Today's thought - 09 October 2026 (Idols and stuff)

How are you, my friend? You know I ask that question every time and today I do not want it to sound like a broken record. Honestly, how are you doing? When you look at the storm around you, what do you see? Do you look with your world eyes, or are you looking with your spirit man/woman?

You know Peter stepped out of that boat after he asked Jesus if he could. Now that is stepping out in faith. He did not think or even give the situation a thought, he just stepped out. Can you imagine the moment. Here you are stepping out of a boat in the middle of the ocean and you do not sink. In fact, you can walk on the water as if it was on a road. I must admit I cannot imagine how that must have felt, but we can experience that.  When was the last time you stepped out of the boat? The last time you heard Jesus call and say, “Come”. The last time Jesus said go and help. The last time Jesus said start that business or write that book or give someone in need food. When was the last time Jesus placed something on your heart and you listened? Can you remember?

My verse comes from Psalm 135:15, “The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
The work of men’s hands”. What is holding you back? You know we read in Matthew 19:16 of the rich young man who asked Jesus this question: “Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?”. Jesus responded based on the time they were in and asked if he kept the commandments and the young man answered that he did. Then Jesus simply stated, “If you want to be perfect, go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

The young man having many possessions just could not. He was bound by his earthly possessions and it became his idol. His treasure and the very thing that kept him from heaven. If you read the rest of Psalm 135 the writer goes on to tell you that these lifeless idols can’t see or hear and the ones who make them become like them and everyone else that trusts in them.

My friend, time is running out and many are bound by their idols and their lives here on earth. Nothing should stand between you and Jesus and if you still have compartments in your life that is not fully surrendered to God, then please surrender them. God says that there is no middle ground. You are either for Him or against Him. You either live your life committed to Him and His Word or you don’t. 2 Chronicles 16:9: States that the eyes of the Lord roam throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him.

1 Chronicles 28:9: Explains that the Lord searches every heart and understands every intent, promising that "if you seek Him, He will be found by you". Jeremiah 17:10: Notes that God searches the heart and examines the mind to reward individuals according to their conduct. Psalm 14:2: Describes the Lord looking down from heaven to see if anyone understands and seeks after God.

Do not allow the enemy a place in your life. Submit and surrender all to God and trust Him. He is moving and He will open that door and do a new thing as He has promised. Now weapon will prosper and you will stand victorious.

Peter made one mistake. He took his eyes of Jesus and looked at the wind. He saw the circumstances and allowed doubt to enter into his mind. Jesus said to him why do you have so little faith. That little does not point to his level of faith but to his persistence in faith. Not how much faith he had, but how long he continued in faith. He did not have little faith, he just started to doubt. This is the enemy at work in your life. He will try every angle to make you doubt. Just do not listen to him and allow the Holy Spirit to guide you.

God is with you, always, and with Him we can do anything.

Have an awesome day.

Today's thought - 08 October 2026 (Steps to His heart)

 

How are you, my friend? I always say that I wish I could give you ten steps to follow to success or maybe a secret method to success or maybe a hidden treasure somewhere that we could find and just retire. Hahaha, that has a nice ring to it and surely a nice dream. I guess we all feel from time to time that we could just take a month off or a year off and just travel or I think, in my case, just sleep.

My verse today comes from Psalm 17:6, “I am praying to you because I know you will answer, O God. Bend down and listen as I pray”. So, what am I saying? God will answer, yes, He will. If we look at David’s life and he made a few huge mistakes but as I said before, David had a heart that loved God and a heart that seek God all the time. Yes, he fell and made a terrible mistake, but he turned back to God seeking Him first and repented for his mistakes.

God has an amazing way to show His love and His hand at work. I have been bringing food to the guys on the street for almost two years now. I see them come and go and see them stuck in the same bondage and see them seeking and I see them giving up and see them die. Last week one of the guys just started thanking me for coming every week and he said that with my obedience he started to attend a church close by and now he is changing his life. He gave up the drugs and started to serve in the church. He reads his Bible and you can see a massive change in character. This is God at work, and I must say I was a bit overwhelmed last week and today to hear his testimony and to see how amazing grace truly is.

