07 DECEMBER THE MINT PLANT “I planted the seed, Apollos watered it but God made it grow.” (1 Corinthians 3:6, NIV) I once asked our gardener to help me plant the mint plant, so I can have fresh mint tea as desired. I love teas, especially mint tea, after food....
06 DECEMBER WINGS OF REFUGE “The Lord repay your work, and a full reward be given you by the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge.” (Ruth 2:12, NKJV) Ruth had admirable qualities but above them all was her faithfulness to God, her mother-in-law, work...
05 DECEMBER THE OAK OF WEEPING “Rebecca’s nurse Deborah died and was buried beneath the oak south of Bethel. So it was named Oak of Weeping.” (Genesis 35:8, GNT) Deborah was a nurse or maid servant given to Rebekah by her father when she got married to Isaac. Just as...
04 DECEMBER FROM LITTLE TO GREAT VALUE “The ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite three months. And the Lord blessed Obed-Edom and all his household.” (2 Samuel 6:11, NKJV) David was angry and aborted the journey of bringing the Ark to Jerusalem. He just...
3RD DECEMBER FROM PREJUDICE TO FREEDOM “And Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” (John 1:46, NKJV) Nazareth? Nathaniel was from the nearby town of Cana. The Jews despised Nazareth primarily because a Roman army garrison was located there...
2ND DECEMBER AND IT CAME TO PASS (2) “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.” (Luke 21:33, NKJV) We were all under ten years. Just coming home from church one Sunday, my elder brother, Victor, started repeating the phrase in the Bible...
1ST DECEMBER AND IT CAME TO PASSBER “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.” (Psalm 30:5, NKJV) Recently, a friend told me she never used to worry about anything throughout her school days because her decision to offer Bible Knowledge as a subject in Secondary...
30TH NOVEMBER ERROR OF MONEY “They have left the straight path and have lost their way; they have followed the path taken by Balaam son of Beor, who loved the money he would get for doing wrong.”(2 Peter 2:15, GNT) He was the officer in charge of all Store supplies...
29TH NOVEMBER A GOOD FIGHT “I felt the need of writing at once to encourage you to fight on for the faith which once and for all God has given to his people. (Jude 1:3, GNT) Although this incident happened almost 60 years ago, I still remember it clearly with...
28TH NOVEMBER WHAT GIVES YOU JOY? “I will delight myself in your statutes; I will not forget your word.” (Psalm 119:16) Delight myself in God’s statutes? Usually statutes are just a list of obligations. This sounds restrictive rather than exciting. It seems odd that the psalmist rejoiced in following God’s...