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Good Morning Frinds and Family! Commit to the Lord whatever you do and your plans will succeed. Poverbs 16:3

BREAK DOWN YOUR DREAM INTO SMALL EXECUTABLE TASKS Matthew 25:21 (NKJV) says: “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’” This scripture teaches a great principle about success and faithfulness. God rewards those who are faithful in small things. Before you can handle great things, you must prove yourself trustworthy with the little ones. Many people fail to reach their dreams because they ignore small beginnings. They want big results without following the process. One of the biggest obstacles to success is impatience. Many want to achieve big dreams in a short time. They want ready-made success without hard work or process. But every great thing in life starts small. Even God followed this principle. In Genesis chapter one, when He created the world, He didn’t do it in one day. He broke His vision into daily executable tasks. Each day, He created something new, and in seven days His vision was complete. God also started small—He created only a pair of each animal, and today we have millions of them. It is good to have a big dream, but you must have a plan to reach it. Break your dream into small, clear, and executable steps. Some goals are too big to achieve all at once, but if you remain consistent, you will surely reach them. For example, if you want to build a house, don’t wait to get all the money at once. Start by saving or buying a few materials. You can buy 200 blocks today, 50 bags of cement next month, and soon your house will stand. The same applies to writing a book—you can write five pages every day, and in a short time, you will finish it. If you are faithful and consistent in small things, God will bless you with bigger things. Never compare yourself with those who seem ahead; they also started small. Lack of humility to start small is one of the biggest reasons many dreams die. If you want to reach far, agree to start small, and God will help you grow. Prayer: Lord, help me to start small, stay consistent, and be faithful until I see my dreams fulfilled. Amen. --------------------- Author: Minister Lucas Kaaya

IS GOD WITH YOU? "Seek [and long for] good and not evil, so that you may live; and so may the Lord God of hosts be with you, just as you have said!" Amos 5:14 (AMP) Many people claim that God is with them and that He enables them to accomplish things in their lives. However, this is often just a habitual expression, lacking genuine truth. Why do I say this? It’s because many who make such claims neither truly know God nor His character. The first characteristic of God is holiness. He says in His Word: "For thus says the high and exalted One, He who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: ‘I dwell on the high and holy place, but also with the contrite and humble in spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to restore the heart of the contrite.’" Isaiah 57:15 (AMP) Do not let anyone deceive you with empty words, claiming they believe in God and that He is with them when their actions contradict this. Sometimes, it is evident even to us that God cannot be present in certain places or involved in certain actions. For example, there is a tendency many of us might relate to: someone sneaks out of work early and silently prays, "God, help me not to get caught," or someone steals and prays, "God, be with me so I won’t get caught." God cannot be a part of such acts. This behavior starts with small things and grows into larger issues, leading to a false sense that God is with us in everything we do, even when it dishonors Him. This is a flawed belief. Today's Word instructs us to seek good so that we may live, and live in his presence. Many lives are in disarray, and people face misfortunes because they lack God’s presence. They assume God is with them, but He is not. If you desire to truly have God’s presence with you, do good, live a life that pleases Him, and avoid the things He has forbidden. To God, there is no such thing as small or big sins—sin is sin. Our God is holy, and He dwells in a holy place. Prayer: Lord Jesus, grant me the grace to live a life of doing good and walking in holiness so that Your presence will always be with me. Amen.

DILIGENCE AND COMMITMENT "Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress." — 1 Timothy 4:15 These words were written by Apostle Paul to Timothy, a young leader of the church in Ephesus after he had given him guidance on how to lead and shepherd the church effectively. However, these words are not just for Timothy or young people alone; they are for everyone who has been taught how to carry out their God-given assignments effectively. That includes you. Now, here are the key points you need to keep in mind: 1. DILIGENCE When Paul says, "Be diligent in these matters," he is giving a primary principle for anything you undertake. Without diligence, any task you do will be handled carelessly, and you will not accomplish much. Diligence is especially required when you face challenges and opposition. Nothing good can be achieved in this world without encountering resistance. Diligence gives you the drive to overcome these obstacles, enabling you to keep trying until the task is successfully completed. 2. COMMITMENT When Paul says, "Give yourself wholly to them," he emphasizes the need to approach your work selflessly, without focusing solely on personal gain. Especially when you know that God has assigned you the task, commitment becomes essential. Commitment means being willing to pay the price and serve others sacrificially without expecting any immediate reward. This doesn’t mean God won’t reward you; in fact, He will because every good deed will receive a reward from Him. However, it’s important to note that your reward will come from God, not from people. When God sends you to do His work, whether it’s for your family, friends, or ministry, don’t look to those people for repayment. Often, they may repay your good with ingratitude and evil, but God will bless you abundantly. Therefore, keep your eyes fixed on God, not on people. By doing so, God’s glory will be revealed through you, and people will come to know Him through your actions. At the same time, your devotion to God will become evident to all. Prayer: Lord, I ask for Your strength to uphold the good values You have taught me, so I may carry out Your work effectively. Amen.

