TODAY’S DEVOTION (WEDNESDAY 7TH JANUARY 2026)
And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Genesis 2:18 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 7TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY
Except for a season, if God says it’s not good to be alone, you will be foolish to say it’s good to be alone in 2026. Now this is not just talking about marriage, but everything about life. It is not good to be alone except when being alone become part of a man’s walk and talk with God for a season.
Today we will be refreshing our hearts on relationships.
Faith and Obedience are the currencies of the Spirit. But relationships are the currency of the earth. It is the bridge upon which all things flow. You may not have money but if you have people, especially men and women who love and care for you, friend you are rich.
After having a good pastor over your life as a child of God, the next most important thing to ask the LORD to give you this year is people – people He has designed your marital or financial destiny to meet to be unlocked.
One of the greatest things the blessing of the LORD can bring to our lives on earth is quality people; yes, people who genuinely care for you and yours. This is where having a good family (either by blood or not) come in. When the right people might not always be by blood. The LORD can bring them from anywhere.
Sadly, the fall-down-and-die gospel has helped the devil in destroying many families. It has wreck so much when it comes to relationships. We all must understand the importance of having people in our lives and not allow it to slip. We must crave wisdom for right relationships. Our hearts should not be empty of divine wisdom for right relationships; else we miss what God is bringing to us.
Everyone must know that without the right people in life, you will never accomplish much. Your life may run well without having the right people in it, but for it to run well and continue that way for a lifetime, you will need right people. God never designed a man to be alone.
You may not need bad people but do not say you do not need people.
You need people to become a person. I have said that repeatedly, we all need the right people to become who or what God has designed us to be. Yes, we need people Heaven designed from the foundation of the world to be part of our life to become the very people Heaven designed us to be from the foundation of the world.
IF YOU DO NOT KNOW THAT AND RUN YOUR LIFE IN 2026 WITH IT, YOU WILL CUT OFF A LOT OF BLESSING FROM YOUR LIFE.
Yes, you will cut off every flow of good that God intend bringing to you. God use men to bless men! Our devotional text today said; “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” This wisdom was what led to the creation of marital relationships. But life has made it clear that one can be married and still be alone. So, a lot need to be learned and unlearned on these things.
You see, if you get married to a death partner instead of a life partner, you will still be alone. So, when we say we need people to become a person we are not referring to everyone on the street. However, marital relationships are just one relationship type, there are other types!
When the Bible says it’s not good that man should be alone, it cuts across all relationship types. Basically, a Child of God needs three types of human relationships to succeed in GOD’s plans and purposes for his life. A Child of God need: (1) Superiors, (2) Colleagues, and (3) Dependents.
Now here is the wisdom of God; you need to relate with superiors – people who have gone ahead of you in everything that concerns your destiny at the first level. Then you relate with people at your level or your colleagues, and then people beneath you, or dependents.
Without the application of this wisdom, you may never arrive at your divinely determined destiny. The beautiful thing is this; God has a way of bringing these classes of relationships our way.
HOWEVER, IF WE ARE NOT HUMBLE AND SUBMISSIVE, WE WILL MISS THE BLESSING OF RELATING WITH THEM.
For instance, no superior will keep a subject who is not humble enough to recognize that he needs him. If we are too independent minded, we will never see the need to have a superior in our lives. If we overestimate ourselves, the same will be our fate. We will even despise those we should treat as colleagues and miss the blessings of having men and women at our level in our lives.
The pride of our hearts will also hinder us not to have anything to do with those beneath us. We will shut our hearts towards them or treat them with contempt and miss the blessing of helping such people in life.
Friend, the life of a man was not originally designed to be lived alone. It’s not just applicable to marriage. It is applicable to all things. If you are wicked, unkind, non-gracious, or unforgiving, you are foolish; you will miss whatever the LORD has determined to give you through people.
Like I said earlier, God use men to visit men. If you are the Christian type that suspects everybody, despise those beneath you, disrespect those ahead of you, or have decided to have nothing to do with anyone, you will miss great visitations from God.
Let that attitude not be part of your life this year. It’s a year of strategic victories. There can be no strategic victories without people, the right people. Battles are not won alone. They are won with the help of those God touched to join you in battle. So, after having a good pastor over your life, you will need right relationships to actualize God’s plans for your life.
You may see wisdom in being suspicious, but suspicion is the lowest level of discernment. It is an act of foolishness in God’s sight. It may have helped you in some cases, but it does not help all the time. God wants us to walk in discernment not suspicion.
Discernment is an act of divine wisdom, but suspicion is not. Many missed the blessings God gave me for them when I first came to Kenya because of suspicion – they suspected me of being dangerous when they discovered I am a Nigerian.
IT GOT ME SICK AND TIRED OF TRYING TO HELP PEOPLE.
Suspicion will rob you of the blessings God want to give you through blessed people. But discernment will help you find them. Walk in discernment in 2026, not suspicion. It will save you from devils because the way God use men to visit men so do Satan use men to destroy men.
But discernment (and not suspicion) will help you find them out.
Suspicion is not discernment. It is the flesh’s way of determining between good and evil. It will destroy you, because most good people sent into our lives are not usually well packaged by God.
They most times come in packages we will never like – packages that will require a walk and talk with God to unravel.
That is why walking in discernment is far more effective than walking in suspicion. Most times these blessed people come in a way that it is difficult to trust them. In fact, some stir suspicion by their actions. But if you bypass your flesh and walk in discernment, you will see into their hearts and know they are genuine.
I want to state that no matter what you think about people, and no matter what may have happened to you, it is not good for you to be alone. You need people! You need people, yes you need them. In fact, you even need enemies, to be pushed into your God’s desired place for your life.
Many do not know that life is built in such a way that if friends and enemies do not touch us one way or the other, we will never become what Heaven created us to be!
David needed a Goliath to become famous and enter His destiny. You will need some Goliath this year as well! Yes, you will need some Pharaohs who will not let you go so that God can reveal His power in your life and show you how much He loves you.
I BELIEVE THE LORD HAS SPOKEN TO US THIS MORNING.
Understand that God wants you to have people in your life, the right people. Be aware of Satan’s strategy to separate you from them, especially by painting them to be evil minded to you while they are not. He did that to Eve. He presented God to her in a different light and she disobeyed Him.
There is another strategy Satan uses, the strategy of separating us from people we truly need so that he might get us. It was when Eve was separated from Adam that he got her. If she was where her husband was, perhaps there would have been no fall of man. Really it is not good for a man to be alone!
As earlier indicated, God sometimes do ask people to separate from men, but it does not last a lifetime. It lasts just for a season. If you see people being told by some voices to separate from everyone perpetually, the devil is the one speaking to them.
As we bring this to a close, I want you to understand that you were not created to be alone. You need people. You need people who care about you and love you unconditionally. God can bless you with such people if you seek Him for them. However, in your desire or prayer to have such people in your life, you must be friendly, accommodating, loving, generous, forgiving, kind and merciful to have these people sent to you.
You must not be a gossip, slanderer, maligner, blackmailer, or whatever keeps friendship away. If you are the type that people do not like to stay with, may the LORD change that concerning you in Jesus precious name!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY!
“A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy habitation. God sets the solitary in families; He brings out those who are bound into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a dry land.”
Psalms 68:5-6 NKJV
