TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL (Thursday 9th July 2026)
“And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
Therefore “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.” ‘I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty.” 2 Corinthians 6:16-18 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 190th DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORIES!
We give God the glory for giving us another day!! We sleep and wake up because the keeper of Isreal does not sleep nor slumber. He watches over us with great care and concern.
In today’s devotional we shall be sharing on coming out of things that are hindering God from coming into our lives in His fulness. Let’s begin with some thoughts on the glory of God. There is the glory as the doxa of God, there is the glory as the kabod of God and there is the glory as the shekinah.
We have taught all this before but, in the days to come we shall re-teach them at our apostolic center. Generally, the glory of God is the storehouse of His goodness, manifestations, gifts, callings, graces, etc. Most of the divine promises we receive from God cannot come to pass until He steps into us and unleash His glory.
I do not know if God has spoken to you of something that He wants to do for you, in you, or through you, and yet it is not coming to pass. God’s glory manifesting in and through you is the key to seeing that thing Come to pass. In other words, it takes the manifestation of the glory of God in man for God’s will to be done in or through man.
That is why the ultimate vision of GOD for us is that He comes into our lives and tabernacle in us. He wants to tabernacle in us to unleash His glory on the earth. When God comes into our lives, our friends and enemies will know He has come.
He will begin to guide us with amazing lights and understanding on issues of life and driving darkness away from us. People who were not originally designed to be part of our destiny will suddenly withdraw from us when God’s glory kindle our lives or even become hostile.
I CALL THAT THE COST OF BECOMING GOD’S TABERNACLE ON EARTH.
But the lost, sick, dying and wounded will be attracted to us to be healed, delivered, restored, saved or helped by the LORD who lives in us. The Bible describes this as the glory of God coming upon us and the gentiles coming to our rising.
It happened to Jesus, who lived on earth physically over 2000 years ago. The pharisees hated him but not the poor and those in need.
That is how God enables us to do what He did. That is how we step into the greater works dimension. There are other things that happens when God comes into our lives in His fulness and live in us. But let us take a closer look at the cost of carrying the abiding presence of God.
When God comes into you and live in you, whatever and whoever is not of God in your life will begin to hate you; even a Church or a minister of the gospel filled with the spirit of hell will hate you. Agents of darkness you may have taken for husbands or wives will begin to withdraw from you or cause problems for you.
Everything that is not of God that may have attached itself to your life has a way of reacting when God comes into tabernacle in you, or when you step into the abiding presence dimension in Christ. But all that is the burden attached to the blessing, because it is better for God to dwell in me and men stay away from me, than for men to stay with me and God stay away from me.
When men stay with you and God do not, your life will be full of problems. But when God lives in you (and maybe men refuse to live with you), your life will be full of peace. The Bible says,
And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.
“And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.” Revelation 21:3-4 NKJV
IF YOU LOOK AT THIS SCRIPTURE CAREFULLY, YOU WILL DISCOVER AMAZING TRUTHS ON WIPING AWAY TEARS.
One of the truths is this; there are tears that cannot be wiped away from men until God OWN THEM and LIVE or TABERNACLE in them. Sadly, so many tears of men are wiped away that way. You just must have God in you (Christ actively in you) for all tears to be wiped away.
If you try to wipe such tears away by sowing seeds, fasting and prayer, running after and looking for prophets who should speak into your life, bringing anything they tell you to bring, or using whatever they instructed you to use in prayer, they will never be wiped away.
Sadly, so many are trying to wipe away tears that can only be wiped away when God tabernacles or live in them using other ways.
Understand that tears like persistent poverty, spiritual attacks, being due for marriage yet it’s not forth coming, what we call generational curses, things we blame on what deliverance ministers’ calls “foundational problems” or “evil altars” cannot be wipe away from men until GOD live in them.
Friend whatever evil work in your life that deliverance ministers may have blamed on your foundation or evil altars can only be neutralized in your life when God comes into your life to tabernacle in you. That is why I tell people it is not the presence of an evil foundation in their lives that is responsible for their problems but the absence of the foundation of the LORD in their lives.
When God tabernacles in your life, the Bible says no evil will befall you. The truth is, whatever cannot befall God will not befall you when God tabernacles in your life.
So, how do we come to the realm where God will tabernacle in us? Our devotional text today is full of the answers, because to me there is no other answer that can be more accurate than the one God Himself gave through Apostle Paul as captured in our devotional text.
A MAJOR HIGHLIGHT IN THE TEXT SAYS,
As God has said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.” Therefore “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.” ‘I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty.”
The only thing to do to come into that realm where God tabernacles people is to use His saving grace upon your life to come out of things that will not let Him dwell in you. You make use of that grace through fasting, prayers, and separation from anything considered unclean by Him (not by religion).
It could be a church that has become unclean in his sight, a business that is defiling you, a friend or carnal relationship, a pseudo marriage etc. It could even be a paradigm to shift away from; a thought system or mindset to dissolve by the power of scriptural revelations.
The point is you can use God’s saving grace upon your life to discern those things, places or people God wants you to come out from and come out from them. The guiding word is, “Come out from among them and be separate … and I will receive you.”
As we bring this to a close, I want to submit to you that there are dimensions of God you will never know until you come out of things that are spiritually unclean – marriages considered in Heaven as unclean, businesses considered in Heaven as unclean, Relationships considered in Heaven as unclean, Churches considered in Heaven as unclean, families considered in Heaven as unclean, and etc.
God will never unleash more of Himself into your life if you have not used His grace upon your life to walk away from things unclean. My prayer for us today is that we stop shortchanging our destinies through illegal attachments and alliances.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY
“O Corinthians! We have spoken openly to you, our heart is wide open. You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections. Now in return for the same(I speak as to children), you also be open.
“Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?”
“And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
Therefore “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.”
‘I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 2 Corinthians 6:11-7:1 NKJV
