Author: Deji Okegbile

PRAYING AND FASTING THROUGH METHODIST NEW YEAR

The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and in the flesh than in the Holy Ghost, and things will get no better till we get back to His realized presence and power. The breath of the four winds would turn death into life and dry bones into mighty armies, but it only comes by PRAYER! – Samuel Chadwick On a daily basis, we see major changes happening worldwide, in the church, in the world politics and economies. These changes and happening calls for urgent and watchful prayers by God’s watchmen...

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BEYOND ‘SUNDAY JESUS.’

Jesus’ private conference/retreat with his disciples about himself in the famous gospel Matthew 16 is not just a theological or philosophical debate, but a means of experiencing and living God’s Redemption At Christ Expense (GRACE). The question Jesus asked his disciples resonates with us today as a key point to God’s plan for our salvation and hope of eternal life.  It is beyond the ‘Sunday Jesus’ experience and routine of singing and talking for one or two hours.  Jesus asked his disciples, “Who do you say I am?” The common view and response by the disciples was that Jesus...

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PRAYER BEFORE AMERICA GO UNDER.

“America needs God more than God needs America. If we ever forget that we are “one nation under God,” then we will be a nation gone under” – Ronald Reagan It was President Ronald Reagan who in his address to the Republican National Convention in the city of Dallas in 1988 that said, “America needs God more than God needs America. If we ever forget that we are “one nation under God,” then we will be a nation gone under.” The current resurgence of the 1820 to 1870 years, a crucial period in the history of hate and racial...

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MIRACLE OF TRUE WORSHIP

“The church must suffer for speaking the truth, for pointing out sin, for uprooting sin. No one wants to have a sore spot touched, and therefore a society with so many sores twitches when someone has the courage to touch it and say: “You have to treat that. You have to get rid of that. Believe in Christ. Be converted.”  – Oscar A Romero A simpler understanding of worship is in the very root of the English word, which is ‘worth-ship,’ the state of gladly recognising and responding to the supreme worth of God in Jesus Christ. The book...

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MESSAGE TO ALL THE FAMILY FOUNDATION CHRISTIANS

MERCY OVER JUDGEMENT OF ONE MAN FOUNDATION OFFENCE ‘…, for no guilt of thine,’ you shall no longer pay the forfeit of thy fathers’ sins in Jesus name.   One person’s sin or righteousness does indeed affect other people just ‘as through one man offence judgement came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous’ (Rom 5:18-19). Many of us are fighting the yoke and judgement of one...

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