Fasting-Strength Through Dependence
Week 9
“Apart from Me you can do nothing.” That statement confronts the modern professional mind. We are trained to believe the opposite. With the right credentials, strategy, network, and discipline, we can accomplish almost anything. Results reinforce that belief. Promotions, successful projects, and measurable impact become quiet evidence of personal capability.
Prayer That Reshapes Priorities: Letting God Guide Your Desires
Week 8
When exploring the Hebrew words used for “prayer”, we discovered that there is more than one term, each highlighting a different aspect of prayer: asking, pleading, crying out, interceding, and examining one’s own heart before God. This shows that prayer is far more than a list of requests — it is a living encounter with God…
Prayer for Focus: How to Train Your Heart and Mind to Stay Present
Week 7
For a long time, I felt like I was failing at prayer. I just couldn’t get it right. How do people pray for hours? I get bored quickly, and using words I don’t normally use feels uncomfortable. I believe God knows me and what I need, so He would also know if I’m being fake or just putting on a show…
Prayer as Resistance to Hurry and Burnout
Week 6
“Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil,” goes the famous quote attributed to psychologist Carl Jung. While we believe that the Devil does exist as a spiritual being, I am certain that busyness and hurry are among his main strategies to prevent Christians from growing spiritually and living out God’s purposes in their everyday lives. C.S. Lewis writes about this in “The Screwtape Letters,” where he imagines a dialogue between two demons…
Prayer in Everyday Life: Living God’s Presence in Ordinary Spaces
Week 5
Many of us learned prayer as something that needs the right conditions: a quiet room, a settled mind, and no interruptions. When life refuses to cooperate, deadlines pile up, children need attention, energy runs low—prayer is often the first thing to slip away. Not because we don’t value it, but because it feels like one more thing competing for space in already full days.
Biblical Meditation: The remedy you need for stress and overwork
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Living and Working from a Settled Heart
Week 4
Every morning, I have this desire: to start the day in stillness, calmness, alone with God, receiving His goodness. I crave that refreshing stillness with God, soaking in His goodness like a cool drink after a long day. But honestly? The clock stares me down, and my brain races: "Hurry up and meditate so I can get to work!" We laugh about it, but it's real. In our high-octane world, we treat stillness like a checkbox.
From Rest to a Renewed Mind: How God’s Word Shapes Our Work
Week 3
As the year gathers pace, with full diaries, constant decisions, and mounting pressure, we are invited to something that feels simple, yet deeply formative: to pause before God. This pause is not about stepping away from our work. It is about making sure our work is not shaped only by urgency, pressure, or other people’s expectations. Intentional stillness sustains our daily calling and gives direction to the choices we make each day.
Carrying Stillness into a New Beginning
Week 2
By now, the year is already moving. Work has resumed at full pace. Classes are in session. Meetings, targets, and expectations are no longer theoretical—they are real and demanding. For many of us, the quiet of the holidays feels distant. And yet, this is often the moment when we most need to pause.
Boat, Seed and Storm - What Mark 4 teaches us about living out our faith at work
Opening the Year - Week 1
This morning I was reading Mark, chapter 4. It is a dense and layered passage. Much could be explored here, but three words stood out clearly to me: boat, seed, and storm.
I could not help connecting this chapter with this particular season of the year. 2026 has begun. Plans have been drafted, goals defined, decisions made. The holiday greetings are behind us, and routine has returned. The question that remains is both simple and uncomfortable: where does Christ truly fit into this new cycle?
Stepping into What Is Next
Closing the Year
This verse comes at the very beginning of the Bible, right after creation. God had completed everything He set out to do, and then He stopped. Not because the work was lacking, but because it was complete. His rest marked a pause that said, “This is enough.” From the start, God showed that life was meant to have rhythm, not endless motion.
Resting Into a New Year — Living From Peace, Not Pressure
Devotional week 52
As we approach Christmas and the transition into 2026, we enter a season of celebration, reflection, and anticipation. The new year draws near, bringing challenges, decisions, and expectations.
Advent in the Sun: Making Our Home in Jesus
Devotional week 51
I love this time of year! In South Africa, December arrives with sunshine and long summer days. Many of us slow down for the holidays, spending lazy afternoons swimming, enjoying braais, relaxing with friends and family, and watching beautiful sunsets. Our Christmas meals are often light and colourful—full of fruit, salads, and fresh flavours.
December Is the Month We Forget to Breathe
Devotional week 50
Every year, global stress levels quietly rise as December approaches. Workplace surveys show that end-of-year deadlines, family responsibilities, and financial pressures make this one of the most demanding months for many people. The season meant for reflection often becomes the season in which we neglect our own well-being. Yet long before our calendars became this crowded, God built rest into the rhythm of life- “Remember to observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy…” Exodus 20:8 (NLT)
Rest Begins With an Invitation — “Come to Me
Devotional week 49
Imagine someone standing at the edge of a river after a long, tiring journey. Their bodies ache, their hands tremble with weariness. Before them flows fresh, clear water, clean and ready to drink. But instead of kneeling to take a deep, refreshing drink, they fumble with shaking hands or try to scoop water into a cracked, broken container. The water is right there, but they are too tired, distracted, or caught up in their routine to actually pause and drink.
Excellence for God’s Glory
Devotional week 48
As a college student or young professional, you are likely thinking about grades, promotions, and building your future. But have you ever stopped to ask: How far would I go to glorify God through my work or studies? Proverbs says that those who are skilled in what they do will serve kings. That is a powerful reminder—excellence opens doors, and God honors it.
Excellence Beyond Recognition
Devotional week 47
For most of my career, I believed that my work was a reflection of my character and capabilities, and that if I worked hard enough, my excellence would speak for itself. I took pride in being dependable, diligent, and thorough. But over time, I realized that the more I did, the more was expected. I became the person everyone turned to for the tasks no one else wanted, often taking on too much, overcommitting, and burning out — all in the name of excellence.
Doing Ordinary Work Exceptionally Well
Devotional week 46
Many times, we imagine excellence as something that only shows up in big achievements or visible success. Yet most of life happens in the small and ordinary. Proverbs 22:29 reminds us that being skilled in our work, showing care, diligence, and competence, does not go unnoticed. God honors those who develop and steward the abilities He has given them.
Excellence in Work as a Testimony of Faith
Devotional week 45
Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot about doing our work with excellence. This is a topic that can cause some confusion if not properly understood. I believe that working with excellence can — and should — be done by keeping a few important points in mind.
Communicating Across Cultures
Devotional week 44
Right from the start the message of the gospel has been communicated to people from different cultures. On the day of Pentecost many jews and proselytes from the diaspora where gathered in Jerusalem and heard the disciples speak about the wonderful works of God in there own language! Thus they could understand what was said to them. Language is the most important tool of communication, but it's not the only thing we need to consider when sharing the good news to someone from a different culture; we also need to take into consideration their worldview and cultural customs.