Here I am the least in God’s kingdom and I have the privilege to speak into the lives of men that the world has forgotten and to see how God loves His children. To see how God touches lives and break strongholds and set captives free. It remains a process, but with God all things are possible.

I am just so grateful for one life saved that I would rejoice along the angels as God continues to do miracle after miracle here in the centre of Pretoria. In the centre of the enemy's playing ground for He who is in me, is far greater than he who is in this world.

I do not care if the enemy takes everything from me, I will always worship my Father and glorify His name. I will not stop.

So, what are those steps if any. Well, I guess it starts with seek God above all else, then I guess it is obedience to His Word and His call, and then I guess it is meditating on His Word Day and night and then, well I guess it must be praying and walking in a close relationship with Him.

God hears our prayers, because these miracles are me praying for these guys and God moving through my faith. It is not me or me being some sort of prophet. No, it is me just doing what Jesus said in Matthew 13:34, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another”.

It is not me wanting praise of rewards, it is me going out in love and to see change because change starts with each one of us. We are the hands and feet of Jesus and He said that we should go into this world and share the gospel. Into this world is not in another town, or city or country. It can be next door, across the street or the person sitting next to you on the bus.

What is stopping you? God is with you in your battles. Let God deal with that and just trust Him, but this should not stop you from sharing His love with someone else, even if it is just a cup of coffee.

Have an awesome day, my friend.

Today's thought - 07 October 2026 (Time off)

 

How are you, my friend? I took a day off yesterday so that is why there were no posts yesterday. This year has had its fair share of trials and tribulations, and I just needed a break from all the noise. It was a good day. I had the privilege to spend time with my friends and just to enjoy their company is always good for my soul. We ended the day watching the new Spiderman movie and yes, I am a fan. It was really good and I must admit I love to just let something else fill my mind other than work, battles and the stuff that still continues as I fight for my little girl. It is days like these that I just miss my kids and look forward to a day when this is all finished and I can just have a normal day with everyone I love so much. So, yes today was close.

I love this verse in Romans 5, “Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us”. I guess when life gets hard and I make mistakes and I get upset and I just want to go to war with all the crap that we face each day, this verse just brings that peace that only Jesus can give.

We have been made right by faith. Not by good works, or sinless lives, or being perfect, or flawless, or successful, or without mistakes – no – by faith. By what Jesus did on the cross. Not by might or by power, but by the power of the Holy Spirit.

I am everything but perfect and I make more mistakes than anyone, but I live by faith. I live by the Words of my Father, and I live by His grace. Do I get it right? Nope, but I know how to repent, and I know how to be grateful, and I know how to turn back to my Lord and to seek Him. I know that I cannot do this life thing on my own and I know that even though God feels distant some days, He never is.

I know that I need to be humble and I need to follow His voice and I know that I must work to keep my relationship with my Father always my priority. Through guilt and through shame and through anger and through loss and through pain and through all the lies. Through it all I consistently seek my Lord, and I know that I can do nothing without Him. Thus, I seek Him even more.

In Psalm 10:12 we read, “Arise, O LORD! O God, lift up Your hand! Do not forget the humble”.

Sometimes we just need to take a moment and rest. We just need to step back and take a break. Let God renew you and restore you and realign you. Just as Spiderman realised that he cannot win his fight on his own and sometimes, he needs to just let someone in and share his burden, so is it important that we do not stand alone and that we spend time with like minded people. People who also seek God and people that will help us or maybe just listen and share our burden. Even though they cannot take it from us, because it remains our battle, at least they can listen and encourage us. That is why I do not have many close friends, but the few I have I know will always be there when I need them and I know that they are the ones who always pray for me, just as they are in my prayers. These people are equally important in my life as my prayer time in the morning. The difference being that God is always first.

So as Paul loving reminds us in Romans 5, “We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love”.

So, do not worry my friend. God is always with you and He goes before you. He only wants the best for you and in the end, you will see what increasingly abundantly truly means.

Have an awesome day.

