All things will work out for good (Romans 8:28)

 

91 Days of Victory – Day 86 (2026/05/24)

 

Teach me your ways, O LORD, that I may live according to your truth! Grant me purity of heart, so that I may honour you.

Today is Pentecost Sunday. If you are unfamiliar with the significance of it, let me summarise - Pentecost Sunday is a major Christian festival celebrated 50 days after Easter. It commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem. It marks the beginning of the early church's global mission. 

According to the book of Acts, followers of Jesus were gathered in one place when a rushing wind filled the house and tongues of fire rested on each of them.  The Holy Spirit empowered them in this moment, and they turned from average people to people that boldly carried the gospel into the world regardless the consequences.

Now what does that mean for you and me. Today I believe that the Holy Spirit will manifest like never before. Our mission is to bring a wave of love into our world and to touch lives as far as we go, so I know that if you open your heart and allow the Holy Spirit to speak into your heart and touch your soul, you will feel a change in your life like never before. It will ignite a spark in you and set you on your journey in Jesus Christ.

This brings me back to Psalm 86, and I encourage you to read the whole one as I trust the Holy Spirit to open your eyes and speak to you. My verse is verse 11 and here David writes that God must teach us His ways so we can live according to the truth. Now remember Jesus said in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me”.

This is the truth in which we must walk. The truth that we must allow the Holy Spirit to teach us. The truth that Jesus Christ is the son of God and He is the only way. This is the truth that we must live out, speak out and share wherever we go. So, that in this truth God will “Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me” (Psalm 51:10).

Today my prayer for us is Psalm 86:17 – “Send me a sign of your favour. Then those who hate me will be put to shame, for you, O LORD, help and comfort me”. Send me Lord and open my eyes to the works of your hands and guide me so that I will do your will. Strengthen me to keep going and protect me from those who hate me. You are my God and I put all my trust in you. It shall be well for me and my house will follow the Lord our God.

Have an awesome day, my friend. Your life is about to change.

91 Days of Victory – Day 85 (2026/05/23)

 

Truth springs up from the earth, and righteousness smiles down from heaven.

Today I am a bit late writing my blog, but the morning had its challenges. I was up early in the streets doing my street ministry and I think being out there seeing the need and the hurt that we miss can get to me some days. We live our lives in homes and a lot of the people in South Africa stay in estates that is closed of to the world outside and many of us miss what the world really looks like.

My heart is to give hope and to take Jesus to these guys and to get them to quit the drugs. I always say that nothing we do for Jesus is ever insignificant or not important. The smallest act out of obedience can move a mountain. So, always be aware of your surroundings and listen to the Holy Spirit. There is so much need in this world and sometimes that need is just a person who listens or a heart that shows love.

Love is one of the most powerful tools we have and to show love and kindness in a world where it is taken for granted is a game changer.

This brings me back to my scripture in Psalm 85, “Truth springs up from the earth”. The funny thing is in all that is happening to me currently with all the lies and allegations based on more lies, the one thing I so desire is for the truth to come out. What is truth in essence? According to the dictionary Truth is the property of being in accord with fact or reality. It generally refers to statements, beliefs, or thoughts that accurately reflect the way things actually are.

I love that part – “actually are”. I do not know about you, but deceit really upsets me and when someone falsely accuses someone, it gets me worked up. People actually do not fear God and in the Bible, depending on your translation, the phrase “fear God” comes up over a hundred times. I have written about this before but just to remind you when I say “fear God” I do not mean go hide in a cave somewhere and never show your face. It simply refers to the healthy fear of God as pure respect for who He is and what He can do. Jesus said, “Don’t be afraid of those who want to kill your body; they cannot touch your soul. Fear only God, who can destroy both soul and body in hell”.

I guess what I am trying to say is that when we fear God correct, we will strive to obey His Word and live our lives righteously according to His will. People can lie and alter the truth, but God sees everything. In my desire for the truth to come out I feel the Holy Spirit say that in our battles and in our challenges, truth will jump out from the very earth that knows the lies. Truth will be known and righteousness will smile from heaven as God steps in and opens the doors. God will let the truth be known and He will destroy the lies for no weapon that is formed against us will prosper and God goes before us and He will be with us, and He will never leave us. So, do not be discouraged or afraid, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And He will hear from heaven and heal our land.

Have an awesome day, my friend.

91 Days of Victory – Day 84 (2026/05/22)

 

A single day in your courts is better than a thousand anywhere else! I would rather be a gatekeeper in the house of my God than live the good life in the homes of the wicked.

I love this Psalm and today I guess it has a deeper meaning than ever before. We journey this life and each day has its challenges and sometimes those challenges can really be a serious bump in our path. I woke this morning realising that my journey is going to be tough, and the enemy does not attack things that he likes, he attacks the thing he does not like. It dawned on me how important the things are that God placed on my heart and how much satan must hate it.

In the last two years I started writing this blog again after my first divorce and all the battles I faced in my second marriage, and I realise that I touch so many lives each day because thousands read my blog and I did not even realise it until a few weeks ago. Then I have the prayer groups at work, my street ministry and homecells. Each of these is simply because I said, “Here I am, Lord, send me”.

