Thursday 26 April 2012
Wednesday 25 April 2012
Saturday 21 April 2012
Sunday 15 April 2012
PASTOR MRS FOLU ADEBOYE’S INTERVIEW
PASTOR
MRS FOLU ADEBOYE’S INTERVIEW ON RTM ON FRIDAY – 13TH APRIL 2012
Pastor Mrs. Folu
Adeboye, the wife of Pastor E. A. Adeboye of RCCG is an exemplary mother and
wife. Her interview with RTM Crew reveals much about this woman. It is heart
warming to know few things about her. In the interview she said. “I wake up at 3.am to start praying. I pray
till 6.am when we have family devotion and do not go back to sleep afterward”. May
I ask, sincerely, how many people do this? She continued on her prayer life. “I love prayer so much, whenever my husband
go to minister, I would be praying for him and God often told me something
about the ministration, for example when my husband went to Ibadan to minister,
the Holy Spirit told me that a dumb woman received her miracle. So when he came
home I asked him about the dumb woman who got her miracle. He was surprised and
asked who told me. I told him that the Holy Spirit had told me about it.”
When she was asked
about how working mothers could cope with such a rigours prayer life? She said that
when her family was in Ilorin, she was a then a teacher, she would prepare meal
for every members of her family very early as every member of her family would
be out by 7:15pm and they would come home by 10pm. She is so committed to her
family that till now she does not allow any other person to cook for her
husband. What an exemplary mother and wife.
Keep it up. Good
mummy.
Tuesday 10 April 2012
Sunday 8 April 2012
Friday 6 April 2012
WHAT DO WE CELEBRATE ON GOOD FRIDAY?
WHAT
DO WE CELEBRATE ON GOOD FRIDAY?
What do we actually celebrate
on Good Friday? His death or what His death brought to us? Are we happy that He
died particularly such a cruel death or we are happy that He brought us
salvation and every other thing that accompany salvation? Just as I was
ruminating over this, I discovered that we are celebrating what He died for in
His death and here are some of the things that His death avails us.
We celebrate the fact that at
last a Perfect Sacrifice/Passover lamb/Scapegoat has been found for the sins of
entire mankind.
We celebrate the fact that He
died because it was a very difficult task that He undertook. No one else was
qualified to do it and no one else could have done it. (He was the only One
qualified and perfect for that difficult and great sacrifice).
It was good that He died because
through His death the curse brought upon us by Adam was removed.
Through His death, we have
access into the holies of holies. We now have blood that is good enough to
allow us into the throne room.
It is by His stripes that we
are healed.
It was good because His death
was substitutionary (we are the guilty ones but He was the one that was
punished). His death was effectual and propitiationary.
Without His death, there would
not have been His resurrection. Without His resurrection there would not have
been justification for us.
His death affords us access to
the Tree of life which Adam through sin forfeited on our behalf.
His death would bring man,
nature and the entire creation back in harmony.
His death gave us hope of resurrection. Adam
brought Sin, Christ’s death brought Grace. Adam brought Offense,
Christ’s death brought free
gift.
Adam brought Condemnation,
Christ’s death brought Justification. Adam brought Death, Christ’s
death brought Righteousness,
eternal life.
Lord, Your death has brought us near to God. Thank
you for Your death. Happy Easter to you all. Remain blessed.
Wednesday 4 April 2012
WHERE ARE THOSE THINE ACCUSERS?
WHERE
ARE THOSE THINE ACCUSERS?
Text:
John 8: 1-11
The story of
the woman who was caught in adultery ‘in the very act’ as recorded in the
gospel of John Chapter 8: 1 – 11 is my focus. Here, Jesus (most probably) went
to the Mount olive to pray in the night, when he came back in the morning to
the temple, people came to him and he taught them.
The Scribes
and Pharisees, highly religious people brought this woman to him with the
accusation that she was caught in the adultery. Their intention was also to
tempt Jesus. If He had said ‘stone her’,
they would have killed the woman as they wanted and would have condemned Jesus
by saying that He was a saviour and yet commanded one to be killed and if he
had said ‘let her go’, they probably
would have said ‘he condoned sin’. Jesus first ignored them.
