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Many Christians approach Revelation thirteen with a sense of mystery and even fear. For centuries, people have debated t...
12/06/2026

Many Christians approach Revelation thirteen with a sense of mystery and even fear. For centuries, people have debated the identity of the beasts and speculated about the meaning of the number 666. Countless books have been written and countless theories proposed, each claiming to have discovered the answer. Yet the Lord's purpose in giving this revelation was never to encourage fearful speculation, but to impart heavenly wisdom that would protect His people from spiritual deception.

The two beasts described in this chapter do not arise independently. They derive their power from the dragon, whose teachings they receive and propagate. Our concern today, however, is not the dragon itself, but how these two beasts seek to operate within our own spiritual lives. The danger presented in Revelation thirteen is not merely a danger somewhere in the world or somewhere in history. It is a danger that can quietly influence our own thinking, our own beliefs, and ultimately the way we live.

The Lord does not leave us helpless before such deception. In the very midst of this remarkable chapter, He gives a gracious invitation: “Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast.” Those words shift our attention away from fear and towards enlightenment. They invite us, not merely to identify the beasts, but to understand them, to recognize their influence within ourselves, and through the Lord's guidance and truth to overcome them. This Sunday, come and learn what the Lord reveals about this mysterious Revelation thirteenth.

07/06/2026

I Am The Lord Your God

Life never stands still. Each day brings new experiences, new responsibilities, new joys, and new challenges. Some of ou...
29/05/2026

Life never stands still. Each day brings new experiences, new responsibilities, new joys, and new challenges. Some of our plans will succeed beyond expectation. Others may unfold very differently than we imagined. We will celebrate victories, face disappointments, learn important lessons, and continue growing through every experience the Lord allows into our lives. Yet amid all these changes, there is one question that remains constant: What kind of people are we becoming?

The Lord did not create us merely to pass through the years, but for a heavenly purpose. Every day of our lives is a journey of spiritual growth, preparation, and transformation. While we naturally spend much of our time thinking about our work, our families, our health, and our future plans, the Lord is concerned with something even more important, the condition of our hearts.

As the Lord leads us forward, what does He most want us to remember? What truth must stand at the centre of our lives if we are to make genuine spiritual progress? What must guide our decisions, shape our priorities, and influence every part of our character? The answer takes us back to Mount Sinai, where the Lord revealed the foundation of all true religion. Before He spoke about honouring parents, before He spoke about murder, adultery, stealing, or bearing false witness, He first established the one relationship upon which everything else depends. He declared: "I am the LORD your God."

This Sunday, come let us consider why those words stand at the beginning of the Ten Commandments, why they are the foundation of all spiritual life, and why placing the Lord first is the key to every genuine blessing both in this world and in the life to come.

Few people, if ever, deliberately set out to abandon the Lord. Spiritual decline is usually far more subtle than that. I...
22/05/2026

Few people, if ever, deliberately set out to abandon the Lord. Spiritual decline is usually far more subtle than that. It often begins with what seems to be delayed spiritual progress, disappointments, unanswered questions, or seasons of uncertainty. We pray, we wait, and when the answers do not come as quickly as we expected, impatience quietly begins to take root, accompanied by uncertainty that they will ever come at all.
It was at this very point of impatience and uncertainty that one of the greatest spiritual failures in Israel's history began to unfold. Standing at the foot of Mount Sinai, Israel found itself at a spiritual crossroads. Would they continue to trust the Lord, or would they seek something else in His place? The people knew that Moses had gone to meet with God. Yet as the days passed, something began to change within the camp. Soon they began to say, “...we do not know what has become of him.” (Exodus 32:1)
Those words reveal a heart and mind struggling with impatience and uncertainty, respectively. What began as a delay slowly became a crisis of trust. It is often in such moments that temptation finds its opportunity. When patience weakens, uncertainty grows, and we become vulnerable to seeking substitutes for trust in the Lord. We start to look for something visible, immediate, and reassuring - something we can understand, control, or depend upon. For sure, you have felt restless while waiting for something to happen, only for it to be delayed, and delayed, and delayed! He was supposed to be here hours ago, and you start to wonder? Especially in matters of love, delay can feel like an eternity.
The golden calf was not the beginning of Israel's problem. It was the result of a problem already growing within the heart. Before the calf was formed in Aaron's fire, it had already been formed in the hearts of the people, and their minds responded. Aaron's fire did not create the problem; it merely revealed it. What follows is one of the most sobering chapters in the Word. A nation would be shaken, sacred tablets would be shattered, and a camp would find itself standing at a spiritual crossroads. Before Israel could continue its journey toward the Promised Land, something within the nation had to be confronted, exposed, and changed. But what about us today? This Sunday, come, let us visit Israel for some sobering lessons.

