30 January FROM DRYNESS TO TWELVE SPRINGS “After leaving Marah, the Israelites travelled on to the oasis of Elim, where they found twelve springs and seventy palm trees. They camped there beside the water.” (Exodus 15:27, NLT) After the drama at Marah, the Israelites drank to their fill from...
29 January BITTER TO SWEET WATER “When they came to the oasis of Marah, the water was too bitter to drink…Then the people complained and turned against Moses. “What are we going to drink?” they demanded. So Moses cried out to the Lord for help, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood. Moses...
28 January WATER TURNED INTO WINE “Standing nearby were six stone water jars, used for Jewish ceremonial washing. Each could hold twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus told the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” When the jars had been filled, he said, “Now dip some out, and take it to...
27 January THE COMPLETENESS OF GOD’S CREATION (2) “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good…” (Genesis 1:31) Are pests also very good? Sometime ago, Lassa fever spread rapidly through our dear country, Nigeria. The press reported that as many as seventeen states of...
26 January THE COMPLETENESS OF GOD’S CREATION “God has made everything beautiful for its own time.” (Ecclesiastes 3:11, NLT) I look out as the dawn comes, the sunlight peeping through the sky to bring daylight and I say to it: “Sun, among many other things, you were created to give...
25 January ABRAHAM’S BLESSINGS “Now the Lord said … I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonours you I will curse, and in...
24 January THE COLOURS OF THE RAINBOW “I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant...
23 January QUEEN VASHTI WAS SINCERELY WRONG “On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha and Abagtha, Zethar and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus, to bring Queen Vashti before the king...
22 January YOU CAN BE SINCERELY WRONG (3) “Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counsellors there is safety.” (Proverbs 11:14) “Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.” (3...
21 January YOU CAN BE SINCERELY WRONG (2) “And the people of Berea were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, and they listened eagerly to Paul’s message. They searched the Scriptures day after day to see if Paul and Silas were teaching the truth.” (Acts 17:11, NLT) Yesterday, we saw...