“May the Lord our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He not leave us nor forsake us,” (1 Kings 8:57 NKJV) “You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!” (Isaiah 26:3 NLT) “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” (Phillippians 4:13 NKJV) Happy New Year Pastor Ademola “After this I will return, and will…
1. “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.” 2. “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.” 3. “I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon them.” 4 Repay…
Friends, we may not like it, but we should not ignore it. John 3:36 tells us that this wrath ‘abideth’. We should not expect it to fade away with time. The wrath of God abides: It abides in this world because sin’s evil abides until the wrong of it is perfectly satisfied. It stakes into the next term because those who reject Jesus Christ cannot offer a perfect sacrifice acceptable to God. The wrath of God abides until the perfect payment Jesus made on the…
Cynthia R. Wallace said: “If we’re honest with ourselves, many of us are very, very tired. After more than a year of ups and downs, all of it has again begun to feel like too much. Some start to speak of the pandemic in the past tense. Still, in Canada, where I live, as in Brazil and India and parts of the United States, new Covid variants fuel exponential infection. At the same time, vaccine supplies follow lines of global…
1. “Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.” 2. “And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.” 3. “For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” 4. “A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it…
Yes, the heart is more important than the mind! Yes, doing things together is more important than doing things alone! Do you remember that alone we can do so little; together, we can do so much! Indeed, talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. It means teamwork begins by building trust. Yes, you can indeed succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. Trust an individual to succeed through you! Yes, an individual can only add a…
Henri J. M. Nouwen said: “I am with people who are poor in spirit. They teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and doing things together is more important than doing things alone.”
1. “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” 2. “And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” 3. “He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing…
Permit me to put this in the words of C. H. Spurgeon. I quote: “A man may cast away many vices, forsake many lusts in which he indulged, and conquer evil habits, but no man in the world can make himself to be born of God; though he should never struggle so much, he could never accomplish what is beyond his power. And, mark you, if he could make himself to be born again. Still, he would not enter heaven,…
Jesus clearly said that without this – that unless one is born again – he cannot enter or be part of (see) the kingdom of God. Moral or religious reform isn’t enough. One must be born again. Yes, this isn’t something that we can do to ourselves. If Jesus had said, “Unless you are washed, you cannot see the kingdom of God”, then we might think, “I can wash myself.” A man might wash himself, but he could never birth himself. Yes, all over the New…
1. “Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” 2. “And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also, he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” 3. “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now…