Thursday: 4th April, 2019 Reference text: Exodus 32:7-14 Exodus 32:10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation. I recall the story of a man who claimed he was fed up with life and wanted... Continue Reading →
EYES ARE WATCHING YOU
Wednesday, 3rd April, 2019 Reference text: John 5:17-30 John 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. While some choose to add salt... Continue Reading →
WHY HAVE YOU STAYED PUT?
Tuesday: 2nd April, 2019 Reference text : John 5:1-16 John 5:5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. The Gospel describes the pool of Bethesda as having five porches filled with 'multitudes' of sick people. In the language of scripture, 'multitudes' makes reference to large numbers hence, an... Continue Reading →
YOU WILL ENJOY THE FRUITS
Monday: 1st April, 2019 Reference text: Isaiah 65:17-21 Isaiah 65:21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. People are awarded posthumously when their acts of bravery result in the saving of other lives at the cost of their own. We may not have... Continue Reading →
DON’T JUGDE TOO QUICKLY
Sunday: 31st March, 2019 Reference text: Luke 15:1-3,11-32 Luke 15:14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in the land and he began to be in want. When one hears the words 'opportunist infections', they refer to those infections that appear in the midst of an ongoing chronic immune-attacking disease process.... Continue Reading →
CONSISTENCY IN LOVE
Saturday: 30th October, 2019 Reference text: Hosea 6:1-6 Hosea 6:4 What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears. 1. Deal or No deal? 2. Are you in or out? 3. Are you for or against? 4.... Continue Reading →
USE YOUR HEART TOO
Friday: 29th March, 2019 Reference text: Mark 12:28-34 Mark 12:34 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question. Among the many teachers of the law Jesus encountered, the one mentioned in today's... Continue Reading →
BROADEN YOUR SCOPE
Thursday: 28th March, 2019 Reference text: Luke 11:14-23 Luke 11:18 So if Satan too is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? I ask you this because you claim that I cast out demons by beelzebul. In my primary school days, there was a notion that 'all pupils who wore glasses were intelligent'. The... Continue Reading →
LEST YOU FORGET
Wednesday 27th March, 2019 1st reading: Deuteronomy 4:1,5-9 Deuteronomy 4:9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons; In this age... Continue Reading →