TODAY’S DEVOTION (MONDAY 9TH MARCH 2026)
“Afterward it happened that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.” Judges 16:4-5 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 68TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY
The LORD God has spoken, who can but prophesy!!
It is a new day from our GOD; I want to begin by thanking Him for the successful Abuja Prophetic Apostolic Training School that we had. He did it and our hearts are full of thanks. He gave us the word of direction to organize the meeting and gave us the resources by the hands of His sons and daughters at the Cry of the Spirit Ministries Global to actualize every of His intention.
Indeed, what a glorious God is He, heaven and earth adore Him, angels bows before Him. Until He moves, we have nothing of such to celebrate. To Him belong all glory. Amen and amen.
Let me also appreciate the beautiful people He used; all who gave towards this meeting. The meeting was a training school for key leaders in the fore front; the men and women have been oiled and have gone back to the field, with blueprints for kingdom building. You will therefore be surprised at the rewards you will get in Heaven when you fulfill your days on earth.
Thank you for trusting me enough to commit your resources for this noble apostolic assignment. Thank you for the financial sacrifice we all paid; yes, for some of us, it was painful, but am here to tell you, with all I saw God did in the meeting, it was worth it.
It takes sacrifice to do certain things in God’s kingdom. We had such a meeting without taking an offering, all because you stood in the gap, and men in gap will not miss their rewards. My prayer is that you will continue to serve the LORD, walking with Him, and doing His blessed will until your time on earth is over. Amen
TODAY, THE LORD HAS A WORD FOR US. I HOPE WE ARE READY!!
We want to look at the blessing of having good people in your life and the curse of having the wrong ones. There are people who function as the messengers of peace in a man’s life, and those who function as messengers of death. The life of a man needs the messengers of peace to become what God wants it to be, not the messengers of death.
The Bible is full of people who functioned as messengers of peace or death in the lives of others. Delilah was a messenger of death in the life of Samson, but Elijah was a messenger of peace both to Isreal and Elisha. While Delilah succeeded in reducing Samson’s ministry to nothing within a few weeks, except for the intervention of God, Elijah withstood Baal and empowered Elisha to release destiny.
It was the ministry of Elijah that exposed the works of Baal to the nation and took Elisha from being a farmer to becoming what God created him to be, a prophet in the shoes of Elijah. On the flip side, it was the ministry of Delilah that took a formidable man of God in Samson, to the place of blindness and eventual shame and reproach until God intervened.
The wrong people will bring you shame, death, pain, and all your life do not need to be bright and beautiful, but the right ones will bring you all your life needs to be bright and beautiful; yes, it will propel you to the release of destiny. You need the messengers of peace in your life.
Jezebel was a messenger of death and destruction of moral values in the life of both Ahab and Isreal. God had to use a messenger peace, in Elijah to stop her activities in the land and wipe them away over time. God’s messengers of peace are sometimes used as weapons of war in dealing with the enemies of His people.
Yes, they can be used to neutralize the works of the messengers of death and destruction in our lives. It is my prayer that the LORD unleash His messengers of people upon your life to fix or eliminate the activities of the messengers of death and destruction in your life, in Jesus precious name. Amen
A LIFE WITHOUT GOD’S MESSENGERS OF PEACE, MIGHT BE DESTROYED BY THE MESSENGERS OF DEATH.
Sadly, our fallen nature pulls the messengers of death to us, in so many ways. Either by making us lust after them, desire their presence in our lives, or give them our time, talents, treasures and even hearts. Once they have all that we are gone.
That is why it is dangerous to yielded to the flesh. If Samson had walked in the laws of the LORD, which was what it means to walk in the spirit in that dispensation, he would not have attracted Delilah to his life. Our devotional text says:
“Afterward it happened that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.” Judges 16:4-5 NKJV
His love for someone who was in the Valley of Sorek, was by the power of the flesh. If he was walking in the spirit (ways of the LORD), he would not have loved her. You do not love people in spiritual valleys of fatal darkness, contagious sin, iniquity and trespass, with a romantic love. You love them with agape Love, the love that redeems them from the valley.
The reason is because most of them are usually connected to invisible spirits, dark habits, and unclean things that will defy your life or destroy you altogether. Delilah was connected to those who wanted Samson death, hence passing that death to him, and qualifying as a messenger of death.
She was not the one that wanted him death, but she was connected to those who wanted him death.
THAT MADE HER A MESSENGER OF DEATH. SHE WAS NOT AN ASSASIN BUT A DIFFERENT CLASS!!
A messenger of death in her class, can be loving, caring and needful, but connected to things, people, spirits, or unclean factors, that are very dangerous and contagious, or circumstances and devils that are looking for you, naturally or spiritually, to kill, destroy, defy, defame, or neutralize you. That is what makes them dangerous.
Usually, this class of messengers of death do not possess wicked intent against the victims but are helplessly connected to things the devil can use to kill the victim; to kill their purity, prophetic foresight, success, life progress, sometimes finances, good name, and whatever will make their lives bright and beautiful.
God sent this word this morning because he wants us free from the messengers of death. Time to bow the knee in prayer seeking the LORD for help. Time to ask Him for the wisdom, courage and strength to circumcise yourself from such people, and move on in life!!!
Sometimes the school of circumcision is where one need to go to be able to deliver themselves from this class of messengers of death!! The church at Corinth had some of these kinds of people, whose presence was defying the church through sexual immorality, and the apostolic order was circumcision. You must apply the same to your life!!!
If you do not embrace circumcision, the reproach of Egypt might remain on your life, not because of you but because of someone in your space or your life!!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY:
“I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.”
“But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner — not even to eat with such a person.
“For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”
1 Corinthians 5:9-13 NKJV
