God's blessings will continually accompany you for dedicating time to your studies. Abstain From All Appearance Of Evil In Ministry Thursday 8th January Text: 1 Samuel: 12: 3-5, Deuteronomy 18: 9-14. Key verse: 1 Thessalonians 5: 22: “Abstain from all appearance of evil.” It is expected, as a leader among the people of God, that your ways should be perfect; that your ways be pure in all issues of finances, and manner of relationships; that your acts should be just before God. Samuel said, "l have walked with you from my childhood until this old age. Witness against me before the Lord and before His anointed." As you have started the ministry in righteousness, so it should remain, but you became corrupt and fraudulent as a pastor and embezzled the money of the church. You borrowed money from your members and refused to pay back. You frustrated the cases of marriage of some people and committed adultery with women in your church. In your own ministerial life,...
God's blessings will continually accompany you for dedicating time to your studies. Believers’ Passion For Soul Winning Tuesday 6th January Text: Proverbs 11:30-31 Key Verse: Ezekiel 18:4; Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. To be effective in soul-winning, you must have a concerned heart towards sinners. Passion for soul-winning is the heart concern of a Christian that leads him to strongly wish the conversion of sinners to Christ and work fervently and tirelessly to achieve it. Driven by his passion, the believer works fervently and tirelessly to bring people to Christ's salvation and righteous living. Passion comes into the believer when he considers the sinful state of the soul; when he looks at the sinner and sees the sins that he commits, and how sin has taken over him. For example, when he sees a drunk on the street bouncing on the way, staggering to and fro, and speaking fool...