The King who Brings Peace

Intentionality means teaching as we walk

Daily Devotional: INTENTIONALITY MEANS TEACHING AS WE WALK The Home Is the Classroom and discipleship is a daily meal. Read Deuteronomy 6:4-8 My home is holy ground. We don’t just make Sunday visits to God — we walk with Him. I will teach as we sit, as we walk, as we lie down, and as we rise. The Word is not an event in my house; it is the atmosphere. _This is true parenting._ “Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.” Deuteronomy 6:7 NIV We don’t go to school to learn parenting. Parenting _is_ the school. Moses never said, “Take your children to church once a week for spiritual formation.” He said: do it when you sit, when you walk, when you lie down, and when you get up. That’s four times a day. That’s all day. God designed discipleship to happen daily. The home is the first church. The dinner table is the first altar. The car ride is the first classroom. Bedtime prayers are the first theology lessons. Many parents wait for a “holy moment” to teach their children. But Moses says the holy moments are hidden in the ordinary ones. You gain parenting experience _while_ you parent — in real time, with real issues, using real Scripture. The problem is we separate “spiritual time” from “normal life.” Yet God doesn’t. He wants the Word in the kitchen when the porridge burns. He wants the Word in the taxi in a traffic jam. He wants the Word at bedtime when fear creeps in. If we only speak of God at church, our children will think He only lives at church. But if we speak of God while we walk, they learn He walks with us. Intentionality doesn’t mean long sermons. It means short, repeated truths dropped into normal life. A 30-second truth at breakfast beats a 30-minute lecture once a month. Your words about God, dropped daily into the routine of life, will shape the hardest heart. But it won’t happen in one Sunday. It happens on Monday morning, Tuesday evening, Wednesday on the road… daily. Prayer Lord, forgive me for making faith a Sunday event instead of a daily environment. Open my eyes to see the “road moments” You have already given me. Put Your Word on my tongue when we sit, when we walk, when we lie down, and when we rise. Let my home be a place where You are named, known, and loved. Help me to disciple daily. In Jesus’ name, Amen. By Rev. Joshua Ssali Ssalongo

Intentionality begins with God's Word

Daily Devotional INTENTIONALITY BEGINS WITH GOD’S WORD You can’t Impress What Hasn’t First Impressed You Read: Deuteronomy 6:4-9 Yesterday, we began with a question about experience! Parenting, in particular, is a special case. As soon as a child is placed in your arms, you are automatically on duty. The first thought that comes to mind is the nurturing we received. Experience is important; companies won’t hire you without it. However, God calls us to parent without a trial period. “These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down, and when you get up.” Deuteronomy 6:6-7 NIV So, where do we draw our experience from? Today’s text draws our attention to a unique approach! “Impress them on the children…” Before you can impress it on them, it has to be part of you! So the question is, what is it in you that you want your children to pick up? Do not rush to teach your children first. It has to start with you, and then you transfer it to them. To impress is not to direct or force (enforce); rather, someone should admire or be drawn to what they see! When our children take it to the street in protest, it is that spirit impressed on them that rises up within them! Be intentional in every move you make because someone is observing. You cannot give what you don’t possess, and you cannot impress what has not impressed you! Please note: a father who does not sit with the Word cannot effectively shape a son with the Word. Similarly, a mother who avoids Scripture cannot cultivate children who revere it. Intentional parenting involves heart saturation rather than mere behavior modification. Many individuals tend to parent reactively rather than from revelation, influenced by culture instead of Christ, and guided by their upbringing instead of the transformative power of the Word. Dear parent, let this serve as your guide: I am not parenting out of panic but from the Word. What I hold in my heart will influence my home. My children will come to know God because I know Him. Prayer; Father, forgive me for trying to teach what I haven’t first treasured. I confess I’ve parented from emptiness. Today, write Your commands on my heart before I speak them aloud. Let Your Word dwell in me richly so it flows from me naturally. I don’t need experience — I need You. Impress me so I may impress them. In Jesus’ name, Amen. Action Point: Read: Deuteronomy 6:4-9 aloud and slowly absorb everything in it. By Rev Joshua Ssali Ssalongo

Parenting with Intentionality

Daily DEVOTIONAL: PARENTING WITH INTENTIONALITY Monday 20th April 2026 “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.” `Proverbs 22:6 NIV` Many employers will demand experience before considering any new recruit. A minimum of 3 years is often required. But how about parenting? Where do we go to gain experience? During weddings, people receive a `permit to practice` marriage and all its components — with the assumption that they are ready and good to go. No internship. No probation. Yet overnight, two people become husband and wife, and soon after, mother and father. What about the young mothers — and fathers? Though not many fathers seem to know their role! Society trains us for careers but assumes we will figure out parenting. We prepare for exams, not for the exam of raising souls. Yet God never sends us without equipping us. Parenting is not about perfection or prior experience. It is about intentionality under the guidance of the Promise Keeper. This week we shall look at five aspects of parenting that we can employ, have some action points, and also we can share with others in our reach. PRAYER Dear Lord, You trusted us with children before we felt ready. Forgive us for parenting by accident instead of by intention. Please teach us to hide Your Word in our hearts so we can impress it on theirs. Make our homes altars where Your name is honored. In Jesus’ name, Amen. ACTION STEP This week, choose one verse to memorize as a family. By Rev Joshua Ssali

Bwogoberera Omubiri Ojja Kufa

Deuteronomy 28:14-35, Romans 8:12-17

New Life in Christ

Daily Devotion Theme: New Life in Christ Read: Ezekiel 37:6-14; Romans 6:4-11 “…We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life…” (Romans 6:4) One sponsorship organization was registering children for sponsorship, and the selection criteria required that the child be a total orphan. A woman registered her child, claiming that the father had passed away. Years later, the woman showed up at the organization’s secretariat asking for permission for the child to go and bury the father. “We thought the child was an orphan!” said the officer. “No,” responded the woman, “kuluno yafiridde Ddala!”—literally meaning, “This time he actually categorically died!” Someone once said, too many Christians are 'betweeners:’ they live between deception and truth, Egypt and Canaan, saved but never satisfied; they live between Good Friday and Easter, believing in the Cross but not entering into the power and glory of the Resurrection. When Christ died, we died with Him; when He was raised, we were raised to newness of life with Him. This reflects our new position in Christ. Christ not only died for sin, but He also died unto sin (6:10). That is, He broke the power of sin. A true Christian is dead to sin, while the unsaved person remains a slave of sin (Eph 2:1-3). God promises to breathe (Holy Spirit) into us the breath of a new life that gives us the power to die to sin and live a transformed life (New life). In Christ, we don’t partially die to sin; we completely die to sin because sin has no power over us. It's no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me (Galatians 2:20). As you pray, ask God to breathe on you a new life in Christ Jesus, the power to overcome sin, in Jesus’ name. Amen. By Rev. Godfrey Kyome