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“Don’t be flip with the sacred. Banter and silliness give no honor to God. Don’t reduce holy mysteries to slogans. In trying to be relevant, you’re only being cute and inviting sacrilege.” – Matthew 7:6 (MSB) The fight for and pressure to be relevant is a matter of serious concern for the believer, especially the […]
SERMON ON THE MOUNT (33)
“Don’t pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults—unless, of course, you want the same treatment.” – Matthew 7:1 (MSB) The life of a Believer is not one that is marked by perfection yet because it is a journey that takes a lifetime and this means that inasmuch as you are in the […]
SERMON ON THE MOUNT (32)
“Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying, What are we going to have to eat? Or, What are we going to have to drink? Or, What are we going to have to wear?” – Matthew 6:31 (AMP) The life of a disciple is not free from the challenges of this world. Being a disciple […]
SERMON ON THE MOUNT (31)
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand by and be devoted to the one and despise and be against the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions, or whatever is trusted in).” – Matthew 6:24 (AMP) In […]
SERMON ON THE MOUNT (30)
“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” – Matthew 6:21 (AMP) The term ‘Treasure’ means something or someone so valuable and precious to a man that he can’t just stop thinking about it, and he also makes every effort to safeguard it and be in ultimate possession of it, no matter […]
SERMON ON THE MOUNT (29)
“And whenever you are fasting, do not look gloomy and sour and dreary like the hypocrites, for they put on a dismal countenance, that their fasting may be apparent to and seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full already.” – Matthew 6:16 (AMP) As much as Christ taught […]
SERMON ON THE MOUNT (28)
“And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven (left, remitted, and let go of the debts, and have given up resentment against) our debtors.” – Matthew 6:12 (AMP) There is a popular saying that, ‘to err is human, to forgive is divine.’ A couple of weeks after I began to oversee a group […]
SERMON ON THE MOUNT (26)
“Give us this day our daily bread.” – Matthew 6:11 (AMP) King David was a man who trusted God for provision and all other essentials of life. In the 23rd Psalm, he writes, “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.” God is so filled with goodness that in Psalm 104:27, the Psalmist writes, […]
SERMON ON THE MOUNT (25)
“Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” – Matthew 6:10 (AMP) Prayer has many reasons and definitions. Before Christ came, men have been praying but mostly, wrongly. Christ came to give a fresh perspective and insight into what prayer is really all about. To know the Lord and […]
SERMON ON THE MOUNT (24)
“Pray, therefore, like this: Our Father Who is in heaven, hallowed (kept holy) be Your name.” – Matthew 6:9 (AMP) Throughout the days of Jesus on earth, gratitude, thanksgiving and appreciation unto God is a principle He lived by and taught those following Him. In giving His disciples a pattern for prayer, His first statement […]