Category: Pastor’s Desk

From Pastor's Desk 2026 Pastor's Desk

Title: Why they perished

Series: From Pastor’s Desk

Number: Vol. 14, No. 48

Beloved: Grace, mercy and peace to you without measure from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. It is with great delight that I welcome you to the transition week between the months of March and April 2026. My prayer is that God will be merciful to you every day and keep your ears from being deaf to the whatever rebuke His Spirit may be bringing to you, so that you will not expose yourself to sudden destruction. Amen.

Why did the sons of Eli perish without remedy? It was because their ears were deaf to the rebuke of the Spirit of God. As we see in the bible, even though these men were priests in the house of God, they were also sons of Belial, sons of the devil. Why? The reason was that they had no regard for God. (Cf. 1Sam 2:12-17)

How, then, did they become priests in the house of God, seeing that they had no regard for Him? Favouritism! What I am saying is that the only reason they were priests in the house of God was that their father was the high priest of Israel at the time. If he had not been the high priest, they would have been made priests in the land, even though they came from the family of priests.Today, we also find in many churches people who have no fear of God in them serving as leaders. Why? Favouritism!

In other words, these ones are leaders because of their relationships with certain church leaders and not because God has chosen them to lead His people. So, they too can only be like the sons of Eli, children of Belial, in their conduct.In any case, when Eli began to get all kinds of bad reports about these sons of his, he called them and rebuked them. And did they listen to him? No, they did not listen to him. Why? Look at what the bible says about that:“No, my sons; it is not a good report that I hear spreading among the LORD’s people. If a man sins against another man, God may mediate for him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who will intercede for him?” His sons, however, did not listen to their father’s rebuke, for it was the LORD’s will to put them to death.” (1Sam 2:24-25NIV)

Why would Eli’s sons not listen to their father? The reason was that God was determined to destroy them. And why was God determined to destroy them? He was determined to destroy them because they had formed a culture of rejecting His word of rebuke.Now this is teaching us to never reject the rebuke of the Spirit of God. That is because doing so may soon become a culture for us. And once it becomes a culture for us to reject His rebuke, we are bound to expose ourselves to God’s judgement, if we are not shown mercy. My prayer, then, is that you will not stubbornly expose yourself to His judgment in any area of your life. But you must watch yourself.Have a lovely week.

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From Pastor's Desk 2026 Pastor's Desk

Title: Faithfulness in little things

Post author By Pastor J.O. Lawal
Post date March 22, 2026

ALAYTHIA BIBLE church

Series: From Pastor’s Desk

Number: Vol. 14, No. 47

Beloved: grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. It is with great delight that I welcome you to another week of the month of March 2026. My prayer is that God will strengthen you to be faithful to Him every day, so that He can lift you up to be all that He wants you to be in life. Amen.

As we see in the bible, one of the things God considers in lifting people up is their attitude towards the little things He has entrusted to them. Look at the way our Lord Jesus puts this for us:”Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own?” (Luke 16:10-12NIV)

From what we can see here, God is interested in our attitude towards handling little things. Why? It is one of the things that will show whether we will be faithful and profitable in handling much things or not. So, if God is not promoting or increasing you in good things, it may just be that you have been unfaithful in small things.Also, we can see from this text that God is concerned about our attitude towards handling material things. Why? It is one of the ways He can tell whether we can handle spiritual things well or not. That is why He does not entrust spiritual truths and responsibilities to people who have shown themselves to be lazy or unfaithful in handling the things of this world. They will allow His work to suffer or corrupt it.

Finally, from the text, we can see that God is interested in how we handle other people’s possessions or work. If we handle what belongs to others well, we are showing ourselves as ready to receive the good things He has in store for us. But if we will not handle what belongs to others well, we will be showing ourselves as not ready to receive the good things He has for us. What this means is that one of the ways God tests our readiness to receive more from Him or to be promoted is by considering how well we handle what belongs to other people. If you, then, have not been treating the jobs or things other people have been giving you well, know that you are already hindering your own promotion and prosperity.Well, my point in all this is that God highly values our faithfulness in handling little things and in our management of the things of this world.

