Lighthouse Church Ottawa

In this sermon, Pastor Deji explores the "Right Perspective About Marriage", explaining that marriage is a divine institution designed for God's purposes rather than a social contract for personal happiness. The message highlights three key functions of marriage: a tool for sanctification, a platform for discipleship, and a means for kingdom advancement.

Marriage works best when God’s order is honored. This message walks through the biblical foundation for marriage, clarifying roles, responsibility, and the spiritual weight of covenant. Rather than cultural assumptions or personal preference, we’re invited to see marriage as God designed it; anchored in love, leadership, honor, and mutual accountability.

What happens when what we call “normal” is actually spiritual? This message invites us to see marriage through God’s lens—not as a social arrangement or emotional contract, but as a spiritual covenant that requires alignment, discernment, and intentionality. We’re reminded that the decisions we make in the natural carry weight in the spirit, and that thriving relationships are built on wisdom, obe...

In this message, we journey through the story of the lost son and discover that the Father’s greatest desire has always been relationship, not performance. Whether you relate more to the younger son who walked away, the older son who stayed but missed the Father’s heart, or the servant who is busy without intimacy, this message calls us back to what matters most. A powerful reminder that life begi...

In Week 2 of our New Dawn series, we explore what it means to position yourself for what God has already spoken. This message unpacks the tension between persistence and repentance; knowing when to stay the course and when to change direction. A practical and clarifying word on responsibility, focus, repentance, and spiritual alignment for anyone believing God for a new beginning.

A new season begins when God speaks light into darkness. Drawing from Matthew 4 and key Scriptures, this teaching reveals how God marks the end of one season and initiates another—often before circumstances visibly change. We’re reminded that God controls times and seasons, and that limitations are never found in Him, only in our perspective. A powerful start to the series for anyone believing God...

Offence is one of the enemy’s most subtle weapons, often disguised as justification, hurt, or emotion. In this message, we’re reminded that offence is not harmless; it slows us down in destiny, clouds our discernment, and can quietly pull us out of God’s will while making us think we’re still following Him. Drawing from Numbers 20 and key New Testament scriptures, this teaching unpacks how offence...

In this message, Be Strong and Courageous, we step into a pivotal moment in the Egypt to Canaan journey as Joshua is called to lead God’s people beyond the threshold of promise. Through Joshua 1, we’re reminded that destiny often requires transition, from familiarity to responsibility, from support to self-governance, and from observation to obedience. This teaching explores the courage it takes t...

Not every challenge is meant to be rebuked; some are meant to be discerned. In this message, Facts, Lies, and Truths, we learn how to navigate difficult seasons by separating natural facts, exaggerated lies, and God’s unchanging truth. While facts describe what we see, truth reveals what God has said and promised. This teaching challenges us to stop agreeing with lies, guard our words, and align o...

In this message, Pastor DEJI breaks down what kingdom generosity really looks like and why true giving starts with understanding, willingness, and a heart God has stirred, not pressure. Exodus 35–36 shows a simple pattern: God provides, God prompts, and His people respond freely. This teaching helps us see how our generosity reflects our love, our priorities, and our trust in God, and how sacrific...

This message explores how honour becomes a spiritual doorway to the things God has placed in others for our destiny. Scripture teaches that every authority figure carries something we need, and dishonour shuts us out of what God intends to give us. Through biblical examples and kingdom principles, we learn that honour draws out grace, access, and inheritance in ways effort alone cannot. When our h...

This week’s message, Beware of Rebellion, teaches that God is a God of order, structure, and honour and that rebellion isn’t just an attitude, but a posture that can quietly derail destiny. We learn how rebellion shows up in the heart, how it distorts our view of authority, and why dishonour removes the covering God designed to protect us. Through Scripture and sober reminders, this message calls...

In this week’s message, A Holy Nation, we explore what God was truly doing with Israel at Mount Sinai—forming a people into a nation with identity, culture, laws, and structure. Pastor Deji teaches that while the miracles from Egypt to Sinai were powerful, God’s real agenda was transformation: shaping His people into a “special treasure,” a “kingdom of priests,” and a “holy nation.” This message c...

