Category: From Pastor’s Desk 2026

Series: From Pastor’s Desk
Number: Vol. 15, No. 5

Beloved: grace, mercy and peace be yours from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. I am delighted to welcome you to this new week, which will be the first week in the month of June 2026. I pray that God will keep your heart faithful to Him to the very end, so that you will not lose whatever reward that ought to be yours for serving Him, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

As we see in the bible, it is possible for those who claim to be serving God not to serve Him wholeheartedly. And where that is the case, they may lose their soul or lose the reward of their service. It all depends on the nature or degree of their unfaithfulness in their service to Him.

For example, this is what is said in the bible about a king of Judah:

“Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddin; she was from Jerusalem. He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.” (2 Chron 25:1-2NIV)

Did you see that? King Amaziah did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not wholeheartedly. How was that so? Well, as we see in the account of his reign that we have in the bible, Amaziah started out in obedience to God. He even obeyed God when it was not convenient for him to do so. (Cf. 2 Chro 25:1-12)

However, after he had defeated the Edomites in a battle, he brought back their gods to the land of Judah and began to worship them. Why would he do that? What exactly was he thinking? As we learn from the account, before he went to fight the Edomites, God had sent him a prophet to tell him what he needed to do to be victorious. And when he did it, he was victorious indeed. Why, then, would he turn his back on God?

Besides, common sense ought to have told him that choosing the gods of the Edomites as his gods was a stupid thing to do. That was because those gods could not save the Edomites themselves from his hands. Why, then, did he think they were the right gods for him to begin to worship?

Well, to say the fact, the problem with Amaziah was that he never really had a true revelation of the living God, the God of his ancestors. To him, He was just a God that he had inherited from his forefathers. So, he was not serving Him because he truly believed in Him. Rather, he was serving Him because that was what the people that raised him told him to be doing.

But after defeating the Edomites, he somehow began to feel that it was his power that made him defeat them and not God. Therefore, he concluded that it was time for him to choose his own gods. And from that time on, he began to make mistakes until he destroyed himself. (Cf. 2 Chro 25:14-28)

What is the point of this story? It is that we need to truly know God in order to serve Him wholeheartedly. Yes, we may have been born into Christian homes. That, however, does not mean that we already know God and Jesus Christ as we ought to know them. What we know about them may just be what we have inherited from our parents or what the people around us have passed on to us. And where that is the case, a time may come when that knowledge may not be adequate to keep us faithful to God. Then we may begin to misbehave and do things that will make us lose our souls or whatever rewards that could have been ours for serving Him.

Therefore, you need to be sure that your worship of God is born out of a personal conviction that He is God indeed. And you need to be sure that your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is born out of a personal conviction that He is Lord indeed. Otherwise, your so-called faith in Him may just be a lie after all. My prayer is that such will not be the case with you, when all has been said and done. Amen.

Do have a lovely week.

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Series: From Pastor’s Desk

Number: Vol. 15, No. 4

Beloved: grace, mercy and love 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 May 2026. My prayer is that God will daily strengthen you to be fully committed to serving Him, so that other children of His can be encouraged to serve Him as well on account of you. Amen.

As we see in the bible, we can inspire the people of God around us to be devoted to serving Him through our faithfulness and endurance in doing His work. For instance, Paul, in his letter to the Philippians, speaks of how many people of God were encouraged to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ boldly through his devotion and endurance in preaching it, even to the point of being imprisoned because of it. (Cf. Phili 1:12-14)

So, if we are truly devoted to serving God, we may not be able to tell the degree to which it will encourage others around us to serve Him. I once heard of what a pastor did when he heard that another pastor single-handedly sponsored an evangelistic crusade. And what did he do? First, he took a huge sum of money and gave it to the pastor to appreciate him for sponsoring that crusade. Then he told him that he was giving him that money with a heart of prayer that God would enable him to also be able to do something similar someday.

Now did the pastor that sponsored the crusade know that what he did would inspire someone in that manner? No! He just did what he did because it was the will of God for him to do so. And by doing so, another person was encouraged to serve God more faithfully.But then, it is also possible for someone to see what another person is doing for God and be angry with the person or jealous of the person, instead of being encouraged to also serve God faithfully. As we see in the bible, the religious leaders of the Jews were jealous of Jesus because of what He was doing for the kingdom of God, instead of being inspired by His works to serve God faithfully themselves. So, they ended up killing Him. (Cf. Matt 27:18)

Also, we see that the Jews in a place called Pisidian Antioch were jealous of Paul and Barnabas when they saw what they were doing for the kingdom of God and how the gentiles were responding to it. Why were they jealous of them? They were jealous because even though they too had the word of God with them, they were not proclaiming it in truth to the gentiles. On the contrary, in most cases, they were simply treating those gentiles as unclean and undeserving of the grace of God.

But when Paul and Barnabas came to the place and began to do what they would not do and saw the impact their work was making on the gentiles, they became jealous and started insulting them and discrediting their message. Eventually, they drove them out of the place, when they realized that they could not stop the good work God was doing through them. (Cf. Acts 13:13-52)

What is this telling us? It is that if we will not devote ourselves to serving God or allow the good things others around us are doing for His kingdom to encourage us to serve Him well, anger and jealousy may take over our hearts. And where that is the case, instead for God to be able to use us as He is using others, Satan will be the one using us. Then we will find ourselves destroying the very work of God that we are supposed to be doing. And the kind of judgment this may bring on us may be unspeakable.S

o, if you don’t want jealousy to take over your heart and render you useless in God’s kingdom, be sure to devote yourself to serving Him in whatever way you can. And if you see others serving Him better than you are, be encouraged to learn from them so that you too can begin to do better in your service to Him. That way, you can be endowed with more grace from Him to increase in usefulness.

