Friday June 13th, 2025
« A thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. But I (Jesus) came so that my sheep will have life and so that they will have everything they need »
10 The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd sacrifices His life for the sheep.
12 A hired hand will run when he sees a wolf coming. He will abandon the sheep because they don’t belong to him and he isn’t their shepherd. And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock.
13 The hired hand runs away because he’s working only for the money and doesn’t really care about the sheep.
14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my own sheep, and they know Me,
15 just as my Father knows me and I know the Father. So I sacrifice my life for the sheep.
16 I have other sheep, too, that are not in this sheepfold. I must bring them also. They will listen to my voice, and there will be one flock with one shepherd.
My Father-in-the-lord – Pa Josiah Akindayomi used to say that your father can only take care of you with what he has.
If your father is Jesus Christ, then since He owns the cattle on a thousand hills Psalm 50:10,
has healings in His wings Malachi 4:2
and all good things come from Him James 1:17, then He will take care of you with all these.
However, if your father is the devil, since he is a thief, liar and killer John 10:10, then he will harm you with all he has.
Which of them do you want as your father?
I realized a long time ago that the devil had nothing good to offer me.
I remembered about 50 years ago when I was growing very fast. I became a lecturer at the University of Lagos, bought a car and had built a house before I was thirty years old. Due to this fast growth, my people took me to a witch doctor they considered to be very powerful and asked him to give me charms for protection against enemies who may have been jealous of me. The witch doctor asked me to come with a live goat which I must lead through the streets of Oshogbo (Nigeria). Since I thought it was for my good, I parked my car and went through the stress of walking a goat through the streets of Oshogbo to the witch doctor’s house. He gave me three amulets in exchange for the goat – one to be tied to the steering wheel of my car to prevent collision with any car in front of me, the second to be kept in the boot of my car to prevent being hit from behind and the third to be tied to the driver’s seat so that if I was involved in an accident I would just disappear. I returned to Lagos thinking that I was super-charged, but in two weeks, I had three accidents! I realized there was no protection in the amulets and threw them into the lagoon.
I thank God that since I surrendered my life to Jesus Christ, He has become my Father and the fear of the unknown has been banished from my life.
Even if I have enemies, my Lord sets a table for me in their presence Psalm 23:5.
The devil is a liar and has nothing good to offer you.
If the devil gives you anything, he will take something far from valuable from you.
Don’t fall for his deception.
Only God can give good and perfect gifts.
Application – Only God can give good and perfect gifts.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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