Category: Faith

[The Glory Unveiled]

So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out, and my lord is old, shall I have pleasure?” [ Genesis 18:12 NIV ]

Sometimes, as human beings, we reach conclusions that God has never reached. We close cases that heaven has deliberately left open. We stack up evidence—reasonable, logical, convincing evidence—to prove that what God seems to be promising us cannot possibly happen. We disqualify ourselves with facts. We convince ourselves that we are not qualified candidates for the season God is announcing. Sarah did the same. And to be honest, her reasoning was sound. Everything she said about herself and her husband was true. By every natural standard, the miracle was impossible. Time had passed. Strength had faded. Biology had spoken. Her conclusions were valid—yet they were incomplete. So she laughed. Not out of mockery, but out of the sheer absurdity of the promise. And many of us have laughed too. We laugh quietly when God’s Word confronts our reality. We smile to ourselves when the promise sounds good but feels unrealistic. We laugh because, given the facts we know, the outcome seems ridiculous. Have you ever been there? A place where God’s Word feels almost impossible to fulfill? A moment when even entertaining the promise feels humorous? Yet God remains the God of all possibilities. He does not consult our timelines, our limitations, or our qualifications. He specializes in eleventh-hour interventions—when the case is closed, the evidence is final, and hope seems unreasonable. The real question is not whether the miracle is possible. The question is this: when God speaks beyond your conclusions, will you believe Him?

Prayer_Bead: Father, thank you for your sure promises. I trust that you are able to do exceedingly abundantly and above. 

Wisdom_Quote: The word of God does not fall to the ground. 

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[The Glory Unveiled]

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. [ Genesis 3:6 NIV ]

Adam and his wife, Eve, had always walked in the perfect harmony of the Garden of Eden. They knew its every corner, every tree, every animal, every sound. Life was complete and filled with God’s presence. Yet, there came a day when Eve’s heart would be tested, a day that would reveal the deepest desires of her soul—and the choices she would make would echo across all of humanity. On that day, she saw something she had never noticed before. Her eyes were opened—not to truth, but to illusion. She was deceived into believing that something good could emerge from a path where God was absent. And yet, God had clearly spoken: “Do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” He was not part of that act, and where God is absent, nothing good can ever come. Consider Nathaniel, who once asked, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” (John 1:46). The answer came not from human logic, but from divine orchestration: the Messiah indeed come from there, because God was at work. But when God is removed from a plan or a choice, destruction follows. That is exactly what happened to Adam and Eve—and by extension, to the human race. Eve saw the tree and desired it: it was pleasing to the eye, it seemed good for food, it promised wisdom. And she ate. But how did she know this? Not from God, but from the tempter, the deceiver. She embraced a counterfeit knowledge, one that contradicted God’s original instruction. So I ask you, what knowledge are you accepting today that contradicts God’s word? What voices are shaping your desires away from the truth you once knew? Before you believe a lie masquerading as wisdom, remember Eve—the woman whose inner longings were exposed by deception, and whose choice became the gateway for humanity’s fall. Guard your heart. Test every message. Seek only the wisdom that comes from God Himself.

Prayer_Bead: Almighty Father, thank you for your instructions which are guiding my path and my ways.  

Wisdom_Quote: The heart’s contents are always exposed by external things.  

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[The Glory Unveiled]

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.” [ Job 2:9 NIV ]

Often, we carry carefully formed opinions about who we are—until life puts us on trial. It is in the furnace of experience that the truth about us is revealed. The specialist who administers such tests answers to many names, but in this line of work he is best known as the Accuser of the Brethren—Satan himself. In the opening chapter of Job, Scripture tells us that Satan was roaming to and fro upon the earth (Job 1:7). When Job’s name was brought before him, Satan challenged the integrity of the man God had commended. He sought permission to test Job, not to refine him, but to invalidate God’s testimony concerning him. Permission was granted, and the testing began. What followed were trials so fierce and relentless that few would have survived them. Yet when the fires had done their work, Satan found no fault in Job. Just as Jesus declared, “the prince of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me” (John 14:30), so it was with Job—Satan found nothing of himself in him. No hidden allegiance. No compromised loyalty. But while Job stood firm in the flames, someone else was exposed. The fire that failed to consume Job revealed what lay buried in the heart of his wife. The pressure uncovered her true attachment—not to God, but to the things that had been lost. In much the same way, when Paul gathered sticks and laid them upon the fire on the island of Malta, the heat did not invent the serpent—it exposed it (Acts 28:3). The flames always reveal what was hiding beneath the surface. So we must ask ourselves: What would the fire expose in us?

