Kissy Baptist Church

Kissy Baptist Church Kissy Baptist Church is a functioning Baptist congregation in Kissy, Freetown, affiliated with the National Baptist Convention in Sierra Leone.

10/03/2026

The Good Seed
*WORTH READING*
Tuesday, March 10
*So Joseph found favour in his sight, and served him.*

Genesis 39:4

*Joseph as a servant* - *PLEASE READ TO THE END* -
We know Joseph not only as the son of Jacob, loved by his father and wearing a colourful coat. We also read about him faithfully serving as a slave in Potiphar’s house.

*He was first a son of his father, then a servant of men, and finally a ruler over the land of Egypt* . *Thus, he points to the Lord Jesus Christ, who came from heaven to earth to be a servant and to suffer and die on the cross. As a result of this devoted service unto death, God exalted Him to His right hand.*

Joseph found favour in the eyes of his master as a slave. Therefore, Potiphar put him in charge of his entire household. Later, God granted him favour in the eyes of the prison warden, who entrusted him with the care of the prisoners. What a faithful servant Joseph must have been!

Joseph was tested repeatedly, yet he never ceased to serve others. This was only possible because he submitted himself to the God he lived for. We see this in his response to Potiphar’s wife who tried to seduce him: “ *How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”* (Genesis 39:9). Joseph wanted to honour his God at all times.

Serving and helping others was not a burden or mere duty for Joseph but a task he fulfilled with joy. There is much we can learn from him!

Today’s reading: Exodus 36:14-34 · Luke 16:19-31

20/01/2026

The Good Seed
Tuesday, January 20
*If sinners entice you, do not consent.*

Proverbs 1:10

*Saying “No”*
As a Christian, you will repeatedly find yourself in situations where you need to take a stand. Perhaps your classmates or colleagues invite you to a party. It might also be that they want to involve you in a political or cultural activity. You might be asked to do something wrong at school or at work.

In those moments, you are at risk of aligning yourself with the world or even sinning. You can only be preserved from this by saying no. This is certainly not easy because you don’t want to offend anyone or lose face in front of your colleagues.

The Bible helps you say no to the world’s temptations: “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (1 John 2:15). And, “Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God” (James 4:4).

Thinking about the Lord Jesus also helps you remain steadfast in temptation. It prevents you from consenting to something that He doesn’t approve of. Do you want to fellowship with the world that rejected and crucified your Saviour? Do you want to do something evil, even though you know that Christ had to suffer and die for your sins?

“ *For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.* ” (Jeremia 31:34)

Today’s reading: Exodus 12:17-28 · Luke 5:17-26

19/01/2026

The Good Seed
Monday, January 19
*I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins* .

Isaiah 43:25

*Erased*
“Mom,” Finn says to his mother, “I don’t understand what happens to all the sins that God forgives. Are they just somewhere for a time and will suddenly reappear one day?”

“Well, Finn, what happened to all the figures you drew on your slate in the playroom yesterday?” his mother asks in return.

“They are gone. I wiped them off with the sponge.” – “Where did they go?” – “Nowhere, they are erased; they are gone.”

“See,” explains his mother, “that’s exactly what happens with our sins when we confess them to God. They are erased and never come back.”

That’s what the Bible says, as we read in today’s verse. It is a glorious word that gives eternal comfort. God is waiting for us to turn to Him, as we honestly confess our wrongdoing, and then to forgive us because the Lord Jesus died for us.

We can confidently claim that the Saviour took upon Himself the punishment for our sins on the cross. His death is the just basis on which God fulfils His promise and wipes out our guilt. His forgiveness is eternally valid because He will never remember our sins again.

“ *If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness* .”

(1 John 1:9)

Today’s reading: Exodus 12:1-16 · Luke 5:12-16

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16/01/2026

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16/01/2026

The Good Seed
Friday, January 16
*For I, says the Lᴏʀᴅ, will be a wall of fire all around her* .

