91 Days of Victory – Day 81 (2026/05/19)

 

But I would feed you with the finest wheat. I would satisfy you with wild honey from the rock. True worship goes beyond singing; it requires a heart that is yielded and obedient to God's word. Psalm 81 is a two-part psalm of Asaph designed for festival worship (likely the Feast of Tabernacles), focusing on themes of joyful praise, remembering God’s deliverance from Egypt, and an urgent appeal to abandon idols and listen to God. It contrasts God’s desire to bless and satisfy His people with the consequences of their disobedience and stubbornness. 

The Psalm has strong reminder to steer clear of idolatry and to know that God is the only God. It reminds us to place our trust in God and He will look after us. In verse 10 it states, “Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it with good things”.

Now here is what the Holy Spirit wants you to see today. God is a God of salvation, and He is a jealous God. It is made clear to us in the ten commandments when God says, “You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods”.

Idolatry has many forms and here are some examples:

1. Literal and Physical Idolatry

• Worship of False Gods: Worshipping pagan deities of surrounding nations, such as Baal, Ashtoreth, and Molech.
• Image Worship: Fashioning and bowing to physical idols carved from wood, stone, silver, or gold, or crafting molten figures like the Golden Calf.
• Host of Heaven: Worshipping celestial bodies, including the sun, moon, and stars.
• Occult Practices: Seeking guidance from or worshipping through mediums, divination, or astrology (e.g., Deuteronomy 18:10-12). 

2. Spiritual and Subtle Idolatry

• Covetousness and Greed: The New Testament explicitly equates greed and covetousness with idolatry (Colossians 3:5), because it places material wealth and cravings above God.
• Self-Worship and Fleshly Desires: Making a "god" of your own physical appetites or desires (Philippians 3:19).
• Syncretism: Attempting to blend the worship of the true God with the practices and idols of surrounding worldly cultures. 

3. Cultural and Relational Idolatry

• Trusting in Human Power: Depending on military might, political alliances (e.g., trusting in Egypt rather than God), or human leadership rather than God’s provision.
• Worldly Power and Prestige: Elevating status, fame, and secular power to a place of ultimate importance in your life. 

These are the pitfalls in life that steer us away from God and sometimes they are small in our eyes but not in God’s eyes. My dear friend, the Holy Spirit wants to remind us that we should take our relationship and our worship with God very serious. The time of the Lord’s return is coming, and we should not be like the five virgins who was waiting for the bridegroom but was unprepared for his arrival. While the foolish virgins are away, the wedding begins and the door is shut. When the foolish ones return, they are locked out and the bridegroom tells them he does not know them. Because no one knows the exact day or hour of Christ's return, we must stay spiritually vigilant and maintain our faith and our hope. This cannot be borrowed from someone else. It must be from our own obedience and desire for more of our Lord and God.

Have an awesome day.

91 Days of Victory – Day 80 (2026/05/18)

 

Strengthen the man you love, the son of your choice. Psalm 80 is a heartfelt communal lament, likely written during a time of national crisis (such as the fall of the Northern Kingdom) to ask God to restore, Shepherd, and protect Israel, depicted as a damaged vine. Its central theme is a plea for revival through God's grace, highlighted by the recurring refrain: "Turn us again to yourself, O God. Make your face shine down upon us.
Only then will we be saved” (NLT).

The verse that stood out today is 17 where the writer says that God must strengthen the man (woman) He loves. Today I am writing to you but I think mainly to myself. As time progress we have our ups and our downs. It is a daily thing as the enemy remains relentless in his attempts to get us to fail or fall or lose hope.

We have our battles and some days we have many little foxes (as they call them) that tries to alter our mindset or our direction. So, as the Psalmist writes “Strengthen the man you love” I am turning to God, humbled by His grace and mercy, to give me and you the strength to continue. To face the attacks and the battles we have. To stand strong and to finish the race. To be of good cheer and to find our joy in the Lord our God. To continue to seek Him and to stay on our course and obey His commands.

