SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 5:33-39 EXPOSITION: People complained to Jesus saying, “Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but yours go on eating and drinking” (Luke 5:33). But Jesus repl ...
JESUS OUR PERFECT EXAMPLE IN FASTING AND PRAYERS
SCRIPTURE READINGS: Luke 4:1-14, Mathew 4:1-11 EXPOSITION: The best way to know how we should pray and fast is to look at the example of Jesus. Jesus fasted for 40 days in the wilderness before He started His earthly Ministry. During the time ...
THE IMPORTANCE OF FASTING AND PRAYERS TO THE YOUTH
EXPOSITION: Prayer and Fasting are essential disciplines in our walk with God. Prayer opens up a line of communication with God that otherwise we wouldn’t have, it allows us to speak directly to him and slows us down to listen to his voice. Fasting he ...
SO FAR THIS WEEK
We thank God for this week’s devotions! Throughout the week our focus was on Genesis 37 where we gleaned important lessons from the life of a teenager, Joseph. We traced his background to see some of the things that contributed to his success story. We r ...
BEING A SUCCESSFUL YOUTH – EXPOSE THE ROT!
EXPOSITION: There are certain character traits that Joseph exhibited as a successful youth. First of all, in verse 2 we notice that Joseph sent a bad report about his brothers to their father. He was just a seventeen-year-old. Together with his brothe ...
BEING A SUCCESSFUL YOUTH – GOOD CHARACTER
EXPOSITION: From today’s reading we saw that Jacob had to send Joseph to his brothers who were on the field pasturing the flock. Joseph was to see how they and the flock were doing and return with a report. Unknown to him, his brothers had moved furth ...
BEING A SUCCESSFUL YOUTH – BEWARE OF THE DREAM KILLERS
EXPOSITION: Joseph’s elder brothers hated him because of the special love that their father, Jacob showed him. This hatred graduated to jealousy and subsequently thoughts of murder. We notice from today’s reading that when the brothers saw Joseph from ...
BEING A SUCCESSFUL YOUTH – DREAM BIG (II)
EXPOSITION: Joseph had yet another dream. Though similar to the first, it was of a higher dimension. In a dream he saw the sun, the moon and eleven stars bowing down to him. Again, Joseph sought for an occasion where his father and brothers had all ga ...
BEING A SUCCESSFUL YOUTH – DREAM BIG
EXPOSITION: Joseph had ten older brothers and one younger one. Though their father Jacob loved them all, he loved Joseph the most. Joseph’s brothers hated him because of this. One day, Joseph had a dream where he saw that as they were binding sheaves ...
BEING A SUCCESSFUL YOUTH – A FATHER’S LOVE
EXPOSITION: This week we will be picking some important lessons from the life of Joseph. He was a certain kind of youth. Therefore, we will discover the things that made him successful, his character and challenges or temptations. I trust that by the ...