The Hidden Treasures

13/12/2025

THE CRY OF THE SPIRIT DEVOTIONALS – BY RICHARD E. S. TAKIM

TODAY’S DEVOTION (SATURDAY 13TH DECEMBER 2025)

“You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” Psalm 16:11 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 347TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY

The LORD our God has loaded us with benefits for 347 days of this year. That is huge! He has watched over us, provided for us, spoken to us, imparted His Spirit into us and done so many wonders in our lives this year!

Above all He has used us to our amazement, considering how unqualified we are. He has used our lives to show that Heaven does not choose the qualified. Heaven qualifies the chosen with the instrumentality of God’s grace. If you feel unqualified for a divine task, that is when you will be qualified by grace.

In unflinching recognition of the calling of others, permit me to humbly say that my primary apostolic mandate and the boundaries of my calling, falls within the Body of Christ, and you will agree with me that the body of Christ no longer need shallow rooted sermons or write ups.

We need the deep things of God that can only be revealed by comparing spiritual things with spiritual! The Bible says:

“But as it is written: "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him." But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 NKJV

I believe strongly that our church generation is yet to see the full manifestation of the potentials of God’s presence – His glory.

There are things prepared for us before the foundation of the world – things that eyes have not seen, ears heard or hearts conceive. These are the things which the Holy Ghost teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. Our generation must rise beyond the status quo and begin to search for those things and seek them with the whole of our hearts, our souls and our might!

WE MUST DIG THE WELLS IN GOD’S GLORY AND UNLOCK THOSE THINGS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH!

Sadly, we have seen miracles, signs and wonders in some quarters, but most local Churches are just dry of significant moves of God, and they do not care. While many others have been plugged into the demonic through the diviners and the sorcerers they call prophets.

Others are just spiritual graveyards where no sinner can be turned into a saint by the power of GOD.

Many years ago, the LORD spoke to me saying “...sorcerers are coming into the church.” It got me so troubled then, because I thought we had had enough. I thought we were going to have a break. The Bible says impostors will grow worse, deceiving and being deceived themselves.

But the good news is as they try to darken the spiritual cloud with their ministries, God promised an adequate response through the Sons of light that will render them impotent.

He said in His word;

“And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, against adulterers, against perjurers, against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, and against those who turn away an alien — because they do not fear Me," Says the Lord of hosts. Malachi 3:5 NKJV

This is a glorious sword that stretches out towards every impostor, perjurer and charlatan presenting themselves as preachers. It is a sword that has been laid to the root of the activities of these evil trees. Jesus says any tree my Heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

We are in the season of uprooting some of these trees – the ones that have hit their judgment time. Friend our generation will witness great glory. We will witness a great release of the fullness of God’s presence. That is why one of the major THINGS OF GOD to be schooled in today is the protocol and density of the presence of GOD.

WE MUST KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT IT SO WE CAN FLOW WITH IT LIKE OUR FATHERS DID.

The presence of God is different from the presence of men of GOD or that of a people of GOD. It is men or people of God who live in the presence of God that carry His presence everywhere.

God will not be able to use us to be a swift witness against the sorcerers and other unclean people in the body of Christ if we do not live in His presence. These are end time moves of God that can only be done with men and women who live in the presence of God. Friend, our Church generation must understand the presence of God so that we can live within it all the days of our lives.

Our devotional text said, “You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”

Understanding the levels of God’s presence is essential. There are degrees God announces His presence in our lives or in a meeting. It all depends on how much the preacher Heading or leading a meeting has died to things; died to carnal cravings, self, sin, satanic tendencies, or works of the flesh.

There is no magic about these things. It has a principle that guides them.

The more we die to the flesh the more of God’s presence we see! In other words, when we decrease, He will increase! It is through dying that we activate the potentials of God’s presence. Paul said I die daily, that was why He saw the full manifestation of God’s presence in His life and ministry every day.

If you are not seeing the manifestation of the presence of God in your life, family or ministry, you are not dying to the flesh. You are living for the flesh!

You are living up to the flesh and FEEDING it with all or most of the ungodly things it craves for without compromise! If we feed the flesh all its wants without compromise, we will never have the sufficient presence we need from God to live long enough and do His work without falling short of His glory.

