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07/09/2026

CNO: REFLECTION

🌿🐛 Did you know that Jonah was angry about a plant that a worm destroyed?

Jonah 4:6-11
After God had mercy on Nineveh, Jonah left the city and sat down to wait. Then God made a plant grow up to give him shade, and Jonah was very happy about it. 🌿

But the next day, God provided a worm that damaged the plant… and it withered. ☀️

Jonah was saddened by that plant, but God showed him a much deeper lesson: if Jonah felt compassion for something he hadn't created, how much more could God have mercy on an entire city full of people?

🙏 The story of Jonah reminds us of something powerful: God's mercy is much greater than we can often comprehend.

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06/09/2026

CNO REFLECTION

▪️IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO REBUILD

There are times when we look at our lives and think, "Now how do I fix all this?"

Because it's not always just one thing that breaks. Sometimes trust is broken, faith grows cold, an opportunity is lost, a relationship changes, a dream is buried… and while we pick up one stone, we discover ten more on the ground.
Nehemiah experienced something similar.

When he arrived in Jerusalem, he found walls torn down and gates burned. He didn't get to contemplate what had once been beautiful; he came face to face with what was destroyed.

But there is something precious: God didn't see those ruins as the end of Jerusalem.

Where others might have seen shame, God saw a city that still had a future.

That's why Nehemiah said,

"Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace." — Nehemiah 2:17
Perhaps today you, too, have something to rebuild.

And you probably can't rebuild it all at once.

That's okay.
Start with a stone.
A prayer after a long time without praying.
A conversation you've been avoiding for months.
A boundary you needed to set.
An apology you need to offer.
A decision you know you must make.
A small step toward what you abandoned.

Because rebuilding doesn't mean pretending nothing ever happened. The stones you replace know the story of the collapse.

And perhaps that's where the beauty lies.

God can take what survived your worst seasons and use it to build something stronger, wiser, and more dependent on Him. Don't be ashamed if you're starting over.
Don't compare yourself to those who seem to have all their walls up.
Just keep laying stone upon stone.

There will be days when you make great progress and others when you can barely lift a single stone. But a stone laid today is still part of the rebuilding. And listen to this, because someone might need to read it tonight:
As long as there is life, God can still work with what remains.

Your story didn't end when something collapsed.

Perhaps it was simply time to say, like those men with Nehemiah:

“Let us rise up and build.”

(Nehemiah 2:18)
Not because everything is easy.

Not because remembering doesn't hurt.

But because the ruins don't have the right to decide how your story ends.

God still knows how to build.

And you can still start again.

Selah. Pause and reflect.

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05/09/2026

CNO REFLECTION.

▪️DON'T CONFUSE GOD'S SILENCE WITH HIS ABSENCE

There are times when we long to hear God say, “I'm finished. Here's what you asked for.”

But the days go by… and nothing changes.

You pray, and the illness continues.
You cry out for a child, and they still haven't returned.
You ask for a door to be opened, and it remains closed.
You ask God what to do… and He seems to remain silent.

And then the heart begins to ask a dangerous question:

“Lord… are you still here?”

Yes. He is still there.

God's silence doesn't mean His hands are still.

Think of a blacksmith's work. The metal goes into the fire, and then comes the hammer. He doesn't understand why he has to go from one thing to the other, but the blacksmith does know what he is shaping.

We are different because we feel. And there are processes that hurt. There are waits that are exhausting. There are nights when our faith doesn't feel strong, and all we can say is,

"Lord, I don't understand what you're doing, but I still trust you."

And perhaps that is one of the deepest expressions of faith: trusting when we have no explanations.

Isaiah 64:8 says,

"Yet you, O Lord, are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter..."
The clay doesn't see the Potter's complete hands.
The metal doesn't know the Blacksmith's design.

But God does know the outcome.

Perhaps today you're looking at your life and only see fire, blows, waiting, and pieces that still don't fit together. Don't declare finished a work that God is still doing.

You may not hear His voice as you'd like.

You may not yet see the answer.

You may not understand this chapter.

But while you ask, "Where are you?", God may be working precisely in what you can't yet see.

So today you don't need to pretend it doesn't hurt. You just need to keep placing your life in His hands.

Because God's silence should never be confused with abandonment.

And one day you will look at what you don't understand today and perhaps you will be able to say:

“Now I understand, Lord…
you weren't absent.
You were creating something.”

