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Deuteronomy 31:6
2026-05-05
Deuteronomy 31:6 “Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.” (KJV)

Do you feel as if you’re fighting alone?
Though you may feel like it, you are not alone. Actually, if you are faithful to prayer and study, you are growing stronger in the Lord every day. As you progress, the information is weightier, and the tests get harder. It’s like going through school. You’ve heard it quoted, “New levels, new devils.” In spiritual warfare, it is true. However, it really doesn’t matter whether the devils are new or whether the devils are old. You know they exist and the devil has specifically and strategically assigned them to your life. Remember, you are not alone.
Isaiah 43:2 When you face stormy seas I will be there with you with endurance and calm; you will not be engulfed in raging rivers. If it seems like you’re walking through fire with flames licking at your limbs, keep going; you won’t be burned. (TVT)
You don’t have to be afraid because of your desire to grow in your understanding of how the enemy works. You don’t have to say, “I will not pray those kinds of prayers”. You don’t have to shy away from studying what the Bible says about the enemy because you don’t want the devil to attack you. He’s going to attack you, anyway.
1 Peter 5:8 Most importantly, be disciplined and stay on guard. Your enemy the devil is prowling around outside like a roaring lion, just waiting and hoping for the chance to devour someone. (TVT)
Since you know you are under attack, you might as well prepare for the battle and arm yourself; put on the full armor of God! The greatest thing you have going for you is knowing this is not your battle, it is the Lord’s. You are not fighting by yourself; He is fighting with you. The Lord God has promised to never leave you nor forsake you. When the enemy tries to make you feel like God has left you; He has not. He is right there (Hebrews 13:5, Deuteronomy 31:6). Always remember, just like the devil is seeking you, the Lord is seeking you as well.
2 Chronicles 16:9a For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. (KJV)
Continue to grow in God and allow Him to elevate you. Stand on the word of the Lord and feel His strength because you are never alone.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I thank You for Your still small voice. You let me know even though I feel like I’m all by myself; I am not. I repent for praying prayers and speaking words over my life that don’t reflect You are right here with me. I thank You for allowing me to see what the enemy is doing. I know it is the devil because Your word tells me I don’t fight against flesh and blood. People are not my issue. I thank You, Father, for an intensified revelation of who the devil is and a greater understanding of how he works. I especially thank You for reassuring me of Your constant presence and protection. I am not necessarily a bigger target; I am a target. You created me to worship You. The devil’s job is to wreak havoc on the earth and to pull me to hell with him. Whether he uses an arrow or whether he uses a bazooka, You are Jehovah Nissi. You are with me and You are my banner. I know the Holy Spirit will stand up inside me. I know You cover me. I’m excited about what You are teaching me and the understanding I have gained about this warfare. I’m excited about what You are doing in my life. I’m excited about what You are teaching me and the training I am getting. I am inspired by what You are showing me about me and what You are showing me about You…
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Jude 24
2026-05-04
Jude 24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, (KJV)
Are you using your liberty as an excuse to sin?
Take a moment and rejoice. The Lord can keep you from falling. The Lord can present you without fault; and He is excited to do it. When you think about the fact that He can keep you from falling, do you wish He would keep you from sinning as well? The thing is, whether or not you sin, is your choice. You have to decide whether you will please God with your choice, before you make it.
Joshua 24:15a If you decide that you’re not willing to serve Him, then today is the day for you to choose whom you will serve, (TVT)
Even though you have accepted salvation, you can choose to do something that is not pleasing to the Lord. Do you make that choice because you believe He is going to keep you from falling into the pits of hell? Do you rest on the promise that in the end, He is going to present you faultless? Salvation means all the sins you have committed or ever will commit are washed in the blood; it also means God is does not look at your sin or anyone else’s because He only sees the blood of Jesus. Does that give you the freedom to do whatever you want to do? Is that really the Christian life you want to live? Should you evaluate your heart and make sure Jesus is truly lord over your life?
Romans 6:1-2 So what do we do, then? Do we persist in sin so that God’s kindness and grace will increase? 2 What a terrible thought! We have died to sin once and for all, as a dead man passes away from this life. So how could we live under sin’s rule a moment longer? (TPT)
Because grace abounds, do you sin because you know Jesus covered you under His blood? Absolutely not. Take the responsibility for your choices and your actions, value what Jesus did for you, and choose to live a life that glorifies God.
Deuteronomy 30:19-20 I am now giving you the choice between life and death, between God’s blessing and God’s curse, and I call heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Choose life. (GNT)
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I thank You for sending Jesus. I thank You for washing me in His blood. I know when You look at me; You don’t see the sin I committed; You see the blood that was shed for me. I thank You Father, because of Jesus, I won’t end up in the pit of hell. I thank You because You will present me faultless, no matter what I’ve done. The blood of Jesus covers me. I repent, for every time I used my freedom, bought by Jesus’ Blood, to live an unholy and ungodly life. I purpose to use my forgiveness as the foundation for a life that honors and glorifies You. I owe You my life for what Jesus did, and I choose You every day. I am thankful for His death. I appreciate being washed. I live with absolute and continual gratitude and I give You praise…
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Matthew 24:42
2026-05-03
Matthew 24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. (KJV)
Are you watching?
As things happen, you hear people saying, “this is a sign of the times”. A statement made by people from hundreds of years ago until today is “Jesus is soon to return.” People will continue to make that statement a hundred years from now, if the Lord has not yet returned. The thing is, you are to watch. You can read the signs of the times as you watch what is going on in the world. You can also find some of them listed in Mark 13:3-13. These signs will still not give you the exact day when Jesus will return, they will give you understanding about what is going on. The Bible gives you information to help you discern between natural realm and the spiritual realm; it will also teach you what to do in response to what you see. In Christ, watching is not a passive activity; it is active. You are to watch, and you are to pray, study and seek the Lord as well. Then, through your conversations with the Lord, you will continue to be where God wants you to be and continue to do what God wants you to do.
Luke 12:35-38 “Be prepared for action at a moment’s notice. 36 Be like servants anticipating their master’s return from a wedding celebration. They are ready at a moment’s notice to unlock and open the door for him. 37 What great joy is ahead for those who stay awake and wait for their Master’s return! He himself will become their servant and wait on them. 38 He may appear at midnight or even later, but what great joy for the awakened ones whenever he comes”! (TPT)
You want to be alert and prepared, in the spirit and in the natural, because you don’t know when Jesus is returning. You maintain the correct posture by watching.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I thank You for calling me to watch. I repent for not being as diligent as I needed to be. I thank You for a new revelation about watching. Watching not only helps me to be aware of the enemy’s devices, it is also a sign of my maturity. Watching helps me see what’s going on in the world, and in my life. Watching allows me to align myself with what I see and be strategic, just like the enemy is. Watching puts me in a place where the enemy can’t catch me unaware because I am sensitive to Your prompting. You are teaching me and giving me revelation. You are guiding me and the unction You provide allows me to understand what I see in the natural and what is going on in the spirit realm. It allows me to adjust accordingly. Thank You…
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Matthew 24:46
2026-05-02
Matthew 24:46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. (KJV)
Are you working as if Jesus is coming today?
Have you ever had the responsibility of doing something and you thought you had a lot of time? Did you get right on it or did you lose track of time? Were you ready when the assignment was due, or were you scrambling? Do you tell yourself and others you work better under pressure? Wouldn’t it be a blessing if you are not scrambling when Jesus returns? Are there choices you make because you think you’ll have time to get it right; you know God will forgive you; you can make a better choice the next time, etc. The truth is, you don’t know when Jesus is returning.
Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. (KJV)
If you give it some thought, is that how you want to handle the assignment God has given you? Isn’t what you really want is, whenever He returns, He finds you being the servant He called you to be; doing the work He created you to do. You don’t want to be found waiting for another opportunity, or busy doing something that doesn’t give God glory.
John 9:4 I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. (NKJV)
God does not run on our system of day and night, nor of time on a 24-hour or work hours clock. As long as Jesus has not returned, it is day and you should be at work.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I thank You for calling me to a place where I understand my need to be diligent in the work You have assigned to me. Because of Your grace and mercy, I got another chance and I no longer live as if I control time. Your word says I do not know what will happen tomorrow. Which means I will not put off for tomorrow what You have purposed for me to do today. Thank You for holding me accountable and not letting me get away with the excuses I have made in the past. I ask You to forgive me again, even as I think about the explanations I made to myself and others. Father, I want to do the work You assigned to me on Your agenda. I am Your servant and I want to be found faithful. I thank You for the call to serve You and the ability You gave me to work efficiently and effectively. Father, please continue to get my attention when I am busy doing other things; keep me from being distracted by what I want; and help me stay on task until Jesus’ return. Thank You for training me…
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John 15:10
2026-05-01
John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. (KJV)
Are you abiding?
To be successful in this training, using the gifts God has given you for His glory, you must remain stable and fixed in a relationship of love that endures with God all your days; you must abide. Abiding gives you victory over the attacks of the enemy. When you think about abiding; what definition comes to mind? If one does not readily come to you, here are a few:

To act or accept under a rule or decision.
To comply with, to obey, to stick to, to standby.

