Author: Deji Okegbile

A BRAND PLUCKED OUT OF THE BURNING: … NOT LEAVING, AFTER HIS DEBTS ARE PAID, TEN POUNDS BEHIND HIM: PRAYING, GOD BE MERCIFUL TO ME, AN UNPROFITABLE SERVANT![1] – John Wesley. What brand are you made of? Spiritually speaking, we are all wearing a brand just as a brand on a sheep denotes who owns it. John Wesley’s epitaph awakes the church and the leadership to an examination to know who we are, what brand we are wearing, and how we fit into the bigger picture as Jesus’ brand. Our mission and spiritual brands denote our owner and who...

We had a larger congregation at the renewal of the Covenant than we have had for many years: and I do not know that ever we had a greater blessing. Afterwards many desired to return thanks, either for a sense of pardon, for full salvation, or for a fresh manifestation of his grace, healing all their backslidings.” From his statement above, Wesley brings to our attention the missional essence of Covenant prayer, namely: the desire to return thanks to God; For a sense of pardon; For full salvation or for a manifestation of his grace and healing all backslidings...