I was quite shocked when I read today text but you know what, it was worth a read because often we forget. We forget that God is God, and that He is a sovereign Monarch. In the midst of marginal results, we think we have arrived and have made it. However, today's open to the... Continue Reading →
THREATS TO YOUR THRONE
1 Samuel 18:8 Saul was very angry; this refrain displeased him greatly. “They have credited David with tens of thousands,” he thought, “but me with only thousands. What more can he get but the kingdom?” The playbook for Kings in authority over the course of many years has been "is there a threat to my... Continue Reading →
WHAT DOES GOD GAIN FROM YOUR REQUEST?
Reference text: 1 Samuel 17:32-51 What is your objective heading into any battle? Nine and a half times out of ten, the end goal is to claim victory. In reality, that is really the primary aim of any one who enters into a fight. Yet, we see an alternative reality as far as this specific... Continue Reading →
PRESENT YOUR WEAKNESS
Reference: Mark 6:34-44 And when it was already late, His disciples came up to Him and said, “This place is secluded and it is already late; Reference: Mark 6:34-44 Assessment of situations is not a bad thing. In fact, it is a main consideration prior to executing any meaningful plan. In the assessment process, one... Continue Reading →
ROUNDING UP THE YEAR
Reference text: 1 Samuel 30: 1-31 1. Tears alone are futile (vs 4) For a group of men of war to cry until they had no more strength to weep tells quite a story. Yet, after all their weeping, their sons and daughters remained in the hand of the enemies. They had to quickly regroup... Continue Reading →
CONTENTIONS TO REVEAL GOD’S GLORY
Acts 6:10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake. At the start of this year, one message that was an anchor was "this will be a year of great things but with many contentions". This was based on the text from the Acts of the Apostles... Continue Reading →
GOD’S OUTCOME MUST INCLUDE HIS STRATEGY
Luke 1:34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? We read in today's Gospel Mary's question to the Angel Gabriel "How shall this be" because for her, pregnancy would not have been a new concept despite her youth. So it was the manner or 'the how' hers... Continue Reading →
HE WILL DO WHAT HE SAYS
Reference text: Matthew 1:1-17 Matthew 1:17: Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Messiah. Anytime we read the genealogy of Jesus as captured in Matthew's Gospel, on the surface all we see is a roll call... Continue Reading →
MAKE YOUR WAY BACK HOME
Zephania 3:1-2 Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled! She obeys no one, she accepts no correction. She does not trust in the LORD, she does not draw near to her God The text from the prophet Zephaniah, highlights what we can see as the stages of rebellion. To the believer, this is... Continue Reading →