There is another definition that clearly identifies what God requires “to endure without yielding”.
Hebrews 10:36 For you have need of patient endurance [to bear up under difficult circumstances without compromising], so that when you have carried out the will of God, you may receive and enjoy to the full what is promised. (AMP)
God’s instruction to you for your success in Him is to abide. No matter what you are going through, no matter how you feel, you abide in Him, without yielding. You should not deviate from the assigned path, not looking to the left or to the right. You are to keep His commandments even when it’s not comfortable, even when you would rather do what you want to do.
Proverbs 4:26-27 Take care you don’t stray from the straight path, the way of truth, and you will safely reach the end of your road. 27 Do not veer off course to the right or the left; step away from evil, and leave it behind. (TVT)
By enduring, without yielding and keeping His commandments, you abide in His love.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I thank You for the opportunity to evaluate whether or not I am abiding in Your love. You have shown me I must be faithful to Your will and commands if I am to use the gifts You gave me effectively. If I don’t, I cannot be victorious against the enemy. I know sometimes my flesh wants to win, and I want to do what I want to do. I even try to give myself excuses for what I do. Please forgive me. Father, knowing I must endure without yielding, has brought me to my knees. It rings in my heart. It ignites in my spirit. It lets me know there is nothing else I can do. I will cling to You. I must allow Your love to strengthen me and keep me on the straight path. Father, continue to guide my feet. I thank You for doing it…
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Lamentations 3:25
2026-04-30
Lamentations 3:25 The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. (KJV)
Are you able to celebrate God in tough times?
In church, the Pastor says, “God is good all the time”. Then the congregation responds, “And all the time God is good.” Christian use this phrase across denominational lines. We have used it which such regularity, it just rolls off the tongue with little thought. If you stop, while you are dealing with some hardship, trial or personal issue, do you still say with joy “And all the time God is good.” Jeremiah, the prophet that is attributed from writing Lamentations, wrote almost an entire book of the bible as a passionate expression of grief and sorrow. He filled it with poems about how sad he was about the current state of Israel. In the middle of his tears, he took time to reflect on the fact that no matter how bad things were, they could be worse. The world would say he had an epiphany. I believe it was a rhema word from the Lord, a revelation. God is good to those who wait.
Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. (KJV)
Psalms 27:14 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord. (KJV)
Not only did Jeremiah get the revelation on the blessings of waiting, Isaiah and David did as well. Hopefully, you will get it too. Don’t jump ship in the hard times. Don’t throw in the towel and get a new god. Look for God’s blessings at all times, especially when it seems like He is not blessing you; or He is not answering your prayers; or you can’t see Him at work. Ask the Lord to reveal to you what is really happening in your life and what He is trying to teach you.
James 1:2-4 Don’t run from tests and hardships, brothers and sisters. As difficult as they are, you will ultimately find joy in them; if you embrace them, your faith will blossom under pressure and teach you true patience as you endure. And true patience brought on by endurance will equip you to complete the long journey and cross the finish line—mature, complete, and wanting nothing. (TVT)
Recognize the enemy is always on his job. He does not want you to live your life growing in the things of God. He certainly does not want you to fulfill the purpose God has for you. Don’t let him distract you; then you will not spend time murmuring and complaining. Confuse the enemy with celebration!!!
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I thank You for teaching me the purpose of waiting and for helping me understand better how You work. You have an assignment for me. You gave me the good and perfect gifts I need to fulfill the assignment. However, there are some things I didn’t think about. I repent for acting like I have the complete picture. I don’t know how I will do what You have called me to do. I don’t know who else You chose to work with me. I need to learn to use Your gifts. Learning will take trial and error, which means mistakes and difficulties. The vision will come; I must wait for it. I am sorry for getting in a hurry. No matter where my training exercises come from, You or what You allow the enemy to do, You are the teacher. You are in control. It is just a test You have designed for me. You must develop the gifts You have given me, and that happens through trials. I know the race is not given to the swift, nor to the strong. It’s given to the one who endures to the end. I want to be one of those who endures to the end. Help me endure hardness as a good soldier to please You, the One Who chose me to be Your soldier…

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John 2:25
2026-04-29
1 John 2:25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. (KJV)
Do you believe God’s promise?
What is a promise?

A promise is a commitment by someone.
As a noun, a promise is a declaration assuring that one will or will not do something.
As a verb, it means to commit oneself by a guarantee to do or give.
A capacity for good, similar to a value that is to be realized in the near future.

As a child, you quickly accepted a promise as unshakable and true; as you got older, sometimes the concept of a promise waned. As an adult, because of life experiences, you may have become even less likely to believe promises. How often does your reason for trusting have to be challenged before you don’t trust anymore? How many times do your expectations have to go unmet? When you reach your limit, you might replace your ability to believe in some future activity with what you may refer to as “common sense” and “pragmatism”. Therefore, what do you do with the promises God has made? Here are just a few of them for you to think about.
Isaiah 41:10 ‘Do not fear [anything], for I am with you; Do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, be assured I will help you; I will certainly take hold of you with My righteous right hand [a hand of justice, of power, of victory, of salvation].’ (AMP)
Matthew 11:28-29 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. (NKJV)
Deuteronomy 31:6 “Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble in dread before them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not fail you or abandon you.” (AMP)
Hebrews 13:5 Don’t be obsessed with money but live content with what you have, for you always have God’s presence. For hasn’t he promised you, “I will never leave you, never! And I will not loosen my grip on your life!” (The Passion Translation)
Don’t allow your experiences with human beings to dictate your trust in the promises of God. The quality of your life depends on whether you really believe them or not.
2 Corinthians 1:20 For as many as are the promises of God, in Christ they are [all answered] “Yes.” So through Him we say our “Amen” to the glory of God. (Amplified Bible)
It is not enough to say you believe because you are a Christian. If you believe God’s promises, then you have hope, expectation, and excitement. If you do not, you function from a place of cynicism, pessimism, and depression. You chose how you will live your life based on your belief in God’s promises.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I’ve made promises I did not keep, and I have had promises made to me that were not kept. I celebrate You because You are the Promise Keeper. I’m grateful You are not a man; You don’t lie. I don’t have to worry if You will forget, or get sidetracked. I have no doubt You will fulfill all the promises You made. I have hope and it gives me joy. I repent when I get heavy and feel discouraged because someone did not keep a promise made to me. Thank You for Your word. It comforts and assures me You love me, have a plan for my life and You will take care of what I need. I bless You! The promise for me to be with You in glory is yes, and it is so. I thank You for every promise and I hold on to them every day of my life…

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Philippians 4:1
2026-04-28
Philippians 4:1 Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stay true to the Lord. I love you and long to see you, dear friends, for you are my joy and the crown I receive for my work. (NLT)
Do you take the time to celebrate those you are mentoring?
Sometimes, though you may not want to admit it, you want to get a pat on your back from your boss, teacher, mentor, etc. As an adult, the certificate you get for completing your orientation becomes something you put in a frame on your wall. It has absolutely no monetary value, though you are still proud of it. As you train, mentor and encourage others, don’t forget to tell them how grateful to God you are because of them. They help you complete your assignment. When they progress and mature in the things of God, take the same posture Paul took.
Philippians 1:3-5 Whenever you cross my mind, I thank my God for you and for the gift of knowing you. 4 My spirit is lightened with joy whenever I pray for you (and I do constantly) 5 because you have partnered with me to spread the gospel since the first day I preached to you. (TVT)
Those you mentor should be a source of joy to you because of their faith and affection towards the Lord. They add to the stars on your crown of honor in the day you give an account of the work you have done. How do you know when you have progressed in your training? When the thoughts about the people whose lives you have touched, bring you joy and when you see those you have touched are touching the lives of others.
2 Timothy 2:2 You have heard me teach things that have been confirmed by many reliable witnesses. Now teach these truths to other trustworthy people who will be able to pass them on to others. (NLT)
Because you love them, take the time to tell them; it will help in their growth as well as yours.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, thank You for those You have placed in my life for me to mentor. I repent for treating it as a job sometimes. I also thank You for reminding me I must speak with love, speak life, and give truth with grace. Mostly, I am thankful for Your reminder that mentoring is not all I need to do. It is my responsibility to tell them how much I love them; how much I appreciate them; how much I am encouraged by them; how grateful I am that they listen to what You give me to say; and how grateful I am that they are staying in the faith. They received the words You placed in me for them. They believe You sent me. They are the stars in my crown, and I thank You, Father…

