Faith Leadership: Life And Aphtharsia

Our Saviour Jesus Christ hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel” (2 Timothy 1:10).

Here is a question worth sitting with: what kind of life are you actually living in?
Most of us have only ever known one kind. The fragile kind. The kind that fades, frays, and finally surrenders to the grave. We were born into a life with an expiry date stamped on it, and somewhere deep down we organised everything around that shadow.

But look again at what Jesus brought to light.

That word “immortality” in the Greek is ἀφθαρσία (aphtharsia) – incorruption. It describes something that cannot decay, cannot spoil, cannot waste away. Not a longer version of the old life. An entirely different kind. A life that ruin has no claim on.  Did you catch the verb the verse uses about death? Abolished. Not delayed. Not eased. Undone at the root. Jesus walked straight into the shadow that hung over every human story, and He came out the other side holding life in His hands.

And here is what truly moves me: He brought it to light. He didn’t bury it in some far-off heaven you can only hope to reach. He unveiled it. Put it on display through the gospel so you could see it, receive it, and live in it now.

So this morning, hear it plainly. The life you carry in Christ is not the perishing thing you were born with. It is incorruptible. It cannot be undone by sickness, by failure, or by the grave itself.
Carry that mentality into you place of work and business everyday. That life is at work in your job, in your business. That very life is at work in everything that pertains to you, everything that you lay your hands up to do –  in the name of Jesus Christ!
Make that a part of your faith declarations over your work.

In Christ, you are not anxiously waiting to escape death you are already partaking of a life death cannot touch. You have been brought into aphtharsia. Incorruption is at work in you today. Don’t just sit by and watch your business die; stand up and declare life to that business, life to that job, life to that career!

Death already lost. Life won. And it has been brought to light for you to walk in victory everyday.

Faith Leadership: What Is Right VS What Is Profitable

“Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve” (Luke 22:3).

Have you ever watched someone count the cost of doing the right thing and choose the money instead?
That is the tragedy of Judas. Not that he never sat near Jesus, but that he sat near Him and still walked away.
Being of the number of the twelve. He had the position. He had the proximity. He had three years of watching the Bread of Life break bread, the Healer touch the leper, the Truth speak truth in front of him.
And he bargained it all away for money.

“What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you?” (Matthew 26:15).

Did you catch the horror of that question? He didn’t ask what was right. He asked what was profitable.
And in business, or in your career, it’s not all money that is good profit. It’s not always the offer with the most money that is the right one for you, and it’s up to you to always be alert and to do due diligence to ensure that the offer aligns with your values, is good for you and good for all those that will be impacted by what that company, that business, or that partnership is going to be doing. You just don’t always say yes because of what’s profitable.

Here is what stops me all the time in this story. Nearness to Jesus is not the same as surrender to Him. You can carry the bag and still betray the One who fills it. You can keep company with the twelve and still keep a private negotiation running in your heart.

But look at the Lord in all of this. Jesus is not ambushed. He knows. He moves toward the cross with full sight of the hand that hands Him over, and He does not flinch. The very betrayal Judas sold for thirty pieces of silver, God was using to purchase you. Think about this: man set a price on Jesus, and God turned that transaction into your redemption. What was meant as a sale became your salvation.
So the question is not whether you are near Him. The question is whether you have given Him your heart.

In Christ, you are not a follower at a distance, you are bought, kept, and held by the One who walked willingly into His betrayal so you would never be sold out of His hand.

Faith Leadership: Necessity Is Laid Upon Me

Necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel” (1 Corinthians 9:16).

Necessity. Not preference. Not convenience. Paul felt the weight of the gospel as something pressing on him an inward compulsion he could not shake.
Have you ever felt that holy unrest? That sense that what you carry is too good, too urgent, to keep quiet?
We often imagine preaching as optional a calling for the gifted few who feel especially bold. But Paul speaks of it as a debt. A trust handed to him that he had no right to bury. “Though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of.” Why? Because the message was never his to begin with. He was simply entrusted to carry it.
And so are you.

There is a difference between sharing the gospel because you feel like it and sharing it because something eternal compels you. One waits for the perfect moment. The other recognises the moment is now. People around you are not waiting for a polished presentation. They are waiting for someone who will speak.
This is urgent. Not anxious—but urgent. Because the message that saved you is the same message someone near you needs today, and they cannot respond to what they have not heard.
So let the necessity rise in you again. Let it stir you out of silence.
When you went to that business meeting, did you ask someone if they knew the Lord Jesus? Do they even know at your work place that you are a Christian? Someone confided in you about a personal challenge at work, ask them if you can pray for them. There are so many opportunities in the marketplace for you to share.

In Christ, you are not a spectator of the gospel—you are a steward of it. You have been entrusted. You have been sent. And the woe Paul feared comes only from holding back what was always meant to be poured out.

Speak. Someone is waiting.

