Bukuru Diocese - Anglican Communion

24/05/2026

PENTECOST SUNDAY - 24-05-2026
PREACHER: VEN. DR. NUHU DAVOU ZANG

23/05/2026

23/05/2026

WHISPERS OF THE ANCIENT PATHS:
A Journey into God’s Heart – A Devotional Series

Day 71

Scripture
“A wise child accepts a parent’s discipline; a mocker refuses to listen to correction.”
— Proverbs 13:1 (NLT)

Topic: WHAT YOU ACCEPT REVEALS WHO YOU ARE

Entry Thoughts
The difference between wisdom and mockery is not first seen in intelligence, exposure, eloquence, age, position, or outward appearance. It is revealed in attitude toward correction. The wise and the mocker often hear the same words, receive the same warnings, sit under the same teaching, and walk through the same life experiences, yet they do not respond the same way. One bows and becomes better; the other stiffens and becomes bitter.

Heaven measures men not merely by what they know but by what they are willing to receive. What they accept or refuse defines them. It equally points to where they are going and how they may end.

The wise person understands that correction is not an enemy sent to destroy him, but a rescue rope thrown to preserve him.

A mocker, however, treats correction as an insult, accountability as oppression, and discipline as interference. The wise see rebuke as medicine; the mocker sees it as poison.

Many destinies have crashed, not because help was unavailable, but because correction was rejected. Pride has buried people whom humility would have preserved.

Some wounds in life are self-inflicted by deafness of heart. The mocker listens only to applause, but wisdom often comes clothed in uncomfortable truth.

A heart that can not be corrected is already drifting toward destruction. The person who refuses godly instruction slowly removes the brakes from his own life.

The tragedy is that mockery does not always speak loudly. Sometimes, it hides beneath defensiveness, excuses, stubbornness, silence, irritation, or the constant need to justify oneself.

The wise do not become wise because they never err; they become wise because they allow truth to realign them whenever they go astray.

Whisper
God often loves us enough to confront us. His correction may come through Scripture, parents, mentors, spouses, friends, sermons, circumstances, disappointments, or the quiet conviction of the Holy Spirit.

The humble heart trembles, listens, adjusts, and grows. But the proud heart resists, argues, hardens, and slowly decays inwardly.

Correction is one of heaven’s hidden mercies. The rebuke that humbles you today may be the very thing preserving your future tomorrow. Many tears could have been avoided if warnings had been heeded early enough.

A generation that celebrates uncorrectable attitudes is unknowingly celebrating self-destruction. The fear of the Lord produces teachability. Pride produces resistance. One leads upward into life; the other downward into ruin.

Reflection and Action
How do you respond when corrected?

Do you become defensive, offended, dismissive, and argumentative, or do you pause, reflect, pray, and adjust?

Ask God for a soft heart that does not merely enjoy encouragement but also welcomes truth. Revisit corrections you may have ignored, resisted, or mocked. Humble yourself where necessary. Wisdom grows where humility listens.

Prayer
Lord, deliver me from the pride that rejects correction. Give me a humble and teachable spirit. Help me not to resist the voices, truths, and disciplines You send for my growth and preservation. Let my heart remain soft before Your Word and Your Spirit. Make me wise enough to listen, adjust, and grow. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

19/05/2026

18/05/2026

WHISPERS OF THE ANCIENT PATHS
A Journey into God’s Heart – A Devotional Series

Day 66

Scripture
“When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth…”
— John 16:13a (ESV)

Topic: THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH: HEAVEN'S INDWELLING GUIDE.

Entry Thoughts
Man lives in a world crowded with voices. Voices of culture. Voices of fear. Voices of ambition. Voices of religion without life. Voices of trends, philosophies, ideologies, and self-made truths. Every generation proudly claims to have discovered truth, yet every generation still bleeds from confusion, moral collapse, spiritual emptiness, and misplaced worship.

Humanity keeps building towers of knowledge while remaining bankrupt of eternal truth.
Truth is no longer merely denied in many places; it is negotiated, edited, diluted, commercialized, and made to bow before convenience. Men now shape truth to fit appetite rather than shape appetite to fit truth. But heaven has never left the believer orphaned in a fog of uncertainty. Christ, knowing the weakness, blindness, and vulnerability of man, gave the believer not merely principles to study but a Person to indwell him—the Spirit of Truth.