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Titus 2:13
2026-04-27
Titus 2:13 Everyone must welcome with open arms the outrageously blessed expectation; Jesus is what the world was waiting for! He radiates the brilliant intent of God, engineered by his greatness to rescue the world in him. (TMB)
Do you have an anticipation of Christ’s return?
The early church faced constant persecution, and life for a Christian under Roman rule was difficult. The Romans looked upon Christians as traitors, persecuted them, and put them to death. Even though they lived under those adverse conditions, the hope of the coming of the Lord lifted the believers’ morale. “Maranatha!” became the common greeting of the oppressed believers, replacing the Jewish greeting shalom. You are not being persecuted like they were then. Still, you should always look in anticipation and excitement for the return of Jesus.
Titus 2:13 Watch for His return; expect the blessed hope we all will share when our great God and Savior, Jesus the Anointed, appears again. (TVT)
When Jesus returns, you can live with Him in heaven. Eternity in heaven is the foundation of your hope. Until that time, while you are still on earth, you show the world who Jesus is through the life you live.
Colossians 1:27 Living within you is the Christ who floods you with the expectation of glory! This mystery of Christ, embedded within us, becomes a heavenly treasure chest of hope filled with the riches of glory for his people, and God wants everyone to know it! (TPT)
Your life should bring others the hope of glory. You should stop to think about Jesus’ return from time to time.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (KJV)
If you don’t stop to think about Jesus’ return, the importance of it, the amazing manifestation, and all of its majesty, won’t seem real and you will lose hope.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I thank You for reminding me I should look with anticipation for Jesus’ return. I repent for not thinking about it more often, which diminishes the reality. I need to reflect on that great day. In doing so, I am continually enriched, inspired, and excited. It is my heart’s desire, Heavenly Father, to live a life that celebrates my hope. I pray the eyes of my understanding would continue to be enlightened, and my relationship with You would cause me to be transformed into Your image more and more every day. Please help me in these last days, to be always ready, ever vigilant, counted worthy, and always watching for the glorious return of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, in Whose Name I pray. Thank You for Your wonderful grace and keeping power, Abba-Father…

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Timothy 4:8
2026-04-26
2 Timothy 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. (KJV)
Are you excited about your crown?
You go to work every day because on payday you want to get paid. You look forward to retirement, when you won’t have to work, and you will still receive pay. You probably took the job based on the benefits attached to it, salary being a very important aspect. You also get excited that the longer you are an employee, the more you make. What happens when there is an issue with the company you work for? They could ask you to take a pay cut. They could lay you off. You could end up not getting the retirement you worked for. If you see your position with the Lord accurately, you work for Him.
1 Corinthians 3:9a For we are fellow workmen (joint promoters, laborers together) with and for God; (AMPC)
If you continue to work diligently, serving the Lord, no matter what you have to endure, the benefits and the reward will never change. You never have to worry about an issue with the company. He will never lay you off. Isn’t it a blessing to know the God you serve will do what He has promised?
Hebrews 10:23 So let us seize and hold fast and retain without wavering the hope we cherish and confess and our acknowledgement of it, for He Who promised is reliable (sure) and faithful to His word. (AMPC)
Isn’t it also a great blessing that the Father does not base your benefit on the time you have been on the job? Read the parable of the landowner in Matthew 20:1-16. Also, read the discussion Jesus had with the criminals as He hung on the cross in Luke 23:39-43. The Father has reserved a crown for you and for all those who remain in the faith as you wait for Jesus’ return.
James 1:12 Blessed [happy, spiritually prosperous, favored by God] is the man who is steadfast under trial and perseveres when tempted; for when he has passed the test and been approved, he will receive the [victor’s] crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. (AMP)
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I did nothing to earn my salvation. It is because of what You did for me, and I thank You. I repent for the times I took it for granted. You have promised I will be with You in glory. And if that was not enough, if I am a faithful servant, I can expect to wear a crown. It does not matter what title I have or don’t have. It does not matter how long or tough the road I have to travel. It does not matter what position I hold. It does not matter if I have to walk alone. It does not matter how many mistakes I made. What matters in my faithfulness to stay the course. You give the race to the one who endures to the end. I must continue to look, with expectancy, for Your return with my hope based on You. I know it is only because of Your grace I can remain, and I thank You for it…

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Matthew 24:45
2026-04-25
Matthew 24:45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? (KJV)
Are you a faithful and wise servant?
There are those who are great orators. They give you goose bumps with the fire and passion of their delivery. As they thunder out their sermons, you can get swept up. How much value is it to you if you can’t remember what the speaker said and your life has not changed.
Why is this important in warfare? Because you have to hear the word and change in response to what you heard.
Luke 8:8 Yet some of the seeds fell into good, fertile soil, and they grew and flourished until they produced more than a hundredfold harvest, a bumper crop. Then Jesus added, shouting out to all who would hear, “Listen with your heart and you will understand!” (TPT)
When the power of God changes you, it affects what you think, how you act, and what you say. The same power will rest on the words you speak to transform those who are listening to you.
1 Corinthians 2:4-5 And my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom [using clever rhetoric], but [they were delivered] in demonstration of the [Holy] Spirit [operating through me] and of [His] power [stirring the minds of the listeners and persuading them], 5 so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom and rhetoric of men, but on the power of God. (AMP)
As you continue on your journey with the Lord, you may get the opportunity to share the good news of the gospel of Jesus, or maybe just a word of life building encouragement, with someone. You may speak to a large, medium-sized or small group; or maybe it will be just one person. When that opportunity comes, what will you do? Will you be faithful to give the sincere meat of the word; will you inundate them with platitudes and spiritual slogans; or will you speak to their situation and call them from darkness to light? Sometimes you only get one opportunity to make a difference, don’t blow it.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I want to be a good steward over the gifts and the talents You have given me. I repent for any time that I mishandled Your gifts or used them for my benefit. I pray You keep me in line, and I will only use them for Your kingdom. I want to speak words that bring health and life. It does not matter to me if I speak before a great crowd or if I speak to only one. Filled with desire, I respond to Your call for discipleship by shaping my life according to Your word. It is not my goal to make someone feel good, nor for them to like me. My desire is to lift You up. If I am a good steward over the gifts, You gave me; You will be glorified, and not me. Father, I receive Your gifts humbly and gratefully. I commit to use them, according to Your will and command, to teach, guide, and instruct those You have assigned to me; sharing with them in love as I practice what I teach. I pray You get a return on Your investment in me…

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John 5:21
2026-04-24
1 John 5:21 We know that whoever Jesus is, as God’s son, we are. This knowledge defeats every image of our imagination that could possibly compete with the authentic likeness of our design! Darling children, distance yourselves from every substitute image, which is what idolatry is all about! (TMB, edited)
Do you have idols in your life?
Keeping yourself from idols would seem to be a simple thing to do. There are probably no statues, dolls, animal images etc. in your home. However, it is important to explore the idea of what an idol is, outside of aboriginal and witchcraft related images.
An idol is any person or thing that you give excessive devotion and/or reverence to. It is anything that replaces the one, true God.
Exodus 20:3 “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” (KJV)
In addition to worshiping people and things, you can also worship the activities you take part in. Just to be clear, any person (dead or alive), object (car, home, clothing, alcohol, drugs) or activity (job, ministry, hobby, computer, video games, pornography, sex) that you give a higher priority in your life to than your relationship with God is an idol.
Ephesians 5:15-17 Look carefully then how you walk! Live purposefully and worthily and accurately, not as the unwise and witless, but as wise (sensible, intelligent people), 16 Making the very most of the time [buying up each opportunity], because the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be vague and thoughtless and foolish, but understanding and firmly grasping what the will of the Lord is. (AMPC)
The devil’s ability to hide idols in your everyday life activities is a very subtle and extremely effective form of warfare. For Christians, those activities you do “for the Lord” can also take up such an extensive amount of your time. The time you spend on activities won’t leave you any to develop your relationship with the Lord. Your desire must be to spend time in worship and in prayer.
Psalm 27:4 One thing I have desired of the Lord, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, And to inquire in His temple. (NKJV)
The Lord Almighty will grant your desire. Also, in your time of enquiry, He will identify what your idols are, where your idols are, and deliver you from them.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I thank You for making me aware of my idols. There were things and people in my life I had placed before You without realizing it, and I repent. Thank You for pointing out activities I refused to break away from because I thought I needed them or I thought they were more important. I am sorry I held on to them as long as I did. Some of them were addictions in disguise that devoured me. Others were self-serving activities that were not as important as I thought, that consumed my time. Not only did You love me enough to identify what or who could keep me from worship, prayer, and study; You delivered me and I thank You. I know as I grow closer to You, You will continue to reveal things as You transform me into Your image. Father, I lay at Your altar and I submit to Your delivering power when You show me the hidden idols in my life. I honor You and I give You all reverence and authority. I know You have to destroy anything in my life that does not look like You and does not bring You glory. I also know I have to want to be delivered. I can’t hold on to idols in my heart, while my lips are saying take them away. Father, tie me to the altar just in case I start to move. Keep me close and help me live a fasted life, as I line up my mind, my heart, and my will with Yours. Please have Your way in my life and continue to show me those things in my life I would allow to take precedence over You…

