Pastoral Messages by Matriarch Elnette Edwards Dear ones, I'd like to discuss prayer with you, not as a religious duty, but as the lifeline that sustains us through every season. My mother used to say, "Baby, when you don't know what to do, get on your knees. When you do know what to do, get on your knees anyway." That wisdom has carried me through valleys I never thought I'd survive. Prayer isn't about fancy words or long speeches that impress others. I've heard prayers that moved heaven with just three words: "Lord, help me." I've witnessed breakthrough come through silent tears when words wouldn't form. God doesn't need our eloquence—He desires our honesty. I remember a season when everything seemed to crumble at once. My health was failing, finances were tight, relationships were strained, and I felt so alone. In those early morning hours, before the sun came up and before anyone needed me, I would sit in my pra...
HH, Patriarch Sir Johnson Faithful Practitioners, The spiritual discipline of fasting is largely forgotten in our modern, comfort-obsessed culture. We are surrounded by abundance, trained to indulge every appetite, conditioned to avoid discomfort at all costs. Yet there is tremendous spiritual power in voluntary denial, in choosing hunger when food is available, in exercising mastery over physical appetites. Fasting is not about punishing your body or earning divine favour through suffering. It is a tool for spiritual focus, a method of breaking the dominance of physical desires over spiritual priorities, a practice that sharpens your sensitivity to divine communication. When you fast, you declare that you are more than your physical appetites. You prove that your body is a servant, not a master. You create space for spiritual hunger to emerge, which is often drowned out by constant physical satisfaction. In the emptiness of fasting, you often hear what you could not hear in the ...