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04/09/2026

CNO: REFLECTION.

▪️Hagar had no one. She fled to the desert because there was nowhere else to go. She had no food or plan, only the fear that she and her son would starve to death.

There, in the middle of the sand, God appeared to her. She gave Him a name no one had ever given Him before: El Roi. The God who sees.

Moses spent forty years tending sheep in the Midianite desert before seeing a burning bush. Elijah fled there wanting to die, and it was an angel who brought him bread.

Before multiplying loaves or healing anyone, the Spirit led Jesus into the desert.

This pattern repeats itself so often that it doesn't seem like a coincidence. God doesn't avoid empty places. He uses them.

When there are no people, when nothing remains of what normally sustains you, that's when you see more clearly who truly sustains you.

Has God ever spoken to you most clearly when you were most alone?

Taken from: David's Slingshot.

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03/09/2026

CNO: REFLECTION

AND THAT… WHERE DOES IT SAY?

There's a question that shouldn't bother any Christian:

“Is what I believe really in the Bible?”

Because we can spend years believing something simply because that's what we were taught, because we heard it as children, because someone we respect preaches it, or because “it's always been done that way.”

But custom doesn't make something true.

The believers in Berea received Paul's teaching, but they did something wonderful: they examined the Scriptures to verify if what they were hearing was really true.

Acts 17:11

And it was Paul who was preaching to them!

That teaches me something: examining what I hear isn't rebellion; it can be a sign of maturity.

I don't want a faith that's afraid to ask questions.

I want a faith that opens the Bible.

If my tradition says something, I want to check it.

If my denomination teaches it, I want to check it.

If my pastor preaches it, I want to examine it.

And if I myself have believed it for 50 years… I also want to examine it.

But there is something even more difficult:

I must approach Scripture not only asking,

“How do I prove I’m right?”
but saying,

“Lord, if I’m wrong, correct me.”

Because it’s not about winning arguments between Catholics, Evangelicals, Pentecostals, Baptists, or any other denomination.

It’s about knowing Christ and remaining in His truth.

Perhaps one of the most sincere prayers we can offer when we open our Bible is:

“Lord, don’t let me read Your Word looking for confirmation of what I already believe. Teach me to believe what Your Word actually says.”

So the next time you hear something that sounds very spiritual, don’t be afraid to ask,

“Where does it say that?”

Not to argue.

Not to feel superior.

But because you love the truth too much to settle for just what someone else told you.

“Test everything; hold fast to what is good.”

— 1 Thessalonians 5:21

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02/09/2026

CNO REFLECTION

YOU SEE LOOSE THREADS; GOD STILL SEES HIS DESIGN

There are times when you look inside yourself and think, “I’m not who I used to be.”
Something broke.
Someone hurt you. A loss changed you. A disappointment tore something away. Maybe you’ve had to be strong for so long that you don’t even know when you started feeling tired inside.

And when you look at your life, all you can see are loose threads.

But listen to this:
God isn’t just looking at what you’ve become after the hurt; He perfectly remembers who you are in His hands.

The Bible says,

“For we are God’s handiwork…”
Ephesians 2:10
“Handiwork” speaks of a work done by God. That means your story is still in the hands of the Artist.

What someone messed up, God can restore.

What a painful experience weakened, He can strengthen.
What tears soaked through, He can still use.

Perhaps you wish God would simply erase some pages of your story. But often He does something even more beautiful: He redeems those pages.
He makes that which once made you cry produce compassion to embrace another. He makes the battle that almost finished you produce a faith that now sustains someone else. He makes that wound that seemed useless become a place from which you can say, “I was there too… and God didn’t abandon me.”

Therefore, don’t be afraid if you don’t understand what God is doing today.

A single thread doesn’t explain the whole picture.

You are looking at the thread that broke.

God is looking at the whole work.

You are seeing what you lost.

God is also seeing what He is creating.

You say, “Lord, look at what has become of me…”

And perhaps God answers you,

“My child, I am not finished with you yet.”

Psalm 139:13 says:

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.”

The same hands that formed you haven’t lost the ability to restore you.

So rest. You don’t need to understand every thread of your story today. You just need to trust the hands that hold it.

You are still His creation.

You still have a purpose.

There is still beauty after pain.

And as long as you remain in His hands, no thread of your life will be lost.

