Good morning, brethren.

Morning devotional for today.

MORNING TEA. THE WORD FOR TODAY
SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 2026.
"TAKE RESPONSIBILITY"
‘Don’t try to disclaim responsibility.’ Proverbs 24:11 TLB

A WOMAN went shopping one day and came home with a very expensive dress. Her budget-conscious husband was very upset and demanded to know what on earth possessed her. ‘The devil made me do it,’ she replied sweetly. He asked, ‘Well, why didn’t you say, “Get thee behind me, satan?” ‘I did,’ she replied. ‘But he said it looked great from the back as well—so I had to buy it!’ Satan is an expert at distorting the truth by getting us to blame circumstances and other people for our mistakes; that way we never have to take responsibility. But as Albert Ellis observed, ‘The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don’t blame them on your mother, the ecology or the government. You realise you control your own destiny.’ Florence Nightingale, hero-nurse of the Crimean War, said, ‘I attribute my success to one thing: I never gave or took an excuse.’ When a winner messes up, they admit they were wrong and ask for forgiveness. When a loser makes a mistake, they immediately look for somebody or something to blame. The Bible says, ‘Don’t try to disclaim responsibility by saying you didn’t know…God…knows you knew! And he will reward…according to Kama Emma deeds.’ David constantly prayed about his shortcomings, and his honesty helped make him ‘a man after [God’s] own heart’ (1 Samuel 13:14 KJV). Instead of denying and defending your mistakes, take responsibility, learn from them and move on. That’s how you grow!

Bible In A Year: Rom 12-14, Luke 6:1-16, Ps 104:1-23, Pro 3:9-10. Courtesy Grace So Amazing Foundation

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2. Morning Prayer for today.

Morning Prayer

Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⏤ 1 Peter 1:3

The resurrection of Jesus changes the face of death for all His people. Death is no longer a prison, but a passage into God's presence. ⏤ John Piper

Our hearts are glad this morning, our Father, as we welcome this new Sunday. Everything within us rejoices and praises You. May our lives rise from the shadows of death into beauty and blessedness.

We thank You for all that the resurrection of Jesus means to us: that death could not hold Him, that He lives now to intercede for us in Heaven, and also to be our Friend and Companion in this world. May the gifts of His grace be poured out upon us. May the Holy Spirit fill our hearts and enrich our lives.

Prepare us for the work and worship of this day. Bless the words we have read from Your holy word. May they become in us divine inspirations, kindling holy thoughts, pure desires, aspirations after holiness, and a love that will make our lives like altars of incense before You.

Bless our home life on this day of rest. Draw us closer together as a family. May our love become deeper, more tender, and more unselfish as we join in worship. May Your blessing rest upon those who preach Your word and upon all who gather for worship. We pray especially for those who carry Your word to those in need. May they have Your power, and may their ministries be blessed.