What is that thing—comfort, status, security, relationships—that could rob us of our integrity? What might tempt us to trade faithfulness for relief, or devotion for preservation? That very thing may be what costs us fellowship with God, just as it did Job’s wife. The fire is not sent to destroy the faithful—but it will always reveal where our hearts truly rest.

Prayer_Bead: Father, thank you for the grace to continue to have a working relationship with you. Help me not to trade my integrity on the bed of material things. In Jesus name. 

Wisdom_Quote: The value of your integrity is determined in the day of adversity. 

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[The Glory Unveiled]

Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. [ Joshua 1:8 NIV ]

There are things we do almost without thinking—habits performed so often that they have become automatic. And then there are other things we cannot do impulsively because our minds have not been trained through repetition to respond that way. But here is the good news: the human mind can be trained to do almost anything, to a remarkable—even astonishing—degree. This is precisely why God instructed the Israelites, through Joshua, to keep His Word always on their lips and to meditate on it day and night. Imagine what would happen if God’s Word continually shaped the conversations of your mouth and the meditations of your heart. Over time, your mind would grow deeply familiar with Scripture. And when the mind becomes saturated with the Word, obedience begins to flow naturally—almost automatically.As the mind embraces the Word, the body aligns with it. Action follows meditation. And then the Scripture declares, “you will prosper and have good success.” Prosperity and success come after the mind has been flooded—again and again—with the Word of God until our lives begin to mirror what it says. So keep God’s Word on your lips—daily, intentionally, relentlessly. Let it shape your thoughts until it shapes your life.  

Prayer_Bead: Mighty God, thank you for your word that makes me prosperous and successful. Help me to meditate on it day and night. 

Wisdom_Quote: God’s word is the bait for success and prosperity. 

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[The Glory Unveiled]

Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man’s eyes with the mud. [ John 9:6 NIV ]

Sometimes, the most extraordinary miracles come wrapped in the most ordinary, even unsuspecting actions. Scripture is full of moments where simple instructions—sometimes even ridiculous ones—unlock supernatural results. Yet, the real hinge is almost always the same: obedience. Whenever men and women in the Bible dared to obey these unusual commands, something was triggered—almost like a spiritual law set in motion. And once obedience was activated, the outcome became inevitable. In obeying, they were not just following directions; they were stepping out in faith, doing what seemed unreasonable in expectation of a result only God could produce—and He did not disappoint. Consider Jesus healing the blind man with saliva and mud. That act was not a formula. It was not the only way nor even the usual way Jesus healed the blind. He had healed others without touching mud or spitting in the dirt. This shows us something profound: the power was never in the method. The miracle was not locked inside the mud—it was unlocked by the man’s obedience. The healing was beyond the action, yet for the one being healed, the healing was hidden in obeying the instruction. And so it is with us today. God may lead us through paths that feel unusual, uncomfortable, or even strange. He may nudge us toward actions that make no sense to the natural mind. But when we respond in faith—when we trust His voice above the oddness of the instruction—we declare that we know Him, we trust Him, and we believe Him. And that faith releases results. So when God speaks, don’t stumble over the method. Don’t let the “ridiculous” distract you. Trust His voice. Obey His instruction. The miracle is always on the other side of obedience.

Prayer_Bead: Lord Jesus, thank you for the way you minister to me and lead me. Help me to obey every instruction, trusting that you are faithful. 

Wisdom_Quote: obedience is better than sacrifice 

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