Have a splendid week.

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Series: From Pastor’s Desk

Number: Vol. 15, No. 2

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 May 2026. I pray that God will protect you this week and throughout the remaining part of the year from wicked and unreasonable people wherever you turn, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Paul, in his second letter to the Thessalonians, says this: “…and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for not all have faith.” (2 Thess 3:2NKJV)

What are we to pray for? We are to pray that God will deliver us from wicked and unreasonable people. That means there are in the world people that are wicked and unreasonable. And such people are willing to take any step to harm anyone that offends them, even if it is no offence at all.

Also, such people hardly listen to pleas from anyone. Once they are bent on harming someone, they will surely do so, even if it is going to take them their entire lifetime or all their money. Therefore, unless God protects us against them, we will not be safe from their wickedness. For instance, a man called Haman was willing to kill Mordecai and all the Jews under the rule of King Xerxes because Mordecai was disrespectful to him. But Mordecai was just one person. Why, then, did Haman have to kill all the Jews because of him? The reason was that he was wicked and unreasonable. And if Mordecai and his people had not prayed for God’s intervention, many of them would have lost their lives because of Haman’s ruthlessness. (Cf. Esther 3-9)

What about King Herod? This man sent his soldiers to kill all the babies that were two years old and under in Bethlehem, jut to get rid of Jesus Christ when he was a baby. Why? He did not want Him to grow up to become the king of the Jews. And since he did not know who baby Jesus was, he decided to kill all the babies in Bethlehem, where Jesus had been born, that were about His age. If God, then, had not intervened in the matter, Jesus would have been killed before He had a chance to do what God had sent him to do here on earth. (Cf. Matt 2:1-18)

What is my point? It is that wicked and unreasonable people like Haman and Herod are still very much present in the world and around us. And Satan may move them anytime and for any reason to attack us. But God can protect us against them. We, however, should not wait until we are faced with threats from any of them before we learn to pray for God’s protection from them. Otherwise, we may have suffered from their hands before we have any chance to pray. So, learn to pray everyday that God will keep you and all that is yours safe all the time from all the wicked and unreasonable people around you. And it shall be so, in Jesus’ name. Amen.Have a lovely week.

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Series: From Pastor’s Desk
Number: Vol. 15, No. 1

Beloved: grace, mercy and peace be yours from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. It is with great delight that I welcome you to the fifth month of this year, the month of May 2026. My prayer is that God will always keep you from doing anything that will grieve Him and make Him change His mind about fulfilling His plans for your life, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Now I offered that prayer for you because it is possible for us to grieve God. Yes, it is possible for us to cause Him sorrow through the way we live and through our attitude towards His word. And that is because He loves us. It is only those that we love and care about that can grieve us or make us sorrowful. Those that we don’t love cannot grieve us, regardless of how badly they behave towards us. In fact, we will most likely not allow someone that we don’t love to do anything that will make us sorrowful.

But when someone that we love and cherish begins to treat us with disrespect, we will not be happy at all. And if the person continues to make us unhappy like that, we may just change our minds about them and withdraw our love from them. Then they will no longer be able to enjoy their relationship with us the way they used to.

In like manner, because God loves us, we can grieve Him. And if we should make grieving Him a culture, a time may come when He will change His mind about us and about His plans for us. How, then, are we not going to waste or ruin our lives, if that should happen?

For instance, this is said about why God removed King Saul from his place as ruler over the nation of Israel:

“Then the word of the LORD came to Samuel: “I am grieved that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions.” Samuel was troubled, and he cried out to the LORD all that night.” (1Sam 15:10-11NIV)

Did you see that? God was grieved that He made Saul king over Israel. Why? The reason was that the man made it a habit to disregard His commands. To make matters worse, he had no sense of remorse at all. He found it hard to genuinely repent whenever he was rebuked or corrected. So, God changed His mind about him and replaced him with another person.

Now did Saul feel remorseful, when God changed his mind about him, and seek His face for mercy? No, he did not. Instead, he just carried on acting as king, as though nothing had happened. So, he ended up ruining his life and making nonsense of whatever good thing he did as a king for the nation of Israel.

But then, as we see in the account, Samuel, who was not the one that was removed from his position, continued to mourn before God for this man. In fact, at some point, God had to tell him to stop mourning for Saul and go and anoint someone else in his place (1 Sam 16:1). And why was he mourning for Saul like that? It was because he understood the gravity of grieving God and the need for genuine repentance if we have done so. Otherwise, we may just end up wasting our lives and whatever grace we have received from God.

All of this is why we too are warned in the Scriptures in this way:

“And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.” (Eph 4:30NIV)

Did you see that? We must watch ourselves not to give ourselves to doing anything that will grieve the Spirit of God that is living in us. And if we have been grieving Him in any way, we should repent and seek His face for forgiveness without delay. Otherwise, like King Saul, we too may end up wasting all the love and grace He has showered on our lives. May that not be our lot, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Have a lovely May 2026.

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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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