RHAPSODY OF REALITIES 17TH OCTOBER 2025 DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY PASTOR CHRIS OYAHKILOME
Rhapsody of Realities – 17th October 2025, Friday Daily Devotional Message
TOPIC: Being Born Again— A Spiritual Reality
SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (2 Corinthians 5:17).
Rhapsody of Realities 17th October 2025 Daily Devotional MESSAGE
Once, a respected Jewish teacher, Nicodemus by name, came to see the Lord Jesus. He was a ruler among the Jews, but despite his religiosity, something was missing. The Master looked at him and made a profound statement that cut through all his religious knowledge and rituals: “…Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3).
Nicodemus, somewhat flustered, asked, “How can a man be born when he is old?” But the Lord Jesus wasn’t speaking of physical birth; He was revealing a deep spiritual truth. Being born again isn’t a mere religious cliché or phenomenon but a spiritual reality. It means receiving a brand-new life, the life and nature of God Himself.
When you were born again, you weren’t brought into a religion; there was a supernatural transformation. It was an actual rebirth. Your human life was supplanted by the divine life at the new birth. Something actually took place in the spirit; you were brought from death into life and immortality: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life” (John 5:24).
Now that you’re born again, you’re born of the Word by the Spirit of the Lord: “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again” (John 3:6-7). 1 Peter 1:23 says, “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”
The Bible also says in John 1:12-13, “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” This is what it means to be born again; you’re literally and vitally born of God, with His life and nature in your spirit. You’re taxonomically different from the non-Christians. As Jesus is, so are you in this world (1 John 4:17). Hallelujah!
PRAYER
Dear Father, I thank you for the supernatural life of Christ that’s now at work in me. I’m born of the incorruptible Word, which lives and abides forever; I’m not an ordinary person. I’m a new creation, born of your Word and your Spirit. I live the higher life, full of glory and righteousness. I walk in victory every day, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY
John 3:3-8; James 1:18; Galatians 2:20
John 3:3-8
King James Version
3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
James 1:18
King James Version
18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Galatians 2:20
King James Version
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
2 Thessalonians 2:1-17; Jeremiah 1-2
2-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
John 6:22-29; 2 Kings 3
Rhapsody of Realities 17th October 2025 Daily Devotional Message written by Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, remains a life-guide with rich and impactful teachings from God’s Word. Millions of copies of Rhapsody of Realities, the best-selling daily devotional and Bible study guide have been distributed in 242 countries in 2010 languages of the world… and we’re still counting.
