Good evening, brethren. 1. Evening g devotion for today. i. *DAILY WALK WITH CHRIST* (COCIN DEVOTIONAL) *DATE:* SUNDAY 12TH APRIL, 2026. *SUB-THEME:* THE CROSS: CULMINATION OF GRACE. *TOPIC:* GUARANTEES COMFORT. *TEXT:* 2 CORINTHIANS 1:3-7. 3. Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4. who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort. *TOPIC:* GUARANTEES COMFORT. *THE MESSAGE:* The Christian race is full of trials, persecutions, and sufferings because of Christ. Today's text stresses God's role in comforting believers on all their afflictions. Just as believers share in Christ's suffering, they also share His abundant comfort. Indeed, God understands and knows our present situations. His comfort not only relieves the believers but equips them so that they can also extend that same comfort to others. Affliction and painful experiences deepen reliance on God while comfort empowers believers to support one another, especially the weak, the broken-hearted, the bereaved, and the victims of crises. It is not a must to speak when you visit a bereaved family. However, allow the Spirit of God to give you words of consolation. *REFLECTION:* He is the Great Comfort. *PRAYER:* Lord, equip me to be a source of comfort to others. Amen. *MEMORY VERSE FOR THE MONTH:* COLOSSIANS 2:15. "And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross." *TODAY'S BIBLE READING PLAN:* 2 KINGS 17-19. ii. Skip to content Dalily Devotional by Elizabeth Haworth Posted on April 12, 2026 by Editor False Illusions Christian Applications Store:: Christian devotional App Store; Explore Recommended Christian Books and Devotionals But Jesus did not commit Himself unto them, because He knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man: for He knew what was in man.” John 2:24-25 Grace and Truth How we love to see the best in others – to overlook their flaws and weaknesses. How we want to excuse their little foibles and disregard their faults and failings. “What would Jesus do..?” – we ask ourselves… He would love them and He would forgive them… we tell ourselves. Really!!! Part Truth That may be the truth but it’s not the whole truth, but only part of the truth! And a half truth is no truth if the whole truth is not supplied, Jesus would indeed love them, but Jesus would also correct them. Half Truth How important it is to discipline ourselves into disillusionment. How vital to come to the place where we see men and women as they truly are.. where we see ourselves as we truly are. But in our foolish and shallow Christian walk we often prefer to trust in our illusions. Whole Truth The one taken in adultery was given the whole truth and told to go a sin no more. The one that was healed was also told the whole truth and told to go a sin no more: “Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.” John 5:14 Loving Aright If we truly love God rightly then we will love others aright, but if we do not love God rightly, then we can never love others aright. If we truly love others rightly we will love them with His love. If we truly love others we will remove all man-erected illusions – we will see and love men as women through the eyes of disillusionment. Christlike Eyes Through Him our love will have no cynicism, bitterness, cruelty or dissatisfaction.. and through Him we will not overlook flaws and weaknesses – faults and failings But through Him we will love with the sharpness of a double-edged sword. Faithful are the wounds of a friend – but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Post navigation Previous PostPrevious The Mystery of Christ Proudly powered by WordPress. 2. Evening Prayer for today. i. Evening Prayer A Song of degrees of David. I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. ⏤ Psalm 122:1 Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the impossible, and know the will of God. ⏤ David Jeremiah At the end of Your holy day, our Father, we come to You with our evening prayers. May our prayers rise to You like incense. We thank You for what this day has brought us—rest, spiritual help, and instruction in divine things. We thank You for the glimpses of truth we’ve received as we’ve read Your word. We’re grateful for the good impulses and desires that have stirred in our hearts. Make us strong to face life’s struggles. Give us more peace and confidence amid the world’s chaos and conflicts. May the holy influences of Sunday stay with us like sweet songs, and may we carry the music of gladness wherever we go in the coming week. May the light that has shone on us today make our faces brighter, so we can shine as lights in the world. May the kind thoughts and desires