Have you been struggling with a particular problem, weakness, sin, etc, and the person better placed to help you overcome the problems turns out to be worse than the problem itself? This describes the situation of a young lady who told me how she stopped going for confession because the priest capitalised on her weakness […]
Author Archives: Fr. Simon Onyekachi Madu, OSJ
A lot of atrocities are committed today under guise of the gospel. A lady once told me how she nearly destroyed her marriage out of desperation for a child. According to her she was directed a particular man of God who have helped many women in her condition. When she met him he told her […]
Have you ever wondered why some persons remain in their state of stagnancy, bondage or stunted material or spiritual growth even though they are close to God, have friends, family member or relatives who are either priests, bishops, pastors, etc? After a deliverance prayer session, the person said to me: “father my younger brother is […]
What do you conspire against the Lord? He will make an utter end of it. Affliction will not rise up a second time. (Nahum 1:9) Shake yourself from the dust, arise; Sit down, O Jerusalem!Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion! For thus says the Lord:“You have sold yourselves for nothing, And you […]
Some years ago I met a lady who came back to life after 2 days of death. “During my National Service year after graduation from the University, I was declared dead in a hospital far away from home, after a brief illness and my family was contacted to come for my corpse while my remains […]
Have you been making sincere efforts to live a holy life but it seems everything works against you? Setbacks here and there. Others are progressing; even those who live unworthy lives seem to make progress while you are struggling with setbacks. Others are getting married, getting good jobs, achieving financial freedom, etc while you’re struggling. […]
Woe betides a man that can explain everything about his “lifting or growth”. Hear me, if your upliftment comes from God, no matter how many principles you obey, there must be a gap that only the signs of God can fill in your story. There must be a space where you will tell people “this […]
Are you always ‘acting’ negatively: jealous of others, envious, harbouring bad thoughts, conspiring, gossiping, seeking revenge, angry, seeking the downfall of others, lusting, etc? Then this message is for you! Do you not realise that the heart (the centre of human person) is like a ‘fertile soil’ on which any ‘seed’ wether of ‘plant or […]
The greatest battles in life are neither those fought on fields of war nor those between two nations at war, but is that fought in the heart. When people are at war, neighbours intervene to help settle or fuel the disputes. But the war in the heart has no sympathizers, hence it is the deadliest. […]
The devotion to the Sacred Heart is one of the most widely practised and well-known Catholic devotions, wherein the heart of Jesus is viewed as a symbol of “God’s boundless and passionate love for mankind” (Matt 11:28-30). This devotion is the fruit of the revelations of Jesus to a Roman Catholic nun from France, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, who said she learned […]