The Saviour's Voice

  Start your day with God’s Word! Read today’s devotional for encouragement and wisdom. By Rt Rev Christian Ajuonuma PhD JP.  Theme: Dealing with the Sounding Brass Topic: The Beginning of Real Love Text: 1Sam 18:1-2 "After David had finished talking with Soul, Jonathan became one in Spirit with David, and he loved him as himself. 2 From that day Saul kept David with him and did not let him return home to his family"  True and real love begins with a contact when the " Soul" of two different people unite together for a common goal. Love begins from the soul (Psyche which is the life-principle). Pretentious love is the one that dies not begin from the life-principle of the two people concerned but hangs on physical, psychological or political spheres. When our love depends on material, emotional, ethical things whether tangible or intangible things. He is my brother, she is beautiful, we are relatives or in-laws, may not show us real love.  1. Love begins from our so...

  Start your day with God’s Word! Read today’s devotional for encouragement and wisdom. By Rt Rev Christian Ajuonuma PhD JP.  Theme: Dealing with the Sounding Brass Topic: The betraying Love Text: Prov 27::6 "Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses"  It's always been easy to capture and destroy someone through his trusted friend. Such a friend that can aid and abet the destruction of his own friend is never a good friend but an enemy who had since pretended to be a friend. Some friendships, however, may be real at the beginning but influence of bribery, promise or offer of promotion, honour, or any outstanding reward, may turn a once trusted friend into an enemy and a betrayer. May God deliver from such unfriendly friends. 1. The historic Julius Caesar the greatest army general of the West who emerged a winner in a horrific battle with Pumpey the greatest army general in the east of Roman empire in 49 BC, was tricked and killed by his own best ...

  Start your day with God’s Word! Read today’s devotional for encouragement and wisdom. By Rt Rev Christian Ajuonuma PhD JP.  Theme: Dealing with the Sounding Brass.  Topic: The Jealousy of Love Text: Songs of Solomon 8:6 "Place me as a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, it's jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire., like a mighty flame".  Love perseveres and never gives up it's victim like grave perseveres and never gives up the dead. This is owing largely to the jealousy of love. Love is really jealous and does not easily release it's victim. Some men or women have committed suicide on this ground. This shall not be our portion.  1. Love is jealous. Jealousy is an act of possessing tenaciously what belongs to us. According to Dictionary jealous is "feeling angry or unhappy because somebody you like or love is showing interest in somebody else". "It's jealousy is unyielding as the...

  Start your day with God’s Word! Read today’s devotional for encouragement and wisdom.   By Rt Rev Christian Ajuonuma PhD JP.  Theme: Dealing with the Sounding Brass Topic: Polygamy, a product of search for True Love Text: Gen 29:30 "Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah. And he worked for Lebanon for another seven years"  Polygamy was never part of God's agenda for marriage but originated from man's serve for True Love. Jacob had already loved Rachel seven years ago before making love with her now. The True Love which was established before declaring his intention to Laban had occupied every space in his heart and flowed throughout his bones and marrows. Giving him Leah instead of Rachel was like poisoning his heart. To remove the toxin, he desires to make love with Rachel, the True Love of his soul. This is the source of "Comparative Love" between Rachel and Leah. So what God "saw that Leah was ha...

  Start your day with God’s Word! Read today’s devotional for encouragement and wisdom. By Rt Rev Christian Ajuonuma PhD JP.  Theme: Dealing with the Sounding Brass Topic: The Patience of Love that leads to service Text: Gen 29:18, 20 "Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, "I'll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel. So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her" Love is really patient. We labour for whatever we love without bothering over it's time duration. Jacob, like a student who gained admission into a course, not really his choice, patiently completed his course and graduated with Bachelor's Degree and enrolled back for the course of his choice. What a big lesson of focusing on our choice until we get there! Life is full of challenges but our love for a project and our determination to get it achieved helps to absorb every shock and endure every obsta...

  Start your day with God’s Word! Read today’s devotional for encouragement and wisdom. By Rt Rev Christian Ajuonuma PhD JP.  Theme: Dealing with the Sounding Brass Topic: The Economy of Love Text: Prov 15:17 "Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred" (NIV) Love is so accommodating, so enduring and so appreciating. "It is better to eat soup with someone you love than steak with someone you hate" (LBT). Homes that eat quality food but lack love, will continue to lose weight. When there is love, one room can accommodate four people but where there is no love a duplex may not accommodate two people. Love is economical. Why can't we worship God in one denomination or one local church? Why can't we share together the abundant resources given to us by God Almighty? Why do we want to inherit all, control all, manage all? Greed, selfishness, tribalism, nepotism, racism etc have squeezed love and made it a sectional, denominati...