We give ourselves to You for this day. We desire to make it a day unstained by sinful thoughts or words, a day for receiving new measures of the Holy Spirit, a day for coming very close to Jesus, a day for giving out blessings to others. Forgive us all our sins. Cleanse and purify our lives. We ask all this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Picture of a Prophet
by Leonard Ravenhill
The prophet in his day is fully accepted of God and totally rejected by men.
Years back, Dr. Gregory Mantle was right when he said, “No man can be fully accepted until he is totally rejected.” The prophet of the Lord is aware of both these experiences. They are his “brand name.”
The group, challenged by the prophet because they are smug and comfortably insulated from a perishing world in their warm but untested theology, is not likely to vote him “Man of the year” when he refers to them as habituates of the synagogue of Satan!
The prophet comes to set up that which is upset. His work is to call into line those who are out of line! He is unpopular because he opposes the popular in morality and spirituality. In a day of faceless politicians and voiceless preachers, there is not a more urgent national need than that we cry to God for a prophet! The function of the prophet, as Austin-Sparks once said, “has almost always been that of recovery.”
The prophet is God’s detective seeking for a lost treasure. The degree of his effectiveness is determined by his measure of unpopularity. Compromise is not known to him.
He has no price tags.
He is totally “otherworldly.”
He is unquestionably controversial and unpardonably hostile.
He marches to another drummer!
He breathes the rarefied air of inspiration.
He is a “seer” who comes to lead the blind.
He lives in the heights of God and comes into the valley with a “thus saith the Lord.”
He shares some of the foreknowledge of God and so is aware of impending judgment.
He lives in “splendid isolation.”
He is forthright and outright, but he claims no birthright.
His message is “repent, be reconciled to God or else…!”
His prophecies are parried.
His truth brings torment, but his voice is never void.
He is the villain of today and the hero of tomorrow.
He is excommunicated while alive and exalted when dead!
He is dishonoured with epithets when breathing and honored with epitaphs when dead.
He is a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, but few “make the grade” in his class.
He is friendless while living and famous when dead.
He is against the establishment in ministry; then he is established as a saint by posterity.
He eats daily the bread of affliction while he ministers, but he feeds the Bread of Life to those who listen.
He walks before men for days but has walked before God for years.
He is a scourge to the nation before he is scourged by the nation.
He announces, pronounces, and denounces!
He has a heart like a volcano and his words are as fire.
He talks to men about God.
He carries the lamp of truth amongst heretics while he is lampooned by men.
He faces God before he faces men, but he is self-effacing.
He hides with God in the secret place, but he has nothing to hide in
the marketplace.
He is naturally sensitive but supernaturally spiritual.
He has passion, purpose and pugnacity.
He is ordained of God but disdained by men.
Our national need at this hour is not that the dollar recovers its strength, or that we save face over the Watergate affair, or that we find the answer to the ecology problem. We need a God-sent prophet!
I am bombarded with talk or letters about the coming shortages in our national life: bread, fuel, energy. I read between the lines from people not practiced in scaring folk. They feel that the “seven years of plenty” are over for us. The “seven years of famine” are ahead. But the greatest famine of all in this nation at this given moment is a FAMINE OF THE HEARING OF THE WORDS OF GOD (Amos 8:11).
Millions have been spent on evangelism in the last twenty-five years. Hundreds of gospel messages streak through the air over the nation every day. Crusades have been held; healing meetings have made a vital contribution. “Come-outers” have “come out” and settled, too, without a nation-shaking revival. Organizers we have. Skilled preachers abound. Multi-million dollar Christian organizations straddle the nation. BUT where, oh where, is the prophet? Where are the incandescent men fresh from the holy place? Where is the Moses to plead in fasting before the holiness of the Lord for our mouldy morality, our political perfidy, and sour and sick spirituality?
God’s men are in hiding until the day of their showing forth.
They will come. The prophet is violated during his ministry, but he is vindicated by history.
There is a terrible vacuum in evangelical Christianity today. The missing person in our ranks is the prophet. The man with a terrible earnestness. The man totally otherworldly. The man rejected by other men, even other good men, because they consider him too austere, too severely committed, too negative and unsociable.
Let him be as plain as John the Baptist.
Let him for a season be a voice crying in the wilderness of modern theology and stagnant “churchianity.”
Let him be as selfless as Paul the apostle.
Let him, too, say and live, “This ONE thing I do.”
Let him reject ecclesiastical favors.
Let him be self-abasing, non-self-seeking, non-self-projecting, non-self- righteous, non-self-glorying, non-self-promoting.
Let him say nothing that will draw men to himself but only that which will move men to God.
Let him come daily from the throne room of a holy God, the place where he has received the order of the day.
Let him, under God, unstop the ears of the millions who are deaf through the clatter of shekels milked from this hour of material mesmerism.
Let him cry with a voice this century has not heard because he has seen a vision no man in this century has seen. God send us this Moses to lead us from the wilderness of crass materialism, where the rattlesnakes of lust bite us and where enlightened men, totally blind spiritually, lead us to an ever-nearing Armageddon.
God have mercy! Send us PROPHETS!
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Guidelines for living
December 31st, 2025
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Why Should You Care About Saving the Earth?

Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me. Job 41:11

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Oil spills which destroy the environment, pelicans and albatrosses who eat plastic, chemical waste which kill fish, marine life and destroy natural resources, and rusted beer cans which litter the landscape: how much of this is of concern to you? Or should it be at all?

A generation ago, Christians sang the words of a hymn written by Malthie Babcock which go, “This is my Father’s World, and to my list’ning ear, all nature sings, and round me rings, the music of the spheres.” Yes, the world still belongs to Him, but there’s one thing for sure: In the past century, with burgeoning masses of people: the proliferation of plastics and synthetics, the widespread use of industrial chemicals which get dumped into our rivers and oceans, and the widespread disregard of the ecology, the air has become polluted, the water we drink is often unsafe, and the beautiful landscapes and beaches have become littered with filth which was unimaginable to my grandfather.

I’ll never forget the personal revulsion I felt when I took my kids backpacking into a wilderness area and as a trail crested the peak, we looked down on a beautiful meadow—a small hut at one end which we thought had been used by a logger or an earlier settler. As we made our way through the lush valley toward the abandoned hut, the closer we got, the greater was the concentration of rusting beer and pop cans and plastic and trash which had been left by careless campers.

Question: Should the environment be a cause of concern to those of us who are Christians? I cringe a bit even as I ask the question. For a long while, many of us who believe God created our beautiful world have looked the other way, not wanting to come down on the side of the environmentalists and the liberals who stand for Green Peace and the ecological balance in nature.

“They just go too far,” I’ve heard good people say, but the fact is if they go too far, we should even be more shamed because we haven’t gone any distance at all in protesting what is happening to our world, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the environment in which we must raise our children.

It’s high time that all of us who believe this is God’s world to use our influence, our resources, and our abilities to preserve the beauty of the world God has given to us.

All of us are victims when major industries and companies ignore public health and safety, and we say or do nothing because it isn’t your child suffering from leukemia or it wasn’t your boss who said, “Dump this stuff, get rid of it, anywhere!”

“All that is necessary for evil to triumph,” said Edmund Burke, “is for good men to do nothing.” Yes, I know I can’t fight and die on every hill, but what you can do, you ought to do. Like what? First make sure you don’t contribute to the problem. Litter, whether it is on a trail or allowing your kids to drop their candy and gum wrappers, is inexcusable. Sort and recycle even if you don’t like it.

Read with discernment. Rain forests that have died because loggers cut the trees or global warming that threatens to make the oceans rise may be beyond your ability to stop. But you can plant a tree, you can cultivate a flower, you can ride your bicycle instead of crank up the car, you can carpool it, buy small, more efficient vehicles and appliances, and use a fan occasionally instead of the air con.

If this is God’s world, and you are God’s child, it’s time to start taking care of His property. It’s a family matter.

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Resource reading: Job 38:4-41

Guidelines for living
December 31st, 2025
​

Why Should You Care About Saving the Earth?

Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me. Job 41:11

​

Oil spills which destroy the environment, pelicans and albatrosses who eat plastic, chemical waste which kill fish, marine life and destroy natural resources, and rusted beer cans which litter the landscape: how much of this is of concern to you? Or should it be at all?

A generation ago, Christians sang the words of a hymn written by Malthie Babcock which go, “This is my Father’s World, and to my list’ning ear, all nature sings, and round me rings, the music of the spheres.” Yes, the world still belongs to Him, but there’s one thing for sure: In the past century, with burgeoning masses of people: the proliferation of plastics and synthetics, the widespread use of industrial chemicals which get dumped into our rivers and oceans, and the widespread disregard of the ecology, the air has become polluted, the water we drink is often unsafe, and the beautiful landscapes and beaches have become littered with filth which was unimaginable to my grandfather.

I’ll never forget the personal revulsion I felt when I took my kids backpacking into a wilderness area and as a trail crested the peak, we looked down on a beautiful meadow—a small hut at one end which we thought had been used by a logger or an earlier settler. As we made our way through the lush valley toward the abandoned hut, the closer we got, the greater was the concentration of rusting beer and pop cans and plastic and trash which had been left by careless campers.

