Alheri Baptist Church Toungo

09/08/2025

Philippians 4:13
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
🎤 Your limits aren’t final—God’s strength pushes you beyond them.

09/03/2023

Is my Love for Jesus real or Emotional?

04/02/2023

Do Not Turn Your Heart Away From God
I Kings 11:9-10

Solomon would be the last king of a united Israel. Because of the dissolution of a united country, other countries invaded Israel and this began a series of destructive battles eventually leading to the Babylonian captivity, the takeover by the Greeks and finally, the Romans. Even today, Israel is not at peace. How often we hear the saying, “United we stand; divided we fall.” This applies to families, neighborhoods, and countries. People have been seduced by the gods of greed, power and fame. Injustice is the result. Many years ago, Pope Paul VI in an address celebrating the World Day of Peace said, “If you want peace, work for justice.” If you think about the revolutions we have learned about in history or have suffered through in our own lifetime, the root cause seems to be a search for justice. There are still countries where it is impossible to live without fear. People suffer from lack of food, education or medical care. Women live in fear of being kidnapped or r***d. Men fear being killed or forced into armies that are more interested in war than keeping peace. Solomon allowed himself to be lured away from God by his wives. What lures us away from God and God’s law? It’s a question each of us needs to answer. Yesterday, we spoke about righteousness and justice. As long as injustice abides, there will be division that will leave us open to invasion in one way or another. There’s not much we can do in countries that are not our own except to pray and offer whatever support that is available, but we can work for justice in our own cities, our own countries. We can support laws that protect the poor and the vulnerable. We can volunteer for organizations that reach out to help. May we always be part of the solution and not part of the problem, working for peace and helping to eliminate injustice in any way that we can

PRAYER
Gracious God, your world is fractured by hate and fear. So many have turn away from you and your law of love! Give us the courage to remain faithful to you and put aside the god of power and greed so that we can be forces for peace,. Amen.

04/02/2023

MORNING PRAYER
The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Mathew 11:5

INSPIRATION
It is only the blind, lame, leprous, deaf, and dead who could receive healing, cleansing, and resurrection. The well had no need of it. And it is only those who are spiritually blind, cripples, lepers, deaf, and dead who receive miraculous spiritual intervention. And it is only those who recognize their spiritual poverty who are receptive to the Gospel message.

PRAYER
O Lord, I was blind but you gave me eyes to see spiritual truth. I was lame but you make me walk in your Word. I was unclean but you healed my moral guilt and pollution. I was deaf to the things of God, but you opened my spiritual ears and now I can hear and obey you. I was dead to you, but you gave me your life. I had nothing to offer you, being poor in spirit, but you have made me rich in spiritual blessings.

01/01/2023

*DAILY ENCOUNTERED WITH GOD

*TOPIC: A CALL TO WALK FAITHFULLY*

*BH 260: When We Walk With the Lord*
*Memory verse:* "As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws, I will establish your royal throne. 2 Chronicles 7:17-18a, NIV

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In his book, Honour's Reward, author John Bevere writes that honour is the essential key to receiving from God, and that the reason many children of God often work in the kingdom and then lose their rewards is because they do not pay attention to honouring God in their journey.

He highlights that honour carries with it great rewards and that living long and well is a destination one can arrive at only by walking faithfully with God.

God invited Solomon to live his life honouring Him by walking faithfully before Him. This was the crux of the Lord's answer to Solomon's prayer of dedication.

After God had spoken about the people - how their repentance and humility will result in God's favour and mercy over their land, God shifted His attention to Solomon himself.

God's charge to Solomon was that his future as king on Israel's throne is dependent on his obedience, walking faithfully before God.

The issue of obedience is personal and every believer must take it seriously. Walking faithfully before God is the key to enjoying intimacy with Him and enjoying rewards.

At the dawn of a new year, God is extending an invitation to you: He wants you to walk faithfully before Him, in obedience to every detail, every step of the way.

Just like the hymn writer says, when we walk with the Lord in the light of His word, He sheds glory on our way, and that the only way to be happy is to trust and obey the Lord.

*Perceive:* God honours those who walk faithfully before Him.

*Ponder:* Are you ready to walk faithfully with God?

*Practise:* List some ways you will deliberately walk faithfully with God this year and start observing them as from today.

*Pray:* Lord, help me to walk faithfully with You in all my endeavours.

*Prayer:* This New Year, may God release upon you the grace to do natural things in a supernatural way and the supernatural things in a natural way. We pray for fresh insights for the NBC President, Rev. Dr Israel Adelani Akanji as he directs the affairs of the Convention. May God protect him and his family members.

