...But If You Say So, I Will Let It Down

‎Have you ever been at a spot that requires the knowledge and experience you've got but still your failures stood glaring?

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‎As studied the book of Luke, I actually looked at this story again, the one were disciples had toiled all night but still had nothing.

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‎To me who easily got weary I got to pause, Jesus didn't just give them a testimony he marked a season, a limelight for the generation that would come after.

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‎Luke 5:5 (GNB)

‎“Master,” Simon answered, “we worked hard all night long and caught nothing. But if you say so, I will let down the nets.”

‎There are moments when we do not need to question the wisdom of the instructions God has given us.

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‎“But God, I started this business three times and it failed.

‎I gave this marriage a chance—we went to therapy, we prayed—and still it failed.

‎I applied for the job, and they never called me.

‎I’ve tried to correct this child over and over again, and nothing changes.”

‎Like Simon, we can analyze our facts and recount our failures. But must it end with, “I am not going again”?

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‎Can we choose instead to say, “But if You say so, I will go”?

‎I try to imagine the minds of these men. After working all night and catching nothing, I would not want to go again. I would grumble and complain. “I’ve searched this spot over and over. There is nothing there.”

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‎But Jesus says, “Can you go again? Can you try again—not out of fear, but with just a little faith?”

‎It does not matter if you have proof of every failure you have experienced. What matters is the One who is asking you to go again.

‎Like Simon, today I say,

‎“Lord, I have walked this path. I am frustrated, flustered, and even ashamed. I am known as the best, the professional—yet here I am, facing failure. But I believe that even this is so I may know that Yahweh is God.

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‎If You say I should throw the net again, I will throw it. Why? Because You said it.

‎My faith is not in my experience, not in the people I know, not in my knowledge or the skills I have gathered. It is in You. You are my confidence.

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‎If You have spoken, I will obey.

‎Let my ears be open to hear You in the very places that have broken me. Jesus is saying, ‘Go again.’ And this time, I am going with You. My work is my bond."

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‎Stay Revived!

When silence is a answer

Have you noticed that there are times when you fast and pray, waiting for a word from the Lord, and by the end of the fast you seem to hear nothing? Have you noticed that sometimes you ask questions and God does not answer the way you expect?

In those moments, the Lord is teaching us to trust Him and seek Him more deeply—waiting earnestly for the word He will speak.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” — Proverbs 3:5–6

You see, the Lord relates to us through our experiences and seasons. He steps into our spaces and answers us in ways we do not always expect.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. — Isaiah 55:8

Most times, the answer is in the silence. It is in the stillness. It is in holding on and seeing the salvation of the Lord.

Many answers are silent, yet loud—you can sense strongly that God has spoken, even without words. And even then, you are called to trust His sovereignty.

You may feel as though you did not hear Him, but the power generated in those moments at your altar is aligning things for your season.

God is searching for a man like Joseph—one who will trust the dreams and visions he has been given and run with them.

God’s silence is not absence. God’s silence is an answer—it just may not align with the way you thought it would come.

Stay revived!

When the Lord Gives Us Seeds

Someone once said that when we ask the Lord for direction, He gives us instructions, but most times, they come in bits.

Abraham desired a child, yet God first told him, “Go to the land I will show you.” As we read his story, we see that God led him step by step, all the way to the fulfillment of the promise.

I once asked JJ, “Why didn’t God just give Abraham the full blueprint? At least that way he could move forward all at once.”

But I’ve come to understand something: most times when I receive just one word from God, I run with it using human wisdom and strength. I often return to Him only when the journey — and the weight of that word — becomes overwhelming.

God does not want us to be overwhelmed. Rather, He is saying, “Stay plugged in.”

When He came into the garden seeking Adam and Eve, it was because He desired a relationship—a connection in which we remain dependent on Him for everything.

Much of today’s world promotes self-dependence — trusting in our own ability and wisdom, living as though there is no supreme Being guiding our lives. But we do not serve a dictator. Our God desires a relationship in every way. Yes, He corrects us when we become stiff-necked, but above all, He asks, “Will you trust Me with all your heart?”

For every seed the Lord gives us, He is not expecting us to run to man for fertilization. He wants us to come to Him — to partner with His Spirit to bring forth fruit from the seed.

When Mary asked, “How can this be?” the angel told her that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her.

If you are in a moment where all you can think is, “How can this be?” God is saying,
“I did not speak it so you could accomplish it in your own strength. I spoke it so you would trust Me to bring you into the fullness of My word.”

Stay revived!

Unchanging Truth in Changing Times

I once listened to a conversation where someone boldly said that, in time to come, Christianity would take a back seat. My heart began to race. I felt a tightness in my chest, almost as if something inside me was protesting the very thought.

Many believe Christianity is ancient and outdated. They say times are changing; that we are no longer in the days of Paul or Joseph. So they choose the parts of the bible that favour them and discard the rest. But what they forget is that God is the Beginning and the End. He exists outside of time, that is to say He is neither a Gen-Z, a millennial, nor a Gen anything. He does not fade with culture, nor does He adjust to trends. He is eternal and ever-present.

Scripture declares that the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord. So there can never be a season when the message of Christ becomes irrelevant. If anything, this is the hour for its fullness. A generation is rising, people who understand the times, who know when to stand firm and when to be still, not moved by the trends but by this time, Issachar's children having a full understanding of the times and choosing to stand still. Those who have been prepared and refined for such a season as this. The message of Christ cannot be watered down to suit the age; the principles are ever ancient and ever present.

Does it not make you wonder at the rapid rise of immorality? The explosion of new technologies designed to improve life, yes, they have made life easy, but this distorts and distracts hearts. These very tools, though sometimes misused, are also aligning with prophecy—channels through which the knowledge of the Lord can fill the earth. Heaven sees. Nothing escapes God’s awareness.

It is foolish to think that life ends at death. Death is only the doorway to eternity. Therefore, we must not become complacent. We must not trade our convictions for cultural acceptance or dilute truth for conversational relevance. In these changing times, our prayer should echo the words of the psalmist in the of Psalms 25:4–5 (NKJV):

Show me Your ways, O Lord;

Teach me Your paths.

Lead me in Your truth and teach me,

For You are the God of my salvation;

On You I wait all the day.

May this be our daily cry—that He leads, teaches, and anchors us in His truth, no matter the times.

Stay Revived!