Wickedness in high places

*CHILD DISCIPLINE*

There is a big lie going around today.Some parents say, “I don’t want my child to suffer like I did.”They say it with pride.They think it sounds like love.But they don’t know they are slowly destroying that child.

Because of that mindset, they refuse to correct the child.They don’t give the child chores.They don’t say “No.”They don’t allow the child to face consequences.
They say, “Let him rest, he’s just a child.”They say, “Let her enjoy life, she’s still young.”But they are not helping that child.
They are damaging the child.

If your child cannot sweep the house, how will they keep their own home clean tomorrow?If your child cannot wash plate, how will they survive when they leave your house?If your child cannot say “Good morning” to elders, how will they work with people in the office?
If your child cannot accept correction, how will they handle marriage or leadership?

The world is tough.Life is not always sweet.You will not always get what you want.
There will be days of pain.
There will be days of rejection.There will be moments of “No.”

So if your child cannot hear “No” now, what will happen when life says “No” to them tomorrow?They will break.They will fall.They will run away.Some will even commit suicide because they were never taught how to handle pressure.

Discipline is not wickedness.Correction is not hate.Chores are not punishment.They are training.They are tools.
They are preparation for life.

Your child must know how to clean, how to greet, how to wait, how to apologize, how to handle anger, how to respect people, and how to do hard things without complaining.

Don't make your child soft in the name of love.
Don't make your child lazy in the name of protection.
Don't remove discipline and expect them to succeed.
Don't raise them like kings and queens with no wisdom.

One day, you will grow old.
You will need your child to stand strong.
But if you didn’t train them, they will fall.
And both of you will suffer for it.

So stop saying, “I don’t want my child to suffer like I did.”
Let your new statement be, “I want my child to be stronger than I was.”
And that strength must start with discipline.
It must start with training.
It must start with responsibility.
It must start with you.

*THE RESTORER'S DAILY GUIDE*

DATE: THURSDAY 17TH JULY 2025

THEME: *INVOKING THE BLESSING OF THE SEVENTEENTH SEASON*

MEMORIZE
Genesis 8:4
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

READ
Genesis 7:11-12
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
*The key to this sacred season is prayers and fasting and submission to God's authority*

MESSAGE
This new millennium is already twenty-five years old.

Today is the seventeenth day of the seventh month of the twenty-fifth year of this millennium. I hope this strikes a chord in you.

There are no meaningless details in scriptures. The flood that carried Noah and his family began on the seventeenth day of a certain month and also brought the same ark to it's resting place for a new beginning on the seventeenth day of the seventh month of the year. This couldn't have been a coincidence.

Today is the anniversary of DIVINE REST for you and your family in Jesus' name.

We need to pay attention to the voice of this season as it unfolds and unwinds itself before our very eyes.

The ark of Noah found its resting place upon the mountains of Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month of the year. That is significant because that date has come around before us again today.

Therefore, as a prophet, I declare your own season of REST upon the mountains of your significance in destiny in Jesus' name.

In the seventeenth book of the Bible, the divine page opened upon the life of an innocent slave girl in diaspora, and she rose from being a nonentity to notoriety. At the same time, a wicked man rose in the same kingdom. Hamman rose with an evil agenda to destroy the people of covenant. But by divine intervention, Esther, through prayers and fasting in submission to authority, overthrew the Dominion of evil and their sponsors.

Mordecai was brought into power in the place of the wicked Hamman.
Therefore, the seventeenth season is a season of the RISE OF POWERS. But it's the time to overthrow evil Dominion and enthrone the people of covenant to power. It is a time of open reward for every secret Labours in the past.

Every consecration of the past will produce a crown upon the head of the righteous.

It is a season of sudden announcements of overdue promotions. At the same time, it is a season of great temptation for God's people; but through prayers and fasting, God shall raise up a MIGHTY horn of deliverance for us in the land.

Therefore beloved, I suggest you take out time to pray and to fast today in order for you to be sensitive to the voice of the season; and to consequently lay hold on the promises of God for this season.

May the blessings of this season come now upon you and your family in Jesus' name.

ACTION STEPS
1. Prayerfully meditate on today's devotional guide.
2. Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you through this season wacthfully.
3. Be intentional about your personal fellowship with the LORD.

PRAYERS
Dear heavenly Father, Thank you for today's devotional guide. Oh, LORD GOD of HOST let the heaven of this season open to me now and let its blessings locate me in Jesus' name. Amen.

