“In An Oven?”
Thursday, May 29, 2025Key Verse
“But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.” Matthew 13:25
Text — Matthew 13:24-28
Message
Mr. Joe has a bakery in the neighbourhood where he makes bread and other pastries. Once the oven is turned on everybody moves away because it gets so hot and will easily burn off anything and hurts people if precautions are not taken. Mr. Joe announced 3 days break to mark the close of the year’s activities. As they returned from the holiday, they discovered swam of ants in their ovens. “What? In an oven” shouted one of the staff. He forgot that the oven can only hurt when it is hot. Once it is cold it is like any other surface that ants can walk through.
Are you a Christian who does not read the Bible? Are you a Christian who doesn’t pray and praise? Are you a Christian who will never attend fellowship, pay tithe and offering nor preach the gospel to others? A Christian is not someone who bears John or Mary, but someone who has a personal relationship with Jesus through repentance. A Christian is that child who daily builds up himself in the place of prayer, Bible reading, evangelism etc. Without this fortification, you are like the cold oven that can’t hurt an ant. Awake from your slumber and take your place.
Further Reading
Revelation 3:1-3
Prayer for today
Dear father, take away all coldness and laziness towards the things of God away from me.
About Author - Pastor W.F. Kumuyi
Listed among “500 most powerful people on the planet” by the Foreign Policy magazine in 2013, Pastor (Dr.) William F. Kumuyi is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry (DCLM) headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. DCLM started in 1973 as a 15-member Bible study group right in Kumuyi’s apartment at University of Lagos where he was a lecturer. His revolutionary Bible teaching on personal holiness and commitment to evangelism soon gained so much traction and resulted in a widespread revival.
