Sunday Mornings

“I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.” (Mathew 3:11) I’ve been going through the book of Mathew for a while now and you won’t believe what I saw. Well, you may have seen it before, but as for me, I had just seen this for the first time in my life. I sure had read this verse a couple of times in my lifetime, but I just never saw what I had just seen. This was what I saw, “…He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire”. The word that struck me was the ‘and’ between the Holy Spirit and Fire. Questions began to run through my mind like; Is the baptism of the Holy Spirit different from that of Fire? But Isn’t The Holy Spirit fire Himself? For days I looked upon this verse; I couldn’t forge ahead until I got light.  In the midst of my search, I fell ill; seriously ill that I couldn’t do anything, not even to pray or...

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. (Heb 4:16) God is constant. If anyone is variable, then it’s us.  God always plays His part. What is left is that we play ours. Help is always made available. It is we that determine whether or not we get access to it. For one to access the help of God, God must have shown that person mercy. So when we say that we’ve been helped by God, it’s because God has shown us His mercy; for in God’s mercy lies help. Mercy has been made available but one must come to the throne to obtain it. The problem is never from the help that is made available but from men that have failed to access that help. There is a criteria however, which men must observe to access God’s help; 1. Recognizing where your help comes from. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (Matt 5:3). These are men that are sentenced to a lifetime of neediness and dependency...