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Revelation 12:11
2026-04-23
Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. (KJV)
Would you die for the faith?
The blood that Jesus shed saved you, washed you, and presents you as faultless before God. You can look at who you are and compare it to who you used to be. When you do, you will see your saved and transformed life through the blood of Jesus, as the Father does. He does not remember who you used to be.
1 Corinthians 6:10-11 Do not be misled. A lot of people stand to inherit nothing of God’s coming kingdom, including those whose lives are defined by sexual immorality, idolatry, adultery, sexual deviancy, theft, greed, drunkenness, slander, and swindling. 11 Some of you used to live in these ways, but you are different now; you have been washed clean, set apart, restored, and set on the right path in the name of the Lord Jesus, the Anointed, by the Spirit of our living God. (TVT)
It should excite you to list some things that have happened since salvation and how Jesus changed your life. This is your testimony. Please take a moment and fill in the blanks below. It is how you tell someone what the Lord has done for you.
You can say: I used to _
I used to struggle with
Now, I am saved because of the blood of the Lamb. I no longer ______________ and I have found peace.
Titus 3:3-7 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and wrong. We were slaves to passions and pleasures of all kinds. We spent our lives in malice and envy; others hated us and we hated them. 4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior was revealed, 5 he saved us. It was not because of any good deeds that we ourselves had done, but because of his own mercy that he saved us, through the Holy Spirit, who gives us new birth and new life by washing us. 6 God poured out the Holy Spirit abundantly on us through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that by his grace we might be put right with God and come into possession of the eternal life we hope for. (GNT)
Your testimony is what God has given you to make it through. The children of Israel used to set up altars when and where God performed miracles to help them remember what He had done. Your life is a monument to what God has done, can do, and will do. It’s how you overcome. Whenever and wherever you get the opportunity to talk about what God has done, take it. Never let anyone or anything stop you. In the days of the first church, Christians were martyred. They loved not their lives, even to death. There are places in the world where Christians are still being killed today and yet they live for God.
Acts 5:40 And they agreed with him, and when they had called for the apostles and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. 41 So they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name. 42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ. (NKJV)
You may never face a situation where saying you love God means death. However, because of what Jesus did for you, you should be willing.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I am an overcomer and I thank You. Thank You for Your Son, Jesus and His blood shed for me. Because of being washed in the Blood, not only do I have a testimony, I have testimonies. I don’t know if I will ever be in a situation where saying I love You will mean my physical death. However, I want to believe I will be able to say so, without pause. Even if I don’t have to die a physical death, I know You are calling me to die to my flesh every day. I repent for the days when my flesh wins. Help me live in You, and I will sacrifice my life for You. Father, Your love has sustained and kept me; without it, I would not have a testimony. I pray for strength, as I will give my testimony no matter what. I also pray my testimony will bring You glory and will bless the lives of others…

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John 3:16
2026-04-22
1 John 3:16 This is how we have discovered love’s reality: Jesus sacrificed his life for us. Because of this great love, we should be willing to lie down our lives for one another. (TPT)
Are you willing to give up your life to show the love of God?
Foreigner wrote a song entitled “I want to know what love is”. The unfortunate thing is, the group is not asking the right person. If they really want to know what love is and if they want someone to show them; they need to ask Jesus and look at His life. If you are also wondering, Jesus shows what genuine love is. Jesus is love personified. It is not enough to talk about love. It has to be demonstrated. Love is an action word. What actions did Jesus take? He gave up His deity and His throne in heaven, came to earth and lived as a man, and suffered and died the most humiliating death. He did all of this for a world who did not know or love Him.
John 3:16 For God expressed His love for the world in this way: He gave His only Son so that whoever believes in Him will not face everlasting destruction, but will have everlasting life. (TVT)
John 15:13 For the greatest love of all is a love that sacrifices all. And this great love is demonstrated when a person sacrifices his life for his friends. (TPT)
There is no greater expression of love. To perpetuate Jesus’ sacrifice and love, you also have to give up your life as you understand it. Not to die physically, though some have. You want to allow the Lord to realign your priorities. There will always be someone who wants to understand what love is, and there will always be a need for someone to show love until Jesus returns. Someone witnessed to you. Someone guided you and showed you the love of Christ. In order for you to do the same for someone else, you must be willing to sacrifice the life you mapped out and planned for yourself. Be willing to give up your perfect, wonderful life and allow God to own it. Be willing to alter your career choice for the choice that God designed for you in order to save souls. Every day, you will come across someone who needs you. He/she may or may not know the Lord. At that moment, sharing Christ may not be on your agenda. You may pass on the opportunity because you have an appointment, you are late for work; you have had a bad day; you are tired, etc. However, make the same affirmation over your life, Paul made.
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me. (AMPC)
Remember, when God owns your life, He sets your agenda. Choose what sacrifice you must make. It may be your time, your talent, your career, or your money. Whatever it is, be grateful for the chance and take it.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I thank You because I can say I know what love is. Jesus showed me. I am grateful I accepted Your invitation for salvation. I am also thankful for allowing You to rule and regulate my life. I am Your servant and I live in Your love. Thank You for the opportunity to show others what love is. I understand in order to love, in the purest sense, I have to give up my life. I repent for trying to hold on to it. With each day that passes, I get more excited about understanding what it means to be crucified with Christ. My life is not mine to govern. It is Yours to do with as You will. Use me and some lost man, woman, boy or girl might come to know Your love as well…

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Thessalonians 3:5
2026-04-21
2 Thessalonians 3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. (KJV)
Are you willing to leave your work undone?
Do you sometimes wish for the return of Christ? Do you want this earthy life to be over? Now those are tricky questions because your current relationship status, or something overwhelming you are dealing with at the moment, might drive the answers. Do you sometimes say, “If Jesus comes back right now; I will be with Him in glory and I won’t have to worry about this or anything else anymore”? You are not the only person who thought about this. Christians have been contemplating going to heaven since Christianity began. Look at how Paul addressed and answered these questions:
Philippians 1:21-23 My true life is the Anointed One, and dying means gaining more of him. 22–23 So here’s my dilemma: Each day I live means bearing more fruit in my ministry; yet I fervently long to be liberated from this body and joined fully to Christ. That would suit me fine, (TPT)
Of course, you want to be with the Lord, you want the pain and the fight against the enemy to be over. However, you also know the work God has called you to do is important.
Philippians 1:24-25 but the greatest advantage to you would be that I remain alive. So you can see why I’m torn between the two—I don’t know which I prefer. 25 Yet deep in my heart I’m confident that I will be spared so I can add to your joy and further strengthen and mature your faith. (TPT)
How many days did you ask God to show you your purpose, tell you His call on your life, increase the anointing on your life as you fulfill your destiny, etc.? Be willing to be patient for Jesus’ return. Let John 4:34 be your daily confession.
John 4:34 Jesus said to them, My food (nourishment) is to do the will (pleasure) of Him Who sent Me and to accomplish and completely finish His work. (AMPC)
It’s okay to want to be in heaven. There is peace and joy there, no more fighting, no more anguish, no more temptations to battle. Though that is a celebration waiting to be had, if you have not finished the work God has assigned to you; where is the celebration in that? Paul also had words because he held to his commitment.
2 Timothy 4:7-8a I have fought the good (worthy, honorable, and noble) fight, I have finished the race, I have kept (firmly held) the faith. 8 [As to what remains] henceforth there is laid up for me the [victor’s] crown of righteousness [for being right with God and doing right], which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me and recompense me on that [great] day (AMPC)
You want to touch all the people God has ordained for you to touch. You don’t want to leave your work undone. The lost, the wounded, the babes in Christ, etc., are your assignment. Allow the Lord, by the Holy Spirit, to direct your heart to keep the faith. Love those who need to hear your testimony as you wait patiently for Christ’s return. Then you will hear the Father say, “Well Done”.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, there are times when I want to come on home to be with You. Not a suicidal wish, just a selfish one. Thank You for reminding me if I have not finished my task, I must continue on. I must get through whatever I am dealing with. Those, who You have assigned to my life, need to hear my testimony, and the words of Your victory will snatch them out of the grip of the enemy. What a great revelation of purpose and living. I repent for acting like my life is just for me. I repent for wanting to leave my work undone. What if Jesus had done the same? My humanity and the desire not to struggle were the driving force behind those feelings. Even as I am praying, You are showing me; if I’m struggling, then I’m not resting in You. Help me rest, as I look with anticipation for the fulfillment of my purpose. I thank You…