As this Psalmist writes that God is the shepherd I am reminded by the words of Jesus, “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep”. Here in John10 Jesus refers to Himself as the good shepherd that will not run when a wolf attacks like a hired hand. His sheep knows His voice and they know Him. In other words, God says that He will never leave us nor forsake us and if He is for us who can be against us. When the enemy comes to destroy, He will not run away but He will step in and protect His flock. He has already given His life for us, so why would He stop now.

My dear friend, we do not worship a mediocre God. We worship the creator of heaven and earth. Do not be dismayed but in all things give praise to God and trust His will and His way. Seek His voice and listen when He directs you. All things will work out for good, because He came to give us life.

Have an awesome day.

91 Days of Victory – Day 79 (2026/05/17)

 

Help us, O God of our salvation! Help us for the glory of your name. Save us and forgive our sins for the honor of your name. This morning I am thinking of people that are new to our faith or newly restored. When we encounter Jesus Christ, our lives change and we become a new person. Transformed from our old way of life into a new way of living and thinking. Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 3, “So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord - who is the Spirit - makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image”.

You see we are transformed not just once but it is a daily process. We are transformed from a worldly type of living into a Jesus type of living. Now when I say a daily process I mean we should not think once we have given our lives to Jesus, we are now in the clear. Now the enemy knows a new Christian can be an easy target, even someone who renewed their life for Jesus can sometimes still be an easy target.

I have written to you before on how important your relationship with the Holy Spirit is. Look what Paul writes in Romans 8, “Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will. That’s why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God”.

The only way we can overcome our sinful nature, resist the devil and please God is through the Holy Spirit. It is by committing time in His Word and in prayer. It is walking in a day-by-day relationship with the Holy Spirit. It is by renewing our minds on a daily basis through scripture and finally by faith in Jesus and trusting Him in all things.

It is by our faithful seeking and our obedience in His Word that we are transformed not just once, but every day. It is by living like this that we find true peace and power in the Holy Spirit, to stand when facing impossible odds and to continue in the midst of our storms. It is by this that we will receive the reward for running the race to the end.

My dear friend, I know sometimes all of this can be difficult and some days it feels impossible. Believe me we all face days like that and days where we just do not want to do anything. It is in these times when you are at the end of your rope and you are tired and you do not feel like this, that we must above all turn to God. It will calm your heart, align your goals and set you back on your path.

I just want to say this to you today – I know what it feels like, I know how tough things can be and I know how hard life can be, but I also know how amazing God is. How wonderful His love is and how He can take all that was intended to destroy us and turn it around. I know the pit is deep and I know how heavy guilt can be. That is why Jesus said come to me all who are heavily burdened. Come to me when you can not go on. Come to me when you heart is broken. Come to me when the doctors give you the bad news. Come to me for I have come to give you life and life in abundance.

Come with me today as we lay our lives at the altar and just seek Him with all our hearts and trust Him in all that we do.

Have and awesome day.

91 Days of Victory – Day 78 (2026/05/16)

 

But all they gave him was lip service; they lied to him with their tongues. Their hearts were not loyal to him. They did not keep his covenant. We are reading Psalm 78 and these verses just stood out this morning. It reminds me of 1 Samual 16:7, But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart”.

My dear friend, we have looked at Hannah and David and how they chose to go to God with their troubles and once they gave it to Him, it was settled and they trusted Him for the outcome. In this world we will always have three kinds of Christians, warm, lukewarm and cold. The first is the Hannah/David kind that is on fire for Jesus and walks each day working (fighting) to obey God and follow His Word and His voice, the second are the ones as we see in Psalm 78:36-37, that gives lip service. Their outer look and the things they say makes people believe that they follow Jesus, but it is mere lip service and an image they try to project, yet their hearts are empty and wicked. Then the last group are those who either rejected God and became atheists or those who follow other gods or idols.

I want to turn your focus to Revelation 3:16, So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. Now this is quite an eye opener. God is not just saying He does not like lukewarm Christians, He says He will vomit them out of His mouth. I have this image of something that made you sick and your entire body now rejects this, and, in its defence, it causes you to throw up and vomit this out in an attempt to rid the body of it and restore you. This is not a nice reaction and at some point, we all were sick, so I am sure you know how it feels. In essence I get the idea that a lukewarm Christian kind a makes God sick to the stomach.

