TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL (Wednesday 24th June 2026)
“The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”
“Who knows the power of your anger? For as the fear of you, so is your wrath. So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” Psalms 90:10-12 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 175TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORIES!
Welcome to a day I consider one of the most glorious days of my life; a day I know God prepared before the foundation of the world.
It is no longer news that today is my 50th Birthday. What is News is that today marked the 50th year I have lived on earth. This is not tautology. It will be tautology to you if you do not know my history.
It is news because by virtue of what I have experienced on earth, I should not be alive to this day, and I want all and sundry to rejoice with me.
I have escaped death several times. I did not escape death because I am a good dodger of death. I escaped death several times because to the LORD belong escapes from death. The LORD caused death to pass over me severally while I watched. To the onlooker, I was escaping death but to me the LORD was lifting me up whenever it showed up and making sure it never take me away premature. The Bibles 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
Yes, I am alive today because God has been loading my life daily with benefits. He has been the God of salvation to me. Again I say, to Him belong escapes from death not to us. The truth is, no one can live this long without God helping them to escape death or keeping it away from their space.
People die daily and many do not get to even 40. If you see a man marking 50 years on earth, it’s a testimony of God’s working wonders that kept death away from his space.
My life and times have been a testimony that God is alive, and that He is not just alive but merciful and kind, compassionate and very tolerant. It is a testament of His grace, and marvelous kindness. The Bible says He is slow to anger and full of mercy. I can tell you from my experience that no one who breaks their lives into pieces and goes to Him for help will not receive it.
THEY WILL EVEN RECEIVE A MUCH BETTER LIFE THAN THE ONE THEY DESTROYED WITH THEIR UNGODLY DECISIONS.
Today I want to recount some stories I have always shared about my birth, and I believe the LORD will use them to bless our hearts repeatedly because spiritual stories do not die in impact and insight. They either give you fresh insight, remind you of what you forgot, or established what you first received from them. So, repeating them is not a minus but a plus to the hearts of the humble.
Those who are wise will want to hear spiritual stories repeatedly because they know what they do to their walk and talk with God, their faith and their fire. Be one of those on this day, even as we mark what the LORD has done.
To start with, let me say, ministry is simply service to the Most High God. True Preaching itself flows from the fountain of a preacher’s walk with God, talk with God, and lifestyle from God. The stories and secrets of those who may have traveled the paths God wants you to take in life, are things you should always go for.
A man of God once said he read 39 autobiographies before stepping into ministry. And if you look at him today, one can say that really helped him. The secrets and stories of both successful and the ‘not successful’ men and women in ministry will always be of help to anyone God has called into ministry. A major highlight in our devotional text today says; “So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”
This scripture is very significant to me, especially today. Our days are full of stories that if shared with a younger generation could be of help in their quest to fulfill God’s will for their lives. So, if we number them accurately, and recall the stories created in those days, we can come out with records and details of events that characterize them for the benefit of others.
To bring you into my birthday feel, let me share the little stories that surrounded my birth with you. 50 years ago today, my mum just came back from the farm. She had gone to live with her auntie when she saw that are DD was approaching. By DD I mean Delivery Date. She said that morning she woke up with uncommon strength and went to the farm to fetch some firewood.
On her return from the farm, she dropped the firewood where firewood was kept and within a short while, she felt like going to the local toilet. For hygiene purposes, our local toilets are built very far away from home, so it was like a journey for her. Finally, she got there but on attempting to climb over, labor pains started.
She shared with me that she had to retreat away from the toilet and before she knew it, she was on the ground surrounded by bushes and a thick forest.
Though where she sat was a path that leads to farms and hunting places, there was no one to help her. However, she started pushing and I came out. It was delivery that took place all by herself, and because she was at a place where there were no delivery clothes to use, I fell on the bushes cutting a place close to my right eye, throwing her into panic.
I WAS BLEEDING ON THE VERY SPOT THE GRASS CUT THROUGH MY SKIN, CLOSE TO MY RIGHT EYE. SHE WAS REALLY SCARED, SHE SAID!!
Then after some minutes a hunter who was returning from hunting met the scene and offered some help. Finally, my auntie came running and mother and child were taken to where they received proper care. God so did it that I was born in a village that had one of the best water falls in Nigeria. The prophetic significance of all this has not stopped throwing me into deep thoughts.
First, I was fought by the dragon from the day of my birth. He never wanted me to live, hence the cut. He was waiting to devour the child as soon as it was born. But God sent a hunter to raise the alarm that brought my auntie to the scene.
Now, the place and circumstances of my birth, how I was born, what happened to my right eye, and the hunter that came, all speak prophetic volumes to me today. They reflected my assignment in the kingdom of God and what Heaven sent me to do on the face of the earth. I will not go into details today, but there are few lines we can refresh our hearts with.
First, my mum gave birth to me without a midwife and that was dangerous, but it spoke of my apostolic assignment. God has sent me to be a spiritual midwife to those who are trying to bring forth their prophetic destinies without one. He has raised me to raise an alarm in the spirit on their behalf and adopt the willing for the purpose of pushing them into their destinies.
Next, understand that there are God’s weapons of war for the end time who are bringing forth their spiritual visions and prophetic purposes in wrong places the way my mum gave birth to me in the wrong place. They are in wrong Churches, under wrong prophets and prophetesses and doing the right things in the wrong places. Consequently, their destinies are bleeding and if help do not come quickly they will keep bleeding and die.
Part of my apostolic and prophetic assignment, is to locate this breed and bring them under the apostolic grace the LORD has given me for them, so they can be spiritually nursed properly and healed from the bite of the dragon. The place and event that surrounded my birth 40 years ago was indeed a prophetic message to my mum and those who finally came. But there was no prophet to decode it.
However, the devil got the message and tried killing me with terrible childhood diseases. My mum told me how she wept and feared for my life each time I came under attack. But today I am alive and well fulfilling exactly what God communicated to them that day.
We have been a sign that has been spoken against, but God Has also been with us.
As I and they that God has given me, celebrate my golden jubilee, I am grateful that it is not a funeral we are having but a birthday. It is not even a posthumous birthday but a birthday while I am alive. While all that will come at their God appointed times, I want to humbly request that you join us in reflecting on God’s goodness and mercies in my life today. Amen!!
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY;
“Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.”
“And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads.”
“His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born.”
“She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne. Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.” Revelation 12:1-6 NKJV
