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07/05/2026

Do you want to know the will of God for your life?

Listen: ‘I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain’ (John 15:16 NKJV).

‘But what if my branch is barren and my basket is empty?’ you ask.

Listen: ‘Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away’ (John 15:2 NKJV).

‘Does that mean I lose my salvation?’ you ask.

No, Jesus was speaking about branches ‘in Me’, proving that it’s possible to be ‘in Christ’ yet not be fruitful or enjoy the abundant life He wants you to have.

The Greek word for ‘take away’ is airo, which means ‘to lift’. New branches have a tendency to trail along the ground.

But they don’t bear fruit there.

When the rain comes they get muddy and mildewed, sick and barren.

So, does the vinedresser throw them away?

No, they’re too valuable for that. He goes through His vineyard with a bucket of water, looking for fallen branches, lifting them out of the dirt, and washing them.

Remember His words in John 15:3? ‘You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you’ (NKJV).

Once they’ve been washed, He lifts them, wraps them around the trellis, ties them securely, and pretty soon, they’re thriving.

What a picture!

Whether you’ve fallen into the dirt or you’re just living beneath your potential, God won’t throw you away.

No, He’ll lift you, cleanse you and help you to flourish again.

Why don’t you talk to Him today?

Prayer Point:
Lord You have chosen me to go and bear fruit – fruit that will last. What a privilege! Lord, it’s Your Word that prunes and cleans me – so help me to listen to what You’re saying to me. It’s Your life flowing through me that makes me fruitful – so help me to remain focused on You. Father, I want to bring glory to You by bearing much fruit. Amen.

06/05/2026

Are you wrestling with a certain problem, thinking, ‘If I could just get beyond this, everything would be all right?’

Sorry to disappoint you, but when you’ve conquered this particular problem, God will reveal something else that needs to be dealt with.

Relax – you’re always going to be working on something!

Change doesn’t come through human effort without God, frustration, self-rejection, guilt, or the white-knuckling works of the flesh.

No, change comes as a result of having your mind renewed daily by the Word of God.

As you agree with God, believing that what He says is true, change automatically begins.

You start to think differently, then talk differently, and finally act differently.

Be patient with yourself:
it’s a process that develops in stages.
Would you think there was something wrong with a child who couldn’t walk perfectly the first few tries?

No, you’re delighted each time they take another step. When they fall you pick them up, comfort them, clean up their grazes, encourage them to try again, and keep working with them.

Do you think God does less for His children?
God’s not angry with you because you haven’t ‘arrived’; He’s pleased that you’re pressing on, trying to stay on the path.

It’s God’s job to ‘[cause (you) to...be governed by the Holy Spirit]’ (2 Corinthians 3:8 AMPC).

If you could do it by yourself, you wouldn’t need God!

So instead of driving yourself harder and harder, start leaning on God more and more!

Prayer Point:
Lord, You never promised to remove problems but You did promise to be there with me through them and bring me to a place of overcoming them – I rest in that today. I ask, Lord, for a fruitful life in You, that all the promises of the years gone by would visit me like old friends to remind me of what Your desire is for my life. Build me up, Lord, I pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

05/05/2026

We all have weaknesses, but the ones we refuse to deal with:
a) draw us magnetically toward the wrong things,
b) give Satan a foothold, which quickly becomes a stronghold and
c) schedule tragedy down the line.

Be warned: your weakness can emerge at any time, including your closing years!

What you fail to master now will master you later.

That’s why David prayed, ‘Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth’ (Psalm 71:9 KJV).

The Holy Spirit will repeatedly convict you before your weakness destroys you! Jesus told Peter: ‘Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat.

But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers’ (Luke 22:31-32 NIV).

God will continue to use you even while your weakness is growing within you!

That’s because He’s long-suffering and merciful.

He provides opportunity after opportunity to reach for His help.

Jesus warned Jerusalem, ‘how often I have longed to gather your children together...and you were not willing.

Look, your house is left to you desolate’ (Matthew 23:37-38 NIV).

Think: when you repeatedly reject God’s mercy, what’s left? The inevitable consequences! ‘What can I do?’ you ask.

Turn to God!

He’s neither shocked by your weakness nor unwilling to help you. Confess your sin. Become an enemy to it.

Ask the Holy Spirit to empower you. Not only can He deliver you, but He can also turn your greatest weakness into your greatest weapon!

Prayer Point:
Lord, You know my frame: You know how I am made. Thank You that You have provided Jesus, my great High Priest, who sympathizes with my weaknesses and understands what it’s like to be tempted. Lord, I approach Your throne of grace with confidence, asking You for mercy and grace today to help me hold firmly to what I know is true. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

01/05/2026

We go to seminars and conferences looking for a painless cure by which our lives can be zapped and changed.

We go on diets.

We join health clubs and our enthusiasm runs strong for about two weeks.

Then we fall back into the same old rut.

We don’t change.

We read self-help books, but the problem with self-help books is that they tell us what to do but can’t give us the power to do it.

We are told things like:
‘Get rid of all your bad habits.
Be positive; don’t be negative.’

But how?

Where do we get the power to change?

The word ‘power’ occurs fifty-seven times in the New Testament. It is used to describe the most powerful event that ever happened – the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

And that resurrection power is available to change your life today.

The most important thing in life is knowing Christ and experiencing the power of His resurrection.

Paul writes, ‘I want to know Christ…to know the power of his resurrection’ (Philippians 3:10 NIV). Again he writes, ‘I pray that you will begin to understand how incredibly great His power is to help those who believe in Him.

It is that same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead’ (Ephesians 1:19-20 TLB).

The Greek word for ‘power’, which is dunamis, can be translated in two ways:
1) ‘dynamite’, which is an explosive force, or
2) ‘dynamo’, which is a constant flow of power.

