Adventures of Faith

  I will premise this short write-up on the very popular scripture - John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (NKJV) The idea is to take a look at God’s love from a very simple perspective, and take out two important actions that characterize the love of God. So, let’s take a quick look at both actions; Giving The first action that characterizes the love of God is that He gave. God was so loving of us that He gave His son Jesus to die a shameful death on the cross to redeem us back to Himself. When you think of love, this must be the ultimate price and sacrifice that anyone could possibly make. The scripture says “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him”. Love compelled the Father to give His son’s life in exchange for yours, yet He does not force you to accept the gift of His son; what a love! He makes it a freewil...

Let me begin this short piece by welcoming you to a new year. I pray that this year will be the year of the fulfillment of your greatest desires from God, and the Almighty will cause you to ride on high places. I want you to set the course for the year with a strong phrase line - God can be trusted. Undoubtedly, everyone at some point in life have been at that place where you were believing God for something, and you seem not to have gotten it. Those kinds of experiences present a unique opportunity for the devil to attempt to subtly convince you of God’s inability and unwillingness to meet your desires, but you must never give in to those thoughts. The bible says in Proverbs 3 verse 5, Trust in the Lord with all your heart. if you are not trusting in Him with all your heart, there will be room for doubts. The devil will always take advantage of your doubts to further destroy your faith and ability to trust in God completely. When you desire something from God, and you do not receive i...

And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. Mark 7:37 We are at that season of the year again where you are forced to take stock of your life, and all that has played out over the year. You may reflect over your goals for the year or your goals for some years past now, to see how far you have truly come in your life journey. You may also be reflecting over some particular desire of your heart, and how long you have been waiting on God to bring that desire to pass.   As you make this reflection, you may find yourself in a place of gratitude, because you have experienced so much of God’s blessing. Some other person may find themself in the place where they are in doubt of God’s love or if God really hears and answers, because some of those pressing desires are still not met. Regardless of what position you are, you need to just take a deep breath, and say to yourself He has done all things well. He has done all things well means that as long as you ...

We live in very challenging times, and this is regardless of which nation of the world you live in. Many people around the world, even in the most developed economies are struggling to make ends meet. Whatever you call it, be it an economic downturn or a recession, it isn’t new to God, and God isn’t anxious, neither is He confused about the situation. As a matter of fact, such seasons present the greatest opportunities for those who know how to take advantage. There is the popular saying that a rising tide lifts some boats and sink others, the question is how can you rise with the tide. We will draw our two steps from the story of a man that experienced increase during a recession in the bible. In Gen.26, we will see the story of the man named Isaac, he was dwelling in Gerar, and then a recession hit. God gave him some instructions, to which he abided, and he continued to prosper in spite of the economic challenges. So, let’s take a look at the two steps quickly; Obedience to stay in y...

The story of the Syrophoenician woman in Matthew chapter 15 is one that every believer must take proper note of, because from this story we learn one of the most vital lessons of our Christian faith. If you carefully read the story from Verse 21, you will see that this woman approached Jesus for the healing of her daughter, because she probably had heard that Jesus performed many miracles, and healed many people. If she could get to Jesus with this issue, there was hope for a turn around, and so she sought after Him. She finally had her opportunity as Jesus and His disciples passed by, and she took advantage and cried out for help where He could hear her. Jesus’ response was such as could throw anyone off balance - “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.” It was a huge opportunity to take offence at Jesus, and lose sight of what she was seeking. For one thing, I always wondered why she did not take offence at those words. I know that today many believers ...

  As you study the popular faith chapter of the Bible, Heb.11, something will jump at you from verse 14-16. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. This is talking about the men and women of faith mentioned in this chapter. One of their distinguishing characteristics of faith was that they were not mindful of the “country” from which they came. Does this really mean just an earthly country like you have Nigeria or China? Yes, possibly, but in another sense, the country here can be used to describe their situation or circumstance. These men and women of faith were not mindful of their situation or circumstances, they were rather seeking another “country”. What was this new “co...

We do not want you to become lazy, but to be like those who believe and are patient, and so receive what God has promised. Heb.6:12 (GNT) But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James 1:4 (KJV) Today, we live in a very materialistic world, people are very quick to measure your progress by what you possess, and this puts a lot of pressure and strain on people, including believers.   It is not uncommon to find that many of the things we do are simply as a result of trying to measure up or trying to send a signal that we really can measure up. Worse still, is that there are many people who are getting away with doing little or nothing, and this culture is beginning to influence believers also. We desire to “make it” with almost next to nothing investment in knowledge and processes, but God doesn’t work like that. God is systematic and He sets processes in motion. That doesn’t mean that He cannot step out of His processes or system to...