Of God and Mankind

Acts 19:18-20 (AMPC)   “ 18 Many also of those who were now believers came making full confession  and thoroughly exposing their [former deceptive and evil] practices.   19 And many of those who had practi s ed curious, magical arts collected their books and [throwing them, book after book, on the pile] burned them in the sight of everybody. When they counted the value of them, they found it amounted to 50,000 pieces of silver (about $9,300).   20 Thus the Word of the Lord [concerning the attainment through Christ of eternal salvation in the Ki ngdom of God] grew  and spread  and intensified, prevailing mightily.   Dear people of God, we started the first part of this post and explained how the devil can hold believers in ransom as a result of previous covenants entered into whether wilfully or mistakenly.   If you missed it, please click this link to see the first part and then come back to this page to see the second and concludin...

Deuteronomy 18: 9-14  (AMPC) “ When you come into the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practi c es of these nations.   10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, or who uses divination, or is a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer,   11   Or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer.   12 For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and it is because of these abominable practi c es that the Lord your God is driving them out before you.   13   You shall be blameless [and absolutely true] to the Lord your God.   14 For these nations whom you shall dispossess listen to soothsayers and diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so.”   Dear people of God, today’s lead Holy Bible text shows the reason why Africa is steeped in struggles on many fronts.   God clearly war...

  1 John 5:18-19 (AMPC)   “ We know [absolutely] that anyone born of God does not [deliberately and knowingly] practi s e committing sin, but the One (Jesus Christ) Who was begotten of God carefully watches over  and protects him [Christ's divine presence within him preserves him against the evil], and the wicked one does not lay hold (get a grip) on him  or touch [him].   19 We know [positively] that we are of God, and the whole world [around us] is under the power of the evil one.”     Dear people of God, whenever I tell people that a genuine Christian has no business being sick and going to hospital, the first question I get is “am I advising people not to visit the hospital?”   I always answer no, because the person has not understood the import of my statement and they just overreact.   On television sometimes, I see sick people requesting for financial aid from others for huge sums of money to help them get medical treatment either...

  Proverbs 1:22,29-33 (AMPC) “ 22  How long, O simple ones [open to evil], will you love being simple? And the scoffers delight in scoffing and [self-confident] fools hate knowledge?   29  Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the reverent  and worshipful fear of the Lord, [Prov. 8:13.]   30  Would accept none of my counsel, and despised all my reproof,   31  Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way and be satiated with their own devices.   32  For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, and the careless ease of [self-confident] fools shall destroy them. [Isa. 32:6.]   33  But whoso hearkens to me [Wisdom] shall dwell securely  and in confident trust and shall be quiet, without fear  or dread of evil.”   Dear people of God, I see on social media these days many messages from scoffers and mockers making fun of preachers of the Gospel.   For many of these ones, religion is t...

  Proverbs 2:10-15, 20-22 (AMPC)   “ For skillful  and godly Wisdom shall enter into your heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant to you.   11 Discretion shall watch over you, understanding shall keep you,   12 To deliver you from the way of evil  and the evil men, from men who speak perverse things  and are liars,   13 Men who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,   14 Who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perverseness of evil,   15 Who are crooked in their ways, wayward  and devious in their paths.   20 So may you walk in the way of good men, and keep to the paths of the [consistently] righteous (the upright, in right standing with God).   21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the men of integrity, blameless  and complete [in God's sight], shall remain in it;   22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the treacherous ...