If you, then, want Him to elevate you and also prosper you greatly, begin to demonstrate faithfulness and diligence in handling anything entrusted to you. Remember Joseph. Remember that God did not just lift him up to be the administrator of Egypt without first testing his faithfulness as a child in his father’s house, as a slave in Potiphar’s house and as a prisoner in the land of Egypt. So, however low or bad the situation you are in may be, show yourself there as someone that people and God can rely on. And if you will be patient, you will soon experience the glory of God for your promotion and prosperity.

Have a lovely week.

From Pastor's Desk 2026 Pastor's Desk

Title: Don’t discourage them

Post author By Pastor J.O. Lawal
Post date March 14, 2026

Series: From Pastor’s Desk

Number: Vol. 14, No. 46

Beloved: grace, mercy and peace be yours from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. I am delighted to welcome you to another week of the month of March 2026. My prayer is that God will make the week beautiful for you and your family. Amen.

As we begin this new week, I want to enjoin you to be one who always encourages the people of God around you to do His will through your words and actions. See, all that some people need to give themselves to fully doing the will of God is just a word of encouragement from someone. In like manner, all that some people need to excuse themselves from doing the will of God is just someone that will discourage them, either by their words or actions.

And if you should allow yourself to be used by the devil to discourage anyone from doing the will of God, you can be sure that God will deal with you accordingly.For example, when the children of Israel were coming close to entering the Promised land, having wandered in the wilderness for forty years, the Reubenites and the Gadites came to Moses with a request. And it was that he should permit them not to cross the Jordan river over to the land of the Canaanites. Why? The reason was that the place before the Jordan was suitable for their livestock. And they had very large flocks and herds. (Cf. Num 32:1-5)

How, then, did Moses respond to their request? Look at what is said about that in the bible:“Moses said to the Gadites and Reubenites, “Shall your countrymen go to war while you sit here? Why do you discourage the Israelites from going over into the land the LORD has given them? This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to look over the land. After they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and viewed the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land the LORD had given them.”” (Num 32:6-10NIV)

Did you see that? Moses told the people that what they were up to would discourage the other Israelites from doing the will of God by crossing the Jordan to possess the Promised Land. He, in fact, used the occasion to remind them that the reason they all spent forty years wandering in the wilderness was that their parents also discouraged one another from possessing the Promised Land. Those Reubenites and Gadites, then, had to assure Moses that they would first cross the Jordan to help the other Israelites in possessing the Promised Land before they would come back to settle in their own land before he freely granted their request. (Cf. Num 32:16-23)

What is this teaching us? It is that God never looks with favour on anyone who discourages others from doing His will. Instead, He always judges them. And since we cannot tell how He would judge us if we should discourage anyone from doing His will, we need to be careful not to be the reason anyone will not do what God wants or enjoy His provisions for their lives through what we say or do. And may the Spirit of God always strengthen us to act accordingly. Amen.Have a lovely week.

From Pastor's Desk 2026 Pastor's Desk

Title: Don’t be critical

6Series: From Pastor’s Desk

Number: Vol. 14, No. 4

5Beloved: grace, mercy and peace be multiplied to you from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to another week of the month of March 2026. My prayer is that God will keep you humble and gentle in all your dealings with those around you, so that you will not say or do anything to them that will expose you to His judgment. Amen.

As we see in the bible, one of the things that can expose us to God’s judgment is being critical of others. Truly, no one in this life is perfect in conduct. Only God is. So, people can make mistakes. And where this is the case, attempts must surely be made to set them Title: Don’t be criticalright.

However, whether people have actually made mistakes or have been mistaken to have made mistakes, how we intervene in their matters will determine whether they listen to us or not. It will also determine whether we have the praise of God or not.For example, when the friends of Job came to him in his time of distress, he thought that they had come to comfort him. But instead of comforting him, all of them ended up criticising him, accusing him of doing things that he never did. And did he listen to them? No, he did not. Did he accept all the lies they told against him? No, he did not. (Cf. Job 2:11-13)

