TODAY’S DEVOTION (MONDAY 13TH April 2026)
“Search from the book of the Lord, and read: Not one of these shall fail;
Not one shall lack her mate. For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them.” Isaiah 34:16 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 103RD DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY
Strategic victories are created by the Holy Spirit. The more we allow Him to work in our lives, the more we see strategic victories.
It’s been 103 days today since we step into this year, and God has been faithful to us. Day unto day we have been experiencing His mercies. Sometimes it has been difficult, but God’s precious promises have also been seeing us through. Indeed, He keeps them in perfect peace whose minds are stayed on Him.
In a world that is fighting and going after our minds, through our smart phones, our thoughts, our feelings, what we see or hear, we must be intentional in directing our minds on the LORD. That was exactly what Joshua, the second leader of Isreal did in His days.
God had said to Him:
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Joshua 1:8 NKJV
In simple terms, God was helping him win the battle for our minds that the world around us usually wage to enslave it. The part of our life the world and the things in it rages to possess and enslave is our minds not our legs.
Someone may control your leg, but it is the person that controls the mind that is really in control. The great militaries of this world are controlled not by the kinetic power they possess but by the mind of one man who sit as commander in chief.
FRIEND YOUR MIND IS WHAT THE WORLD, THE DEVIL OR THE SINFUL FLESH WANT TO ENSLAVE. DO NOT FORGET THAT!
That is what the enlightened believer fights to protect. The enlightened believer in Christ knows that once the corrupt world, the devil, or the sinful flesh controls his mind, the Holy Spirit will no longer determine what happens in his life. Something from the Kingdom of darkness will be determining what happens in his life.
The Holy Spirit cannot determine what happens in the life of the believer whose mind is controlled by spiritually dead things on the smart phone, ungodly feelings and desires of the flesh, the information in the corrupt world even if it is entertaining, and the influence of demons or devils etc.
No matter how you pray and fast, the Holy Spirit will not be able to determine what happens in your life, until the book of the law or the word of the LORD becomes the greatest influence of your mind. If the corrupt world, the devil, and the sinful flesh enslave your mind, something outside God will be determining what incubates in it, and what happens in your life. That is the truth!!
The enlightened believer knows that it is the realm that controls his mind that controls his life, and that is what all of us must know. If we know that, we will do exactly what Joshua did.
The Bible teaches us that Joshua was on a serious mission that had no room for failure. God never bothered about his stomach, ears, legs, or physical fitness. God bothered about his mind. He bothered about what should be going on in his mind, because that is where success or failure in life is incubated.
Yes, decisions that will sink us or lift us up incubates in our minds.
Actions that will result in pain or joy, peace or adversity, losses or gains, progress or regression, illness or sound health, lack or abundance, a beautiful life or an accursed life, affliction or comfort, financial blessing or poverty, marital bliss or marital chaos, sorrows or joy, and a lot of other things are incubated in the mind.
IF THE MIND DO NOT INCUBATE IT, THE LIFE CANNOT HAVE IT. THAT IS THE PRINCIPLE!
Anything you desire in life must first be incubated in your mind before it can occur or happen in your life. Satan knows this more than anyone. That is why if he wants to kill, steal or destroy something in our lives, he will use things that seems harmless and entertaining from the corrupt world, his demons or the sinful flesh to transmit something that will incubate what he wants to do in our lives in our minds.
Once it is incubated, in a matter of time it will be born in our lives. That is how he fulfills his mission in our lives. He plants seeds of words, feelings, thoughts, desires in our minds, so they can incubate what he wants in our lives.
You might be praying, fasting, warring effectively in the spirit and binding his works, that will not really change anything in your life if he can still access your mind and plant things he wants to incubate in it. That is why we must give no place to the devil, so that he won’t take over our minds.
Joshua was told to incubate good success by allowing the word of the LORD dominate, influence, lay hold of, or run through his mind on daily basis. God gave him that as a secret to be kept diligently, a principle to be upheld on daily bases until good success was incubated and hashed in his life. We must do the same. Again, the word said,
“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” Joshua 1:8 NKJV
The secret in this scripture was the force behind the great victories Joshua got in his life and ministry. He used the word of the LORD to keep his mind from being snatched by the world and all its influences, because the mind is the control station of the human life.
YOU COULD BE VERY POWERFUL, BUT THE PERSON WHO CONTROLS YOUR MIND IS THE ONE THAT DETERMINES YOUR END.
Samson was powerful but Delilah determined his end because she controlled his mind. Most men are great and powerful, but some loose women out there or some unfit wives are the ones controlling their minds, that is why they do stupid things sometimes. The mighty fall because the weak controlled their minds at some points and incubates things in their lives that can throw them down from exalted positions.
If you are gifted and talented but not progressing, something is controlling your mind and hindering you from succeeding. If you will ever come out well in life, the word of the LORD must control your mind so that the Holy Spirit can determine what happens in it.
If the devil determine what happens in your life, you will have a life full of sorrows, sinful living, doubts, bitterness, carnal desires, ups and downs, struggles, sometimes diseases, death, destruction and all that makes a human life a life of misery and pain. But if the Holy Spirit controls your life, no good thing will be withheld from you.
Our devotional text says,
“Search from the book of the Lord, and read: Not one of these shall fail; Not one shall lack her mate. For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them.” Isaiah 34:16 NKJV
It is our responsibility to always search the scriptures, read them and meditate on them, so that what the mouth of the LORD commands into our lives can be performed by the Spirit of the LORD. Do not forget, the Spirit of the LORD will perform in our lives what God commands to happen only if our minds are controlled by the word of the LORD, like the mind of Joshau was.
So, I can say your destiny is not in the hands of your enemies but in the hands of what or who controls what incubates in your mind. God wants us to allow His word to control what incubates in our minds, so that He can fill our lives with perfect peace. Amen
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!!
Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God] is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked [following their advice and example],
Nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit [down to rest] in the seat of scoffers (ridiculers).
But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And on His law [His precepts and teachings] he [habitually] meditates day and night.
And he will be like a tree firmly planted [and fed] by streams of water, Which yields its fruit in its season; Its leaf does not wither; And in whatever he does, he prospers [and comes to maturity]. Psalm 1:1-3 AMP
