These are the nations that God left there, using them to test the Israelites who had no experience in the Canaanite wars. He did it to train the descendants of Israel, the ones who had no battle experience, in the art of war. Judges 3:1-2 (MSG) REFERENCE JUDGES 3:1-4 (MSG) There are times that God, in His wisdom, will permit certain unpalatable situations in our lives to give our faith and trust in Him an opportunity to SHINE. He doesn’t do them to make life unbearable for us, but to basically train us to handle life’s tough situations, to bring out the ‘Man...

Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?  Matthew 6:26 -27 REFERENCE Matthew 6:25-34 Unmet expectations, unfulfilled dreams, shattered promises, life’s uncertainties, emotional stress, work pressures, unpaid bills and the ratio of needs to the money at hand, are some of the things that sometimes make us worry. It is almost as if the mind has been trained by our primordial wiring to worry, but worrying only...

Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. – Luke 10:19 REFERENCE Luke 10:17-19 Man’s greatest enemy since the Garden of Eden is Satan. Adam and Eve handed over their dominion to him when they disobeyed God and fell for his trick to eat the forbidden fruit. Hence, he was empowered to STEAL (people’s joy, peace, health, dreams, etc.), KILL (businesses, purposes, relationships), and ultimately to DESTROY lives. Nevertheless, Jesus came, took the punishment for man’s sin, paid the price...

“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You.” Job 42:5 REFERENCE Job 42:1-6 Sovereignty is unlimited power; supreme authority over all things, the liberty to decide one’s thoughts and actions, or freedom from external control. It is the power to do everything without being accountable to another. God is sovereign – He is paramount and supreme; not answerable to anyone. There is no one higher in authority or power. He made all things and all things are under His watchful eyes and care. Though God is sovereign, we must understand that...

Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you do not know.  Jeremiah 33:3 REFERENCE Jeremiah 33:1-3 God has limitless secrets that will unravel the mysteries of life and living. He has insight into every situation and He knows the way out of every logjam, but as seen from the main text, He will only share His secrets with those who call out to Him for help, those who earnestly seek Him, desiring and requiring His help. Also, like Psalm 25:14 rightly puts it, “The secret of the Lord is with those who...

“Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.” Genesis 28:15 REFERENCE Genesis 28:10-15 In this account, God promised Jacob that He wouldn’t leave Him until He had done what He promised He would do in his life. Jacob’s time in Haran with his uncle Laban wasn’t all rosy – he was deceived and forced into marriage, he was cheated and his wages were changed ten times, he labored and slaved running Laban’s business, he faced hostility from his cousins, and...

And Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and all who hear will laugh with me.” She also said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.” Genesis 21:6-7 REFERENCE Genesis 21:1-7 The background to this story is found in Genesis 18:1-15 where God visited Sarah to make her a promise that she would bear a son. In this account, He visited her to perform that promise in her life. Irrespective of how impossible it was for a 90 year old woman to bear a child,...

Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?” Genesis 18:12 REFERENCE Genesis 18:1-15 As a young girl, Sarah had many hopes like any young girl. She must have said to herself, “I will get married at 20, and by 25, I will have all my children.” But, it did not happen like that; things did not go the way she expected, at least not after the order of life. Do you know what it feels like to have an expectation and wait for 70 years? I am assuming...

But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.  1 Corinthians 12:20 REFERENCE I Corinthians 12:12-30 As believers God expects us to function as one Body in Christ. We all occupy different offices and have different callings and gifts, but we need to work together as a single unit in order so we can arrive at our destination quicker. It is our duty to look out for each other in the Body because if one part becomes weak or fails, it will definitely affect the rest of the Body. Sometimes, believers whose gifts are not so visible in the...