It is important that we refrain from becoming passive in our walk with God to protect us from becoming lukewarm, but in all things seek the Kingdom of heaven and its righteousness above all else. It is vital that we seek the Holy Spirit and His council and comfort, and steer clear of worldly solutions and continue to focus on things above and not on material things.

Remember what Jesus said, “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also”. So, treasure your time with God and your time in the Word. Treasure His guidance and His will. Treasure His love and His mercy and treasure His kingdom, for life is but a mere moment.

Meditate on these verses from John 15 and let the Holy Spirit make it part of your life – “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing”.

“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you”.

Have an awesome day.

91 Days of Victory – Day 77 (2026/05/15)

 

You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples. I wrote to you about Hannah yesterday and how she restraint herself from turning to the world, but instead she turned to God. In the same manner David used the same principal in his life. When the woman and children was captured by the Amalekites David was greatly distressed and he turned to God. In 1 Samuel 30 we read, “But David found strength in the LORD his God” and then he inquired of the Lord what he must do. It seems simple but so many will not turn to God first and seek their strength in Him. When the world comes collapsing down on you, I want to actually share a five-point plan with you that we see in scripture. Now keep in mind both Hannah and David refused to allow the negative words of people (the world) to impact them, both turned to God and both after they went to God acted on faith. Hannah was sad no more and stood on God promises, David went and defeated the Amalekites. How do we even begin to do this, here is my advice as per the Holy Spirit. Also note, this is a daily thing. Do it every day. 

1.)Renew your mind. Romans 12:2 says “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will”. Here we see by allowing the Holy Spirit to transform us and renew our minds and thoughts we will be able to see or hear God’s will.  

2.)Put on a new self. Ephesians 4:23-24 says, “to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness”. After you ask for renewal of your mind, embrace the new self that the Holy Spirit creates in your spirit and allow Him to speak into your life all day. In other words, when you receive transformation allow the Holy Spirit to guide you as you step into your day and run from negativity. 

3.)Take captive your thoughts. 2 Corinthians 10:5 says, “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ”. Now once we have been transformed and renewed, we now take captive our thoughts by not allowing negative words to impact us. Steer clear of negative people and even our own thoughts must be filtered so that we hear, think and speak life and not negative dead words, because that a man thinketh, he is.

4.)Focus on the good. Philippians 4:8 says, “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things”. Think that basically says it. 

5.)Have an eternity mindset. Colossians 3:2 says, “Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things”. Focus on God, on being obedient. Focus on His Word and the promises in it. Focus on who God is and what He can do. Focus on what lies ahead not what lies behind. Focus on heaven and life in eternity with Jesus and not on the decay of this world. Focus on what God has done already, be grateful and listen to that still small voice and praise God for what He is going to do. Stand on it and believe it. 

My dear friend, try this basic example every day and every day you will experience growth in faith, increase in peace and abundance in Christ. Have an awesome day. 

91 Days of Victory – Day 76 (2026/05/14)

 

Oh, thank you, sir!” she exclaimed. Then she went back and began to eat again, and she was no longer sad. Hannah was not able to have children and her husband’s other wife, Peninnah, taunted her year after year. This caused her a lot of sorrow even to the point where she did not eat. Even though her husband loved her very much, she felt worthless because she could not have children. Hannah went to the Lord and with a broken heart she brought her deep anguish to God. Eli who was close by saw her and thought she was intoxicated and rebuked her. Instead of retaliating she honoured him as the prophet and explained her deep grieve. He in turn blessed her and when she got up, she walked away not being sad anymore. In essence I want to point out a few things. 1) She was ridiculed for her inability to do something 2) She did not complain to the world or her husband, she took it in prayer to God 3) Even when confronted she remained humble and respected other. There is a deep message in her actions because she did not remain in her despair, but she took it to God. She did not look for worldly comfort but instead sought God’s help. After she gave it to the Lord she stood up in faith and trust in God knowing He is the God of the impossible and He will hear her prayer and change her circumstances. How many times do we complain about the smallest thing and how many times to we pray to God for help, yet we remain unhappy and we keep complaining. It reminds me of Jesus when He said in Matthew 17, Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me”. How often do we pray with no faith expecting God to be like MacDonalds and just jump at our order. My dear friend, when God moves (rises), He will judge the wicked and save the afflicted. He is always with us and He hears all our prayers, and He sees all that we go through. Why do we struggle with trust? Remember Pauls words where he said that he is contempt in abundance and in nothing. He rejoiced in his affliction because He knows God can change anything. Come with me today as we lay all our afflictions and troubles before God and as Hannah, when we stand up, we will not be sad anymore but instead rejoice in the Lord our saviour. Have an awesome day.

