TODAY’S DEVOTION (Monday 22nd September 2025)
“My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and give praise. Awake, my glory! Awake, lute and harp! I will awaken the dawn.” Psalm 57:7-8 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 265th DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
Today we will be revising things we have shared on matters of the heart. Many years ago, Dr. Bynum said, “the heart of the matter is the matter of the heart.”
The heart is the seat of moral life. It is the gate between the visible and invisible. If a man’s life is better, it will depend on the realm his heart is connected to. That is why scriptures say we should guard our hearts with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life.
The responsibility of keeping the heart sound and well lies in our will and our fellowship with the Holy Spirit and the word of the LORD. On the part of our will, the question is, “are we willing to set our hearts to the right realm – the realm of God, or the wrong realm – the realm of men and darkness?”
If you do not treat your heart as a gate of the invisible realm (either good or bad), you will get your life stuck with things you cannot handle. Everyone who has ever related with God was made to tune his or her heart to the realm of God by spending time with His word day and night.
Joshua comes to mind here. God spoke to him saying.
“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 1:8-9 NKJV
We must understand that the words we allow into our hearts determine which realm our souls connect to, either the realm of darkness or the of light. The realm of darkness spew sadness, bitterness, rage, revenge, lust, ungodly cravings, greed, unbelief, etc. into our hearts. But that of light does the opposite.
It spews joy, happiness, kindness, mercifulness, patience, forgiveness for wrongs, self-control, the love of GOD, self-discipline, faith and all the great virtues you find in God into our hearts, making us some of the best people any sane person would want to be around.
WE ARE THE VERY REALM THAT OUR SOULS CONNECT. WHAT WE FEEL AND HOW WE BEHAVE ARE A PRODUCT OF THE REALM OUR SOULS CONNECT.
One of the great men of God who ever lived in our age was Smith Wigglesworth. Stories have it that he never read any other book in life apart from the Bible. He never read News Papers or exposed his heart to any information about from the Bible. The result was amazing. He got his heart connected to the right realm – the realm of God – all his Christian life.
What trailed his life after that is still unbelievable in some quarters.
I listened to Lister Sumrall share so many amazing stories about this man of God. He said Smith Wigglesworth was invited to attend a funeral service of a particular man. While the body of the dead man was laid in a little space within the place for viewing, people sat in the main hall participating in the funeral service.
The body was alone in that place and there was a door leading to where it was laid for viewing. Then Smith Wigglesworth walked in and went straight to where the corpse was lying. No one was with him, and no one followed him behind. He went to it and took the corpse and placed it on the walk and commanded it to walk. But it fell!
He did it again and it fell. He did it the third time screaming in anger; this time the dead man came back to life and walked.
Then the man of God held him hand by hand and walked with him out of the place to the man hall where his funeral was going one. The result was amazing! Everyone in the main hall ran away leaving Smith with the now living man.
THEY WILL LATER RETURN TO CELEBRATE THE POWER OF GOD.
If our hearts are sold out to God’s word, it will bring us to a glory realm where we will be doing amazing things that will snatch the lost world to Christ. That is what it means to be a Christian. Yes, being sold out to the word until we come to the realm of becoming a duplicate of GOD on the face of the earth, in words and in deeds.
Oh yes, being sold out to the Holy Spirit and the word of the LORD until we become mighty in words and deeds like Jesus was. He said the things He did we shall do also, and greater things than that shall we do because He goes to the Father. That is the reason for being saved. The Bible says,
“And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” Mark 16:17-18 NKJV
Until our hearts follow the word of the LORD the way that Smith did, the wonders of the word will not be performed in and through us. In other words, we will not become mighty in words and deeds like the word prophesied.
The Bible prophesied that anyone that the word of God comes to, especially in the frequency it came to Smith Wigglesworth, will become a small God in supernatural powers on the face of the earth. He will be able to do exactly what Jesus did, thereby becoming a true delegated authority of God on the face of the earth.
