Seek First: Simplifying Priorities
Week 22
Here's a question worth considering this week: What is my day really centred around??
Not what I say my priorities are. Not what I would write on a list. But what my calendar, my energy, and my first thoughts in the morning actually reveal.
If I am honest, the answer is often not God.
Simplicity as Trust: Letting Go of Control
Week 21
Matthew 6:33 comes at the end of a powerful teaching from Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. He begins this particular session by reminding us not to store up treasures on earth, because earthly things do not last…
Simplicity in Daily Living: Creating Space for God
Week 20
Reading Epistle to the Hebrews 12:1 was the push I needed today.
We have been facing difficult days. Health and work-related issues have weighed heavily on us, but I also need to confess that lately my mind has become a particular battlefield. I have been more introspective than usual.
Mary and Martha: Choosing What Matters Most in a Distracted World
Week 19
During our weekly Bible Study early this year, my 5-year-old daughter, Beulah, was asked to take the opening prayer. She obliged, and began, “Father, thank You for helping us to come to study. Please help Mummy not to fall asleep today, because she always sleeps during study ″. Everyone laughed, including me.
Simplicity of the Heart: Undivided Devotion
Week 18
A university student once shared how hard it had become to concentrate during prayer and Bible study. Anytime she wanted to spend time with God, her mind would quickly move to assignments, messages on her phone, plans, and worries about succeeding in life. Even while praying, she was already thinking about the next thing to do.
Formed to Be Seen: When Learning Becomes Witness
Week 17
In the past weeks, we’ve seen that study shapes your faith, forms a teachable heart, and leads to obedience. But Scripture now pushes us one step further:
Your learning is not meant to remain private. It is meant to become visible.
Living Out the Word You Study
Week 16
Studying the Word of God is not just another form of learning. It is a spiritual discipline that shapes how we think, live, and relate with God. Yet, it is possible to spend time in Scripture and still miss its main purpose if it does not move us to action…
A Teachable Heart Shaped by God’s Word in Everyday Work
Week 15
A teachable heart does not grow by accident. It is formed with intention, and for the believer, it starts with studying God’s Word. Proverbs 18:15 reminds us that wisdom is something we go after. It does not come passively…
Growing in Faith Through Study: A Discipline for Spiritual Maturity
Week 14
When we look carefully at the teaching of Scripture, we realise that spiritual growth does not happen automatically. Time, by itself, does not produce maturity. It simply reveals whether there is genuine commitment to the truth God has already given.
The author of Hebrews offers a direct warning. People who should have progressed are still at an early stage…
When God Leads Your Work — Clearly or Quietly
Week 12
We often long for moments like this. Clear direction. A defined calling. A sense that God has spoken into our work, our decisions, our next step.
In Acts 13, that’s exactly what happens. In the middle of worship and fasting, God speaks. The mission becomes visible. The next move is unmistakable.
How Fasting Builds Patience, Humility, and Emotional Self-Control
Week 11
Fasting is more than missing meals. It is a quiet discipline that shapes the heart. The writer of Hebrews reminds us:
“No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.”
— Hebrews 12:11
Making Room for God: The Fast That Chooses Justice
Week 10
Why do we fast?
This is the question I ask myself before asking it of you. I have practiced fasting to deepen my communion with God and to seek to be His instrument in the country where I live. Yet when I read Book of Isaiah 58, I encounter a deeper challenge…
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 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.
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.
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.