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*Your Word for Today (YWFT), November 2025

Friday, November 7, 2025

*Topic: Competitiveness Begins from Home

*Focus Word
“Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion” (Isaiah 8:18).

*The Word
Like the Yoruba tribe would often say, ‘greatness begins from home’. This is true.

A child who isn’t well mentally and spiritually invested in at home won’t be able to attract positional and material advantage as an adult except he/ she retrains himself or herself.

The world is increasingly becoming capitalistic. Capitalism brings competition to living. Captalism ranks people. Capitalism creates class. Capitalism shifts material and positional advantages to those who possess substance inside. Capitalism transfers wealth and honour to those who can add value and are resilient.

Maybe you didn’t know. Your neighbours’ daughters, your uncles’ children, and children from far and near will be competing indirectly with your children for advantages in life’s capitalistic market tomorrow.

You will know if you have made a great investment by how much your children start earning when they grow old.

In other words, your children's salary or business income levels can be said to be directly linked to the level of your spiritual and mental investment in their formative years.

It is true that some children grow up to choose the wrong path later in life despite their parents' great efforts. Those are exceptional cases. Yet, no man or woman can come out boldly and say the children God gave them at birth were badly destined or born a pr******te or a lawyer.

What God gave every father and mother at birth is a beautiful, innocent child. That is why we celebrate. That is why people tell us congratulations!

Isaiah said, “Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion” (Isaiah 8:18).

A child success in life is the test of a family's success. A child's success in life will measure how successful the parents have been.

Parents, what you have received from the Lord at birth are children who are potential ‘signs and wonders’.

If the same child that was born beautiful and innocent and celebrated later should turn into a criminal, you can’t blame God.

God didn’t give us a criminal or a pr******te at birth. He gave every family a ‘sign and wonder’. It is by parents' carelessness and negligence, that children turned into bad social and economic actors.

Every family is given at least the first 13 to 18 years of a child's life to lay a foundation for the rest of the child's life. Those first 13 to 18 years are critical in forming positive character in the child by monitoring their behaviour, correcting their errors, killing emerging bad habits through punishment, and rewarding good traits through gifts. Creating a peaceful home (especially harmony between parents) to help them thrive.

If those first 13 to 18 years are badly managed, the family must be questioned for whatever the child becomes later in life!

Abraham understood this mystery. He monitored and mentored Isaac for greatness (Genesis 18:19). He showed Isaac good examples. He created the right environment for him to grow well (Genesis 21:9-14). He built Isaac into a strong and competitive young man.

When Isaac grew old, you could see the traces of his competitiveness when people competed with his business. Isaac stood his ground. He was resilient until he found success (Genesis 26:18-22).

When your children compete with other diligent, brilliant, honest, prayerful or occultic folks out there, will they be able to hold their ground?

Digest those questions. We won't fail in parenting in Jesus Name.

I invite you to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour. Also, forsake your sins. Jesus is the Wisdom and Power of God (1 Corinthians 1:23-24).

*Action Word
Work on your home ministry.

*Prayer Points
1. Father, thank You for Your Word for Today. Thank You for my breath and life and everything I have. Be glorified, in Jesus Name.
2. Power to fulfil my home ministry, fall upon me, in the Name of Jesus.
3. I decree and declare that the year 2025 shall favour me in Jesus Name.

*Your Word for Today (YWFT), November 2025

Thursday, November 6, 2025

*Topic: Your Home Is a Production Line

*Focus Word
“For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice, that the LORD may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him” (Genesis 18:19).

*The Word
We are taking yesterday's devotional further. Here we go. If you are married currently, you are God’s production line.

You are a production line for producing the next generation of men and women who will show forth the glory of God. You are a production line for producing the next generation of men and women who will shape the history of a nation.

You are a production line for producing the next generation of men and women who will make bold, beautiful discoveries in science and the economy.

You are a production line for producing the next generation of men and women who will erase the past errors and establish a new order.

If you visit a store, you will see various products sitting on the shelves. Those products have labels that help you know what they are, the ingredients they contain, the benefits of using them, and who produced them. Every human being isn’t different from those products on a shelf.

That young man at your place of work who got a promotion last week is a product of some family. Like products on a shelf, the labels that distinguishes him are the surname he bears and the content of character drilled into him by parents, school and church.

Now you can see that you are a product of somewhere and someone. If the production line does a poor job in enriching the character content of the product, the product may not sell well in the marketplace.

Parents, please, you are God’s production line. You are producing valuable brands that will compete with other people from other family production lines.

God boasted about Abraham that he would produce Children who would bring glory to His Kingdom, “For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice, that the LORD may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him” (Genesis 18:19).

God trusted Abraham as a divine production line.

Can God trust you to raise Children who would be a change-maker? Can your habit of daily beating your wife, or maltreating your husband in the presence of the children, raise them as a product to bring joy to human society and the
kingdom of God?

Can your habit of not having a personal devotion, missing church services, being lazy, gossiping, having extramarital affairs and fighting everyone in the neighbourhood raise your children as champions in an intensely competitive labour market?

By the way you treat and behave in the presence of your children, you are raising a product.

Like products on a shelf, the future will determine the value and how well your products sell in the marketplace.

Nobody buys a bad product. Nobody pays much for a poorly packaged product. Nobody purchases a product which would not give them rest of mind!

If a single lady is a great product, single men will love to marry and settle with her. If a young man is a great product, companies will like to give him opportunities, single women will like to settle with him.

Most importantly, parents if your products sell well, you will enjoy it in old age.

We will discuss ‘Competitiveness begins from Home’ tomorrow as part of the Home Ministries discussion.

I invite you to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour. Also, forsake your sins. Jesus is the Wisdom and Power of God (1 Corinthians 1:23-24).

*Action Word
Work on your home ministry.

*Prayer Points
1. Father, thank You for Your Word for Today. Thank You for my breath and life and everything I have. Be glorified, in Jesus Name.
2. Power to fulfil my home ministry, fall upon me, in the Name of Jesus.
3. I decree and declare that the year 2025 shall favour me in Jesus Name.