Today's thought - 05 October 2026 (The battle for your mind)

 

How are you, my friend? My verse today is from Psalm 117:2, “For His merciful kindness is great toward us, And the truth of the LORD endures forever”. I want to talk to you about that battle of your mind or rather for your mind. Life as we know is full of challenges and some of them can push us to the limits of our strength and we become exhausted as we struggle to keep going.

The problem remains in the battle between the flesh and the spirit. You see our spirit is already in line with what God purposes and sees in us, but our minds are in a catch up proses. Our minds become the very trip wire that keeps us from stepping into what God has instore for us. Our minds limit us.

Paul writes in Romans 8, “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God”.

You see when we live according to the desires of our flesh, our carnal self we lose the battle even before it started, but Paul also says, “But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you”.

Now, you need to understand that in the end your mind can damage the relationship between you and God for Paul clearly says that in Jesus we have life and the same Spirit that rose Him from the dead will give life to our mortal bodies. In other words, by the power of the Holy Spirit and His guidance we can put to death our mortal thoughts and bring to life our spiritual thoughts. We can live by faith, and we can be what God saw when He created us.

Satan wants you to believe you are not worthy. He wants you to believe that God is not for you and he wants you to fail. What keeps us from total destruction and complete failure? The blood of Jesus Christ. Jesus did what Adam could not do and that is to live sinless despite all the temptations and in the end become the perfect sacrifice that set us apart from the lies of the enemy and into the peace and righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The problem is that we tend to believe the lies of the enemy that we fall short of God’s grace when God clearly says in Psalm 117 that His merciful kindness is great towards us. The amplified says it even better, “For His lovingkindness prevails over us [and we triumph and overcome through Him], And the truth of the LORD endures forever”.

This is really important: We triumph and overcome through Him. It is by Him and through Him that we can defeat all challenges and all storms and all sin and all the lies of the enemy. It is through Him and by Him that we live spiritually and not in the flesh. My friend what we forget is if we can think it, it can be done. God says exceedingly, abundantly above all we can think or imagine. So, if you can dream it, God can do more that that. We limit ourselves by our minds and then we lose the fight because we allow our minds to control us when we should control our minds.

We read in 2 Corinthians, “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled”.

Your power is in the Holy Spirit that will help you and guide you, but you need to take captive your thoughts and guard your heart so that you can align your mind with the Word of God. Our fight is not in our bodies but in our minds and in our hearts, but in God we will be able to overcome all that the enemy throws at us – believe it and it will become your reality and nothing will be able to hinder your growth and your success.

Have an awesome day, my friend.

Today's thought - 02 October 2026 (Do you not know)

 

How are you, my friend? It is a beautiful day here in Pretoria. Nice and warm and everything is so green after all the rain we received. What a blessing. Our power is back so I am doing laundry. Jip, you can only wear those underpants so many times – hahahaha.

This morning the Holy Spirit took me back to Matthew 11 and 12. My verse is from Matthew 12:6, “Yet I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the temple (NKLV)”. They were basically arguing about what you may or may not do on the Sabath and Jesus referred them to the Old Testament where David went into the temple and took the bread to feed his men.

Jesus makes this statement that He is greater than the temple. In other words, He is greater than the law. Jesus was indeed greater than the temple. Considering how highly the temple was regarded in the days of Jesus, this was a shocking statement. Yet the temple as it stood in Jesus’ day did not have the ark of the covenant, that important demonstration of the throne and presence of God. Yet Jesus was a much greater demonstration of the presence of God - He was God made flesh! The temple also lacked the Shekinah, the Urim and Thummim, and the sacred fire from heaven. Yet Jesus is all these things to us; He is surely greater than the temple.

Now why this verse? Well, I am as always glad you asked. You see when we are faced with difficult times and hardships and storms and battles and pain and suffering, we tend to forget that God is God and He is greater than our tribulations. That is why Jesus said that in this world you will have tribulation but be of good cheer for He overcome the world. Jesus plainly said that He is bigger, stronger and more powerful than the biggest storm you can face.

Jesus rebuked the wind and calmed the storm. Jesus spoke Lazurus into life. Jesus healed and fed many people but more important is that Jesus saved many. He continues to do so through us every day.

