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06/12/2025

DAILY DEVOTION [06DEC2025]

Scripture — Psalm 34:18

> “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” — Psalms 34:18

🌿 When Your Heart is Heavy

There are times when life brings deep pain — loss, disappointment, fear, or sorrow that feels too heavy to bear. In those moments, it’s easy to feel alone, like no one truly understands our burden.

This verse brings a comforting promise: when your heart is breaking, when you feel crushed inside, God draws near. You are not alone — He is right there with you, close, tender, and ready to help.

❤️ What It Means for Us

God sees your pain. He’s not distant or indifferent. He knows when your spirit is hurting.

God cares about your brokenness. He doesn’t wait until you’re “fixed.” He meets you in the cracks.

God saves, heals, restores. “Saves” doesn’t always mean solving every problem at once — but He brings comfort, hope, and peace to carry you through.

🕊 Living in Hope

When you wake up tomorrow, or during the next dark hour — pause and remember:

Whisper a prayer: “Lord, I’m hurting. I’m brokenhearted. Please come close to me.”

Draw on His presence. Let Him carry you.

Trust that He sees your pain, hears your cries, and is working even when you can’t see it.

🙏 Prayer

Lord, I bring You my brokenness, my fears, my sorrow. I feel crushed and weary, but I place my hope in You. Draw near to me right now. Comfort me. Heal me. Save me. Thank You for loving me, even when I’m hurting. Amen.

05/12/2025

05DEC2025
Reflection: From Trial to Breakthrough

Going through a difficult season can feel like walking through fire — overwhelming, exhausting, and at times impossible to endure. My cancer journey was exactly that. Chemo treatments drained me, the stem cell transplant pushed me to my limits, and there were moments when it felt like I was fighting for every single breath. I walked through a valley that looked like hell — physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
But even in the darkest places, God was there.

What I thought would break me became the very path God used to bless me. After the storm, He placed in my life things I never imagined: a new home, a new job, and financial blessings far beyond anything I could have asked for. These weren’t just gifts — they were reminders that God restores, rebuilds, and repays in ways we can’t fully comprehend.

My trials became my testimony.
If you are walking through a tough time right now, hold on. Don’t give up. The pain you feel today might be the setup for the greatest breakthrough of your life. God does not waste suffering. He strengthens, refines, and prepares us for blessings that often come on the other side of battles we never wanted to fight.

Be strong. Keep faith alive. What feels like the hardest chapter may become the most beautiful part of your story — just as it has been for me. God turns valleys into victory, ashes into beauty, and trials into unimaginable blessing.

To God be all the highest glory, power, majesty and thanksgiving.

05/12/2025

DAILY DEVOTION [05DEC2025]

Scripture:
“We love because he first loved us.” — 1 John 4:19

This verse reminds us that our ability to love doesn’t come from ourselves — it comes from God’s love for us. Because He loved us first, we are empowered and inspired to love others.

When you feel called to kindness, compassion, or forgiveness — remember: you aren’t acting on your own strength, but on the love God has poured into your heart.

Let this truth shape your relationships today. Love boldly, freely, and generously — not because the world demands it, but because God first loved you.

Prayer:
Lord, thank You for loving me first. Help me to love others as You have loved me — with grace, patience, and compassion. Amen.

04/12/2025

DAILY DEVOTION [04DEC2025]

Scripture — Psalm 145:18

“The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.”

This verse reminds us that God is never far from those who sincerely seek Him. His nearness isn’t just a comforting idea — it’s a promise. When we pray with honesty and humility, God draws close, listens, and responds.

To “call on Him in truth” means coming to God with a genuine heart. No pretending. No perfect words needed. Just real, honest dependence.

Whatever you’re facing today — fear, gratitude, uncertainty, hope — call on Him. He is near, and He delights in those who seek Him.

Prayer:
Lord, draw near as I call on You with a sincere heart. Let me sense Your presence and trust Your nearness today. Amen.

03/12/2025

Answered prayer — thank You, Lord! 🙏 We’ve been praying for my eGFR (for kidney function) to go above 30 so that my bone-strengthening infusion could proceed this Friday. It came back at 32! Hallelujah! This will be my 11th session out of 12.

Just one more session after this and my whole treatment course will be complete. Praise the Lord! 🙏

And for the first time in a long while, I recovered from flu without any medical intervention — just home remedies and lots of prayer. God truly is amazing!!!

02/12/2025

29/11/2025

DAILY DEVOTION [30NOV2025]

“God Is My Salvation — A Song of Trust”

Based on Isaiah 12:2 (NIV)
“Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord himself, is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation.”

