11/04/2026
SUNDAY 12TH APRIL, 2026.
SUB-THEME: THE CROSS: CULMINATION OF GRACE.
TEXT: 2 CORINTHIANS 1:3-7.
3. Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
4. who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
5. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.
6. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer.
7. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
TOPIC: GUARANTEES COMFORT.
MESSAGE:
The Christian race is full of trials, persecutions, and sufferings because of Christ. Today's text stresses God's role in comforting believers on all their afflictions. Just as believers share in Christ's suffering, they also share his abundant comfort. Indeed, God understands and knows our present situations. His comfort not only relieves the believers but equips them so that they can also extend that same comfort to others. Affliction and painful experiences deepen reliance on God while comfort empowers believers to support one another, especially the weak, the broken-hearted, the bereaved, and the victims of crises. It is not a must to speak when you visit a bereaved family. However, allow the Spirit of God to give you words of consolation.
REFLECTION:
He is the Great Comfort.
PRAYER:
Lord, equip me to be a source of comfort to others. Amen.
MEMORY VERSE FOR THE MONTH: COLOSSIANS 2:15.
"And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross."
TODAY'S BIBLE READING PLAN: 2 KINGS 17-19.