The Bompata Area Head and Executive Council Member of The Church of Pentecost, Apostle Yaw Adjei-Kwarteng, has urged believers to disregard any discouraging projection surrounding the New Year and focus on God, the Maker of the days, for fulfilment.
According to him, if believers will persistently pursue first the kingdom of God and its righteousness in this New Year, God will help them to meet their earnest expectations.
Apostle Yaw Adjei-Kwarteng, who doubles as the Coordinator of the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Committee (RCC) was speaking at the 31st Watchnight Service in the Bantama District of the Church, which took place at the A.T. Nartey Memorial Temple.
Exhorting the congregants on the topic: “This is the Day the Lord Has Made” with Psalm 118:24 as his scriptural reference, Apostle Adjei-Kwarteng charged Christians to commit their ways to God in the New Year and be optimistic that better things are in store for them.
The Bompata Area Head further expounded that there are no differences in days to God because all of them are made by Him. Hence, it behoves the children of God to rejoice and be glad as they have been ushered into the New Year. He remarked that walking in righteousness is a lifestyle of attracting better things unto oneself as a believer, and there is no need to fear the New Year.
He inspired the congregants with the promise of Malachi 4:2, saying: “But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.”
The Bompata Area Head was optimistic that Jesus, who is the same yesterday, today and forever, will see His people through the year and what is to come regardless of any circumstance. He finally advised the congregants to walk uprightly in Christ and seek righteousness for that is the antidote to fear of the future.
On the Church’s 2023 theme, Apostle Yaw Adjei-Kwarteng revealed that measures have been put in place with the various pastors in the Area to take the members through the sub-topics to prepare them well for maximum impact.
The Mayor of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, Hon. Samuel Pyne, also passed through with a message calling on Ghanaians to come together to build a better Ghana, especially in 2023. He spoke against the over-pricing of goods by some traders and entreated each and every one to play a holistic role in making the country a better place to live.
Report by Dennis Owusu & Emmanuel Nana Nsiah