“Happy Ascension Day!”

“Happy Ascension Day!”(Eph.1:20-23).The reason why some people join esoteric fraternities is the belief that through such fraternities they can possess supernatural powers. There is no doubt that such powets exist.In African worldview there is the physical realm and the spiritual realm which is the realm of powers. Only a thin line seperates the spiritual from […]

“May Your Prayer Go Up To God Like Incense!”

“May Your Prayer Go Up To God Like Incense!”(Rev.8:1-4).“…The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, went up before God from the angel’s hand.”What catches our attention in this verse are incense, prayers and angel. These three also feature in Luke. Zechariah was inside the temple burning incense when the angel […]

“Pray In The Spirit On All Occasions…!”

“Pray In The Spirit On All Occasions…!”(Eph.6:18-20).We live in a spirited universe. The best that we are or can be as humans are not merely through our frail human prowess. At our best we are puppets whose strings are held in the spiritual realm.Contending forces of evil wants to regain paradise lost and we become […]

“Watch And Pray…!”

“Watch And Pray…!”(Mt.26:36-44).In the 1950s Paul Roberts wrote an essay on writing tips for first-year college students captioned, “How to say nothing in 500 words.” The essay has been recommended by some writers to be included in the toolkit of writers. We think it can also serve as a useful guide against long prayers that […]

“On Prayer: Keep It Short And Simple (KISS)!”

“On Prayer: Keep It Short And Simple(KISS). (Rom.8:24-30).“Speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts.”(Maurice deTalleyrand). This is to say no matter the degree of eloquence and length of a man’s speech, what lies within cannot be unravelled.We are told that the world came into existence through God’s spoken word. However we cannot determine […]