Sunday Mornings

Yet I have reserved 7,000 in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him. I Kings 19:18 A couple of weeks ago, over 2.2 billion Christians celebrated the death and resurrection of Jesus in what is called Easter. That is a staggering 1/3 of the world population. Today we have the most number of people identifying with the body of Christ than any other generation. But the world is still in a mess. Corruption everywhere. Immorality is the order of the day. What could be the problem? I enjoin you to follow me through scriptures to see what God has to say about it. Elijah lived in a day as corrupt as ours. The temple of God was deserted and turned to a temple for idol worship. Everything was upside down. The evil of the day was beginning right from the palace to the populace. This made Elijah seemingly uncomfortable and he confronted the evil in his generation. He had just finished showing how powerful YHWH is by bringing fire down from heaven...

They even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on stretchers and bedrolls, hoping they would be touched by Peter’s shadow when he walked by. They came from the villages surrounding Jerusalem, throngs of them, bringing the sick and bedeviled. And they all were healed.  Acts 5: 15-16 (MSG) Surprisingly, the people were not instructed by the Apostles to lay the sick people by the road side. They just had a conviction that there was something in Peter that even his shadow could heal the sick. They had so much trust because they had seen the manifestation of the power of God through peter in the past. Going back, in Chapter 3, God’s power was demonstrated through Peter and John when a lame man was healed.  This singular act got attracted people to Solomon’s Porch where Peter made it clear that it wasn’t by their own power. Acts 3:12 (NIV) When Peter saw this, he said to them: “Fellow Israelites, why does this surprise you? Why do you stare at us as if by ...