Question: Should the environment be a cause of concern to those of us who are Christians? I cringe a bit even as I ask the question. For a long while, many of us who believe God created our beautiful world have looked the other way, not wanting to come down on the side of the environmentalists and the liberals who stand for Green Peace and the ecological balance in nature.

“They just go too far,” I’ve heard good people say, but the fact is if they go too far, we should even be more shamed because we haven’t gone any distance at all in protesting what is happening to our world, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the environment in which we must raise our children.

It’s high time that all of us who believe this is God’s world to use our influence, our resources, and our abilities to preserve the beauty of the world God has given to us.

All of us are victims when major industries and companies ignore public health and safety, and we say or do nothing because it isn’t your child suffering from leukemia or it wasn’t your boss who said, “Dump this stuff, get rid of it, anywhere!”

“All that is necessary for evil to triumph,” said Edmund Burke, “is for good men to do nothing.” Yes, I know I can’t fight and die on every hill, but what you can do, you ought to do. Like what? First make sure you don’t contribute to the problem. Litter, whether it is on a trail or allowing your kids to drop their candy and gum wrappers, is inexcusable. Sort and recycle even if you don’t like it.

Read with discernment. Rain forests that have died because loggers cut the trees or global warming that threatens to make the oceans rise may be beyond your ability to stop. But you can plant a tree, you can cultivate a flower, you can ride your bicycle instead of crank up the car, you can carpool it, buy small, more efficient vehicles and appliances, and use a fan occasionally instead of the air con.

If this is God’s world, and you are God’s child, it’s time to start taking care of His property. It’s a family matter.

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Resource reading: Job 38:4-41