The first degree or level of God’s presence available to us on this side of eternity is the omnipresence of God. The Omni presence of God is everywhere but His manifest presence is not everywhere. It can only be found where men have died to things – especially the things earlier stated.

A lot of people have not translated the Omni presence of God in their lives into manifest presence.

THAT IS WHY THEY ARE NOT SEEING THE WORKS OF GOD. THEY ARE NOT DYING TO THE FLESH ENOUGH TO SEE IT.

The principle remains; no dying means no manifestation of the manifest presence. It means no revelation of God’s glory. Less dying means less manifestation of the manifest presence of God. It means less manifestation of God’s glory.

I have come to realize that not enough finances in the life of the righteous is a direct consequence of not enough manifestation of God’s presence. Just enough finance is a direct consequence of just enough manifestation of God’s presence. And more than enough finance is a direct consequence of more than enough manifestation of God’s presence in the life of the righteous.

Again, there is no magic in these things. There is just a principle that must be followed by all of us who call upon the name of the LORD. The principle of dying to the flesh to have more of the manifest Presence of the LORD. More dying means more manifestation of the manifest presence.

If we therefore want to see greater manifestation of God in our lives, Churches, or families, we must be ready for greater level of dying, because “except a seed of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it abides alone.”

When I was teaching on “THE STREAMS OF THE SUPERNATURAL” almost 10 years ago, I led the church into scriptures to discover three streams of the supernatural – the streams of FAITH, ANOINTING and THE GLORY.

Now, there are three levels of dying in the kingdom of God that brings us into the tree streams. I want to refresh our minds again on these things because it is these levels of dying that are responsible for the density of streams of the supernatural that we may see.

THE FIRST LEVEL OF DYING IS 30-FOLD. IT IS A DYING THAT KILLS THE ASPECT OF THE FLESH CALLED UNBELIEF.

When unbelief dies, it thrust us to the realm of limitless impossibilities of GOD. It brings us into the realm of faith. Faith is a realm, not just a confidence or trust in God that comes through hearing and seeing from Him. It is a realm of the limitless impossibilities of God that when we come into, we can no longer doubt God. We can no longer operate in any form of unbelief.

It is an established truth that without faith you cannot unlock things in the Spirit. You cannot access miracles, blessings, or covenant moves of God. Faith is the currency of the Spirit. By it the elders obtained good testimonies.

When unbelief dies and one come into this realm, one can begin to access so much that God’s presence carries as depicted in the lives of the elders in Hebrews 11. But just as money cannot buy everything in the natural plane, so do faith.

You may be shocked to find out that faith has its own limitations. That is why many have believed God for things that never came. Faith answers so many things in God but all of them falls into the 30-fold docket. There is the 60-fold and 100-fold dockets.

Your faith cannot handle things in those dockets. If you have a thing in your life that your faith has not handled, it falls outside the docket of things that faith can handle. I hope you understand me. True faith will plug you into the next level of dying to come into the next stream of the supernatural, which is the anointing.

The next level of dying is 60-fold. The presence of God that you get through this process is responsible for handling things that falls into the 60-fold dockets.

Sadly, the Church preaches people to live weak “lives” instead of to die for this level of the supernatural to break forth in their lives wherever faith has failed. What faith cannot handle, the genuine anointing of the Holy Ghost will handle. The anointing is superior to faith, but we need to step into it and live in it from the realm of faith.

NOW, I DID NOT SAY THE ANOINTING OIL, I MEAN THE TRUE ANOINTING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WHICH IS NOT IN BOTTLES.

There is the false anointing in Church today because we are dealing with a devil that operated as an anointed cherub. So, he can release the anointing too. This is where you will need the Spirit of Truth to guide you because most of what you call the anointing today ANNOYS the Holy Ghost, and those who are sensitive to the Spirit knows this truth!

The last level of dying is 100-fold. This is the level that will plug you into the greatest stream of the supernatural called the glory. It handles things that falls in toe 100-fold docket in the Spirit realm.

Whatever our faith and anointing cannot handle, the presence of God that breaks forth in our lives through this process can handle.

This is the realm the present Church is yet to come into. We are stuck to the anointing and have not really seen the glory. That is why we still carry bottles of oil everywhere in our hands and see our ‘great Bishops’ with big jars in their hands.

