Author: Deji Okegbile

  I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.  For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope  that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time – Rom 8:18-22....

Today, September 8th, 2017, the second Friday of the month is no coincidence to the all night monthly prayer and praise of the Nigerian Methodists Chaplaincy. Today as a powerful invitation to what a very small fellowship of intercessors can do to save a nation is very strategic to our intercessory vision and mission for renewal and integration within the British Methodism. Today, September 8th, 2017 ‘is seen as significant as 8 September 1940 was the National Prayer Day that led to victory in the Battle of Britain. King George VI had called for a series of National Days...

  To God be the glory for the first Sunday in our Connexional Year. The Gospel reading for today suggests a prophetic and missional purpose for us, ‘Following Jesus’ in this Connexional Year. In Matthew 16, Jesus revealed the purpose of his earthly ministry to his disciples which resonates with us today. This is God’s divine plan for the salvation of all humankind and the good news (Gospel) that He, the Christ, had come to suffer, die and be raised again for the forgiveness of our sins and the sins of the whole world.  In verse 21, the phrase,...