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Romans 8:39
2026-04-20
Romans 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (KJV)
Do you feel all alone?
There is nothing in the heavens above nor under the earth, no creature, nor demonic influence that can separate you from the love of God. This is important to understand because the spiritual warfare you encounter in your everyday life, as a believer, is very real. The more mature in Christ you get, as you draw closer to the Lord, the more aware you will be. You will even begin to discern the tricks and traps of the enemy before he can spring them. Though you see him at work, you also have to know he won’t win. It is not you or any power or authority you have. It is the love of God and the power and authority He has.
Romans 8:31, 35-37 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. (NKJV)
There is no devil, no principality, or no power that can surpass the love God has for you. This is important to understand and believe because life can be overwhelming. You deal with things; situations happen in your life; and often you don’t understand why the things are happening, where the problems are coming from or what God is teaching you. The enemy will tell you lies. He wants to convince you God is angry about something you did or said, which caused Him to leave you. It is important for you to know the word of God for yourself and you can respond to the devil, just like Jesus did. It is written.
Matthew 28:20b And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age. (NLT)
This is one of the most important weapons you have in your arsenal to pull out in times of trouble. You say, “Though it may look like I am alone, or I may feel like I am alone, nothing can separate me from the love of God. I am not alone!”
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I thank You for the assurance that nothing can separate me from You. Your love holds me, binds me, and fights for me. I can hold on to You on those days when the enemy comes and tries to make me feel alone, forsaken, and lost. I know You are right there. I know You never moved. I repent for the time when my actions and my thoughts about my actions caused me to move. I could not or would not forgive myself, and I acted like You would not forgive me either. I saw myself as unworthy, as if I could possibly be worthy any other time. I give You praise, and I am grateful because You stopped me and called me back to You. You showed me how to get back on track and return to the place I left. You sent Jesus to die and rise again. Nothing can separate You from me, not even me. It makes me want to shout. It makes me want to sing. Thank You for reminding me of this truth. Thank You for giving this to me to use in my time of trouble. Hallelujah to Your Name!…

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Romans 5:5
2026-04-19
Romans 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. (KJV)
Do you have hope?
As a Christian, your hope fuels every moment, of every day, of your life. Sometimes people, who don’t know Christ or who are not running hard after Christ, evaluate your hope as foolish. Continue to live your life and walk in the hope of God. Your strength comes because you are not ashamed. It may seem irrational. It may even seem crazy. However, you know who covers, keeps, and sustains you.
1 Peter 3:14-15 But even if you happen to suffer for doing what is right, you will have the joyful experience of the blessing of God. And Don’t be intimidated or terrified by those who would terrify you. 15 But give reverent honor in your hearts to the Anointed One and treat him as the holy Master of your lives. And if anyone asks about the hope living within you, always be ready to explain your faith. (TPT)
The power of God is what gets you up every day. Your knowledge of God and His love for you helps you live and life that shows you have hope. Why do you to turn the other cheek; pray for those who handle you inappropriately; maintain peace while storms are raging? It is because of your hope! Thank God for the Holy Ghost as He comforts, teaches, guides, and serves as a constant reminder of why you have hope and where your hope lies.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I thank You for my hope. I repent for those times I walked doubt. Because of my hope, I show love and speak peace and encouragement, in my life and also in the lives of others. I have hope in You. Thank You for the Holy Ghost, Who comforts me every day. He encourages me; He gives me strength, and He fortifies my hope as I stand on Your promises. I give You glory…

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Psalms 27:14
2026-04-18
Psalms 27:14 Wait for the LORD; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the LORD. (NLT)
What is your waiting life like?
When you go to God in prayer, and you ask Him for whatever it is you ask Him for, you then have to wait. Sometimes it’s a brief wait. Sometimes it is a long wait which makes it a heavy weight. Sometimes it’s an eternal wait for your “desired answer” because His answer is no. While you’re waiting, you have to be strong. You wait, knowing there is an answer to your prayer, because you know God heard you. You can’t allow the enemy to cause you to doubt.
Isaiah 40:30-31 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. (KJV)
It is very important to look for “God’s answer”. His answer may not be the answer you are hoping for. However, you don’t want to miss God’s answer because it isn’t what you wanted. You don’t have the big picture, you only have the few details that you see within your finite limitations. As a result, unless He reveals it to you, you can’t really know the solution that fits into God’s infinite plan.
Isaiah 55:8-9 My intentions are not always yours, and I do not go about things as you do. 9 My thoughts and My ways are above and beyond you, just as heaven is far from your reach here on earth. (TVT)
As your situation unfolds, you will continue to communicate with Him through prayer. You will come to know God better as you wait. Waiting brings you closer, and more importantly, His answer does as well. Whatever the outcome, your relationship with the Father enables you to celebrate as you wait and also recognize and celebrate when the answer comes.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I thank You for giving me the strength to wait and the understanding of how to live while I wait. I repent for acting like I should sit and rock in a chair until You do what I want. You have taught me to wait actively. I will not miss Your response because I think I know what it should be. I will continue to put one foot in front of the other. I will continue to do what I know You have already purposed for me to do. I will continue to study, pray, worship and bless You with my life. Father, I thank You because I am Your sheep and I hear You clearly. If the answer is yes, soon or no, I will celebrate. Not just for the answer to my prayers, I will celebrate because I know You hear me. Thank You for a voice to cry out to You, ears to hear to You, a heart to love You, and the will to wait for You…

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Corinthians 1:4
2026-04-17
2 Corinthians 1:4 There is no contradiction of any proportion that we can possibly face that has what it takes to exasperate us or distance us from God. Our consciousness of his inseparable nearness immediately reinforces us and we extend the same support and comfort to others that we received in our difficult times, and together we snuggle up in the comfort of the Father’s intimate embrace! (TMB, edited)
Are you testifying?
Have you ever wondered why you go through the things that you go through? If so, here is the answer. As a Christian, please keep in mind, your life is not your own. Everything you experience is to give you the opportunity to share what happened, as well as what God did for you. It may have been something good; you should testify.
Psalm 34:1-3 I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2 My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 3 O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. (KJV)
It may have been something that you had no control over; you should testify.
John 9:3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but it was so that the works of God might be displayed and illustrated in him”. (AMP)
It may have been a hard trial that you thought was more than you could bear; you should testify.
1 Corinthians 10:13 No trial has overtaken you that is not faced by others. And God is faithful: He will not let you be tried beyond what you are able to bear, but with the trial will also provide a way out so that you may be able to endure it. (NET)
Whatever category your situation falls into, it’s called your testimony. You use your testimony to encourage other believers.
Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. (KJV)
It’s one thing to sympathize. Some people are grateful for your sympathy, and some feel looked down upon. Another truly powerful emotion is the ability to empathize. Empathy is often stronger than sympathy. When you empathize, you show you understand what another person is feeling without them having to tell you. You can say, “I know what you’re going through; I have been there, and this is what God did for me”. Now there is a light at the end of that person’s dark tunnel. They receive hope. A substantial part of your responsibility as a Christian is to lift Christ. There is no better way to life Jesus than by showing His power, His love, His concern, and His ability to deliver.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I thank You for using my life to bless someone else. I thank You for every blessing. I repent for every trial I created for myself. Thank You for bringing me through. Thank You for keeping me in those times when I had no control over the struggle. I thank You for giving me the strength to stand and give a testimony to the victories You have won in my life. I know I should take every opportunity You give me to share each victory with others; I repent when I don’t. I need to give You glory because I can look back over my life and count Your blessings. Though I would never stop counting, I can talk about it. When I stumble; You pick me up and I can talk about it. When temptation comes, You give me a way out and I can talk about it. When the enemy comes in, I lift You up as a standard and I can talk about it. I just bless Your Name for everything You do in my life. I thank You for every opportunity You give me to be a blessing to others…

