Belonging to God’s Family
I'm thrilled to announce that our three-day devotional on Belonging to God's Family has been published on the YouVersion Bible app. This devotional is a three-day exploration of what it means to be a Christian, designed for new believers, long-time converts, and those curious about the faith. You can access it by clicking the link...
How to Have a Successful Year
“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing”. John 15:5 NKJV Link to audio. Two years ago, about this time of year, I paid a visit to a friend I hadn't seen in a while. This friend had...
5 Steps to Overcome Sadness and Depression
Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Saviour and my God. Psalm 42:11 Link to audio. Sadness can simply be explained as the state of not being happy while depression is a state of unhappiness or hopelessness. We often experience these...
Three Reasons to Pray Confidently
Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Hebrews 4:16 NIV Link to audio. In our first study on the right attitude to have in prayer, we considered the fact that the state of our relationship with others...
Enjoying Life Together
Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honour to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered. 1 Peter 3:7 NKJV How can a couple enjoy life together? The Bible gives blueprints on how this can be achieved. In...
‘DAYS OF OUR LIVES’ – LIFE OF RAVI ZACHARIAS IN FOCUS
Growing up, there was a popular series aired on television, in my country, called “Days of our Lives”. The series always opened with the statement ‘As sand through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives”. The life of Ravi Zacharias, like that of any other, when examined brings into focus this imagery. I was...
Don’t Compare Yourself with Others!
I recently read an inspiring story about a man who during his childhood was an attendant at a public toilet at Bantama, a suburb of Kumasi in Ghana. This man by the assistance God brought to him in diverse ways was able to complete his basic education, secondary education, obtain a bachelor's degree from the...
Money, Fame and Love II
The story so far: Dear Reader, today we continue our story Money, Fame and Love from where we left off. Last time, we were introduced to Yaw Mensah, the main character in the story who also is a ruthless and wealthy business man; to Ms Brew his secretary and to Chris Parker, an executive of...
Do your Ways Please the Lord?
When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. Proverbs 16:7 Many at times, when we think or perceive that the devil is working through someone we identify that person as an enemy and become hostile in our dealings with that person. However this is not the...
FOOTPRINTS ON THE SANDS OF TIME
It’s nice to go to the beach and feel the wind whip through your hair or caress your face. It’s heavenly to feel the soft sand beneath your feet. It’s refreshing to hear the delighted screams of children as they play along the shore. You leave footprints behind as a relic of your coming and...
It’s All in There!
"who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness - by whose stripes you were healed". 1 Peter 2:24 ln the legal world, contracts are the usual way of sealing agreements. They are enforceable when certain key elements on the part of the...
Working from Home; Memoirs
"Redeeming the time because the days are evil". Ephesians 5: 16 COVID-19 brought in its wake a total or partial lock down in many countries around the globe. In areas where there was no lock down, there were restrictions on public gathering and social distancing became the new normal. As a result schools were closed, churches...
Shine on!
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10 NKJV You are God's show piece! Imagine that God was a master craftsman who designed an artwork, be it a beautiful painting, sculpture etc. and after that put it in a show...
The Amazing Love of God
“Never! Can a mother forget her nursing child? Can she feel no love for the child she has borne? But even if that were possible, I would not forget you! See, I have written your name on the palms of my hands. Always in my mind is a picture of Jerusalem’s walls in ruins. Isaiah...