The thing that we often forget is that Jesus said in Matthew 28:18, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth”. Because He has this authority, He can send whomever He wills to do whatever He pleases. He can change your situation in a blink of an eye. Why do we have tribulation? Well Paul said in Romans 5:3-5, “We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love (NLT)”.

God prepares us for what awaits us in the outcome of our obedience so that we will be able to handle the blessing without a fall. So, in essence God is saying that you and I must remember that He is greater than anything we can face or go through. He is greater than what the enemy can muster up against us and He is life and life in abundance. He is the way and the only way. Through Him and with Him we can do anything and if we ask it and believe it, God will change our circumstances. We must remain faithful and obedient and go when He calls.

So, be strong and courageous and please do not give up.

Have an awesome day, my friend.

Today's thought - 01 October 2026 (It can make your or break you)

 

How are you, my friend? Firstly, I have to say it is October and the year is nearing its end. Soon we will see Christmas decorations hit the malls and shops as we enter into the festive season.

My verse is from Psalm 131:2, “Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, Like a weaned child with his mother; Like a weaned child is my soul within me (NKJV)”.

Last night Pastor Russel said that your attitude determines your altitude. A humble attitude is far more powerful than a strong defensive attitude. If we come back to what David writes here: Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul: Instead of proud pursuits, David determined to find satisfaction and serenity of soul, content with God and His works. Those who feel constantly driven to do and achieve more in their relationship with God should learn some of what David here learned. David phrased this with an emphasis on what he did. Of course it was ultimately the work of God within him, but it was vitally connected to his own will and choices. God didn’t do this for him; God used the operation of David’s choice. We must choose to calm and quiet our soul (David Guzik notes).

Jesus gave up His divine privileges and took the humble position of a slave and was born in human form and when He appeared in human form, He humbled Himself to God and died a criminal’s death. Therefore, God elevated Him to the place if highest honor.

Philippians 2:3 says, “Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves (NLT)”.  Humility forms unity and unity carries the flow and there God commands a blessing.

You see humility will allow progress where there is division. Humility will remove division and cause unity. Unity is ultimately the one thing that can make us or break us. You see, for years we were misguided by fear to fight against unity. You see pride is the problem here. Pride separates but humility connects. Pride turns our focus inward and humility turns our focus and our strength outwards. Fear formulates ideas based on assumptions and lies. If all the people (all the Christians) unite we can change this country. In fact, if all Christians unite, we can change the world. The problem remains in pride and fear and the lack of humility.

The world’s biggest problem lies in me, myself and I. Jesus showed us a different way when He said that He gives us a new commandment to love each other as He loved us. How did Jesus love. He loved all the way to the cross and beyond. He became a servant to display what love really looks like. He showed us how important it is to love God and to show that love to the world around you.

Jesus set the standard and we should work towards that standard. That is why we should become more like Him and less of ourselves. In that we must embrace the love of Jesus and allowing it to flow from within us. God is love and to live a life of love it means taking up your cross and follow Jesus so that our lives will reflect that love.

Christians should invade the world with love, because love defeats the enemy in all areas of life.

So today I just want you to think about this: You attitude will determine your altitude. You can be either for Jesus or not. You can be humble or not. You can start the change or remain part of the problem. Come with me as we love or try to love as Jesus did.

Have an awesome day.

Today's thought - 30 September 2026 (The enemy in the shadows)

 

How are you, my friend? It is still raining. What a blessing and the power has been out twice now. These are the battles that we have over and above what life throws at us. This week is our Dreamweek conference at our church (CRC – Christian Revival Church) and the enemy is hard at work to hinder people to attend. Last night was our opening and what a message. We had the privilege to hear Pastor Samual Rodriguez as he brought the message and it was just amazing. If you have access to YouTube, then do yourself a favor and listen to the Dreamweek sermons on https://www.youtube.com/@crcchurch_

It is worth it. Now Pastor Sam said last night, “If the Nile did not kill you, the red sea will not stop you”. This is so awesome and it brings me back to our message yesterday and what the Holy Spirit points out this morning.