91 Days of Victory – Day 75 (2026/05/13)

 

We thank you, O God! We give thanks because you are near. People everywhere tell of your wonderful deeds. You know we can all sit in a corner and cry about life. We can tell people about the incredible unfairness of it and how we have been delt the worst cards and our lives are just unbearable. Oh, how hard life is, in fact I am heading for the bottle right now, because I am fed up and I just can’t go on. Maybe that is a little extreme but believe me I hear this type of sadness in my office from time to time. The funny thing is that in most of these terrible painful stories the reason for it is simply decisions that people made. Simple choices that got them there and now they are shocked at the outcome. Now, please forgive me if I am sounding a bit emotionless here, I am getting to a point. I was asking the guys on the street why they are there and what type of work they did or can do. Now the sad thing is all of them said – drugs. They were doing well and then they tried the first thing and before they could help, they were addicted. 

These guys are on my heart, and I try to bring them something to eat when I work in this area and it is actually a sad truth that so many people lose so much because of drugs and alcohol in fact sin is purply there to destroy us. The thing is, they are stuck on the street because they have lost hope. They accepted the fact that they are not worthy of a better life and this is where they will live the rest of their lives. The truth is, this is a lie and the very lie the enemy feeds so many of us. I love Paul’s words in Philippians 4, “Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”.

In other words, he is always content regardless if he has little or a lot or even nothing. Now, the world sells the need message. You need this and you need that and if it becomes too much to handle here is a pill or something stronger. Why? Because the enemy works with a jail sentence mentality and Jesus works with a life in abundance system. Why a jail sentence? It is simple the world tries to hook you with stuff you do not need, addictions and debt. When you are caught, they will use the one to open the other with the goal to destroy you and finally you could also end up losing everything. I have experience in this because through sin I lost my wife, my house, my kids and a lot of money. 

What is the difference between me and the guys on the street. Now I am not boasting about anything. The only thing I can boast about is God’s grace and His simple amazing promise that He will never leave us nor forsake us. Now in that I found redemption, because I turned to Him when I am at my end and nowadays basically all the time. It does not make me a walk on water Christian, it makes me accountable to God. 

So, when I fall, I go to Him, when I win, I go to Him, when I am sad, I go to Him and when I am lost, I go to Him. I put my hope and my trust in Jesus Christ, now in this lies the secret, because in Him we will have content in in that we will have abundance, because our focus is Jesus and not the world and then He will bless us increasingly and abundantly above all we can think or imagine. 

My dear friend, life may be hard, but I stand on these words that Jesus said: “Be of good cheer, for I have overcome this world”. Nothing will get me down for I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me even when I do not feel like it. Know this, you are able to do so much more because of He who is in you. Just trust Him. Have an awesome day.

91 Days of Victory – Day 74 (2026/05/12)

 