You see loose threads… God still sees His design.

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31/08/2026

CNO: REFLECTION

WHILE YOU FILLED EVERYONE'S CUPS…

Some people become so accustomed to being strong for others that no one notices when they begin to run dry.

You were there to listen.
To advise.
To pray.

To serve.

To lift up those who fell.

To encourage those who wanted to give up.

And while you were filling so many cups, you forgot to look at your own.

But listen to this: God doesn't only care about what you do for Him; He also cares about you.

Elijah reached a point where he couldn't go on. And God didn't rebuke him for being exhausted. He let him rest, fed him, and then lifted him up again.

1 Kings 19:5-8

For even those who strengthen others need to be strengthened themselves.

You don't have to feel guilty for being tired. Nor do you have to prove to anyone that you can handle everything. Resting can also be a way of acknowledging our dependence on God.

Jesus Himself said:

“Come away by yourselves… and rest a while.”

Mark 6:31

Perhaps you have given so much of yourself that today you feel you have nothing left to give.

Then don't force yourself to keep giving.

Draw near to the Source.

Stop for a moment trying to support everyone and allow God to support you.

Stop trying to solve everything and allow Him to minister to your heart.

Because you, too, need care.

You, too, need comfort.

You, too, need someone to fill your cup.

And there is something beautiful: when God fills you again, He doesn't do it just so you will continue serving; He fills you because He loves you.

Before you are a servant, you are His.

So if you are tired today, come to Him again.

The vessel that has so often been bent to fill others can also be lifted to heaven and say:

“Lord, now I need you to fill me.”

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29/08/2026

CNO: REFLECTION

GOD KNOWS HOW TO PROVIDE

Today I want to invite you to something: enjoy this day.
Don't let worry about tomorrow steal what God is giving you today. Perhaps there are outstanding bills, needs at home, an expense you don't know how to cover, or a situation that, humanly speaking, still has no solution. But being responsible is one thing, and living anxiously is quite another.
Elijah arrived at the brook without a full pantry, not knowing where his next meal would come from. And God used something as unexpected as ravens to bring him bread and meat. Elijah's need never took God by surprise.

(1 Kings 17:4-6)
And that makes me think: how many times have we worried about something that God ultimately resolved in a way we hadn't even imagined?

He sustained Elijah.
He multiplied a widow's oil.
He fed Israel in the desert.
He made five loaves and two fish enough for a multitude. And now we think our need will be too great for Him?

I don't know how your provision will come. I don't know what door God will open, what resource He will use, or where the answer will come from. But I do know who our Father is.

That's why today I want to live gratefully for what I have, responsibly do what is required of me, and leave in God's hands what I cannot control.

Jesus said:

“Do not worry about tomorrow” (Matthew 6:34).

So enjoy your coffee, hug your family, be grateful for the food on your table today, and live this day. Tomorrow will have its own needs, and when tomorrow comes, God will already be there.

The God who provided yesterday has not changed.

He remains the same, yesterday, today, and forever. 🤍

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29/08/2026

CNO REFLECTION

PERSECUTED FOR THE CAUSE OF CHRIST OR FOR OUR SINS?

Something is happening among those of us who claim to believe. It is becoming increasingly easy to point fingers, discredit, expose, and destroy others while still convinced that we are doing so in defense of God. We are no longer simply talking about doctrinal differences. Differences will always exist. We are talking about hatred disguised as religious zeal.

People who pray, study, teach, publish Scripture, and pronounce the Name can come to feel contempt for another believer simply because they do not share their exact interpretation. Brothers and sisters who once walked together end up publicly exposing each other. Communities against communities. Teachers against teachers. Believers celebrating the downfall of other believers.

And what is truly disturbing is that Yeshua said this would happen.

In Matthew 24:10, Jesus didn't simply say they would be hated:

"Then many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other."

There are two words we can't just gloss over:

"each other."

We're not just facing external persecutors. To betray one another, there must have been some prior connection. To betray, there must have been closeness. And for Yeshua to later say that "the love of many will grow cold," he is necessarily describing an environment where love once existed.

That's the thread of the passage.

First they stumble.
Then they betray.

Then they hate each other.

Finally, love grows cold.

The problem begins long before hatred appears publicly. It begins when we stop seeing the other as a brother or sister and start seeing them only as someone who must be exposed, silenced, or defeated.

