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Zeek's devotional Saturdays 9/7/16 Text: Lk 16:1-12  Topic: Be quick to apologize.             As it is laid in my heart this morning. Let me paraphrase. Verse 1 -2 "Jesus said unto his disciples, and told them of the story of a rich man who has an unfaithful servant,and called him for questioning. He's likely to get sacked for mismanagement of goods" Am going to emphasize on verse 3. "The steward said within himself,what shall I do? For my lord taketh away from me the stewardship. I cannot dig ;TO BEG I AM ASHAMED". Did you get the capitalized word?.ASHAMED TO BEG". That is the mistake most people do. You know you are wrong and still trying to prove a point. To this steward in this passage, hr would have saved himself a big mess by saying "MASTER, I KNOW I HAVE MISMANAGED YOUR GOODS, I KNOW ITS WRONG, PLEASE FORGIVE ME AND IT WONT HAPPEN AGAIN". That's all. I'm sure the master would reconsider. You think you can't apo

Zeek's devotional Thursday 7/7/16 Text: judges 11:1-12 Topic: The process of time. Now verse 1 of this chapter sounds nice" jephtah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour"That's great ain't it?The second paragraph" and he was the son of an harlot". Little disappointed?. Before into in to-to.  Now there was no correlation between paragraph 1&2. Harlot's son and mighty man of valour? Verse 2 talks about how the legitimate sons of Gilead(The father) threw him out of the house(Jephthah) because they forbade him to inherite anything from their fathers house. Verse 3 After he fled, he dwelt in the land of Tob, and the bible said" There gathered vain men to Jephthah and they went out with him". Vain men according to my bible translation means "worthless men". Imagine!!. They threw him out of the house, found himself in the midst of worthless people. It doesn't sound so nice It looks as if a bleak future is on the horiz

Zeek's devotional 6/7/16 Text: 2king5:1-9 Topic: Add value Naaman's story, the great warrior. Verse 1 explains the type of man he was. "Now Naaman the captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master (king) and honourable, because by him the lord had given deliverance unto Syria, he was also a mighty man in valour" but he has a "BUT". He was a leper. Now if you read down the chapter, you would see that the predicament Captain Naaman was, had been a concern to the King, in fact a concern to the whole country Syria. Now imagine a man's problem being a problem of the nation. Imagine just a single persons predicament making a whole country worried. C'mon that sums it all up. He was a man of great value to that country. Everyone wanted to profer solution to his long term predicament. It was even a maid from a neighboring country that told them of prophet Elisha in Samaria.(verse 2&3). I could sense that desperation. We

Zeek's devotional 5/7/16 Text: Matthew 20:1-16 Topic: God loves all equally Do you think God loves all the same way?. If you had read this text from 1-16, then you will get an answer. Lemme paraphrase a little... Verse 1:"The kingdom of Gos is like a householder, who went out in the early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard". Now to verse 2:"he agreed to pay them after they are done". Verse 3" after he left them,(by then they already started work in the vineyard) he strolled to the market place and saw some people idle, not doing anything about the 3rd hour( in the afternoon) and told them to go to his vineyard and told them he's gonna reward them with the same reward for the first labourers, who already started work early in the morning. Verse 5,6,7 he did likewise in the the 6th and 9th hour(evening and night). Verse 9 was strange"and when all that were hired came, everyone received the same reward."A PENNY". Why