And in Christ, you have both. Through Him, you can break the chains that bind you and the limits that constrain you and walk victoriously in His power today.

Prayer Point:
Lord, I don’t want to drag the past around with me any longer. No matter the hurt or pain, I release it to You today. Help me, Lord, to become the person You desire me to be and to resist the enemy reminding me of the failure I was. The old me is dead, the new me is flourishing in Jesus’ name. Today is a new day, a fresh start; let me live a profound and blessed life. Amen.

01/05/2026

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𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙏𝙃 𝘾𝘼𝙈𝙋 𝘼𝙉𝙊, 𝙏𝘼𝙍𝘼?

Akala mo pagod ka na?
Akala mo hindi mo na kaya?

Pero guess what you’re still here. And that means God’s not done with you yet. 🤍

Hindi mo kailangan maging malakas all the time.
Hindi mo kailangan itago yung struggles mo.
Kahit paulit-ulit kang nadadapa
may grace pa rin para sa’yo.

Because perseverance isn’t about never falling….
it’s about choosing to stand up again with God. 🔥

Just like Daniel,
even in the middle of pressure he stayed faithful. 🕊

And like a race,
hindi pa tapos ang laban mo. Keep running. 💪
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30/04/2026

Without regular pruning, a vine will live up to only a fraction of its potential.

Vineyards have only one purpose – grapes!

Energy spent on anything else, no matter how impressive, is wasted.

Expert pruners have four things clearly in mind:
a) removing anything that’s dead or dying,
b) making sure sunlight gets to all fruit-bearing branches,
c) increasing the size and quality of the fruit, and
d) encouraging new fruit to develop.

To make room for the kind of abundance God created you for, He will begin cutting away the parts of your life that are draining precious time and energy from what’s truly important.

To accomplish this, He’ll even risk your misunderstanding of His methods and motives. His purpose for you requires the cutting away of bad habits and attitudes, wrong relationships, lesser priorities – anything that distracts from your highest calling.

Are you praying for God’s abundant blessings in your life? Are you asking Him to use you in His service?

If so, you’re asking for the shears! Pruning is how God answers such prayers!

If you’re being pruned today, follow these steps:
a) pay attention – don’t waste this season of preparation, and
b) ask God whether you’re being pruned for greater fruitfulness or disciplined because of sin; there’s a difference.

If it’s sin, repent and get back on track. If your response to the pruning process is right, your rewards will be great.

Prayer Point:
Lord, thank You that You 'prune' me by speaking Your word into my life. Help me to listen and respond in obedience to whatever You’re saying because I want to be as fruitful as possible. Thank You that You’ve joined me to Jesus, and it’s His life that’s now flowing through me.

28/04/2026

When you are struggling with a stubborn habit or addiction, you will find strength in the right support group.

And when you need help, don’t be ashamed to reach for it – but be careful to whom you confess your sins!

The psalmist wrote, ‘I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD.” And you forgave the guilt of my sin.’ One Bible teacher put it like this:

‘Never discuss what you want someone else to forget. Your words make thoughts permanent; they give life and longevity to everything discussed.

Arguments would die and conflicts would cease, except your words sustained them.

Words breathe life into everything. “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof” (Proverbs 18:21 KJV).

And words can wound. “The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly” (Proverbs 18:8 KJV).

You can’t stop others from talking about you, but don’t give them any information you may want them to forget.

And never give unnecessary information that requires, demands, or inspires the pursuit of more questions.

Be cautious when confessing your mistakes.
Your attempt to be open may be very sincere, but your mistake may loom larger in their memory than the lesson you’ve learned and are trying to share with them.

Certainly, there are times when additional information and clarification are advisable, beneficial, and even necessary, but you must be wise.

Focus on your future, not your past. And never say anything you don’t want to be repeated for the rest of your life.’

Prayer Point:
Father, help me find a group of friends that I can confide in and who can confide in me. Help me not to be so ‘standoffish’ with others and trust people enough to open up my heart in friendship. I pray, Father, that You bless and encourage me in this, that as my friends are honest with me, I see that as an opportunity to grow in You. Shape me for the greater good Lord, Amen.

26/04/2026

Living in the approval of God is so liberating!

It frees you from ‘approval addiction’

worrying about what other people think.
When you are addicted, no matter how much of your drug of choice you get, it’s never enough; and like all addicts, you go crazy when your drug is withheld.

Approval addicts are always at the mercy of other people’s opinions.

As a result, their lives become an emotional rollercoaster of highs and lows.

Paul was free to speak the truth in love:
to confront people, or be gentle with them.
When someone told Paul they didn’t like him, he didn’t lose sleep over it.

That’s because his life wasn’t built upon their approval.

Paul didn’t go around needing to
a) compare himself with others,
b) demonstrate his superiority,
c) impress or compete with others, or
d) be the top dog or the one who’s always in charge.

Living in God’s approval set him free from such ulcer-inducing anxiety, and meant he could enjoy the life God called him to live.

When we’re young and insecure we tend to worry about what others think of us, but as we become more mature, we realize that most of the time they weren’t thinking about us at all.

They were too busy worrying about what we thought of them!

Living in God’s approval frees us from all that stress. It gives us the strength to deal with criticism and conflict because we know our identity.

And our identity is this: we are God’s redeemed children. And since we are accepted and approved by Him, what else matters?

Prayer Point:
It’s so tempting to compare myself to others and to strive for their approval. Lord, please help me to see myself as You see me, and to realize that I’m already living in Your approval. Thank You that You’re the answer to every one of my problems. Help me to remember to turn to You whenever I feel alone or empty. In Jesus’ name, Amen.