The Blog | David Anane Nyarko (PapaDavidSnr)

Faith · Letting Go

The Past Doesn't Need Your Permission to Move On — It Just Needs You to Stop Looking Back

There is a particular kind of grief in watching someone destroy themselves by refusing to leave a season God already closed. Lot's wife was not judged for what Sodom had done to her — she was undone by what she could not stop doing to herself. One glance back turned a woman walking toward rescue into a monument standing still.

Most of us will never stand on a literal plain outside a burning city. But we know the glance. The scroll back through old messages. The rehearsal of an argument that ended years ago. The refusal to let a closed door stay closed. Grace does not ask you to forget your past — it asks you to stop negotiating with it.

If you are walking forward today and still find your neck turning, this is your reminder: don't look back, don't turn back. The road ahead was never as safe as it is now.

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From the book Remember Lot's Wife — Don't Look Back, Don't Turn Back.

The Prophetic · Discernment

Your Dreams Are Not Accidents — They Are Appointments You Keep Sleeping Through

Joseph dreamed in a household that mocked him for it. Daniel dreamed in a palace built to erase his identity. Peter dreamed on a rooftop, hungry and confused, right before God expanded his understanding of who belonged at the table. Scripture does not treat dreams as noise the mind makes to pass the night — it treats them as one of the ways heaven schedules a meeting.

The tragedy for many believers is not that God has stopped speaking through dreams and visions. It's that we've stopped keeping a record, stopped asking for interpretation, stopped testing what we receive against the Word. A dream unexamined is an appointment missed.

You don't need to chase mysticism to take this seriously. You need discipline: write it down, hold it up to Scripture, and ask the Holy Spirit for understanding before you ask anyone else for their opinion.

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From the book Prophetic Dreams and Visions — Understanding, Interpreting, and Walking in the Prophetic Dimension.

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Marriage · Covenant

Stop Fighting Each Other. Start Fighting for Each Other.

Every marriage under pressure reaches a fork in the road, and most couples don't realize they've taken the wrong path until years later. One path treats conflict as evidence that you married the wrong person. The other treats conflict as the moment your covenant asked you to prove it was real.

I've sat across from couples who were brilliant at winning arguments and terrible at protecting their marriage. Pride does not care who is technically right; it only cares about being declared the winner, even if the marriage becomes the casualty.

The greatest battle in your marriage was never against the person across the table from you. It has always been for the covenant the two of you made — and covenants are worth fighting for, not fighting against.

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From the book Fighting for Your Marriage, Not In It.

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Faith · Trust

The Ground That Doesn't Believe in the Seed Will Never Feed From What It Grows

Even Jesus, walking in perfect authority, was limited in what He could do in His own hometown — not because His power changed, but because their unbelief did. That should sober every one of us. Belief is not a passive feeling; it is the soil that either receives or rejects everything planted in it.

I've watched people pray for breakthroughs they were unconsciously blocking — not through sin, but through quiet, practiced disbelief in the very blessing they were asking for. You can't out-pray a heart that has already decided the answer is no.

Faith, honor, and trust are not decorations on top of a relationship with God and with people. They are the mechanism through which blessing actually moves. Rebuild the belief, and watch what starts to flow again.

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From the book What You Don't Believe Cannot Bless You.

Prayer · Intimacy

Prayer Was Never Meant to Be a Ritual. It Was Always Meant to Be a Relationship.

Somewhere along the way, many of us learned to pray the way we recite a password — the same words, the same order, expected to unlock the same door. And then we wonder why it starts to feel hollow. Prayer that has lost its relationship has kept its form and lost its life.

Intimacy with God is not built in the five-minute recitations before bed. It's built in the unhurried, sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes silent conversations where you actually wait to hear something back. "Be still, and know that I am God" is not a suggestion for the spiritually advanced — it is an instruction for anyone tired of talking at God instead of with Him.

If your prayer life has started to feel like duty, that's not a sign to quit. It's a sign to go deeper — back toward the relationship the ritual was always meant to protect.

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From the book Prayer and Intimacy with God.

Leadership · Inner Work

Before You Lead a Team, a Ministry, or a Movement — You Must First Conquer Yourself

The most dangerous threat to any leader's future is rarely the competitor, the critic, or the circumstance. It's the untreated wound they carry into every room they walk into. Insecurity dressed as ambition. Unhealed pride dressed as vision. An enemy within will always sabotage what an enemy outside could never touch.

I have watched gifted, called people build platforms they were not yet whole enough to carry — and watched the cracks in their character eventually become the story, instead of the calling. Leadership does not exempt you from inner work. It demands it.

If you are building something right now — a family, a business, a ministry — the most important renovation isn't happening on the platform. It's happening in the private, unseen war for your own character.

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From the book Enemy Within — Overcoming the Inner Battles That Sabotage Great Leadership.