Good day to remind ourselves that God is glorified from the full operation of things, not just the winning. Because if winning is the measure, then Saka, Eze, and Timber losing tonight detracts from His glory. And that cannot be right.
Here is what is actually happening.
Ken Kutaragi built PlayStation. When he watches someone play at three in the morning, grinding a level they have failed thirty times, he is not waiting for them to win. He is watching someone be fully alive inside something he made. The tears of the losing player are not a malfunction of the product. They are the highest possible testimony to it. You do not lose sleep over something average. The investment, the obsession, the tears, the celebrations, all of it is the endorsement.
Now scale that logic to infinity.
God built an entire universe on this principle. He built something so precisely calibrated to human desire that it produces genuine stakes, genuine grief, genuine ecstasy, out of nothing but a ball and a pitch and eleven men on each side. You do not pray before a football final over something that does not matter. That is the signature of a Creator of incomprehensible scale.
The zebra at full speed declares something whether it escapes or not. The lion in full extension declares something whether it catches or not. Every moment carries full weight and nothing is throwaway.
Doué scoring and thanking Jesus, that is the full operation. Saka losing a UCL final after winning the league, that is the full operation. Eze and Timber leaving Budapest without the trophy they came for, full operation. All of it authored by the same hand, watched by the same eyes, none of it falling outside the delight of a God who built a platform of reality so immense, so precisely engineered for human intensity, that billions of people simultaneously care this deeply about the same ninety minutes.
Doué’s prayer was answered. Saka’s prayer was not, at least not tonight. God was not watching to see which answer would vindicate Him. He was watching His creation run at full intensity.
He was never waiting for a winner.
Biggest mistakes I’ve made in affiliate:
- not taking more advantage of the “good” days and squeezing every drop of profit while it lasts
- Thinking monthly profit will be consistent throughout the yesr
- Listening to my AM
- Not running bid caps sooner
- Running pay per call
The first time the word worship appears in Scripture, there is no music, no choir, no instrument.
It is Abraham.
“And Abraham said… Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship”
and the worship was a journey to Moriah, carrying Isaac.
This establishes the biblical frame for worship.
Worship, before it ever became sound, was posture.
Abraham worshipped by:
Obedience – he went where God pointed
Alignment – he agreed with God’s word even when it cost him
Surrender – he laid down what was most precious
Faith – he believed God beyond understanding
No song.
No atmosphere.
No encouragement.
Just posture.
Worship was not what Abraham sang; it was how he stood before God.
From that moment onward, Scripture teaches us that worship is first a stance, then a sound.
People stood in reverence.
They knelt in surrender.
They lifted hands in dependence.
They fell on their faces in awe.
Each posture preached before any melody followed.
This tells us something crucial:
God responds to alignment before expression.
You can sing loudly and still miss worship.
You can be silent and yet fully worshipping.
True worship is when the heart bows, the will yields, and the body agrees.
Before the song rises, let posture speak.
That is worship.
Hebrews 7 clears up a lot of the burning questions I’ve had about tithes. So interesting that I’d never read that chapter before, it was probably in fragments.
Verse 12 solidified it for me. 😮💨 Who says God doesn’t answer? 🥹👌🏾
There is a point in childbirth called “transition” that happens right before pushing. It is most easily identified by the emotional response of the mother which is usually when she says, “I can’t do this anymore.” 1/2
This pattern has helped me since God gave it to me
12noon - 12:10 Pray
3:00-3:10 pray
6:00-6:10 pray
9:00-9:10 pray.
Do this for 3 days non stop and come back and testify.
You see,it's just 10min for each hour but what you don't know is you've been building consistency and that's what prayer really is about;
Consistently being in touch with God.
As I walked to work this morning, I kept on singing, “You’ve been faithful Lord, from the ages past” and I didn't know when I started shedding tears.
No one can tell me God doesn't exist, no one!!!!
There’s a whole rabbit hole about how Chinese language proves the Bible is historical.
See comments for how the Chinese word for righteousness is a “lamb” symbol over the symbol for “me”
I mean….come on.
“The awards I won as a footballer were very cool but the presence of God in my life is much cooler, very much cooler.”
- Former World Cup and Ballon D’Or winner, Ricardo Kaka preaching in a church.