WELCOME TO 2026

  A good new first day of this brand-new year 2026 to you all.

I read in the Daily Bread a few days ago that it was on 1906 Christmas Eve, that the first ever radio broadcast of music was heard on earth

Before then, there were just beeps and pulses to transmit codes!!! But then, for the first time ever, a violin Solo “O, Holy Night” Carol was heard played over the radio from the US Navy on the Atlantic. Certainly, it was not by accident that it was in that same year 1906, that the Pentecostal Holiness Church was born in Azusa, California, with William Seymour, a one-eyed black Pastor, leading the movement!

There had also been beeps of this phenomenon earlier around 1901, at Topeka, Kansas, Bethel Bible school, where it was being preached that the evidence of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit is speaking in tongues, and where a student was heard speaking in tongues! It is exactly 120 years since then, this year 2026, that the Pentecostal Church was born!

Now, God has spoken definitively about Nigeria. He will bring forth a New Nation of Nigeria that would be governed in righteousness and would be a model to the world! People will come from far and near to see with their own eyes the wonders the Almighty is doing in Nigeria!

Exactly 40 years ago, God revealed to Pa S. G. Elton, who served as a missionary in Ilesha, Nigeria, for 50 years, that first, Nigeria would be known globally for ‘deep corruption’. But it will later become a “nation of Righteousness”, attracting people from other nations to learn righteousness from them. Nigeria would become “the trigger for God’s Purpose. The Number 40 is very significant spiritually.

God told Elijah, “Go tell Ahab, I will bring rain” (1 Kings 18:41-44). Elijah delivered the message but didn’t go to sleep since God had spoken. He began immediately to pray it down.

Daniel too, during his study of the Word, the book of prophecy found that it was written that the Jews, because of their sin, would be in captivity for 70 years.  He found, on his meditation on the Word of God, that it was then past 70 years, and immediately began to fast and pray!

Let us welcome the year 2026 with gratitude and begin to pray earnestly that the Lord will release the new nation of Nigeria that God has promised. Let us begin to pray earnestly that the Lord will send down a worldwide revival, starting with the manifestation of the New Nigeria in 2026.

Therefore, FEAR NOT. Behold the year 2026. IT IS THE YEAR FULL OF GOOD TIDINGS. LUKE 2:10

LET US BEGIN TO PRAISE THE LORD AS WE PRAY DOWN THE GOOD TIDINGS AND A WAVE OF REVIVAL IN 2026, IN NIGERIA, IN OUR LIVES AND ON EARTH IN JESUS NAME, AMEN

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The Ten Commandments: List, Biblical Origin, Meaning and Catholic Understanding

As important as the Ten Commandments were in the Old Testament, we can’t fully appreciate their meaning without understanding them in relation to Jesus.

As the Catechism tells us, “Beginning with the Old Testament, the sacred books refer to the ‘ten words,’ but it is in the New Covenant in Jesus Christ that their full meaning will be revealed.”

Being a follower of Jesus means following, not forgetting, the commandments.

“The Law has not been abolished (Mt 5:17),” the Catechism teaches us, “but rather, man is invited to rediscover it in the person of his Master who is its perfect fulfilment.”

The first three Commandments refer to love of God; the next seven, love of neighbor. When Jesus is challenged by the Pharisees in Matthew 22, he summarizes the Ten Commandments into two concise directives.

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.”

These two instructions, sometimes called the Greatest Commandments, complement each other and beckon us to allow our love for God to move us to do His will and be His hands and feet here on earth.

“The love of God always comes first,” writes Brother Silas Henderson, SDS. “Our response to that love should take us outside of ourselves as we are asked to share with others the love and compassion that we have received from God.”

To understand the connection between the Ten Commandments and Jesus is to recognize God at work in humanity across thousands of years.

The Ten Commandments continue to be relevant, and popes through the years have helped guide us through a contemporary understanding of them.

A Call to Intercession: Prayer for World Leaders

In a time marked by a rapid decline in global peace, characterised by wars, invasions, and “official rascality” done with seeming impunity, we are called to look beyond our own strength
. Much like the days of Pharaoh or Hitler, the arrogance of modern leaders reminds us that our only true recourse is a spiritual one

The Way Forward: II Chronicles 7:14

To see our lands healed and the “abyss” of global conflict avoided, the Early Risers Bible Study outlines a biblical roadmap for believers:

• Humble Ourselves: Recognising that God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble
• Pray: Engaging in heartfelt communication rather than merely complaining or judging.
• Seek His Face: Pursuing a deeper relationship and aligning our lives with God’s character.
• Depart from Wicked Ways: Cooperating with the Holy Spirit to walk in newness of life

Practical Steps in Seeking God

Restoring our world requires active participation. The full guide details six practical steps to deepen your connection with the Father, including:

• Heartfelt Prayer: Starting and ending every day in communication with God.
• Scriptural Study: Meditating on the Word to understand God’s desires.
• Purity and Focus: Removing distractions and negative influences that hinder your relationship with Him

Our Prayer for Leaders

We pray specifically for God to turn the hearts of all leaders toward His perfect will, creating an environment where the Gospel can spread, and all men may be saved.

Spring 2025 Bible Study

Theme: Stubborn Faith:  Heroes of the Christian Faith – {Ancient and Modern}.

In today’s world, Christians need stubborn faith. It’s helpful to look at those who demonstrated such faith in the face of overwhelming challenges. Therefore, over the next few weeks, we will study the lives of those who passed down the Christian faith to us.

What is stubborn faith? Let’s start with what it is not. Stubborn faith is:

• Not about stiff-necked people who are simply set in their ways.
• Not about those who resist the Holy Spirit, uncircumcised in heart.
• Not about those who know the truth but stubbornly refuse to follow it, knowingly committing sin and continuing in it.

Stubborn faith is about:

• As Stanley often preached, God rewarded it (Phil 1:27; Rom 5:1-2; Eph 4:5, 16).
• Not being deceived by humanistic persuasion.
• Being guided by the unseen rather than the seen. As the saying goes, biblically based stubborn faith “sees the invisible, believes the incredible, and receives the impossible.”

Join us as we study God’s word every Monday from February 24th to May 5th.

Join us at 2 PM EST, 8 PM WAT, or 7 PM BST.

All are welcome!