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John 5:18
2026-04-16
1 John 5:18 We know that God’s children do not make a practice of sinning, for God’s Son holds them securely, and the evil one cannot touch them. (NLT)
Is your love for God governing your behavior?
Being in the presence of God causes you to continue to examine yourself. It is not the image of the little devil sitting on one shoulder and the angel sitting on the other shoulder. It is you, every day, looking at who you are and deciding you want to live a life that honors God. Whenever the devil whispers in your ear and tells you are failing; don’t let him lie to you and don’t believe the lies. Always know Jesus holds you securely. He understands your emotions and what motivates you to respond and/or react. He ever lives to make intercession for you. He died to take failure out of the picture for you. When you live with the assurance of God’s keeping power, you don’t make a practice of sinning.
Ezekiel 18:20a, “The soul that sinneth, it shall die” (KJV)
Have you noticed the King James version of the Bible uses “eth” at the end of a word? Those three letters indicate something is being done continuously, purposefully and by design; it designates a practice. “Sinneth” means you continue to sin, without regard for the word or anything else. 1 John 5:18 states God’s children don’t live that way. The reason you don’t make a practice of sinning is because the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives in you and is there to not only comfort you, to guide you, and instruct you as well.
Isaiah 30:20-21 Even though the Lord may allow you to go through a season of hardship and difficulty, he himself will be there with you. He will not hide himself from you, for your eyes will constantly see him as your Teacher. 21 When you turn to the right or turn to the left, you will hear his voice behind you to guide you, saying, “This is the right path; follow it.” (TPT)
The Holy Spirit will help you continually evaluate your behavior. If you adhere to His instruction and follow His guidance, you will live as God desires.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, the life I live, I live in You. As I come to You in prayer, in worship, and in meditation, You show me my life, my actions, and my thoughts. You let me know when I am a blessing to You. I repent for the times when You showed me I was not. Thank You. You have given me the Holy Spirt Who continually teaches me how to make choices that honor You. Because You have also given me free will, it is my choice to follow His leadings. I am no longer in the practice of doing things against Your will and against Your word because I am Your child. When I stumble, I repent and You give me chance after chance to get it right. Every day that I open my eyes is another chance You’ve given me to honor You. As long as I am breathing, You give me the opportunity to draw closer to You and leave the world behind. Thank You for the Holy Spirit and Thank You for Your love…

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John 4:16
2026-04-15
1 John 4:16 And thus we have come to know and believe the love that God has unveiled within us. God is love; love is who God is; to live in this place of conscious, constant love, is to live immersed in God and to feel perfectly at home in his indwelling. (TMB)
Do you demonstrate God’s love as you live?
Have you ever said something encouraging and uplifting to someone, whether you knew them or not, and you felt the love of God in the words you spoke? Did it warm your heart or bring tears to your eyes? Maybe you did not stop, in that moment, and say, “I really understand God’s love.” However, you really did! You got another level of understanding about God’s love because you felt what God was sending to the person you were speaking to.
John 13:34-35 So I give you a new command: Love each other deeply and fully. Remember the ways that I have loved you, and demonstrate your love for others in those same ways. 35 Everyone will know you as My followers if you demonstrate your love to others. (TVT)
What a blessing it is to know God’s love runs through your heart and to live with the assurance He is always there because He saved you. You know yourself. You know how you responded before salvation. Isn’t it great to be perfectly at peace speaking words of love and comfort? You don’t even need to take time to think about what words you will say, because the love of God and His Spirit is saturating your life? As you continue allowing God to develop your gifts and submitting to His call, you will begin to think, respond, and/or react differently from what was the norm for you. You may even ask yourself, “Why did I do that, say that, or think that?” If you truly accept God’s love, then you live in God’s love, and God’s love lives in you. You become an extension of God’s love because of your training. Being able to show God’s love is a necessary tool as you battle the enemy and as you seek to understand who you really are.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I thank You for Your love. I am grateful for it, and I repent for those times when I did not show my gratitude. Your love saturates me and engulfs me. I can speak, and I hear Your love. Your love holds back the reins of my emotions and my thoughts. Your love guides me. Your love sustains me. Your love is my weapon in battle. Your love allows me to show those, You assigned to me, who You are and what life in You is like. You are the one true God who loves unconditionally, and I thank You. I know Your love is absolute because it is how You love me. I am forever grateful for Your love…

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Acts 11:23
2026-04-14
Acts 11:23 When he arrived and saw what grace (favor) God was bestowing upon them, he was full of joy; and he continuously exhorted (warned, urged, and encouraged) them all to cleave unto and remain faithful to and devoted to the Lord with [resolute and steady] purpose of heart. (AMP)
Are you inspired by your life?
What happens when you stop and reflect on your life, thinking about where you were in Christ a week ago, a month ago, or a year ago, and where you are now? Do you recognize how He has manifested Himself in your life with material blessings and in your relationship with Him? Do you have more clarity? Are you able to discern His voice? Are you more victorious over the enemy? Do you share love in a greater way? Do you have more peace? Can you think of other ways you have changed and matured because of the time you spent in prayer, study, and worship? If you can answer yes to these questions, or add to this list, you should be excited and decide to continue seeking the Lord, yearning for even more of Him.
Psalms 18:19-24 God stuck by me. He stood me up on a wide-open field; I stood there saved—surprised to be loved! 20-24 God made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start. Now I’m alert to God’s ways; I don’t take God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works; I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I’m watching my step.
God rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes. (MSG)
When you take the time to look at what God has done, the enemy may whisper in your ear. He may tell you of your failures and your setbacks; trying to make you feel as if you have accomplished nothing. You may not be where you want to be, however, you are further along than you think. It gives you hope and a reason to keep spending time with the Lord. If you want something different from what you have; do something different from what you are doing. What you see in your life should encourage you and cause you to continue to trust and believe in God.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I thank You for loving me enough to show me where and how I have matured in You. I repent for allowing the enemy to torment or discourage me by reminding me who I was, where I was, and how I used to act. You show me the amazing changes You have made in my life. You help me see the work You have done and where You are still working in my life. All I need to do is stop and look through Your eyes. When I do, I can see my growth, which causes me to desire more of You and to listen to Your voice with more clarity. I am proud of what You are doing in my life and I thank You. I thank You for hope and a future. I am excited because of what lies ahead in my life with You. I thank You for showing me I am who I am because of You. The only credit I can take for my life is my obedience to Your word. I would not be the person I see in the mirror without You. Thank You because my life serves as encouragement and inspiration for me. I pray it inspires others as well…

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John 15:9
2026-04-13
John 15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. (KJV)
Are you continuing in Jesus’ love?
There is no greater demonstration of love than Jesus’ life, crucifixion, and resurrection. Can you really comprehend what it means to have the capacity to love as Jesus does? When you think about the love Jesus wants the Father to share with you, are you ready for it? The Father sent Jesus to die because of His love. You have to understand you need to die also, if you’re going to continue in Jesus’ love and mirror your life after His. Hopefully, you won’t be crucified on a natural cross. However, you must take up your spiritual cross and die to yourself.
Galatians 5:24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus (the Messiah) have crucified the flesh (the godless human nature) with its passions and appetites and desires. (AMPC)
Romans 8:13 For if you live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, you will surely die. But if through the power of the [Holy] Spirit you are [habitually] putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the [evil] deeds prompted by the body, you shall [really and genuinely] live forever. (AMPC)
There are things you have to be willing to give up. There are sacrifices you are going to have to “want to” make. There is no way around it because in your flesh there is no good thing. Jesus received a reward, and you will as well. Unfortunately, you cannot look for your ultimate reward now. Know this, the reward is not houses, cars, acclaim, fame and the world’s definition of prosperity. What Jesus wants for you is for you to have the same relationship with the Father that He has. When Jesus was in the garden of Gethsemane, he prayed:
John 17:9-11 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. (KJV)
Jesus wants you to continue on the path ordained for you by the Father. He wants you to continue to grow and recognize those things holding you back (which often is you and not people). Let go of any weights. Allow God to manifest His glory in your life just like He did in Jesus’ life.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I thank You for the opportunity to allow Your manifested glory to be evident in my life. Because of how much You love me, You are teaching me how to show my love in return. I know I repent for thinking I don’t have to make sacrifices. Thank You for teaching me I need to “want to” give up those things in my life that don’t glorify You. You are showing me there are things I want that really are of no lasting benefit to me, and I thank You. As I am saying these words, I know it is You and You only who can help me live this out. I want to walk worthy of the prayer Jesus prayed. Father, I appreciate and love You with all my heart. I give You all the glory, all the honor and all the praise…

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John 14:21
2026-04-12
John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. (KJV)
Are you following the plan?
If you want to know how to sew, you learn from a skilled seamstress. If you want to cook well, you learn from a superb chef. If you want to be successful in spiritual warfare, build a relationship with and learn from the One who already won the victory. The Lord has provided a simple formula to do that.