I watched one man receive some oil on His head and was told he was being anointed to take over leadership. I marveled at the level of spiritual illiteracy. That is Judaism! Did Jesus pour oil on the disciples to take over leadership? Who poured oil on Paul to take over leadership?

When you import Judaism into Christianity, you will have a form of godliness that has no power. You will see devils living with the people of God and presenting themselves as God to them.

The Church is experiencing falsehood today because we have stuck to shadows. Everything under the anointing can be counterfeited. That is why we have counterfeits everywhere today.

THE ONLY THINGS THAT CANNOT BE COUNTERFEITED ARE THINGS IN THE GLORY OF GOD.

The end time Church is a Church that is designed to operate in the glory! It is a Church that will stand on faith, tap into the anointing of the Holy One. Then stand on the anointing of the Holy One, to come to the realm of God’s glory.

There is so much I cannot state down here; so much you need to know. Many call the anointing the glory but there is a huge difference between the anointing and the glory. But the glory is the fullness of God’s presence on display

It does not manifest until our lives are in order. But the anointing will manifest even when lives are not in order. That is where many who live in sin but walk in the supernatural are deceived. They take the manifestation of the anointing as proof that what they may be doing wrong is not wrong in God’s sight.

Well, they are not the first to do that, Judas Iscariot was the first. He walked in the anointing and did great signs and wonders but ended up betraying Christ and losing his soul to eternal judgment.

Jesus made it clear that not everyone who operates in the anointing will make Heaven. You see that in Matthew 7:15-23.

Let me tell you this; a Christian who sleeps around or walks in deceit, can carry the anointing of God for a while, but can never carry the glory for a second because it will kill him. Don’t forget how Ananias and Sapphira died in Acts 5. The church then was under the glory not just the anointing.

Child of God, as you pass through this day, I want you to take time out to absorb this message. It is the key to the very breakthrough you have been looking for, and the blessed life you desire for 2026.

The presence of God is full of potentials, but we will never see the manifestation of its fullness in our Churches, meetings, families, or general Christian lives until we fall and die to the flesh.

MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!

“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.”

“He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.” John 12:24-25 NKJV

12/12/2025

12/12/2025

THE PRICE
Fighting Evil in any system is very expensive. Many have died for fighting evil. EVEN JESUS DIED for fighting evil, though He resurrected.

12/12/2025

THE CRY OF THE SPIRIT DEVOTIONALS – BY RICHARD E. S. TAKIM

TODAY’S DEVOTION (FRIDAY 12TH DECEMBER 2025)

“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." Acts 1:8 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 346TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY

It’s another glorious day on the eve of this eventful year. (Yes, December is the eve of every year). Another day to lift our eyes and hearts to the LORD and say, “thank you for keeping us all through the year, LORD.”

With the spirit of gratitude, lets embrace this day as a gift from God and request that He make it a blessing in our lives even as we rise to serve our generation according to His will. The greatest way to live an earthly life, is to live it serving one’s generation according to God’s will. Let that be part of your 2026 plan.

One thought that entered my heart this morning is the fact that my life is owned by someone, and that I am not its owner.

Since the life has its owner, the responsibility of keeping me alive is not resting on me but on the owner. The way to live the life is not also in me but in the owner. He is to tell me how to live it. He has a plan and pattern for the life. My job is to live the life according to its plan and pattern.

That is why one of the most important words in the Bible is the word “LORD!”

The word LORD in the Bible is from the word Adonai, meaning owner. Our primary assignment on earth is to use our lives and do the will of its owner. This Life was not given to us to be owned by us. This life was given to us to be owned and governed by its owner.

Those who think they own their lives, or who live like they own this life and can use it to do anything, will end up defeating the plans and purposes of God for their lives. They will not fulfill their prophetic or eternal destiny. They will be broken and shattered in one way or the other, and sometimes even when they have the best of this world, they will still not have a great eternal ending.

THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS OUR LIVES WERE NOT DESIGNED TO BE OR DO. ANYTIME WE VENTURE INTO THOSE THINGS, WE DESTROY OURSELVES.

The first of them is exactly what I stated earlier. Our lives are not designed to be owned, possessed, governed and controlled by us. Our lives were designed to be owned, possessed, governed and controlled by the Spirit of the LORD, the Spirit of the owner, through our mental faculties and abilities.

People who allow that to happen live the best lives in time and eternity. Those who do not, usually end up ruining themselves in time or eternity.