Faith in Uncertainty 🕊️Faith isn’t a feeling. It’s a choice to trust God even when the road ahead seems uncertain. Isaiah 26:3 “You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you”. Romans 15:13 (KJV) Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. Romans 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who have been called according to His purpose.” 🕊️Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear the uncertainty, to carry within yourself the unanswered question, while lifting your heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon your thoughts. 1 Peter 5:7 “Casting all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you.” Matt 11:28-30 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” 🕊️We need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God that never fails. Isaiah 41:10 “Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” Romans 8:26-27 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. Rest in the assurance of Gods promises of His word. Isaiah 55:11 “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” Rom 8:38-39 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. God is Love, He is Faithful. To God be the Glory, Amen

See Yourself As God Sees You “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” 2 Corinthians 3:18   How do you see yourself? How do you see your future? To do what God wants you to do with your life, you must see yourself as God sees you.    There’s a remarkable story in the book of Judges 6 about a man named Gideon. The Midianites had taken over the nation of Israel, and Gideon was hiding in a cave. God sent an angel to encourage him. The way that the angel greeted him was very significant. The angel appeared to him, saying, “Mighty hero, the Lord is with you!” Then Gideon began to tell the Lord what he thought of himself: "How can I rescue Israel? My clan is the weakest…and I am the least in my entire family!”   God responded, “Go with the strength you have...I will be with you.” You may not be able to see the future and what future you can do, but God can see it!    You may have been told in the past that you are the least in your family or that you aren’t capable of doing great things. Those voices don’t matter. Only one voice matters and that is the voice of your Creator. He knows you inside and out and better than anyone else. If you stay in the Word, He will tell you who you are.    God wants you to understand that it’s not about what you are now; it’s what you will be. Gideon tried to tell the Lord he had the wrong person, but God told him, "I am sending you!” He assured him, “You will destroy the Midianites as if you were fighting against one man.” In other words, God told Gideon, “No, I have the right man, and this task is going to be easy for you.”    You have to choose each day whose voice you will listen to. The enemy wants to hold back your potential by making you believe lies about yourself, but God knows what you can do. God doesn’t see you as pitiful, weak, and defeated by life. He sees you as an overcomer and as royalty. He sees you as the head, not the tail, and as one of His heirs. Don’t ever forget who you are and who is with you. God said you will live from “glory to glory.” God says you are a winner.

Get Up! “Suddenly, there was a bright light in the cell, and an angel of the Lord stood before Peter. The angel struck him on the side to awaken him and said, ‘Quick get up!’ And the chains fell off his wrists.” Acts 12:7   Peter’s miraculous escape from prison still speaks to us today. He was in a hopeless situation with no way out. But then the story shifts suddenly. A bright light shined into the prison as an angel appeared and said, “Quick! Get up!” Then the chains fell off of him.   The enemy knows if he has you chained with fear and doubt and hedged in with discouragement and intimidation that you’re not going anywhere. But when the light of the gospel comes, it brings hope, faith, and victory in the dark places of your life. When you think there’s no way out, don’t just sit there. You have to stop sitting around feeling sorry for yourself. Make a decision that you’re not going to stay in your situation. You have to get up.   The angel then tells Peter to put on his shoes. Shoes are for going places. It’s time for you to move again. Put your walking shoes on and go where you have never gone before. Put on the shoes of faith so you can start walking by faith, not sight.   After Peter put on his shoes, the angel told him to put on his garment. Some of you need to put on the garment of praise. Isaiah 61:3 says, “Put on the garment of praise to replace the spirit of heaviness.” The spirit of heaviness is the spirit of oppression. It is the feeling of giving up. When you put on that garment of praise, you will begin to get your joy and peace back. The overwhelming obstacles looming over you are suddenly not as scary as you thought.   Get up, put on the shoes of faith and the garment of praise, and start marching in the direction that God is leading you.

