Adventures of Faith

It was a kind of epic, life-or-death girl scout route. Jesus sent seventy-two of his disciples door-to-door in every Jewish town to declare that the King had brought good news of great joy. He sent them with a warning, “Behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves” ( Luke 10:3 ). And with a promise, “Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons” ( Matthew 10:7–8 ). That’s a remarkable list. Imagine if you did even one of those things for someone today. Imagine if God healed someone’s cancer through you as you laid your hands on and prayed over them. Imagine if, when you found the last loved one you lost, God brought them back to life through you. They weren’t dead anymore, but breathing, talking, and smiling, again. Imagine if, when you touched someone with skin disease, God washed away the sores and rashes, the irritation and the pain. Imagine if God used your voice to dispatch the demons harassing and tormenting someone. Can you i...

In the bible book of Joshua, there is an interesting story of a man called Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah. Contrary to the instruction of the Lord to the children of Israel not to take any spoil of Jericho because the city and everything in it was accursed, this man Achan couldn’t get his eyes off some of the spoils, so he took some good stuff and hid them under the ground in his tent. It appeared that no one noticed him, perhaps they could have raised an alarm to the leaders of the people knowing the consequence of such action, not just upon Achan, but upon the entire nation. Although, it is possible that his family knew about it, but they refused to expose him, seeing that they would also be beneficiaries of his “Blessing”. Well, he kept his “blessing” which he got by his own scheming, hoping to enjoy them someday, perhaps when they were fully settled into the Promised Land. It wasn’t long after that they fought another b...

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...

Perhaps one of the most controversial issues across all church ages is speaking in other tongues. Many from the Pentecostal circle elevate it so high even though some of them understand it very little and cannot personally attest to its value in their life and walk with God. On another hand, you have people from the conservative circle who don’t believe any much in speaking in tongues even though they aren’t against it. Then finally you have those who are completely opposed to it. But why should speaking in other tongues generate this much controversy over the years? Shouldn’t there have been some sort of intervention to lay the controversies to rest? While there are many questions that we can ask, the truth really is that like many other subjects that have generated some controversy in the church, people have stuck to their guns and taken fixed positions on the subjects before ever hearing an argument for or against the subject matter. I therefore appeal to you before I proceed, ...

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...