years. He had had 100 years of experiencing God now that he was called at 75; Abraham settled all his children before his death, he left all inheritance to Isaac as God had ordered, he also gave gifts to all his other sons and sent them away not to be part of Gods plan or to disturb Isaac; It was easy for Abraham’s sons to burry him, he had already bought a burial site.

Deed: I commit to experience God daily in my life, to settle my issues in time; issues of inheritance among others, to speak where I am needed to do so, that nothing is left to chance to cause problems when I am no more, so, help me God 

Day 25: 21st February 2024

Fact: Gen 26:5-11. 26 Now there was a famine in the land-besides the earlier famine of Abraham's time-and Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines in Gerar. 2The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live. 3Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham. 4I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, 5because Abraham obeyed me and kept my requirements, my commands, my decrees and my laws." 6So Isaac stayed in Gerar. V12-14 Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the Lord blessed him. 13The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy. 14He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

Insight: Nothing is impossible with God, He enabled Isaac to Reap one hundred-fold during a famine; Wealth comes from the Lord - He blessed Isaac until he became envied; During Moments of decision making the Lord always comes - He came during the famine and instructed Isaac to remain in the Land.

Deed: I commit to walk in the Lord’s ways, to hear his directions; I believe in doing so I will be wealthy in the Land, Like Abraham and now Isaac. So, help me God.

Day 26: 24th February 2024

Fact: Gen 27; V4. Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die." V13 - His mother said to him, "My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me." V28-29 28May God give you of heaven's dew and of earth's richness- an abundance of grain and new wine. 29May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed.

Insight: Parental blessing has a responsibility – obedience and loyalty to the parents; God’s Plan always prevails – Jacob had already been planned to be greater than Esau; God’s blessings are abundance and dominion.

Deed: I commit to be loyal to my parents in addition to walking in the Lord’s ways. So, help me God.

Day 27: 25th February 2024

Fact: Gen 28;11-16 When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. 12He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 13There above it stood the Lord, and he said: "I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. 14Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. 15I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you." 16When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it."

Insight: God’s plan remains regardless of my present circumstances; It is the Lord who pursues a personal relationship with us. as we pursue safety, wealth, health, He pursues us/me

Deed: I commit to relate with God and experience Him in all my circumstances. So, Help me God.

Day 32: 29th February 2024

Fact: Gen 35: 2-5 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. 3Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone." 4So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem. 5Then they set out, and the terror of God fell upon the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.

Insight: For revival and the fear of God to come upon the family one must take the initiative to call the family to order and to worship. Jacob took the initiative for his family and the fear of God spread even to those around them, the same can happen in our days.

Deed: I commit to lead my family in godliness and in the fear of God and to call out any appearance of evil or sin. So, Help me God.