TODAY’S DEVOTION (WEDNESDAY 8TH April 2026)
“I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.”
“He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.”
“I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.” Ecclesiastes 3:10-12 KJV
WELCOME TO THE 98TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY
The scripture of our devotional text is loaded with mysteries about time. We will need more than a devotional to uncover the entire truth in it. But let’s begin with praise to our God for bringing us peacefully to the end of another Easter season.
Some of us have witnesses over 40 easters seasons, others 50, others 60 and some others less. Irrespective of how many seasons you have witnessed, its good to give thanks to the LORD!!
Who is like unto this God? Who make wars to cease! Who created days and appointed man to live peacefully within them. Who is like unto this God! Among the gods who is like unto Him! Glorious in Holiness and fearful in praise! Doing wonders! Hallelujah!
There will never be another 2026 Easter season until the consummation of all things. This will be the one and only. It came, we saw it, and yesterday it bid us farewell forever, giving way to a brand season of the year. Amen!!
I grew up understanding that Life is all about God given opportunities. Each day is an opportunity and each season as well. The days we have seen this year only are gifts that came with many opportunities. I perceive some used them to do God’s righteous will for their lives, others have not,
Yes, sadly, there are those who have not made positive use of the days they have seen this year because of what they feed their souls with. What you feed your soul with is what determines how your days turn out and if you will make use of the days to do the will of God or not.
The truth remains, without a good church to feed you with rich spiritual food, a divine plan to guide you daily, some natural and divine wisdom to apply in decision making, and a courageous heart to use in facing the challenges of life squarely with the aim of defeating them under God, a year will come and go and leave you worse than it met you.
THE LORD DOES NOT WANT OUR DAYS TO COME AND GO WITHOUT US MAKING USE OF THEM.
If you could not make use of the over 90 days that we have seen this year alone, especially to improve your life, by improving your walk and talk with God, another 90 days will come and go and leave you the same. God wants you to make use of the days we see properly. He created days to bless us not to ruin us.
The reason God created days, weeks, months, and years is simply for signs and seasons. It is to help us number our days so we can apply our hearts to wisdom. If we do not therefore, make use of them to apply our hearts to wisdom, we will lose big time.
It may interest you to be reminded again (as we have always done through this devotionals) that God does not live in time. He lives in eternity. To Him therefore, there are no natural nights, no days, no weeks, no months. Yes, no Januarys, Februarys, March, etc.
Though He created natural days and placed mankind within them, He has His own unique calendar. He does not live in natural days. I remember teaching about that in one of our conferences. The message was titled “Winning the Battles of your Prophetic Days.”
Meaning, His plans for us are not in time but eternity. In other words, they are not governed by our own time but His own time. Consequently, things do not leave Heaven to the earth in our own time. They do so in His time frame.
Sadly, sometimes His time frame clashes with ours and since many of us do not know how to recognize or submit to it we end up losing whatever He came to bless our lives with. That is why the Life of many Christians goes in a cycle and is stagnated.
THEY DO NOT KNOW HOW TO RECOGNIZE GOD’S TIME OF VISITATION AND THINGS THAT MAKES FOR THEIR PEACE.
Those who have so-called prophets in their lives, find things more difficult. Instead of the prophets pointing this truth to them they point them at the altars of their father’s houses and some devils. Jesus Himself made it clear that many of us suffer and are stagnated in life because we do not Know our time of visitation; we do not know when God has come to move us to the next level.
Meaning, we either cannot recognize it or rejects it all together each time it comes. The Bible says:
“Be you humbled therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in the time of visitation: Casting all your care upon him, for he hath care of you.” 1 Peter 5:6-7 Douay-Rheims
That brings us to the challenge every Child of God faces; how can we relate successfully with this God who does not live in our time but in His eternity?
The only way we can relate successfully with Him is to know His time of visitation and be ready for it. A people who do not know how to humble themselves, accept, then come into God’s time of visitation for them will remain trapped in the perils of life.
Things can only be made beautiful in our lives in God’s time. If we cannot therefore humbly see, sense and cease the moments, things will remain ugly in our lives. A Major highlight in our devotional text today says,
“I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.”
