Biblepraise Fellowship Online

Before Jesus preached a single sermon or healed a single soul, he spent forty days and nights in the wilderness, fasting and facing temptation. It is easy to read past this as a mere prelude to the main story, but it was not incidental. It was foundational. Every ministry needs preparation, and Jesus, though fully God, chose to walk the path of dependence on the Father, resisting the enemy not by the divine authority He possesed but by the word of God rightly wielded. His baptism, where the...

I was too young to understand seasonal changes before leaving the UK with my parents as a child. Growing up in Nigeria, I recognised only two weather seasons; rainy and dry seasons. Strictly speaking, these were not seasons, just that there were months when it rained more than others. We didn't need a change of wardrobe due to change in weather, all we needed was protection from the rain when it falls.

When I returned to England however, I began to experience actual seasons determined...

I recently read an account in the scriptures which got me thinking about wise counsel as a gift, something given to us by someone who cares enough to speak and something we are free to receive or reject.

After God delivered the Israelites from Egypt, Moses found himself carrying the entire nation on his shoulders. Every dispute, every disagreement, every question about the law came to him alone. In Exodus 18, we read that his father-in-law, Jethro, came to visit him in the wilderness...

In the run-up to Fathers' Day, I told my wife I did not want any fuss over me. I just wanted a quiet day with the family and made it clear that it was not mandatory for my children to come home. Some of you may be wondering why I did not want to be fussed over. After all, Fathers' Day only comes around once a year and it is an opportunity for the family to show their appreciation.

There were a couple of factors. One, I did not want my children spending too much and secondly, I was...

There is a saying that goes, "It is not what you do but who you know." Growing up in Nigeria, I experienced this first-hand. I remember searching for a job after completing my secondary education, because university was simply beyond what my family could afford. I would carefully fill out applications, sit through tests and interviews, and walk away feeling that I had done well, only to find out that someone far less qualified had been given the position. It did not take long to understand...

I returned over the weekend from a three-day national conference of the Assemblies of God in Great Britain. It was such an exciting and blessed time in the presence of the Lord.

Prior to attending this conference, I was not in a good place emotionally. My family had gone through back-to-back losses in the last couple of months and quite recently, a business relationship came to an abrupt end. As if that were not enough, I got discouraged by some things that happened in church, things...

There have been times in my life when I felt completely alone. Interestingly, the feeling of being alone does not necessarily mean that there is no one around you; you could be in the midst of a crowd and still feel utterly alone.

I remember a period in my life as a young Christian when I felt that way. I would go to church and see people chatting and laughing with one another before or after the service, while I stood on the margins, more or less as a bystander.

As I grew in...

There are many characters in the Bible noted for doing remarkable things that even God Himself recognised, but only one man did God describe in these terms: "I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will." (Acts 13:22, Psalm 89:20, 1 Samuel 13:14)

If we step back in biblical history to before God made that statement, we find that unlike other nations, Israel had no king. They were led by prophets who served as mediators between God as King and...

There is no week in all of human history quite like it. It begins with crowds lining the streets, waving palm branches and shouting praises. It ends with an empty tomb and a world turned upside down. In between, there is a last supper eaten in the shadow of betrayal, a garden soaked in anguish, a series of unjust trials conducted through the night, a cross raised on a hill outside Jerusalem, and a silence on Saturday so heavy that the disciples must have felt the world had ended. We call it...

One of the most profound characteristics attributed to God is His faithfulness. The writer of Lamentations, composing his words in the depths of grief and national ruin, paused to declare something extraordinary: "The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness" (Lamentations 3:22-23). What makes this declaration so striking is its context . It was written amid devastation, not comfort. Yet even...