TEACHING TRANSFORMATION MINISTRY

Today I want us to talk about making and renewing our covenant with our Maker. We have learnt quite a few things over the past few weeks, about trusting in God, and having a thankful attitude. As we do these, there are some things that may hold or keep us back from walking with God, things that many people tend to overlook or be ignorant about. They are the covenants they have entered in, keep entering in, or are contemplating on entering in. Many people tend to take covenants lightly, but they are more powerful than we think.  Read 2 Chronicles 29-31.  In the above chapters, King Hezekiah saw that the land had become desolate, unfruitful and troubled. He realized that it was because the children of Israel, who had started well with God, had come to a point of forgetting that they were children of a covenant with God, and started compromising through bowing down to other idols. When God makes a covenant with you, He never breaks it. He is constant and faithful; we...

Causes of an ungrateful heart Like we said last week, no one on earth has any reason to complain. If we sit down and bring to our remembrance all that God has done for us, we will find ourselves on our knees thanking Him, if not with teary eyes repenting for being ungrateful. Right from birth, our lives have been a miracle. Many children die before they are born; we lived through and had a successful birth. Many children lose their parents during birth, or are born with diseases or infirmities. Some die in their early years of infancy. Diseases have attacked some of us all through, being in and out of hospitals, but we are still here. Some have gone through abuse and neglect, some have grown up without parents, but God’s grace still ensured we are here. We have all rebelled against God at one point or another and deserved death, but even in our rebellion God still preserved us, and we came through. Many people die in their rebellion. The devil had a right to kill and destroy us wh...

Many people keep asking one key question, especially in this new dispensation of grace that we are in. Knowing full well that we are under grace and that Christ changed everything, including how God relates with man, we all have at some point wondered that if all that we are taught really changed, why do we still have the Old Testament? I mean, we are told that grace changed everything, and the way God deals with us is not the way He dealt with the people who were under the law, because “while the Law was given through Moses, grace (unearned, undeserved favor and spiritual blessing) and truth came through Jesus Christ.” John 1:17 (AMP). So God does not deal with us on basis of the law, but of grace (God’s unearned, undeserved favor and blessing). So, why do we still have the Old Testament with us, and the law? According to the scriptures, these things were written for our admonishing, so that we may learn from them. They were written so that we see what grace did for us. Many thin...