✅️ A Foundation of Trust
This verse begins with a confident declaration: “God is my salvation.” — not “I hope He might save me,” but “He is my salvation.”
To call God our salvation is to recognise that deliverance, rescue, redemption — our deepest needs — come from Him alone, not from our efforts, our strength, or our circumstances.
When this becomes our foundation, faith grows stronger. We trust not because we trust ourselves, but because we trust Him.

Response for Today: Pause and say the words: “God is my salvation.” Let them sink into your heart. Let them become your foundation when life shakes.

✅️ Trust Over Fear
The next phrase — “I will trust and not be afraid” — is a deliberate choice of will, not a fleeting emotion.
Fear often stems from what we anticipate — pain, loss, uncertainty. But when God is our salvation, when He is both our deliverer and our protector, we have reason to trust instead of fear.

Reflection: Think about something you are afraid of today — a challenge, a worry, a future uncertainty. Quietly bring it before God. Then consciously choose: “I will trust. I will not be afraid.”

✅️ God as Strength — and as Song
Isaiah doesn’t stop at salvation. He expands: “The Lord … is my strength and my defense” (or “song,” in some translations) — meaning God is our rock, our refuge, and the source of our joy and praise.
When God becomes our strength, we can face trials we would otherwise find overwhelming. When He becomes our song — our joy — worship flows from gratitude, not obligation.

⏩️ Personal Application — Living the Song of Salvation

• Claim it daily. Start your day by declaring: “God is my salvation. I will trust and not be afraid.” Let that shape your mindset before the world pressures you.

• Replace fear with trust. When anxiety creeps in — about jobs, relationships, health, future — instead of reacting with worry, respond with trust. Hand the fear to God.

• Worship as response. Let your life — thoughts, words, deeds — become a song to God. Praise isn’t only in good times; it’s most profound when it springs from trust amid trials.

• Remember where you come from. The people for whom this song was written had endured hardship, exile, uncertainty. Their deliverance was not by their own power, but by God’s. Let that humble and fuel your gratitude.

🙏
Father God,
You are my salvation. In You I find refuge, strength, and hope.
Today I choose to trust You — not just when it’s easy, but especially when fear whispers in my heart.
Let my life become a song of gratitude, a testimony of Your faithfulness.
When storms come, remind me: You have become my salvation.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.

25/11/2025

DAILY DEVOTION [25NOV2025]

Title: “Overflowing Generosity”

Scripture:

> “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” — Luke 6:38 NIV

Devotional Thought:
In this powerful promise from Jesus, we are invited into the generous rhythm of the Kingdom of God. The imagery He uses — “a good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over” — recalls how in ancient times a merchant would ensure a full measure of grain: pressing it down so no space is wasted, shaking it so it settles compactly, then heaping it so it overflows.

Jesus says: when you give — whether of your resources, time, forgiveness, love — the same measure will be used to give back to you. The great promise here isn’t first and foremost about getting something, but about embodying the character of God: generous, abundant, overflowing.

Reflection:

What kind of “measure” are you using in your giving? Is it cautious, minimal, reluctant? Or is it generous, open-handed, willing to overflow?

The promise implies a mirror: with the same measure you use, it will be measured back to you. So giving is not a gamble, but a spiritual investment — not just in material things, but in relationships, in mercy, in kindness.

Sometimes we hesitate to give because we fear lack. Yet Jesus invites us to trust that as we give, God will bring unexpected abundance — not always in the way we expect, but in ways that reflect His generosity.

Prayer:
Lord, help me to give with a full measure — not holding back, but trusting You with the overflow. Teach me to give generously of my time, my heart, my resources, my forgiveness. Let me experience Your promise of abundance, not for my glory but so that Your love may be known through me. Amen.

Takeaway:
Let your life be marked by generosity. When you give, give boldly, expecting that God is able to return to you “pressed down, shaken together and running over.”

24/11/2025

DAILY DEVOTION [24NOV2025]

The Voice Within

“For it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.” — Matthew 10:20 (NIV)

There are moments when God places us in situations that feel far bigger than our own strength, wisdom, or words. Jesus reminds His disciples—and us—that when we stand for Him, we never stand alone. The pressure to be eloquent, persuasive, or perfect is lifted, because the Father Himself promises to speak through us.

The Holy Spirit does not simply inspire our thoughts; He equips our voice. When you step into a hard conversation, a moment of witness, or a place of uncertainty, you are not relying on your own limited ability. You are carried by the limitless wisdom of God. Your role is not to perform—it is to trust.

Today, rest in this truth: God speaks through courageous hearts, not perfect ones. Open your mouth in faith, and let the Spirit give life to your words.

Prayer:
Father, thank You for speaking through me. Help me trust Your Spirit more than my own strength. Use my words today for Your purpose and glory. Amen.