Adventures of Faith

Faith is and will always be a personal issue, and faith is based on the word of God only, every other ground is sinking sand. The purpose of this short piece is to open our eyes to some of the subtle tricks of the enemy to diffuse our faith and make it impotent such that we get little or no results in our walk of faith. There are so many believers out there who are basing their faith on the experiences of other people, whether positive or negative experiences. It may appear fine if those experiences were positive experiences, but it isn’t altogether right, and in the case where the experiences are negative, it will completely drown your faith. Now, I am aware that there are Christians who never seem to require faith or who never seem to use their faith so to say, because they always have an alternative to faith. But sooner than later there will come a time that you will have to stand for yourself in faith, and the true worth of your faith will show forth. While I ackno...

Perhaps you have found yourself desiring to pray but just when you decide to pray you are not even sure what you should pray for. Many times this happens, it is not really because you have nothing to pray about, but because you have many things you will like to pray for in such a short time that you don’t even know how to prioritize them. This challenge may seem small but it really hinders many people from praying at all. Some even go ahead to substitute prayer with something else they are more certain about simply because they didn’t know what to pray about when they should be praying. There are also times that you feel the burden to pray, you know surely that the Holy Spirit is impressing upon your heart to pray but you refuse to act because you are not sure of what you should pray for. Sooner than later, the burden will lift whether you yield to it or not. The difference is that when you yield to that burden, there is a sense of relief that comes to you, with an assurance o...