CONNECT TO GOD
Monday, January 29, 2024
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
Monday, May 22, 2023
PATIENCE
Patience is a virtue. It is an enduring process where one has to wait for some time for a particular thing to come to pass. God usually tells His children to wait for a certain period of time for something to change in their lives. It may be a painful process, but the end of the matter always results in blessings and favor from the Lord.
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
TRUST IN GOD
FIND YOUR PLACE IN GOD
Thursday, July 14, 2022
TRIALS AND TEMPTATIONS
Every Christian face trial and temptation in life, unless they are not genuine Christians. In Matthew 4:1-11, Jesus was tempted by the devil immediately after forty days fasting, but Jesus withstood him. The devil hates those who do things right and he pursues them with all sorts of problems. We must be fortified against the devil's tactics inwardly and outwardly.
God also tries His beloved ones in order to strengthen us and know if we are truly His. In Genesis 22:1-19, God told Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac to Him, even though He knew that Abraham waited so long for that child. It was just a test to know if Abraham was truly God's follower. Never for once think that because you do things right, you are free from the Lord's trials. In Job 1:8-12, God let Satan try Job because He wanted to prove to Satan that Job was truly a good man.
As gold is tested in fire, so human character is tested in the furnace of humiliation (Sirach 2:5). We have to be tried to know our true selves, our true hearts and our true feelings towards God. Never think that you are already made perfect. Times and seasons change, so does the human heart. We must always be ready to overcome trials and temptations when they come our way.
Thursday, December 9, 2021
ACCESS TO GOD
A king or queen gives permission before anyone meets with them, but God does not seek such from us. He is always open to us, and we only need to pray and seek His face.
He says in Jeremiah 33:3 - "Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know". He is always available when we call, and He is willing to answer us.
We have the privilege to go into the house of The Lord without any physical qualifications. We are all accepted before the Lord, granted we come with a pure heart and clean hands. As Psalm 24:3-4 says, "Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully".
Let us make good use of this privilege, communicate with God frequently and go into the house of the Lord with prayer and supplication. For He is always there to listen to us.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
OUR NOBLE ORIGIN
Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 8 vs 3: In that she is conversant with God, she magnified her nobility: yea, the Lord of all things himself loved her.
We ought to have a close, personal relationship with our Creator, who is our noble origin. We are not just mere mortals who live, breathe and will die one day. We were made in the image and likeness of God. We are His ambassadors on earth and one day, we will give an account of everything we did with our lives.
Children always run home after doing their schoolwork and playing with friends. They hardly sleep outside. We are always to remain in close contact with our noble origin. Our home, which is God himself.
There, we will find everything we need to function properly on earth as human beings. Peace of mind, joy, happiness, love, strength and all good things are found in our noble origin.
We should behave in a Godly manner which will identify us as children of God. We should always be in the presence of God and allow Him to direct the course of our lives. We are children of the highest of all.
Outside of our noble origin, there is danger and all sorts of evil waiting to destroy us. As 1 Peter 5 vs 8 says - Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. The enemy can only be able to destroy a person when he is outside his noble origin, which is God.
Therefore, we all must abide with God who is our noble origin, our home and our place of safety.
Friday, June 4, 2021
EVE AND THE SERPENT
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER
In the bible, Rahab the prostitute helped the two spies sent by Joshua and when the time was right, both she and her family were spared from the calamity that befell the city of Jericho. No matter the situation we are, there is always someone out there that needs our help, and this should be reciprocated.
David was helped by Abigail when he was hungry, and her husband Nabal had insulted him and refused to help him. David repaid her by marrying her after the death of her husband Nabal. Even when he was about to die, he told his son Solomon to repay the sons of Barzillai of Gilead, who had helped him when he fled from Absalom his son. He also helped Mephibosheth, Jonathan's son because of what his friend Jonathan had done for him when he was alive. He gave him Saul's inheritance, permitted him to live in the palace at Jerusalem and allowed him to eat at his table.
Proverbs 3:17 says that if you repay good with evil, evil will never leave your house.
Always strive hard to repay good with good. By doing this, God will bless you and good will never leave your house. It is a way to thank the person who have helped you and this can make the person help you again when you ask for help.
GOD IS OUR HOME
A TIME FOR EVERYTHING
There is a time for everything under the sun. In Ecclesiastes Chapter 3, it is said that there is a time to be born and a time to die, a time for silence and a time to talk. At the right time, God perfects everything.
When God chose David as King of Israel, David did not become king immediately, he waited for years to assume that position. He was anointed as a teen, but he waited till he was thirty years old before he became king of Israel. He was afraid that Saul would kill him, so he ran and hid himself. He passed through a lot of challenges before he finally took what God had kept for him.
When God made a promise to Abraham to make him a father of many nations, Abraham had to wait for twenty-five years to get Isaac for the promise to be fulfilled. He even had a son named Ishmael from Hagar his wife's maid, but that was not the promised son. God eventually brought Isaac through Sarah at the right time, which eventually fulfilled the promise and today, there is Israel.
Every pregnancy lasts for months before the baby is born, mostly nine months. If a woman tries to push out a baby before the right time, this may lead to a miscarriage and the whole pregnancy will be futile.
If we rush a promise God made to us, we'll ruin it and that means we're trying to play God. we should have patience to wait for God's promise to happen at the time He chooses.
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
Sunday, July 26, 2020
MAKE THE BEST USE OF WHAT GOD HAS GIVEN YOU
Sunday, July 5, 2020
THE RACE IS NOT TO THE SWIFT
Sunday, April 12, 2020
EASTER SUNDAY
There are many passages in the bible that talks about the Resurrection of Christ on the third day after His death on the cross. When Jesus was still on earth, He told His disciples as they were on their way to Jerusalem, that He was going to be handed over to the chief priests and teachers of the law. He said He would be condemned to death, mocked, flogged and crucified on the cross but on the third day, He would arise from the dead to life.
Years before Jesus was born, the prophet Isaiah wrote that the Messiah would come to the world, suffer and die for our sins but will be raised to life on the third day.
If Jesus did not rise from the dead, as He had promised to His disciples, then His sermons about forgiveness and hope for eternity in Heaven would have been in vain. Jesus Christ proved His own words by His resurrection from the dead.
Christians all over the world celebrate this day as they believe that Christ has arisen from the dead, and this proves that there is life after death. Life with God in Heaven.
Sunday, April 21, 2019
EASTER SUNDAY
John 20:1-18 says that on that Sunday morning, when Mary Magdalene went to the tomb, she met it empty. She was frightened and thought that someone had stolen His body. Two angels appeared to her and told her to stop crying, she turned round and saw Jesus who told her that she should stop crying but she should go and tell His brothers that He had ascended to heaven to stay with God the Father.
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
CHRISTMAS DAY
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
TRUE RELIGION
SERVING A LIVING GOD
God created us in His image and likeness, and this makes every human being to be God's creature and a resemblance of God. By helping people, we serve God.
Jesus said in Matthew 25: 34 - 46, that He would put on His right side, those that fed Him when he was hungry, gave Him something to drink when He was thirsty, sheltered Him when He was homeless, clothed Him when He was naked, took care of Him in prison and cared for Him when He was sick. They would ask Him when they did these and He would tell them that as they did for the least of their brothers and sisters, they did for Him. As for those that didn't help the less privileged, they would go to eternal punishment. In order to fully serve God, we should also love our neighbors as ourselves.