What is the most important God-given empowerment? Miracles? Healing? Prophetic gifts? Supernatural strength? Speaking in tongues? God’s Word explains that it is love. We can be surrounded by songs, movies, and ideas about love and yet not know how to practice the purest form of love. What does God, the Originator...
Many Christians ask the question, “How can I grow close to God and hear Him speak to me clearly?” We may try for years and yet find we cannot hear God’s voice, see His face, or genuinely understand Him, no matter how hard we try. We begin to think that...
V sought to build his significance through his career and nearly lost his soul in the process. After a sudden sickness and painful divorce, God gently guided him back on a path to identify the lies in his heart, heal his fears and emotional wounds, and set him in a...
Jesus came to serve others, not to be served. Serving others as Jesus did requires deep humility. Would we be willing to obey, for example, if God called us to stoop before a traitor and humbly wash his feet, as Jesus did for Judas Iscariot? Serving others tests our faith...
Low self-esteem is rooted in the anxiety of not feeling good enough. No one is born with low self-esteem. It is a self-debilitating condition developed from childhood as a result of feeling unappreciated, undermined or misunderstood by authority figures, mostly parents. When our spirits are crushed by those we look...
Our skin, the largest organ of our body, has the important function of protecting internal organs and regulating body temperature. God created our skin to be a defensive layer. He meant it for good. Yet today, there is a trend to puncture and inject it with coloured inks, irreversibly contaminating...
J had given in to worldly ideas of how to succeed in relationships and in life, and unknowingly suppressed his spiritual gift of mercy in the process. Through a renewal prayer, God showed him his true identity in Christ and the freedom that comes from following God. Praise God! Freedom....
W struggled with unusual emotions that were beyond her control. She subsequently reached out to some friends for prayer. The Holy Spirit revealed the roots for some of these emotions as God delivered her from unseen spiritual bondages that came as a result of shamanic curses. Praise God! I was...
Imagine being trapped inside a raging fire, filled with the nauseating stench of sulphur and rotting flesh. Your lungs are choking. You have lost your eyesight but you can still hear people screaming all around you. Horror fills your heart as you realise you are burning too. Unfortunately, this is...
God refers to Himself as light. Light illuminates, sustains all life, and is found everywhere, even in darkness. From quantum physics to geology and biology, many things cannot be fully understood without taking light into account. Light is paramount to our existence, and the qualities of light give us wonderful...
F grew up in a family where negative emotions were never addressed or discussed. As a result, she lived with severe emotional suppression until Jesus shone His light into her heart and began a journey of healing for her. Praise God! During a prayer session in 2018, a friend was...
M felt disconnected from God, in spite of praying and attending different Christian courses. Finally, she sought the Holy Spirit’s counsel through a time of prayer and confession, where God revealed some forgotten but painful memories that led her to hold on to anger and resentment. M received indescribable joy...
Numerous research studies by psychologists and neuroscientists have shown that human beings are wired to make decisions based on our subconscious emotions, rather than our conscious logic*. We mentally tell ourselves what we ought to do but don’t always follow through because our feelings led us astray. It is little...
Loving God is the first commandment for any believer. Many things in this world jostle for our love and attention, notwithstanding our own church communities. Churches become our idols when we feel more connected and devoted to them than to Jesus. This drifting away from loving God first in church...
C grew up in a troubled home and turned to alcohol and wild parties to forget her troubles. As she repented to God, she began to experience a new peace and joy, and no longer desired her past decadent lifestyle. Praise God! Back in 2017, I committed myself to Jesus...
E had just suffered the sudden loss of her youngest brother through a fishing accident, which in turn, brought up many questions and hidden wounds. In spite of her doubts and skepticism, she decided to go to God for her answers. Jesus not only answered her, but He also freed...
It is not a sin to be tempted. It is only a sin when we give in to the tempter, Satan, and rebel against God – whether knowingly or unknowingly. Yet we ought not to glorify the devil for his potential to deceive us. It is God, in fact, who...
Jesus called us to become childlike in order to experience God and His Kingdom. Imagine a child holding its arms up to call for his daddy or running as his father calls. There is such innocence, awe, and expectation in its radiant smile. Is that the kind of faith we...
J grew up longing to please her mom and feeling that she didn’t do a good job. This affected how she related to people and to God. The Holy Spirit revealed her hidden emotional wounds and helped her release her buried hurts and disappointments to Jesus. Praise God! As a...
A is a young Christian who sought to be free from her occult ties and family curses. Jesus gently led her on a journey to understand that true renewal begins with the right attitude and set her free from her Buddhist spiritual roots. Praise God! Before becoming a Christian, I...