Four Principles For Victorious Living “Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.” 1Co 16:13 NAS   Jesus said: “Count yourselves blessed every time people put you down…or speak lies about you to discredit me. What it means is that the truth is too close for comfort and they are uncomfortable. You can be glad when that happens—give a cheer, even!—for though they don’t like it, I do!” (Mt 5:11-12 MSG). If you’re thin skinned, you will have a rough time in life because you will be an easy target for the devil. Paul endured desertion by his friends, ugly letters from the Corinthians, disappointment with the Galatians, mistreatment in Philippi, mocking in Athens, and finally imprisonment and beheading in Rome. The Bible gives us these four principles for victorious living: (1) Be on the alert. Why? Because you have an adversary who is out to get you (See 1Pe 5:8). What’s he after? The God-given potential he knows lies within you. You’re a seed capable of producing a harvest of blessing. (2) Stand firm in the faith. Why? Because you can’t stand on your feelings, your circumstances, or the opinions of others. Those things change constantly, so you must stand firm on the Word of God. (3) Act like men. Why? Because being childish won’t cut it when the battle is raging. It’s time to grow up; if you’re still making the same mistakes twenty-five years later, you’re not learning enough. (4) Be strong. Why? Because weakness is an invitation to the Enemy. It always precedes surrender—and quitting is not an option for you. God told His people the promised land was theirs—but they would have to fight for it. And you will too!

What’s Holding You Back? “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7   In Acts 12, Peter is arrested by King Herod and locked up in a prison heavily guarded with maximum security. He was bound by two chains (one on his hands and one on his feet) while being held for execution because Herod wanted his voice silenced forever. Years later, we still have an enemy who wants to keep every believer from breaking free. Just like Peter was bound by two chains, the enemy tries to use fear and doubt to keep you restrained from the blessings God has for your life.   He will use fear to tell you that you can’t go where you are supposed to or do what you must. Fear will paralyze you and make you fixate on what others will say or think if you fail. The enemy will also use doubt to keep you from God’s best. Doubt will make you question whether you are smart or capable enough to do the task. It makes you question your talent, ability, calling, or worthiness. Doubt can even cause you to question if God is on your side.   These two chains can stop you, but God has not given you the spirit of fear or doubt! He didn’t cause you to be timid or insecure. Never forget who you are. You are a child of God! If God wants to bring an opportunity into your life, don’t you dare let the chains of fear and doubt hold you back from His very best. Shake off fear and doubt and go courageously into what God is leading you to do.

Changing How You Pray “I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.” Eph 1:16 NIV   Bible prayers are powerful. They put things into perspective. For example, Paul prayed that God would give the Ephesians “the Spirit of wisdom and revelation…that you may know him better…I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you…and his incomparably great power” (vv.17-19 NIV). With this model in mind, JoHannah Reardon writes this: (1) Make your prayers God centered. The Creator of the universe has given you the privilege of bringing your requests to Him. When you tell God how great He is, you’re filled with an expectancy that something great can happen because you’re talking to the One who can do anything. (2) Make them praise filled. Paul starts by saying, “I have not stopped giving thanks for you.” The key isn’t to focus on your troubles, but to thank God and praise Him because He knows what He is doing. Learn to say, “I don’t know why I’m having this problem, Lord, and I would love for you to change things. But if you don’t, I know you will use it for good in my life.” (3) Make them life changing. Most of our prayers are asking God to change our circumstances. But maybe He wants to change you. That doesn’t mean He won’t ever intervene; He supplies needs, opens doors, and heals people in incredible ways every day. But when you spend years praying for something that never happens, it may be a clue you’re not praying the right way. Paul found joy in a prison cell, and when God opens your eyes, you will find joy in your situation too.