Why did Job not listen to them? First, it was because they did not verify the evil reports they had heard about him before of accusing of doing wickedness. Second, it was because they all spoke to him harshly and not tenderly, ignoring completely the fact that he was in serious pains and had also lost all his children and wealth. So, even if they were right, there was no way a man in pains like him would listen to their harsh and critical words.Now how did God attend to this matter? He attended to it with anger. And who was He angry with? Job’s friends! Why? First, it was because they misused the knowledge of Him that they had in criticising Job. Second, it was because they did not comfort the man at all but added to his pains. And as God told them, they needed to go and beg for his forgiveness and prayer. Otherwise, His wrath would come on them. (Cf. Job 42:7-9)

In like manner, God’s wrath may fall on any of us for being critical of others. See, God is watching all our relationships to see how we conduct ourselves in them. And where He can see that we are carelessly injuring the lives or faith of others with our words, He will not ignore it. Yes, in His mercy, He may draw our attention to our folly, as He did with Job’s friends, so that we may repent and do the needful. But He may just judge us without any warning, as He judged Miriam and Aaron for criticising Moses on an occasion. (Cf. Num 12

)So, while nothing is wrong with correcting people if they are wrong, we must be sure that we are not correcting anybody on the basis of things that we have not verified. Then we must also learn to be gentle in correcting people, even if we are certain that they have missed it. Otherwise, what is meant to be a word of correction may become a word of criticism. And that may not accomplish the purpose we intend it to accomplish. On the contrary, it may even expose us to the judgement of God. May we not foolishly expose ourselves to His judgment, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Have a lovely week.

From Pastor's Desk 2026 Pastor's Desk

Title: First deal with your own problems

Post author By Pastor J.O. Lawal
Post date February 28, 2026

ALAYTHIA BIBLE church

Series: From Pastor’s Desk

Number: Vol. 14, No. 44

Beloved: grace, mercy and peace be yours from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. It is with great joy that I welcome you to the third month of this year, the month of March 2026. My prayer is that God will set right anything that is not in line with His will in your life, so that the manifestations of His blessings in your life will no longer be hindered. Amen.

Now I offered that prayer for you because there are times that the reason certain blessings of God are not manifesting in our lives is that some things are wrong in our lives and need to be taken care of. And we may not even be paying attention to these wrong things, so that we can trust God to take care of them for us. Instead, our attention may be on what is wrong with the lives of others around us. And unless we turn our eyes away from what is wrong with other people to what is wrong with us, so that we may deal with them, the manifestation of some blessings of God will continue to elude us.

Remember that our Lord Jesus says this to us:“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” (Matt 7:3-5NIV)

Did you see that? We can be busy analysing the problems in the lives of others while we fail to first deal with the problems in our own lives, which are more likely bigger. And that is hypocrisy. It is hypocrisy because unless we first deal with the big problems in our own lives, we cannot help others deal with the small problems in their lives.

So, instead of wasting your time considering all that is wrong in the lives of others around you, begin to talk to God about those things that you can see to be wrong in your own life. And as you do this, His mercy will flow abundantly to you for your restoration.For example, when David and his people were running away from Absalom, a man called Shimei began to curse and to stone him and his officials. And when one of his soldiers asked for permission to go and cut of the man’s head, David rebuked him. Why? The reason was that Shimei was not the rebel that drove him out of his palace. It was his own son, Absalom, that drove him out. And Absalom was able to drive him out of the palace in that manner because he failed as a father. (Cf. 2Sam 16:5-13)

If there was anyone, then, that David needed to deal with at the time, it was he himself, not Shimei. And that was exactly what he did. He focussed all his attention at the time on reflecting on his errors as a father and praying to God for mercy. And did God answer him or not? He did.So, if we want God’s mercy and favour to work in our lives unhindered, our attention must first be on dealing with those things in our lives that are not in line with His will instead of on talking about what is wrong with the lives of others. And may the Spirit of God daily grant us all the strength we need to do this, so that none of the blessings meant for our lives will elude us again. Amen.Have a lovely March 2026.

From Pastor's Desk 2026 General Post Pastor's Desk

Title: The right attitude towards rebuke

Post author By Pastor J.O. Lawal
Post date February 21, 2026
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Series: From Pastor’s Desk

Number: Vol. 14, No. 43

Beloved: grace, mercy and peace be yours without measure from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. I am delighted to welcome you to the last week of this month, the month of February 2026. My prayer is that God will always keep your heart humble to receive His word, even if it is a word of rebuke, so that His purpose for your life may be fully realised. Amen.

