When God's Plans Interrupt Yours: Learning to Surrender with Mary
Week 27
In 2016, during our holidays, my wife and I spent a month in a country that completely captured our hearts. That experience planted a dream in us. We decided we wanted to move abroad, seeking not only a better quality of life but also opportunities to live out our faith among people from different nations…
Too Tired to Pray, Too Busy to Stop
Week 25
Recently, I found myself in a season that required more from me than I expected.
I started caring for an elderly woman, the mother of someone who has been a great blessing to me and my family over the years. At the same time, I was still managing my regular work responsibilities…
Alone in the Crowd
Week 24
Most of us spend our days surrounded by people, information, and expectations. We navigate meetings, deadlines, projects, lectures, clients, colleagues, and countless decisions. We are constantly connected, constantly engaged, and constantly responding.
The Noise We Call Normal
Week 23
Most of us check our phones before our feet touch the floor. It happens without thought—the habitual reach for the device, the immediate intake of messages, news, and notifications. Before the day has properly begun, we are already responding to it…
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.
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.
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…
From One Promise to All: Seeing God’s Plan This Easter
Week 13
When God spoke to Abraham saying, “Lift up your eyes… all the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever” (Genesis 13:14–15), it may seem like a personal blessing. But it was the beginning of something far greater. Through Abraham, God was unfolding a plan that would extend beyond one family, one nation, or one generation. That plan finds its fulfillment in Jesus, and Easter reveals the full picture…
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…
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…
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.