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PASTORS CORNER

Topic: Dealing With Obstacles of Growth One of the characteristics of a living thing is growth. The day a living thing stops growing it dies. Do you know that as human being you are growing as long as you are alive? Growth in human being and other living things is not limited to physical increase in height or weight. Cells keep growing in your body to replace the exhausted ones in order to keep you alive. When human system is under attack of bacterial and other disease causing organisms, sickness comes in and when not adequately addressed leads to death. What the bacterial or disease causing organisms do is to kill or stop the growth of cells and nutrients to keep human alive. In like manner, for you to grow in Christ there are obstacles that must be specifically dealt with. The basic truth is that every Christian is expected to be growing irrespective of your maturity or attainment in Christ. It is a life time growing. For those who have made considerable spiritual grow...

MORNING DEVOTION

OUR DAILY BREAD June 8, 2016 Wednesday BETTER BY FAR Jennifer Benson Schuldt Philippians 1:12–26 I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far. Philippians 1:23 Little children don’t always understand what it means to die. But Paul, who had a lifetime of experience, wrote something similar: “I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far” (Phil. 1:23). The apostle was under house arrest at the time, but his statement wasn’t fueled by despair. He was rejoicing because his suffering was causing the gospel to spread (vv. 12–14). So why would Paul be torn between a desire for life and death? Because to go on living would mean “fruitful labor.” But if he died he knew he would enjoy a special kind of closeness with Christ. To be absent from our bodies is to be home with the Lord (2 Cor. 5:6–8). People who believe in the saving power of Jesus’s death and resurrection will be with Him forever. It...

Morning Devotion

OUR DAILY BREAD June 7, 2016 Tuesday TELL IT! Lawrence Darmani Mark 5:1–20 The man went away and began to tell . . . how much Jesus had done for him. Mark 5:20 ...... Francis looked at me, sighed heavily, and said, “I’ve felt like doing the same for a long time now.” He asked me to share what happened, and I told him how the previous day someone had explained the gospel to me and how I asked Jesus to come into my life. I still remember the tears in his eyes as he too prayed to receive Jesus’s forgiveness. No longer in a hurry, he and I talked and talked about our new relationship with Christ. After Jesus healed the man with an evil spirit, He told him, “Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you” (Mark 5:19). The man didn’t need to preach a powerful sermon; he simply needed to share his story. No matter what our conversion experience is, we can do what that man did:...

MORNING DEVOTION

OUR DAILY BREAD June 6, 2016 Monday BROKEN TO BE MADE NEW Dennis Fisher Psalm 119:71–75 I know, Lord, that your laws are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me. Psalm 119:75 During World War II my dad served with the US Army in the South Pacific. During that time Dad rejected any idea of religion, saying, “I don’t need a crutch.” Yet the day came when his attitude toward spiritual things would change forever. Mom had gone into labor with their third child, and my brother and I went to bed with the excitement of soon seeing our new brother or sister. When I got out of bed the next morning, I excitedly asked Dad, “Is it a boy or a girl?” He replied, “It was a little girl but she was born dead.” We began to weep together at our loss. For the first time, Dad took his broken heart to Jesus in prayer. At that moment he felt an overwhelming sense of peace and comfort from God, though his daughter would always be irrepla...

MESSAGE BY THE SENIOR PASTOR ( LOYALTY MONTH) 5/6/2016

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Wonderful message by the senior Pastor during the 1st service Topic: Develop Passion for the assignment Text: Phil. 3:13-14 How to develop Passion for the assignmnt 1. consecration towards Excellent service 2. consistent huger for soul winning 3. commitment to discipleship and spiritual development

MORNING DEVOTION

OUR DAILY BREAD June 3, 2016 Friday STRENGTH FOR THE WEARY David McCasland Isaiah 40:27–31 Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.  Isaiah 40:31 Those familiar words came to me as a personal touch from the Lord. Weariness—whether physical, emotional, or spiritual—comes to us all. Isaiah reminds us that although we become tired, the Lord, the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth “will not grow tired or weary” (v. 28). How easily I had forgotten that in every situation “[the Lord] gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak” (v. 29). What’s it like on your journey today? If fatigue has caused you to forget God’s presence and power, why not pause and recall His promise. “Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength” (v. 31). Here. Now. Right where we are. Lord, thank You that You do not grow weary. Give me the strength to face whatever situation I am in...

Morning DEVOTION

OUR DAILY BREAD June 2, 2016 Thursday LORD, HELP! Poh Fang Chia Hebrews 4:14–16 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Hebrews 4:16 I knew that God was capable of miracles. He brought Jairus’s daughter back to life (Luke 8:49-55) and in so doing also healed the girl of whatever disease had robbed her of life. So I asked Him to bring healing for my friend’s baby too. But what if God doesn’t heal? I wondered. Surely He doesn’t lack the power. Could it be He doesn’t care? I thought of Jesus’s suffering on the cross and the explanation that “God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom. 5:8). Then I remembered the questions of Job and how he learned to see the wisdom of God as shown in the creation around him (Job 38–39). Slowly I saw how God calls us to Him in the de...

MORNING DEVOTION

OUR DAILY BREAD May 30, 2016 Tuesday Praise from Pure Hearts Jennifer Benson Schuldt Psalm 51:7-17 A broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise. Psalm 51:17 During my friend Myrna’s travels to another country, she visited a church for worship. She noticed that as people entered the sanctuary they immediately knelt and prayed, facing away from the front of the church. My friend learned that people in that church confessed their sin to God before they began the worship service. This act of humility is a picture to me of what David said in Psalm 51: “My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise” (v. 17). David was describing his own remorse and repentance for his sin of adultery with Bathsheba. Real sorrow for sin involves adopting God’s view of what we’ve done—seeing it as clearly wrong, disliking it, and not wanting it to continue. When we are truly broken over our sin, God lovingly ...

CHILDREN'S DAY PHOTOS ALBUM

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Hurray! It is another Children's day celebration! We are thankful and always we be. Children are the heritage of the Lord  behold I will do a new thing! Says the Lord! Congratulations to the Family of  Yemi Adeola, Akintola Johnson, Abidoye Kehinde for their babies dedication  Celebration Galore...there is always a reason to give thanks to the Lord! Happy birthday to all May celebrants.  Matthew 7 vs 7: Ask and ye shall receive, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you! It is the season of open Heavens for our expectant youths. Praise ye the Lord! He who finds a wife has found a good thing!...thanks giving session for our newly weds! In the presence of God there is fullness of joy! At His right had there are pleasures for ever more! ...