Remember your covenant promises, for the land is full of darkness and violence! Psalm 74 has quite a sombre feel to it when you read it. The writer asks God to remember His people, and you will get the feeling that they are in turmoil. So, Psalm 74 is a community lament, most likely written after the Babylonian destruction of the Temple in 586 B.C., where the writer asks God why He has abandoned His people and pleading for Him to intervene against enemies destroying His sanctuary. It acts as a model prayer, combining deep sorrow with faith by recalling God's past, powerful acts as creator and saviour. Now we can be hopeless some days and this Psalm might not uplift your spirits today and yes; it may even bring more sadness to your day but let’s stop there for a moment and let the Holy Spirit show us something we are missing. Two things stand out 1) It teaches us to bring our complaints and suffering to God, basing our requests on God's character and promises rather than our personal merit, 2) The message in here emphasizes that even when God feels distant or silent, He remains sovereign and faithful. Now I want you to look at the two verses the Holy Spirit highlighted, “Both day and night belong to you; you made the starlight and the sun. You set the boundaries of the earth, and you made both summer and winter”. I think the point I am trying to make is that God is still God. He is the creator of all, and He holds the universe in His hands. Who am I that He thinks or me and who am I that He should be concerned about me and who am I that He seeks time and fellowship with me. I am but a mere man with more mistakes than any other, yet in His mercy He makes me more and, in my obedience, and desire for Him I become whole through His grace and His love. He is never far, He is always with me even when I am in darkness. This morning I do not want you to focus on the bad and the hurt and the problems and the trials you may face, but I want you to focus on the life-giving God that with a mere Word created everything. How much more can His Word change your life. Come with me today as we just allow the Holy Spirit to guide us, fill us and be with us. Talk to Him as much as you can for, He so desires your attention and time. Share it all with Him and let Him speak into your life today. My dear friend, remember all things will work out for good and God will take what is intended to destroy us and turn it into good. Just let Him in and let Him fill you with His peace and His love. It is going to be an awesome day. You are blessed, my friend and He who is in you is far, far greater than he who is in this world.

91 Days of Victory – Day 73 (2026/05/11)

 

But as for me, I almost lost my footing. My feet were slipping, and I was almost gone. Monday morning and my work looks like this mountain range that lies before me. It seems as if the project keeps getting bigger and bigger as it continues. So, you can imagine my frustration has two main sources because on the one hand this project and the scope of it is much bigger and more complicated than what I could anticipate. The battle for my little girl also seems to have no end as days turn into weeks and weeks into months. I wish I could just go to bed and when I wake it was just one terrible dream and it all is back to normal. Some days I am fine and some days I am not. I guess it is how our emotions have its ups and downs and as the enemy gets a blow in when I least expect it. I am not someone that will go sit in a corner and cry. I have always been a fighter, and I guess it had two outcomes. Sometimes it is good and sometimes it is not so good, but in essence I can stand when the storms come. Now this is not because I am strong, it is simply because some days I turn to God with all my troubles and let Him guide and strengthen me and some days I try it on my own - these days I fail always. Just as the Psalmist writes, “I almost lost my footing”, I actually do and then I need to go “back to the drawing board” and realign myself with my Father and with His Word and ask the Holy Spirit for help and obviously to forgive me for grieving Him – again. Today I pray this over us, my friend – “My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart; he is mine forever”. Do not give up when the storms overwhelm you and do not lose hope. Come with me as we seek God and seek His wisdom and His guidance. Let us meditate on this scripture today and ask the Holy Spirit to make it part of us. Have an awesome day, my friend.

91 Days of Victory – Day 72 (2026/05/10)

 

It is Mother’s Day today and we celebrate all the moms, stepmoms, moms to be, grandparents, foster moms and all woman who cares for children all over the world. To me Mother’s Day represents love in essence and the connection a mother has with her children. This morning I want to celebrate the Lord our God for providing moms even when the mom who has the biggest impact in your life is not your real mom due to circumstances. It is love that is the important thing here because everyone wants to be loved and cared for and even when your biological parents missed that privilege, your Father in heaven will not. It is important that we see our Father as the creator of love for He is love and the world will try to steal that from you and harden your heart through abuse or neglect or abandonment. God is not man nor is He a distant God. Sin and circumstances give us that impression when in fact He is always present and always thinking about you. Let us stand today and, “Praise the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does such wonderful things”. He gave His only Son to save us from this world. It may seem difficult to understand but that is exactly what the enemy wants you to believe. So, my prayer for you is simply, “Lord I lift up my friend to you today and I ask that you will fill them with your love and your peace and that all the hurt and pain that could still linger in their hearts will be healed and removed. I pray a clean and pure heart over them and that your love will not only touch them today but change their lives completely. I pray your promises and favour over them, and I ask that you will restore them and bless them so that they will always be aware of your presence. Please guide them and protect them in the mighty name of Jesus”. Have an awesome day, my friend.