TODAY’S DEVOTION (SUNDAY 25TH JANUARY 2026)
“Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God’s fear.”
2 Corinthians 7:1 Darby Translation
WELCOME TO THE 25TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY
Today we will begin with some thoughts on spiritual toxins. Biologically, toxins are poisonous substances that are produced by living organisms like bacteria, plants, or animals, capable of causing diseases or disrupting biological functions.
Lives have been cut short because of them and people confined to sick beds.
What is true of the biological is also true of the spiritual. Just as Toxins work by interfering with normal cellular processes, like the disruption of protein building so due spiritual toxins work to disrupt what the grace of God might be accomplishing in us.
Spiritual toxins can kill God’s works and power in our lives. They can leave us vulnerable in the spirit to devils and make us do things that suspend divine favor for a season. They have the power to transmit sinful tendencies into our lives.
They have what it takes to contaminate our faith and passion for God and activate our flesh to awake to sinfulness. They come into our spiritual lives through spiritual pollutions. They are poisonous to our divine destiny that is why at the root of every devastating attack on a destiny man or woman is a spiritual pollution.
Spiritual pollution comes from the things we see and hear. For instance, viewing explicit pictures or pornography. It pollutes the spirit and quickens ungodly desires and affections in a believer.
LET’S TAKE DAVID FOR AN EXAMPLE; BEFORE HE EVER COMMITTED ADULTERY HE WAS POLLUTED SPIRITUALLY BY WHAT HE SAW.
The Bible says he looked at a woman that was bathing from the top of his palace and saw her nakedness and something was transmitted into him, and before you could pronounce the word J-e-r-u-s-a-l-e-m, he had gotten the woman pregnant and killed her husband to cover up. The rest is history.
None of that would have happened if he had not seen a woman bathing from his royal roof top. Spiritual pollution is the driving force of every sinful act. They transmit spiritual toxins into our sanctified spirits, driving us to do ungodly things. That is why we must stay away from whatever pollutes our spirits. The Bible says:
“To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a seductress. Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, nor let her allure you with her eyelids.
For by means of a harlot a man is reduced to a crust of bread; and an adulteress will prey upon his precious life. Can a man take fire to his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?”
Proverbs 6:24-27 NKJV
David was badly burnt by his sin. But it all began when he looked lustfully at a naked woman and was spiritually polluted. Job, another great man in Bible days, was wise in his own time. He said, “I have made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a maid.”
If we do not look lustfully at the opposite sex, we will not be polluted spiritually, no spiritual toxins will be transmitted into our hearts to poison us towards ungodly behavior. Spiritual pollution has a way of quickening or arousing our sinful nature to do evil. It has a way of awaking us to sinfulness, especially in sexual sins.
The Bible spoke about us awaking to righteousness. But that is not possible when the flesh is awake to sinful living. To be awake simply means to be alive or active.
THE REASON MANY OF US STRUGGLE WITH SINFUL HABITS IS BECAUSE OUR FLESH IS ACTIVE TOWARDS SIN.
When the flesh is dead or inactive towards sin, we will never struggle with sinful habits. We will never live in sin. That is why men like Paul will tell you, “For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor” (Galatians 2:18 NKJV).
One way we build the things we destroyed (the sinful habits we destroyed) is by exposing ourselves to spiritual pollutants afresh; things that transmits spiritual toxins into the hearts of the sanctified. In other words, there is no way you will not transgress if you expose yourself to things that will spiritually pollute you like David did.
Sadly, the spiritual pollution in the world today seem to be worse than the ones in previous generations. Technology has multiplied and made them so close to us; we now sit with them, sleep with them, and keep them closer to us than ever before, and for most of us our smart phones have become weapons of Holiness destruction (WHD) in the hands of the enemy.
When we open our face book pages, there are chances that we will see some obscene images or read some words that quicken the flesh to sin. Many are hooked up to pornography by the power of YouTube. It’s really getting messier down here. Divine destinies are at stake.
People now go to hell at a faster rate than before. As soon as Children are born, hell bound parents will register them for eternal damnation immediately using their smart phones.
That’s why sometimes I pray that the LORD suspend everything and come now to take us home.
BUT HOW CAN HE TAKE US HOME THAT FAST WHEN HIS REDEMPTIVE PLANS ARE YET TO BE COMPLETED.
There must be another way for the redeemed to be saved from these things while we wait, and that way is the way of living the crucified life by dying daily, like Paul did and not getting polluted like David. Paul wrote saying:
“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” Galatians 2:20 NKJV
Sadly, messages on the crucified life no longer exist in the church today. No book on it is on our shelves. We are full of books on deliverance, financial prosperity and making our marriages work but no book on living the Crucified life. We forget that Jesus’ prescription for a peaceful and prosperous life is not a deliverance or prosperity book but a crucified life.
A crucified life generates so much power that devils cannot come a hundred meters close. It is full of freedom, faith, and the consuming glory of God. It knows no poverty or lack. It is beyond curses and satanic attacks.
A Crucified life does not expose its heart to spiritual pollutants. It is dead to sin and the satanic. It does not sit before what do not edify. It is confined to deep intimacy with Jesus and dies daily to sin and all forms of carnal cravings.
It does not fix its eyes on pornographic pictures or watch movies that activate sexual feelings. Fasting, to a Crucified life, is a tool for serving God. It is an instrument of worship, and he uses it very well to keep himself spiritually planted on the mountains of God’s holiness.
No one leads a crucified life and not unleash his divine destiny. It is the key to running the race that is set before us well and finishing strong. Everyone who fulfilled divine destiny accurately embraced the Crucified life. But everyone who did not, rejected the Crucified life.
FOR INSTANCE, SAMSON WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ON THE LAPS OF DELILAH IF HE HAD LED THE CRUCIFIED LIFE.
The brethren who brought in damnable heresies in the early Church would not have done so if they had embraced the Crucified life. If you want to know how to live the Crucified life, study the life of Paul the apostle. He was the pioneer of the crucified life in the post resurrection Church. Even Peter had to learn from him.
In fact, the Bible made it clear that Jesus raised and fashioned him for us to have him as a pattern of the Christian life; that was after the 12 had slipped into Judaism.
Child of God as we bring this to a close, understand that “glorious things are spoken concerning you O city of God.” You are a City of God on the face of the earth. In other words, your divine destiny is pregnant with precious promises that are designed to be fulfilled in your life during your stay on this side of eternity.
Some may have been revealed to you. That is why our devotional text today is saying to us;
“Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God’s fear.”.
That means the fulfillment of the precious promises that our divine destiny is pregnant with is conditioned on us perfecting holiness in the fear of God. And that can only be done by purifying ourselves from every pollution of the flesh and spirit.
Are you ready to unleash your divine destiny? If the answer is yes, then make this devotional your meditation. Decide to lead a Christian life that is separated from spiritual pollutions. And the only way to do that is to live the Crucified life that Jesus used Paul to fashion out for us.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY;
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works.
Matthew 16:24-27 NKJV