  Start your day with God’s Word! Read today’s devotional for encouragement and wisdom. By Rt Rev Christian Ajuonuma PhD JP.  Theme: Dealing with the Sounding Brass Topic: The True Nature of Love Part 4 Text: 1Cor 13:7 "It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  Other Positive nature or character of Love are outlined here. The most outstanding relationships that suffer in the absence of these qualities of love include marriage and employment. It can also be so of business partnership and political groups. It's obvious that any relationship that does not protect, trust,  hope and endure all things will disintegrate. These love qualities act as adhesives which glue together members of fellowships, family, friendship, clubs, associations, organizations etc. "Charity" they say, "begins at home". Those who lack these qualities of love either in their personal lives or group, can not give it out to their neighbors.  1. Love always prot...

  Start your day with God’s Word! Read today’s devotional for encouragement and wisdom. By Rt Rev Christian Ajuonuma Christian Ajuonuma PhD JP.  Theme: Dealing with the Sounding Brass Topic: The True Nature of Love Part 3 Text: 1Cor 13:6 "Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth"  Love always cries for and defends justice. It insists on the truth. "It is never glad about injustice, but rejoices whenever truth wins out" (LBT). Paul is bringing to us a morning breakfast that reinvigorates our spiritual strength. Wisdom is profitable to direct Prov 10:10. Paul was given as a gift to address issues affecting the church and the society. This is so in our own time when we face lots of injustices in our families, church and society; when there is survival of the fittest, justice goes to the highest bidder and truth is only for a class, a club, a forum, to the tribe, religion or race and when there is a widened gap between the rich and the poor. Love remai...

  Start your day with God’s Word! Read today’s devotional for encouragement and wisdom. The message of the day, Monday 10/3/25  By Rt Rev Christian Ajuonuma PhD JP.  Theme: Dealing with the Sounding Brass Topic: The True Nature of Love Part 2 Text: 1Cor 13:5 "It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs More negative attitudes that do not at all picture true love include being arrogant, rude, selfish, easily angered, or keeping record of evil suffered. These negative attitudes display the true nature of the natural man. They justify retaliations and can be basis for getting those guilty of murder, punitive actions discharged in the court of law. God's judgement, because it's credible and just, shall suffer no appeal. God's unconditional love must be displayed in all areas of our relationships 1. ts unfortunate that marriages and other relationships do suffer unruly behavior in the name of love. How can w...

  Start your day with God’s Word! Read today’s devotional for encouragement and wisdom. The message of the day, Sunday, 9/3/25 By Rt Rev Christian Ajuonuma PhD JP.  Theme: Dealing with the Sounding Brass Topic: The True Nature of Love Part 1 Text: 1Cor 13:4 "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud"  The virtues of love enumerated by Paul in 1Cor 13:4-7 give the moral excellences of men on earth. Man as a moral agent that knows what is good and bad, inherited this quality from God who created man in His own image and likeness. Patience and kindness are two positive virtues. Envy, boast and pride are three negative virtues. These virtues help to to evaluate our relationship towards one another and should characterize our leadership qualities. If the church, government and family should consider these qualities from the positive side, there should be no contest for position since the qualities have naturally put everyone in his ow...

  Start your day with God’s Word! Read today’s devotional for encouragement and wisdom. By Rt Rev Christian Ajuonuma PhD JP Theme: Dealing with the Sounding Brass Topic: The Real Love Text: 1John 3:16 "We know what real love is from Christ's example in dying for us. And so we also need to lay down our lives for our Christian brothers" No Dictionary definition has been able to give satisfying answers to people's quest for the meaning of the word, "LOVE" except the biblical record of Christ's Sacrificial death on the cross for our sins. This is the real love!  1. This death on the cross opened door for God's abundant blessings in our lives. Curses were broken "In whom we have redemption through his blood even the forgiveness of sins' Col 1:14. "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to the cross" Col 2:14. Jesus showed us real love by dying...

