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03/06/2026

DAILY BREAD 🍞

Series: THE QUESTIONS GOD ASKS (VOL. 2)

Title: WHAT IS THAT IN YOUR HAND?

Key Text: Exodus 4:2
“So the Lord said to him, ‘What is that in your hand?’”

Moses is full of reasons why he is not the right person.

He questions his ability. His credibility. His speech. His influence. God calls him to confront Pharaoh, yet Moses keeps returning to what he lacks.

And then God asks a question.

“What is that in your hand?”

The answer seems ordinary.

“A rod.”

Just a shepherd’s staff. A tool for ordinary work. Familiar. Common. Easy to overlook.

Yet that ordinary thing becomes part of extraordinary moments. It stretches over seas. Strikes rocks. Confronts kings. What Moses sees as ordinary, God sees as available.

The question is not really about the rod.

It is about perception.

Moses is focused on what he does not have. God directs his attention to what is already present.

That pattern still feels familiar.

We often delay obedience because we believe we are missing something. More confidence. More resources. More clarity. More time.

“If only I had…” quietly becomes the language of postponement.

But God’s question interrupts that thinking.

“What is that in your hand?”

What have you already been given that you have dismissed because it feels too small?

➡️A skill that seems ordinary.
➡️A voice you have underestimated.
➡️An experience you thought was only painful.
➡️A burden that may actually be part of your assignment.

God often begins with what is already present, not with what we imagine is missing.

The issue is not always insufficiency. Sometimes it is unnoticed possibility.

Moses wanted certainty before movement.

God began with what Moses already carried.

🤔 Reflection:
What in your life have you overlooked because it feels too ordinary or too small to matter?

🗣️ PRAYER
Lord, help me to stop focusing only on what I lack. Open my eyes to what you have already placed in my hands, and teach me to trust you with it. In Jesus name. Amen 🙏

Dr L.C Chimhowa

02/06/2026

DAILY BREAD 🍞

Series: THE QUESTIONS GOD ASKS (VOL. 2)

Title: SERIES INTRODUCTION — WHEN GOD ASKS WHAT WE OVERLOOK

Key Text: Exodus 4:2
“So the Lord said to Moses, ‘What is that in your hand?’”

There are moments in Scripture where God asks questions that seem almost unnecessary.

➡️Questions to people He already knows.
➡️Questions about situations He fully understands.
➡️Questions with answers that appear obvious.

Yet God continues to ask.

Because His questions are rarely about information. They are about revelation.

In the first volume of this series, we sat with questions that exposed the human heart. Questions about fear, anger, responsibility, love, and hiddenness. They confronted what was happening within us.

But there is another kind of question God asks.

Questions that interrupt excuses. Questions that challenge assumptions. Questions that uncover what we have overlooked about ourselves, our calling, and our direction.

➡️To Moses, God asks, “What is that in your hand?”
➡️To Elijah, hiding in exhaustion, “What are you doing here?”
➡️To Israel, wavering between loyalties, “How long will you falter between two opinions?”
➡️To Ezekiel, standing in a valley of death, “Can these bones live?”
➡️To a man long accustomed to suffering, Jesus asks, “Do you want to be made well?”
➡️To His disciples, “Who do you say that I am?”
➡️To Mary in grief, “Why are you weeping?”

➡️And finally, a question beneath all searching, “Whom are you seeking?”

These are not distant biblical moments.

They are questions that still follow us.

Because we all carry things we underestimate. We all experience seasons of confusion, hesitation, grief, exhaustion, and longing. We all face moments where the deeper issue is not circumstance, but what is happening within us.

This volume invites us to slow down again.

Not to rush toward answers. But to allow the questions to interrupt us. To reveal what we may have stopped seeing. To bring honesty into places where routine or disappointment have made us quiet.

Sometimes growth begins not when God explains everything, but when we stop long enough to hear what He is asking.

🤔 Reflection:
Which question from this introduction feels most uncomfortable or personally relevant to you right now?

