TODAY’S DEVOTION (SUNDAY 10TH May 2026)
Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war! Wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near, Let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.'”
Assemble and come, all you nations, and gather together all around. Cause your mighty ones to go down there, O Lord.
Joel 3:9-11 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 130TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY.
God be glorified for giving us another day; another day to gather for corporate worship, receive the rod of our strength and rule in the midst of our enemies. Yes, rule in the midst of our enemies.
There are three to four kinds of enemies God gives us the rod of strength to rule in their midst. However, before we share about them, it is important to glorify God the more because we are the only faith on earth whose fellowship is on the first day of the week, a blessing, because the best way to start anything is in God’s manifest presence.
No other human starts their week in God’s presence. Only Christians are blessed by God to start their weeks in His manifest presence. If you know the power of God’s manifest presence, you will realize that it is something you should not trade for anything and stay at home on a day like this, instead of joining your spiritual family in fellowship.
The Bible says:
“Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob, Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a fountain of waters.”
Psalm 114:7-8 NKJV
When we gather in fellowship, it is the presence of the LORD we came for. Unto Him shall the gathering of His people be. It is not the pastors we came for. It is not fellow brethren we came for. No other thing should bring us together. Experiencing the presence of the LORD is what should bring us together. It is the catalyst of love and unity among brethren, prosperity of the righteous, and peace in our lives.
This is where staying away is not a good thing, or making the gathering a money collection meeting, or a place for carnal or social connections, or any other earthly purposes is a good thing. In fact, if we gather for any of these or any other thing, if our hearts are not right, it will become a stumbling block for us and hinder us from experiencing the presence of the LORD.
SO, DO NOT ALLOW A DAY LIKE THIS TO PASS BY WITHOUT JOINING YOUR SPIRITUAL FAMILY TO EXPERIENCE THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD.
That might be all you need to escape death, diseases, pain, lack, poverty or anything the devil may have planned for you this week. Yes, if none has told you, am here to tell you that we escape a lot that may have been planned against us by the enemy whenever we gather in worship on a day like this. The Bible says:
“The wicked plots against the just, And gnashes at him with his teeth. The Lord laughs at him, For He sees that his day is coming.”
Psalm 37:12-13 NKJV
If you do not believe that Satan has plots against us, set to happen to us at appointed weekdays, then you do not understand the earth we live in. Our devotional text says, “prepare for war.” Our earth is a war zone, a spirit war zone. That is why you see killings and all that. In this war, there are plots against us, the redeemed of the LORD.
The Bible says the wicked plots against the righteous.
There are plots against each one of us, appointed to happen to us during weekdays, or even weekends. We do not need a prophet to tell us that, the Bible has already said so. But the Bible also says, God sees. Yes, Jehovah Sees, and Jehovah knows. However, how does He arrange for our escape? Let’s look at this scripture. It says:
“Blessed be the Lord, Who daily loads us with benefits, the God of our salvation! Selah. Our God is the God of salvation; And to God the Lord belong escapes from death.”
Psalm 68:19-20 NKJV
This scripture teaches that God daily loads us with benefits. These are the benefits that are responsible for our escapes from death and destruction planned to happen to us on any appointed day of the week. But sometimes we collect the benefits for all the days when we fellowship with our spiritual family on Sunday, those hours we spend are never a waste.
So, by revelation and by experience, I know one way God helps us to defeat the plots of Satan is by giving us a Church family to plant ourselves in and join in weekly fellowship, where the daily benefits for each week are collected by pure hearts, sound doctrine, the faith of the Son of God, and righteous motives.
FRIEND, THERE IS ESCAPE FROM WICKEDNESS EACH TIME WE GATHER AND SPEND THOSE HOURS IN GOD’S MANIFEST PRESENCE.
Let me share this. In 1997, I use to have a group of people who gather every Sunday for me to minister to them. The meetings were usually full of power like our meetings now in Nairobi, Kenya. There was this day that two of the attendees, who were blood sisters, were to travel home that week. But they did not know that death had been planned for them.
Their death would have devasted their entire family, because it was not long that they lost their mum. There seems to be deaths in their family. So, the Sunday to what would have been their last week on earth, they were in that service. Then during the session, the Spirit of the LORD came upon me and opened my mind to what was coming, right there it was arrested.
I called the two of them out and prayed. They did travel after that. On their way home, they had a terrible accident in which over 20 people died. These two sisters came out with their lives and bodies intact. The benefit they got from the LORD in that service protected them from what would have been a premature death. To this day, they are still alive.
If they had not attended that service, that would have been their last week on earth. God can use one Sunday service to deliver you from any plot of the enemy that may have been planned to happen to you during the week. That is why you must always appear before God in Zion with others. The Bible says:
“They go from strength to strength; Each one appears before God in Zion.”
Psalm 84:7 NKJV
Yes, you can experience the presence of the LORD at home, but the one you experience when you join your spiritual family in fellowship is bigger than the one you experience when you are alone in prayer. The escapes from wickedness we experience in Church are always bigger than the ones we might experience when alone in prayer.
THE ROD OF OUR STRENGTH IS SENT FROM ZION NOT FROM OUR HOMES. IT IS WHAT WE CARRY FROM ZION THAT HELPS US AT HOME.
That is why even if you are millions of miles away and you join digitally; you will still experience a bigger presence than the one you experience when alone in prayer. The presence of God is the place of trembling because it is the place of power, power that does the impossible. That is why it is the place to start a week from.
As we can see, one of the Bible words for the spiritual atmosphere that is formed when we gather in fellowship is called Mount Zion, or simply Zion. But that atmosphere will never be formed because people gather. That is why most Church services do not have a Mount Zion atmosphere. They have the Throne of Satan.
You should not be coerced to go to where the Throne of Satan forms. Go where Mount Zion or Zion forms.
To have a mount Zion atmosphere, people must gather with hearts that are pure, motives that are purified, methods that are Heaven born, men that are hungry for God, a messenger who stands before God before standing before us, and a message that is truly from God, the doctrine of Christ.
Finally, historically, mount Zion is a mountain in Isreal. That is the place Jesus will step His feet on when He comes back again. The Bible says it shall be torn in two when He does that. Prophecies says that is where He will stand to eliminate the Islamic Mahdi, the person the Bible describes as the anti-Christ, then proceeds from there to refurbish the entire earth and establish His thousand-year Millennian reign.
What a glorious day it will be!! Eternity will invade time in ways it had never happened before that day, then time will be made to merge with eternity for 1000 years. That also tells us what happens when we gather in a Zion or mount Zion atmosphere. Jesus descends upon us in ways he would not do when we are somewhere else.
He descends, not just to help us escape wickedness, but also to Prepare some for war! To Wake up the mighty men, to let all His men of war draw near, to Let them come up. To show them how to Beat their plowshares into swords and pruning hooks into spears; To propel the weak to say, ‘I am strong.'” So that we can be released to the valley of decision to rescue the lost souls who are trapped there!! Hallelujah!!
May He descend upon you in church today in Jesus precious name. Amen!!
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR US TODAY!!
“For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord will give grace and glory;
No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly.
Psalm 84:10-11 NKJV