02/12/2022

25/11/2022

THE POWER AND GUILT OF SIN
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be
the Saviour of the world.
1 JOHN 4:14
Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ clearly saves us, in the first
instance, from the guilt and the penalty of sin. We are all guilty
before God and before His holy law. We are guilty in His presence;
so the first thing I need is to be saved from the guilt of my sin. I
need a Savior in that respect apart from anything else. I have bro￾ken the law of God, and I am under the condemnation of that holy
law; so before I can talk about salvation or about being saved, I must
be perfectly clear that I am delivered from the guilt of my sin. That
is the glorious message that the New Testament Gospel brings to me.
In Christ my guilt is removed. It is no use my facing the future
and proposing to live a better life. I am confronted by my own past—
I cannot avoid it, I cannot escape it. I have broken the law—I must
deal with the problem of my guilt—and I cannot do so. I cannot
undo my past; I cannot make atonement for my misdeeds and for
everything I have done against God. I must be delivered from the
guilt of my sin, and Christ—and Christ alone—can so deliver me.
But having thus had the assurance that the guilt of my sin has
been dealt with, I am still confronted by the power of sin. I battle
the world and the flesh and the devil; forces and factors outside me
are trying to drag me down, and I am aware of their terrible power.
The man or woman who has not realized the power of sin all around
him or her is a novice in these matters. There is only One who has
conquered Satan, there is only One who has defeated the world,
and that is this Son whom the Father sent into the world to be our
Savior. Jesus Christ can deliver me from the power of sin as well as
from the guilt of sin.
AT HOUGHT TO P ONDER
Jesus Christ can deliver me from the power of sin as well as from
the guilt of sin.

24/11/2022

THE APOSTOLIC WITNESS
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be
the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the
Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. And we have
known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and
he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
1 JOHN 4:14-16
The apostolic witness is most important. What is it? John, in effect
is putting it like this: “The important thing is to know God. But
how can I know God? ‘No man hath seen God at any time.’ But we
have seen and do testify that Jesus is the Son of God.” That is the
statement.
Notice how he puts it. He had not had a vision. What then?
Thank God, “we have seen.” He said it all in his introduction: “That
which . . . we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon,
and our hands have handled, of the Word of life . . . That which we
have seen and heard declare we unto you,” said John. No man has
seen God, but we have seen Jesus, and Jesus said, “He that hath
seen me hath seen the Father” (See John 14:9).
In other words, the apostolic vision on which my faith is
grounded is this: It is a belief in that which the apostles tell us they
saw, and the explanation of their understanding of what they saw
is found in the four Gospels. The statements in the Gospels are not
simply objective statements; they are statements plus interpreta￾tion, and at long last modern man has come back to see that. They
used to contrast John with Matthew, Mark, and Luke. They said that
John preached, but that Matthew, Mark, and Luke just gave the
facts. But they now have to admit that what all four wrote was
facts plus interpretation. Like John, the men who wrote the first
three Gospels believed and understood that Jesus is the Son of God
and the Savior of the world. They saw and testified; in other words,
they saw, and they expounded.
AT HOUGHT TO P ONDER
The explanation of the apostles’ understanding of what they saw is
found in the four Gospels.

21/11/2022

*YOU ARE CREATED FOR A PURPOSE*

*I alone know the plans I have for you, plans to bring you prosperity and not disaster, plans to bring about the future you hope for. Then you will call me. You will come and pray to me, and I will answer you. You will seek me, and you will find me because you will seek me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:11-13 GNT*

God has a special purpose for you within the scheme of His plans for all mankind. You will only have joy and fulfillment when you recognize His purpose, adjust to it, and set out fulfilling it.

The accomplishment of God's eternal purpose for your life cannot be in your human limited power, exhaustive strength, and feeble resources but in the unlimited power and boundless grace supplied by the Holy Spirit.

No doubt, you will face trials, oppositions, and various obstacles along the way, but they are insignificant if you will set your eyes on Jesus Christ and the goal set before you with full reliance upon the Holy Spirit indwelling your life.

If you do, you will daily be strengthened and encouraged to press on with exceeding joy and the living hope of reaching the finishing line. Then you will receive your eternal inheritance in heaven with this word, "Welcome and well done, good and faithful servant enter into the joy of your Lord." May the Lord help you to identify, pursue and fulfill His purpose for your life in your lifetime. Good morning and have a fruitful week.

***christenvoy***

17/11/2022

KNOWING GOD
Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us,
because he hath given us of his Spirit.
1 JOHN 4:13
We may know, and should know, that we are in a relationship to
God and that we possess His life. That is the nature of the Christian
life. “Hereby,” says John, “know we”—we know it, and we are
certain of it. John’s whole business in writing this letter is that we
may have this knowledge: “These things have I written unto you that
believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye
have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of
God” (1 John 5:13).
Now we all possess this knowledge, and we must never be sat￾isfied with anything less than that. This knowledge is to me the very
essence of the New Testament teaching. What the Bible offers us is
nothing less than this knowledge that God is in us and we in Him,
and we should not rest for a moment until we have it. We have no
right to be uncertain—“that ye may know.” Christians who are
uncertain of these things are doing dishonor to the Gospel of Jesus
Christ, to the work of Christ upon the cross, and to His glorious
resurrection. We must not rest until we have full and certain assur￾ance, confidence, and jubilation. The whole of the New Testament
has been written in order that we may have it, and I argue that this
is something that really must be inevitable. I cannot understand
anyone who not only lacks this certainty, but who would even be
prepared to argue against such a certainty.
As unbelievers we were dead; we had no spiritual life. A
Christian must be born again, by faith, in order to have the life of
God in his soul. So is it possible that we can have such life in us
and not know it? I say that is impossible!
A THOUGHT TO PONDER
We must not rest until we have full and certain assurance, confi￾dence, and jubilation.