Text:  1 King 11:4-8 INTRODUCTION: Jesus summarized for us the way we are supposed to love God. “You shall love the Lord Your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your heart” God does not expect anything less than this from any of His children. When the chosen people of God performed below this expectation, God told them through Isaiah and same echoed by Jesus echoed Is. 29:13 in Matt. 15: 8 “You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you: These people honor me with their lips but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men” If we expect God’s promises to be fulfilled in our lives this year, our hearts must be single with Him.  A heart that is not single: It is a divided heart. David in Psalm 86 [...]

TEXT: 1Kings 8: 56-61 TOPIC: Heart transformation INTRODUCTION: The heart is the seat of emotions, passions and appetites in man. Whatever we resolve to do, we incline towards and determine to do come from it. As the center of our physical and spiritual being it plays an important role in our relationship with God. The bible declares; “you shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind and with all your strength (Deut 6:5). In these verses called the Shema, the whole heart of man is required in relationship with God for positive results. Solomon was careful to underscore this to the people of God as conditions for continued fulfillment of God’s promises, faithfulness and presence. Why did he need to stress this fact? It is because of the following reasons: 1. The natural inclination of the heart: The [...]

LSM SUNDAY MESSAGE 5-5-2019   THEME: DIVINE PEACE AND ASSURED ESTABLISHMENTS TOPIC:  Recovering what the enemy has stolen Text:  1Samuel 30:8-20 INTRODUCTION: When men begin to weep then you must know that it has to do with a situation that has touched their hearts.  David and his men were in a situation where they wept until they were too exhausted to weep anymore. Loved ones, women, sons, daughters and aged ones had been carried away captives to be used as slaves by the Amalekites. This situation was precipitated by self- will and disobedience. Is there anyone here today or you have anyone close to you that have been robbed and have been taken captives by the enemy? You have wept so much over the situation and you are wondering if there is any solution. God has a message for you today that weeping may endure for the night, but joy comes [...]

LSM SUNDAY MESSAGE 1-28-2018   THEME: DIVINE FOCUS AND MIRACULOUS TURN-AROUND TOPIC: Sin in the Camp TEXT: Joshua 7:1-12 INTRODUCTION: Sin is doing something against God or a person. Sin can be divided into three main categories. It is the general term for anything falling short of the glory of God. It may be intentional or unintentional. The sin nature or tendency to sin lies in every man. It induces the man to trespass. Trespass is a sin that is committed knowing fully well that it is prohibited by the Lord. It is intentional violation of law of God. It is going beyond one’s boundary or right, it is to do that which annoys or inconveniences another. The third aspect of sin is iniquity which is more deeply rooted and the premeditated choice to do something wrong and to continue without repentance. David’s sin with Bathsheba that led to the killing [...]

LSM SUNDAY MESSAGE 1-21-2018   THEME: DIVINE FOCUS AND MIRACULOUS TURN-AROUND TOPIC: God is not slack TEXT: 2Peter 3:9; Joshua 6 INTRODUCTION: To be slack means to be loose, less active, slow, sluggish, without care or diligence, be without work or activity, not held tightly or holding well to a position. In the way some men apply this term to God, they feel that God is not holding up or acting according to His promises in their lives when things fail to happen as they expect. Are you here this morning and you have been having this type of feeling about the God of the universe? I want to admonish you this day that the ways of the Lord of the universe are past finding out. Rom 11 :33 states this clearly “ O how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand [...]

TOPIC: Look before you leap TEXT: Joshua 5:13-15; Psalm 121 INTRODUCTION:  Of all the walled cities in Palestine, Jericho was probably the most invincible. Israel’s army had no siege engines, no battering rams, no catapults, and no moving towers. Their only weapons were slings, arrows, and spears-which were like straws against the walls of Jericho. How would they take possession of the Land God had given them? So many are standing by their Jericho today and contemplating like Joshua how to take it. The psalmist records “I will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help, my help cometh from the Lord who made heaven and earth” What is that Jericho you need to take, look up to God before you leap. Looking unto Jesus: The art of looking at the hills is not so much that the hills can give any help, but the psalmist [...]