TODAY’S DEVOTION (FRIDAY 31ST October 2025)
“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.” Psalms 90:12-14 KJV
WELCOME TO THE 304TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
We give God the glory for taking us from the first day of this month to the last day. He has been faithful!! It is out of His mercies that we are not consumed. He took us by the wings of His mercies from day one to today the last day of the month.
Today, we want to look at the Bible truth on how to live our days on earth. The word says, we should live them by applying our hearts to wisdom. There is no other truth we should use to cross into the new month other than that. Some of us may have taken some foolish decisions this month and seen results we never anticipated.
Learning from those mistakes will be required. We will never have a better month if we do not walk in a better way of life, or a better level of wisdom.
Application of our hearts to wisdom is not an option, but a necessity. A generation that does not know how to apply their hearts to divine wisdom will be too foolish to be saved from the hands of their enemies. It will be devoured by the perils of life. Your life will only appreciate by the wisdom of God not the wisdom of men.
Shortage of divine wisdom is the reason for shortages in life, lack of peace, prosperity, and even the manifestation of GOD in humanity. It is the reason for broken homes, broken hearts, broken dreams, persistent poverty, successful satanic attacks, and incurable diseases. It is the reason for all perils in life.
For instance, it is lack of divine wisdom that will make a man leave his wife and go after other women or a woman leave her husband and go after another man and bring so much trouble to their families. The Bible made it clear that adultery is a sign of foolishness, because it will always result in self-inflicted wounds spiritually or physically.
On the flip side, it is lack of divine wisdom to remain in something you call a marriage that was simply a set up from hell using your carnal desires to destroy you. Its is lack of divine wisdom to be believing God to keep a relationship that is not founded in His will or ran in His way.
GOD CAN ONLY KEEP WHAT IS FOUNDED IN HIS WILL AND RAN IN HIS WAY.
It is lack of divine wisdom that make people get involved in self-destructive things like sexual infidelity, stealing, corruption, not accepting Christ as LORD and savior, clubbing, drunkenness, prodigal living, insubordination, rebellion, betrayal, wickedness, stinginess, hate, gossip, taking other people’s wives or husbands, etc.
The only way to restore permanent peace to a trouble life is to found it on the stone of divine wisdom. Anything short will just bring a temporal peace. Prayer is very good. But if you pray and do not collect wisdom in the process, the paths to finding the answers you unlocked in prayer will be impossible to discern.
Some key highlights in our devotional text today say “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” The other says, “O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days”
If you look at the order, you will realize that until hearts are applied unto divine wisdom, God will not satisfy us early with His mercy. To apply your heart to wisdom is to gain wisdom and apply it to your life. It means to fully engage your entire being (mind, will and emotions) in the pursuit and application of practical and righteous wisdom.
To apply your heart to wisdom also means to actively use what you know, with your whole heart, in making choices that aligns with God’s ways, will and principles. By so doing, you will lead a peaceful life on earth. In simple terms, it means to live with discernment, integrating knowledge into your actions, and prioritizing what truly matters.
Spend the coming month, the 11th month of the year, according to the Gregorian calendar, applying your heart unto wisdom. Do not forget that Life is full of emotional, spiritual, and physical injuries. Wisdom is the only “medication” to use in applying to those injuries.
For instance, if you have been leading a life of broken marriages; if you get but do not stay married – Deliverance ministers will blame it on a curse in your father’s house or some demons. That is ignorance on fire. Marriage was designed to be initiated, built, and sustained by divine wisdom, and nothing else.
PEOPLE MARRY BASED ON EMOTIONS AND DESTROY THEMSELVES ONCE THOSE EMOTIONS CHANGE.
It is foolish to get married based on what you feel. You are to get married based on what you know. Lack of application of divine wisdom is the reason many get and do not stay married, not some curses or evil patterns in a household. Check all the family with records of people getting but not saying married, you will find out that they all lacked divine wisdom, that was why it happened, it was not really a curse in the house.
But some will not even agree with the scriptures. They will still blame curses for what foolishness did and keep giving money to prophets to break what does not really exist, that is why the consequences will remain. Application of divine wisdom to natural living is the missing application in the life of many. Not what perverted prophets may say!
Sadly, there is so much application of the wisdom of men and other destructive things to the injuries of life.
There is even application of foolishness to the injuries of life – the foolishness of heaping blames on others, becoming hateful and malicious, and wanting to exact revenge etc. Someone will use foolishness to do so much damage to his or her life and then blame it on the devil, or other innocent people.
If we do not make up our minds to apply our hearts unto divine wisdom, the Bible made it clear that the mercy we all need from God will keep eluding us.
God’s Mercy is not as free as many teach. God’s Mercy is conditional. The Bible teaches that if we cover our sins we will not prosper, but if we confess and forsake them God will have mercy. So, mercy is conditional. It is conditioned on applying our hearts unto divine wisdom.
We all need God’s mercy. But we will never swim in it living in foolishness. Especially the foolishness of repeatedly living in sinful habits and thinking it does not matter, or the foolishness of repeating our sins and asking God to forgive us all the time.
THE BIBLE MADE IT CLEAR THAT IT WILL DESTROY US.
Wisdom demands that we ask God in prayer and fasting for the power of grace so we can have dominion over our carnal passions and put them under control. If Jesus while in the flesh needed to fast for the same reason, then we will be unwise not to fast for the same reason.
We must use intensive fasting and prayer to receive dominion over the sinful flesh and put the sanctified human spirit ahead of the body of sin.
It is dangerous to put the body of sin ahead of the sanctified human spirit. It will lead to a frustration of the grace of God. Christians live in secrets sins just because of that. We live in the foolishness of repeating our sins and confessing to God, then going back to them again, just because of that.
Paul wrote saying,
“But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.” 1 Corinthians 9:27 NKJV
If we do not do the same as end time saints, we will allow the foolishness of putting the body of sin ahead of the Spirit to destroy even our salvation. As we embrace this day; the last day of the month of October, make this devotional your meditation!
You will gain a heart of wisdom if you do – the wisdom you will need for the month of November, and the rest of your life.
Any area of your life that is under persistent problems is the very area of life you lack divine wisdom in. In other words, lack of divine wisdom is the reason for the problems you may be facing right now, not really the devil. If you become wise with the wisdom of God, you will neutralize his activities in your life.
Divine wisdom has been certified by Heaven and Earth as the most powerful weapon of war in the KINGDOM of God. That is why the first answer God gives to our prayers is impartation of divine wisdom – He will first give us the wisdom to apply to our troubles when we ask Him for help, before doing any other things that may be necessary.
Most times it is the application of that wisdom that came to us in prayer that will meet the need that took us to God in prayer not any other move of His. It was in the light of this that He spoke through Jeremiah saying:
‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’ Jeremiah 33:3 NKJV
I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among they that are sanctified!
LET THIS SCRIPTURES BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION.
“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.”
“But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.”
“For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.” James 1:5-8 NKJV