Zechariah 2:5

*Prayer answered – the wall*
It is winter in Russia. Fiercely, the snowstorm shakes the shutters. Barely anyone dares to venture out onto the street. But this is not just because of the icy cold. Marauding Cossacks roam the land! They raid isolated villages setting fire to the houses. There is no escape! Little Nelja lives with her grandmother in a cottage on the edge of the village. Again and again, she peers into the evening twilight. “Will the Cossacks come to us too?” she asks anxiously. “I hope not,” replies Grandma. “We will pray that God preserves us. But first, let’s read something from the Bible.” Today it’s Zechariah 2. When they reach verse 5 (see today’s verse), they look at each other.

*“A wall of fire?”* asks Nelja. “Won’t they burn with that?” “No,” explains Grandma, “it means that God will protect them.” Nelja jumps up: “Then the Lord Jesus can also make a wall of fire around us!” – *“Yes, He can. I don’t know if it will be a wall of fire – but He can definitely protect us* !”

Now they both kneel down, and Nelja prays: “ *Please, Lord Jesus, make a wall around our house! You know that the Cossacks are coming. Please protect us! Amen.”* Then they both go to bed completely reassured.

The next morning, it doesn’t seem to get properly bright, and everything is so quiet around them. What’s going on? Finally, Grandma opens the front door – and, *to her amazement, she sees that the whole house is surrounded by a high wall of snow!*

Laboriously, she digs her way through the snow. Then she realises that indeed everything is quiet in the village. The Cossacks had come during the night and abducted or killed all the residents – and burned down all the houses! Only the small house buried under the snow remained undiscovered.

Today’s reading: Exodus 10:1-11 · Luke 4:14-30

15/01/2026

The Good Seed
Thursday, January 15
*He does great things past finding out, yes, wonders without number* .

Job 9:10

*No creation without a creator*
Anyone seeking evidence of the Creator in the creation will find countless signs therein. And the more modern science explores the universe, the more evident it becomes that there must be a Creator. Let’s take, for comparison, a spacecraft. Who would imagine that such a vehicle could ascend into orbit, surround our planet, and land back at the right place at the right time without the genius of mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists?

So what can we say in light of the multitude of stars moving with strict precision in the cosmos? Anyone who thinks this cosmos, with its incredible regularities, emerged from nothing must have plenty of imagination. It is simpler to believe in a wise Creator God who not only created everything but also sustains everything in life and in its orbits. The Bible says of Him, “ *For by Him all things were created ... and in Him all things consist”* (Colossians 1:16–17).

Scientists have calculated that the Sun emits the energy of ten billion atomic bombs in one second. And how many billions of stars emit energy in the part of the universe known to us! Yet they likely make up only a tiny fraction of the entire cosmos.

No less ingenious is the microscopic world, in terms of beauty, harmony, and order.

“ *Great is the Lᴏʀᴅ, and greatly to be praised; and His greatness is unsearchable”* (Psalm 145:3). Let us therefore remain humble before Him and give Him the honour He deserves.

Today’s reading: Exodus 9:17-35 · Luke 4:1-13

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14/01/2026

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09/01/2026

The Good Seed
Friday, January 9
*And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger* .

John 10:4–5

*The sheep*
Once, a tourist in the Middle East stopped at a well where shepherds were watering their sheep. “Three herds,” he recounted, “were mingling there, belonging to three shepherds. The animals wanted to go to the stone water troughs. When I saw the sheep running around in confusion, I wondered how each shepherd would recognise his animals. But when the animals finished drinking, one of the shepherds took his staff and called out, ‘Mehn-ah!’ (Follow me!)

Immediately, his sheep separated from the others and gathered behind him. Then the second shepherd called out ‘Mehn-ah!’, and soon he too was surrounded by his sheep.

Then I asked the third shepherd if his sheep would follow me. His response was simple: ‘Try it!’ I called, ‘Mehn-ah! Mehn-ah!’ The sheep raised their heads, looked at me in surprise, but not one of them moved.

‘Do they never follow anyone else but you?’ I asked him. – ‘Never! Except if a sheep is sick; otherwise, it never follows anyone else.’”

