TODAY’S DEVOTION (FRIDAY 24TH April 2026)
“But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.” Matthew 7:26-27 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 114TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY
God is faithful! He is faithful even when we are faithless. It is His faithfulness that sees us through especially in our season of faithlessness, so we can be pulled back to the place of faithfulness to Him.
In His surpassing Love, God is full of amazing acts and graces that can get any religious mind angry at the rate He quickly forgives our sins and restores us back again. Truly, He is not willing that any should perish. The Bible says:
“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9 NKJV
The essence of forgiving us our sins and restoring us back again so quickly is to bring us to permanent repentance and establish us in His will. That is why those who do not understand the vision of God’s forgiveness end up destroying themselves through persistent sins, and repeated unfaithfulness.
You find many of us abusing this aspect of God’s goodness and doing repeated sinful and self-hurtful things in hope that God’s faithfulness that saw us through yesterday will see us through today. What a destructive assertion to build a walk with God on?
Ignorance of God’s ways and operational system has been man’s greatest killer. Taking His mercies for granted has been the destruction of many of us in the Christian faith, leading do a life of sowing to please the flesh over and over and reaping corruption over and over as well.
The greatest apostolic mission of end time apostles and prophets is to damage the ignorance of GOD in men and bring the church to how it started. It is to bring all who call upon the name of the LORD to the place of living lives within His will and ways, because it is wisdom to be in God’s will and foolishness not to be in God’s will.
TODAY, WE WILL BE SHARING SOME TRUTHS ON THE BLESSING OF BEING IN GOD’S WILL ALL THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES.
Sometimes it is difficult to be in God’s will daily. That is what makes the knowledge of God and repentance powerful assets of the believer. Repentance is to bring a man back to God’s will. It is through it we terminate whatever wants to terminate the life of being in God’s will.
Our lives are only beautiful, healthy, and prosperous by God’s definition when we are actively in God’s will, both in choices and daily living. The devil attack our lives through deeds that are not God’s will, deeds that are sinful, ungodly and perverse.
Being in God’s will always attract a constant supply of His grace and the Unction to function in any assignment we may have been given by the LORD.
The impact of this grace and unction most times translates into financial prosperity and spiritual freedom; manifesting as freedom from a life of sin, captivity of Satan or the paralyzing influence of the evil and corrupt systems of this world.
Satan will prefer having us in what everyone sees as divine will, but in spirit and in truth, not really God’s will for our lives. He knows, outside God’s will he can be in perfect control of a man’s life, but within it he can’t. He will attach strong pleasure and sometimes financial prosperity to things that will lure us away from God’s will and keep our lives outside it. Sadly, many times we fall to it.
The Bible says anything built on the sand of a decision, deed, set of choices or desires that are outside God’s will for our lives, will be destroyed by the floods, winds or storms of life. That is what Jesus warned us about.
We will therefore save ourselves a lot if we pay the price to live lives that are always within God’s will and ways. The Bible also teaches that when our lives are built on the rock of decisions, deeds, choices, and desires that are in line with God’s will and ways, we survive the floods, winds, and storms of life.
It is therefore important that we build every decision we make, every deed, every choice and life desire on the rock of God’s will, and nothing else.
ANYTHING WE FOUND ON THE SAND WILL NOT STAND THE STORMS, WILL, AND FLOODS OF LIFE. IT WILL COME DOWN CRASHING ONE DAY.
Safety in time and eternity is in God’s will and ways and nothing else. Heaven is perfect harmony with God’s will and ways that is why it is full of glory. In the same way, our lives will be full of God’s glory over time, if we align perfectly with God’s will and ways in whatever we do.
The Bible teaches that the floods, storms and winds of life are not a matter of if but a matter of when.
Meaning, they are not conditional but unconditional. They come on the saved and unsaved, the spiritual and the not spiritual, the religious and the non-religious. But when they come only those whose deeds, choices, desires, and decisions are controlled by God’s will and ways will survive.
For instance, if a marriage is rooted in God’s will, and ran in God’s way, no demonic attacks on it will bring it down. But if it is rooted in the sand of humanistic ideologies, one little rumor – a false rumor will take it down. No matter how prayerful, anointed, supernatural, or aligned you are with God, the storms and winds of life will blow upon you.
But like Job, you will always come out more blessed.
They will leave you stronger than when they met you because you are running your life in God’s ways and making your choices, decisions and walking in desires that are aligned with God’s will. No storm, wind of life or flood, leaves a man whose life is in God’s will and ways flattened.
It leaves them standing, even after it seems to have flattened them.
The truth is, if your marriage, finances, faith, career, business, ministry etc. is built on the rock, the floods, storms and winds of life that come against them will leave them standing but if they are not built on the rock of divine wisdom, the same forces will flatten them down.
THE DIFFERENCE IN ALL WE GO THROUGH LIES IN WHERE OR WHAT OUR LIVES ARE FOUNDED UPON.
If our lives are found on the sand, we will never survive the hits we take from life perils and torture. Our devotional text says:
“But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.” Matthew 7:26-27 NKJV
Job went through one of the worst things a man’s life can be subjected to, but never fell because of where his heart, decisions, desires, choices, and deeds was founded. The foundation of his life kept him afloat all that the enemy did to him.
Your life and mine must be adjusted to sit strongly on the foundation of the rock of God’s will and ways, else there will be no hope for us despite our prayers. Being prayerful while living a life with choices, deeds, desires, or decision that seems religious but not controlled by God’s true will, is not the best.
Yes, it is not the best because it will render our prayers useless and never give us the good results our prayers should give us. You must understand that prayers only make our lives beautiful if our life choices, deeds, decisions and desires are controlled by God’s will and ways.
The difference between relationships, finances, businesses, faith, health, expectations, jobs, ministries, visions, plans, provisions, and whatever concerns life that is standing after the storms, floods, or winds of life, and the ones flattened, lies not just in prayer or lack of prayer. It lies in where the person’s life choices, decisions, deeds, and desires are found.
Are they found on the sand or the rock. That is the message.
No storm, flood or wind of life can throw down a church, ministry, or minister founded in God’s will. It may not touch any church found on deceit and deception and the power of Satan. Such churches are reserved by God for judgment in due time. But no such evil forces can successfully through down a marriage, family, or financial life founded in God’s will.
Being in God’s will attract a constant flow of the Holy Spirit that sustains our lives even during a storm of life. You will always find sufficient grace in any situation you find yourself in if your deeds, decisions, desires or life choices are rooted in God’s will and controlled by His ways. Amen!!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY;
And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.
Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 NKJV