You build a relationship with Jesus if you love Him.
You show you love Jesus if you accept His commandments and obey them.
You obey His commandments because you believe in Him.
As you demonstrate your belief in and love for Jesus, the Father will love you. Also, Jesus will love you.
Jesus will then reveal Himself to you, and you will connect to Him in a greater way.
By connecting to Jesus in a greater way, you follow Him and His instructions in faith. You learn to live as He lived, fight as He fought, and win as He won.

That is the formula.
John 14:12 I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, and follows me in faith, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father. (AMPC, edited)
The formula and the scripture are simple enough to state, the “obeying my commandments portion” is often where the struggle comes in. The Pharisees added 248 commandments and 365 prohibitions to make sure they kept the 10 Commandments. It didn’t work. The thing you have to do is love God “more.” More than fulfilling your own wishes and desires and more than the satisfaction you get from taking a risk or following your heart.
1 John 2:15-16 Don’t set the affections of your heart on this world or in loving the things of the world. The love of the Father and the love of the world are incompatible. 16 For all that the world can offer us—the gratification of our flesh, the allurement of the things of the world, and the obsession with status and importance—none of these things come from the Father but from the world. (TPT)
Allow the Holy Spirit to let you know when you are violating the will of God. Stop making excuses and decide you are going to keep God’s commandments because it is what He desires of you. If you truly want to win in this warfare, you will do what God desires, with no sense of obligation. You won’t need the additional 248 commandments and 365 prohibitions. You will have your heart pure before God, be honest and confess when you sin, and allow Him to cleanse you, instruct you, and guide you to victory.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, thank You for the simple plan to connect to You and be victorious. I am grateful there is no great mystery surrounding how I can develop into the person You ordained for me to be, nor how I can be victorious over the enemy. I confess there are struggles sometimes because I want what I want. I repent for allowing my wants to cause me to stray from the path You set for me. I know as I continue to seek You, love You, spend time in Your presence, submit to Your correction, and obey Your commands, the things that keep me from being like You will continue to fall off. You are purifying me like the refiner’s fire in the time I spend with You. I have to continue taking ownership of my wrongs and my issues. Not only do I have to confess when I have done wrong, You are teaching me to tell You what I did and why it was wrong. In return for my obedience, You cleanse me, draw me, and show Yourself to me. The benefit gained by abiding by Your word is Your manifested presence in my life. Therefore, when I stray, I know I am giving up on being one step closer to the me You died for. I am sorry I did not realize this a long time ago. To have more of You and to be close to You is my one desire…

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Hebrews 12:15
2026-04-11
Hebrews 12:15 You must understand that this is a grace-race and not a law-race. While we’re in compete-and compare-mode we create the opportunity for resentment to flourish and to poison many in the process. (TMB)
Are you making comparisons?
Do you sometimes feel you are in some spiritual race with your brothers and sisters in Christ? It is true, often you and/or others will make comparisons. When certain people are mentioned to you, do you feel you have to run harder in order to do the things they are doing? The thing is, your walk with God is an individual one. Yes, you are to celebrate what God does in everyone else’s life. However, celebrating or recognizing what God has done something in someone else’s life does not diminish who God is and what He has done in your life.
Galatians 6:4-5 Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life. (MSG)
An important thing for you to be aware of is making comparisons creates jealousy. Since you can’t get back at God, you express your unresolved feelings toward the one God blessed. It is how sibling rivalry works. Siblings have frustrations, unresolved feelings, and negative emotions because of something done for and/or wonderful things said about their sister/brother. They rarely demonstrate how they feel when they interact with mom and/or dad. Instead, they deal with their brother/sister in the wrong way, i.e., are unsupportive, negative in their communication, think and speak the worst about them to anyone and everyone, etc.
Genesis 4:3-8 After some time Cain brought some of his harvest and gave it as an offering to the Lord. 4 Then Abel brought the first lamb born to one of his sheep, killed it, and gave the best parts of it as an offering. The Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering, 5 but he rejected Cain and his offering. Cain became furious, and he scowled in anger. 6 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why that scowl on your face? 7 If you had done the right thing, you would be smiling; but because you have done evil, sin is crouching at your door. It wants to rule you, but you must overcome it.” 8 Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out in the fields.” When they were out in the fields, Cain turned on his brother and killed him. (GNT)
Since you are in the family of God, you must make sure sibling rivalry is not how you deal with your brothers and sisters in Christ. This is not the attitude you want to have. You also don’t want your spirit poisoned by jealousy.
James 3:16 For wherever there is jealousy (envy) and contention (rivalry and selfish ambition), there will also be confusion (unrest, disharmony, rebellion) and all sorts of evil and vile practices. (AMPC)
If there is an accomplishment you want to mimic, because it will enhance your relationship with God, great! However, the most important thing is you want to rejoice with those who are rejoicing, and you want God to be glorified by your obedience to His will for your life.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I am not in a race with any other believer. I repent for ever thinking that I was. I repent for comparing where was and how I was being treated with other believers. The only thing it accomplished was to show You I didn’t appreciate what You have done for me and how immature I was. Again, I am sorry. I am grateful for the personality, gifts, and talents You have given me. Keep me in Your presence to be corrected by You, strengthened by You, encouraged by You, and matured by You. I want to be everything You ordained for me to be. I know You planned my purpose and destiny before the foundation of the world. I know I run this race with my fellow believers. We will all reach the destination You have planned for us, if we remain faithful. I am excited because there is abundance in You and what You have for me is for me. I don’t have to fight for it, and I don’t have to be anxious. I can rest in You and have peace. There is no way for me to get left out. You have already ordained what is mine…

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Philippians 3:3
2026-04-10
Philippians 3:3 For we have already experienced “heart-circumcision,” and we worship God in the power and freedom of the Holy Spirit, not in laws and religious duties. We are those who boast in what Jesus Christ has done, and not in what we can accomplish in our own strength. (TPT)
What governs your worship?
If you attend a church or ministry that is very religious in its practices, you can sometimes get lost in your pursuit of God. You will come to realize a lot of what you see happening is custom and tradition. It gives foundation to your relationship with God. It does not enhance or sustain it. What happens if you don’t wear white on the first Sunday; if you don’t wear “Sunday clothes” to go to church or if you don’t bring your palms together and close your eyes when you pray? There are a lot of “religious practices” done because our parents got them from their parents, who got them from their parents, et cetera, et cetera. They handed them down through generations. Why? Because someone who had a relationship with God did it, and a custom or tradition was born. There is nothing wrong with doing these things but, you should not base your relationship with God on them.
1 Samuel 16:7 Take no notice of his looks or his height. He is not the one, for the Eternal One does not pay attention to what humans value. Humans only care about the external appearance, but the Eternal considers the inner character. (TVT)
Pure communion builds your connection with God. You will develop a relationship with the Father, by worshipping, praying, and studying. Your bond with Him will govern how you respond because of what is in your heart, not by human requirements. As you fellowship with the Father, He changes your heart, your actions, and your reactions. Then the Holy Spirt leads what you do, as an act of worship. No one governs or regulates you. When you stand, bow, pray, weep, etc., is will be in response to a move of God inside of you. You will show outwardly what God is doing inwardly.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I thank You for bringing me to the place where You ordain every expression of my worship. I follow Your leading by the Holy Spirit. You tell me when to give You more or a different or even unique form of worship. I repent for trying to regulate what it means to love You and how I should show my love for You. I am thankful I came to You for instruction. Through our time spent together, You taught me ways to show You how much I love You. I am grateful. You’ve shown me how to worship You in song, in dance, when standing, when sitting, by extending my hands, closing my eyes, just to name a few. You have also shown me how to worship You in my conversation and in my attitude as I am moved by You. I thank You, Father, for accepting my worship as long as it is sincere and pure. I have the liberty to worship You out of the abundance of my heart. I can pour myself out to You and You receive me because of Jesus, not because I have followed the rules and regulations of worship. His death and resurrection sanctifies me, washes me, and places me before You with a pure heart and I worship…

