DAILY HOMILIES

It is one thing to know a person, but a different thing to be a friend to that person. We all know God as Christians but the question is: “Am I a friend to God?” And the way to answer this question is to examine whether or not we are doing what God commands. It will be a contradiction if we say we are friends of God yet we do the things He hates.... Friday 15th May 2020. Read Acts 15:22-31, Psalm 57 and John 15:12-17

Thursday 14th May 2020. Read Acts 1:15-26, Psalm 113 and John 15:9-17 “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. This I command you, to love one another” (John 15:16-17).

Wednesday 13th May 2020. Read Acts 15:1-6, Psalm 122 and John 15:1-8 “Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit” (John 15:2).

Tuesday 12th May 2020. Read Acts 14:19-28, Psalm 145 and John 14:27-31. “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid” (John 14:27).

Monday 11th May 2020. Read Acts 14:5-18, Psalm 115 and John 14:21-26 “He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him” John 14:21.

Sunday 10th May 2020. Acts 6:1-11, Psalm 33, 1st Peter 2:4-9 and John 14:1-12 “Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me… And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also” (John 14:1-3).

(Saturday of the 4th Week of Easter. 9th May, 2020) “Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son; if you ask anything in my name, I will do it.” (John 14:13-14)

Friday 8th May 2020. Read Acts 13:26-33, Psalm 2 and John 14:1-6. “Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me… I am the way, and the truth, and the life” (John 14:1-6).

Pride is one temptation that remains forever rife among ministers of God. It is a temptation to make people believe we are closer to God and so, therefore, higher, more important, more sophisticated, more intelligent, wiser than other human beings.