And here, Matthew 24 ceases to be merely a prophecy we hope to see fulfilled someday.

This becomes a warning for those of us who pronounce the Name today.

Because we can continue meeting together, teaching, preaching, and defending what we consider truth while our hearts grow cold toward others.

Yeshua even warned in Matthew 7 that there would be people capable of saying to him, “Lord, Lord,” reminding him of all they had done in his Name, only to discover that all that religious activity never replaced obedience.

That is the danger.

Believing that because we defend his Name, we are necessarily representing his character.

We can know Scripture and hate one another.

We can speak the truth and destroy one another.

We can denounce error and rejoice in the downfall of our brother or sister.

We can even do all of this convinced that we are defending God.

And while we argue about who is right, what Yeshua warned about may be coming to pass before our very eyes:

“They will betray one another and hate one another… and the love of many will grow cold.”

Let's not call contempt discernment.

Let's not call slander defending the truth.

Let's not call what Yeshua called a cooling of love zeal for God.

Because one of the most terrible signs announced by Yeshua is not only that hatred would increase.

It's that people who once called themselves brothers would end up hating each other in His Name and still believing they were serving God.

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28/08/2026

CNO: REFLECTION

Something is happening among people who for generations have remained completely detached from the Torah, the covenants, and the history of Israel. They are beginning to ask about Shabbat, the feasts of HaShem, the Torah, the prophets, the identity of Israel, and the Hebrew context of Yeshua. But precisely here we need to make a fundamental distinction: awakening to our biblical roots does not mean that we have been called to become Jews or to appropriate an identity that does not belong to us.

Scripture presents a movement of return long before the Brit Hadashah (New Covenant). HaShem declares through Ezekiel: “I myself will search for my sheep and look after them” (Ezekiel 34:11). Jeremiah announces: “He who scattered Israel will gather them and watch over them like a shepherd watches over his flock” (Jeremiah 31:10). The prophetic image is clear: scattering, searching, gathering, and restoration.

That is why Yeshua's words carry extraordinary weight: “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 15:24). And when he sends his disciples, he initially commands them: “Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 10:6). Yeshua is speaking in the language of the prophets: there is a house, there are lost sheep, and there is a divine action destined to seek them.

Luke 15 allows us to observe something even deeper. When the younger son wakes up in a foreign land, he doesn't say, “I will get up and go to my brother.” He says, “I will get up and go to my father” (Luke 15:18).

This difference should be deeply ingrained in those of us who are on a journey of return.

The older son has his place. The Father himself acknowledges it: “Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours” (Luke 15:31). That's why we don't need to diminish him, despise him, or question his belonging to find our own. Honoring the elder brother also means respecting his identity and not trying to appropriate it.

The problem begins when we think that to return to the Father we have to dress like our brother.

The returning son doesn't need to fabricate a new identity. It is the Father who commands: “Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet” (Luke 15:22). Restoration comes from the Father. So does the clothing.

Shaul uses another equally powerful image. Speaking to believers from the nations, he warns them: “Do not be arrogant toward the branches… remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you” (Romans 11:18). That teaching destroys any possibility of antisemitism or arrogance. We don't come to replace Judah. We don't come to declare that we are now Judah. Much less to appropriate what belongs to their history.

But Shaul himself affirms that those who were “excluded from citizenship in Israel and strangers to the covenants of the promise” have been “brought near” (Ephesians 2:12-13). Notice the word: brought near. It doesn't say that to be brought near they must become the elder brother.

Herein lies the balance we need to regain.

We do not replace Judah.

We do not despise Judah.

We do not usurp Judah's identity.

We honor Judah.

But neither do we make the elder brother's approval the gateway to the Father's house.

If you are awakening, study. Learn Hebrew if you wish to delve deeper. Know the Torah, keep God's commandments, understand the festivals, research the history of Israel, and learn from the immense interpretive heritage that the Jewish people have preserved. Do so with respect and humility. But don't confuse learning from your brother with becoming your brother.

Our calling is not to appropriate someone else's identity, but to respond to the Father's invitation.

And perhaps that's why the words of the son in Luke 15 remain so necessary:

"I will arise and go to my father."

That is the return.

Honoring our brother without replacing him. Recognizing the root without boasting about the branches. Receiving our garment from the Father without trying to clothe ourselves in the identity that rightfully belongs to our brother.

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