Adventures of Faith

There is so much to what every believer has got to learn and there is really never an end to how much you can learn if you open your heart to keep learning. Now, of all the things you can learn, there are certain things that are extremely vital to know at certain times, because the knowledge of those things or the lack of it, will be a great determinant to how your life will turn out. I believe that learning to use the vocabulary of silence and the confession of faith in the times that we are now falls within this purview. As you may very well know, the world is in a crisis, and not even our nation is exempted from the challenges that has come upon our world. It is like the scripture described in Isaiah 60, that darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the people, but God’s people have been exempted. The interesting thing however is that, although God has exempted His people from the darkness that has come upon this world, many of God’s people are forcefully partaki...

There are probably millions of believers who are praying for more faith with all sincerity of heart and purpose as you may also have found yourself praying at one time or another. Somehow, you recognize that if you had more faith you could probably do more or better than you are doing now, and this is true. However, we must deeply examine if this prayer is right in itself and if truly God answers our prayer for more faith. Nowhere in the scriptures are we instructed as believers to pray for more faith, the scripture says faith comes by hearing (Rom. 10:17). The truth is that there are many believers who are not hearing at all, while some others who are hearing haven’t set out time to personally study the scriptures to see if what they are hearing is true or not, they just simply absorb everything. What you are hearing can either build or destroy your faith. Where the word of God conflicts directly with the word of a man, we simply uphold the word of God without any prejudice to th...