Strengthen thy brethren
But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brethren. Luke 22:32- Sin can make our faith to fail, especially when we never expect that we can fall into such a sin; this may eventually lead to backsliding. This is because one may loose confidence in himself and in God. A person who falls into a sin that he or she has never committed such as adultery or denial as was the case of Peter, that person may not recover if the person is overcome by guilt. Worse still is the person that falls into a sin, and continues thereby, not knowing how to get out of it. For example, a man or woman that falls into the sin of adultery and gets entrapped in it. That man or woman may loose all his/her self confidence and his/her faith in being able to serve God in holiness and righteousness. Such persons may begin to run away from God because they think that God is displeased with them or that God may not be able help them again. Peter went back to fishing. Some people may return to their old ways of life thinking that God can no longer redeem them. A man who desires to live a holy life, and finds himself struggling continuously with a particular sin also has the tendency of loosing faith in the ability of God to deliver him/her from such sin. Our Lord Jesus knew this, that was why He had to pray for Peter Himself, and went the extra mile of recalling Peter from his fishing ministry to the ministry of the word. Our Lord told Peter, ‘when you are converted, strengthen your brethren’. We are to ensure that we strengthen our brethren who are taken in a fault rather than despising them. If God delivers us from a particular sin, we have the responsibility of ministering the same grace unto others that might be overtaken by such sin or any other form of sin. Our duty as children of God is to strengthen our brethren. If we do this, we would have saved a life, and God will be very glad. James 5:20.
Hope
HOPE Hope is a word not often used in the Christian faith like its counterparts, Love and Faith. Meanwhile the Christian faith is also centered on hope. We may need to look at ‘hope’ here with the eyes of perseverance. Pernam Percy Paul sang a song which says ‘don’t give up, its not over; when you give up that’s when it is over; hold unto the Lord and trouble not your heart; even when you fail it is not over’. Read the rest of this entry »
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
When you use excuses, you give up your power to change and improve. You can fall down many times, but you won’t be a failure until you say that someone else pushed you.
John Mason.
Quote of the Week
There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh on him can have no hope from them afterwards; for they will dissipate, lost, and perished in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. JOHN BURROUGHS
Quote of the week
Look at the stone cutter, hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
JACOB RIIS
quotable quotes
excellence can be attained if you…….
Care more than others think is wise,
Risk more than others think is safe,
Dream more than others think is practical,
Excpect more than others think is possible.
quotable quotes
Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Youths
The question is often asked, who is a youth? At times men of 50 still want themselves to be categorized as youth. If men of 50 are youths, then when will they be elders? However, it doesn’t matter whether you call yourself a youth or an elder, what matters is that you get blessed by this article. Read the rest of this entry »
Work Place Evangelism
Evangelism at the work place may be the most difficult, yet the fastest way of reaching out to your colleagues, superiors and subordinates. It is difficult because you may not want to offend your boss, or you may not want to be seen as a fanatic; or you may not want to mix religion with your job. Read the rest of this entry »
Fruit of the Holy Spirit
Galatians 5:16 - 26
The bible makes us understand that fresh water and salt water cannot flow from the same spring James 3:11, so also would not the fruit of the Spirit and the fruit of the flesh co-habit. We are either living by the Spirit or by the flesh. Read the rest of this entry »