DISCIPLESHIP THOUGHTS

Good morning Disciple! Trust all is well with your soul and that you are experiencing the overflow of GOD’s LOVE, JOY, and PEACE in your life. We are KINGDOM citizens, and creation is waiting for the sons and daughters of GOD to manifest HIS PRESENCE. Are we building ourselves for that? When Jesus was traveling with HIS disciples in a boat, they encountered a sudden storm in the midst of the Sea of Galilee. Now, use a bit of your imagination to enjoy the drama that unfolded. The disciples were running around, yelling at the top of their voices. Fear gripped them, and in their minds they could already see their pictures in the obituary column of the “Jerusalem Times.” Of course, it was all in their imagination! If they had mobile phones, I’m sure they would have sent video or voice messages to their loved ones, bidding them farewell. However, the scene shifts to what Jesus was doing at that very moment. Any guesses? He was in DEEP REST in the midst of all the DRAMA and CONFUSION. The di...

Hello Disciple! How are you doing? How is your spiritual and physical health keeping? A few days ago I took a complete body check up to evaluate my current health condition. Thanks be to GOD, the doc gave a thumbs up. All is well! In Revelation 3:13-18, the Ekklesia in Laodicea also took a SELF-DIAGNOSES of their spiritual condition,  themselves. They generated a GOOD REPORT, which said, as per  Revelation 3:17   1.I am rich,  2.have become wealthy,  3.and have need of nothing God looked at their report and dumped it in the bin - HE gave HIS report about them. It said: 1. You do not know that you are wretched, 2. miserable, 3. poor, 4. blind, 5. and naked  Who's REPORT will you believe? The greatest tragedy in life is not merely the trials or challenges we face, but living in self-deception . What does this teach us, disciples? We need to Live everyday, conscious of GOD’s X-RAY eyes located inside us. This is the Fear of GOD, this FEAR will drive ...

Hello Disciple! How are you? Are you moving forward and getting better each day?  Are you in the X, Y, or moving to the Z zone. You are wondering what is this XYZ all about. Thank you for asking. Its something I coined and recently shared in a gathering to describe the 3 stages of spiritual life - the baby stage , the stagnant stage and the ultimate becoming a ' son and daughter ' responsible stage . Get into the DISCIPLESHIP Ship and start sailing towards your SONSHIP dear one and that is GOD's goal for you and me. The Key point of the message was from 2 Samuel 6:10-11 about a man called OBED-EDOM. He was an average 'joe' living on 'James street', nothing particularly interesting or fascinating about him or his family. But suddenly all things changed when the ARK of the LORD was kept in his house for 3 months. The differentiator was the ARK or the Presence of the LORD that changed everything about Ordinary OBED into an EXTRAORDINARY OBED and all his hou...

Good morning Friend! I hope we have woken up this morning with life and energy to face a new day. That means, dear friend, we still have hope to live better today and to expect a better future. Be encouraged the world has not collapsed on us. So, take it easy! Chill! Often, we wake up to a new day with overwhelming feelings of sadness, loneliness, stress, or a sense of being stuck in our situation for a long time, unable to break free from it. My friend, most of us go through such seasons. We may FEEL TRAPPED and unable to “UNSTUCK” ourselves, so to speak, like walking through a dark tunnel with no light at the end. I once read an article written by a neurosurgeon who explained that feelings are essentially chemical events in the brain, they are not always facts. Yet, many of us tend to believe our feelings as the truth. Studies even suggest that a large percentage of our feelings are unreliable, often shaped by past experiences rather than the present reality. Do you know that our REP...

Hello Disciple! Here we are on the first day of a new month—what a glorious opportunity we have over the next 30 days to grow better each day. In May, be bold, let your story be told—your future is brighter than gold. Beloved friend, your future is not defined by your past failures or mistakes or the situation you were born into or the wrong choices you have made. We are defined by the FUTURE that God has for us. You can be all that God desires you to be. But it all begins by CHANGING YOUR THINKING. Thoughts are powerful. Thoughts become real when we repeat them constantly in our minds. Many of us worry about so many things, and our worries can become our realities. That’s why the Scriptures command us not to worry or be anxious about anything. Do a “biopsy” of your mind—examine the thoughts you think repeatedly. Check to see whether they will help you or harm your future. Choose what you want. Let me close this blog with a powerful Scripture from Proverbs 23:7a : “ For as he thi...