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Ephesians 2:18
2026-04-09
Ephesians 2:18 Because of Christ both Jew and Gentile now enjoy equal access to the Father in one Spirit. (TMB)
Does God have a pecking order?
Are there times in your life when you feel left out? It may be on your job and the boss talks to everybody, except you. It may be in your church, and the pastor or ministry leaders do not seem to respond to you. Do you wonder if you are important enough? How did you resolve this for yourself? Where you able to identify the reason it “seems” you are being ignored? Did you decide the church, company or group has a pecking order, and you are on the bottom. That might be the case. Or you may have some insecurities and/or some other issues that a little time on “God’s comfy couch” can solve. Either way, isn’t it good to know, with the Lord your God, you have equal access?
Galatians 3:26-29 You have all become true children of God by the faith of Jesus the Anointed One! 27 It was faith that immersed you into Jesus, the Anointed One, and now you are covered and clothed with his anointing. 28 And we no longer see each other in our former state—Jew or non-Jew, rich or poor, male or female—because we’re all one through our union with Jesus Christ with no distinction between us. 29 And since you’ve been united to Jesus the Messiah, you are now Abraham’s “child” and inherit all the promises of the kingdom realm! (TPT)
Your understanding of who you are and Whose you are is important in battle. It is important that you know God hears you and is with you. You are not expendable. He will not leave you to be defeated by the enemy because He is saving someone else more important than you. We are all precious to Him. There is no pecking order. He does not talk to some and not to you. He does not want to be friends with some and not be your friend. There is no waiting for your turn. He is everywhere at the same time. This truth is particularly important when you are in an environment, be it the local church or anywhere believers congregate, where it seems like one person’s feelings carry more weight. To the Father, though we may have different jobs and callings in the kingdom; we are all the same, and that is a blessing.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I thank You for accepting me. I don’t have to stand in a line behind someone else. I am valuable to You and You are available to me. Though I know You are everywhere and all knowing. I repent for treating You as if You were human. You don’t put me on hold because someone more important is trying to reach You. Thank You for truly loving me the same as everyone else. I am more than grateful because there is no weighted class system in heaven. I can come to You, boldly. I can hear from You and I thank You for that. I’m not a second-class citizen period and especially not when it comes to my communication with You. I thank You for the peace You give me when I feel alone. I give You glory and I give You honor. Knowing how You feel about me and how You treat me elevates my view of me…

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Peter 1:12
2026-04-08
2 Peter 1:12 Therefore, I will always be ready to remind you of these things, even though you already know them and are established in the truth which is held firmly in your grasp. (AMP)
Are you walking in offense to words spoken in love?
When you have people in your life who love God, study the word and spend time with God; they will sometimes say things to you that challenge you. Depending on where you are emotionally, it may smart a bit. This is not your battle. Your battle is with your own emotions.
Proverbs 15:32 Those who disregard discipline sabotage themselves, but those who are open to correction gain understanding. (TVT)
You know what the word says, and they know it. They are not judging you. They are not finding fault in your behavior. They love you enough to tell you what they believe. They love God enough to comment on what they think they see. It may be something you are doing or did; something you are saying or said; or a position you are taking or have taken. Whatever it is, they felt it warranted a reminder. Sometimes it’s hard to hear. At that the end of the day, you want people in your life who will challenge you to continue to examine yourself through the word. You want people to point things out. Not beat you over the head, simply remind you. Yes, you have the Holy Spirit to bring back to your remembrance everything the father has taught you through prayer, study, etc.. That’s a good thing. However, the people who love you will say what they feel because they love you. They are teaching you to fight by helping you identify where the battle is.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I thank You for the people in my life who love me enough to remind me of Your truth. I repent for becoming irritated, for thinking they were judging me or thinking they had no right to speak to me. I know You sent the Holy Spirit to be my comforter, guide, and instructor. You also sent friends and a multitude of council. I thank You for the men and women who are that multitude and create safety for me. They speak to me and they are the iron that sharpens my iron. They love me through my responses even when I am not acting in a lovable fashion. They help me become spiritually mature. I pray they continue to do Your will, that I submit to their correction, and that You are glorified…

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Corinthians 14:3
2026-04-07
1 Corinthians 14:3 But the one who prophesies inspires his audience constructively and comforts them with encouragement and instruction. (TMB)
Are you listening for a prophetic word?
Have you been in services where, no matter what the sermon was about, the last word was about giving money and sowing into your blessing? Have you been in services where all the prophecies were new houses, new cars, promotions and/or pay increases on jobs and other kinds of elevation? There is nothing wrong with social and economic increase. However, the focus should always be on God and not on stuff and things. On the other hand, have you been in services where a person received the truth they needed. Did you witness them submit and acknowledge the need to allow the Lord to turn their life around? You will answer these questions based on the experiences you have had. Always keep in mind, it is not for anyone to say whether any experience was/is a true move of God. When God manifests Himself, the Spirit within you will bear witness to you, depending on your relationship with God. What you have to do is listen for a word from the Lord in the midst of it all. Listen intently, no matter what is going on, who is talking, or who is being spoken to. When you understand the purpose of the prophet and words that are prophesied, you will want to listen with your ears and with your spirit as well.
2 Peter 1:20-21 You must understand this at the outset: Interpretation of scriptural prophecy requires the Holy Spirit, for it does not originate from someone’s own imagination. 21 No true prophecy comes from human initiative but is inspired by the moving of the Holy Spirit upon those who spoke the message that came from God. (TPT)
When someone gives you a prophetic word, it will resonate with you because your Heavenly Father has been trying to get your attention for a while. A true prophetic word will not be something that will strike you as strange. Also, keep in mind, a prophetic word does not have to come from someone standing in a pulpit or in a church at all. God can send a word for you through a co-worker; someone you meet at the grocery store or at the gas station, through a song on the radio, a commercial on the television, etc. The prophetic word comes to relay God’s message, instruct, and guide. The true prophetic word is the heart of God. God uses a person to share His heart, without reservation; telling you what He wants you to do and often giving you the consequences of disobedience.
1 Samuel 16:4 So Samuel did what the Lord said, and went to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, “Do you come peaceably?” (NKJV)
This is the prophetic word you should listen for; even though it may not always make you happy. If you are listening in the Spirit, you then can make the choice to adhere to the words spoken by realigning your behavior to accommodate what God wants. If you do, you will bless God and reap the benefits of obedience to a specific command of God. Your only goal is to hear God speak and obey His voice.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I thank You for the prophetic words You have sent to me and those You send to the world. I repent for always looking for a blessing upon blessing word. Thank You for a word that causes me to focus my attention on You and not on what I want, what I hope for, or I dream of having. I thank You for a word that requires something of me. I know when I listen, by Your Spirit, I will not hear Your word and continue to do what I’ve been doing without pause or reflection. Your word takes hold of me and convicts and humbles me. I am compelled to change my attitude and my behavior. Thank You for not giving up on me when You tried to correct me, and I was not listening. You loved me enough to send someone to speak to me. You wanted me to hear You finally and change. I have found Your word instructs me when I need to change, encourages me when I am on the right path, and gives me confidence when I am unsure. You want to get the best out of my life, and I am grateful…

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Acts 2:42
2026-04-06
Acts 2:42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. (KJV)
Are you taking the time to have fun with other believers?
Sometimes you may feel as if you want to or even need to be alone. Whether you characterize yourself as a loner or just give in to the feeling, you also need to be around believers. You need to fellowship with them. You don’t always have to be in a church setting. You can have dinner, conversation, and fun.
Ecclesiastes 2:24 Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God. (NKJV)
Acts 20:11 When he had gone back up and had broken the bread and eaten, he talked with them a long while until daybreak, and then left. (NASB)
It is always great to hear about the lives and the testimonies of people who enjoy their walk with the Lord. It is encouraging and increases your faith. Christianity should not be a drudgery, and you should not feel as if you’re missing out on something. Your fellowship with believers allows you to see that you are not missing out, you are actually gaining! You can see how God moves in their lives and how He can move in your life. You can laugh and relax with believers. You can also pray for and with them. Live your life with those who love God as much as you or more. It will strengthen your walk with the Lord.
Please agree with me as I pray. Then ask the Lord what your prayer should be and wait for His response:
Father, I thank You for all the believers You have placed in my life. I pray with them and worship with them. I’m also able to laugh with them. I know those who are close to me get to laugh every day just watching me seek You and serve You. They help me laugh at my situations and theirs as well. Thank You for those believers I can watch a movie with, and we can talk about it. Thank You for those believers who will take time away from their lives to share lunch or share dinner. Thank You for those believers who help me enjoy my life; all of it and glorify You for it…

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