kindled in us by the Holy Spirit drive us to serve others as we go about our lives. In every way, may we carry a blessing into our daily lives that makes the world a little brighter and brings new joy to many hearts. Bless the preaching of Your word everywhere today. May Your people be strengthened, the sorrowful comforted, and may many find new life in You starting this Sunday. May the world be holier, filled with more of the Spirit of Jesus, because Your people have remembered You today and have called down blessings on others. Pour out a large measure of Your love. Forgive all our sins and failures in duty, and grant us Your grace and peace as we lie down to sleep. We ask all this through Jesus Christ, our Savior. Amen. https://www.youdevotion.com/daily-prayer/miller/07/evening #taptapstudio #youdevotion. Good evening, brethren. 1. Evening devotion for today. i. *DAILY WALK WITH CHRIST* (COCIN DEVOTIONAL) *DATE:* SATURDAY, 11TH APRIL, 2026. *SUB-THEME:* THE CROSS: CULMINATION OF GRACE. *TEXTS:* GENESIS 3:15; ROMANS 16:19-20. *GENESIS 3:15;* 15 I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.” Mat 4:1 Col 2:15 [Luk 24:27] [Joh 1:45] [Joh 5:46] [Act 10:43] [Act 13:32] [Act 26:6] [Act 28:23] [Rom 1:2] *ROMANS 16:19-20.* 19 For your obedience has become known to everyone, and I am full of joy for you. But I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil. Mat 10:16 1Co 14:20 20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. May the grace of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be with all of you! [2Th 3:16] *TOPIC:* AUTHORITY OVER SATAN. *THE MESSAGE:* The consequence of the fall brought enmity between the serpent (Satan), the woman, and her offspring. The first text points to Christ, the "seed of the Woman." Although Satan would inflict temporary suffering, Jesus would ultimately defeat Satan through His death and resurrection. Humanity may experience conflict, but there will be divine victory. In the second text, Paul echoes Genesis 3:15, assuring believers that "the God of peace will soon crush Satan under their feet." This reflects the believer's participation in Christ's victory over Satan. The believer must not fear Satan and his cohorts because he has authority over him and his works. We take authority through prayer, using the word of God and the Name of Jesus. So, stand your ground! *REFLECTION:* You have the power to subdue Satan. *PRAYER:* Father, help me live in the authority You have secured for me. Amen. *MEMORY VERSE FOR THE MONTH:* COLOSSIANS 2:15. "And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross." *TODAY'S BIBLE READING PLAN:* 2 KINGS 13-16. ii. Skip to content Dalily Devotional by Elizabeth Haworth Posted onApril 11, 2026 by Editor The Mystery of Christ Christian Applications Store:: Christian devotional App Store; Explore Recommended Christian Books and Devotionals How that by revelation He made known unto me….. the mystery of Christ” Ephesians 3:3-4 Critical Question The mystery of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ resides within His own nature, “What think ye of Me?” was the critical question Jesus asked His disciples. He knew what men considered Him to be – the reincarnation of some past prophet: ”But who do you say that I am?” was His question, “what think ye of Me?” Each one of us needs to consider Jesus. Each of us needs to be equipped with a right thinking of Him. Simple Question The multifaceted, superlative attributes of God are indeed most astonishing, and we do well to consider them in reverence and awe. For He is almighty, immutable, transcendent and eternal. He is divinely omniscience. He is the omnipotent, omnipresent, tri-unity – He is indeed sovereign and infinite. And yet these holy and godly abstractions are condensed into concrete reality.. in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ, and He asks His simple yet searching question, “what think ye of Me?” Astonishing Answer We are not expected to attempt to understand mental abstractions of God’s character.. although His unsurpassed, preeminent, excellent magnificence is ever before us. Yet in the simplest and most wonderful way He told us Who He is: “He that has seen Me has seen the Father.” He who has seen Me has seen God. John 14:9 Generating Centre We are expected, by faith, to listen to His Word and to accept His explanation, for Jesus is the only medium, the only link – the only channel to the Father. He has made us His dwelling place and we are indeed the temple of the most High, but modern ethics and thinking considers God and humanity as one and the same! But this is to distort the simple fact that God was manifest in the