Ever since then I have been accused of the most horrible things. A criminal case was opened against me stating I molested my daughter and I have been fighting this battle for almost a year and it seems as if it just gets harder. Every good thing seems to take two steps back. So, I realised the more I commit to the Lord and the calling to spread the gospel the more intense the attacks.

It reminds me again and again today of these words Jesus said in Matthew 16 - Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works”.

When we follow Jesus and we take up our cross we will face many battles, and the enemy will do anything in his power to stop that. I wrote to you a few days ago on lukewarm Christians and that we must be on fire for the Lord.

Today I say and speak this “A single day in your courts is better than a thousand anywhere else”. A single day working and doing what God asks us to do is better than all the money and possessions in this world. Even if I have to walk through this valley every day, I will do so for God is for me and who can be against me. He who is in me is much, much greater than he who is in this world. My prayer is simply this, “When they (me and you) walk through the Valley of Weeping (challenges), it will become a place of refreshing springs (a place of joy and praise). The autumn rains will clothe it with blessings (God will reign in it all and we will be set free and we will have victory)”.

Have an awesome day, my friend. Jesus loves you more than you can ever imagine and He will make a way where it seems impossible.

91 Days of Victory – Day 83 (2026/05/21)

 

O God, do not be silent! Do not be deaf. Do not be quiet, O God.

Psalm 83 is an urgent prayer for God to rescue Israel from a coalition of hostile neighbouring nations conspiring to annihilate the nation. Writen by Asaph, the psalm is an imprecatory prayer—a call for God’s divine justice and judgment upon enemies.

Now there are three main parts that we can look at

Part 1. The Conspiracy (Verses 1-8)

The psalm opens with a plea for God to stop being "silent" while enemies plot. It lists ten ancient groups (such as Edom, Moab, the Ishmaelites, and Assyria) that have formed a confederacy. Their explicit goal is to destroy Israel entirely so that its name is "remembered no more."

Part 2. The Appeal to History (Verses 9-12)

The psalmist reminds God of how He previously delivered Israel from overwhelming odds. He references historical victories from the Book of Judges, such as the defeat of the Midianites (Gideon) and the rout of Sisera and Jabin. The logic is simple: God defended His people in the past, and He can do it again.

Part 3. The Plea for Justice (Verses 13-18)

Asaph asks God to scatter the current enemies like "chaff before the wind" and let them experience the overwhelming force of divine justice.

While the psalm asks for destruction, its ultimate purpose is theological. The writer concludes that the humbling of these enemies is to reveal the Lord's supreme sovereignty: "That they may know that You alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth." (v. 18)

It serves as a reminder that God controls the destiny of all nations and protects His people even when surrounded by seemingly impossible threats.

Now there is a bit of an eschatological Interpretation. In modern prophetic eschatology (the study of end times), some biblical scholars interpret Psalm 83 as a prophecy of a future, end-times coalition of Middle Eastern nations that will attempt to attack and conquer modern-day Israel.

What do we take from this? I want you to remember no matter the difficulty we face God is always there in the midst of it all to help us and to pick us up from the mud and the mire. God is working to make all things work out for good even when we can’t see it. We must live each day knowing the Lord will return soon and that we steer away from the things that will keep us from God and desire the things that pulls us closer.

Have an awesome day.

91 Days of Victory – Day 82 (2026/05/20)

 

Give justice to the poor and the orphan; uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute. We are reading Psalm 82 and in essence it serves as a divine critique of corrupt leadership. Leaders are appointed by God and placed in these positions by the Lord. What they do with that responsibility boils down to their choices and decisions they make.

It is imperative that we honour our leaders even is they are corrupt or bad. Romans 13:1-2: Instructs us to be subject to governing authorities, noting that "there is no authority except that which God has established."

1 Peter 2:17: Commands us to "Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honour the emperor". (Written during the reign of Roman Emperor Nero, showing that honour is expected regardless of a leader's righteousness.) 

These scriptures are best understood alongside teachings of humility, such as Philippians 2:3, which tells us to "value others above yourselves". Biblical submission and honour are generally practiced within the boundaries of following God's commands, as leaders ultimately answer to Him for how they shepherd those under their care.

This brings us back to Psalm 82 and in context it connects us to the New Testament (John 10:34–36), where Jesus quotes Psalm 82 to defend His claim as the Son of God. He uses the psalm's premise - that humans who received God's word and authority were called "gods" - to argue that His own claim to be God's Son is valid and consistent with the Hebrew Scriptures. 

Now, when leaders are bad or wicked we should remain respectful towards them, but we can lay our concerns before God and ask Him to guide our leaders in their tasks and decisions. Ultimately God can remove any leader or person from their position of authority when He wants. We as Christians must remain obedient to the Word and honour our leaders regardless. Honouring our leaders creates spiritual growth, peace and shows respect to God’s established order and in this lies a reward in our own growth and what God commands us to do. That also has a reward in our eternal life with the Lord.

My dear friend, we must honour our leaders and respect them and then we will see God’s hand upon them and in our own lives.

Have an awesome day.

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.