Tag: View from the pew

It is my prayer that you will ask and receive from God. In the general economy, a giver is depleted, but in God’s economy the giver is enriched because of his giving. God loves a cheerful giver (2 Corinthians 9:7).

CHRISTIANITY must be seen. Someone said once: ‘There can be no such thing as secret discipleship, for either the secrecy destroys the discipleship, or the discipleship destroys the secrecy.’ How is it in our case? Has our secrecy destroyed our faith? Or has our faith destroyed the secrecy around the way we practise it?

Mark 5: 2-20 give us an account of the demon-possessed man set free by Jesus in the country of Gadarenes. If you read the account, it’s as if Jesus went to the place only to set the man, bound by Legion, free. Yes, Jesus will walk the extra mile just to redeem one person. Jesus knows the power of one.

Lloyd John Ogilvie in his book ‘Facing the future without fear’ says there are 366 verses that say ‘Fear not' in the Bible, one for every day of the year, and an extra one for the leap year.

WHAT'S the secret of God that was the secret recipe for success in Job’s life? We are going to decode that with the help of the Holy Spirit. To understand the secret of God that lifts up mere men and makes them models of faith we will look closely at the life of Job and go beyond to examine the lives of a few others such as Abraham, David and Apostle Paul.

Most people think testimonies need to be spectacular and long-winded. They’re wrong. All testimonies can be summed up in a single line. It is this: ‘I once was in darkness, but God called me into His marvelous light.’

God is not calling the superstars to do His work. On the other hand, He is inviting the bits and pieces players to join His Army. The bits and pieces players are those who have questionable ability.

THE verse tells us that there’s a lot to be gained in waiting. Look at what happens to those who wait upon the Lord: They will renew (their strength), they will soar, they will run and they will walk.

Unlike what many people think the garden of Gethsamane was not a low point in the life of Jesus Christ, the Son of Man. It was where He reaffirmed His Father’s decision to take on the cross at Calvary. That was evident in the way He prayed this prayer.

IT was during that dark hour of my life that I came across this verse in Romans 8:33. The verse swept me off my feet, lifted up my spirit and changed the way I perceived God and related to Him.