This message explores the critical importance of God's mercy in successfully completing life's race or destiny, emphasising that human effort, willpower, or training are insufficient without it. God's mercy is Him doing for you that which you can never do for yourself, but you desperately need, and God's mercy is consistent and unfailing, as He showed the Israelites mercy by supplying them with da...

This message explores the miracle of manna and what it reveals about the supernatural life God calls us into. The journey from Egypt to Canaan was sustained by God’s daily provision — not just the bread itself, but the instructions attached to it. Manna lasted or spoiled depending solely on obedience, showing that spiritual experiences are preserved through alignment, not effort. In the same way,...

The greatest battles on the journey to destiny aren’t always external—they’re internal. In this message, The Error of the Golden Calf, we see how the Israelites carried Egypt within them, trying to worship the true God in an Egyptian way. Their impatience, faulty thinking, and lack of spiritual growth led them to take matters into their own hands. God calls us to trust His timing, think with a ren...

Part 1 of “A Pleasing Fragrant Life” explores what it truly means to live a life that brings delight to God. From the Old Testament offerings to the perfect sacrifice of Jesus, we see that Christ became our burnt, peace, and sin offering. His life a sweet aroma that made us acceptable before God. Now, we’re called to live in response to that sacrifice, offering our lives in devotion, purity, and t...

God still delights in the fragrance of a surrendered life. In Part 2 of this message, we’re reminded that worship, thanksgiving, generosity, intercession, and service all offered from a sincere heart rise to Him as a pleasing aroma. The fire on the altar must never go out; our lives are meant to continually give off the fragrance of devotion through Jesus Christ. Before prayers ascend like incense...

The journey from Egypt to Canaan isn’t without conflict; every believer must be ready for battle. Though we no longer see a pillar of cloud or fire, the Holy Spirit within us leads, strengthens, and equips us for victory. In this week’s message we learn that fear is not just an emotion. It’s a protocol for defeat, so God’s command to “Fear not” is His strategy for winning. As members of God’s army...

Life as a believer is a continual battle, but we have already won in Christ. In this week’s message, *How to Fight and Win*, we learn that victory isn’t automatic—it must be enforced through strength, faith, and spiritual intelligence. Though everything has been provided in Christ, we must engage to secure it. We fight with divine wisdom, standing firm until victory is won.

God’s presence is not distant—it lives within us through the Holy Spirit, our pillar of cloud and fire. Just as He guided Israel, He directs our steps, protects us, and gives strength for both the day and the night seasons of life. When we grow in the awareness of His presence, fear loses its hold, faith rises, and we are equipped to keep running until the race is finished.

In this special message, Pastor DEJI teaches on the power of God’s light breaking into darkness. Wherever light shines, darkness loses its grip and through Jesus, we now carry that light within us. As the light of the world, we are called to shine in every sphere, bringing hope, peace, strength, and transformation to those around us. When we receive His life, we receive His light, and everything c...

In part three of Egypt to Canaan: Fulfill Your Destiny, Pastor DEJI challenges us with the message No Turning Back. On the journey of destiny, it’s easy to be tempted to look back when the wilderness feels difficult, but Egypt — the world’s systems, our mindsets, and false security — can only keep us bound. God calls us to move forward, deny ourselves, and trust Him even when the road is hard. To...

In this week’s message, Pastor DEJI reminds us that discovering God’s plan isn’t about striving or forcing His hand—it’s about trusting Him. When we live righteously and sincerely seek to please God, He orders our steps and delights in every detail of our lives (Psalm 37:23–24). Just as He guided Abraham, Joseph, David, and even Adam, God is faithfully working behind the scenes to lead us into His...

In Part 1 of Egypt to Canaan: Fulfill Your Destiny, Pastor DEJI reminds us that the moment we put our faith in Jesus, we are plugged into a covenant lineage with Abraham—a lineage filled with God’s intentional plan and promise. Through the story of Israel’s journey, we see that destiny is not random; it is the final destination of a life lived in the fullness of God’s plan. No matter your circumst...