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Confessing Christ before men

Confessing Christ before men

By Femi Aribisala Jesus says: “Everyone who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before my Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 10:32-33). How exactly do we confess Christ? Confessing and denying Many Christians take […]
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Accepted in the Beloved (1)

Accepted in the Beloved (1)

By Femi Aribisala When I gave my life to Christ, some sins in my life disappeared immediately. However, most of my sins persisted. No matter how hard I tried, I could not overcome them. I would sin, repent, sin again, then repent again. This became a never-ending cycle and I was frustrated with myself. I […]

Caterpillars and Butterflies (2)

Caterpillars and Butterflies (2)

By Femi Aribisala Those were the days when every other word out of your mouth was a swear word. The natural-looking glass has distortions. When you see yourself, you don’t see the real you. But the perfect law of liberty sees you perfectly. It describes you accurately. If you want to know about yourself don’t […]

Caterpillars and Butterflies (1)

Caterpillars and Butterflies (1)

Work out what God has worked in By Femi Aribisala Some people love to read obituaries. When they open a newspaper, they go straight to the obituary pages or columns to find out who has dropped dead lately. But what about you, Christian Ojo? Have you read your own obituary lately? The bible says that […]

Justification of the Ungodly

Justification of the Ungodly

By Femi Aribisala While sin robbed us of silver: grace gave us gold. While sin killed the body of the flesh: grace gave us the body of the Spirit. The managing director had a liking for Fred, to the great annoyance of Joe his main rival for promotion. Joe was convinced that Fred was no […]

The Sure Mercies of David (2)

The Sure Mercies of David (2)

For God to be merciful to us, he has to be merciless to somebody else.  By Femi Aribisala What would you do if God told you (a Christian) to attack some people and kill everybody, including women and children? You might decide to pity some of them. You might see a newborn baby and decide, […]

The Sure Mercies of David (1)

The Sure Mercies of David (1)

  To be kind, God had to be cruel.  That is kingdom dynamics. By Femi Aribisala Someone asked me a question. She said: “What can I do to provoke the Holy Spirit?” I told her: “To provoke the Holy Spirit, you must be very provocative.” You could not be more provocative than Solomon. Solomon went […]

Is God invisible? (2)

Is God invisible? (2)

By Femi Aribisala Jesus says some people have eyes, but they cannot see. Some have ears, but they cannot hear. But some have eyes that can see and ears that can hear. (Matthew 13:13-16). Solomon provides the distinction: “The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made them both.” (Proverbs 20:12). Two examples […]

Is God Invisible?

Is God Invisible?

By Femi Aribisala My niece says she wants to see God, but not in this life. So, I asked her: “Who do you think you will see in heaven? Will you see God with a face, eyes, a nose, and a mouth? Those physical attributes belong to God as a man.” However, God is a […]

Free Will Does Not Exist (2)

Free Will Does Not Exist (2)

By Femi Aribisala The wisdom of man says man has free will. But God has made foolish the wisdom of this world. (1 Corinthians 1:20). Foolish man bases truth on his own thoughts and reasoning. But God says to men: “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your […]

Free Will Does Not Exist (1)

Free Will Does Not Exist (1)

By Femi Aribisala Jesus told the Sadducees who came to challenge Him on the resurrection: “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.” (Matthew 22:29). There are two vital requirements for knowing the truth of God. We must know the scriptures and we must know the power of God. When we […]

Fictional Coincidences

Fictional Coincidences

By Femi Aribisala My DVD player has a slow-motion application. When you press it, you see the film you are watching in slow-motion. That way, you are likely to notice things you would otherwise have overlooked. When I first met the Lord, he set my life to slow-motion for the first two to three months […]

Fighting the Good Fight of Faith

Fighting the Good Fight of Faith

By Femi Aribisala Members of the Healing Wings choir came to me with the suggestion that we should establish a recording studio at the back of our building in Festival Road?” I thought it was a good idea, so we sat down to discuss how to bring it about. First, the building would have to […]

Speaking to Mountains

Speaking to Mountains

By Femi Aribisala A few months ago, God gave us a word of prophecy in Healing Wings. He said: “A storm is coming.” The obvious question was: “Why did He give us this word? What were we supposed to do?” Just as he predicted, the storm came in the form of the EndSARS protests that […]

Witchcraft in the Church (2)

Witchcraft in the Church (2)

By Femi Aribisala Jide inherited a generator from his late “guardian.”  He used it for business purposes by renting it out to people who needed it on special occasions.  It so happened that the generator in his church was stolen.  The pastor insisted that church-members should not be told about the theft; otherwise, they might […]

Witchcraft in the Church

Witchcraft in the Church

By Femi Aribisala In a video that went viral on social media, a bishop is ostensibly conducting deliverance on a group of teenage girls alleged to be witches. The girls kneel submissively in front of his holiness, the bishop. However, to his annoyance, one of them has the audacity to contradict him. The girl says […]