DAILY LEADERSHIP BOOST (DLB) THURSDAY, 20 AUGUST 2026 HE IS COMING LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT “For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.” 1 Thessalonians 5:2 KJV Leaders, there is no announcement date on heaven’s calendar. Jesus is coming like a thief in the night. Sudden. Unexpected. Without warning to the world. Peter said the day of the Lord will come “as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.”_ 2 Peter 3:10. That means this world as we know it will end abruptly. And every leader will give account. Romans 14:12 “So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.” This truth is not given to scare us. It is given to sober us. Because when a thief is expected, the wise owner stays awake. Luke 12:39-40 - “And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched... Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.” The danger for leaders is not unbelief. It is slumber. It is doing Kingdom work with a casual heart. It is building with wood, hay and stubble because we assume we have time. 1 Corinthians 3:13. But the day is approaching like a thief, and it will test every work. So how do we live when the coming is sudden? Walk in constant readiness. Not fear, but readiness. Keep short accounts with God. Confess quickly. Forgive quickly. Walk in the light. 1 John 1:7. Let your lamp be full of oil. Matthew 25:4. A thief does not wait for you to get ready. He meets you as you are. Guard your heart against surprise and sin. The reason people are caught off guard is because they are distracted. Luke 21:34 _“And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.”_ Watch what you watch. Watch what you feed on. Watch who you follow. A thief enters through open doors. Stay faithful in your assignment. The faithful servant is the one found _“so doing”_ when the master returns. Matthew 24:46. Keep preaching. Keep serving. Keep praying. Keep building people. Don’t drop your post because the night is long. The trumpet could sound on an ordinary Thursday. Leaders, our people are watching us. If we are careless, they will be careless. If we are awake, they will be awake. 1 Thessalonians 5:4-6 “But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that day should overtake you as a thief... Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.” We don’t know the day or the hour. Matthew 24:36. But we do know the Master. And He said He is coming. So we live every day like it could be today. https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VafVatb11ulKTDXcjL3X Prayer For Today Father, thank You for the warning in Your word. I refuse to be caught sleeping. Wake my spirit. Purify my heart. Help me to walk in readiness every day. Keep me faithful in my assignment, sober in my walk, and passionate for souls. Let the day of the Lord not overtake me as a thief. Prepare me and prepare the people You have given me. In Jesus’ name, Amen. Today's Declaration The Lord is coming like a thief in the night and I am ready. I walk in the light. I keep my lamp full. I am faithful in my assignment. I watch and I pray. I will not be overtaken by darkness. Bible Reading Plan 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11, Matthew 24:42-51, Luke 12:35-40, 2 Peter 3:8-14, Revelation 16:15, Mark 13:32-37 Today’s Action Leaders, do a “thief audit” today. Ask: “If Jesus came tonight, what would I regret?” Deal with it now. Repent, reconcile, or reset. Then check one area of your life or ministry that has become casual. Tighten it. Set the standard again. Teach your team: We don’t live in fear of His coming. We live in faithfulness because of His coming. Remember: A thief comes without notice. So we live every day with notice in our spirit.

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Called Before You Begin Scripture Judges 13:5 (NKJV) For behold you shall conceive and bear a son And no razor shall come upon his head for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines God’s Purpose Starts Before You See It Judges chapter 13 introduces the birth announcement of Samson during another season of Israel’s oppression. Before Samson is born God declares his calling. His life would be set apart to God from the womb and he would begin to deliver Israel from the Philistines. This chapter reveals that God’s purposes often begin long before visible results appear. Samson had not yet taken a step yet God had already spoken destiny over him. The calling came before the struggle. The assignment was declared before the battle began. God’s word to Manoah and his wife shows that calling requires consecration. Samson was to live as a Nazirite set apart to God. Purpose and separation went together. God’s plan for deliverance required a life committed to Him. For believers today Judges 13 reminds us that God sees purpose before we see progress. He calls shapes and prepares long before the world notices. Our responsibility is to live set apart trusting that God’s design is unfolding according to His timing. Reflection Questions 1. Do I trust that God has purpose even in seasons of waiting 2. Am I living set apart in response to God’s calling 3. How can I prepare faithfully for what God has spoken over my life Prayer Lord God thank You that Your purposes are established before I understand them. Help me to live set apart and committed to You. Shape my life according to Your calling and prepare me to fulfill what You have planned. In Jesus name Amen.

Conflict and Courage. Jonah Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. Jonah 1:2. Nineveh, wicked though it had become, was not wholly given over to evil. He who “beholdeth all the sons of men” (Psalm 33:13) ... perceived in that city many who were reaching out after something better and higher.... God revealed Himself to them in an unmistakable manner, to lead them, if possible, to repentance. The instrument chosen for this work was the prophet Jonah.... Had the prophet obeyed unquestioningly, he would have been spared many bitter experiences, and would have been blessed abundantly. Yet in the hour of Jonah's despair the Lord did not desert him. Through a series of trials and strange providences, the prophet's confidence in God and in His infinite power to save was to be revived.... Once more the servant of God was commissioned to warn Nineveh.... As Jonah entered the city, he began at once to “cry against” it the message, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.” From street to street he went, sounding the note of warning. The message was not in vain. The cry that rang through the streets of the godless city was passed from lip to lip until all the inhabitants had heard the startling announcement. The Spirit of God pressed the message home to every heart and caused multitudes to tremble because of their sins and to repent in deep humiliation.... Their doom was averted, the God of Israel was exalted and honored throughout the heathen world, and His law was revered. Not until many years later was Nineveh to fall a prey to the surrounding nations through forgetfulness of God and through boastful pride.... The lesson is for God's messengers today, when the cities of the nations are as verily in need of a knowledge of the attributes and purposes of the true God as were the Ninevites of old.... The only city that will endure is the city whose builder and maker is God.... The Lord Jesus is calling upon men to strive with sanctified ambition to secure the immortal inheritance.17Prophets and Kings, 265-274.

