My Post for September 2015
This month I thought to write about my testimony regarding my personal salvation, as some of you had indicated that you would like to hear it.
I grew up in a small town called Daudu, Benue State, Nigeria. I am the youngest in a family where my father had two wives. My older brothers commonly practiced idol worship and none of us ever went to church during my early childhood. I was very close to my dad and I seemed destined to be like him. When I turned five years old, the same year my father died, I started going to a church called the Evangelical Reformed Church of Christ (ERCC) where the focus is on the Prosperity Gospel and salvation by works.
- ¶ I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
- Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
- But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
- As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
For ten years as a church member, I had never heard of the saving grace of the true Gospel of Jesus Christ—and both the church and I were lost and on our way to hell.
- Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
When I turned fifteen, I traveled to Abuja, Lagos State, Nigeria, to see my uncle whom I hadn’t seen for years. Upon my arrival there, a friend of his preached Jesus to me and I accepted Christ as my personal savior. I then joined Truth Baptist Church [1] where Pastor Mark Holmes [2] baptized me, and I started going soul winning. I had a hunger for the things of God and Pastor Mark gave me a KJB and taught me the fundamentals of God’s word.
After two years of being a true Bible-believing Christian, God has burdened my heart about missions. On Thursday evening, my pastor preached about a cause to serve God and I eagerly took the challenge as David did. Is there not a cause? Yes, there is!
I have a lot to be thankful for, as there are many opportunities here to serve the Lord. Lately I have been serving in my home church teaching the Boys’ Sunday School class and assisting in the Children’s Church. During the week, I have the opportunity to spend time in the Bible college classes taught by Pastor Mark, and it has been a real blessing to me where I can learn more of God’s word.
My home church has an outreach ministry where we have more opportunities to reach the lost with the precious Gospel of salvation so rich and free! We conducted an evangelistic meeting in a nearby village called Ado Kasa where I was privileged to preach to about 200 souls and many got saved.
Soul winning this month was great where a whole family received Christ as their personal Saviour. Pray also for Iember, Solomon, and Andrew that they will come to church and get baptized, now that they’re saved. There are also so many good testimonies from parents and teenagers about the Bible lessons they’re learning!
My home church also has a prison ministry that I’m a part of where we encourage the inmates with God’s word and give them the Gospel of Christ as well.
The Lord has also blessed me with so many opportunities of giving special songs in the church with my guitar. Pray with me, that God would further bless me with my own guitar, as I’m borrowing the one I’m using from a friend.
- The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
Isaiah 38:20 inspires me so much on singing with the stringed instrument. I want to sing my songs to the Lord on a stringed instrument all my days!
Thank you, most of all, for your prayerful and financial support for our material needs, as the economy here is so meager for the poor that survival is barely possible!
- If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
- And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
- Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
I invite all of you to be a part of this great ministry of bringing the Gospel to Africa’s lost. Like me a few years ago, the vast majority of these people have never heard the Gospel. Without someone personally meeting them one-on-one, they will remain lost.
- How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
Please support this Ministry of the Lord. It’s been my prayer that God’s people, who are able, would be willing to support this most worthy mission—the salvation of souls of Africa’s poorest people. Whether by donating directly or patronizing the ads on this site, you will be supporting this ministry. May God bless all of you!
Isaiah 38:20 inspires me so much on singing with the stringed instrument. I want to sing my songs to the Lord on a stringed instrument all my days.
I thank God for this great opportunity to serve in my home church. Here I’m preaching to the children during morning service.
The children are learning the importance of God’s word! Psalm 119:11 says "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee."
I have Bible lessons with these teenagers every Saturday after our Child Wild Evangelism. The parents are happy for their children’s teachings.
Preaching an evangelistic meeting in a village called Ado Kasa after showing Jesus film. Jesus saved many souls that night. All glory to God!
About 200 folks are present at the evangelistic meeting in Ado Kasa. Thank God for the souls of those that Jesus saved! I believe they went home rejoicing!
Here is Sam and Shabada, my Bible club kids that Jesus saved. The Bible club is an hour program once a week that is a lot like Awana.