🗣️ PRAYER
Lord, help me not to rush past your questions. Give me the courage to listen honestly, and the humility to let your questions change me. In Jesus name 🙏

Dr L.C Chimhowa

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02/06/2026

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01/06/2026

DAILY BREAD 🍞

Series: ALWAYS IN HIS PRESENCE (Series Conclusion)

Title: YOU ARE NEVER ELSEWHERE

Key Text: Jeremiah 23:24
“Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord.”

When we envision God in our heads for most people, we often imagine relating with God as movement toward God. As if there's a distance that must be closed. As if His presence is a space that must be entered or His person is an energy coming from somewhere to be received... This series has reminded us of this very question:

> Where exactly is God not?

❌Not only in heaven alone.
❌Not only in sacred spaces alone.
❌Not only in moments we label spiritual.

He fills all in all.

➡️Psalm 139:7–10: "Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there."

➡️Amos 9:2: "Though they dig down to the depths below, from there my hand will take them. Though they climb up to the heavens, from there I will bring them down."

➡️Jeremiah 23:23–24: "‘Am I only a God nearby,’ declares the Lord, ‘and not a God far away? Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?’ declares the Lord. ‘Do not I fill heaven and earth?’

➡️Acts 17:27–28: "God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being."

Which means there is no “elsewhere.”

✅No place where life becomes neutral.
✅No space where God is irrelevant.
This does not trap you.
It locates you.
You are always before Him.
In your strength and in your weakness.
In your clarity and in your confusion.
And slowly, this awareness begins to change things.
Not by force.
But by recognition.
You begin to live
✅less divided.
✅Less hidden.
✅Less performative.
Not because you are trying harder.
But because you are no longer pretending there's any form of distance or seclusion with God.

🤔 Reflection:
What would begin to change if you truly believed there is no moment of your life lived outside the presence of God?

🗣️ PRAYER
Lord, bring this truth from my mind into my life. Let it shape how I think, how I live, and how I walk each day. Teach me to live as one who is never outside your presence. In Jesus name. Amen 🙏

**************end of series***************
Dr L.C Chimhowa

28/05/2026

DAILY BREAD 🍞

Series: ALWAYS IN HIS PRESENCE

Title: A LIFE OF CONTINUOUS WORSHIP

Key Text: Romans 12:1
“Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God...”

Worship is often reduced to just moments.
Songs. Gatherings. Atmospheres.
But this call must stretch it further.
A living sacrifice is not occasional.
It is ongoing.
It is not confined to a place.
It is carried in a life.

> If God is not localized, then worship cannot be either.

It can not be just in a church service on a particular day. Some of us have learned to revere a particular day or place. In that day (Sunday or Saturday for example) we are very serious about the things of God. We dress up, we attend church services, we cry tears, we roll on the ground, we bow down, we lift our hands, etc....Haikona... it is a very special day to us. But the reverence stops on that day. The tears for God show up and dry that day, the hands for surrender are only lifted that day. Or in that particular place. After that day, its back to the usual. Worship should not be so beloveds,

It must follow you into ordinary everyday things.
Into daily decisions no one sees.
Into attitudes that never reach a stage or platform.
This is where worship becomes costly.
And real.
Not because it is dramatic.
But because it is consistent and persistent. Day after day regardless of place, date or environment.

🤔 Reflection:
What would it look like for your daily routines to become expressions of worship?

🗣️ PRAYER
Lord, reshape my understanding of worship. Let my life, not just my moments, be offered to you. Teach me to honor you in the ordinary. In Jesus name. Amen 🙏

Dr L.C Chimhowa

27/05/2026

DAILY BREAD 🍞

Series: ALWAYS IN HIS PRESENCE

Title: SEEN AND STILL HELD

Key Text: Hebrews 4:13
“And there is no creature hidden from His sight...”

One of the divine attributes of God is that He is omnipresence. That basically means God occupies every space and sees everything, and everyone, everywhere!

> Hebrews 4:13 - "Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account."