One of the things that are difficult for us to receive from God is a word of rebuke. We often don’t find it hard to accept His word of blessing or praise. But when He decides to rebuke us, we may get angry with Him or with the people that He is using to rebuke us. And that will surely hinder the fulfilment of His purpose in our lives or expose us to judgment.

As we see in Scriptures, God does not rebuke us because He just delights in condemning us or our works. Rather, He rebukes us when we are wrong. And that is so that we may repent and not expose ourselves to His judgment. Our attitude towards His rebuke, then, is what will tell whether His word of rebuke will do our lives good or not.

For example, even though King Asa had been a godly king, when God rebuked him for putting his trust in men instead of in Him, he got angry. He was so angry with God that he put the prophet God had sent to him in jail and also oppressed some of the people of his land. Therefore, the word of rebuke sent to him could not do him any good and turn him away from the path of destruction. No wonder he died sick and before his time. (Cf. 2Chro 16)

But then, to one’s surprise, when God sent a word of rebuke through Prophet Elijah to King Ahab, that wicked king, he accepted it humbly. The word so humbled him that he tore his clothes, fasted and went around meekly. So, instead for God to judge him immediately, He postponed the judgment to the time of his son. (Cf. 1Kings 21)

Now you can see that you can be known as a righteous person and yet have a bad attitude towards rebuke. Yet someone that is known for being wicked or useless may have a good attitude towards it. And where this is the case, that so-called bad person will experience the mercy of God for forgiveness and preservation.

But you, with your so-called righteousness, will miss out on His goodness because of your stubbornness and bad attitude towards His word of rebuke.So, anytime you are being rebuked by God for doing what is wrong or inappropriate, accept it with meekness. Don’t argue. Don’t try to justify yourself. Yes, the person God is using to rebuke you may be harsh. Yet accept the word of rebuke coming to you, as long as it is the truth. And even though you think that you have been misrepresented, still be meek enough to first listen to any word of rebuke coming to you before explaining yourself.

That way, you will not present yourself as stubborn and expose yourself to God’s judgment.Remember that you don’t know everything. None of us knows everything. Only God does. And if He will be able to perfect His purpose in our lives, we must have the right attitude towards rebuke. Otherwise, we may end up like King Asa. May that not be our lot in life, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Have a lovely week.

From Pastor's Desk 2026 Pastor's Desk

Title: When God left him to test him

Post author By Pastor J.O. Lawal
Post date February 14, 2026

Series: From Pastor’s Desk

Number: Vol. 14, No. 42

Beloved: grace, mercy and peace be yours without measure from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. I am pleased to welcome you to another week of the month of February 2026.

My prayer is that God will readily fill your heart with sufficient wisdom and humility to always make choices that will please Him and that will not put you and others in your life in trouble. Amen.As we know through the bible, King Hezekiah was one of the few kings of Judah that served God faithfully and wholeheartedly. So, God blessed him greatly and also granted him rest from all his enemies.

Nevertheless, this is what is written in the bible about how God tested him towards the end of his reign:“But when envoys were sent by the rulers of Babylon to ask him about the miraculous sign that had occurred in the land, God left him to test him and to know everything that was in his heart.” (2Chronicles 32:31NIV) Why would God leave Hezekiah to test him and to know all that was in his heart? Did God really need to test him in order to know what was in his heart? No! God already knew what was in his heart. So, the test was not for God to know what was in his heart but for him to know what was in his own heart.Now how did God test him? He tested him by letting him make a certain decision on his own.

As the account goes, after God had healed him and given him fifteen additional years, some envoys came from Babylon to greet him. And without consulting God at all about how to relate to those envoys, he showed them all his greatness and wealth, everything in his palace and in his kingdom. (Cf. 2Kings 20:12-19)

Why did he do that? A desire for the praise of men! A desire to show off! And what led him to want to show off on that occasion? Pride! So, pride was in Hezekiah all along. But it did not show until God let him decide on his own how he would handle the envoys from Babylon. And it was after he had satisfied himself that God send Prophet Isaiah to him to tell him the consequences of his pride. God told him that he would lose everything he had shown the Babylonians, including some of his own descendants, to them after his death.