To OWN can be used as a verb, a pronoun or an adjective. As a verb, to own means to have something as your possession. Your life was not designed for you to have as your possession. You could even become possess with demons if you attempt to have your life as a possession.

A life in your possession is usually directed after your own will and driven to follow your own sinful paths and ways. It is completely cut off from the controls of God and never brought under the power of His Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the owner. And if a life is not under the power of the Holy Spirit, it will not receive any significant thing from the LORD (from its owner)!

Our lives are designed to be products of what we receive from its owner. Yes, God designed that our lives keeps going by what it receive from its owner. Meaning, if we receive nothing, things will never be well with us.

People who are sick, for example, needs healing from the owner of their lives to keep living well, people who are healthy need divine health from the owner of their lives to remain healthy, those who struggle with sin needs holiness and dominion over sin from the owner of their lives to live pure lives on earth and make heaven, those who are poor need the power to get wealth from the owner of their lives to lead good economic lives. The list goes on!!!

THE IMPORT OF THIS IS, IT IS WHAT WE GET FROM THE OWNER OF OUR LIVES THAT GIVES IT A MEANING ON EARTH.

We will never live blessed and beautiful lives in an accursed world, except the owner of our lives get them filled with blessings and beauty. Yes, the owner of our lives must fill it with good things, for our lives to be good. Most times He does that as we kneel before Him in prayer, other times as we fast and pray. Some other times He does it when we are busy serving Him in one way or the other.

But we must all understand that it is His will that we live good lives on earth, as we journey to Heaven, and the reason is obvious.

From what the law of ownership is, every owner desires the best for what they own. No owner desires a bad gifts for what they own. In the same way, understand that the owner of our lives will always desire the best gift in His kingdom for us. Do not forget that the owner of our lives is an eternal King. He created all things, but He was never created.

The Bible teaches that every good and perfect gift is from Him. That is why, if our lives turn out good, we will always find what we received from Him as responsible, and if it turns out bad, we will find what we did not receive from Him as responsible. (Read this paragraph again and let God speak to you through it).

The best way to live to always receive good and perfect things from your owner is to hand your life over to Him. Wise people will hand over their lives to its owner to run according to His own will and way. That is what to do in 2026 and the rest of your days on earth.
We find a lot of people who did that in the Holy Scriptures. Concerning this special breed, the Bible says:

“These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. And truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return.

But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.” Hebrew 11:13-16 NKJV

ONLY PEOPLE WHO HAVE HANDED OVER THEIR LIVES TO THE OWNER DIE IN FAITH; THE REST DIE IN FEAR AND SIN.

Yes, only people who have handed over their lives to their owner seek a homeland beyond this world. Only they desire a heavenly country. They are the only ones you find God attaching Himself to. You will always experience God’s manifest presence anytime you hang around them. They dance to a different drumbeat in the Spirit.

They literally outsource their earthly lifestyle from the Heavenly realm where God lives.

They do not set their minds on the earthly and mundane; they set their minds on the Heavenly and eternal. They do not trade the eternal for the earth. They will even lose the whole world to secure their souls, instead of losing their souls to secure the whole world.

As we move closer and closer to our year of Strategic Victory, one of the questions to ask yourself is, how much of my life do I own and how much have I allowed its owner to own? The answer you give to this question will determine how your life will turn out in 2026.

Authentic Christianity is a call to return our lives back to its owner.
We took it from Him in the Garden of Eden and walked away into the hands of the evil one. He in turn took it from us and pretended to be its owner for thousands of years. Sadly, many believed him and still believe him.

HE EVEN TAUGHT OTHERS TO THINK THEY OWN THEIR LIVES, WHILE HE OWN IT FOR THEM AND DIRECT THEIR AFFIARS.

But his false ownership was terminated on the cross of Calvary over 2000 years ago, when God stepped down as man and paid the ultimate sacrifice for our redemption or buy back. Yes, we sold our lives for nothing, but the owner came and bought it back for something; He bought it back with His own eternal blood. Hallelujah!!

Today, as many as recognized Him as the owner of their lives can be owned by Him again. That is what salvation is!! In fact, the original purpose of preaching is to tell people this good news and request that they return their lives back to its owner; yes, back to the one that created it.