REMEMBER
*The key to this sacred season is prayers and fasting and submission to God's authority.*

AUTHOR: JEDIDIAH DAVID

DAILY READING: Deuteronomy 24-25; Psalms 81-82; Proverbs 17; John 17;

HYMN
1
Blessed assurance—Jesus is mine!
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God;
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.

This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Saviour all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Saviour all the day long.

2
Perfect submission, perfect delight,
Visions of rapture burst on my sight;
Angels descending, bring from above
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

3
Perfect submission, all is at rest,
I in my Saviour am happy and blest;
Watching and waiting, looking above,
Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.

PLEASE SHARE

Wicked woman

Don't keep all your money with you, you should bank some.
Don't spend your money carelessly. Things are very hard. Remember that money is hard to get but easy to spend.
Don't plan evil against your neighbours
If you want to avoid troubles, respect the law.
Don't become a wicked fellow. Wickedness brings bad name and energy.
Don't carelessly run into debts, work hard and save money.
Don't not live to eat but eat to live.
Let your yes be yes and let your No be No and don't neglect a person who saved you from trouble

So because say I no give you the 2k wey you dey beg for last night,you con post say "Life is wicked". Burst my brain bby girl

BREAKING?
One down, many to go.

I remember when Abacha died, there was dancing in the streets. Anytime a tyrant dies, there is always jubilation; people are that their tormentor, who almost looked invincible, has kpaied.

Some of the ruiners of Nigeria run to foreign lands to die.

Not in the hospitals they left to rot. Not among the people they claimed to serve. But in the comfort of a foreign land far from the chaos they created.

You see life? It has receipts.

This is how they will be leaving, one by one.
The wicked, the heartless, and the greedy who sold a nation and thought they’d escape judgment.

Let them fly to London, but you can’t fly from truth.

Let this be a warning to the rest of them:
The people may be quiet, but karma is not sleeping.

We, the citizens of Nigeria, have the last word.
AreaFada.

*A KIDNAPPING DEN*

One day while John was driving his car on a dilapidated road to his village in Enugu, four men with guns came out from the bush and shouted at him to stop. John quickly obeyed them and held up his hands at gunpoint.

They took him into a solitary place in the forest, where there were wild animals and lizards; where flies were buzzing, birds and butterflies fluttering in the air. The five men trekked in the forest for two hours. John's left sandal got cut from long walk.

Then a tall black man appeared to meet them; he was the leader of the kidnappers. His men handed John over to him and went away. John stayed in their den for eight days and nights without water or food.

The amount the kidnappers demanded for John's release was 50m naira. The negotiation was still going on when the mask their boss wore mistakenly fell out. John saw his face, recognized him and called his name! Both of them stared fixedly at each other. The man was juniour staff, who worked under John in a finance office before he retired from government service!

"What're you doing here, sir?" the leader of the kidnappers asked John in surprise.

"I'm from this place," John replied.

"Oh no! You don't mean it! Your people are very wicked!" the man exclaimed.

The leader of the gang was a Boko Haram member from Kogi State. He was hired for the business by John's younger cousin whom he trained in the university.

"Do you know this name . . . ?" The kidnapper mentioned the name of John's cousin and showed him his phone number. Both of them had the same surname.

The kidnapper dropped his AK47 on the ground, knelt down before John and promised that nobody would harm him. He took John's phone, searched through it and saw a video showing where some Boko Haram men were punishing their victims.

"From where did you get this video?" He asked John.

"I got it from my WhatsApp group," he replied.

"Look at me in the video. I was with my colleagues in Katsina forest, carrying out an operation there. Please, sir, I'll take this your phone."

John said, "Okay."

"Your brother asked us to collect 50m naira from you. If you refuse to pay it, we should kill you. But, as long as I'm concerned, nothing will happen to you. I remember how good you were to me, Oga. Will you be able to get 5m naira?" He asked.

John promised that he would try.

The kidnapper then gave John his phone and asked him to call his people to gather the 5m naira immediately. That was on the ninth day John was with the kidnappers in the forest.

Much later on, the 5m naira was brought to the kidnappers. They handed it over to their boss. The latter collected John's mobile phone, with the _SIM cards_ inside it, and said his farewells and left.

John walked quickly away and entered the vehicle that was used to bring the money. He was carried home to meet his people who had gathered to welcome him.

QUESTIONS:
*°* Who was the person that planned and arranged for John's kidnap?
*°* Who was the person that saved John's life?
*°* Explain why John was not killed.

_I leave you to answer the questions._

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*~ 'LEXIS N. O.*