To be fully seen can feel unsettling. Because it means nothing is ever concealed.
➡️Not motives.
➡️Not thoughts.
➡️Not intentions.
But this truth is paired with another.
✅We are seen.
And we are still held.
The same passage that exposes also points to a High Priest who understands.
So, the awareness of God’s presence is not meant to drive you away.
It is meant to draw you nearer in honesty.
You do not clean yourself before coming.
You come because you are already seen.
This breaks the cycle of hiding.
Because hiding only survives where we imagine distance. God sees you in all your ups and downs, and yet He still chooses you and loves you. And is always on your side and wants you to become the best version of you that He has created you to be.

🤔 Reflection:
What do you tend to hide from God, even though you know He already sees it?

🗣️ PRAYER
Lord, teach me to come honestly before you. Remove the instinct to hide. Let your presence become a place of truth and restoration in my life. In Jesus' name. Amen 🙏

Dr L.C Chimhowa

27/05/2026

DAILY BREAD 🍞

Series: ALWAYS IN HIS PRESENCE

Title: THE END OF COMPARTMENTS

Key Text: Colossians 3:17
“And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus...”

As believers of Jesus Christ, we have somehow learned to compartmentalise or
divide our lives into categories:
➡️Spiritual and ordinary.
➡️Sacred and secular.
But this division cannot survive this instruction.

> "Whatever you do"

❌Not just some things.
❌Not just church things.

EVERYTHING.

✅Speech.
✅Work.
✅Interaction.
✅Silence.
All of it becomes context for living before God.
This does not mean everything feels spiritual.
It means everything is lived in reference to Him.
Washing, working, speaking, deciding.
Not separate from God.
But carried out in His presence.
This is where worship quietly expands.
It is no longer confined to songs or a Sunday service.
It becomes the posture of daily living.

🤔 Reflection:
What areas of your life have you treated as “outside” your walk with God?

🗣️ PRAYER
Lord, dismantle the compartments in my life. Teach me to live every part of my day in reference to you. Let nothing be outside your influence. In Jesus name. Amen 🙏

Dr L.C Chimhowa

26/05/2026

DAILY BREAD 🍞

Series: ALWAYS IN HIS PRESENCE

Title: BEFORE HIS FACE

Key Text: Genesis 17:1
“Walk before Me and be blameless.”

This is not a call to perfection.
It is a call to awareness.
To walk before God is not about moving toward Him.
It is about living conscious of Him.
The instruction is simple, but not easy.

❌Not “visit Me.”
❌Not “find Me.”

✅But “walk before Me.”
➡️It assumes proximity.
➡️It assumes presence.
And it shifts how obedience works.
Instead of asking, “What can I get away with?”
The question becomes, “What is fitting for a life lived before Him?”
❌This is not pressure.
✅It is alignment.
Because when someone knows they are seen,
they begin to live differently, not out of fear,
but out of recognition.

🤔Reflection:
How would your decisions change if you carried a steady awareness that you are always before God?

🗣️PRAYER
Lord, train my heart to walk before you. Not occasionally, but steadily. Let your nearness shape my thoughts, my choices, and my ways. In Jesus name. Amen 🙏

Dr L.C Chimhowa

26/05/2026

DAILY BREAD 🍞

Series: ALWAYS IN HIS PRESENCE

Title: BEFORE HIS FACE

Key Text: Genesis 17:1
“Walk before Me and be blameless.”

This is not a call to perfection.
It is a call to awareness.
To walk before God is not about moving toward Him.
It is about living conscious of Him.
The instruction is simple, but not easy.

❌Not “visit Me.”
❌Not “find Me.”

✅But “walk before Me.”
➡️It assumes proximity.
➡️It assumes presence.
And it shifts how obedience works.
Instead of asking, “What can I get away with?”
The question becomes, “What is fitting for a life lived before Him?”
❌This is not pressure.
✅It is alignment.
Because when someone knows they are seen,
they begin to live differently, not out of fear,
but out of recognition.

🤔Reflection:
How would your decisions change if you carried a steady awareness that you are always before God?

🗣️PRAYER
Lord, train my heart to walk before you. Not occasionally, but steadily. Let your nearness shape my thoughts, my choices, and my ways. In Jesus name. Amen 🙏

Dr L.C Chimhowa

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