Yesterday the Holy Spirit said, “Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’” (Joel 3:10) and today He says, “For God had something better in mind for us” (Hebrews 11:40). You see as the enemy hides in the shadows and tries to pull us down and continues to attack us in all the possible ways that he can think of. Now you can say with confidence, if the enemy is attacking you, then God is going to use you. If the enemy is attacking you, he knows God has plan for you that will be more than what you can expect. A plan better than what we expect and a plan that will touch many lives.

He wants to kill our faith, and he wants to isolate us, and he wants to stop us. God says in Psalm 147:6, “The LORD supports the humble, but he brings the wicked down into the dust”. God is for you and He stands beside you. He supports you and He keeps you going. He goes before you and nothing can pull you from His hand. Nothing can alter your purpose, and no hidden agenda will prosper, and no weapon formed against you will prosper and no one will be able to stop God’s plan in your life.

Stand on our rock, Jesus Christ and trust Him. Have faith because behind you in the shadows is the enemy trying to destroy you and before you lies the sea and God will split the sea and let you walk through on dry land. I have been writing about this a few times in the last month and I feel God just confirmed it last night. And most important is the result of the enemy behind you. The Egyptians was destroyed in the very sea that was supposed to stop the Israelites. The very thing that the enemy is using against you will be the very thing that will deliver you. JUST HAVE FAITH.

I want to end with this, “He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds” Psalm 147:3.

He’s got you and He is in it with you. Just keep going.

Have an awesome day, my friend.

Today's thought - 29 September 2026 (Pick up your sword)

How are you, my friend? It rained in this Pretoria like you cannot believe. Wow, what a blessing, but what a storm. It reminds me today of the storms we face in life and the challenges we daily have to deal with. You know those things where you put your face in your hands and you feel like screaming. Those where you just stand dumb stunned at the issues people have and the stuff they say and do.

Today the Holy Spirit took me to Joel 3, “Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war! Wake up the mighty men, Let all the men of war draw near, Let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, ‘I am strong’”.

My friend, the battle is real and the enemy is a cunning adversary. What is God saying to you today?

Prepare for war. Am I not God, the creator of heaven and earth. The one who holds the universe in His hands and counts the stars. Am in not the one who knows their names. Am I not the God who made you and formed you in your mother’s womb. Am I not the God who saves and protects you. Am I not the God who gave up my only Son so that you can be saved from your sins. Am I not the God who split the red sea and let my people through on dry land. Am I not the God who blessed you with this day. Am I not the God who gave you a body and brain. Am I not the God who brings people into your life to stand by you, help you and support you. Am I not the God who defeated satan and death. Am I not the God who keeps the ocean in its place and the sun in its position. Am I not the God who brought you this far and guided you even when you rejected me.

Am I not the God who goes before you and prepare the way for you.

My dear friend, it is time that we stand and rise above the standards of this world. It is time that we get up and go. It is time that we step into our purpose and share our testimony and the gospel with the people we know and see each day. It is time that we rise up against the enemy and fight for the lost. It is time that we proclaim the victory of Jesus on the cross to all people and that we go where God sends us. This may be far or it can be just next door. See the need and act upon it. It takes only one to step up and follow the voice of the Holy Spirit and many lives can be saved in the process.

Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Take what you have and step into the light and speak the truth. Take what you have and trust God in it and you will bear mega fruit. Do not fear what lies ahead and do not fear what the enemy throws at you because God says, “Let the weak say – I am strong”.

Let the weak say I can do all things through Jesus Christ who strengthens me.

You can make a change. You can save a life. You can overcome your battles. You can, because Jesus did. You are a mighty warrior. Rise, my friend and go.

Have an awesome day.

Today's thought - 28 September 2026 (That damn mountain)

 

How are you, my friend? We are blessed with yet another day and another chance. I wrote to you before that God is a God of second chances as He allowed Samson’s hair to grow back and he was able to bring down the temple of the Pharisees. It is just sad that his life ended with this one deed and that hatred and anger was what was left of this magnificent man.

I am laughing a bit at myself this morning, because I think ninety nine percent of the time I am writing to myself and the battles I face. This week is no different as I stare at my mountains and the best word or phrase that I can come up with is, “I am so tired off all of this crap”.

