2026-09-21
1 Samuel 17:45 NIV
Goliath towered over David. But David looked at Goliath through the eyes of his omnipotent God who sits high, looks low, and conquers all. “You come against me with sword and spear… but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.” Intimidation is one of Satan’s favourite weapons. He will get you to think yourself into a state of fearfulness.
One day, cartoon character Charlie Brown was having lunch at school when he confided to his friend Linus that he didn’t feel good enough to approach a certain young lady: “I can’t talk to that little red-haired girl because she’s something and I’m nothing. If I were something and she were nothing, I could talk to her, or if she were something and I were something, then I could talk to her. Or if she were nothing and I were nothing, then I also could talk to her. But she’s something and I’m nothing so I can’t talk to her.” Linus responded: “For a nothing, Charlie Brown, you’re really something!” Charlie Brown had allowed the redhead’s beauty to intimidate him and force him to the sidelines.
As His redeemed child, God thinks you’re really something. David said, “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy” (Psalm 107:2 NKJV). And because David’s words lined up with God’s Word and His plan, Goliath was stopped. So whatever “giant” you’re facing today, stand up to him and announce, “You are coming down in the name of the Lord!”
Soul food: Zech 12-14; Mark 14:43-52; Ps 39; Pro 24:26-27
2026-09-20
2 Corinthians 9:8 NIV
Paul wrote: “God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work… Now he who supplies seed to the sower… will… increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion” (vv. 8, 10-11 NIV). Paul couldn’t be more explicit. If we are faithful to give generously, when God wants to meet needs again in the future, He will remember us as capable partners and come back to us.
If a restaurant gives good service, it results in repeat business. The same applies to good stewards. And if you sow generously, then God is able to give you more and more. God takes special care of faithful stewards. As long as you are in a giving partnership with Him, He makes sure you get everything you need, exactly when you need it. That’s His offer. True wealth is having everything you need when you need it. That should dispel all your fears about giving.
Is fear holding back your generosity? Do you give leftovers because you’re concerned about making ends meet? Have you ever asked God to give you a plan for the stewardship of the money He has entrusted to you? At some point, as a Christian, you’ve just got to go for it and say, “God, because I worry so much about money, I’m inviting You into my finances. I want to know that whether things are good or bad, You’re involved.”
Soul food: Lev 23:26-32; Heb 9:1-14; Heb 13:11-16
2026-09-19
James 3:10 NKJV
Note what the Bible says about an uncontrolled tongue: “Sometimes it praises… and sometimes it curses… And so blessing and cursing come pouring out of the same mouth. Surely, my brothers and sisters, this is not right! Does a spring of water bubble out with both fresh water and bitter water? Does a fig tree produce olives, or a grapevine produce figs?” (vv. 9-12 NLT).
Native American Indians warned about trusting a person with “a forked tongue.” They’ll say one thing at one time in one place and the opposite thing at another time in another place. The Bible says, “This is not right!” We deceive ourselves if we think we can go through life speaking with a forked tongue. Our words are a barometer of what’s really in our hearts. Hence Solomon wrote: “Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life” (Proverbs 4:23 NLT).
Sometimes a doctor will ask you to stick out your tongue during an examination. Why? Because internal problems can often be identified by the film or coating on the tongue. Now a competent physician wouldn’t just clean off your tongue and send you home. No, they would determine the source of your problem and then treat it.
And a heart that’s surrendered to God produces a tongue that’s under the control of His Holy Spirit. Again, Solomon weighed in: “Words from the mouth of the wise are gracious, but fools are consumed by their own lips” (Ecclesiastes 10:12 NIV).
Soul food: Zech 9-11; Mark 14:32-42; Ps 3; Pro 24:23-25
2026-09-18
Haggai 1:5-6 NKJV
In Haggai chapter one, we see a group of people whom God told eighteen years previously to rebuild His house. They still had not obeyed Him, yet they didn’t understand why their lives were a mess. They wondered why God was not blessing them.
So He said to them: “Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and this temple to lie in ruins?… Consider your ways! You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but do not have enough; you drink, but you are not filled… you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages, earns wages to put into a bag with holes… .Go up to the mountains and bring wood and build the temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified” (vv. 4-8 NKJV).
When God says, “Consider your ways,” He’s asking you to stop and examine your life. If you are not satisfied with the way things are going, is it because you have not done what He told you to do? James wrote: “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning” (James 1:17 NKJV).
The words “no variation or shadow of turning” mean that God is intrinsically good, and He longs to shower your life with His goodness. But to experience it, you must walk in obedience. “No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly” (Psalm 84:11 NKJV). Obedience is your key to victory and blessing.
Soul food: Zech 7-8; Mark 14:27-31; Ps 19; Pro 24:19-22
2026-09-17
2 Corinthians 9:10 NKJV
Three young men were each given three kernels of corn by a wise old sage. He told them to go out into the world and use the corn to bring themselves good fortune. The first young man put his three kernels of corn into a bowl of soup and ate them. The second thought, “I can do better than that,” and he planted his three kernels of corn. Within a few months, he had three stalks of corn. He took the ears of corn from the stalks, boiled them, and had enough corn to eat for three meals.
The third man said to himself, “I can do better than that!” He also planted three kernels of corn. But when his three stalks of corn produced, he stripped one of the ears and replanted all of the seeds in it, gave the second ear of corn to a sweet maiden, and ate the third. His one full ear’s worth of replanted corn kernels gave him 200 stalks of corn! And the kernels of these he continued to replant, setting aside only a bare minimum to eat. He eventually planted a hundred acres of corn. With his fortune, he not only won the hand of the sweet maiden, but he also purchased the land owned by the sweet maiden’s father. And he never hungered again.
There’s an important scriptural principle here. To whom does God supply seed? Sowers. When does God multiply seed? When it is sown into good ground to accomplish good things. So be a sower.
Soul food: Zech 4-6; Mark 14:12-26; Ps 24; Pro 24:15-18
2026-09-16
2 Corinthians 4:17 NKJV
Without God’s Word, most of our experiences in life make no sense whatsoever. With it, we can decipher our experiences. Few things are more comforting or more exhilarating than knowing that God is the One putting together the jigsaw puzzle of your life.
It was a London cartographer, John Spilsbury, who is credited with commercializing jigsaw puzzles around 1760. During the Great Depression, they were popularized in America as a cheap form of entertainment. Puzzles come in all shapes and sizes, including the latest and greatest – 3D spherical jigsaws. But the method of assembly has not changed. It requires the fitting together of oddly shaped, interlocking pieces. The key is the picture on top of the box. Without it, you’re lost.
And that’s why many of us feel helpless and hopeless at times – because the pieces of our lives don’t seem to fit together, and we can’t see God’s vision for the whole. Few have suffered more than the apostle Paul, yet he wrote: “Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal” (2 Corinthians 4:16-18 NKJV).
Yes, bad things do happen to good people. But God has promised to recycle it, redeem it, and use it for our good and His glory.
Soul food: Zech 1-3; Mark 14:1-11; Ps 78:65-72; Pro 24:11-14