But that also is one of the most difficult things to do. Few will want to return their lives to its owner. In fact, very few will even believe the truth, the truth that they do not own their lives. They will not want anyone but themselves governing their lives. That is why many of us seek what we call freedom.

Freedom to be the sinful us; freedom to pursue a happiness that will not give us a better ending. Freedom from divine restrictions and morality. Freedom from right living and ethical conduct. All of us wants this kind of spiritual infection called freedom. That is why we are destroyed.

We know the cost of getting our lives back to its owner. We know that it will cost us everything hence not willing to do so. At most, we do it partially, especially when things are not working. We do not do it totally like our LORD Jesus showed us. God wants us all to return our lives back to Him, not by lips but by living so.

Returning our lives back will require repentance from dead works and a turning away from a sinful life. It will require not doing things that are not God’s will for our lives. It will require getting out of things that are not part and parcel of God’s program for our lives. It will require leading a godly life, at the expense of anything on the face of the earth.

WHEN THAT HAPPENS, YOUR PASSION IN LIFE, VISION FOR LIVING, AND TRADITION WILL CHANGE.

You will begin to cry like Paul and say, “that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.” Yes, you will begin to press on to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of you.

Nothing in this world will matter to you anymore.

The ultimate of God will replace everything you consider legitimate among men. You will no longer be comfortable in earthly success driven churches and messages. You will begin to look for something fresh, something out of the status quo. Something different from the acceptable and most celebrated.

Sometimes, you will find yourself surrounded by people, yet alone. Alone because they do not understand you. Alone because they are ruled by the spirit of this world and control by the gods of the nations.

No one who have handed his or her life back to the LORD will not be alone if he or she finds himself or herself among Christians who have not done so. It is usually complicated! If you are in a marriage, it will become sour until your spouse joins you in handing over his or her life, totally and truly, to its owner.

If you are in a business or an organization run in a certain way, it would become difficult, because people who have not handed over their lives to its owner have a way of becoming a pain on the neck of those who have. But one thing God does to all who have handed over their lives to Him, is to fill it with His Holy Spirit.

That is why it is when we totally surrender that we receive the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the One who owns our lives, into our lives. When He comes, He brings another precious gift called POWER.

His power is a precious gift because it is the ultimate power. Every other power submits to it. Our devotional text says:

“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." Acts 1:8 NKJV

WHEN YOU RECEIVE THIS POWER, YOU WILL BEGIN TO BE A WITNESS OF THE OWNER OF YOUR LIFE, NOT JUST BY WORDS BUT BY GREAT SIGNS AND WONDERS.

He will begin to beautify your life, bless it and do things in you and most times through you, that will reveal Him to people who sit in darkness, so that they may come to do what you have done - hand over their lives back to its owner.

One of the greatest things you can ever do with your life is to get it back to its owner so that He can make it what He created it to be. His words tell us that before you were formed in your mother’s womb, He knew you, He sanctified and ordained you to be certain things on earth. Will you live this life without becoming those things? No!

Time has come to decide or make a decision; the decision to either handover your life in the hands of its owner, or leave it right there no matter the cost, if you have already done so. This is the time to stop worrying about anything.

We slip into a life of worry whenever we take our lives back.
Worrying is one of the signs that shows we are now in control; is a sign that God is no longer in control. When we own our lives, we worry how it is either turning out or how it should turn out. We enter the worry room seeking answers to things; especially things we cannot change.

God sent this word this morning to tell us to hand over our lives totally to Him as we prepare for 2026. We have owned it enough; choosing which career to pursue, which city to live in, which man or woman to marry, and all that. Now He wants us to trust Him enough to let Him have it. Time to tell the Holy Spirit,

“Come and take over who belongs to you! I belong to you LORD. I don’t belong to me, or anyone. I belong to you. Come and take me back. Run my life the way you want. Govern it the way it seems good to you. Only let me sense the direction you want me to go. I promise, I will not rebel against it. If I do, chastise me! Please LORD, do not leave me to myself. Amen and amen!”

LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY

“Now it shall be, if you diligently listen to and obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all of His commandments which I am commanding you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you pay attention to the voice of the LORD your God.
“You will be blessed in the city, and you will be blessed in the field.” Deuteronomy 28:1-3 Amplified Version

11/12/2025

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11/12/2025

10/12/2025

THE CRY OF THE SPIRIT DEVOTIONALS – BY RICHARD E. S. TAKIM

TODAY’S DEVOTION (WEDNESDAY 10TH DECEMBER 2025)

“Then the Lord turned to him and said, "Go in this might of yours, and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have I not sent you?"

