Sunday Mornings

Luke 15:11-32 Thank God for the insights that He has graciously granted us in the journey through this parable. Specifically, we have seen the LORD mirror our lives through this parable that we know so well as if to say to us that we may think we know the story so well, yet we scarcely understand the blueprints. Today God will be taking us further in the study. As we come towards the end of the story, we see the hallmark of it all. We will be discussing about the Father in today’s episode. Every lost soul needs a savior. The story of our salvation is not complete without the cross, and I see all that being illustrated in this story in order to make it wholesome. God bless us as we study together. Amen. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion on him, and ran and kissed him: Let us bear in mind that Jesus was using human illustrations to bring home a message through parables. It is very important to note that he was still a great way off; a...

Luke 15:11-32 Often times when going through scriptures, this story to be more specific, we only appreciate it as an interesting tale-a story about a bad son, with whom we have very little to do. We see him as a rather irresponsible fellow. But then it is not the custom of God to be careless in His Word. Why would God be confronting us with a story that we know too well if not that He wants you to see yourself in the picture. We are not going through this study to raise sympathy over the lost, neither are we going to have a sign of relief after a happy ending, but to see similarities with our daily experiences. The parables that Jesus told were not bed time stories; they were not to entertain, but to educate. And not to educate us about others, but to cut to the core of our own being; to teach us about our relationship with God. We will therefore be continuing from where we felt we could put a comma and make some deliberate actions on issues that God was beginning to raise from th...

Luke 15:11-32 Just as a form of introduction, the story we caption The Prodigal Son was a story Jesus told when the Pharisees saw him eating with sinners (vs 1&2). Before this story, he talked about the joy a shepherd gets when he goes out of his way to seek for and find a lost sheep, notwithstanding the rest 99 sheep; he also talked of the joy a person gets when he searches for and finds a lost coin, notwithstanding the rest 9 coins. It is in the light of this joy and feast in heaven at the return of a lost soul that Jesus spake this parable. This parable however was more elaborate than the first two. I sense Jesus was deliberate and by the grace of God, He will be revealing to us what indeed He was passing to us as we study scriptures together. A certain man had two sons: The first thing I sense in my spirit that Jesus was trying to teach here is of two sons of a father. Many times when we come across this scripture, we are carried away by the life and times of the son...

Ephesians 6: 10 - 18 10-12  And that about wraps it up. God is strong, and he wants you strong. So take everything the Master has set out for you, well-made weapons of the best materials. And put them to use so you will be able to stand up to everything the Devil throws your way. This is no afternoon athletic contest that we’ll walk away from and forget about in a couple of hours. This is for keeps, a life-or-death fight to the finish against the Devil and all his angels. 13-18  Be prepared. You’re up against far more than you can handle on your own. Take all the help you can get, every weapon God has issued, so that when it’s all over but the shouting you’ll still be on your feet. Truth, righteousness, peace, faith, and salvation are more than words. Learn how to apply them. You’ll need them throughout your life. God’s Word is an  indispensable  weapon. In the same way, prayer is essential in this ongoing warfare. Pray hard ...

“But why do you call Me “LORD, LORD,” and not do the things which I say? Whoever comes to Me and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundations on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock. But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great.” Luke 6:46-49 Sequel to the recent publications on the issues of the heart, where the LORD was bringing to our understanding some intrinsic features in a man’s life that would hinder the Word of God from taking root in his life and making him the fruit bearing tree that the Master desires of such a life, there is another perspective the Spirit of God would love us to view our daily living with our interaction w...

A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed…some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. Now the parable is this: the seed is the Word of God. And they which fell among thorns are they which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection (Luke 8:5, 7, 11, 14). Still on the issues of the heart-which is very fundamental in God’s dealings with a man because he is more interested in the state of the heart and the intent to the physical appearances that are visible to men (I Sam 16:7), there is another pathetic heart condition that is painted in the parable of the sower. As earlier mentioned in the last edition, the entangled heart has a form of godliness that is deceptive but not acceptable in the eyes of the LORD. God will be revealing to us the intrinsic characteristics of the entangled heart with this article. Amen. The heart is fertile but not clear or free he...

A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed…some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. Now the parable is this: the seed is the Word of God. They on the rock are they which when they hear, receive the Word with joy; and these have no root which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. (Luke 8:5, 6, 11, 13) We are believing God to deliver us from the superficial syndrome that has long cut short our dealings with God. The case study today is of a very pathetic category of people. Reading the whole parable of the sower many will claim that they are not on the wayside , and they will quickly identify with the very few (emphasis mine and deliberately chosen, Matthew 7:14) people with a fertile heart. However a careful study will show you that the other two heart conditions in the parable are deceptive and God has to help us to discover in time that while we think that our hearts are fertile, they may ...