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Will Your ‘But’ Hinder You? He had it all - power, position, influence. He was at the peak of his career, and everyone respected him. By him, victories were wrought for his country. The king owed him a lot. He had soldiers under him, but he was a leper. Pray, when did he become one? Before or after he rose in his career? How did he pull it off? Did he have to retire after becoming leprous? Aren't...

What Is Your Story? What is your story? How is your life? The woman, let us call her Jane, had such a journey. In today's parlance, we will say she had been unlucky with men. She married five of them, and none of them filled the void she felt on the inside. Each one looked like it, but as soon as she got in, she realised that she had made another mistake. She had to endure many snide remarks. No o...

A MAN LIKE YOU Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops. (James 5:17-18) Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor...

IT IS ALL ABOUT JESUS My dear friend, It is true you answered the altar call and gave your life to Christ. It is true you profess to be a follower of Jesus. My question to you is WHY? What is the real reason you enlisted in this army? Whatever the reason is, will determine what you do as you journey on. Apostle Paul wrote in Galatians 4:19-20 Wake up to God's deposit inside you, take up your cross...

True Intercession Nehemiah (Nehemiah 1:4-11), Solomon (1 Kings 8:28-50), Elijah (1 Kings 18:36-39), Daniel (Daniel 9:3-10) all prayed. Their nation needed God, and they did not exempt themselves even though they were ok. They were comfortable in their own right, and they could choose to turn a blind eye to the plight of the people. They decided to identify. Even with the people's rebellion and sin...

Heaven Kisses The Earth Heaven bowed down and visited a thirteen-year-old girl (Luke 1:26-38) and her old cousin (Luke 1:5-25). Consider this, the old and the young were visited the same period. The divine mission: Tell them they would have a baby. They were to stay close in touch with each other. In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galile...

What Label Are You Carrying? The list is long. Chronicles tell us who brought whom forth. They even tell whom their strange associations birthed. Then they get to him. He was born in sorrow; his mama must have had it so rough when she mentioned the name, people did not object. After all, they objected when Elizabeth said her son's name would be John. ‘He shall be called Jabez,’ she said. Pray wher...

LOVE LIKE JESUS Did you know that all the commandments we were given as believers in Jesus can be summed up in two? Love God and Love man. Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them wh...

Hey Girlfriend, Check out Women In History This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham (Matthew 1:1) Genealogies, who likes to read that part of the Bible? Try it with the King James Version, and I bet you would need the Holy Spirit in all His fullness to go through. At the beginning of this year, I determined to make a serious effort at not skipping through the...

Hey Girlfriend, Check out Women In History This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham (Matthew 1:1) Genealogies, who likes to read that part of the Bible? Try it with the King James Version, and I bet you would need the Holy Spirit in all His fullness to go through. At the beginning of this year, I determined to make a serious effort at not skipping through the...

No Shortcut With God He knew her well. The whole family were now his family. The day He saw them, the willingness was astounding. They had a family business, and they left it all, to follow him. The matriarch must be a thinker, a planner. She must have looked into the future done her calculations and decided to act. Her two sons had abandoned the family business to follow this man. Sorting out the...

My child, I see you wonder, I hear you heave. I am there when you call, and all your questions I have answers for. You wonder where my power is, how come I am not wielding it in your defense. You were certain I ignored your rights and looked the other way, when you fell into temptation. You ask if I noticed your troubles, hmm, my child, you speak in ignorance, I talked to your brother Job yesterda...

LIFE TALKS Driving on the freeway, there are loads of signs. Some billboards spread across the whole freeway, some are just barely legible. Some you see clearly from afar, for some you must slow down to make out what has been written. Life talks daily. Some days the sound is so loud a deaf man can hear. Other days, you could barely hear the whisper. Yet, you need to hear all that speech to be able...

God’s Letter to You “My son Job, I decided to write you this in reply to all you have been saying in my ears. I know we are close, but for a brief moment, you forgot that we were not mates. I think you should know some things. I made the world and decided how large it would be. I did the survey. I hold the pillars that support the earth. I laid the cornerstones of the world. Whilst I was doing all...

Life Lessons He was a good man who fell on bad times. He tried to do right by everyone. Minded his business and was well respected by everyone until life dealt him a nasty blow. Folks had always wondered how everything went on so smoothly for him. How was he managing to keep it all together? Now that times were rough, they had the answer! He must have been bad all along. No wonder, they thought, h...

Lessons From My Mother Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck… My son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths (Proverbs 1:8-9, 15) What did your mother tell you? What were your father’s words? Do you hear their voice as you read this? How did they prepare you for...

The Poison Called Bitterness Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. (Ephesians 4:31-32) Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one falls short of the grace...

THE VOICE OF REASON Everybody needs a Mordecai in his or her life. We need that voice of reason. We need the brother who loves us enough to provoke righteousness in us. We need the uncle that requires nothing from us but Christ and Him crucified. We need the friend who knows God's laws and ways enough to encourage us to refuse the attractions of the world. We need the caretaker who though they are...

A Grateful Heart (2) Why give thanks? Because God’s mercies endure forever. Where do we give thanks? Amongst the people, amongst the heathen and in the congregation of men: Therefore I will praise you, Lord among the nations; I will sing the praises of your name. (2 Samuel 22:50) Give praise to the Lord, proclaim His name; make known among the nations what He has done. … Give thanks to the Lord, f...

A Grateful Heart For the small things, for the big deals For the grey ways, and the bright rays For friends that stop to care, and cares that rolled away For bodies that were prevented from wear For unprofitable ties that were broken For wisdom that brought the life and habits that led from death For hands that brought the wealth and counsel led from hell For grace that kept alive and mercy that s...

God Will Defend His Own He had it all – power, fame, influence. He could do as he pleased; he was second in command to the king. Yet he was insecure. All the power meant nothing as long as the gateman would not bow to him. What did our Prime Minister resort to? An evil plot, to wipe out the gateman and all his kin from the land. How did he plan to carry this out? Simple: a promise to enrich the na...

God Is Up To Something (2) Grace placed her in the palace. In the natural, she was a slave girl. There were many like her, but this one was different. She was not only beautiful, there was a certain air around her. You just fell in love with her, and you wanted to do her good. Hegai, the king’s eunuch could not help but favour her. She was a young girl who needed to be guided; her parents already...

God Is Up To Something He may very well have been any African king: ego-tripping and wine bibbing. The only thing is that the story is set in the Middle East. Did the Bible not say: Woe to the land whose king was a servant and whose princes feast in the morning. Blessed is the land whose king is of noble birth and whose princes eat at a proper time— for strength and not for drunkenness. (Ecclesias...

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. (Deuteronomy 6:4) Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:30-31) Yet...

Why Challenge? Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the thron...