Then when they
asked Him again Jesus appealed to their conscience “He that is without sin amongst you, let him first cast a stone at her”.
Because they were all convicted by their conscience they left the woman alone
and Jesus asked “Woman where are those
thine accusers? Hath no man condemned there?” She said “No man Lord,” and Jesus said unto her “Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more.”
Let us reflect
on the plight of this woman. There she was, so sad to have been found out. 1
Tim 5:24 “Some men's sins are open
beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after”. It
is better for us to have our sins exposed now so we can have forgiveness and to
prosper “he that covereth
his sins shall not prosper.” She appeared to be the only sinner among them.
She was their object of castigation, derision and shame. She was guilt-ridden
and dare not lift up her face. She remembered that she was actually condemned
by the law.
Death stares
her in the face, she was reminded that others who were caught like her had been
killed. There was neither hope of eternal life nor rest for her. Her plight was
terrible.
People in this
condition need more than pity, religion or sympathy. It is in our society that
we bruised ‘a weak reed’. Here is someone in the gall of death, guilt stricken
and the people around her wanted her dead. Cruel fate, cruel people.
What actually
saved her (you already know who saved her) I believed that she was saved by her
confession of Jesus as Lord. Her statement to the Lord ““No man
Lord...” Rom 8:1. “There is therefore
now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the
flesh, but after the Spirit. KJV
How
many accusations are the Lord ignoring today! Our adversary has never stops
accusing us. He accuses us of prayerlessness, lack of zeal for evangelism, our
backbiting, our doubts, our unfaithfulness, our faithlessness etc. It is He who
justifies us! Oh! What a comfort to those who owns Him as Lord. Acknowledging
Him as Lord brought her forgiveness, no commendation and neither condemnation
but justification. Who are to condemn?
God
called Abraham father of faith not father of flesh even though he had Ishmael.
The scripture says that he staggered not at the promise of God.
He
called Gideon might man of valour despite the cowardice attitude he displayed
at the threshing floor. He called Lot, the righteous preacher despite his
incestuous relationship. He called Moses, the meekest man on earth despite such
display of anger when he smote the rock. He removed the title of harlot from
that of Rahab. David was a man after His own heart despite those imperfections
(he ordered the Census which made God angry with His people, he committed
adultery with Bathsheba, he killed Uriah). Ahab, the worst King in Israel
obtained mercy. What a mighty and merciful God we serve!
Your
past is past, so walk past your past or should I say move away from your past,
do not be tied to your past, the sin that you have confessed and the Lord has
forgiven should not ground you. Yes, satan would want to accuse you, but Jesus
said; where are thine your accusers? And
if He says Neither do I condemn thee.
You should rejoice.
Pastor
E. A. Adeboye shared a story of his past. He was a Pastor in Ilorin and among
people that came for prayer was this woman, a former girl friend of the Pastor.
When she saw him, she asked; who is the
Pastor? You? She judged him by his
past.
If
you have owned Him as you Lord. (Isa 54:17... every tongue that shall rise
against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the
servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD) You
have an heritage to condemn every tongue that rise against you. Your
righteousness of Him. So where are thine accusers? It is time to rise and
condemn every tongue that rise against you! You are blessed and remain blessed.
Sunday 1 April 2012
BE THOU MY VISION (IRISH HYMN) LYRIC
BH 62
BE THOU MY VISION
1. Be Thou my vision, O Lord
of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art;
Thou
my best though, by day or by night,
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence
my light.
2. Be Thou my wisdom, and Thou
my true word;
I
ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord:
Thou my great Father, I Thy true son,
Thou
in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.
3. Riches I heed not, or man's
empty praise,
Thou
mine inheritance, now and always:
Thou and Thou only, first in my heart,
High
King of heaven, my treasure Thou art.
4. High King of heaven, my
victory won,
May
I reach heaven's joys, O bright heaven's Sun!
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
Still be my vision, O Ruler of all.
Amen.
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