flesh in Jesus, so that He might become the generating centre of all Who believe in His name. Heart Submission Jesus proclaimed ‘I and My Father are One.” – for “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:1 The believer is one with Christ when His Spirit resides within. He wants us to rest in Him and submit to His leading and guiding through His Spirit. Indeed, heart submission is His dear desire for each of His own: “Abide in me, and I in you” John 15:7 Submit or Resist But submission is a choice. Some chose to resist His Spirit – and some choose to quench His Spirit, while others in the conceits of their own hearts, by self-effort, seek to imitate Him. Many make great effort to emulate and copy the life of the Lord Jesus. Many also seek to carry out His commands through their own will and ability.. but we can never become like Him though endeavour, imitation or self-effort. Human Strategies We can never be like Him by applying human strategies or human programs. We cannot curb the fleshly tempers or appetites by conscious effort or monastic existence. This is the thinking of the world but it should never be that of the believer. When a man attempts thus to design his living, to reflect that of Christ, he will fail. A wayfaring man that so errs in the ways of God, is wise in his own conceits. Pure Diagnosis God will often apply His chastising rod on the back of such a man or woman of His. God uses all the facts and realities of life to humble us before His throne of grace, and through our self-analysis or introspection we discover our efforts are in vain.. until at last the Holy Spirit gains our attention – until in the end He makes His pure diagnosis of our vain, self-efforts. Painful Process He will then take us through His profoundly, painful process. He will use this and that heartbreaking strategy to gain our exhausted attention, until in discouragement we see that we are not, by effort, able to become like Him.. until in desperation we cry:- “depart from me for I am a sinful man O Lord..” Luke 5:8 – until all such aspects or attitudes are rooted out by the Spirit’s two-edged sword. Central Citadel Any aspect or attitude of our lives which are not of Christ have their roots in Self, but the central citadel and supreme stronghold of Christianity is Jesus Christ alone, The very person of the Lord Jesus Christ is to be the central focus of our hearts. He is the Alpha and Omega of all life’s struggles. He is the the supreme Staff and Standard. Either you submit willingly to being conformed into the image of His Son – or through time, He will apply innumerable painful strategies to make you like Him. What think ye of Jesus Christ – CONSIDER HIM. Post navigation Previous Post Previous Submission OR Insubordination Proudly powered by WordPress. 2. Evening Prayer for today. i. Evening Prayer Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if [there be any] wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. ⏤ Psalm 139:23-24 God delights to answer the prayer of faith. ⏤ Samuel Chadwick Dear heavenly Father, our hearts are filled with gratitude tonight as we think about how wisely You’ve led us this week. It’s been a week full of loving-kindness and tender mercy. You’ve walked with us every day and guarded us every night. You’ve brought us many blessings that will make this week bright in our memory. We’ve met new friends, read new books, had prayers answered, and found new joys. For all these things, we are very grateful. Look over the record of this week, which is now laid out before You. You see the spots and stains—things we did that we shouldn’t have, and things we left undone that we should have done. Speak forgiveness to our hearts. We also ask for the grace to make the coming week better than this one. We can’t change the past, but we want to make the most of what’s left. Prepare us for the Lord’s Day, and may Sunday prepare us for the new week. Let Your Word search our hearts and reveal anything that’s not right—then make us clean. Tonight, we pray for Your ministers who are preparing for tomorrow’s work. Fill them with Your Spirit, and lead them to the truth they need to share with Your people. Give them messages that bring life, peace, and comfort. Teach them what You want them to say. Hold them close to Your heart tonight so they’ll be ready for their sacred work. Give them empathy, so they can connect with those they’ll serve. Baptize them with a sense of human need, so they can truly help those who are hungry for the bread of life. We ask all this in Jesus' precious name. Amen. https://www.youdevotion.com/daily-prayer/miller/06/evening #taptapstudio #youdevotion.