Faith Leadership: Old Things Are Passed Away

“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)

Have you ever introduced yourself by your scars?
We do it without thinking. We meet someone new and quietly hand them the edited version, the failures, the labels, the things that happened to us that we’ve decided are who we are. But what if the most honest thing you could say about yourself isn’t your history at all?

Read that slowly. Old things are passed away. Not managed. Not improved. Passed away.
In the original language, that phrase carries the weight of something that has gone by and will not return, a chapter genuinely closed, not bookmarked for later. The person you used to be, with every limitation that defined you, no longer holds the title deed to your life.  So here’s the honest question: who told you that you were still that old self?

Because so much of our striving comes from trying to perform our way into an identity we’ve already been given. We pray as beggars when we’ve been seated as sons and daughters. We apologise for taking up space that Christ purchased for us with His own blood. But you cannot live a new-creation life looking from an old-creation mirror.

Notice that word “behold.” It’s an invitation to look again. To stop staring at who you were and start seeing who God already declares you to be.
Your new identity isn’t a reward for getting it right. It’s a gift you receive the moment you are placed in Christ. Not earned by performance. Eternally established by position.
So look in the right mirror today. So what the last business failed. So what you made a mistake in your previous job and got fired. Behold, old things are passed away.
Get up and look in that mirror today and declare, “old things are passed away, all things are become new.”
And go and start the new business. Apply again for a new job.

In Christ, you are a new creation. The old has passed away. You are not who you were, you are who God says you are, right now. Walk in it. Speak it. Live from it.

You are new. Completely. Permanently.

Faith Leadership: Joint Ascension & Enthronement

We love to talk about the crucifixion and resurrection.
Far fewer of us talk about the ascension and enthronement.
Yet Scripture refuses to leave us standing only at the empty tomb. It connects two truths most of us hold separately what Christ went through, and where Christ now sits.

“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me” (Galatians 2:20).

That word “with” changes everything. You weren’t a spectator to His death. The old self, the striving, the shame, the patterns you couldn’t break was nailed there too.
But the same passage that joins us to His crucifixion also joins us to His ascension, exaltation and enthronement:

“And raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:6).

Together. Again!
Here’s why this matters on an ordinary Tuesday: many of us are still trying to win a position we’ve already been given. We pray from defeat instead of from our seat. We negotiate with an enemy who was already defeated.
If you went down with Him, you also came up with Him. The grave wasn’t the final word for Jesus and it isn’t for you either.
So the question isn’t whether you’ll fight your way up to victory. It’s whether you’ll start living from the place He’s already seated you.
You were crucified with Him. You were raised with Him. And right now, you are seated with Him.

Live like it.

Faith Leadership: What if the goal isn’t doing more, but doing what God asks

What if the goal isn’t doing more, but doing what God asks—completely?

So often we measure faithfulness by volume. How much we accomplished. How many people we helped. How busy our day looked. But Scripture points us toward something deeper than activity: alignment with God’s will, carried out through to the finish.

Jesus modeled this perfectly. “I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do” (John 17:4). Notice He didn’t say He did every possible good thing—He said He finished the work given to Him. There’s freedom in that. We aren’t responsible for everything; we’re called to faithfully complete what He places in our hands.

This is where the Holy Spirit becomes our partner. He helps us discern not just any good work, but the right one. And He empowers us to see it through with excellence—not the frantic kind of effort that burns us out, but the steady, Spirit-led kind that bears lasting fruit.

A simple prayer for today:

“Holy Spirit, show me the work You’ve prepared for me. Help me to do it well, to do it fully, and to bring You glory in the doing.”

You don’t have to do it all. You’re invited to do His will, completely and in His strength.

Faith Leadership: Excellence

Excellence is one of the most misunderstood words in our culture.

We tend to hear it as pressure to be the best, outperform everyone, never make a mistake. But the kind of excellence God invites us into is something else entirely. It’s not about being flawless. It’s about being faithful.

Consider Daniel. Scripture says he was set apart “because an excellent spirit was in him” (Daniel 6:3). Not an excellent résumé. Not unmatched talent. An excellent spirit. His character, his consistency, his integrity in the unseen places, that’s what made him stand out.

That’s a relief, isn’t it?

Because most of us aren’t called to do extraordinary things. We’re called to do ordinary things with an extraordinary heart. To show up faithfully. To follow through when no one would notice if we didn’t. To bring our whole self to the work in front of us, knowing who we’re really working for.

“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men” (Colossians 3:23).

The pursuit of excellence isn’t striving to earn God’s approval, you already have that in Christ. It’s a response of gratitude. We give our best because He gave His best for us. We pour ourselves into the task, the relationship, the calling, because everything we do becomes an offering when it’s offered to Him.

So today, don’t confuse excellence with exhaustion. Don’t mistake it for perfectionism. Simply ask: How can I honor God in what’s already in front of me?

Then give it your whole heart to it.