ScriptureTalk with Emeka & Toorera

Our Father loves us and He gives us good things - life abundantly and other things to enjoy.

God is a generous giver. In this episode, we explore what it means to us when the Bible says God gave us His only Begotten Son.

God loves us unconditionally. He loves us eternally. Nothing will change His mind about us. We are the objects of His divine love

We commence a new series titled: ABBA Father. We explore God's attitude towards us as His children

As we celebrate Christmas, let's remind ourselves that Jesus is God's Christmas gift to the world. Give someone a gift of Jesus this Christmas season.

In today's episode, we focus on the needs of a spiritual baby. Every spiritual babe needs to be born and planted into a church family. There, they must be fed a healthy diet of the sincere milk of the Word which would cause them to grow. Our takeaway from this episode would be this: get into a solid, Bible-based church and feed on the Word of God, especially on the foundational principles of o...

In this episode, Toorera continues the discussion on the features of a babyhood stage of spiritual development. In the words of Kenneth E. Hagin, "Don't read everything you can get your hands on. Unless you are a fully mature Christian and able to rightly divide it, it would be best not to read such things". She tells some personal stories along this line that communicate the danger...

Babies do not know their left from their right, so they must be entrusted with the care of trustworthy hands to look after them. These people are to place them on the right diet of the Word and to lead them away from harmful teachings that can hinder their spiritual growth. Spiritual babies must be carefully guided and led to the right materials for their nourishment whilst warned against material...

Everyone came into the kingdom of God as a spiritual baby. No one was born a mature Christian. Babies cannot do anything for themselves. They need to be seen about. Spiritual babies are the responsibility of mature Christians. Even though spiritual babies have a mature physical stature, they do not know their way around the things of God and people who are already spiritually mature must take up t...

In this episode, we finish up the points that show why every Christian should grow spiritually. As we read through the epistles, we can see that as we grow spiritually, we are also growing in our faith and walking in our redemptive rights and privileges As we feed on the Word of God for spiritual growth, our faith would be built up and we would be motivated to act on the Word. Our faith is the vic...

Today, we go further in examining why every believer must grow. Spiritual growth helps us to go further in our knowledge of God's Word as His Holy Spirit teaches us. When we are fed on the right diet, our spiritual tongues are trained to value sound doctrine we stir up a thirst to go after the Word some more. The more we grow or increase in our knowledge of the Word, the more we grow and the m...

A spiritual baby is often unable to differentiate between sound doctrine and false doctrine because like in the natural, babies are ignorant, babies cannot look after themselves and are at the mercy of their caregivers. Not being able to do this could prove to be fatal as the spiritual diet a person consumes determines the direction and the quality of their lives. An age-old saying says “You are w...

What importance does spiritual growth have to the believer? Why should a believer look forward and walk towards spiritual growth? Well, the first reason is that God expects every one of His children to grow up spiritually. Right next to that is God's expectation that every believer walks in His plans and purposes for their lives. Spiritual maturity is keenly tied to finding and walking in God&...

God's will is for us to grow up spiritually. Growth is an indicator of life. It is the design of God that anything that has life grows. There is a striking similarity between physical growth and spiritual growth. And just as the growth and development of earthly children delight their parents, Father God is pleased when we grow up and develop spiritually. In this series we will be discussing i...

For the Word of God to benefit us, we must discipline ourselves to focus our attention on the Word of God. Proverbs 4: 20-22 gives us some steps to take; give attention to the Word, incline your ear to His sayings, do not let them depart from your eyes, and keep them in the midst of your heart. For the Word of God to get into our hearts, we must pay attention to it.

Have you wondered why the Word of God doesn't benefit some and why others seem to get so much from the scriptures? Well, today's episode sheds light on this question as we examine the parable of the Sower. Understanding is key to experiencing the benefits of the Word of God in your life. The devil cannot steal the Word from the believer who understands it. We see a very good scenario in Th...

Why does the Word of God have little or no effect on the lives of many Christians? Well, Jesus tells us that the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the Word that is planted in our hearts. If we let worry and fear creep into our hearts, the Word of God will be of little impact on our lives. If we put our trust in our ability and understanding, the Word of God will have little...

Many times, we get excited about the Word of God too soon. We rejoice and then when we hit hard places because of the Word, our feathers fall. We almost get into depression because we did not build the Word of God into our hearts. We just ran off premature without letting that Word settle in and form a conviction in our hearts. This is a description of the seed that fell among stony places; the se...

One of the main reasons the Word of God does not do us any good is that we fail to understand it. The less we 'understand' the word we hear, the less we benefit from it. Many Christians are like wayside hearers, they are hard and impenetrable; unable to receive the Word of God. This week, we examine the parable of the sower as we study how to get the best out of the Word of God.

Many Christians are good at following fads and new things. Our thirst for new doctrines leads us astray and sometimes shows our need for more spiritual growth. Our spiritual growth is directly linked to how established we are in the Word; the more unstable we are, the less spiritual growth we experience. In the last two episodes, we have been emphasizing the need to stay away from the doctrines of...

There are many irrelevant and seemingly harmless stories, entertainment, and music that we have no business paying attention to. These things are like weights (Hebrews 12: 1), they hold us back and hinder our faith. For instance, be careful about the kind of music and movies you watch – many of them have plot lines that directly contradict the scriptures and would gradually put a dent in your fait...

There are things that hurt our faith in God more than we give it credit for. One such thing is the entertainment we feed on and the people we hang out with. The Bible refers to this as old wives' fables - made-up stories that do not really mean anything. I discuss this in detail in this episode.

Are there things we should not listen to? Yes, the bible tells us what we should be careful of allowing in our hearts. We must protect ourselves from anything that would hinder our fellowship with God and take us farther away from Him. This week, we continue our podcast series as we examine things we should not pay attention to.

We often find ourselves deficient in certain areas of our lives more than others. We find it easier to get victory in one area than the other. This is an indication that we ought to spend more time in the Word studying and meditating on those areas we are deficient in. The Word of God has answers to every area of our life because God has given to us all that pertains to life and godliness. So, fin...

Many believers wait until they have a major issue before they go to the Word of God. A preacher once said, "If you waited until you needed faith to get it, you waited too long". While every believer has faith in a measure, we ought to grow and develop our faith every day for it to work for us. Feeding along the lines of faith and healing would prepare us to stand in the evil day. Feed yo...