Pastor Melvin draws from 1 Samuel 11, where Israel faces overwhelming, mountain-sized odds and the temptation to surrender in shame. Yet, God intervenes through unlikely means—raising up Saul and redeeming a troubled city—to bring deliverance and unity. Even when we feel surrounded and inadequate, God’s grace is already at work, turning our weakest moments into opportunities for hope and restoration.

Pastor Melvin takes us to 1 Samuel 10, showing how God’s sovereignty interrupts the ordinary and calls even the unlikely—like Saul, hiding among the baggage—to extraordinary purpose. Join us to be reminded how God’s grace equips and transforms us, working through our weaknesses to fulfill His plans.

Sometimes when you are going through the motions of the ordinary, God leads you to the extraordinary. Pastor Melvin shows us this in Samuel 9, where we read the story of how Saul, in searching for his father's donkeys, finds Samuel the prophet.

Pastor Melvin takes us to 1 Samuel 8 and encourages us that even though we too often make poor decisions and often suffer consequences, God is still in control and in his kindness, mercy and love brings his will to pass.

Brother Matthew begins in Luke 4:13-22 and shows us how through Jesus' death upon the cross, he saved us from our fallen state, enslaved to sin, so that we are now free to glorify him and serve him.

You may feel like you are in the spiritual doldrums today and that your enemies are always gathering, but in 1 Samuel 7, Pastor Melvin shows us that God is still thundering in the hospital room, when you lose your job, in your living room, and in all our distresses and we should mark these moments by raising a stone of remembrance, an Ebenezer, something that reminds us that we were there and so was God.

Pastor J.S. Melvin continues our study of 1 Samuel in Chapter 6. Even though the Philistines endeavored to worship God in all of the wrong ways, through grace, God looked on their hearts and accepted their clumsy worship.

What can we do when it feels like our God is not prevailing? In I Samuel 4 the Ark of the Covenant is carried into the house of Dagon, but God was on the move in enemy territory. He is always sovereign, and this gives us so much encouragement.

Samuel Chapter 4 teaches us to be careful to read God's word and not to go past the guard rails that God has put in place for us.

Are you discouraged by the season in which you find yourself? Do you find a gap between where you are and where you want to be? Keep ministering where you are and keep praying because God is working even if you cannot see it as Pastor J. S. Melvin shows us in 1 Samuel 3.