The word travail in this scripture simply means God given task. It has nothing to do with suffering or adversity. The Bible was referring to what God has assigned us to do within our own time frame.
AND THAT TO ME IS TO DISCOVER HIS TIME AND ALIGN TO IT – ALIGN TO ITS DEMANDS. OR IN OTHER WORDS, RESPOND TO IT!
God’s time comes with deliverances to receive, blessings to collect, instructions to obey, visions to pursue and execute, plans and purpose to make our goals, etc. That is why His time is called day of visitation. It is usually full of divine moments to sense and see through the eyes of faith and cease swiftly.
One thing about divine moments is that when they come and we do not see, sense and cease them, they go back to eternity, leaving us dry. That is why many of us are still stagnated in life. Don’t forget, until things leave Heaven to the earth of our lives, we will never go forward in life. And the time they do so is in God’s time (or God’s Day of visitation, or divine moments) not our time.
That brings us to the second truth we can glean from the same devotional text. It says “He hath made everything beautiful in his time:”
Why is God’s time so powerful? It is powerful because that is the only time He moves to make things beautiful! If you wait for Him in your own time, you will never see Him.
For instance, many are still single today because they do not understand this mystery. They thought it was God’s time to get married when the met a particular man or woman and started courting or dating them. Eventually things turned out sour leaving them still single – even worse than they were before the relationship.
The Bible spoke about an evil time. It says,
“For man also does not know his time: Like fish taken in a cruel net, Like birds caught in a snare, So the sons of men are snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.” Ecclesiastes 9:12 NKJV
What is an evil time? There are two basic times in scriptures, God’s time and our time. In God’s time He makes things beautiful, but in our time He does not. The Bible calls God’s time beautiful and calls every other time evil. An evil time therefore is a time that is not God’s.
IT COULD BE OURS, THAT OF OUR LOVED ONES OR THAT OF THE DEVIL, BUT IT IS NOT GOD’S TIME.
The single lady or young man who thought it was time to get married but ended up becoming a single mother or single father missed God’s time. He took a decision in an evil time and got the consequences. Evil times are times Satan uses to ensnare us and deposit some Ishmael’s in our lives.
All the scars in my life and your life, if investigated, will turn out to be products of things we did in an evil time. And if you look at your life also you can say the same thing as me. Our pains in life are usually products of things we did in an evil time.
No one can happily pass through this world doing things in an evil time. That was what Jesus knew, hence waiting for divine timing for every healing He gave, every dead He raised, and every move He made. He did not even submit to death until it was time. Anytime outside that, would have been an evil time, and if Jesus had died in an evil time, He would have remained in the grave to this day.
If therefore you want to move forward in life, you must be sensitive to God’s time or divine moments. You must walk in the revelation we just shared. You must cease doing things in your time because your time (or that of any other person who loves you) is an evil time. Only God’s time is beautiful.
And do not forget, things will always be ugly in your life if you keep doing things in your own time and trusting God to take care of you. God will never take care of you if you do not recognize His timing for you and align to it.
Friend, it is better to get married in a beautiful time than in an evil time no matter what the time promises. It is better to get rich in a beautiful time than in an evil time. The Book of Ecclesiastes chapter 3 tells us the two basic types of timings on the face of the earth. It tells us that there is a time to sow and a time to reap.
IF YOU SOW WHEN YOU OUGHT TO REAP OR REAP WHEN YOU OUGHT TO SOW, YOUR FINANCIAL LIFE WILL REMAIN UGLY.
It also tells us of a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing. Meaning, there are seasons to socialize and seasons not to socialize. If you socialize when you ought not to socialize you will plunge yourself into things that even prayer may not save you.
Knowing God’s timing for things is the best way to lead a Christian life!
Sadly, Satan has a way of making an evil time look beautiful and attractive to us, consequently impregnating us with the urge to move into things thinking its God’s timing. The attack is basically to make us miss the blessing. But I trust God has made someone wiser today. You will not fall into an evil time again in Jesus precious name!
As we bring this to a close, I want you to understand that there is a people Jesus is currently weeping over; Christians who are about falling into some calamities because they do not understand their time of visitation. May you not be part of a Christian generation that do not know the timings of the LORD! Amen.
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!!
Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.”
“For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.” Luke 19:41-44 NKJV
