Proverbs 3:5–7
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart…”
Have confidence in His nature.
God is reality,
not the perspective painted by your humanity.
He is existence.
All things are created by Him
and sustained by His assistance.
The core of who you are
is found in the depths of who He has always been.
The expectation of who you will become
is centered on what He has already done.
February 4, 2026 | A.G. Ayuen
This morning during worship at church,
The Lord wrecked me with Psalm 23.
The Holy Spirit led me to read and reread,
until I could not stop crying.
After a week of struggling to surrender to the leadership of the Lord, the revelation of His Word pierced my stubborn heart.
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD
HE MAKES ME
HE RESTORES ME
HE LEADS ME
HE LEADS
Those two words confronted everything
that had been contending for His lordship.
And with confrontation
comes an invitation
into deeper spiritual formation.
January 18, 2026 | A.G. Ayuen
The Lord is my shepherd;
I shall not want.
2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside the still waters.
3 He restores my soul;
He leads me in the paths of righteousness
For His name’s sake.
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil;
For You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
You anoint my head with oil;
My cup runs over.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
All the days of my life;
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever.
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” — Ephesians 2:10
Not just a clump of cells formed by chance
or the result of random coincidence.
We are God’s WORK
His poiēma, His masterpiece.
We are God’s MAN
Male and female, made in His image and likeness,
and through the cross, are restored to reflect the glory of His brightness.
We are God’s SHIP
Made on purpose, for a purpose.
Not created to carry pride, shame, guilt, or fear,
but designed as vessels that would carry His love far and near.
January 4, 2026 | A.G. Ayuen
Revelation 12:11 (NKJV) “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.”
This verse has challenged me for a long time, and I know it will continue to challenge me.
If I’m being honest, I am drawn to and I love the first part of the verse. The part that tells us how they overcame: by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.
But I wrestle with the last part: “and they did not love their lives to the death.”
There is something about that line that is deeply convicting.
Maybe it exposes the fact that I have a tendency to love my own life. To protect self, preserve self, prioritize self.
And I am realizing that in the life of a believer, this cannot be.
As long as I keep trying to resurrect the old man,
I will struggle to live in the victory of the new man.
January 3, 2026 | A.G. Ayuen
Ephesians 3:17-19 (NKJV) – “that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”
May we comprehend,
the width,
the length,
the depth,
and the height of the love of Christ.
May we see the width of this love,
that stretches to all peoples, nations, tribes, and tongues.
This everlasting and eternal love which is steadfast, enduring many generations.
May we know this deep and humble love,
that came down, took on flesh, and was nailed to the cross of Calvary to ransom the sons of man.
May we understand this love that enters grief, injustice, shame, doubt, death and fear bringing liberation to captive souls.
May we be convinced of the height of this love,
that raises us:
from sin to sonship,
from shame to honor,
from enemies to heirs,
from the miry clay to the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
January 2, 2026 | A.G. Ayuen
Judas had proximity, but no intimacy.
He called Jesus “Rabbi” but never knew Him as Lord.
Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed Jesus.
His name
His legacy
His destiny is forever marked by his lack of surrender to Christ.
Not Judas, son of Iscariot
Not Judas, one of the twelve
Not Judas, the successful
Not Judas, the gifted
Not Judas, the beloved
Judas | the one who betrayed Jesus
Matthew 26 has marked me these last few weeks
I ain’t gonna lie and it has led me to examine my own heart.
To cry out the words of the psalmist:
“Search me, O God, and know my heart…
see if there be any wicked way in me.”
It’s easy to read Matthew 26 and say
“How could Judas betray Jesus?”
But harder to ask,
“Where in my life am I doing the same?”
Who is Jesus Christ to you?
Just a name you grew up hearing?
A trigger word because of church hurt/religious wounds?
A teacher you admire but have no desire to emulate?
Only a prophet, but not the Son of God?
Someone you deny exists because belief would mean letting go of the comfort of sin?
Someone you run to ONLY when life gets hard?
Or is He everything?
Is He worth more than your reputation,
your career,
your comfort,
your ambition,
your money,
your relationships
your life?
Is He just Rabbi
or is He LORD of your life?
Surrendering to Jesus’s Lordship is costly but we deserve nothing anyways.
Romans 3:23 “All have fallen short of the glory of God.”
Hebrews 10:29 “How much greater punishment do you think he will deserve who has rejected and trampled under foot the Son of God…”
We’ve all betrayed Him.
No one is good. Not one.
But thank God the Gospel doesn’t leave us in this state of hopelessness.
It invites us to repent & receive God’s grace through faith.
To receive eternal life through Jesus Christ.
And from there, to live every day under His Lordship.
What I’m wrestling with is that Judas could have still been redeemed even after he betrayed, but he never accepted the invitation of the gospel, only the wages of sin.
He felt regret, but not repentance.
The same grace extended to Peter was available to Judas.
But he turned away from the Savior instead of turning towards Him and believing in Him
October 29, 2025 | A.G. Ayuen
Jesus said if you have faith like a mustard seed,
you could move mountains.
(Matthew 17:20)
But did you know mustard seeds are actually weeds?
Once planted, they spread wildly—overtaking everything in their path.
That’s the kind of faith Jesus was talking about.
Not polished.
Not perfect.
But alive.
Growing.
Unstoppable.
In ancient times, growing mustard seeds was actually outlawed.
Why?
Because it took over gardens—choking out everything else.
So when Jesus compared our faith to mustard seeds…
it wasn’t safe.
It was scandalous.
He wants your faith to invade fear
to choke out doubt
to overtake nations with hope.
Kingdom faith spreads.
Your faith doesn’t have to be big.
Your devotion doesn’t have to be perfect.
Your love only needs to be true.
Jesus is after the kind of faith that starts small,
but refuses to stay that way.
Let it grow.
Let it spread.
Let it take over every part of your life—
Until the whole garden belongs to Him. 🌱
– A.G. Ayuen
