Bishop Prof. Julius O. Soyinka

Breaking the Barriers of Bewitchment Study Text: Acts 8: 9 - 13 Introduction: Bewitchment is one of  the common  Satanic barriers used against people from fulfilling their God-given purpose and destiny in life. To bewitch is to charm a person and spiritually control him using Satanic powers.   Evil powers like witchcrafts or sorceries are used to charm, to enslave, or to mislead a person. This evil power can be used on a person, a place or a property. Many people now are behaving just like the Samaritans in the scriptures above. The people of Samaria were under so much suffering but they never realised it. They were under blindness and Satanic elusion but they didn’t know. They were praising the very man who was destroying them.  They did not really know who Simon was. He was sapping them dry but they believed he was delivering them. It is the same thing with a lot of people today. Simon was destroying them properly and thoroughly but Satan was ensuring that they were blinded to it. Th

Power for Living: Volume 5 Number 1  Connecting to His Grace for Continual Victories. Focus Text: 1 Peter 5: 8 - 11  Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.  To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.   This is a letter that was written to Christians who were suffering under some degree of persecution and hostility for their faith. Like them, we too are living in a time in which it is growing harder and harder to live for Jesus Christ. Like them, we feel some measure of cultural pressure against our faith. And like them, we find that we are  being called upon increasingly to stand faithfully and sacrifi

The Ways of the Lord are Right Study Text: Hosea 14:8 - 9 Introduction: The Bible in the book of Hosea urges anyone reading it to live wisely by obeying God’s precepts because they are completely true, and will lead those who follow His ways to be well pleasing unto God. The ways of God is the path to our greatest possible fulfillment, and anyone who chooses to walk in it wholeheartedly is described as a wise person.  The biblical idea of righteousness is to live in accordance with God's design. God designed the world to be good. This is to be achieved by humans working in harmony with God,  in terms of loving God and loving others (Matthew 22:37-39).  When we walk in God's design, it leads to our greatest fulfillment. To know God gains us the greatest experience of life.  It is the path not only to our own fulfillment, but it also brings life to those around us. The reason for seeking to understand the things laid out in the Word of God is because the ways of the Lord are righ

Power for Living: Volume 4 Number 4 Who is on the Lord's Side Focus Text: Exodus 32: 25 - 28   And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:) Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. This is the measure of the grace and mercy of the LORD.  The LORD does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities. Psalms 103:10  Moses gave an opportunity for the people to repent and return to the LORD: who is on the