  Start your day with God’s Word! Read today’s devotional for encouragement and wisdom.  By Rt Rev Christian Ajuonuma PhD JP.  Theme: Dealing with the Sounding Brass Topic: Love is the fulfillment of the law Text: Rom 13:10 "Love does no harm to a. neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law" When love is the summary of the law, it's also the fulfillment of the law. Paul vehemently argued, "For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. Christ is the limit at which the law ceases to be. Every law ends in love. Every commandment of God ends in "you must love God with all your heart, soul and might. You must love your neighbour as yourself".  1. Love is to both horizontal and vertical. It's never a political word but spiritual. Those who claim to love God must also love their neighbours. "If anyone says, " I love God" yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother whom ...

  Start your day with God’s Word! Read today’s devotional for encouragement and wisdom. By Rt Rev Christian Ajuonuma PhD JP.  Theme: Dealing with the Sounding Brass Topic: Love is the Summary of the Law Text: Rom 13:9 "The commandments, " You shall not commit adultery", " You shall not murder", " You shall not steal", " You shall not cover" and whatever other commandments there may be, are summed up in this one command, " Love your neighbour as yourself". Love is not only an endless debt, it's also the summary of all the Old Testament commandments. Though the LAW and LOVE of God run through out the Old and New Testaments, LAW of God is predominant in Old Testament and offenders received instant judgement. The New Testament or new covenant brought through Jesus offers God's Love in it's fullness with his grace that speaks for the Love. Though judgement of our sins may no longer be instant, Love of God in our heart must ...

   Start your day with God’s Word! Read today’s devotional for encouragement and wisdom. By Rt Rev Christian Ajuonuma PhD JP.  Theme: Dealing with the Sounding Brass Topic: Love is an endless Debt Text: Rom 13:8 "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law"  Love is a compulsory responsibility every individual owes to his fellow human being irrespective of religion, tribe, tongue, race, nation, class or position. It does not matter whether we agree at a point, an idea, a purpose or not. This is a message given by the Spirit of God which can only be received and accepted by those who are not led by the detects of the law but by the power of the Holy Spirit. " Pay all your debts except the debt of love for others - never finish paying that! For if you love them, you will be obeying all of God's laws, fulfilling all of his requirements" (LBT).  1. Paul was led to discuss the importan...

 Start your day with God’s Word! Read today’s devotional for encouragement and wisdom. By Rt Rev Christian Ajuonuma PhD JP.  Theme: Dealing with the Sounding Brass Topic: A Useless Gain Text: 1Cor 13:3 "If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing"  Giving is honourable, rewarding and praise worthy but when we give Al we have without unconditional love in our heart, we gain absolutely nothing. The giving of palliative today is a godly venture that yields much fruits to the church and any institution that does it. Individuals, NGOs and government agencies all get involved, some are absolutely with pure motive. Yet Paul reminds us today what is greater than palliative. Let's give people "Genuinely Unconditional Love" which has no hidden attachment. We shall enjoy our good reward. 1. Every genuine giving must be motivated by unconditional love. God gave us an example when he gave us Je...

Start your day with God’s Word! Read today’s devotional for encouragement and wisdom. By Rt Rev Christian Ajuonuma PhD JP Theme: Dealing with the Sounding Brass Topic: A Useless Nobody Text: 1Cor 13:2 "If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing"  The absence of love in the life of any body no matter the spiritual, physical, social, political,religious or cultural height of the person, makes him or her "a useless nobody". This is the message of the time orchestrated by the Divine revelation. There is time for everything! 1. Prophetic powers without love: "And if I have prophetic powers (the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose" 1Cor 13:2a (Amp). This proves the situation of churches where gifted and highly placed servants and leaders of churches have been involved into murder and all kinds of criminal cases. Without practical lov...

  Start your day with God’s Word! Read today’s devotional for encouragement and wisdom. By Rt Rev Christian Ajuonuma PhD JP.  Theme: Dealing with the Sounding Brass Topic: The Appointed Time Text: Psalm 102: 13 "You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show mercy to her: the appointed time has come" Zion as a symbol of the church has a time it is rejected and cast away and a time it is accepted and drawn closer to enjoy God's unconditional love. Among all the times of life, the preacher mentions "a time to embrace and a time to refrain", "time to search and a time to give up., a time to keep and a time to throw away", " a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time to war and a time for peace" Ecl 3:5b - 8. In the above Psalm, the afflicted man pours out his lamentation to God and reminds him that this is the set time to remember his church (Zion)...