Hello Disciple! How are you doing? Are you fervent for God like the summer heat? God desires for us to be on fire for Him. This fire is stirred when we wait in His presence every day. I trust you are taking time to SIT, SURRENDER, and BE TRANSFORMED daily. I love what King David says in Psalm 27:4 : “ I have asked one thing from the Lord… ”—not many things. As we read the entire verse, we discover what that ' one thing ' was. He longed for God’s presence above everything else. He desired to behold Him daily and to know Him more deeply . Dear Disciple, do we truly YEARN like that for the Lord— to be with Him , to behold Him , and to become like Him in His presence? May we ask ourselves, “What am I truly yearning for?” and answer that question honestly. Let the remainder of 2026 awaken a NEW YEARNING for HIM and HIS PRESENCE . Please share this post with others and feel free to  EMAIL  or  MESSAGE  me on WhatsApp. Shalom! (Scripture References: Psalm 27:4, Psalm 46:...

 Hey Good Morning Disciples, sons, daughters, Friends and Enemies! Trust you are visiting my blog to glean something from it every day. The purpose of reading God’s Word is for us to be transformed—not to be puffed up with theology or to prepare messages for others to hear. If you ask me, I will prefer to live out the Word and demonstrate it in my life (of course, that includes preaching and teaching when needed 😊). So, how are you today? If you are in Relationship with Jesus—spending time with Him throughout your day and immersed in His Word daily—then be assured your spiritual trajectory is toward transformation, guaranteed. Something happens to us when we sit in His presence—not as a once-in-a-while activity, but daily. In Psalm 46:10 , God says: “Surrender your anxiety to Me. Be still and realize that I am God. I am God above all the nations, and I am exalted throughout the whole earth.” My friends, do we take time every day to sit in His presence and surrender our anxious tho...

 James 5:17-18 "Elijah was a man with human frailties, just like all of us, but he prayed and received supernatural answers. Good Morning, Disciple, Here is a gentle reminder from the Word, from the book of James: the Lord is urging us to grow up and align our thinking to HIS, to expect supernatural answers to our prayers. Stop begging your Father and begin to live like His son. Like Elijah—an ordinary man like us, yet passionate and sincere in his prayers. Take up this 40-day challenge. Commit yourself to it. Write down your requests on a piece of paper and pray over them JUST ONCE on DAY 1, expecting supernatural answers. From the DAY 2 until DAY 40 THANK FATHER GOD for answering your prayers.  Also, begin to journal what you experience each day through this Prayer journey. One thing is certain: by the end of DAY 40 , your FAITH will skyrocket, you will fall in love with your FATHER's PRESENCE . Your FELLOWSHIP with HIM will move to a new level, and you will not be th...

 Good morning, Disciple! How marvelous to wake up to a brand-new day. Before us lies opportunities, open doors, possibilities and untapped potential to discover. Yes, today we have the opportunity to GROW and be TRANSFORMED in our minds and become a little BETTER than yesterday. We have the opportunities to REST in HIM and WALK like JESUS walked. Does not our heart long for more of this kind of LIFE? What can STOP us from living an ABUNDANT LIFE? An UNRENEWED MIND is the ROOT cause  of the kind of FRUIT we are bearing now. Romans 12:2. Is there any hope for us to CHANGE from bearing BAD FRUIT to GOOD FRUIT in our lives? YES, and a resounding YES.   Many of God's people want INSTANT TRANSFORMATION , like instant coffee. There is a FRUIT BEARING PROCESS. Like a branch that ABIDES on the Tree, we need to be rooted and committed to abide in GOD's method of TRANSFORMATION. This is the hard and committed journey we DISCIPLES have to take.  How do we actually Change f...

Greetings, Disciple! The temperatures seem to have dropped a bit after yesterday's sudden thundershowers. How cool is that—to have such weather in the middle of a hot summer? It almost looks supernatural! A disciple’s life is primarily a SUPERNATURAL LIFE ; that is the default position. Today, GOD, our Heavenly FATHER, wants to remind us to RENEW OUR MINDS to this kind of living. Do not imitate the patterns of the world, who primarily live by their physical senses—by what they feel, touch, hear and see. We walk by faith. Our Lord gives us a tip in HIS Word on how to kick-start this kind of life. How can we live a supernatural life? We cannot do it on our own, with our “great” intelligence or our own strength. However, our Lord JESUS has promised the HOLY SPIRIT to those who ask Him. This is what He said in Luke 11:13: "If imperfect parents know how to lovingly take care of their children and give them what they need, how much more will the perfect heavenly Father give the Ho...

