TODAY’S DEVOTION (SATURDAY 3rd JANUARY 2026)
“One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple.”
Psalm 27:4 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 3rd DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY
There can be no strategic victory without the Omniscience God working out victory for us by giving us divine strategies to apply to our daily lives. His strategic will, power and ways will be responsible for our strategic victories.
We know Him as the God of wonders beyond the galaxies. He is not the greater God; neither is He the greatest God because there is no other God besides Him – no one to compare Him to.
He said in His word “besides me there is no other.” So, He is simply Our Great God.
The power of His greatness is beyond human comprehension. Creation speaks of His greatness. The endless Oceans and galaxies and all that man is calling the 7 wonders of the world speaks of His wonders. It is from the fountain of His greatness that the Strategic Victory prophecy will be fulfilled in our lives.
My faith in the prophecy is anchored in the revelation of His greatness and faithfulness.
Due to His greatness, it is impossible for Him to have smallness. He may begin something in a small way; over time it will become big with a perfect reflection of His greatness. If you are dealing with God, therefore, get set for greatness, because our great God does not do small things.
Our God does great things and greater things, making the paths of the uncompromising righteous to shine brighter into a perfect day! When you see a small people looking or becoming great, it is because they are riding on the wings of God’s greatness. He said in Isaiah 60:22 “A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation, I, the LORD, will hasten it in its time.”
NO SMALL PEOPLE REMAIN SMALL WHILE DEPENDING OR RIDING ON THE WINGS OF GOD’S GREATNESS.
A small David and a big giant is one perfect example. The Bible made it clear that whenever God want to reveal Himself and demonstrate His greatness, He does not use great people He uses small people. If He use great people no one will see His greatness. He will always use small people so that all will see how great He is. That was the story of David!
For 40 days a giant stood over a national army boasting and throwing out challenges at them. None could raise their heads against him. None could depend on a great God to confront him. The entire armies of Israel shrank in fear and receded into their shells.
Even the king could not depend on the anointing of God upon his life and take the risk. But one day a small boy came to the scene and changed everything. He came to give food and supplies to his brothers in the military but met an opportunity to reveal the Greatness of the God of Israel.
The rest, as they say, is History. What is the revelation here? The revelation is simple. Whenever a big devil faces a small people, it is for God’s greatness to be revealed. The small people should not shrink in fear and run away. God allows big things to face His small people so that His greatness can be revealed through them. Hallelujah!
When God says it’s a year of strategic victory, He is also saying it’s a year of facing greater giants, things that we can only overcome by divine strategies.
Please don’t be afraid. Yes, we faced great giants in 2025 and saw God’s greatness beat them into small pieces. This year will be different. The devils will be greater so that the world and the people around us can see God revealing His greatness through us through the greater things He will do! Can someone shout Hallelujah!
YOU MAY BE THE SMALLEST IN YOUR FAMILY AND SERVING THE LORD.
You may be the smallest in your office, your city or business place. There may be big devils and giants around you roaring at you and threatening fire and brim stone. Do not panic. You are serving a great God. The great God usually use small people to reveal His greatness to men.
So, stand strong! He will reveal His greatness in 2026 – it shall be greater than what we saw in 2025.
But you must understand the key to standing strong in the face of big devils and the giants of life; you must come to the revelation of why Israel ran away from the giant and why David stood for the great GOD to reveal Himself. Our devotional text today revealed a part of David that Israel never had. I call it deep intimacy.
He was deeply intimate with God, but King Saul and the rest of Israel was not. He was a small man who spent His hours communing with a great God.
No small man commune with a great God and remain small. He will stand before great devils and unlock the greatness of God. That was who David was. His passion for the presence of God is written all over the book of Psalms. A major highlight in our devotional text says:
“One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple.”
If we will see GREATER THINGS this year, we must be deeply intimate with God. Like we saw earlier, we will face greater giants this year, but we have the GREAT GOD by our side. However, Israel also had Him by their side when they could not stand before the giant. They could not stand because they were not intimate with the God that was by their side.
We will do the same thing in the face of life challenges if we treat the presence of GOD the way they did. You see, if God is by your side, and you are not intimate with Him, you will never see Him rise against the enemy when He comes against you.
THAT IS WHY MANY CHRISTIANS SUFFER DEFEAT DESPITE GOD BEING BY THEIR SIDE.
In dreams and visions, they will see Him by their side. Through prophets and the Holy Spirit in their lives they will know He is by their side. But you cannot just depend on the revelation of Him being by your side without being intimate with Him. If you depend just on that revelation without being intimate with Him, you will lack strength to stand before giants and watch Him slay them before you.
Israel ran because they were not intimate. David stood because He was intimate.
God is calling us to deep intimacy with Jesus Christ; because if we are not deeply intimate, carnality will hinder God’s greatness from breaking through us to slay the big devils confronting us.
Most assemblies of God’s people today are spiritually pathetic. Local church meetings are dry and noisy. There is no power as Old in the midst of many. Instead of being filled with the Holy Ghost most Christians today are filled with the influences of religious demons.
You find people getting but not staying married because there is no power to keep them married. You find big devils bringing great homes to rubbles because those who belong there are not intimate enough for the Great God to bring the devils confronting them down.
Outright spiritual darkness is what you see in the life of those who profess to be sons of light. Sin and all sorts of deceitful living and sexual perversion now reigns from the pulpit to the pew.
THERE IS NO POWER TO LIVE THE HOLY LIFE WE ARE ALL CALLED INTO.
Big devils in charge of sin, iniquity and trespass are busy defeating many of us because they are not intimate with Christ enough to overcome them.
Financially, some are broken despite tithing and sowing seeds. The pastors who receive the money get richer and those who give the money get poorer. There is no power to prosper the givers any longer. All because we are not deeply intimate. We see the exploitation of the saints instead of equipping the saints taking place by the hand’s preachers and their members.
Physiologically, many are moving from illness to illness because there is no balm in Gilead again any longer.
The word “Gilead” means worship, and the word “Balm” means Healing. Our worship no longer generates Healing for the sick. It only generates “goose bumps” and noise. And make those who lead in songs in many Christian gatherings more sexy than spiritual.
Consequently, many get sick and die prematurely and we foolishly explain our powerlessness away with the old funeral sermon that says “the LORD gives and the LORD takes back, blessed be the name of the LORD” making God look wicked in the eyes of those stricken with the grief of the loss of their loved one.
This is a new year! All these must stop. Enough of the nonsense we call Christianity. Time to get deep with God is now. If we do not obey the call for deep intimacy, we will always be answering to the calls of our enemies. The spirits of hell, death, and grave will not cease being our companion.
A generation that will possess the gates of their enemies must not be carrying bottles of oil about. It must be deep ion their walk with God.
You can no longer afford to plant your destiny in Churches where charismatic witchcraft rules and reign among the people. Our devotional text must become our passion. Like David we must say to the LORD “One thing I have desired of you, that will I seek: that I may dwell in your house all the days of my life, to behold your beauty, and to inquire in your temple”
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!!
“As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?”
Psalm 42:1-2 NKJV
