DAILY HOMILIES

If you always wait to “feel like” doing something before you do it, then that thing is not important to you. If you only pray when you feel like it, it means that to you, God is just like ice cream or pizza. Devotion is a commitment to something you consider to be higher than you.

Don’t tell people how much you love God, just make sure there is no hatred in your heart. Your life itself would testify to your love for God.

If we truly love God, we would trust Him completely. Even when things do not go as we would have preferred, we still continue to allow those words were spoken by Jesus to echo in our minds: “Take heart, it is I; have no fear.”

Love is kindness to others – a kindness that gives them the freedom to accept or reject; to reciprocate or to hate in return and more importantly, this kindness continues even when the other party responds with hatred.

Repentance brings healing. Repentance is saying “No” to the devil so as to allow God to come into your life and where God is, sickness, disease, stagnation, demonic possession etc. cannot remain

The wise men gave gifts to Jesus because they recognized His Divinity, His Kingship and His Sacrificial role for mankind. The question is: “what kind of gifts do I render to Jesus?

I pray for you that this new year, you shall rise to your true position as a Son in God’s house. That you shall eat no longer remnants but real food from the golden plate of God’s word, the Bible.

“If God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith?” (Matthew 6:30) Enter this New Year as a man/woman of great faith. Believe that you serve a God who knows how to provide, how to create dry roads in the midst of rivers, how to make ways where there seems to be no way. Expect the best.

Tonight, our churches would be packed full of persons who claim to be Christians but are not willing to live like Christ. They want blessings for the New Year, they want people to tell them exactly what they like to hear. Unfortunately, they would return home as antichrists.

As much as these things deliver a great deal of happiness, they remain fleeting. We are never satisfied. Our hearts are always restless because only God can bring us true satisfaction. It is pure wisdom to remind yourself constantly that you came to this world empty and you shall return empty; that you are just a sojourner on earth.

Just as one cannot walk far in the night when it is dark, we cannot go far in life with hatred in our hearts. The person you hate right now may be your saving grace tomorrow. Hatred is a sign of unforgiveness and a betrayal of our Christian faith.

Repent. Let others shine. What belongs to you can never pass you by. Pulling others down, defaming people’s character, or blackmailing just to look good will not get you far.