31st March 2026

A Transformed Man

"Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God."

2 Chronicles 33:13 

Today's Bible Reading:  2 Chronicles 33:8-13.

Manasseh, king of Judah, was certainly a cruel tyrant. His story is told in 2 Chronicles 33. He was an idolater who turned against God and worshipped every kind of pagan deity. Manasseh was guilty of immorality, he practised every conceivable evil and perversion, devoted himself to witchcraft and was a murderer; indeed, he shed so much innocent blood, that Jerusalem was like a blood bath (2 Kings 21:16); He even sacrificied his sons to a pagan god.

God’s judgment fell on Manasseh. He was bound in chains and taken away to Babylon (v 11). But that is not the end of his story. While the wicked king was confined in the dungeon he had time to think, and Manasseh began to pray (v 12). This man who deserved Hell cried out to God for forgiveness—and God answered ( v 13).

God’s mercy is so vast and beyond our comprehension because He responds to repentant hearts. Not everyone is thrown in prison for their disobedience to God. In Manasseh’s case, imprisonment was turned to blessing because he found the Lord. We dare not neglect God’s warning to repent today, because everyone will not have a prison conversion. In Proverbs 29:1, the Bible says: “He who is often rebuked, and hardens his neck, will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.” But God’s mercy can be ours, if like Manasseh we call upon the Lord seeking His forgiveness.

If God could forgive Manasseh, He can forgive you too. 

Prayer: Lord God. I come before You humbly, recognising the transforing power of repentance as seen in the life of Manasseh. Help me to humbly repent of my sins each day. In Jesus name. Amen.

30th March 2026

Spiritual Liberty

"Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the

Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”

2 Corinthians 3:17

Today's Bible Reading: 2 Corinthians 3:12-18.

Paul’s words draw us back to Exodus 34, where Moses removed the veil when he entered the Lord’s presence. The veil was necessary before the people, but not before God. In God’s presence Moses had liberty—freedom to behold His glory openly.

In 2 Corinthians 3, Paul teaches that this same divine presence now dwells within believers through the Holy Spirit. When he says, “the Lord is the Spirit,” he is not collapsing the Persons of the Trinity but affirming the full divinity of the Spirit. The Spirit is truly God—of the same essence as the Father and the Son—and therefore brings us into genuine fellowship with the Lord.

Because the Spirit lives within us under the new covenant, we stand continually in God’s presence. As Moses freely removed the veil before the Lord, so we now have the same liberty to approach God openly, boldly, without fear, and without a vail. This is not a liberty rooted in personal merit but in God’s gracious work: the veil of separation has been removed in Christ, and the Spirit applies this freedom to our hearts.

It is also important, to see what Paul does not mean. This liberty is not a justification for disorder, emotional excess, or self-centred expression in worship. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is” does not legitimise doing whatever one pleases in the name of spirituality. The context is the liberty of access to God, not licence for unrestrained behaviour.

True spiritual liberty leads us to behold God’s glory with unveiled hearts—and to be transformed by the Spirit into the image of Christ (v 18).

Prayer: Father God, grant me to walk in the true liberty of Your Spirit, beholding Your glory with an unveiled heart. In Jesus' precious name. Amen.

29th March 2026

The Soul

"Our soul waits for the Lord;

He is our help and our shield." 

Psalm 33:20

Today's Bible Reading: Genesis 2:1-7.

I am a soul—and I have a body! The body is the house in which the soul lives. When God created man, He made him distinctive, different from the other animals or any thing else, that He had created. He breathed into him the breath of life and man became a living soul. In Genesis 2:9 the Bible says, “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” God clothed him with intelligence, conscience, and a will. He made him like Himself—a companion, a friend of God. At the resurrection, this mortal shall put on immortality, and we that love the Lord, shall be like Him, and be with Him forever.

Prayer: Lord or all creation, and Father all mankind, You are our Creator, and we are wonderfully made. What expectation is mine as I think of being with You forever. I praise You in the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.