EXPOSITION: Life provides us with time; meaning, when God gives you life, He has given you the mental capability to take charge of your destiny; and here, how you manage the resource of time cannot be taken for granted. There is perhaps no ar ...
PURSUING SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE – PRAYER
EXPOSITION: The next spiritual discipline is a consistent prayer life. Our prayers represent a spiritual communion with God through the means of thanksgiving, adoration, supplication, petition and confession. From our Scripture reading, consider how m ...
PURSUING SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE – THE WORD OF GOD
EXPOSITION: Spiritual discipline can be described as those behaviours that augment our spiritual growth and enable us to grow into spiritual maturity. This process of spiritual growth and development begins the moment a person encounters the risen Chr ...
INFLUENCING THE GENERATIONS – THE DISCIPLINE FACTOR
EXPOSITION: From Webster dictionary and Wikipedia, Discipline comes from the Latin word, “disciplina” which means to educate, teach or guide a person or a learner to behave in a certain way. As believers, the Word of God is our measure or rule in livi ...
“SO FAR THIS WEEK”
EXPOSITION: 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 realised that Joseph was m ...
“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 ...
A CALL FOR FASTING AND PRAYERS
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 replied that as long as he is with them ...
JESUS OUR PERFECT EXAMPLE IN FASTING AND PRAYERS
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 that Jesus fasted He prayed and sought-after God’ ...
FASTING WITH PRAYER BRINGS DELIVERANCE
EXPOSITION: The Persian King, Xerxes (Ahasuerus), who reigned over a mighty empire, decided to give a 7-day banquet for all the people present in Susa, the capital city. On the last day of the banquet he asked his wife, Queen Vashti, t ...
THE IMPORTANCE OF FASTING AND PRAYERS TO THE YOUTH (2)
EXPOSITION: Jonah now obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh, a very large city.Jonah proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown. “The Ninevites believed God and entered into a fast, all of them, from the great ...