by Marie | Oct 18, 2025 | Archives, Inspiration
If you think the unemployment statistics in the country are bad, take a look at the church. Twenty per cent of its members give eighty per cent of its income, and do eighty percent of its work. The rest are happy just to be spectators. It’s easy to sit back, criticise, and say, ‘Why doesn’t the church do something about the problem?’ Hold on there: You are the church; you do something about it! You say, ‘But I left my church because I don’t like the way they do things.’ You didn’t leave God’s church, which is the body of Christ, did you? So, instead of talking about what your church doesn’t do, look in the mirror and ask yourself, ‘What am I doing for the Lord?’ Do you know what an Armchair Manager is? It’s someone who analyses the game when it’s over, criticises the players, complains about the referee’s calls, and is content to sit in the stadium and be a spectator rather than a player. Hello! It takes commitment to spend hours in practice knowing you’ll be booed by the crowd, tackled by opponents, and will leave the field beat up and covered in dirt. The Bible says that the job of your pastor is: ‘…To equip God’s people to do his work and build up the
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by Marie | Oct 17, 2025 | Archives, Inspiration
One of the biggest challenges in marriage is communication. Here’s an example: in the past husbands went to work and wives stayed home to raise the children. Now, someone has estimated that the average man speaks about twenty-nine thousand words a day and the average woman speaks about thirty-three thousand words a day. That may not be accurate, but let’s use it as an illustration. He’s been out in the workplace all day and by the time he gets home he’s used up twenty-six thousand of his words, leaving only three thousand he feels no need to say. But she’s been locked up all day with the dishes, the nappies and the mundane. She has talked to her mother, friends and neighbours and used up about eight thousand words. So when he gets home she has twenty-five thousand words waiting for him. After a silent supper he spends the evening watching TV, then they go to bed. As he’s about to fall asleep a voice says, ‘Are you awake?’ If you are wise, you will be! If not, tomorrow night there will be fifty thousand words lying beside you. Do the math; in ten years there will be enough words to fill the central library. But maybe not; maybe there will be no words. A frequent reason given in divorce
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by Marie | Oct 16, 2025 | Archives, Inspiration
You can be loved by many, but deep down you’ll feel needy and insecure until you understand how God feels about you. The Bible says: God wants you to be happy. ‘…I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself. I will rebuild you…You will again be happy…’ (Jeremiah 31:3-4 NLT). 2) God will never walk out on you. ‘…He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you’’’ (Hebrews 13:5 NKJV). You say, ‘But what about my failures and shortcomings?’ Nothing about you surprises God or changes His mind about you. He’s totally committed to you. ‘If we are unfaithful, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny who He is’ (2 Timothy 2:13 NLT). 3) God thinks you are valuable. ‘…Do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you. I have called you by name; you are mine. When you go through deep waters I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you. For I am the Lord, your God…you are precious to me. You are honoured, and I love you. Do not be afraid, for I am with you…’
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by Marie | Oct 15, 2025 | Archives, Inspiration
AT FIRST, Nelson Mandela was motivated by a dream to free himself from oppression. But his dream expanded to include others. He writes: ‘The hunger for my own freedom became the greater hunger for the freedom of my people. It was this desire for freedom of my people to live their lives with dignity and self-respect that animated my life, that transformed a frightened young man into a brave one, that drove a law-abiding attorney to become a criminal, that turned a family-loving man into a man without a home, that forced a life-loving man to live like a monk.’ When Mandela found himself at the crossroads of life—with one path leading to personal gain and the other to serving his people—he chose the more difficult higher road of helping others. And look at the impact he has made. Have you been confronted with that decision? If so, it doesn’t mean abandoning your dream. It means expanding it! Thomas Edison said, ‘I never perfected an invention without thinking in terms of how it would benefit others.’ He didn’t stop being an inventor so that he could help others. No, he used what he had already accomplished for himself to help others. Don’t simply aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference! Meditation: “And I will very gladly spend
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by Marie | Oct 14, 2025 | Archives, Inspiration
God has given each of us a tongue: a simple, basic tool to help us encourage one another. It has been given to all—young and old, rich and poor, wise and foolish. It is a tool we can use to discourage or encourage. Too often, we use our tongue to tear people down rather than build them up. And it is in the closest relationships that we are usually the most critical. Criticism given in the wrong spirit undermines a person’s self-esteem. And it can make that person critical of others. GOD HAS given each of us a tongue too! We also hurt people with our ridicule and sarcasm. ‘What makes you think you’re so smart?’ or ‘That’s the stupidest question I’ve ever heard.’ Laughing at another’s mistakes, making fun of a person and labelling them as ‘a klutz,’ ‘lazy,’ ‘sloppy,’ ‘stupid,’ or ‘fatty’ may get a laugh from others, and even from the victim, but such words often leave painful wounds. We can discourage people by trying to show off our superior knowledge. Sometimes we hurt them just by talking too much and leaving them no time to express themselves. It gives the impression that what they have to say is relatively unimportant compared to our words of wisdom. So each day you need to pray for guidance and
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by Marie | Oct 13, 2025 | Archives, Inspiration
This story is told of a man reading a newspaper when he came across a map of the world. So he clipped it out, cut it into pieces and told his little boy to put it back together again. After a while the boy said to him, ‘I’ve done it!’ His father marvelled, ‘As quick as that? How did you do it?’ His son said: ‘I turned it over and on the back was a picture of a man. I put the man together—and the world came together!’ You can’t change the world, but Christ can change you, and when that happens, your world will start coming together. Meditation: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” – 2 Corinthians 5:17 Also Read: The Influence of Jesus Christ Understanding God: God of Delegation After A Flash of Inspiration, What’s Next? (2) Reaching Rahab (1) I Found a Community of Believers What Is Draining You? Learning to Set Boundaries and Love the Saint Within You can now partner with the Daily Dew Ministry by clicking here
