Devotions

“Where there is no vision the people cast off restraint“ Proverbs 29:18 Some blind people have adapted to a life of blindness. After all, they could hear, speak, walk and function relatively normally so they’ve learned to adapt. But not Bartimaeus he was tired of the blind, begging life, tired of depending on someone else […]

Be Prepared to Sacrifice the Known for the Unknown “So Elisha turned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them and boiled their flesh, using the oxen’s equipment, and gave it to the people, and they ate. We have often heard it, and said to others, “Don’t burn your bridges behind

And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you”. And he said to him, “Go back again, for what have I done to you?” 1 Kings 19:20 NKJV Elijah did just what God told him to do –

So he (Elijah) departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he was with the twelfth. Then Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle on him” 1Kings 19:19 – NKJV Prophet Elijah was commissioned by God to anoint Elisha to succeed

Seek out a Mentor and Stay Close to Him One of the important things I have learnt in the journey of life is that you never get there by yourself; you need help. Of course, we have the Holy Spirit but the issue of a mentor is biblical. Mentoring is a relational experience in which

“And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins.” Matthew 1:21  Once you confess the name of JESUS you have drawn a line of demarcation. You have declared to the spirit world that this is the name every other name must bow

“His Name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father” Isaiah 9:6 The role of the father is to provide for and protect his children and family. Isaiah prophesying of the coming Child, the Messiah, to be born, said that He will be a King who will be a father to Israel.

“Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him.” Matthew 2:1-2   Imagine

“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Emmanuel” (which means “God with us”) Matthew 1:23 For centuries the Jewish people knew God afar off. There was hardly ever any personal connection except with the occasional theophany. For example, Genesis 16:7–14 – Hagar and the Angel of the