TODAY’S DEVOTION (TUESDAY 17TH FEBRUARY 2026)
“Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 1:28 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 48TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY
The life of a believer is designed to be sustained by the word of the LORD. Yes, we that are redeemed by the LORD to become sons of God, are designed to be sustained by the voice of our Father.
It is the voice of a father that feeds, protects, preserves, sustains, defends, builds, edifies, aligns, blesses and makes a son wise. If the voice of a father is absent in the life of a son, a lot of the father will be absent in his life. That is why people who do not have ideal fathers in their lives, providing the very voice they need, do not grow well. They live a life that is vulnerable.
God does not want us to live lives that are vulnerable. He is our Father and wants His voice in our lives. He wants us to give His word the attention it deserves so that His voice can be guiding our minds; emotions, will, intellect, imagination and memory. He wants His voice at the center of our lives.
Neglecting the daily intake of His word, in a season the old believers call quiet time, will not let that happen, and it is the reason for the problems believers go through. It is the reason many run to and fro looking for what God is saying from the mouth of those they call prophets.
They do not sit with Him as designed by Him to hear Him, or else doing all that.
If we do not have time to hear God, devils will make us hear them successfully, killing our joy, our health, our finances, our progress, and taking good advantage of the spiritual ignorance that results.
SADLY, THAT HAS BECOME THE SITUATION WITH MANY.
Understand that if we do not intentionally take our time to sit down and hear from God, Satan will make us sit down and hear from him through the things he will be doing in our lives, that is the truth. To hear from is a euphemism that means to suffer a backlash. We will suffer spiritual attacks and be hindered by the enemy as a backlash if we keep neglecting the word.
Time has come to tell ourselves the truth and wake up, because even those of us who are busy for God do not give the word of the LORD its due time to speak to us, edify us, build our faith and bring us into the presence of God right there in our homes. We go about edifying others, but we are not being edified.
Yes, some get the word in their churches but have no time for it at home. That is very dangerous, because over 90 percent of God’s goodness will be missed in your life if you do not give His word its rightful place. If the word of the LORD is neglected, it will not do what God designed His word to do in our world of pain, sorrow, restlessness, etc.
Now, it is one thing to give the word of the LORD the attention it deserves and another for it to benefit us. If one does not know what it means to mix the word with faith, then even attention to it will not change anything. That is why yesterday’s devotional is important.
In it, God spoke to us about the true meaning of mixing His word with faith, and the mystery of a human spirit that is fruitful and full of God.
Today we will be going further to see how to get our human spirits full of God, alive and fruitful. Let me begin with the natural. In the natural realm, Fruitfulness is something we are born with. Apart from genetic alteration that cause unfruitfulness in men and women sometimes, fruitfulness is a gift of nature. In other words, God designed that a man or woman be born fruitful.
Our devotional text explained it all. It says, “and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply;” If you look at those words you will realize that God did not say to them be barren. He said to them be fruitful.
THAT IS WHAT WE WERE DESIGNED TO BE; FRUITFUL NOT BARREN.
However, some are barren, and they are not barren because God created them to be barren; they are barren because genetic alteration, satanic hindrances, or what they did with themselves made them so. Bareness was never a plan of God for mankind. God designed that a man or woman be born fruitful.
The same word was spoken to all animals. God created all living things to be fruitful and multiply. Now, what is true of the natural is true of the spiritual. God designed that we are born again with a fruitful spirit. In other words, “salvation experience” is God’s way of getting our spirits alive and fruitful.
When we are born naturally our spirits are dead, unfruitful, and empty of God. But spiritual birth changes everything. It quickens our spirits, transmits life into it, and makes it unfruitful in the things of this world and fruitful in the things of God. Hallelujah!!
That is why when someone is genuinely saved, he will no longer be fruitful in the things of this world. If he was an active sinner, he will no longer be able to live that way any longer. If he were a night crawler, a drunk, a sexually pervert, a liar, a thief, a fraud, a greedy or covetous person, his encounter with Jesus will change everything.
Everything changes because his spirit has become fruitful in the things of God and barren in the things of this world, ungodliness, sin called pleasure etc. Genuine salvation experience is therefore the key to spiritual fruitfulness. That is why it is dangerous to falsify your salvation. If your salvation is false, your spirit will never become fruitful in the things of God and barren in the things of the world.
A fake salvation experience will result in a Christianity that is empty of God, dead in spirit, and unfruitful in the things of God.
In the light of this truth, you can see that many, even among us preachers, who claim born again are not really born again. We think being born again is joining a Church or making an empty confession. That is why many of us remain unfruitful in the things of God, but fruitful in the things of this world despite our so-called salvation.
YOU FIND US LIVING THE VERY LIVES THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD LIVE AND CALLING IT WEAKNESS.
To get our spirits fruitful for the word to profit us, we must be born again and learn to keep our spirits full of God by committing to Him. If you genuinely get saved but do not keep your spirit full of God, alive and fruitful by being committed to Holy living, corporate worship, personal devotion, and in-depth study of God’s word, the word of the LORD will not profit you.
The Bible says, “Work out your salvation with fear and trembling.”
If each of us will not wake up from spiritual slumber and begin to work out our salvation with fear and trembling, we will be sorry both in time and eternity. We will not be able to maintain the spiritual condition that allows the word that we feed on in our closet or hear in church, to profit us.
The early Church leaders led the Church to keep their spirits full of God, alive and fruitful in the things of God by committing themselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word. In other words, they used dedication to prayer and the word to maintain the spiritual condition that kept making the word of the LORD to profit them. Their lives teaches us about the power of spending time with the LORD.
Friend, how long we spend with God and His word in prayer on daily bases is what truly determine how full of God, alive, and fruitful we will be in the things of God. People who have no private relationship with God will never have a life that is fruitful in the things of God.
If you are fruitful in the things of God, no resistance will be able to stop you. The enemy will not be able to build a wall of resistance against you. Your branch will always run over his wall of spiritual attacks and resistance.
As you embrace this day, may these precious truths be your meditation in Jesus precious name. Amen
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR US TODAY!!
“Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a well; His branches run over the wall.
Genesis 49:22 NKJV
