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Salt And Light: A Call for Relevance in this World through Love

  Jesus calls Believers the Salt of the earth and the Light of the world in Matthew 5. When we ponder about this, we can realise a common effect that salt and light have: The ability to reveal taste and colour in the substances and spaces they permeate. Salt reveals taste in edible substances. Light also provides clarity in a situation or place. Salt is useful when it adds taste just as light is useful when it provides illumination for those who need it. So the focus of God’s administration of salt and light is not to bring attention to themselves, but to bring an awareness to the flavours obscured and unseen elements in this world. So Jesus calls us to preserve our saltiness and avoid putting a lit candle under a basket. He then tells us believers to let (permit, allow) our lights to so shine so men would see our good works and give glory to God.  Our influence of light brings illumination to the God-ordained good works we walk in and the evil works of darkness. Good works ex...
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POWER

  In this sermon at  Tehillah Generation Chapel , I discuss the dynamic of power that works to enable the Christian believer to firmly wield the truth of God as demonstrated in the Gospel. I discuss in a brief manner what power does in us and how we can stir Power to be effective witnesses in this world we find ourselves in. I hope it blesses you as it blessed me and those who heard it. NOTES I. Introduction  >Authority ( Exousia ) is activated on the call/commission to do/obedience: "Go ye therefore.." . Matthew 28:18-20 >Power ( Dunamis ) is activated on waiting & tarrying till you receive the potential. Acts 1:8 Authority has been given to the believer. And authority validates the use of power, however the demonstration of power authenticates the presence of Authority.  Mark 16:20 II. What Power does in you Power primarily takes us from inaction to action 1. Power makes us witnesses. Acts 1:8 2. Power makes us bold. Without Power we will remain cowards l...
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Endurance: Seeing the Unseen

  Endurance is a powerful tool in God's transformative process. So much that the Bible teaches us to permit it to have its fullest work in order that we lack nothing, thoroughly furnished for every good work.  However, we can truncate the work of Endurance. Esau did when he exchanged his birthright for food. Moses did when he struck the rock God asked to speak to in his anger. John the Baptist did when he began to question His insight on the Messiah when Christ did not seem to rescue him.  Endurance may not always lead to our desired outcome. In fact, it may rather bring us to our perception of disappointment. But, the key is that in every instance of Endurance, we must have an eternal perspective, His perspective of victory. Hebrews 12 said "... who for the joy set before him, endured the cross and despised the shame". Hebrews 11 said "Abraham endured as seeing Him who is unseen". In the parable of the sower, Jesus said persecution [the rising hot sun] arises b...
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Praying with Certainty

  For the first 20 minutes of this sermon video, I reflect on the sentiment of Ghanaians in the 2024 Elections. I give my personal admonition of what it will take to be a leader that serves the highest interests of the people and God. I share my summary notes on the Godly attributes of effective leadership, pulled from  my Instagram  page which I shared in July 2023. I recommend these few values for political leadership as well. After 20 minutes, during the main portions of this sermon I shared with  Tehillah Generation Chapel , I teach about Praying with Certainty in a way that guarantees answers ultimately consistent with the will of God. True Prayer will set God's vision for what has been provided and indicates what can be received. ,Job 38:33, Ephesians 1:3 You can receive nothing except given to you from heaven. John 3:27 We must be filled with the knowledge of God's will to ascertain what is accessible to is. Colossians 1:9 Once, the will of God is established...
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Seen & Heard (A Poetic Expression)

  It is said that humans have a deep desire to be seen & heard Paradoxically, we cover up our nakedness after we became dead So, is vulnerability a weakness or a strength? Because I struggle to live its full length I feel that my experience of betrayal makes it hard to trust  That when I open up to you, your sword will not thrust No matter how trivial, it is a great responsibility to see another bare Because, you never know when you are the last one to really care So, true love does not keep a record of wrong, it covers a multitude of sin God is the only one who truly has the ability to put its memory in a nonrecycle bin To truly love another, we must become like the One who personifies it Until then, we risk the insincerity of selfish love shred another to bits Knoweth the difference between the Pharisees & the few who came to Jesus? Some determined to be sincere about their religious excess Others were skeletons in a closet, Jesus called them whitewashed tombs I'm no...
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It is Okay to Be Human

  In this raw discussion starting at 1:55 in the audio, I teach about why it is okay to be a human being. We do not have a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our human infirmity. The Holy Spirit also bears with our weakness, because while we are unable to pray as we ought to, He makes intercession for us according to God's will. God, our Father tells us that just like a Mother's care will not cease towards her offspring, He will not forsake us. Man gets hungry, tired and is often laden with regular and often seemingly insurmountable desires. God in Christ Jesus understands how we feel and we get to learn how he traversed his humanity while on earth. We also learn from some old saints & the witness of scripture. The uncut baseline is "IT IS OKAY TO BE HUMAN!"
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Tithing: Mandatory or Voluntary?

    In this discussion with  N. K. Emmanuel  at the  Believers' Avenue , we talk about  Tithing , a topic that has more recently become an item of controversy as many battle the demands of the Old Testament Law against the Liberty of the New Covenant and its implications for the Believer today. Tithing in general was a practiced concept before the inception of the Old Covenant, the Law given by Moses. Thus, the practice isn't limited by the bounds of the Old Covenant Law. However, there's still an opportunity to the New Testament to avail their tithes as the scripture says in Hebrews 7:8, "... but there he receiveth them". Tithing generally as a New Testament practice is not a demand but rather an avenue to give in a special way that is cognisant of the Covenant of Promises we have received. Like many New Testament practices that stem prior to the advent of Christ, Tithing is one of those that God is not frowning upon, & neither has He forced it. G...
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