A Divine Thought Experiment:
What life would be like IF during the flood [the great cleansing] God had eliminated evil [Satan and his minions] what life would be like in the world [without evil]?
Civilization Without Evil:
Immediate Aftermath: A Pure Beginning
No temptation, no rebellion: With Satan and his minions gone, the root of spiritual corruption would be severed. Noah’s descendants would grow up in a world free from deception, pride, envy, and violence.
Unbroken communion with God: Humanity might retain a direct, intimate relationship with the divine—akin to Eden before the fall. Worship would be pure, not ritualistic or fear-based.
Justice without punishment: Laws would exist not to restrain evil but to guide flourishing. Courts and prisons might be unnecessary; instead, communities would resolve differences through wisdom and compassion.
Human Nature: Still Capable of Error?
If evil were external (Satanic), its removal might mean no more sin. But if humans retained free will and the capacity for selfishness, mistakes could still happen—though perhaps without malice.
Growth through grace: Instead of learning through suffering, humanity might grow through curiosity, creativity, and divine guidance.
Culture, Technology, and Society
Innovation Rooted in Stewardship
Technology for harmony: Tools and machines would be designed to enhance life without exploitation. No weapons, no surveillance—just instruments of healing, building, and connecting.
Agriculture and healing: Gardens would be sacred spaces, perhaps echoing Eden. Herbalism might be central to wellness and spiritual renewal.
Community and Hospitality
Homes as sanctuaries: Every dwelling might reflect divine beauty—layered textiles, warm lighting, and seasonal rhythms. Your love for atmosphere would be the norm, not the exception.
Hospitality as a way of life: Baking, sharing meals, and welcoming strangers would be sacred acts. Recipes wouldn’t just nourish bodies—they’d preserve stories and honor ancestors.
Spiritual Life and Wisdom
Scripture and Revelation
Without evil, scripture might be a living dialogue rather than a record of struggle. Wisdom texts could focus on healing, creativity, and divine mysteries.
No need for redemption: Jesus might still come—not to die, but to teach, walk among us, and model divine love in human form.
Healing Gardens and Sacred Spaces
Gardens would be places of communion, reflection, and restoration. Plants like hyssop, frankincense, and myrrh might be cultivated not just for their properties but for their spiritual resonance.
Where Would We Be Today?
No wars, no poverty, no exploitation: Civilization might be unified, not by force, but by shared purpose and divine presence.
Art and design as worship: Every creative act—whether baking a cake or designing a home—would be a form of praise.
Global Eden: Every town might be part of a vast, interconnected garden-city, each with its own flavor but united in peace.
Blueprint for a Redeemed World
A thought experiment in building a society rooted in faith, charity, clarity, and wisdom
1. Spiritual Foundation: Reorienting the Heart
Pillars:
Faith as compass: Encourage daily spiritual practices—prayer, meditation, scripture study—to align hearts with divine purpose.
Charity as currency: Redefine wealth as generosity. Promote giving not just of money, but time, skills, and presence.
Clarity as light: Teach discernment, truth-seeking, and emotional intelligence to cut through confusion and manipulation.
Wisdom as architecture: Elevate elders, mentors, and sacred texts as guides for decision-making.
Actions:
Create neighborhood prayer circles and healing gardens.
Offer free spiritual literacy workshops—biblical, historical, and interfaith.
Encourage journaling and storytelling to preserve wisdom and foster clarity.
2. Community Design: Hospitality as Infrastructure
Pillars:
Homes as sanctuaries: Design spaces that nurture dignity, warmth, and connection.
Shared tables: Promote communal meals, potlucks, and food-sharing networks.
Creative collaboration: Use art, baking, and design to build bridges across cultures and generations.
Actions:
Launch “Open Door” initiatives—monthly neighborhood dinners, rotating hosts.
Support tiny home villages and co-housing models for the unhoused.
Create community kitchens and gardens with roles for all ages and abilities.
3. Economic Renewal: Dignity Over Profit
Pillars:
Work as vocation: Shift from job-as-survival to work-as-calling.
Local abundance: Invest in regional food systems, makers, and healers.
Debt forgiveness: Advocate for jubilee-style financial resets and ethical lending.
Actions:
Establish barter networks and time banks.
Create micro-grant programs for single parents, elders, and artisans.
Promote ethical business models—co-ops, nonprofits, and mission-driven enterprises.
4. Education for Wisdom and Wonder
Pillars:
Teach to transform: Focus on character, creativity, and critical thinking.
Intergenerational learning: Pair youth with elders for mentorship and storytelling.
Spiritual literacy: Integrate biblical and moral wisdom into curricula.
Actions:
Build “Wisdom Schools” in churches, libraries, and gardens.
Offer apprenticeships in healing arts, hospitality, and stewardship.
Create mobile learning hubs for underserved areas.
5. Justice as Restoration, Not Punishment
Pillars:
Truth and reconciliation: Address historical wounds with honesty and grace.
Restorative justice: Replace punitive systems with healing circles and accountability.
Protection of the vulnerable: Prioritize children, elders, and the marginalized.
Actions:
Train community mediators and peacemakers.
Establish “Justice Gardens” where stories are shared and healing begins.
Advocate for policy rooted in compassion and equity
6. Healing the Earth: Stewardship as Worship
Pillars:
Sacred ecology: Treat creation as a living temple.
Healing gardens: Cultivate spaces for reflection, herbal medicine, and renewal.
Seasonal rhythms: Align life with natural cycles—sabbath, harvest, rest.
Actions:
Plant biblical and medicinal gardens in every neighborhood.
Host seasonal festivals that honor creation and community.
Teach regenerative practices—composting, herbalism, seed saving.
7. Hope as Culture: Beauty, Story, and Celebration
Pillars:
Art as prophecy: Use music, design, and storytelling to cast vision.
Celebration as resistance: Mark milestones with joy, not just survival.
Memory as anchor: Preserve recipes, traditions, and testimonies.
Actions:
Create “Hope Hubs” for creative expression and emotional support.
Publish community cookbooks and story collections.
Host festivals of light, healing, and hospitality.
Final Thought:
This isn’t just a dream—it’s a call to action. Even in a world with present-day evils, we can choose to live prophetically, modeling the kingdom to come.

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