The Holy Spirit does not merely visit the believer occasionally like a distant guest. He indwells. He abides. He walks within the surrendered heart as Heaven’s living witness. He guides God’s children through the maze of deception, through the noise of error, through the darkness of self-will, and into the liberating brightness of divine truth.

The believer who ignores the Spirit may possess information yet lack direction. May possess education yet empty of true knowledge. But the believer yielded to the Spirit carries within himself Heaven’s compass. Spiritual barometer.

The woe of our generation is not merely that darkness exists, but that many who claim light resist the Spirit who guides into it. We quote Scripture yet resist conviction. We sing worship yet silence the inward whisper. We desire comfort more than correction. Yet the Spirit of Truth was not sent merely to make us feel spiritual; He was sent to make us truthful, holy, discerning, and Christlike.

Whisper
The Spirit of Truth does not lead men deeper into themselves but deeper into Christ. He does not flatter the flesh; He crucifies it. He does not baptize compromise; He exposes it. He does not guide according to popular opinion but according to eternal reality.

Many want divine guidance without divine surrender. They desire direction while still clutching rebellion. But the Spirit guides yielded hearts. A stubborn will deafens spiritual hearing. The Holy Spirit speaks most clearly where pride is broken, where the heart trembles at God’s Word, and where obedience matters more than convenience.

There are paths that appear enlightened yet end in ruin. There are voices that sound intellectual yet poison the soul. There are teachings clothed in spirituality yet empty of Christ.

The Spirit of Truth protects the believer from becoming spiritually sophisticated yet eternally deceived.
He guides through Scripture. He convicts through conscience. He restrains through holy discomfort. He illuminates through inward witness. He redirects through peace or unrest. Sometimes, He whispers gently; sometimes, He wounds deeply before healing completely. Blessed is the believer who has learned to recognize His dealings.

Thomas Brooks once observed that “the Spirit is a fountain of light as well as a fountain of life.” The Spirit who regenerates also illuminates. He opens blind eyes not merely to see sin but to behold Christ in His beauty, glory, sufficiency, and supremacy.

To be guided by the Spirit is not mystical confusion; it is spiritual alignment. It is the gradual bending of the heart toward God’s thoughts, God’s ways, God’s desires, and God’s truth. The Spirit leads the believer away from self-deception, falsehood, lies, and into the painful yet liberating honesty that produces holiness.

Reflection and Action
What voice shapes your decisions most—culture, emotions, ambition, fear, people, or the Spirit of Truth?

Have you become so loud internally that you can no longer hear Heaven’s whisper?

Are there convictions the Spirit has repeatedly pressed upon your heart that you continue to resist?

Today, return to the place of surrender. Open the Scriptures prayerfully. Sit quietly before God again. Ask the Spirit to expose every hidden compromise, every disguised idol, every false direction, and every area where truth has been sacrificed for comfort.

Pray for a heart sensitive enough to obey quickly whenever He speaks.

Prayer
Spirit of Truth, dwell richly within me and silence every voice that competes with Your authority. Guide me away from deception, pride, compromise, and self-will. Train my heart to recognize Your whisper and obey Your leading. Let Your truth shape my thoughts, desires, decisions, and conduct until Christ is fully formed in me. Keep me from spiritual blindness in an age drowning in confusion. Lead me daily in the ancient paths where truth, holiness, peace, and eternal life are found. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Jwan Zhumbes
Felix Auta

18/05/2026

Last Week Sunday Confirmation at Christ Anglican Church Kugiya.

16/05/2026

UTK Freedom Rally in London

15/05/2026

WHISPERS OF THE ANCIENT PATHS
A Journey into God’s Heart – A Devotional Series

Day 65

Scripture
“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”— Isaiah 12:2 (ESV)

Topic: WHEN GOD BECOMES YOUR ALL, FEAR DIES

Entry Thoughts
Much as you need a literal hanger for your cloth, much more do you need spiritual hanger for your life. And God is that spiritual hanger. How you place and treat God in your life reveals a lot about the way you walk with him and how you stand when the earh in its things quake.