17/05/2026

Please Your Heavenly Father

It is an incredibly rare occurrence in Scripture when God asks, ‘What have I done to My people?’ What could have gone so...
15/05/2026

It is an incredibly rare occurrence in Scripture when God asks, ‘What have I done to My people?’ What could have gone so wrong that God seems to humble Himself in grief before His people? The words of Micah were spoken during one of the darkest spiritual periods in Judah’s history, likely during the reign of King Hezekiah, after the nation had passed through deep corruption under King Ahaz. Outward religion still continued. Sacrifices were still offered. The Temple services still went on. But beneath the surface, something was terribly wrong. The people had slowly begun living, not to please the Lord, but to please themselves.

Greed had replaced compassion. Pride had replaced humility. Justice was being bought and sold. Leaders abused power. Religion became outward performance while hearts drifted far from God. The nation still carried the name of the Lord upon their lips, yet inwardly many no longer walked with Him.

And perhaps that is what makes Micah so painfully relevant today. It is possible to appear religious outwardly while the heart slowly turns inward toward self, pride, reputation, and the love of the world. A person may still attend worship, still speak spiritual words, and still maintain the appearance of faith - while secretly living to satisfy self rather than the Lord.

It was into that spiritual condition that the Lord spoke these piercing words through Micah:

“He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you
But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?” Micah 6:8

This Sunday, we will ask ourselves a deeply personal question: Who am I truly living to please? The world? Self? Pride? Reputation? Or my Heavenly Father?

Because in the end, the Lord is not seeking outward worship. He seeks a heart willing to walk humbly with Him. Come, let us learn what it truly means to please our Heavenly Father.

10/05/2026

The Healing Of Our Outer Life

We spend a sizable amount of time maintaining our outward appearance, whilst neglecting the part of life that is quietly...
08/05/2026

We spend a sizable amount of time maintaining our outward appearance, whilst neglecting the part of life that is quietly collapsing within. We master the art of portraying our finest outward appearance. We maintain the schedule, answer the messages, carry the responsibilities, meet work deadlines, take care of family - yet somewhere beneath all of it, we desperately hunger, even for spiritual crumbs falling off the master’s table! Yet resisting to approach the master for help.

Interestingly, spiritual hunger is one of the ways the Lord stirs us towards Him. Not when we feel strong. Not when we believe we deserve heaven’s attention. But when pride has been exhausted, when self-sufficiency has failed, and when we finally come before the Lord with nothing left except need.

That is what makes the story of the Gentile woman so unforgettable. She did not approach the Lord with status, reputation, or religious privilege. She approached Him in sheer desperation. Her daughter was immensely suffering.

Then comes the moment that shocks us all. The response from our loving and compassionate Jesus, who at the time had healed multitudes, seems shocking, cold, cruel, and downright wrong! He simply ignored her, and even when He finally answered, He compared her to a dog! What!

At this point, you would close Scripture and give up on the idea of a loving and compassionate Lord! But wait, wait, you are forgetting something crucial - that Scripture is written in symbolic language or a language of “correspondences.” As Jesus often said, without a parable He did not speak:

And with many such parables He spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it. But without a parable He did not speak to them. Mark 4:33-34

It is a story that shocks us all. This Sunday, come and discover the revelation of the hidden, inner meaning of this story.

03/05/2026

On Your Hill, I Will Lift My Hands

There are moments in life when we feel at peace, confident, and looking forward to the future. About four weeks earlier,...
01/05/2026

There are moments in life when we feel at peace, confident, and looking forward to the future. About four weeks earlier, Israel had crossed the Red Sea. But came to the scorching heat of the wilderness of Sin. The people and their livestock thirsted. Fearing for their lives, they cried out to Moses, and Moses cried out to the Lord, and they were saved by the striking of the rock, and cool, tasty water came gushing out. Israel had just gone through a very rough patch. After the Red Sea and the Raphidim ordeal, Israel was at peace, confident, and looking forward to the journey to the promised land.

It was at that very moment that all of a sudden, like a lightning bolt, everything changed. Without a sound of a war trumpet or a declaration of war, the Amelekites ambushed Israel. They attacked them from the back, the side with the weak, the elderly, women, and children.

Moses did not panic. He called on Joshua to gather some men and go out and fight. This was Israel's first war after leaving Egypt. It is the same with us when we had just overcome a bad habit, a resentment, a grudge, a loss of a loved one – just when we start to be at peace and confident to move forward, something else, like the Amalek, sneaks up from behind trying to attack our weak and not yet strong conviction or strength to take on stronger challenges.

It is here that we turn to the story of the Amalekites attacking Israel and find an incredible lesson about what happens when we have just gone through tough challenges, feeling peace and confidence, that the falsities arising from evil's ambush and attack us without warning. This Sunday, we will look at this sobering story of how falsities arising from evils sneak up on us and try very hard to derail our journey to the promised land. Come and discover what this story of Israel fighting the Amalekites reveals about the art of fighting against sneaky, subtle, but deadly Amalek.

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