So he said to Him, "O my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house."

And the Lord said to him, "Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat the Midianites as one man." Judges 6:14-16 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 344TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY

To God be the glory for giving us another day and waking us up this morning! It is not because we are better but because of His mercies. The Bible encourages us to shout for joy and break forth into singing for the things our LORD has done in our lives.

It is one way to show gratitude to Him. Life is all about the might you are traveling with. The results we get in life are products of the power working in our lives. If we do not like what we are seeing in our lives, the problem lies in the might or power we might be travelling with in life with. It lies in the kind of power at work in our lives.

There are those traveling in life with the power of the flesh, others with the power of the Gods of this world, while some others with the power of the devil itself. There are also those who are traveling with the destructive power of ignorance at work in their lives, some others the destructive power of sin, and many others with the destructive power of what they get from the media.

When we change the power at work in our lives, we will change the results we are getting in life. Wise people will seek the power of God to be at work in their lives. That is the only power that will help our lives to turn out well in this side of eternity.

If our lives are ruled or powered by the power of God, we will be able to leap over walls, run through troops, turn armies of devils to flight, defeat the strongest forces from the kingdom of men or devils that may rise against us, have our hands on the necks of our enemies, and do much more than we can ever imagine.

THERE IS A SCRIPTURE WITH THE KEY TO A BEAUTIFUL LIFE AND MINISTRY

We find that scripture in one of the beautiful Bible books that God penned down using the hand of one of His eminent apostles. That apostle is Apostle Paul. He wrote to the church at Ephesus saying:

“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” Ephesians 2:20-21 NKJV

This is one scripture that a child of GOD must learn to sit with for hours, weeks, days, months or years until the light in it has eaten him up or her. The scripture clearly teaches that, if we have this GOD who can do much more than we can ever ask or think as our back up in life, if we have His power at work in our lives, there will be nothing impossible with us.

2026 have been decreed to be our year of strategic victory, but we will not be able to get that victory if the power of this GOD is not at work in our lives, and if we do not know how to release it. We will not be able to get to any height that have been pre-determined for us by GOD, if we do not have His power ruling our lives.

Other powers will ruin our lives, only God’s power will rule our lives well and take us to greater accomplishments in His will for us.

What am simply saying is, we will need divine backing in 2026 like we have needed it in other years. It is therefore important that we refresh our minds with some insights on divine backing in our devotional this morning.

I have defined divine backing as God standing with you, for you, in you and around you in all matters. Divine backing is what makes a man increases in life and ministry despite terrible attacks of the enemy. If your life lacks this blessing, everything will be breaking down in or around you.

DIVINE BACKING IS A PRODUCT OF GOD’S GLORY.

If your life is ruled but it, you will always have a table in the presence of your enemies. According to the flow of Bible prophecy, 2026 will turn out to be more turbulent than this year was. That is why it is not safe to step into it without divine backing!

Concerning the Jews who were in Egypt before Moses came for their final rescue, the Bible says Pharaoh advised his people to oppress and afflict them mercilessly. Insecurity was responsible for his decision. He feared that they may join forces with their enemies to attack them on the day of war because of how successfully they were becoming.

But like every agent of Satanic attacks, Pharaoh never knew they were enjoying divine backing. The scriptures say:

“Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses.

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel.” Exodus 1:11-12 NKJV

One major product of divine backing is you multiplying or succeeding despite severe enemy attacks! Only divine backing can make people who may be attacking or oppressing you afraid of you. I mean they are the ones in authority, attacking and doing all the evil they can muster, yet they are still the ones living in fear.

Ordinarily, the one attacked and oppressed should be the one in fear.

Divine backing will make sure no one goes free for doing us any harm. It is responsible for our security in a world that is influenced by wicked spirits and people. Divine backing keeps our attackers in a diminishing mode. It makes sure that the more they attack us, the more they diminish. Friend, won’t you like a blessing that diminishes your attackers without you even walking in hate or bitterness towards them? That is the blessing of divine backing!!

YES, AS THEY ATTACK US, THEY DIMINISH, BUT WE GROW AND INCREASE. HALLELUJAH!

