TODAY’S DEVOTION (MONDAY 5TH JANUARY 2026)
“Awake, awake! Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city! For the uncircumcised and the unclean shall no longer come to you.
Shake yourself from the dust, arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem; loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion!” Isaiah 52:1-2 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 5TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY
Today is the day one of our 40 Days of the Blessing. I hope we are all ready to humble ourselves in fasting and prayers to seek the LORD.
Yes, we are seeking Him these 40 days not for protection, provision, favor, or divine peace and prosperity for 2026, because we already have all that. We are seeking Him for encounters that will make us LIVING ALTARS WITH NO COMPROMISE in a pervert and crooked generation.
For those who are yet to wake up, we have just eaten four days of the 365 days of the year 2026.
Today is the fifth day we have from the LORD; before you know it, we will be in January 2027. What I am trying to say is that time is running out very fast, if we do not rise to do what we were created to do, we will just be busy here and there until our lives are gone.
One thing we were created to do is to live our days as living altars with no compromise.
If we do not understand how time is of the essence to becoming all that, we may be sorry at the end of our days. The Bible says what is life. It is even like a vapor that appears for a short period of time and then vanish. Sometimes, we get busy with our human needs and forget God’s eternal purpose for us.
Man was created to live for divine purpose between the time of the appearance of his life and disappearance, not human needs.
Sadly, our needs and worries occupy the most of our lives and reflect even in our most intimate prayer seasons with the LORD. That is NOT what this prayer journey with the LORD we are starting today should do. There are no words to describe what the life of a Christians will become if he spends it worrying about his earthly needs.
In few attempted words, let me say the life will be full of worries, failed hopes, disappointments, broken dreams, and sometimes diseases of the mind, then the body, and then all kinds of sorrows.
ORDINARILY, EVERY CHILD OF GOD MALFUNCTIONS WHENEVER HE OR SHE BEGINS TO WORRY ABOUT EARTHLY NEEDS.
That was why our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ warned that we will add no value to our lives if we spend them worrying about anything. The canonized book of Matthew puts it this way:
“Therefore, I say to you, do not worry about your life what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body what you will put on. Is life not more than food and the body more than clothing? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?”
Matthew 6:25,27 NKJV
Worrying does not add to you it diminishes you. Worrying is you sitting in the dark moments of your life developing negatives. It is cracking your head over things you cannot change. It is generating excruciating thoughts and feelings about painful things that are beyond you and losing hope about life itself.
It is trying to squeeze answers from questions that lack human answers. Jesus said we should not do any of that because it will add nothing to us!
Worrying has never added to anyone on the face of the earth. It has only functioned as the birthplace of high blood pressure and all kinds of diseases and evil expectations. It is the birthplace of sinful acts, bad decisions and dangerous turns in life.
I have come to discover that any moment we sit down worrying, we are wasting away. Yes, if you sit down to worry, you are wasting your time, talent and treasure. If you spend your days worrying, you do not need a devil to attack you, you have attacked yourself.
Satan loves seeing us worry because that is the time we make ourselves vulnerable to his deception and eventual baptism of foolishness. Worrying is the wrong foundation to stand on to do anything meaningful in life. For instance, it is the wrong foundation to stand on to get married.
IN OTHER WORD, YOU DO NOT GET MARRIED OUT OF WORRY OF DYING SINGLE. YOU GET MARRIED TO FULFILL DIVINE AGENDA.
Anything you do out of worry will give birth to a terrible Ishmael.
The word Ishmeal is a metaphor for any situation that will be against you, maybe all your life, and you against it, sometimes for a lifetime! Again, anything you do out of worry will never result in a beautiful ending.
You don’t go looking for a job out of worry. You go looking for a Job to become responsible in the Kingdom of God and yourself.
If money is placed in the hands of a heart that is full of worries, that money will never be spent meaningfully. Worrying will bring any life to take refuge under the covering shelter of devils and make people vulnerable in the spirit realm. Most lives were brought under intense satanic attacks through worry!
I have seen worry turn sane people into mentally deranged people. I have seen worry do things in the lives of people that even demons cannot do! Worry has handed over beautiful women to terrible men. It has handed over promising young men to terrible women.
Worrying can take a very destructive dimension. Especially, worrying about getting old and not getting married is a threshold of personal destruction. If you are a Christian plagued by this dimension of worry, you may wake up one morning to find yourself away from Christ. You will hate Church and even a preacher you once respected because of failed expectations.
Worry has taken people from the broad way that leads to life to the narrow way that leads to death. It is the bedrock of compromise in the Church today and an evil portal opening tool.
Worry has opened the portals of grave over people and taken them to premature graves. It has placed people in dangerous panic modes. When you are placed on the panic mode of worry, the death of your peace will be a matter of time.
WORRY HAS A WAY OF KILLING ANYTHING THAT GIVES LIFE TO OUR MORTAL BODIES.
Worrying has a way of blurring our life vision and putting veils on our minds. It has a way of killing our faith or trust in God, impregnating us with doubts about God and what He may have said to us. Friend, if we do not learn how to shake ourselves free from the dust of worry, the uncircumcised and unclean will keep finding a place to rest in our lives.
A major highlight in our devotional text says,
“For the uncircumcised and the unclean shall no longer come to you….shake yourself from the dust, arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem; loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion!”
The dust of worry has a way of bringing us into captivity. It has a way of making our lives a highway for demonic traffic. In other words, when we worry, we are few inches away from captivity. We will begin to do and say things that will shut freedom away from us!
God sent this word to counsel you to stop worrying. You cannot go into a year worrying. It will shut you down completely. You cannot enter a year recalling painful memories of things you cannot change and developing excruciating feelings. You will be chained to oppressing demons if you do.
You must stop worrying! Yes, you must free your heart from worries so that it can bring life to you.
Again, you must stop worrying!
Now to stop worrying you must learn what to do with things that make you worry. The Bible is clear on what to do with things that make us worry. It says we should cast them on Jesus for He cares for us. Hallelujah!
When things that put people in worry modes happen to us, we should learn to shake them off by spending quality time in prayers casting them to the LORD, seeking that His will concerning them should be done!
I believe God has spoken to someone this morning. It’s my prayers that you use these words, build yourself up in your most holy faith and receive an inheritance among they that are sanctified. Amen
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY FOR YOU
“Rejoice in the LORD always. Again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to all men. The LORD is at hand.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God; and the peace of god, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ.”
Philippians 4:4-7 NKJV
