TODAY’S DEVOTION WEDNESDAY 31ST DECEMBER 2025)
“Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methuselah. After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.
And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.” Genesis 5:21-24 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 365TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
If you have strength in you, give God a mighty shout for bringing us to the last day of the year. While you may be getting ready to shout Happy New Year tomorrow, understand that without a happy 365th day, there would not be a happy new year.
The 365th or 366th day of an outgoing year (for leap years) must meet you before the 1st day of a new year. So, it will not be out of order to celebrate the goodness of the LORD that brought you to the 365th day of the year 2025. That is the reason you will be able to shout a happy New Year tomorrow.
For 365 days God has been so good to us, tender and kind. He has been a purifier of our hearts with living truths and lives with His grace. He has been a giver of hope, a healer of our sick bodies, a giver of peace, and one who make wars to cease.
He has not dealt with us according to the way our sins or sinful nature deserves, but according to His everlasting love for us.
He has been the wheel of our life progress, a marvelous wonder working God and our all in all. He has been the air in our lungs, the peace in our hearts, the power behind our heart beats and blood circulation, the very foundation of our existence, the baptizer of our lives with His Holy Spirit, and the redeemer of our souls.
His consistency, persistency, love, faithfulness, holiness, and the immutability of His covenants, has been some of the greatest spiritual assets that never allowed the devil to rejoice over us. All the parties the enemy organized to celebrate our shame this year, ended abruptly on each occasion.
IT ALL HAPPENED BECAUSE GOD IS OUR ROCK, A VERY PRESENT HELP IN TIME OF TROUBLE.
In the same way, all the parties the enemy will organize in 2026 to celebrate your shame, fall, destruction or whatever, will also end abruptly and even deadly for him and his team. The reason will not be because of our holiness, prayers, fasting, or dedication to God, as good and important as they are. It will be because Our God is an immediate present help in time of trouble.
Our walk with Him in Holiness, prayerful living, fasting, and dedication will ONLY help us enjoy the most of His nature as an immediate present help in time of trouble.
It will position us to enjoy the most of His consistency, persistency, love, faithfulness, holiness, and the immutability of His covenants. So, enter the coming year with faith, boldness and peace of mind, understanding that your walk with Him will not be in vain but will be rewarded.
The Bible says we should not be weary in well doing that in due season we shall reap if we fail not.
History is littered with the lives of people whose walk with the LORD was immensely rewarded. Some lost their lives in the process of serving the LORD, making the lost world to think that it does not pay to serve Jesus, but the glory they now live in eternity cannot be compared with any earthly blessing that would have come upon them.
As you depend on God’s consistency, faithfulness, love, persistency, holiness and the immutability of His covenant, understand that your personal walk and talk with God will be needed daily, not for one week, one month or just 2026, but for the rest of your life.
Yes, your personal walk with God will be needed for all that God want to do in your life to be fully done. It will be needed for proper positioning and the release of eternal blessings upon your life. Satan weakens a man’s personal walk with the LORD, because he knows that is where his connectivity with all God intends doing in his life exist.
If your personal walk with the LORD is not at optimal level, there will be holes in your armor for the devil to shoot his bullets through into your life. So, do not let anything on the face of the earth weaken your resolve to live a life that walk with the LORD.
DO NOT EVER GIVE UP ON GOD. DO NOT MAKE IT AN OPTION IN LIFE.
There is no such option for humans. Some who created such options in their lives, maybe because they lost loved ones, aged without getting married, or lived a life of lack, financial problems or grinding poverty and illnesses while alive, are regretting doing so in hell today.
Do not make the mistake of becoming like them. Do not make giving up on God an option in 2026 and beyond. God’s grace is sufficient.
Yes, no life circumstance should make you give up on God, because from the eyes of eternity, nothing worth more than our faith in God, nothing worth more than our walk with the LORD. The Bible says:
“For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.”
Ecclesiastes 9:4 KJV
Do not kill yourself because things are bad. Do not kill your faith, your prayer life, your life of fasting and feasting on God’s word, yes, your life of dedicating yourself to the LORD, because something bad happened. It does not worth it, stay alive, and let God remain your God.
If you must give up on anything, the Bible teaches that you give up on spiritual laziness, the arm of flesh or a life of sin, not on God. Giving up on God is like taking away life support from a patient in ICU with great signs of survival. People who give up on God have thrown away life itself. Our Bible fathers in Hebrew 11 faced more than we are facing today but remained committed to the LORD.
A PART OF OUR DEVOTIONAL TEXT SAYS:
“…And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.”
Genesis 5: 24 NKJV
That is the standard God set for us all, no matter what we might be going through. The standard is that we walk with God until we breath the last breath. Even if He will not bless us, heal, help us, or fight for us, we are to remain committed, dedicated, and true to Him.
One of our Bible fathers said, “even if He slay me, yet I will trust Him.” That remains the standard, the pathway and the way to go no matter what the circumstances are.
The text said, Enoch walked with God until he was no more. It was a consistent, persistent, faithful, dedicated and unbroken walk with the LORD. He achieved it by faith not by feelings. His life teaches that people who let their feelings lead them will give up on God, but those who let their faith guide them will not.
As we bring this to a close, understand that God will keep you through and through, using your personal relationship with Him and nothing else.
So, you must keep it at optimal level even if things are not right. Even if you sin against Him, do not trade your walk with the LORD for anything. Meet Him and make peace with Him and keep moving. Keep your faith in Him and do not think of giving up.
Your walk with the LORD will be rewarded either in time or eternity. God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. All through History no body’s walk with God had gone unrewarded, so yours will not.
Finally, let me reiterate again that we are in the end times, and Bible Prophecy tells us of things that God has predetermined and appointed to happen in their pre-appointed times and seasons, to bring the sin age to an end and usher in an Age where righteousness dwells.
One of the horrors of the times we live in will be the going down of people into captivity.
THERE ARE TWO BASIC CATEGORIES OF CAPTIVITIES, THE FIRST IS SPIRITUAL AND THE NEXT IS NATURAL.
Satan is busy using people’s feelings to take them back to the captivity of sin. Yes, he is using the feelings of people to take them back to the captivity of sin, iniquity, moral decay and hell fire. We must recognize this battle and put up a fight of faith. God’s grace will be sufficient, and it will guide us.
The words the LORD has given us today, and every word we have read in our devotional this year and other years, are to enable us to do just that. Make use of them and make sure you maintain a connectivity with the LORD that will keep you from being led into captivity.
May the enemy’s preparation to celebrate your downfall be abruptly brought to an end by the LORD, through sudden outbreaks of Blessings, miracles and breakthroughs in your life in Jesus precious name!! Amen.
Thank you for being part of the devotional of 2025, see you in 2026. Happy New Year in advance.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURAL VERSE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!
“By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” Hebrews 11:5-6 NKJV
