TODAY’S DEVOTION (TUESDAY 20TH JANUARY 2026)
“And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.”
“Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren. For with God nothing will be impossible.”
“Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.
Luke 1:35-38 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 20TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY
It is also the 16th of our 40 days of the Blessing, a season set aside to seek the LORD God to go ahead of us this year and the years to come. It has indeed been another prophetic time for the sons of the Kingdom who have been part of the program.
Let me affirm again that the Cry of the Spirit is what the Church needs for now. If we do not hear what the Spirit is crying to us, especially in these perilous times, we will be doomed. The Bible says that it is the very voice of the LORD Crying in the wilderness to our generation, to prepare the way of the LORD and make His paths straight.
Let me also re-affirm again that God did not create denominations. God created the Holy Nation.
That was why when the Church started; it did not start as a denomination. It started as a move of God driven by the Holy Ghost through a saved and sanctified people known as a royal priesthood, a Holy nation, a peculiar people; men and women who understood that they were called out of darkness into God’s marvelous light to show forth the praise of Him who has called them.
They were not people who just sat in Church warming the seats weekly. They were a kingdom advance force that was busy discipling the nations of the ancient world and putting Jesus as the center of people’s lives.
God intended His church to continue that way, but she did not. After the 1st 100 years things went south. If not for the reformation that the Holy Spirit began, and the subsequent Revivals that followed, we would have forgotten if God ever stepped down on planet earth to save mankind.
History has it that the custodians of the move of God that started as the Church of Jesus Christ disappeared under the pressure of hell, and manmade religion replaced everything. But the good news is, Jesus started His Church the way He wanted it, now He is bringing His church back to the way He started it.
THAT IS WHY HEAVEN IS SPEAKING TO US ABOUT THESE THINGS.
We have shared the need for every generation to wake up to its prophetic destiny. We said ours must wake up too. I don’t know what your life problem might be as a child of God, what I know is, God’s plans and purposes for our church generation will deal with that problem if you step into it.
We have a corporate destiny to fulfil as an end time church. Yes, each one of us in the present Church globally, has a divine destiny to fulfill.
If we become more concerned with that, our problems will disappear into God’s programs for our lives. Also, we will not be found camping around manmade religion, falling victim of end time deception, and seeking other things in pretense of seeking the kingdom.
We will find ourselves taking our place in destiny as God’s Holy nation on the face of the earth and converting the kingdoms of this world into that of God and of His Christ.
Every prophetic person knows that time has come for the body of Christ to move from other matters to matters of our eternal purpose or divine destiny. So, let us go further with the Holy Spirit even this morning to see what He has for us on divine destiny.
To start with, understand that divine destiny is like a seed. Where you plant yourself is what determines if you will fulfill it or not. The word fulfill denotes things that have been pre-determined being made manifest, executed or performed.
Your divine destiny contains things that have been pre-determined by God to take place in you, through you or by your hands (as the scriptures will put it) on the face of the earth.
HOWEVER, WHERE YOU PLANT YOURSELF IS WHAT DETERMINES IF THAT WILL HAPPEN.
For instance, it was pre-determined that a Jewish virgin will conceive without meeting a man to give birth to the messiah. It was a popular prophecy among the Jews. Mary became that virgin because of where she planted herself spiritually.
The word fulfill, was made manifest in her life. She never needed to pray and fast to be that virgin. She was just in the right place spiritually, doing the right things at the right time and the word came to pass in her life. That is the power of environment when it comes to matters of divine destiny.
It is the power of the right place. Destiny is designed by God to be fulfilled on its own. It is designed to be made manifest or executed by God alone. It was not designed to be executed by the power of man.
That is why you cannot force your destiny to be fulfilled. Divine destiny is not something you force out or train yourself to execute. It was not designed to be fulfilled that way. If you are in the right place, with the right people, at the right time, doing the right things, you will find yourself fulfilling your destiny. It will just flow out of you.
Concerning the prophecy of Immaculate Conception, as we can see in our devotional text, the angel said to Mary;
“The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.”
Hidden in this statement is an additional revelation of how divine destiny is fulfilled. It is fulfilled when the Holy Ghost comes upon us and the power of the Highest Overshadow us from time to time. That is why you must not plant yourself where this does not happen.
If you will fulfill your destiny, you must plant yourself where the Holy Ghost comes upon people and overshadow them with God’s power, from time to time.
DON’T FORGET WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS IN THE BOOK OF ZECHARIAH.
God was giving the same lesson to the prophet Zechariah to tell Zerubbabel whose divine destiny was to serve as the governor of a Jewish nation that had just returned from Babylonian captivity. It says:
So he answered and said to me: “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the Lord of hosts.
‘Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone with shouts of “Grace, grace to it!”‘”
Zechariah 4:6-7NKJV
I like that word “Grace, grace.” If you are in the right place, God’s grace will be flowing constantly to you to enable you fulfill or execute your divine destiny. God’s grace is God’s presence that manifest as God’s power and pardon. It is the same thing as the power of the Highest overshadowing you the way it overshadowed Mary to fulfill her destiny.
That is what we need on daily or constant basis to execute or fulfill our divine destiny. Everyone who ever walked with God fulfilled his or her divine destiny on the same conditions. The Holy Ghost came upon them and the power of the Highest Overshadowed them from time to time and their destinies were fulfilled. Let’s highlight one of these men.
Let’s look at David; he came to national consciousness when he killed a Giant at 17. You will agree with me that he did not kill that giant by his own strength. It was not even his skill that brought the giant down but the power of God. Men of skill and deep experience in warfare could not stand the giant.
In fact, the king said to him, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth” (1 Samuel 17:33 NKJV). But David insisted on fighting the giant.
IT WAS DIVINE DESTINY THAT DROVE HIM NOT TRAINING SKILLS.
The King went further to demonstrate how he cared by kitting David with his own armor and battle regalia, but David could not even move with them because destiny is not designed to be fulfilled with man-made weapons or man-made warfare kits. If it is destiny a man wants to fulfill, everything must be God made and God governed.
Finally, David moved against the giant, driven by divine destiny, vulnerable at all points but with faith in the power of GOD. That day, his divine destiny was fulfilled. Paul wrote in one of his letters to the Churches:
“And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.”
1 Corinthians 2:4-6 NKJV
You cannot fulfill your destiny with your faith in the wisdom of men. Your faith must be totally buried in the power of God. You must be sold out to the Holy Ghost and the power of the Highest and depend on it at all points, even in your most vulnerable moments.
That brings us again to the subject of where you need to plant yourself.
If you plant yourself spiritually in Churches where the wisdom of men holds sway, you will never fulfill your destiny. Until you locate and plant yourself where the Holy Ghost can regularly reach you with power from on High, you will never be able to fulfill your destiny!
That is the message of today’s devotional!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION;
“When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting against him. Then the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him; and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that is burned with fire, and his bonds broke loose from his hands.”
“He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and killed a thousand men with it. Then Samson said: “With the jawbone of a donkey, Heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men!”
“ And so it was, when he had finished speaking, that he threw the jawbone from his hand, and called that place Ramath Lehi.”
Judges 15:14-17 NKJV
