Posts with the category “devotional-message”

You  have hope in Christ even in the darkest hour of your life and God can give double for your trouble. But you need to know your inheritance and live in your true identity as a child of God. From E...  Read More

Remaining hopeful in troubled times is something that everyone struggles with as humans but it is not impossible. King Herod had beheaded James and now Peter was in prison. It could have been a time o...  Read More

God is our story maker. The Holy Spirit is our biographer. He is the one who is writing our lives and regulating everything in our lives. Romans 8:28 says, ‘And we know that in all things God works fo...  Read More

In the book of Isaiah, we see a glimpse of the coming Messiah. We can see the Old Testament and a shadow of the New Testament in the book of Isaiah.Isaiah 54:1-2“Sing, barren woman, you who never bore...  Read More

The monument of God’s love for us is the cross . Jesus, the king of Glory went through the most heinous death by His creation and God’s response to this was not His wrath, it was forgiveness and love....  Read More

We see in Romans 8 that nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ. However we can separate ourselves from the love of God when we complain, doubt or question God’s love. The Holy Spirit h...  Read More

The perfect love of the Father is the topmost eternal riches that has been deposited in us by the Holy Spirit in the spirit realm and it has to flow into our soul and deeds.Galatians 5:22-23But the fr...  Read More

God is faithful. His love has brought us this far.1 Corinthians 1:9 states, "God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord."John the Apostle speaks about the ...  Read More

1 Corinthians 1:9 says, ‘God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.’God the Father has called us into fellowship with his son, Jesus Christ our Lord. We c...  Read More

Jesus has already won the victory for us. That victory is for us. God did not lose, man lost. And so man needed the victory, not God. God is spirit and for Him to do anything on this earth, He needs a...  Read More

We know that natural calamities can destroy buildings and cities. But these can always be built back up. However, what if your life is  destroyed? Who can repair your life? Only the life-giver! That i...  Read More

Isaiah 42:3A bruised reed he will not break, and a smouldering wick he will not snuff out. In faithfulness he will bring forth justiceThe anointing on Jesus doesn’t quench a smouldering wick, a bruise...  Read More

Matthew 12:18 “Here is my servant whom I have chosen, the one I love, in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations.The above verse is quoted from Isaiah ...  Read More

Do you have anxiety thinking about the future? As children of God we do not need to be afraid of what is going to happen next, instead we need to smile at the future. Because your future is in God’s h...  Read More

We have heard of several wars and sometimes they go on for days, months or maybe even years. Battles however are many but there is only one war.  They are strikes/ encounters that take place within a ...  Read More

Matthew 4:4Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”While we need food for the body, the Word of God is food for our spi...  Read More

Problems can bring us down but feathers/wings can help us fly. Even the smallest ones can burden us. Many people have regrets or things they wish they could change about themselves or their lives. Thi...  Read More

2 Corinthians 5:14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.Giving ourselves for others is only possible with the love of Christ.2 Timothy 3:...  Read More

Among the twelve disciples, John often addressed himself as ‘the disciple whom Jesus loved’. Neither did Jesus show favouritism nor does it mean that Jesus didn't love the other disciples. We don’t se...  Read More

Oftentimes at church we sing the song ‘Oh taste and see that the Lord is good, for He tastes like honey in the rock’. What do these lines tell us? We need to taste Him to really know Him. 1 John 1:1 ‘...  Read More

The Word of God has life and is Spirit and it nourishes us spiritually. As 1 Timothy 3:16 says, “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteou...  Read More

Man was not created for a consumer relationship where he prays and cries for his needs, gets what he wants and then goes his way. Man was created for God; to spend time with God. To live in fellowship...  Read More

Whatever be our situation, God’s Word is powerful to treat us and can heal us.Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul ...  Read More

Our tongue determines our future. We can choose whether we want life or death.Proverbs 18:21The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.1 Peter 3:10For, “Whoev...  Read More

God created us humans with free-will and the choices we make in our lives have great significance. Adam, the first man itself failed in making the right choice. The LORD God made all kinds of trees gr...  Read More

It is not the resources that matter, it is the receiving capacity that matters. God is willing to bless you abundantly. But oftentimes we don’t have the capacity to receive it. Many of our prayer requ...  Read More

From the Garden of Eden, from the very beginning of mankind, there was a choice. God did not create us as machines or robots. He has bestowed free will upon us. From the very beginning, God gave us th...  Read More

Psalm 84:6 NLTWhen they walk through the Valley of Weeping, it will become a place of refreshing springs. The autumn rains will clothe it with blessings.You could be going through trouble, sorrows, de...  Read More

Titus 2:13 While we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus ChristWe have a blessed hope that Jesus is coming again to take us from this earth to the ne...  Read More

We can achieve many things in life, we can attain fame and money, but those things need not necessarily make us happy. Someone who is a newsmaker today, may not be around tomorrow. This is all tempora...  Read More

You are so precious to Jesus and having been purchased by His own blood, He’ll deliver you from all troubles; because Jesus cannot afford to lose you.Isaiah 59:1 Surely the arm of the LORD is not too ...  Read More

In the book of Mark we read Jesus and the disciples going to Gerasenes where they come across a man who had an impure spirit. He lived in the tombs and people were not able to chain him.Upon Jesus’ ar...  Read More

An expectant heart is blessed, because that is when the Holy Spirit can truly work wonders. Many of us experience despair and a total lack of hope in our lives. Joseph’s father Jacob also experienced ...  Read More

When we come to Jesus, our status changes. Irrespective of the names that society puts on a person, his identity changes when he is in Christ. His past is gone and his new identity is in Christ. One s...  Read More

If today is the Day of Favour/Grace, the Day of Judgement will also come. The moment a person confesses with their mouth that Jesus is Lord and believes it, they are saved. This can be any moment, eve...  Read More

God wishes for all men to be saved. He has done everything so that man might not perish. A huge price was paid.John 3:16For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever belie...  Read More

In the early years of my salvation journey, I noticed placards in homes that read, “Jesus is the Head of this Home; a silent listener to every conversation.” We need to have this cognizance sink into ...  Read More

We are living in a time of God’s favour. Many people are still not aware of this. God’s calendar is different from ours. We often refer to it as Chronos time. Chronos time is actually a very small par...  Read More

The Old Testament and the New Testament are starkly different. We are under the covenant of the New Testament, where Jesus came into the world, sacrificed himself at the Cross of Calvary bearing the s...  Read More

We see in Acts 12 that James was killed, Peter was jailed; an attempt to put out the inner circle of Jesus. Peter may have been sure that that night or the next day he would be killed, since they did ...  Read More