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...
Do you excel in goodness?
For he was a good man, full of the Spirit and of faith Acts 11:24 Barnabas was one of the leaders whom God used in establishing the early church in Asia. He was willing to give Paul a chance after Paul's conversion to Christianity at a time when other believers were skeptical. I think the description...
God is good – all the time
“Oh God, I thank you for a good day “. This is my prayer anytime I get to my work place and also when I close from work. I used to be a sales boy in a clothing shop. At the close of every day, whether I made sales or not, I prayed to God and...
Are you Looking for Profit?
“I am the Lord your God who teaches you to profit and who leads you in the way you should go”. Isaiah 48:17. Almost 2 decades ago after I finished senior high school, I saw an advertisement in the newspapers of an organization that trained people to be freelance writers. I decided to get enrolled in...
Learning to Love – postscript
The question that may be on the minds of many after reading Learning to Love (I - III) is whether Meg did the right thing by staying in her marriage or whether she should have walked away a long time ago. The Bible has given Christians the grounds for divorce which is adultery. But it...
Learning to Love III
An Interview with Mrs. Margaret Sackey –a marriage counsellor (continued from last week) Her take on love in marriages? In the first few years of marriage, especially for those who marry in their twenties and thirties, the focus is on physical intimacy, attraction etc. However as you grow older, the focus shifts from just the two...
Learning to Love II
An interview with Mrs. Margaret Mensah - a marriage counsellor Continued from last week Jesus in the Boat Meg's newfound relationship with Christ marked a new chapter in her life. She became committed to church activities. Some years after accepting Christ, she went into full-time Christian ministry. Her work involved encouraging people going through difficult moments, speaking to...
Learning to Love I
We all marry with the best of expectations for our marriages. However some marriages go sour along the way; this may be because one partner becomes uncommitted to the union. What do you do when that happens? Let's read on to glean some insights from Margaret's story. An interview with Mrs. Margaret Mensah (a marriage...
Understanding the Times
of the sons of Issachar who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their command; I Chronicles 12:32 NKJV The COVID pandemic that struck the globe this year has tested the pulses of leaders across the world - from presidents,...
Losing the Battle of my Privacy
Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there. Psalms 139:7-8 NKJV I LOVE my privacy, I like to have my space and to be alone with my thoughts. These are...