TODAY’S DEVOTION (TUESDAY 28th October 2025)
“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.” Psalm 23:1-4 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 301ST DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
With just 64 days to go, our year of victory is almost done with. We are very grateful to the God of Heaven and earth who has kept us all through and shown us His mercies.
He forgave us of sins, healed us of diseases, delivered us from the evil one, fought our unseen battles, neutralized the works of the enemy, granted us money miracles, spoke light into our hearts in our darkest moments to keep us in the faith.
He has been more than a God to us. He has been a Heavenly Father who satisfied our mouth with good things so that our youth is renewed like the eagle. We give Him the glory for being all that to us. We have hope that as He has kept us for 301 days, He will keep us for the remaining days of this year. Amen!!
The life of David is one of the most fascinating lives in the Holy Scriptures. Under the justice system of God for the time, a system that tolerated polygamy, and few other things, like availability of wives in a man’s life as part of divine provision (see 2 Samuel 12:7-9), David’s life has a lot to teach us who no longer live in that system.
Sadly, many of us still think we live in that system, hence live sexually reckless lives. In the Days of David having more than one wife never mattered, because the Holy Spirit was not given to restrain the people. But now, no one who leads the crucified life will desire more than one woman as wife, because Christ is not having two or three churches as His brides. Christ has just one bride!!
Any Christian you find with more than one wife, is an unsaved person. He or she is not living the Christian life, which is the Crucified life. But as earlier stated, within the justice system he lived, the life of David has a lot to teach us who do not live in that system.
WE LIVE IN THE GRACE SYSTEM THAT GIVES US THE INTERNAL ABILITY TO LIVE RIGHT AND RESIST THE FLESH!!
The law system David and the rest lived in was not having that ability, and it’s important that every believer know that. Sadly, many do not know that the cross and subsequent out pouring of the Holy Spirit separates us from them, it created a new order, a new system called grace.
More sadly, are the wrong teachings about this system that many have imbibed.
The wrong teachings just preaches and confers on people a positional righteousness that lacks a practical righteousness as fruit. They look at a tree of wild grapes that still produce wild grapes and calls it a tree of good grapes because of the sinner’s prayer it recites, without even a change of heart.
But the ideal grace system, preaches practical righteousness as the fruits of positional righteousness. It looks at a tree that once produced wild grapes, and calls it a tree of good grapes, because something happened in it and transforms it, and it no longer bears wild grapes as fruits. It now bears good grapes.
The grace system helps us achieve righteousness by a faith that turns a tree of wild grapes into a tree of good grapes, both positionally and practically.
It is not a system that called a tree that still produces wild grapes, the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. It is a system that calls a tree that once produces wild grapes and no longer do so, the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. I hope you understand me.
The grace system strips us of the power of sin, by stripping us of the penalty, practices and on the final day, presence of sin.
The people under the law system could not achieve this. They were saved by God’s covenant with Abraham and other dispensational realities. They could not achieve righteousness because the system they live in or by could not internally wash them of sin or (in New Testament terms) get them saved through the regeneration of the Holy Spirit.
HENCE IT WAS CALLED THE MINISTRY OF DEATH, OR THE MINISTRY OF CONDEMNATION.
The Bible puts it this way!
“But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?
For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious.” 2 Corinthians 3:7-11 NKJV
David lived under the system called the ministry of death or the ministry of condemnation. It was a system that condemned the kind of lives they lived but could not minister eternal life to them not to live that life again. It condemned and never gave life for the salvation of the condemned.
But the grace system, which is the ministry of the Spirit, condemns the life of sin (not the sinner) and gives the sinner the eternal life to live in place of the life of sin. Hallelujah!!
The old system was called the ministry of death because it never gave the people the internal ability to resist the flesh.
To promote righteousness among them, it used great manifestations of God’s glory among the people, and other forms of external factors like correctional judgment, rebukes, diseases, famines, permission to marry more than one wife, and so many other things to manage their carnal cravings.
GENUINE CHRISTIAN LIFE IS BY THE MINISTRY OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD, FROM OUR INTERNAL BEING CALLED THE INNER MAN.
However, despite living in an old system, the life of David still has a lot to teach us. From the moment he killed the giant at 17, his life became a stormy place due to the hate it created. He went through times of lows and highs like every human does. But His connectivity with God kept Him.
One major reason David’s life has lessons for us is because of the nature of spiritual warfare. It has not changed. It is still the same. The Holy Spirit will always animate lessons in David’s life that will help us to become victorious in warfare times.
That is why the book of Psalms should become your resort center during warfare. In it, you will find prayers to pray, songs of war to sing to the LORD, healing scriptures for your sick body, and divine intervention scriptures to stand on and break from the grip of the enemy.
One other thing that helped David in warfare, was the anointing of the Holy One Jesus Christ, in its pre incarnate form, that ran through his faith and gave him what he needed to navigate through the stormy side of life.
We will need the anointing of the Holy One, but in His resurrected form, to run through our faith today on daily bases, so that we can have the spiritual resources we need to navigate through the stormy season of our lives.
Under that anointing, you will read David saying, “the LORD is my Shepherd, I shall not want.”
As His Shepherd, the LORD in His pre incarnate form, led him beside still waters, and green pastures. He protected him with His staff and corrected him with His rod. He also fought His battles and healed him of diseases. He can do the same in our lives in His resurrected form. We only need to trust Him like David did and make Him our Shepherd, and everything will change.
Our devotional text says it all. It says:
“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.” Psalm 23:1-4 NKJV
THIS SCRIPTURE CONTAINS A CASCADE OF THINGS THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN IN OUR LIVES UNTIL THE LORD BECOMES OUR SHEPHERD.
Sadly, people who are in need do not see that. They do not realize that certain blessings, or moves of God they need will never happen, irrespective of what they do, until the LORD becomes their shepherd. The LORD being our shepherd is key to our lives becoming like the Garden of Eden in a wicked world.
This brings to question who each of us listens to. I mean in real time, especially under pressure. Do we follow our hearts like humanism says, or we follow the LORD who lives in our hearts? The answers to questions like this are not for some sheets of paper. Our lives holds the answers.
Are we living beside the still waters? Is our souls being restored? What happens when we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, does the LORD show up to help us or we follow sorcery calling it prophecy and divination calling it revelation to find solution to our problems?
If a cascade of what is written in Psalm 23, the blessings, the miracles and intervention in that Psalm is not happening in our lives, the LORD is not our shepherd. Maybe we are the shepherds of our lives. Sadly, many of us are. We claim the Spirit told us this and that, but we are the ones telling ourselves. Our live shows it all.
If the LORD is the one leading and shepherding us, we will not lack. Sometimes He shepherds us directly, other times He puts us under interpreters of divine will, men with understanding in the visions of the LORD, to shepherd us.
Howbeit, if the LORD shepherds us and we submit to His word and will, we will walk uprightly, and no good thing will be withheld from us. His power will always make them available to us.
Friend, as we bring this to a close, it is important that we all understand that spiritual warfare can be intense and excruciating sometimes. The stress and stretch of events that surrounds our assignment as kingdom warriors can sometimes put one’s soul in a state of lacking the emotions to even put up a smile.
However, it is who shepherds us that determines how we come out during such tense moments. It’s my prayer that God use these words to enhance your peace and increase your dominion in the Spirit in Jesus precious name, Amen!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!
“So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” Acts 20:32 NKJV