Hello Disciple, Good morning! Please Read Mark 2:1-12. If we have experienced the FORGIVENESS of our sins, then we have only tasted a small portion of GOD’s saving grace. We may choose to be fully satisfied with this and “stay there, rejoicing on the mat” for the rest of our lives. However, SALVATION is not limited to the FORGIVENESS of our sins only, It is only a DOORWAY to enter and enjoy our INHERITANCE in CHRIST—to “RISE and WALK HOME” so to speak. Sadly, the EKKLESIA today has largely focused only on FORGIVENESS. We have, in many ways, failed to teach and train God’s people to GET UP and GO BEYOND the DOOR—like the “religious Pharisees,” who did not partake and kept their followers in the 'dark' and restricted them with their manufactured “religious” doctrines (Matthew 23:13). Let not the limited, shallow, or narrow denominational perspectives STOP us from partaking in our full inheritance, which is available in CHRIST. If it is PROMISED in the WORD, then it belongs to ...

Hello Disciple, Good Morning! How are you keeping today? Let me say this at the start as a daily reminder: we are a special people, people of purpose, and our identity and self-worth are not derived from what we do, our failures, or what we have achieved in life. Our true identity is what God calls us. We are called His children; we are called righteous; we are forgiven; we are called saints; we are anointed; we are blessed; we are called sons of God; we are called a new creation, etc. This is our true identity in Christ. Read the Word and take a deep dive into our true identity. For too many years, we have ruminated on our failures of the past and the worries about the future and forgotten to meditate on our new identity in Christ. I know we have gone through a tough journey in life; as a result, we have built an understanding of who we are based on our experiences. Sadly, most of us are living out what we have nurtured in our minds. No matter how hard life may have been, we can star...

Dear Friend Good Morning! Psalm 139:2, 17 says, "You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I'm far away.  How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered!" Do you KNOW how PRECIOUS are GOD's thoughts towards you? Many in this world LIVE their lives daily in horror of the day when God will JUDGE them for how they LIVED on the earth. Others live in GUILT, SHAME, and CONDEMNATION in the present. They fear that GOD cannot LOVE them and HE would definitely cast them into hell for their many sins and crimes they have committed.  Some HATE anything to do with GOD, they harden themselves and deny HIS existence, that's their best 'escape' route they could makeup to hide from the REALITY of a CREATOR. Wherever you are in this SPECTRUM of THINKING, it says in the above scriptures, that GOD's THOUGHTS are precious towards you, HE LOVES you deeply and came down in the FLESH to PAY the PRICE for your FORGIVENESS. T...

Good morning Disciple! How has your day started? Don't tell me that your 'Anger' has gotten the better of you right at the start of the day. Anger is big issue that most of us struggle with. I had. For some reason, I thought this topic could be relevant to many of us, especially to those for whom it has become their second nature. Is there a good anger and a bad anger? We shall look at the above question in a later post. But for now, we will try to understand the process and production of this negative emotion . Simple—it all originates with a THOUGHT in our MIND. When a THOUGHT of Anger is repeatedly entertained, it dispatches neurons into our brain. The brain is the automation center of the Body.  The brain looks at these thoughts and says, “Okay, we have received a lot of consignment of 'ANGER THOUGHTS'; let me do the needful to activate the appropriate chemicals.” You see, our brain is designed to automate and accelerate processes. It works on what we provide it...

Gooood Morning, dear Disciple! Ah! Isn’t it a bright, warm, and sunny morning today? Let us praise the Lord for giving us a NEW DAY! I just THOUGHT of reminding us of this very POWERFUL scripture in the book of Psalms. It says in Psalm 103:9, “You don’t look at us only to find our faults, just so that You can hold a grudge against us.” Our God does not LOOK AT US TO FIND OUR FAULTS OR HOLD A GRUDGE AGAINST US. Oh, but how many times in a day do we look at others to find their faults, and hold grudges and unforgiveness, especially toward those who have failed us, hurt us, or don’t like us? These THOUGHTS become HARD-WIRED inside our MIND over time. A PATTERN gets created in our BRAIN by REPEATED THINKING, and the whole episode inside us becomes AUTOMATED. That means it becomes a HABIT of HATRED, ANGER, BITTERNESS, and UNFORGIVENESS towards others. The next time we see those people, all these negative emotions of anger and bitterness comes rushing through us like a ‘dragon’. An...

