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Ah friends, sadly the worshipping of idols is still a big deal amongst us, but it's utter foolishness. How can you worship something that man has made, an inanimate, object, that cannot move, see, hear, understand or do anything at all but just stand stonily and stare at you. It just doesn't make sense. But unfortunately idol worship is coming back into vogue because many of us are turning...

God has made many promises to His people, and He has faithfully kept them all; like salvation and the power of His Word, but unfortunately we have not kept our part of the covenant relationship. We have not been as faithful as we ought to be. In fact we have turned against God and are trying to drive Him out of our society, which is an exercise in futility, for it will NEVER happen! Why can't...

Oh friends, the level of evil and hate in our world are growing more deadly every day, and we are the ones, we believers are the ones entrusted to change it. But we cannot do it until we start showing brotherly LOVE to each other and not repaying evil for evil. The world teaches us to live an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but Jesus teaches us to live in LOVE and leave any repayment to Hi...

Living for Jesus is wonderful, but it's not easy. Many times, although we might not want to, we just have to grit our teeth and do what is necessary to serve the Lord and spread His good news so that others can hear about it and want to know Him. That means we are often the only representation of Jesus that the unbeliever will see, and unless we represent Him well, they won't want to accep...

What a child learns early in life stays with them throughout their entire life. That's why it's ever so important to teach children godly principles from the very beginning. If the parents don't teach them about God, then someone else will teach them about the devil because ungodliness and evil are so rampant in our current world. They don't teach about God in schools any longer, a...

God created us so that He could have fellowship with us, and be involved in all our affairs, and the only way that can come to pass is if and when we seek sincere fellowship and time with Him. Tell Him all our problems, our hopes and dreams, as well as listen to what plans He might have in store for us. For believe it or not, the Lord has a plan for every life that He creates, and the best way to...

Remember, the earth and all therein belongs to the Lord, and all He's asking for as payment for using it and it's abundant blessings is ten percent. We still have ninety percent for ourselves. But our greed and stinginess prevents us from giving God what belongs to Him. How do we expect to prosper under those ungodly situations eh? We obviously cannot, and that is one of the big reasons wh...

Money isn't everything. That's the first thing a believer ought to understand. It's useful, but seeking God and His righteousness is more important. The Lord owns the earth and all therein, that means all the wealth is His, and we can only get true wealth though Him. So let's stop running down material wealth since we cannot take it with us when we die, but instead concentrate on a...

A Christian's life is not a Sunday walk in the park, although we have the faithful promise of help to handle whatever comes against us. But we must be willing to undergo the things that life throws at us, with Jesus' help of course. We cannot run from hard or shameful things, but must be willing to endure it all for His sake, if we desire to be true disciples. Let's put the joy of heav...

We all run down the material things of this world, but the sad fact is that we brought nothing with us, and we will carry nothing out when we die. So why do we still foolishly run down money so we can get the material things it can purchase eh? That's not wisdom by any shot of imagination. The things we need to follow are the things of God, which cannot be bought but must be earned though godl...

Jesus Christ is known as the original light of the world, and when He went back to heaven, He gave that designation to us, His followers, and it's of the utmost importance that we walk in that light that's Jesus, for we are His ambassadors and agents down here on earth, and it's through us that unbelievers will want to come to Him or reject Him. As the saying goes: ' You are the on...

Our great and ever-faithful God has been, and will continue to be good to those who faithfully serve Him. However, in return, He demands that His people also show goodness to each other. And it's not that difficult to do if we sincerely LOVE the Lord. It simply means showing kindness and compassion, and caring for those we meet along life's journey. And please remember that there are times...

Prayer is not rocket science, but simple communication with Almighty God, and it doesn't have to be long or eloquent to be heard and responded to. It just has to come from a sincere heart. The Lord will answer all prayers that come from such a heart, but He will not always give us what we want, sometimes because it is not in His will for us, or sometimes because the time is not right for us to...

We all are weak in some areas, or get sick during important times, but it's important to know that when we are not at our best, or at our lowest, that's when God's at His best, because that's when His true power shows up and allows us to get through whatever we need to get through. So when we are down, let's not lose hope and faith, because that's when our good and omnipote...

It's not easy to live for Jesus; that's a fact, but we are expected to do better than we are currently doing, because He has given us all we need to do the job. It's just that we are not using the tools to the best of our ability, and we definitely need to get out there and bring people to Him before He comes back, or before He takes them home, otherwise they would be forfeiting heaven...

Because of social media we now have a platform for everybody to say whatever they want, but that does not give us the right to say whatever we want. As believers we need to use wisdom and common sense when we speak, because our words can be very harmful to others, especially if they are not true. And people don't like gossips or liars. They might be interested in what you have to say, but will...

We all want to trust and have faith in someone or something, but faith doesn't come easily, we have to go through situations that call for faith and trust before we can ever learn that most valuable lesson. However, the most trustworthy Being in the universe is Almighty God, our Creator and LOVING Father. He is the ONLY One we can ever trust with our whole hearts, souls bodies and minds, for o...

Since believers in Christ Jesus belong to God, bought with His blood, then we ought to behave the way God desires of us, not as we desire. Jesus had to pay the steep price for our salvation because our natural bent is sin and more sin. That was the only way we could be redeemed from a sinful earthly life and thus end up where sinners go to spend eternal life, to hell with the master of it's fi...

One cannot make a positive and substantial difference in anything, or on behalf of anyone unless you are fully committed to the cause. And I believe that's a major problem in present day Christianity. A lot of us talk a good talk, but we don't action that walk. It's just hot air that we keep spouting, and we're not living the kind of life that Jesus desires of us, the kind of life...

Although God gave us free will to do as we please, His main desire was that we use the free will to be in strong and sincere fellowship with Him, to LOVE Him the way He LOVED us, so that He could bless us with all the good things He had in store for us. But unwisely, foolishly, we've turned against God, wallowed in sin, and even when He gave us the opportunity to climb out of the mire by sendi...

Living the Christian life doesn't mean things will always go well with us, but the big thing is that when bad things befall us, we have Jesus to turn to for comfort and solace. The truth is that when we begin to live for Christ, many people will likely turn against us, and many unfortunate things may befall us, but we don't need to worry, because God has promised to work everything out for...

This world will eventually come to a disastrous end, but Jesus has faithfully promised that all who embrace Him as their Lord and Saviour until the end times, will indeed be saved from the unhappy ending. And what have we got to lose by not embracing Him eh? A lot my people! If we don't embrace Him and stick with Him to the very end, then we will end up in hellfire with Satan and face eternal...

The most important aspect of a believer's life is to learn about the Holy Spirit, His purpose and power, which is to lead and guide them in doing God's will for their lives, enabling them to put God's plan to give them a hope and a future into motion, so they can reach the destiny He's set in place for them. It's not always easy to do, because the Holy Spirit usually operates i...

Jesus made many promises to us while He was here on earth, amongst them the gift of salvation, and eternal life and the coming of the Holy Spirit, the Third person of the Holy Trinity to indwell us when He left. And that miraculous occasion did happen ten days after He ascended back to heaven, on the day of the feast of Pentecost, one of the most important days of the Christian calendar, because i...

Our God is great, there's no doubt about that! Any being that can create the magnificent universe that surrounds us; the sun, moon, stars, seas, mountains, birds, fishes, other animals, and the greatest of them all, mankind, and have them exist in such a finely tuned environment, has to be amazing and somewhat unbelievable by our finite standards. But that's why it takes faith to handle al...