Category: Pastor’s Desk

Series: From Pastor’s Desk

Number: Vol. 14, No. 51

Beloved: grace, mercy and peace be yours from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. I am pleased to welcome you to another week of the month of April 2026. I pray that God will keep you from being a victim of His judgment on any of the people in your life or around you. Amen.

Now I offered that prayer for you because it is not every time that people experience God’s judgment because they themselves are evil. There are times that people experience God’s judgment because they fail to use their authority to judge the evil being done by those under their watch. For example, God said this to Samuel about Eli the priest: “For I told him that I would judge his family forever because of the sin he knew about; his sons made themselves contemptible, and he failed to restrain them.” (1 Sam 3:13NIV)

Why was God going to judge the house of Eli? Was it because the man was wicked? No! Or was it simply because his sons were wicked? No! The reason God was going to judge his house was that he failed to restrain his sons, even though he was well aware of their sins.If Eli had not been aware of the sins of his children, God would not have held him responsible for them.

Also, if Eli had not been in a position to restrain his children, so that they would no longer be able to freely sin against God, He would not have held him responsible for their sins. But not only was he aware of their sins, he was also in a position to judge and restrain them. Yet he failed to do so. Therefore, God told him that He would judge his family for the sins of the young men.

Now why did God tell him about His coming judgment ahead of time? It was so that he would urgently do the needful. But did he do the needful? No, he did not. Instead, his response was that God was free to do whatever was good in His sight about the matter. In other words, as far as he was concerned, he was not going to stress himself again about what his sons were doing. (Cf. 1Sam 3:18)

What, in any case, is this teaching us? It is that when God places people under our authority, He does not expect us to allow them to do as they please. Instead, He expects us to use our authority to set them right, if they should be messing up. Otherwise, we will be committing the sin of Eli. That being the case, anytime God steps in to judge the wickedness we have refused to judge, we too are sure to partake in His judgment, unless we are shown mercy. And who knows how He will judge?Therefore, don’t be like Eli that refused to act on God’s warning to judge his sons because he was tired of their mess.

Instead, begin to use your authority to set things right wherever you have the authority to do so. That way, you can keep yourself from partaking in the judgment of the disobedient.Then don’t get upset when those who have authority over you will not allow you to carry on with any kind of nonsense under their watch. That is because they are doing the will of God. Not only that, by now allowing you to misbehave under their watch, they are protecting you from God’s judgment. So, you should really be thanking them for being responsible leaders. Otherwise, you may just get yourself wounded through God’s judgment, if you fail to accept correction. I pray that such will not be your lot, in Jesus’ name. Amen.Have a lovely week.

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Series: From Pastor’s Desk

Number: Vol. 14, No. 50

Beloved: grace, mercy and peace be yours without measure 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 April 2026.

My prayer is that God will use every situation of your life, however ugly it may seem, to accomplish His good purpose in your life, in Jesus’ name. Amen.Now why did I offer that prayer for you? It is because I know that life is not fair. Look, for example, at what Solomon says about it:“I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.” (Eccl 9:11NIV)

Did you see that? Life will not readily work for the good of anybody, regardless of the greatness of the person’s abilities. That is why we have many people with great abilities living miserable lives. The abilities that are supposed to be an advantage to them in life have not been of any serious help to them. Those abilities may even be working against them.Why? The reason is that life is not fair. Life will not just give you prosperity or peace of mind because of your abilities, relationships or hard work. You just have to be in the right place, at the right time and doing the right thing.

Otherwise, all the abilities, wisdom, education and opportunities you have may just go to waste.How, then, can you put yourself in the right place, at the right time and doing the right thing? It is by entrusting yourself to the author of life. If you will entrust yourself to the author of life, He is able to teach you what is best for you and also guide you in the way you should go. (Cf. Is 48:17)

But will you do that? Will you entrust yourself to God, the author of life, so that He can guide you in the way you should go in life and establish you in righteousness, peace and prosperity? If you will do so, He will surely cause all the situations of your life to work together for your good. Therefore, even though life is not fair to you, it will not be able to stop you from being all that you are meant to be here on earth. Remember that even though life was not fair to Joseph, he still became the person he was meant to be in life. That was because he entrusted himself to God.

So, stop complaining that life is not being fair to you. You just have to handle life as it presents itself to you, regardless of what colour it has painted itself with. Yes, you just have to win in life, however unfair things may be to you. And the only way to do that, as I said before, is for you to entrust yourself to God. Entrust yourself, then, to Him. And you will surely stand victorious, when all has been said and done.

Have a pleasant week.

Series: From Pastor’s Desk

Number: Vol. 14, No. 49

Beloved: grace, mercy and peace be yours without measure from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to another month of the year, the month of April 2026. My prayer is that God will perfect all that concerns you in the month and grant you rest on all sides. Amen.

As you know, today is the day that most Christians all over the world are celebrating the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. And while there are Christians that do not see any need for this, especially since our Lord Jesus has not commanded us to do so, nothing can be said to be wrong with it. What I am saying is that nothing is wrong with setting aside a day to celebrate Easter and tell the whole world about what Jesus did for the salvation of humanity.

However, in celebrating Easter, we must not give ourselves to doing those things that the Lord came to save us from. In other words, our celebration should not result in drunkenness, wild parties or sexual immorality. Rather, it should first all be a celebration of thanksgiving to God for showing us mercy and sending Jesus to redeem us.Second, our celebration should lead us to remind ourselves of what the resurrection of Jesus Christ accomplished for us. As we see in the bible, it is because of His resurrection that we now stand justified before God. Also, it is because of His resurrection that we are now new creations and righteous people before Him. Then it is because of His resurrection that we now have dominion over Satan, sin and the world. (Cf. Rom 4:25; 2Cor 5:17-21)

Therefore, what will make our celebration of Easter meaningful is that we are walking in the consciousness of these things. If we are not walking in their consciousness, our celebration of Easter is meaningless. We will just be showing that what He did for us was a waste.Now my prayer is that what Jesus did for you and me through His death, burial and resurrection will never be a waste. But we too must continually ponder on what He did for us, so that we can daily take advantage of it to be the people God wants us to be. I welcome you once again to this new month and pray that you will enjoy the full benefits of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus in your life in the month. Amen.Happy Easter.

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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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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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