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QUAD-PALS: 007 At the mention of the king’s seal and the chief of staff, King Nebuchadnezzar became suddenly alerted, and cold shivers traveled down his thigh region because a letter with the king’s seal was always penned by the king. In a flash, he tried to unravel the incongruity in his head. “Could Ashpenaz, the king’s trust, have overthrown the king?” “Was there an invasion?” “Is the king deceased?” were a few of the thoughts that ran fleetly across his mind. All these presumptions were valid to a good degree because, in the first place, the chief of staff was almost as powerful as the king due to the classified information at his disposal. His appointment was solely on the basis of trust and tact; he was also deputed the power to give orders to the imperial guard. As a result, the possibility of unseating the king was not out of place. In the second place, regarding a possible incursion, an alliance between three or four distant nations could pose a disastrous breach on Shinar's borders, as only about four thousand soldiers, under the command of a single general, stayed to secure the state. Lastly, the king had been infirm and indisposed for a long time now, making his death ineluctable. The general grabbed the letter from the soldier and wasted no time in unsealing it. He took out the main letter and placed it over a burning lamp to supply the needed heat for the invisible impression made with an invisible ink to appear. The statement of the letter was straight-to-the-point, and it gave credence to one of his conjectures. It reads as follows: “The King has Passed On Return Home for the Crown” King Nebopolassar passed away the night of his meeting with Sage Ashpenaz. However, in consonance with their culture, no announcement was made of his death. The queen and other royal seeds were not informed as well—it was forbidden to do that; only the chief of staff and the heir apparent to the throne ought to know about the king’s demise. The people got to know about the death of the king when a new king was crowned because the enthronement of a new king implied the departure of the old king. The departed king would be secretly buried without any elaborate burial arrangement or elongated and colorful ceremony. This was due to two reasons: first, the dead king was supposed to have passed on into a new life. Second, the King of Shinar commanded the power that holds the system of the country in one accord, and news about the demise of the king might present an ample opportunity to occasion an unwanted attack from enemy nations. King Nebuchadnezzar, as commonly called by his subjects, read the letter only once. In a divided second, the desire to satisfy his biting hunger completely died down due to the king’s demise. He had a motto that made his 3rd Decree: “Duty or Death!” This was borne out of his belief that if a capable man fails to perform his duty, he has no reason to be alive. The next moment, he had put on his military coat; he called out with a loud baritone voice, “General Arioch!” Within 10 seconds, the general was standing at attention inside the tent. “Always ready, sir!” he answered anxiously as though he had been anticipating his call. "Delegate your command to Captain Shadock. Prepare my chariots. We are leaving for Shinar right away," said the king hastily without mincing words. “Right away, sir!” he reacted at once as he swiftly made for the exit of the tent. Kaptain Lamblion JC

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Two Words for Time That Changed How I Read the Gospels English has one word for time. Greek has two, and the difference quietly transforms how we read the New Testament. Chronos (χρόνος) is clock time. Measurable. Sequential. How long, how many days. It's where we get "chronology" and "chronicle." Kairos (καιρός) is something harder to pin down — the appointed moment, the right time, time loaded with meaning rather than just duration. Ancient Greeks used it in archery: the precise instant to release the arrow. Miss it, and the shot is lost. The Gospel writers knew exactly which word to reach for. When Mark opens Jesus' ministry, he doesn't write "after a long time had passed." He writes: "The kairos is fulfilled" (Mark 1:15). Not a clock announcement — a cosmic one. The entire arc of Israel's story had been moving toward this moment. The bow is fully drawn. The arrow released. Paul says something similar in Galatians 4:4 — "when the fullness of time (χρόνος) came, God sent forth His Son." Sequential time had been running its course until it tipped over (“filled to the brim”) into the appointed moment. Even after the resurrection, this holds. Jesus appears in locked rooms, on unrecognised roads, at a dawn shoreline — no chronos-logic, no schedule. Every appearance is a kairos: wounds touched, doubts met, a commission at shore. Nothing accidental. Jesus operates in kairos — in divinely appointed, irreversible moments of significance. And at Pentecost, Peter quotes Joel — "In the last days..." The kairos hasn't closed. It has opened wider. We live, as it were, in the tension between kairos fulfilled and kairos approaching. Most of us live almost entirely in chronos — anxious about time running out, frustrated by delays, measuring life in deadlines. But maybe the more important question isn't how much time I have? Maybe it's — is this the moment? Has there been a kairos in your own life — a moment that felt charged, significant, like something was being decided? I'd love to hear.

A HEART THAT IS DECEITFULLY WICKED????? I am not a believer with a wicked heart trying to become obedient. Romans 6:17–18 says you “became obedient from the heart.” It even says you became a “slave of righteousness.” That’s not a command to try harder. It’s an announcement of what God has already done in you: I am now allergic to sin and addicted to righteousness! Why? Because at salvation, God gave me a new heart, freed me from sin, and made me obedient by nature. AF/me