This brings me to my verse from Psalm 139, and I would suggest you read the whole Psalm. It is truly amazing. Now verse 1, “O LORD, You have searched me and known me”.

You see life is all about ups and downs. There is always a good day and there is always a bad day. Some days we can take on the world and some days the world just drives all over us. And what the enemy so loves is to make us believe that we are alone in it and nobody knows our pain or our suffering or the things we must deal with and sometimes those things are just a whole lot of emotional mumbo jumbo and we feel that the end is upon us.

Why is this? Well, we are all emotional beings and the enemy as we know preys on our emotions. He will systematically work to make you tired and exhausted and pro long things and keep distracting us in his simple attempt to weaken us. It can be work, family, friends or just plain old stress that he uses to get to you. Oooh and once he sees you have weak moment well then comes all the lies and the feeling “sorry for myself” emotions. The enemy loves this state of mind because then we are fallible to any of his suggestions and nonsense.

How do we beat this? Let’s look at what we see in Psalm 139:1. David writes that God searches us and knows us. The NLT says it like this, “O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me”.

It is simply this – God knows. He knows where you are, what you are facing, what you have been through, what you did, what you did not and what you have to do.

He is not a God that sits in heaven and thinks that maybe He should help or assist or call someone. God is a God of His Word and His Word says that He will never leave you or forsake you and that He goes before you and that He is with you in your battles. He is your refuge and your place of safety. He will cover you and protect you. The LORD says, “I will rescue those who love me. I will protect those who trust in my name”. Psalm 91:14.

There you have it. Those who trust in my name. Those who abide in me. Those who seek me above all else. Those who listens to my voice. In verse 15 God says, “When they call on me, I will answer; I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honour them”.

My dear friend, do not let the enemy steal your joy.

Have an awesome day.

Today's thought - 25 September 2026 (Emotions)

 

How are you, my friend? Today I want to talk to you about emotions. Yes, there are those we meet in life we think might need a few, but I am referring to acting on your emotions. You see I sometimes act on or react on how I feel. If I feel it is unfair or unjust I will sometimes allow my emotions to get the better of me, I react to that.

Here in Job 10, Job is on the complain train. Verse 1 starts with, “I am disgusted with my life. Let me complain freely. My bitter soul must complain”. Now rightfully so, because Job has lost everything and he is tormented by his position and his circumstances. The funny thing is that so many of us (me included) will have the same attitude with a lot less lost.

In verse 12 he says, “You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love. My life was preserved by your care”. Job as we know was a blessed man before he lost everything including his health. He is reflecting on God’s grace as he looks over his current situation. Does it sound familiar?

We look back at all the good we had and we become bitter and depressed because our current situation is slowly deteriorating and we can only see darkness. Job says in verse 22, “It is a land as dark as midnight, a land of gloom and confusion, where even the light is dark as midnight.”

Then God answers in Job 38, “Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorant words?” God asks Job who laid the foundations of the earth and who kept the see inside its boundaries. God goes on and basically shows Job that he has forgotten who God is and what He can do. I love how God just puts him (and us) in his place showing him through a number of questions what God is doing while we are basically living our lives.

 Job replies, “I know that you can do anything, and no one can stop you. You asked, ‘Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorance?’ It is I and I was talking about things I knew nothing about, things far too wonderful for me. You said, ‘Listen and I will speak! I have some questions for you, and you must answer them.’ I had only heard about you before, but now I have seen you with my own eyes. I take back everything I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance.”

My friend we often forget who God is when we face our battles and we often take the wrong path because we talk about things we do not know. Job said that he had only heard about God, but now he saw. Sometimes when we listen and we are still and we remember who God is while we are upset, we can change the direction of our thoughts and turn bad into good. We can steer away from negativity and turn depression around. It is a choice. Do I seek God or do I seek me? Do I listen to God or do I want to rant and moan about my problems instead of trusting God.

So, sometimes we need to do as Job did and take back everything we said, and repent. God is a God of His Word and if He is for you then nothing can be against you. If He says He goes before you, He does. If He said no weapon formed against you will prosper, it won’t and if He says His thoughts about you are of a future and a hope, then it is so.

Sometimes we need to stop and just listen.

Have an awesome day, my friend.