Time to reject a low level and powerless Christianity and accept the higher height of faith God has set for us. I will not ignore the season of low moments in the life of a Child of God. Because we still live in an imperfect world, low moments are bound to come.
However, what we do when such moments come is what really defines our strength in God. The Bible teaches that we must still be mighty in words and deeds despite our low moments, because it is not us that are at work, but God.
The word says,
“If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.
Deliver those who are drawn away to death, and those who totter to the slaughter, hold them back [from their doom].
If you [profess ignorance and] say, Behold, we did not know this, does not He who weighs and ponders the heart perceive and consider it? And He Who guards your life, does not He know it? And shall not He render to [you and] every man according to his works? Proverbs 24:10-12 AMP
EACH TIME I READ THIS SCRIPTURE I SEE THE EXPECTATION OF GOD FOR OUR LIVES.
God does not want our low moments to consume us. He said if they seem to be doing so, it’s because our strength is small. It is not because what we may be dealing with is bigger than us. It is just our strength that is small, the strength that should have come from time of tuning our hearts to the LORD.
Yes, out of the realm of God that we should have been receiving from.
The Bible then went on to tell us what GOD expects us to spend our days doing, delivering those who are drawn to death and helping those tottering to the slaughter. Meaning no low moment should stop us from fulfilling His assignment for our lives.
We should just keep our heart steadfast towards Him by burying it in His word (which is Him), and we will always find the energy to defeat our low moments and spend our days delivering those drawn to eternal death.
This scripture made it clear that we should be spending our days and night stock piling our hearts with God’s Rhema word. Only then will we have the reserved energy to handle the lows of life. If we put the words of a strong God in our weak hearts, we will always have a reservoir of power within our hearts to carry on in life.
The reservoir of power that Smith Wigglesworth had within him was built out of hours, days, weeks, months and years he spent putting the words of an infinite God in his finite heart. That was why he saw life where others saw death, healing where others saw sickness, and light where others saw darkness etc.
HE WAS AN UNUSUAL MAN BECAUSE HE SPENT HIS DAYS EATING THE WORDS OF AN UNUSUAL GOD.
The word took him off the plane of human feelings to the plane of supernatural faith. As we bring this devotion to a close, permit me to share something on feelings. The reason is simple – Satan has a way of manipulating our feelings to bring us to low moments. It’s therefore important that we answer some big questions about feelings.
What do you do when you wake up feeling down, dejected, disappointed, discouraged and completely worn out about life? What do you do when you wake up not even feeling like singing to the LORD like you have always done or have a word of prayer because the ones you may have prayed have not come to pass.
What do you do when feelings become your prison? The answer is simple; turn to the “Spirit” not your “feelings”.
We all pass through these things. There are days I wake up not even sensing God at all, or feeling born again until I lift my heart to God like David did in our devotional text. The LORD has taught me to always learn to turn to His Spirit and go beyond my feelings each time I feel that way.
As we can see in our devotional scripture today, David must have woke up that morning feeling flat. But he knew that what he felt was not a pointer to what Heaven thought about him. Hence saying to the LORD, “O God, my heart is steadfast..”.
Feelings dwell in the realm of the soul not the realm of the spirit or heart. When you feel flat, sense and stand on the word of the LORD in your spirit or heart not what you feel. Break the prison doors and come out.
Understand that feelings are temporal. Do not make any decision based on them. You might not like the outcome over time.
When conditions change, the feelings will leave us. When the feelings leave us, the consequence of the decisions we took based on the feelings will remain. Sometimes it will remain for a lifetime. Just check the lives of those who got pregnant out of wedlock because they wanted to satisfy a sexual feeling, and you will see the truth of this word speaking to your heart.
Check out the lives of those who are married based on feelings and see what feelings do to people. Broken lives and hopes are everywhere today because feelings are taking the better part of people’s reasoning these days. There is so much to share on this, but this is just a devotional.
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU
His delight is in the fear of the Lord, and He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears; Isaiah 11:3 NKJV