What a shame!Now what is this teaching us? It is that one of the ways God reveals the hidden evil in people’s hearts to them is by letting them make certain decisions on their own. Therefore, we must learn to pray that God will never leave us to make any decisions, great or small, on our own, without giving us His wisdom. That way, we will never make any decision that will ruin our lives or the lives of those that we love.

Have a lovely week.

From Pastor's Desk 2025 FROM PASTOR’S DESK 2025 Pastor's Desk

Title: Don’t give up

Post author By Pastor J.O. Lawal
Post date January 31, 2026

Series: From Pastor’s Desk
Number: Vol. 14, No. 40,

Beloved: grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. It is with great delight that I welcome you to the first week of the month of February 2026. My prayer is that God will restore your life wherever you need restoration in the month, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Now one of the ways to experience restoration from the hands of God is not to give up, regardless of what we are faced with in life. The bible says, “For though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity.” (Prov 24:16NIV) Did you see that? Even though a righteous person experiences failure in series in life, he will rise again. Why is he able to rise again? The reason is that he does not give up on himself or on God.

Sadly, it is not every righteous person or child of God that we can say this about. Some only fell once and never rose again. Why? They gave up. For instance, after the fall of Samson, God gave him another chance to experience restoration. How? He made the hair on his head, which was the symbol of His call and power in his life, to grow again. (Cf. Judges 16:21-22)

But did he make the most of this opportunity for restoration? No! Instead, he used to opportunity for revenge. He prayed to God to restore his strength once more so that he could get revenge on his enemies for his eyes that they had removed. In fact, he told God to let him die with his enemies in the process. And did God answer him or not? He did. He gave him what he asked for. So, that same day, he killed more of his enemies in death than when he was alive. (Cf. Judges 16:23-30)

Now was that how God wanted things to end for Samson? No! Did God make his hair grow again so that he could die with the Philistines? No! Why, then, did He make the hair on his head grow again? He made it grow again so that he may have an opportunity to have his life and ministry restored. So, instead of asking God to let him die with his enemies, he could have asked Him to show him mercy, give him new eyes and restore his ministry to him. And would He have answered him, if he had done that? I believe He would have answered him.

As we see in the bible, there was a time that he prayed to God for water in his dying moment and He answered him. He made water come out of the ground for him to drink. And that water became a spring that other people began to enjoy from the time on. So, if he had asked God for new eyes, He would have answered him or shown him how to live and fulfil His ministry even without eyes. (Cf. Judges 15:18-19)

But Samson did not ask God to restore him in that manner. Instead, he asked for death. And that was because he had given up on living to be all that God wanted him to be. If we too, like him, give up on becoming what God wants us to be in life because of the challenges we are faced with or because of some failures we have experienced, we will be shutting the door of God’s restoration against ourselves. That way, His good purpose for our lives will never be fulfilled.

So, don’t give on life or on God for any reason. Instead, always remind yourself of the Scripture above that tells us that though a righteous person falls seven times, he will rise again. You too will rise again, regardless of what experience of fall or defeat you have had in life. Remember that the reason the woman with the issue of blood did not die in her condition was that she did not give up, even though she had been terribly exploited by the doctors attending to her (Mark 5:25-34). So, you too must not give up. And may you supplied with sufficient strength to never give up in life until all God’s good plans for you are fulfilled. Amen.

Happy February 2026.

From Pastor's Desk 2025 FROM PASTOR’S DESK 2025 Pastor's Desk

Title: Their peace

Series: From Pastor’s Desk

Number: Vol. 14, No. 39

Beloved: grace, mercy and peace be yours from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. I am pleased to welcome you to the last week of this month, the month January 2026.

My prayer is that the peace of God that surpasses all human understanding will always reign in your life, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Now one of the things that will cause the peace of God to rule in your life is to wholeheartedly accept the ministry of the leaders He has appointed over you in the church. On one occasion, when our Lord Jesus was sending His disciples out to preach, He said this to them:“When you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’ If a man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; if not, it will return to you. Stay in that house, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.” (Luke 10:5-7NIV)

What will cause the peace of servants of Christ to rest on those they are preaching to and praying for? The response of those people! And how are they to respond to them? They are to wholeheartedly welcome them and their ministry. How, then, do we show that we welcome someone and their ministry wholeheartedly? First, we do so by taking seriously the word of God that they are teaching us. If we will not take the word of God that they are teaching us seriously, then, we cannot say that we have embraced them and their ministry.