Good Morning Disciple! Someone sent me a TEXT message this morning asking, why do we have to RENEW our minds? Is it not our effort to change, when we are already SAVED by HIS Grace? That's a genuine question of a person who LOVES the LORD and DESIRE to grow and be fruitful. Anyway I responded to him the way best he could understand. However why do we have to RENEW our MIND? is it not sufficient that we have experienced NEW BIRTH and come into God's family?  Yes that's the most important FIRST STEP to be BORN-AGAIN by the HOLY SPIRIT. However we need to understand that we were created spirit - soul - body. So our SPIRIT gets saved first, however our SOUL and BODY remains the same untouched by our NEW-BIRTH experience. What happened at this FIRST STEP, is that our spirit was made ALIVE, we were BORN of GOD. We became brand NEW SPECIES. We entered a NEW FAMILY, now we have come in GOD's household. GOD is our FATHER. All these happened when we placed our TRUST in CHRIST JES...

Hello dear Friend, I am excited today because I am getting better every day and able to connect with you. I am very proud of you-because I see in you a PERSON who wants to GET BETTER than yesterday :). And that's why you visit this blog to extract something that can help you. It's really a blessing and joy to experience TRANSFORMATION. Yesterday at a prayer gathering, we reflected on Jabez from 1 Chronicles 4. Though only two verses are written about him, they reveal a powerful turnaround principle in his life. Don’t we all long and love for such a turnaround too?   Many of us feel stuck, moving but going nowhere, like LIVING LIFE ON A TREADMILL . I know that feeling; I was stuck for many years not knowing how to GET OUT of the mess. But no matter what caused it, there is a way-out dear Friend. God's grace helped me to DISCOVER it, and you can too. Jabez discovered a simple principle that changed everything in his life—something many might overlook and even dismiss it as to...

 Psalm 42:1-2 "I long to drink of you, O God, to drink deeply from the streams of pleasure flowing from your presence. My longings overwhelm me for more of you! My soul thirsts, pants, and longs for the living God. I want to come and see the face of God. In the Book of John 4 we read the incident about the Samaritan woman who encountered Jesus at the well. In the course of the conversation our Lord revealed her TRUE THIRST despite her background, the THIRST of every PERSON to encounter the CREATOR and KNOW HIM. The story ends so beautifully, the woman finally sees JESUS for who HE REALLY is, the REAL LIFE GIVER, and leads her whole village to HIM.  Dear Reader, like the woman at the well who had a conversation with the CREATOR, you too now, wherever you are, can have a similar CONVERSATION with HIM. The above verse puts its so beautifully. Actually we have been created for GOD's PLEASURE, and enjoy the PLEASURE of KNOWING Him Intimately and enjoying HIM. Only this can satisfy ...

Hello Disciples! Good Morning. I was having a conversation with a friend this morning, and we gradually meandered into theology. The subject of soul sleep came up in our discussion. He seemed to believe in this view very strongly. The internet is buzzing now with this new teaching. Did you hear about it? In short, they hold to the view that the soul is unconscious after death until resurrection. Apparently, this theology came from a denomination that has strong views regarding the soul of a person losing consciousness after death. However, does it withstand the test of the Scriptures? We need to examine it thoroughly and not cherry-pick verses to suit our preconceived line of thinking. Sadly, this theology is built on the Lazarus story in John 11, where our Lord said that Lazarus is sleeping and that He is going to wake him up. This was metaphorical language that Jesus used. Our soul does not go to sleep or lose consciousness after death. It either goes into the presence of God or Hade...

Hello Friend, What a glorious day this is! Looking outside my deskside window, I can see these beautiful trees looking fresh and green, and blooming with flowers.This is a good example of the HOPE we can have as a Child of God, to CHANGE. Our 'wilderness' is not permanent—it can CHANGE, to BLOOM and FLOURISH again! What are you seeing through your 'window'? Did you appreciate the blessing and the beauty of a new day and the new opportunities to become BETTER today than yesterday? This picture that you see is my dog hesitating to STEP OUT of our front door threshold. She was always used to playing with her ROPE-TOY inside the house; you can say she was HARD-WIRED that way. However, I wanted to break that LIMITATION and STAGNANCY and wanted her to STEP OUT of her COMFORT ZONE. So I began  encouraging her gently to STEP OUT and play in the corridor. Though initially she was fearful and hesitant, she later took the COURAGE to take the 'GIANT LEAP' onto the corridor....