In John 10, the Lord Jesus uses the imagery of a shepherd and his flock to show us that He, the Son of God, is the good shepherd who laid down His life for the sheep. Who are the sheep? They are people who belong to Him through faith. Of them, Jesus says, “ *My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone sn**ch them out of My hand* ” (John 10:27–28). What security and shelter it is to know the good shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ, to stand under His protection, and to follow Him!

Today’s reading: Exodus 6:9-30 · Luke 2:21-35

08/01/2026

The Good Seed
Thursday, January 8
The desire of our soul is for Your name and for the remembrance of You.

Remember that Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, was raised from the dead …

Isaiah 26:8; 2 Timothy 2:8

The best look into the past
Most of the significant events of history now live only in old books or in the ruins of ancient monuments. The political map of the world is constantly subject to change. The great conquests of past centuries typically did not establish permanent boundaries.

The same holds true for politics and science. Great ideological shifts come and go, and some hypotheses and theories once proposed are now refuted. However, the past holds a key event that remains anchored in our Western society: the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Through the daily date displayed on this calendar, we are constantly reminded of it. But why did He come into the world? “This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” – and for that, His death was necessary (1 Timothy 1:15). He was born to die for us! Jesus sacrificed His perfect, sinless life for guilty people, so that they might be saved.

As wonderful as His birth and His death on the cross are, His resurrection three days after His burial is also remarkable. Many eyewitnesses confirmed that He arose. If He had not risen, there would be no evidence that God accepted His substitutionary sacrifice: For Jesus “was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised because of our justification” (Romans 4:25). All of this is now almost 2,000 years ago – and faith in it is the best look into the past that we can take!

Today’s reading: Exodus 5:15-6:8 · Luke 2:8-20

05/01/2026

Monday, January 5
*Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lᴏʀᴅ forever* .

Psalm 23:6

Two promises for the future
We stand at the beginning of a new year, uncertain about what the coming weeks or months may hold. The future is not in our hands, but all of us who are believers in Christ have two firm assurances regarding the future:

“ *Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life* .” This promise is for our earthly life. Every day, we are accompanied by God’s goodness. We continually experience His kind care, receiving what we need for our daily lives, and ensuring our spiritual well-being.
Additionally, we can count on divine mercy (or grace) every day. Having been saved from the penalty of our sins, we are in His favour and enjoy His benevolence. Whether the situation is simple or challenging, whether we are joyful or downtrodden, God is always with us.

“ *And I will dwell in the house of the Lᴏʀᴅ forever.”* This promise refers to the time after our earthly life ends. We are heading towards our eternal home with our God and Father in heaven. The Lord Jesus spoke about it in His farewell words: “In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would I have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also” (John 14:2–3).

Today’s reading: Exodus 4:1-17 · Luke 1:57-66

03/01/2026

The Good Seed
Saturday, January 3
*For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. ... My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed* .

Psalm 139:13, 15–16

*A wonder from the beginning*
King David describes here the beginning of his life, the miracle of conception, as well as his growing in his mother’s womb. He says, “I was made”, and, “Your eyes saw my substance”. At this early stage, he was already a person – albeit a very small one.

Today, it is known that 18 days after conception, the embryo’s heart develops, and three days later it begins to beat. By the 45th day, before many women even know they are pregnant, all internal organs have formed. Additionally, at this stage the embryo has a small mouth and lips, an early tongue and buds for 20 milk teeth.

Even at this early stage of pregnancy, the embryo is a complete, albeit unborn, human being, differing from others only in size (about 1 centimetre), weight (about 1 gram) and living space. By the 65th day, the little person can already kick with its feet, clench its fists, open its mouth and smile.

When David reflects on the beginning of his existence in this way, he exclaims, “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvellous are Your works; and that my soul knows very well” (verse 14).

Likewise, every person today is unique, an original and a masterpiece – even though illness and age may leave their marks. How fitting it is then to say to the great God with David’s words: *“I will praise You* ”!

Today’s reading: Exodus 2:16-3:6 · Luke 1:26-38

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