Yesterday was a rough day I was at Target and heard a loud crash and something shattering. Being nosy, I walked towards the sound and saw some people whispering and looking back to the end of the next aisle. When I walked down that aisle, I saw that an older lady had hit a shelf and many things had fallen to the ground and broken. She was kneeling on the floor embarrassed, frantically trying to clean up. I felt so bad for her. Every one was just standing there staring at her. So I went and knelt beside her and told her not to worry and started helping her pick up the broken pieces. After about a minute, the store manager came and knelt beside us and said, “Leave it, we will clean this up.” The lady, totally embarrassed said, “I need to pay for all this.” The manager smiled, helped her to her feet and said, “No ma’am, we have insurance for this, you do not have to pay anything!” If you have read this far, give me another minute. Wherever you are, close your eyes, and imagine God doing the same for you! Imagine the broken pieces of your mistakes or the pieces of your broken heart from all the blows life has thrown at you all over the floor and you’re there trying to collect all of the pieces and fix them yourself. Now imagine God comes and kneels right down beside you, smiles and says to you, “Leave it all there, I will clean this up for you.” He loves you that much and wants to put all of those pieces back together if you will let Him! With Him we have this insurance and it’s called GRACE! It’s free! All you have to do is ask Him to forgive you, help you, and to heal you. He’s faithful, I promise! 🫶🏼🙏🏼❤️✝️📜🖤👑🏆🩷👼🏼⚓🙏 EVEN THO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US FALL SHORT OF HIS GRACE AND MERCY, HE LOVES US ANYWAY ❤️

Your presence carries influence before you speak a word. Today, embody that awareness. Walk into every space knowing that your energy sets tone and direction. Let it be grounded, assured, and unapologetically refined.

Day 3: Hope in the Darkness Today’s devotion is brought to you by Cammonde Andunga. Cammonde is a Partnership Facilitator working at Compassion Kenya. We commemorate the day that Jesus died on the cross every Good Friday. From Matthew 27:45-50, we see an agonizing death as Jesus shed His blood for us at the cross in Calvary. We see the utter rejection that He experienced and the great darkness that engulfed the world at that moment. We also witness the mockery of those who crucified Him; and, finally, the Saviour of the world died on the cross. I can picture the disappointment that His followers might have experienced, watching their Master crucified. They had hoped He was the Messiah, who was prophesied beforehand to redeem and restore the world. Seeing their Master dying would have made them feel that their hope was in vain. This was indeed a dark moment for them. What would they do now? Those who had chosen to faithfully follow Jesus Christ would have been disappointed and discouraged as they helplessly watched their master and friend on the cross—it seemed like darkness had won. This would not have been the end that they had envisioned. What seemed like the end, however, was only the beginning of something wonderful. When it seemed like the night was the darkest, God was at work keeping His promises to his people. It was at that moment of rejection that God poured out the cup of wrath that was in store for the world on His own beloved Son. He was rejected so that He could be the bridge of our salvation, dying to redeem us from the power of sin and death. Whatever was meant to be the end of His ministry, in the eyes of those who crucified Him, paved the way for salvation for all mankind. God turned it all around for good! Often, when the situations in our lives and in our world seem to hit rock bottom, it can be easy to be discouraged and disheartened. In John 10:10, we are reminded that the thief comes only to steal, kill and destroy, but Christ came so that we may have abundant life. This abundant life would only come to us through Christ’s death on the cross.

Day 2: The Living Hope of Jesus Today’s devotion is brought to you by Jack Vasquez and translated by Fernando Sinacay. Jack is the Manager of Partnerships in Global Program working at Compassion Peru. The Lord’s hour is getting closer, and He’s preparing to celebrate the Passover with His disciples one last time. The book of Luke reminds us that the lamb must be sacrificed for Passover. There is no Passover without sacrifice. There is no other way for men to receive forgiveness. Our Lord Jesus, during the Passover celebration, shares a very special moment with His disciples—the Last Supper. As we read in Luke 22, we see the breaking of the bread and the sharing of the wine among them. But more than sharing a meal, it marked a meaningful milestone of the sacrifice that was to come. More than a mere Passover celebration, Jesus establishes the Lord’s Supper, which represents to us the acknowledgment of Jesus’s perfect sacrifice for us in our condition as sinners, which He redeemed through his death and resurrection. Jesus gave precise instructions to remember Him for His sacrifice made for us at the cross of Calvary. The Last Supper was a meaningful event, and it proclaimed a crucial moment in God’s plan for the world. Comparing Jesus’s crucifixion with the Passover, we can easily see the redemptive nature of Christ’s death and how it symbolizes the Passover’s original sacrifice in the Old Testament. Christ’s death atones for the sins of His people. His blood rescues us from death and saves us from slavery. The Passover invites us to celebrate and to relive Jesus’s surrender to death because of His love for us and the power of His resurrection, which reminds all men that we were created to live with God for eternity. It’s also a celebration and remembrance of hope, as we partake of the body and blood of Christ. Likewise, during the Last Supper, Jesus taught His disciples by example the principles of service and forgiveness when He washed His disciples’ feet (Luke 22:26-27; John 13:1-20).

Day 1: The Hope of Redemption Today’s devotion is brought to you by Patricia Mghendi-Otachi. Patricia is a Survival and Early Childhood Specialist working at Compassion Kenya. “I know I will live. I will live to raise my children and testify of the greatness of God. I know they will live.” These are the words Maristela kept saying as she narrated her story to us, and we could not hold back our tears. Maristela is mum to twins Amani and Pendo, who are part of the Compassion Mums and Babies program, living in one of the most impoverished informal settlements in Kenya. I, alongside the local church leaders, paid a visit to Maristela’s family soon after she entered the program. 26-year-old Maristela had been diagnosed with a complex heart condition while she was still pregnant and, coupled with a lack of sufficient food, was so weak that she wasn’t sure she would survive childbirth. By God’s grace, Maristela gave birth to the twins and the doctor advised her not to breastfeed them because her heart condition medication would have dire side effects on the twins’ health. She was advised to put the twins on formula; an expense that was beyond her family’s financial reach. Neighbours and well-wishers would offer her a little cow’s milk, which she diluted and fed to her severely underweight babies. They also gave her a few old cloths to keep her babies warm, along with some food so that Maristela and her two older children could have one meal a day. Her expensive heart medication drained the family’s resources so much that Maristela’s husband abandoned his family, leaving them under the care of her mother who had no income. Maristela’s family survived one day at a time because of the compassion of their neighbours, who eventually informed the local church of their situation. When we met Maristela, she did not know much about the Mums and Babies program, yet she was so full of hope that the God who had sustained her life and the life of her children was able to send her the help she needed. Today, through nutritional support, Maristela is responding well to her medication and, at 11 months old, Pendo and Amani have gained the necessary weight to enable them to achieve significant development milestones. The local church has also supported Maristela in opening a small business, and she is now able to feed her family three meals a day.