Category Archives: LENTEN SERIES

This section contains powerful Prayer Reflections drawn from the liturgical readings for the Lenten Season. The series covers the 40 days of Lenten with Sundays inclusive, for the liturgical years A, B and C.

HOW TO TREAT THOSE INDEBTED TO YOU | Tuesday 3rd Week of Lent | Day 18

In daily transactions some Christians often forget their identities when money is involved. They let the love of money control them to a destructive end. And so I ask you: Are you indebted to someone and have refused to pay because you feel the person is rich and therefore should forget the sum he lend […]

PRAYER IS NOT HOW RIGOROUS BUT HOW EFFICACIOUS | Monday 3rd Week of Lent | Day 17

Are you one of those thinking prayer is efficacious only when it is “hot”, “rigorous” and “full of emotivity”? And then you feel a man of God must “do these” over you before you feel He has prayed or God has answered it. On this 17th day of our Lenten observance the Lord wants us […]

GREEKS SEEK WISDOM, JEWS SEEK SIGNS, WHAT ARE SEARCHING FOR? | 3rd Sunday of Lent | Year B

Do you want a miracle today? Do you seek a deeper knowledge encounter with Jesus? Do you seek refuge from your enemies? Do you seek a better life, financial stability or career?Whatever you seek, you can get in the Lord, but are you ready to ‘pay the price’ or you want a quick fix to […]

BEWARE OF THE ELDER BROTHER SYNDROME: REPENT | Saturday 2nd Week of Lent | Day 16

There are many Christians who feel so pious and perfect such that they don’t admit personal weaknesses or wrongs but are quick to see the imperfections in others. They are quick to criticise and inflate others’ wrongs, finding faults and drawing implications, see evil in almost everything but would not tolerate anyone associating them with […]

EVERY PLAN TO FRUSTRATE YOU SHALL BE A STEP FORWARD TO YOUR DESTINY |Friday 2nd Week of Lent | Day 15

Child of God are you downcast and suffering because people are envious of you because they feel you enjoy certain favours from superiors, endowed in some special way or possess certain qualifications, and for these reasons, you are persecuted, blackmailed, ridiculed, and scorned? Don’t worry, don’t give up what you do, you’re  closer than you […]

3 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD TRUST GOD AND NOT MAN | Thursday 2nd Week of Lent| Day 14

What is the center of your life? What gives you confidence and hope for survival? Are you enjoying a good life today because of some wealth, investment, family member or friend? Many people make the mistake of taking humans and human resources as the centre of their lives forgetting that people die, resources deplete, and […]

THOSE DIGGING A PIT FOR YOU WILL FALL INTO IT THEMSELVES | Wednesday 2nd Week of Lent | Day 13

Do you realise that the type and quality of life you live is the type and quality of friends as well as foes that will come your way? On this 13th day of our Lenten observance the Lord calls us to evaluate our relationship circles. This evaluation is important as the bible tells us ‘watch […]

HAVE YOU BEEN SCANDALISED?: COME LET US SETTLE THE MATTER | Tuesday 2nd Week of Lent | Day 12

Have you been scandalised in the church: by ministers or when they do things contrary to their identities as leaders of the body of Christ or by members of the church when they do those things that contradicts their identity as true disciples of Christ? Scandals have caused many today to break faith and communion […]

DON’T BLAME ANYONE THIS LENT: BLAME YOURSELF | Monday 2nd Week of Lent| Day 11

On this 11th day of our lenten observance the Lord wants to teach us that as the food chain and web describes how creation is interconnected physically, there is also the spiritual dimension that connects man and creation to its Creator (God) such that any problem in one part can upset the whole system. Only […]

IF GOD IS FOR YOU: WHO SHALL BE AGAINST YOU? ONLY YOU CAN | 2nd Sunday of Lent | Year B

Every Second sunday of Lent, the gospel, usually a passage of the Transfiguration of Jesus reminds us that to be transfigured we must first pass through the way of the cross, placing our faith in the hand of God. And that is where the problem lie: we want glory but disdain the cross! We all […]