Author: Deji Okegbile

#pray4manchester: O Lord, in Your mercy and power, grant strength and enduring faith to all who are bereaved, injured and traumatised in the Manchester Concert Attack. O Lord, let THY KINGDOM COME to the hearts of all who commit evil in Jesus name. On this day in 1738, John Wesley had his heartwarming experience which set in motion the explosion of the Methodist movement. Wesley’s journal entry from that day is very significant in praying and preaching for continuous conversion of souls. Wesley’s spiritual renaissance at Aldersgate is a reminder of the character and secret of the early Methodist...

The hymn that Charles Wesley and his brother, John sang following John’s personal experience of conversion, ‘Where shall  my wondering soul begin?’ at a meeting in Aldersgate Street on 24 May, 1738 provides a clue to one of God’s characters as no respecter of persons. ‘But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted’ (Acts 10:35). In Greek, the word ‘respecter of persons is prosopolemptes in relation to ‘a judge who looks at a man’s face instead of at the facts of the case, and makes a decision based on whether or not he likes the...