Second, we show that we welcome the servants Christ has sent to us by wholeheartedly saying ‘Amen’ to their prayers. As Jesus shows us in that bible text, the word of prayer of His servants will not automatically work in our lives, just because they are praying for us. Their word of prayer will work for us only as we wholeheartedly believe it and say ‘Amen’ to it. Otherwise, their peace, the peace that accompanies their prayers for us will not settle on our lives.

Therefore, if you can see that the prayers of your church leaders have not been working for you at all or enough, it may just be that your heart is not right with them. Talk to yourself, then, and let your heart be right to always receive their peace, the peace that accompanies their ministry.

Otherwise, you should find another church to start attending.The third way to show that we accept the servants the Lord Jesus has sent to us is by supporting them with our material things. As we see in the bible text above, Jesus describes anyone who feeds and houses His servants as a person of peace.

So, it is not only by saying ‘Amen’ to the prayers of our church leaders that we can cause the peace of God that they are proclaiming to rest on our lives. We can also make it rest on our lives by taking care of them. And where are doing this, even the prayers they offer for us quietly and secretly will locate us and work for our good.Now no one can tell to what extent our attitude towards the servants of Christ sent to us will affect our peace and prosperity in life. Read about the Shunammite woman that took care of Elisha and how doing so helped her family (2Kings 4&8).

That will give you some insight into how the peace of God that His servants are communicating to us through their ministries can change the stories of our lives forever. My prayer is that God will strengthen your heart to begin to take this matter seriously, so that none of the good things He wants you to have in life will elude you, in Jesus’ name. Amen.Have a lovely day.

From Pastor's Desk 2025 FROM PASTOR’S DESK 2025 Pastor's Desk

Title: The nobles of Tekoa

Post author By Pastor J.O. Lawal
Post date January 17, 2026

Series: From Pastor’s Desk

Number: Vol. 14, No. 38

Beloved: grace, mercy and peace be yours from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to another week of this month, the month of January 2026.

My prayer is that God will rid your life of everything that is preventing you from being useful to Him, so that you will not lose your place or reward in His kingdom. Amen.As we see in the bible, God stirred up a man called Nehemiah at a certain period to lead the people of Judah in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. And when he spoke to the people about it, they all began to work, everyone doing the work where it was closest to him. Why? The reason was that it was to their advantage – it was for the benefit of all the people of Judah. (Cf. Neh 2&3)

However, there were certain individuals that would not join in the work. Look at what is said about them: “The next section was repaired by the men of Tekoa, but their nobles would not put their shoulders to the work under their supervisors.” (Neh 3:5NIV)Why would the nobles of Tekoa not join in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem? We are not given any answer to this in the account. It may be pride that was responsible. Or it may be that they too were benefiting from the situation of those walls, profiting from the misery of their own people. We would not know exactly why.

Nevertheless, the walls of Jerusalem were rebuilt and completed in record time, in fifty-two days (Neh 6:15). Those walls were completed in spite of the opposition of the enemies of the people of Judah. Yes, they were completed without the contribution of the nobles of Tekoa. But it will forever be on record that when the people of God were working to rebuild the walls of the city of God, Jerusalem, and end the disgrace they were experiencing, the nobles of Tekoa did not participate.Now what do we learn from this? It is simply that whether one joins other people of God, especially those of his local assembly, in doing the work of God or not, His work will be done.

Truly, you may have all kinds of reasons or excuses for not doing your own part of God’s work. His work will be done, regardless. But it will be on record that you did not show up when others were doing it.Will God, then, reward you for what you have not done for Him? No! So, throw away all the excuses you are making for not taking your place in doing God’s work and start doing His work wholeheartedly. And may you be equipped by Him with everything you need to do His work in such a way as to be rewarded by Him. Amen.Have a lovely week.