DECEMBER 2025 EDITION OF EXCERPTS - Anglican Diocese of Enugu

DECEMBER 2025 EDITION OF EXCERPTS

DECEMBER 2025 EDITION OF EXCERPTS FROM SOME OF HIS LORDSHIP’S MESSAGES.

MUCH LOVE AND GREETINGS FROM YOUR FRIEND AND BISHOP – THE RT. REV’D PROF. SAMUEL O. IKE, the Diocesan Bishop of Enugu (Anglican Communion).

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1. The antidote to having all that God destined for you in life and destiny is to LOVE HIM. Do you love Him absolutely, friends? (1 John 5: 3).

2. Friends, whenever God’s word affects you, please change. You will remain God’s delight when you do what pleases Him. (Ezra 7: 10; 2 Timothy 3: 16 & 17).

3. Dear Child of God, your calling is not a call to jealousy and competition:
It is wisdom to recognize one another’s giftedness and honour each other. It is not wisdom to live in jealousy and competition with one another, child of God. (Philippians 2: 3).

4. It is not absolutely necessary to have Okeite / Amadioha (deity) to whom you pay libation, friends. His Lordship pleads with you; have no reservations in loving the Lord. Let your consuming passion be with Him; please love Jesus Christ with all your consciousness. (Psalm 27: 4; 2 Cor. 5: 14 – 16).

5. What is that one thing you desire in life and destiny, friends? Has the vacuum in your life been filled? No amount of wealth, fame, beauty, educational qualifications, connections / networks will be able to fill the vacuum in your life, friends. ONLY JESUS CAN. MAKE HIM THE LORD OVER YOUR LIFE TODAY. (Luke 12: 15; Luke 15: 10).

6. When a man’s sense is not complete:
The Prodigal son lost his senses for years to worldliness and sin; that is what happens when one loses touch with Jesus Christ. Are your senses still intact? When you live in sin; your sense is incomplete. (Luke 15: 17).

7. His Lordship’s two questions I tagged questions of ownership:
What controls your life?
What is your motive for serving the Lord? Friends, in this kingdom, your motive defines and determines your rewards. The marker of your being a genuine child of God is that His love compels you. Are you controlled by the love of God or by human motivation? We don’t live for ourselves here. (2 Corinthians 5: 13 – 15).

8. His Lordship’s definition of Christian maturity:
Christian maturity is subjected to total submission to God’s will. How much can you obey / submit to His will even when it is not conducive to the flesh? (Hebrews 5: 12 – 14).

9. His Lordship’s short letter to young girls:
Dear young girl, when you keep yourself for God; He empowers you for exploits. Be a girl that holds oneself; build capacity via character. Dress the way you want to be addressed. (Proverbs 31: 22, 25)

10. Dear woman, you are a minus to divinity if all your beauty is only of the outward but rotten in your inner man (the heart). (Proverbs 31: 30)

11. When God’s rating over your life is zero percent; it indicates red light. Even though men can rate you too high, it does not indicate you are a child of God. Please, live to please God all the days of your life, friends. (1 Peter 3: 3 & 4)

12. Dear lady, you are a prostitute whenever you make what is meant to be private to now be public. You can be a Pastor’s wife / child; President’s, Governor’s, wife / child yet you are a prostitute. Please don’t make what is meant to be private public, dear lady. (Proverbs 31: 25)

FRIENDS, WE CELEBRATE YOU FOR MAKING IT TO THE YEAR OF OUR LORD “2026”. ENJOY AN OPEN HEAVEN, WITH YOURS, ESPECIALLY IN THIS MONTH OF JANUARY. Congratulations!

Sermon Excerpts Compiled By:
Rev. Onyekachukwu Ezechukwu
Assistant Bishop’s Chaplain
St. Paul’s Chapel, Bishop’s Court, Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria.

DECEMBER 2025 EDITION OF EXCERPTS