OLUSEGUN ISAAC BLOG

    Honour the Lord with your possessions, and with the firstfruits of all your increase; so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.  (Prov. 3:9-10 NKJV) I have friends who I know give their firstfruits conscientiously. Some do so by bringing to church their first salary each year without fail as firstfruit. Some give part of the total income of the previous year as seed sown into the new year, while some give the whole of the first sale from their business as first offering. Yet some unliberated folks still bring real fruits from their first harvest. These people have made this a habit which they hardly break. An attempt to emulate them may need great determination and prayers to accomplish!  God gave these words through Moses to the children of Israel: “When you come into the land which I give you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest.” —Leviticus 23:10. One blo...

This is what the Lord says: “Stop at the crossroads and look around. Ask for the old, godly way, and walk in it. Travel its path, and you will find rest for your souls.   (Jeremiah 6:16a NLT) When we newly became born again, you could almost see the fire we carried as young believers. First we wanted everyone to know that we have found something very precious - a new relationship with God by yielding our lives to Jesus Christ. People could see the change in us from the way we now carried around the bible, spent more time praying, participated in fellowship meetings and never missed attendance in church. We could hardly control our zeal to serve in God’s kingdom and wanted all we met to be the same. We felt Christ would return any moment to take the saints back with Him to heaven so we yearned to be among the number.  But now, perhaps because Christ has tarried in His coming as we expected, the fire has dimmed, and continues dimming further by the vicissitudes of life that dail...