Devotion
Dear Subscriber,
Due to unforeseen circumstances, we are unable to continue the weekday Lift Up Your Heart devotionals.
It is our hope that in the future we may be able to resume providing the devotional, or at least, have a series at particular points in the Anglican Liturgical Calendar.
As you will appreciate there has been considerable time and effort involved in producing the devotionals thus far.
Much of that work has been done voluntarily and we want to thank our writers, recorders and translators for providing such a wonderful service over the course of these past months.
We continue to pray that the devotions will have caused you to regularly turn to the Scriptures and seek the counsel of our great God for your daily life.
The Lord be with you.
Archbishop Ben Kwashi
General Secretary
5th January 2021
Jeremiah 31: 1-14
Ephesians 1: 3-14
The hand of the Lord has been heavy on Israel. They have repeatedly broken the covenant with YHWH and now they are reaping the judgement they deserve. God, through...
4th January 2021
Readings: Col 2: 8-end.
In today’s reading, we see that Paul is trying to fix a certain problem in the church in Colosse. It is a serious problem as one can infer from his choice of words. There...
1st January 2021
In today’s reading, the man, lame from birth, was going about his daily routine. He was carried to the Temple gate where he was laid every day to beg from those on their way to worship. One cannot...
31st December 2020
PREACHING AND TEACHING OF GOD’S WORD
The Old Testament passage; Jonah chapter 3 and 4, is about Jonah’s preaching in Nineveh.
We read in part;
“Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time...
30th December 2020
ALL-POWERFUL AND MERCIFUL GOD
The Old Testament passage Jonah chapter 2, is about Jonah’s prayer for God’s mercy and help, while in the belly of a fish. We read in part;
“From inside the fish Jonah...
29th December 2020
GOD’S CALL TO WITNESS AND REACH OUT TO OTHERS
In the Old Testament passage; Jonah chapter 1 we read in part;
“The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and...
28th December 2020
The feast Holy Innocents is observed by Western churches on December 28. It is the day the Church commemorates the execution of the innocent, male children in Bethlehem as told in Matthew 2:16. That...
25th December 2020
What is Christmas? Is it just; cards, plenty of shopping, expensive gifts, bright mixed colored street lights, beautifully wrapped gifts or drinking sprees?
Common Christmas; Old and New Testament...
24th December 2020
PRIDE
“Pride goes before a fall” is a common saying. How does one know when he or she is acting in pride? We may ask.
23rd December 2020
BEING PREPARED
At the start of his sermon, a preacher, asked if there was anybody who was feeling prepared for Jesus’ Christ second coming, to raise his or her hand up! The congregation went silent...
22nd December 2020
LEADERS ON THE WRONG
A book entitled “Can a Bishop be wrong?” took my attention in one of the libraries I went to spend some time to study. This is because of my church background where Bishops are...
21st December 2020
DOUBTING GOD’S LOVE
How do we deal with doubts regarding God’s love and sensitive life issues including marriage and divorce?
18th December 2020
THE MEEK AND HUMBLE
Our relationship with God and one another is often strained by our pride.
Today’s Old Testament passage; Zephaniah 3:1-13, is about prophecy concerning future destruction of...
17th December 2020
GOD’S JUDGEMEN OVER SIN
St. Paul addressing readers who were being tempted to continue sinning, asked a pertinent question
” What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase...
16th December 2020
Today’s Old Testament passage, Isaiah 39, is about King Hezekiah’s mistaken trust in an envoy from Babylon, proudly showing his entire armory and everything found among his treasure’s storehouse. It...
15th December 2020
EXCITING EXPERIENCES
Imagine the excitement of those who after undergoing treatment for cancer finally get a medical report showing they are now free from traces of cancer!
14th December 2020
DEVASTATING NEWS
How would you react, to a medical checkup report that reveal that your illness is terminal?
11th December 2020
GOD IN OUR DISTRESS
All including young children today pray and long for a time when we shall be free from Covid-19, healed from many other diseases and in peace.