Fear grows where God is reduced. Trust rises where God is enthroned. The heart that makes God its all finds stability when everything else shakes. Men fear because they lean on things rather than on God. What they lean on can fail. Wealth can disappear. Human promises can break. Human strength can collapse. Influence can fade. Connections can disconnect. Earthly security can crack overnight. But the soul that has found God as its salvation possesses what storms can not uproot. What quakes can not shake.
Isaiah does not merely say, “God gives salvation.” He says, “God is my salvation.”

God Himself becomes the refuge, the confidence, the song, the strength, and the security of the believer. The heart that truly possesses God possesses enough. Fear loses its throne, where God occupies the centre.

Many claim faith, yet live tormented by anxiety. We confess God publicly yet secretly depend on men, systems, savings, titles, connections, or visible guarantees. But fear often reveals where trust truly rests. What is it that when lost, it also takes away your peace? Whatever you can not lose without losing peace may already be sitting too close to the throne of your heart. It had stolen the place of God in your heart.
The man, whose all is in God, may tremble momentarily, but he will not collapse permanently. And though he falls seven times, he will surely rise again. Why? Because his anchor is not tied to changing things but to the unchanging God.

Whisper
“Behold, God is my salvation.”

And God is asking, "Am I really your salvation? " For this is not shallow religious language. It is the language of settled confidence. Isaiah speaks as one who has shifted his weight fully upon God. As one who has shifted his gaze from man to God. As one who has shifted his confidence from flesh to faith.

Salvation here is larger than rescue from sin alone; it includes security, deliverance, protection, help, preservation, and hope. For God does not merely visit the believer with occasional assistance; He becomes the believer’s everything.

“I will trust and will not be afraid.”
Trust and fear can not comfortably share the same throne in the heart. The more God fills your vision, the smaller fear becomes. Fear magnifies danger; faith magnifies God. Fear studies the storm; trust studies the Shepherd walking upon it.

Many today are exhausted by the uncertainty of the times. Economies shake. Nations bleed. Violence spreads. Promises fail. Yet Scripture calls the believer to another posture-not denial of danger, but confidence in God amidst danger. The child of God is not fearless because life is easy, but because God remains sovereign.

“For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song.”
What strengthens you reveals what rules you. Some draw strength from applause. Others from power, money, connections, or human approval. But these things can not sing in the night season. When the night is deep and the heart is heavily ladden, exeternal securities do not intercede. Only God can become both strength for the battle and song in the darkness.

When God becomes your song, worship rises where worry once lived. Praise becomes the language of trust. Dance takes over from rejection. The soul discovers that heaven’s presence can sustain a man even when earth withholds comfort.

“And he has become my salvation.”
Notice the intimacy. God is not merely a doctrine to discuss but a reality to experience. A distant God can not calm present fears. But the God who becomes personal salvation steadies the trembling heart. Losens the nerves frozen by fear.

The ancient paths still whisper today: the safest place on earth is not the absence of trouble but the presence of God. He who has God as his all has more than enough for every season.

Reflection and Action
What presently threatens your peace most deeply?
What are you secretly depending on for security besides God?
Has fear revealed that something else occupies the throne of your confidence?
Bring your anxieties honestly before God today. Surrender every substitute security now. Re-enthrone Him in your heart without further procrastination. Speak His promises aloud over your fears now. Touch his nailed spots with your faith finger. Let worship replace worry, praise replace lamentations, and let rise trust again.

Prayer
Lord, please right now clear my doubts and become my all. Where fear has ruled me, let trust arise again. Where cowardice has kept me imprisoned, let courage take over. Detach my heart from every false security and anchor me deeply in yourself. Be my strength in weakness, my song in sorrow, my stability in waves, my calm in storms, and my confidence in uncertain times. Teach me to trust You so fully to such an extent that fear loses its voice within me. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

15/05/2026

A NEW HEART (PRAYER) - RT. REV. DR. JWAN ZHUMBES
Jwan Zhumbes
Felix Auta
St.Andrew Kuru, Jos