TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL (THURSDAY 30TH July 2026)
“You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever.” Psalm 23:5-6 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 211TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORIES!
It is a beautiful thing to always give thanks to the LORD for another day, because there are chances that one may not have another day except the LORD says so. We live in a world that drifts daily to war, rumors of war and fear. It drifts daily to the forces of premature deaths, sudden deaths, killings and destruction, especially in the Middle East.
The Bible says these things will keep happening until the consummation of all things. In fact, no student of the Bible is in the dark of anything you see happening on earth. All was foretold by the prophets and documented as Bible prophecies. They will keep increasing in intensity until the Church becomes ready to go home.
While they increase in intensity, the church has the responsibility to intensify its efforts to seek and to save that which was lost.
When we say the Church, we are not referring to the buildings around but you. If you have given your life truly to the LORD, if you are living for Him on daily bases, if you have been called out of darkness to God’s marvelous light, if you are Christ’s, you are the Church. A lot is resting on your shoulder.
You must find a church that will tell you these truths and stir you to take the faith position the LORD wants you to take at this time. Jesus Himself said, while these things are happening, one thing must keep happening among us as His body or church on earth. That thing is the preaching of the gospel of the Kingdom even as we endure to the end. The word says;
“And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.” Matthew 24:12-14 NKJV
MEANING THERE WILL BE NO INTERVENTION TO TERMINATE THE HAPPENINGS.
The lawlessness will continue, and in it all we must endure and not react. If we react things may happen that will make our love for the LORD to grow cold, and once that happens, we are in eternal danger. We must endure whatever we are going through now and not react or give up!!
We must endure an earth full of wars, killings, lack of peace, sudden deaths, and whatever comes to make our faith to grow cold.
We must endure other things that we may be facing even on a personal level, things we cannot share with anyone on earth. We must endure and not react. We must endure serving the LORD in pain and sacrifice, under circumstances that are demoralizing and a lot of other things we may be going through.
We must endure the sorrows of sin and consequences of certain mistakes looking for our redemption, we must endure and not react.
That scripture speaks of the prosperity of lawlessness. It says because lawlessness shall abound, the love of many will grow cold. It is the love of those who did not endure temptation, trials, submission to carnal desires, but respond to them or react, that will grow cold, and when it does, they will no longer be zealous for the LORD. They will not even be happy coming to church.
Some will depart from the place of holiness, the place where the LORD challenges them to live right and do the right thing. I was tempted to depart too during my days of trial. I learned that if your love for the LORD grow cold, hell will become closer and Heaven very far. But at first, it will not seem so.
Friend, it is very dangerous for our love to grow cold. Things will begin to settle in our lives that will one day destroy us suddenly. Understand that the spirit of lawlessness is usually one of the vicious enemies of apostolic Christians.
IT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MANY THINGS WE DO AND LATER REGRET DOING THEM.
However, the Goodnews is, Jesus knows how vicious this spirit is. He was here before us and tasted how vicious that spirit can be. He had to fight it on daily bases and endure it too. That is why He alone can help us. He helps us by anointing our heads with oil. That Oil is the anointing of His presence.
Our devotional text says;
“You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever.” Psalm 23:5-6 NKJV
These are the things the LORD does to help us overcome the spirit of lawlessness and endure to the end. The Bible says it is those who endure to the end that shall be saved, not those who recite the sinner’s prayer or make confessions of faith. The anointing of His presence comes to help us endure to the end.
The LORD anoints us with it until the cup of our lives begin to run over with it. That is when one can endure. If you do not have that anointing of His presence you will not be able to endure. You will react or respond and do stupid things that you will live to regret later. You need the anointing of His presence more than anything.
Like we shared yesterday, that anointing is not the olive oil the preacher gives you that is carried in a bottle. It is the oil the Holy Spirit infuses your life with while you are in prayer with Jesus Christ, your LORD and Shepherd.
HE IS THE ONE WHO COMMANDS THE HOLY SPIRIT TO ANOINT YOU WITH IT.
I wish I had endured certain things that happened to me, I would have had a greater impact on the Kingdom. But my ignorant mind did not tell me to go for the anointing to endure. I was looking for power to demonstrate miracles but not the anointing to endure what the enemy will throw at me later in life. If there is anything we need today, is the anointing of His presence to help us endure things we must endure until they end.
Yes, they will end if we endure them. But if we do not endure them, if we react or respond, they will not end. The enemy will rather use our reaction or response to create problems for us that are bigger than we can surmount even if we are anointed. That is why we must seek the LORD daily for the anointing to endure.
Child of God, the LORD does not want us to faint in the day of adversity but to remain strong. His provision to make that happen is the anointing of His presence. We should all go for it. Amen!!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!!
“If you faint in the day of adversity, Your strength is small.” Proverbs 24:10 NKJV
4 but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” Acts 6:4 NKJV