The Bible says:

“But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel.” Exodus 1:12
Whatever the devil may be doing in your life through anyone, just learn to stay on the LORD’s side, rest in the blessing of divine backing. The more you are afflicted and attacked, the more you will increase.

Truly, by the time God is through with you, those who may be attacking you will become so jealous of the great blessings that will result by reason of the attacks that they will wish to die! That is why the Bible says we should handle adversity differently.

Yes, people who are backed by God should handle adversity differently.

You may become afraid like Hezekiah did when he was attacked by the enemy. But let your fear drive you to the LORD in prayers. Let it not put you in a panic mode. It’s not a sin to be afraid when the enemy strikes but let our fear move us to the LORD who runs our lives; let it move us to the place of His feet where we consider the developments and secure victory in His presence.

The Bible says:

“In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: Surely God has appointed the one as well as the other, So that man can find out nothing that will come after him.” Ecclesiastes 7:14 NKJV

God sometime appoints adversity to let us see the reality of His presence in our lives. He allows the enemy to come strongly upon us and do so much against us, so that we may see how much He is with us. In simple terms, so that we may experience the sweetness of divine backing!

That is why the more the adversity in our lives, the more the prosperity that come out of it. Remember what we have always shared about the prosperity in adversity.

THAT BRINGS US TO OUR DEVOTIONAL TEXT.

Our devotional text today is about a young and ordinary man like every one of us, that Heaven sets His eyes on; a man God decided to turn into a warrior of righteousness to rescue the nation of Israel from the enemy. During the encounter he had with the LORD, he described himself this way:

"O my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's." The man was describing himself based on his history.

Our history has a way of defining and diminishing us. That is why people who fix their hearts on their history do not amount to anything in life. We do not look at our abilities when dealing with God, we look at His ability in our abilities. We look at the prophecy of His plans and programs for our lives, not the details of our terrible histories.

No history lesson of one’s imperfect life has ever turned anyone into a giant killer. It has only filled their hearts with worries, diminished and put them in fear and hopelessness, and led some to su***de. Stop meditating on your imperfect life, or the imperfections of your life!

Meditate on what God says concerning you, meditate on what you can become if God back you up in life, and you will conquer the imperfections.

When Gideon attempted fixing his eyes on the history of his imperfect life, the LORD responded to him based on what He will become under the power of divine backing. He said two important things to him that are worthy of note.

1. Go in this might of yours, and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have I not sent you?"
2. Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat the Midianites as one man.

These are two of the most important statements you need from God this end time. Yes, there are two important statements you will need to travel through 2026, riding on the wings of divine backing.

THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS A WORD-OF-GOD ACTIVATED KINGDOM!

We can only do well if we hide His word in our hearts. So, if we face life with the very might we have, under divine backing, God’s manifest presence will be with us, and we will defeat the enemy and all he may muster against us. We will do it as one man! Hallelujah!

I believe in 2026, our God will be with us, and we will defeat all our enemies as “One Man” under God! That year will be different. The LORD who we have been seeking this year will come suddenly to us and do things in our lives that will not leave us in the hands of our enemies. Any battle that may rage against us will be turned to the gate by the power of His amazing backing.

You should, therefore, stop meditating on your imperfect history and start walking in God’s perfect word for your life. Except with a fresh anointing to make things right, you will never amount to anything in life spending your days looking at the details of your imperfect history.

Switch to divine backing mode this morning. Your imperfect history happened because there was no God in your life. Now, you have God! Get up and move on with His Holy Spirit, and all will be well.
Friend, we are living in departure time. Jesus is coming soon. The devil is doing more wickedly using those who are offended in us.

Jesus indeed said that will be one of the major hallmarks of the end times. But those who endure to the end shall be saved!

However, if there is no divine backing in our lives, it will be impossible to endure these days and become victorious. I believe the message has been passed. Now, run with it and make the coming year one of the best years of your life with the LORD by your side!

You will not fail in Jesus precious name! Amen.

LET OUR DEVOTIONAL TEXT BE YOUR MEDITATION FOR TODAY

Then the Lord turned to him and said, "Go in this might of yours, and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have I not sent you?"

So he said to Him, "O my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house."

And the Lord said to him, "Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat the Midianites as one man." Judges 6:14-16 NKJV