October 2025 Theme: Divine Assistance To Re-strategise

Re-strategise simply means to form a new strategy, where strategy can be defined as a general plan or set of plans intended to achieve something, especially over a long period. Other words for re-strategise are: redesign, remodel, remake, reshape, restyle, reform, re-organise, restructure, recast, etc.

It is needful to re-strategise for a number of reasons: To find better and easier ways of doing whatever one is doing. To achieve more than what was previously obtainable. To replace a previous strategy which might be ineffective, etc.

Companies, businesses, organisations, governments, charities, individuals and even ministries re-strategise as necessary in order to perform better and either gain more profits or at least remain operational.

Without making continuous efforts to re-strategise, one will leave their lives or enterprise to chance. Things might continue to go right by luck, and things might go wrong by default, as all other factors in life keep changing. It is necessary to keep tweaking things here and there, identify what to remain, what to repair and what to replace, in order to achieve continuous better performance.

While it is good for individuals, companies, corporations, governments and also ministries to re-strategise for better performance, there is nothing comparable to a re-strategy that is arranged for a man by God. Such that ministries in particular need to seek the face and mind of God for new ideas and new practices that can make them perform better and become more effective.

The bible tells us how Joshua and his men first engaged the people of Ai in battle. They did not ask God for what to do. They misjudged the strength of their enemy. They did not have a good knowledge of their stand with God. They went to fight ill-prepared, and lost. For the first time, the Israelites turned their backs to their enemies ran away from battle, they even lost 36 men (Joshua 7:1-5).

When Joshua asked God why they suffered such an ordeal, which was contrary to what God promised him (Joshua 1: 5). God revealed to him the source of their ineffectiveness in battle. When that source was resolved, God then gave Joshua the new strategy to employ in order to succeed in the re-match battle against Ai, and for their fear to continue gripping the surrounding nations around them (Joshua 7: 6-26).

Instead of Joshua’s initial strategy of engaging Ai with only 3000 men, God asked him to take all the men of war with him, about 30,000 men were chosen. He was asked to divide the men into two groups. One party would lie in ambush behind the city, and the other party with him would attack Ai head-on.

The party with Joshua were to pretend as if they were retreating from the men of Ai as it happened before, in order to draw all the men out of the city. Joshua was to then give a signal of raising up his spear to the ambush party to overthrow the city and set it on fire. This strategy worked effectively as planned, as it was designed by God (Joshua 8:1-29).

In this month and even beyond, the Lord Jesus will assist us to re-strategise. The Lord will help us to get better at what we are doing for Him and for ourselves. He will help us to tweak and re-jig our operations. He will help us to identify what to remain, what to repair and what to replace. He will correct our past mistakes. He will help us to improve on our areas of inefficiency. He will make us more successful and more impactful. He will grant us better insight and revelation to make what we are doing easier and more rewarding. May these be our portion, not just this month, but onwards in Jesus mighty name.