Friends in Christ, I bring you greetings once again in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. I thank the Lord for the great outpouring of his love and for the sustained growth that we are experiencing. You are a significant part of that growth and I do hope that you will see it as God’s immeasurable grace poured out to you.
As you all well know, we are going through a period of transition within the rank and file of our leadership. Time has gone so very fast since March of last year when The Executive Committee under the leadership of brother Babafemi Martins began its one year leadership tenure of our congregation. During the months between then and now, our congregation experienced lots of progress which are well known and appreciated by each one us. I personally thank every member of his team for the good work and for being very supportive of me in this work. We welcome with open arms those of them that may be returned to their offices, while wishing the rest all of God’s blessings as they move to other aspects of the work. Let us trust the Lord with much prayers to move the work of our congregation to the next level as we prepare to enter into another year of ministry in the mighty name of Jesus.
From Grass to Grace
Our just-concluded winter outreach revival conference was a huge success to the glory of God. I hope we were all able to understand and appreciate the power of testimony which was what that program was about. Rev. Nyangu’s story was doubtless, an example of that. We heard how the Lord can pick a person out of the place of obscurity and announce the person with the megaphone of heaven. You heard that your humblest beginnings are no barriers to God’s promotion, and you heard that nothing is impossible to anyone who dares to seek God with desperation and faith. This reminds me about God’s word in Jeremiah 28:13 where God says thus; “And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.” If you can seek him with the kind of desperation of a young Muslim cattle rearer from a remote Nothern Nigeria village, then you are candidate of divine translation; translation from nothingness to something, from ordinary to extraordinary and from irrelevance to indispensability.
Over the next five weeks or so, we will be exploring mostly what our responsibilities as agents of transformation through our own testimonies are in our Sunday sermons. Salvation comes with some responsibilities on our part. If you are a child of God then you have a story to tell. Your testimony is powerful enough to challenge your hearers to also put their trust in God. As one of my teachers once said, when you witness to someone, you are like a beggar who is telling another beggar where you got bread. That’s powerful isn’t it? That’s all you are required to do. Tell your godless neighbour, your unbelieving friend, your depressed work colleague etc, about the man who gave you salvation, joy, peace and wholeness. People can doubt your preaching but they cannot doubt your lived experiences. Your story is the most potent evangelism tool you have. Use it! When mixed with prayer, you will see great rewards by way of the souls you will gain to the kingdom.
Finally, as I have always urged you, continue to bear one another up in prayer, especially as we see the enemy bring on all forms of attacks on God’s people. Let us bear one another’s burdens as the Scripture urges us to, (Galatians 6:2). Look out for new people finding our church and find out what their needs are. That is the only way we can win people for the Lord.
Blessings and peace!
Spring 2017
