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27/12/2025

*KNOW YOUR CALLING (1)*

*_SATURDAY 27TH OF DECEMBER 2025_*

*_"For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable."_ Romans 11:29 NIV*

_If you are questioning your calling, author Diane Paddison identifies two thought patterns that may be sabotaging your thinking._

1. *It is all about you.*

*Your calling is not about self-fulfilment; it is about submission to God's will for your life.*

*Many people experience satisfaction from exercising their God-given gifts.*

_But it is a result of being in God's will, not the goal._

*To discern God's will, you must develop your relationship with Him through prayer and Bible study.*

*You must also develop relationships with peers and mentors who will pray for you and speak truth into your life.*

2. *If it is uncomfortable, it can not be your calling.*

_Knowing what you are meant to be doing is often just the start of the journey._

Some of the most successful people endured overwhelming failure in pursuit of their paths. Moses' calling did not seem all that wonderful to him.

His response? *"Who am I that I should go?"*

He questioned God, but God responded, *"I will be with you."*

Still, Moses continued to question: *"But what if they do not believe me?"*

_Even when God provided him with miraculous signs, they were not enough._

He came back with, *"But I am slow of speech."*

Clearly Moses was called to a task God designed for him - and it did not feel good to him.

Moses tried to prove to God that he had the wrong man for the job. And when that did not work, he asked God to send someone else *Exodus 4:1-13.*

Can you relate?

If so, keep this thought in mind: *discomfort does not automatically mean you are on the wrong path. The truth is discomfort usually precedes growth.*

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17/11/2025

*PREPARE FOR THE NEXT PHASE WITH GOD*

*_MONDAY 17TH OF NOVEMBER 2025_*

*_"We should make plans—counting on God to direct us."_ Proverbs 16:9 TLB*

When you move into a different house, you arrange a date for movers to come; you change the phone, electricity and internet to your new address; and you place your belongings in boxes marked bedroom, kitchen, living room, etc.

Preparing for every new phase of your life is similar.

Here are some suggested tips to help you be ready for wherever God leads you next:

1. *Compose a plan for financial independence.*

This may involve insurance, retirement and estate planning.

Your insurance policies could also cover your mortgage in case you are unable to work for a season.

2. *Always give yourself flexibility.*

After you have run the first half of the race of life, you may decide to switch direction.

_What you want to do right now may change twenty years from now, or may be different from what you wanted to do twenty years ago._

The delightful thing about life is that *no matter how old you are, you can always begin again, and opportunities may exist in the future that you can not predict now.*

3. *Stay current with technology, a major part of modern society.*

_Those unable or unwilling to utilise the latest technological tools may shortchange their success._

In addition to technology, you could help yourself by staying up to date with developments in additional business skills; communication, negotiation and etiquette are all essential to succeeding in a changing world.

Solomon wrote, *_"People may make plans in their minds, but the Lord decides what they will do."_ Proverbs 16:9 (NCV).*

So, the word for today is: *prepare for the next phase, with God.*

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15/11/2025

*SPEAK "LIFE" (2)*

*_SATURDAY 15 OF NOVEMBER 2025_*

*_"Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, "I am strong."_ Joel 3:10 NKJV*

Notice that the Bible does not say, *"Let the weak call their friends and discuss their weaknesses." Or, "Let the weak talk about their weaknesses." Or, "Let the weak whine about their weaknesses."*

No, it basically says, *"Let the weak say the opposite of how they feel."*

_So instead of talking about the way you are, talk about the way you desire to be_.

_Talk about what God's word says you can be, have and experience._

If you get up each morning feeling exhausted and beaten down, instead of groaning about it, you need to declare, *_"I am strong in the Lord. This is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it."_ Psalms 118:24.*

_When you do that, you will not only alter how you feel but also your attitude._

_You will not step into the day with a tired, defeated mentality._

_You will go out with a winning mentality, with a bounce in your step, with a grin on your face, and with your shoulders squared._

*When God's word becomes your word, it will lift your spirit and help you see yourself and your situations in a whole new way.*

Jesus said, *_"Whoever says to this mountain, "Be removed and be cast into the sea," and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says"_ Mark 11:23 (NKJV).*

Note the words *"he will have whatever he says".*

So, each day look in the mirror and say, *"Good morning you blessed, strong, secure, confident, highly favoured child of God."* In other words, speak *"Life".*

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14/11/2025

*SPEAK "LIFE" (1)*

*_FRIDAY 14TH OF NOVEMBER 2025_*

*_"Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit."_ Proverbs 18:21 NKJV*

*Make sure your words agree with God's word, then send your words on the path you want your life to travel.*

*_What are you speaking about your future? Your family? Your finances? Your health?_*

_If you are going through a difficult time right now, do not merely use your words to describe your situation, use them to change it._

*When what you say lines up with what God says, you give life to your faith.*

So, start saying, *"I can do all things through Christ. I am blessed. I am strong. I am healthy."*

_When you talk that way, you have just blessed your life._

This is not some glib, mind-over-matter philosophy, it is Bible truth!

Begin to send *your words out in the direction you want your life to go.*

_Maybe you have been let down._

_The relationship ended._

_You did not land the promotion._

Instead of complaining and saying, *"Well, what did I expect? I never win,"* your declaration should be, *"I realise that when one door closes, God opens another. And what was meant for my harm, God will use for my good _Genesis 50:20_. I will come out of this better off than I was before." _Romans 8:28_.*

*What you say about yourself is more important than what anybody else says.*

*The words that go out of your mouth come right back into your own ears, and eventually they create the same image on the inside.*

So, begin to *speak God's word over your situation. In other words, speak "life".*

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12/11/2025

12/11/2025

*GOD'S PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE*

*_WEDNESDAY 12TH OF NOVEMBER 2025_*

*_"For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things he planned for us long ago."_ Ephesians 2:10 NLT*

A minister writes:

To the average eye, it was a mutilated piece of marble.

The aborted sculpture had been abandoned, but a young artist named Michelangelo saw something in that stone others did not.

Chiselling the eighteen-foot block of marble would consume nearly four years of his life, but that seemingly worthless stone was destined to become what many consider the greatest statue ever sculpted.

Michelangelo resurrected a dead stone and, breathing his artistry into it, brought David into existence.

As he chiselled, he believed the masterpiece was already inside the stone.

All he had to do was remove the excess stone so David could escape.

_He did not see what was. He saw what could be._

_He did see the imperfections in the stone._

_He saw a masterpiece of unparalleled beauty. And that is precisely how the Artist [God] sees you._

*_"We are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago.”_*

*Every work of art originates in the imagination of the artist*.

And *so you originated in the imagination of God.*

*You were conceived by God long before you were conceived by your parents.*

*You took shape in the imagination of the Almighty before you took shape in your mother’s womb.*

_Regardless of what others think of you, or what you think of yourself, *God sees you as a potential masterpiece.*_

To see yourself as anything other than that is to devalue and alter your true identity.

And *it is in discovering your true identity that you discover God has a plan for your life.*

*_ ._*