Adventures of Faith

You may very well know that mountains represent obstacles, limitations or challenges in life that seem to deter you from making progress or moving forward. Sometimes, the Mountain appears so large that you begin to wonder if truly you can ever overcome it. At other times it is not only the largeness of the mountain that bothers you, but the timing and condition at which you are now confronted with it. The fact remains that the challenges of life comes to us all whether we are prepared or not. It is therefore how we handle and deal with these challenges that set the difference in our lives. It is not as though we are all confronted with the same Mountain, no, our mountains are as different as our faces, but the goal of the Mountains confronting us remain the same - to limit us. In Zechariah 4:7, ( Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain ) Zerubbabel was confronted with such a mountain and it definitely looked like a hopeless situ...

Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.  Zech. 4:6 When you cross into another year as we have just done a few days ago, it may be with mixed feelings of Joy, and of pain or regret; Of joy because it is a new year and you have hope that things will be better this year than the previous years. Of pain or regret because of the things that didn’t work out in the previous year or because of the losses. However, the important thing is to focus and not allow the feelings of the past to overwhelm you. God definitely has better things He has prepared for you this year. In our text, God promised to make the impossible looking situation before Zerubbabel possible, but definitely not by Zerubbabel’s effort, it was going to be by the Spirit of God helping him. That promise still holds true for you today as a citizen of the kingdom. Go...

The phrase ‘self-made’ has become a rather popular one in the world that we live in today. It refers to people who grew perhaps from nothing to become wealthy and famous. It could in a sense mean that such people don’t necessarily owe their wealth and greatness to anyone, they are self-made. However, in the kingdom of God, there are no self-made men. While we recognize the effort and hard work people put in, to become great, we also acknowledge that no man could have ever amounted to anything except the grace of God found him, and except such person opened up his heart and life to that grace. The beautiful thing is that God isn’t partial and we could all be grace made, but unfortunately, not everyone fully understands this grace and not everyone is willing to open up to it. This grace has nothing to do with what you can do for yourself, it has only to do with what God through Jesus has done for you. You say but is it that simple? Yes, it is. Men who have risen to great heights t...

We know from ancient times that man has always sought to communicate with some greater being other than himself and this he has found room to demonstrate in prayer. For the believer, prayer is communion with the Almighty God, it isn’t a duty, but a privilege. Prayer can be really fascinating when you pray and get answers to your prayers. Prayer can also become really boring when you pray but don’t get any answers, as a matter of fact it can become frustrating. Interestingly, many people who pray and don’t get results never expected to get answers in the first place. Not getting answers to their prayers only justified their position that God wasn’t going to answer anyway; they only prayed just to satisfy their conscience. Well, the reason why they got nothing is quite obvious; they expected nothing. Finney in his classic on prayer noted that God may not answer every prayer according to its letter but He surely will according to its spirit. The real spirit of prayer is evermore ...

The Lord prompted me to write this piece in response to the economic situation that our nation has been thrown into recently. Whether you call it an economic downturn or a recession, it isn’t new to God and so God isn’t anxious, neither is He confused about the situation. Needless for me to say is that we are in a time of greatest opportunity for the body of Christ, all that is happening is simply an orchestration of God for massive wealth transfer, so we must be rightly positioned and ready to work to be beneficiaries. In a few years from now, we will look back and thank God for this unusual arrangement that has come to serve heavens purpose and better our lives. God created man with natural survival instincts, which makes that a man will attempt to do anything just to survive. In times of economic hardship, a man will look for alternatives and seek options by which he can better his lot and chances of survival so that he is not sucked in. For the believer, it isn’t all that ...

If you have attended church or read your bible some, you may be familiar with our topic in this write-up. It is not the exact way that the scripture puts it, but I have taken the liberty to rephrase it for the purpose of this discussion. Our text (Mk. 2: 1-11) reflects an encounter Jesus had with a man who was paralyzed. This man was carried by four men, who were probably his friends or relatives. He was brought to a house where a crowd had gathered to hear Jesus in Capernaum (some scholars believe that this was Jesus’ private home). By the time these men arrived, they couldn’t gain access because the house was full and the crowd that gathered had taken up every space including the walkways such that they could even get past the door. Interestingly, the scribes were also among the crowd that had gathered to hear Jesus on that day, and if you are familiar with the scribes and Pharisees, you will know that they were always looking for ways to fault Jesus and to discredit His minis...

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...