Author: Jojo Agot

Pastor at Victory. Faculty and adviser at Every Nation Leadership Institute (ENLI). MA in Theology and Mission at Every Nation Seminary.

Intercession for the Philippines

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. –2 Chronicles 7.14

We stake our claim over this nation, we raise up the banner of Jesus over this land, we declare the righteousness of Christ over the Philippines. The powers of darkness have no other option but to back off and flee. Let the nations of the world know that Jesus is God over the Filipino people!

Stunted Spirituality

Don A. Carson on pursuing God more than His blessings:

When it comes to knowing God, we are a culture of the spiritually stunted. So much of our religion is packaged to address our felt needs—and these are almost uniformly anchored in our pursuit of our own happiness and fulfillment. God simply becomes the Great Being who, potentially at least, meets our needs and fulfills our aspirations. We think rather little of what He is like, what He expects of us, what He seeks in us. We are not captured by His holiness and His love; His thoughts and words capture too little of our imagination, too little of our discourse, too few of our priorities.

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The Abrahamic Saga

Meditations on Genesis 12 and 13.

Abram deceived the Egyptians by telling them that Sarai was his sister. Sarai agreed, falling into the same sin of deception. So was Lot.

The lie continued on until they were found out. Pharaoh sharply rebuked Abram for this deception. Any person worth his salt would be humiliated with such rebuke. How is it that the heathen king had more sense than the believer?

Let this be an object lesson for all of us not to put our trust in the ways of this world. This is how sinners try to get out of sticky situations. They use deception and half truths to save their necks. Abram thought that would work for him. How wrong he was. Continue reading The Abrahamic Saga

Streak of Light

To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call upon the name of the Lord. –Genesis 4:26

Prior to Enosh’s birth, the recorded lineage was that of Cain’s. In just a few verses, we saw the quick corruption of the human heart, resulting into two murders in the family. Human kind was degenerating very quickly. What was Adam and Eve’s seemingly simple culinary blunder was now becoming more sinister.

But the moment Enosh was born, something good happened. People began calling upon the name of the Lord. While world history was turning dark, a streak of light appeared. A new generation of children feared the Lord. Grace was at work, setting aside a lineage of God-fearing men who will one day give rise to the Messiah.