TODAY’S DEVOTION (Monday 23rd June 2025)
“Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.” Daniel 11: 32 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 174TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
Yesterday, we began refreshing our minds on some truths we have shared on this platform in time past; what our destiny needs to be fulfilled. We shared that the first thing our destiny needs to be fulfilled is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
The reason is because, our GOD is our destiny maker. The Bible says by Him were all things created. Meaning He created us and created our destiny as well and a relationship with Him must be established before our divine destiny can be fulfilled or unlocked.
People with no relationship with the LORD fulfill what the enemy plans but those who do fulfills what God plans. A man’s divine destiny is all about God’s pre-determined plans for his life. Lacking a personal relationship with Him; the one who pre-determined the plans and purposes that are to be fulfilled in your life, will be a huge problem.
So, no one can release his or her divine destiny without first having a personal relationship with the maker of all destinies. It is as simple as that.
The Bible says it is the zeal of the maker of our destiny that performs His plans and purposes. Relationship with Him will place us on the wings of His zeal and get what He may have preplanned for us accomplished.
I have heard people say, “life begins at 40,” that could be true because they alone know what they mean. But I have come to discover that life could begin at 40 but meaningful living begins when we meet Jesus and start a relationship with Him.
That is why everyone who had ever fulfilled his or her divine destiny came into the consciousness of divine destiny after having an encounter with the pre incarnate or resurrected Christ, not when they clocked 40.
So, your true life will begin when you meet the LORD, get baptized in the Holy Ghost, and come into the revelation of why you were born. Not when you clock 40 years on earth.
IN FACT, BY GOD’S DESIGN, YOU SHOULD BEGIN TO HIT BIG BREAKS IN HIS PLANS FOR YOUR LIFE AT 30.
So, beginning life at 40 is even too late. True life begins when you meet the LORD. Any life you live outside relationship with the LORD is a life but not the true-life God wants you to live. There was a canonized Bible figure who figured this over 2000 years ago. His name was Saul. In his own words, he said
“Indeed, I myself thought I must do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
This I also did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them.
And I punished them often in every synagogue and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities. Acts 26:9-11 NKJV
These words were canonized because of their eternal content on divine destiny. Saul continued in the direction we just read until he met the LORD Jesus on the road to Damascus. When he did, everything Changed.
After the radical encounter with the LORD, he stepped into the revelation of his divine destiny and became Paul the apostle. That teaches us that no one will ever step into divine destiny without a radical encounter followed by multiple subsequent encounters with the LORD Himself.
Here is how it works; your destiny will need an encounter with the LORD to be discovered, and subsequent encounters on the premise of a consistent relationship with Him to be fulfilled. That brings us to the next thing your destiny will need to be fulfilled.
YOUR DESTINY WILL NEED COUNTLESS TIMES IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD TO BE FULFILLED.
Through countless times in God’s presence, we submit to the LORD to help us build a peg in the Holy Place. And if we do not do that, we will never be able to fulfill our divine destinies. Everyone who ever fulfilled his or her divine destiny spent countless times with the LORD in prayer.
Paul the apostle said he fasted often – in other words he spent time in God’s presence often. That was why He was able to unleash all the LORD called him to unleash. That was why he finished strong. We are the next on God’s list. At the completion of his work on earth, he said,
“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”
“Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.” 2 Timothy 4:7-8 NKJV
Why was he so sure and accurate? The countless times he spent with the LORD and maker of his destiny made that possible.
You see, what a good soil is to a good seed, is what the presence of God is to a divine destiny. That tells us, that the greatest need of a man of destiny is the presence of GOD not the presence of men.
In a fast-food generation like ours, where no one wants to spend time with the LORD, very few will be able to accurately fulfill their divine destiny. That is why you see many Christians today fulfilling the plans and purposes of the devil against their lives.
They spend quality time with YouTube and face book absorbing things that do not edify but spend no time with God’s book and all that GOD put in place on earth to help us taste for more of Him and find a peg in His Holy presence. Many spend time with movies and political events but do not spend quality time in God’s presence to absorb His visions and revelation for their lives.
YES, YOU WILL NEED COUNTLESS TIMES IN GOD’S ACTIVE PRESENCE, ABSORBING HIS VISIONS AND REVELATIONS FOR YOUR LIFE TO FULFILL YOUR DIVINE DESTINY.
Friend, if you do not cultivate the habit of spending countless times with the LORD, no matter what you know about your divine destiny, it will never be fulfilled. You will face so many hindrances that will stall the manifestation of God’s plans and purposes for your life.
A time in His presence every now and then is the second thing your divine destiny will need to be fulfilled. A major Highlight in our devotional text today says; “but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.”
In other words, they will absorb what it takes to accomplish great things that God has predestined them to accomplish. That was why the early church did what no church generation has been able to do. They all knew their God. You can not know God the way they did and not generate the power that reform moral landscapes the way they did.
Sadly, our church generation’s friendship with the world is not letting us know our God. The motive of many church leaders is hindering everyone under them from knowing the one and only true God that the early church knew.
The word KNOW here is not head knowledge, but intimate knowledge.
We can only know GOD intimately through countless hours with the LORD studying His word to absorb His revelation, praying, and sometimes fasting along. That is what our destiny needs to be unleashed. To carry out great exploits for Jesus is to fulfill all His plans and purposes for your life.
As you embrace this glorious day make this devotional your meditation. God wants you to unleash your divine destiny. He wants you to carry out great exploits for Him.
But that will never happen until you change the way you lead your spiritual life and begin to spend countless hours with Him in prayer. The corruption, decay and devils ruining our world are waiting for the outbreak of God’s glory through us to change the spiritual landscapes of nations and reap souls for eternal salvation.
May the LORD find us all worthy of His use. Amen!!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!
“Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business; but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
“And the saying pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch, whom they set before the apostles; and when they had prayed, they laid hands on them.”
“Then the word of God spread, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith”. Acts 6:3-7 NKJV
