TODAY’S DEVOTION (SATURDAY 25TH April 2026)
“Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.” Revelation 14:12-13 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 115TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY
One major secret of strategic victory is to walk with God in patience. So, today, we will be looking at some of the things the Bible teaches about patience.
One of our visions for this devotional is to help you hear from God daily. The Bible teaches that we should hear from God daily. People who hear from Him daily, live bright lives yearly. One year will come and go, and they enter another year with much brighter lives than they had the previous year.
The best thing that can ever happen to you and I, is to hear and follow God daily. As we look at this important subject of the Christian faith, may your heart be open to the voice of the LORD, and may you find a path to follow, in Jesus precious name. Amen.
To start with, understand that the patience of the saints is a major virtue in their walk with God. It took me time to understand that if I am dealing with God, I must not be in a hurry. I had almost blown my life to pieces because of that. The scars now teach me a lot about being patient with God. They make me see the patience of the saints as a major virtue of faith.
I understood that faith is not always in a hurry. Faith has patience as a virtue. The patience of the saints is key to the victory of the saints in every sphere of spiritual warfare. It is a key to our total victory over sin, Satan and the evil and corrupt system of this world. The haste of a fool, says a wise man, is the slowest thing in the world.
If you study the Bible, you will realize that the most blessed people in the Bible are people who patiently walked with God. From Abel to Enoch, from Abraham to Jacob, from Joseph to Moses and to all who walked with God, patience was not an option but a necessity.
CONCERNING ABRAHAM, THE BIBLE SAYS;
“And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end, that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.” And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. Hebrews 6:11-15 NKJV
The Bible did not say we should follow those who through scheming and beating the rules of God, succeeded in life. Sadly, their lives are the very ones that attracts the younger generation most. The Bible did not say we should follow those who through cutting of conners became rich in life, or through other diabolical ways became men of status and fortune.
The Bible did not say we should follow those who through haste and accidental life decisions became successful in life.
These men or women are not good examples for us to follow. The Bible describes some of them as cloud without rain. Delilah made money from betrayal, Judas made money from betrayal, and countless others succeeded in the short term through betrayals and other forms of vices. They should not be an example for us to follow.
Friend, the world is full of bad examples to follow. We do not lack examples of men and women who never made it in life through faith and patience with God. They made it through other means. Very rich, attractive, seductive and influential people of the fallen world, pulls the hearts of countless people through sound and sights, and soul reaching entertainments to imitate them daily.
For instance, people do not plait their own hair styles, they copy. People do not wear their own styles, they copy. People do not make their own marital decisions, they copy. People are simply not living their God given lives. They are copying the successful, influential and affluent.
THAT EXPLAINS WHY DEATH AND DESTRUCTION IS HAPPENING BY THE SECONDS, AND MANY ARE ENDING UP IN HELL.
It is who you follow that truly determines what follows you. If you follow those who are succeeding by other means apart from God’s means, especially in ministry, most times you will become their source of livelihood through the tithes and offerings you take to them to buy their success. What might follow you at the end is the prosperity of hell.
The Bible says, we should follow or imitate only those who through faith and patience became all that God created them to be. Hallelujah!!!
The Bible did not say we should follow men and women like Balaam and Jezebel, or the magicians of Pharaoh who tried to succeed by copy pasting Moses. The Bible says we should follow men and women who through faith and patience inherited the promises of God for their lives. They should be our standard of what the LORD can do with yielded vessels.
Whatever God may have promised us, it will take faith and patience to inherit it. That is the message. The text says:
“Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.” Revelation 14:12-13 NKJV
The patience of the saints is simply the steadfast endurance, faithfulness, and perseverance of God’s people during seasons of divine process, trials of faith, testing of the word, persecutions that arises by new revelations that come to them from the LORD, or severe end-times trials.
It is maintaining faith in Jesus and keeping God’s commands, even in the face of the worst circumstances.
Sadly, this is not as easy as it reads. I had caved in so many times, and lost this patience, especially in my growing up days. Today I teach from those scars. It is not a good thing to do. I have grown to learn that the patience of the saints is not a passive waiting, but an active unwavering trust in God, even in the face of disappointments, or death.
Prophetically it applies to our generation and other generations to come, men and women of faith who will live during the times of the final trials before Christ return, especially those who will face the beasts, that the Bible describes as the anti-Christ.
The result of the patience of the Saints, either in time or eternity, is rest from sorrows. That is why anything we get in haste, do not result in rest from sorrows. It might give us momentary joy, peace, and abundance, but soon it disappears, because the process of time did not work on it.
It’s my prayer that God use these truths to improve your walk and talk with Him in Jesus precious name. Amen!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY;
“Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall,
But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.” Isaiah 40:30-31 NKJV
