Victory Daily Devotional

DIVINE UNION Psalms 133:1-3 Devotional Verse -  “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity!” (V. 1)      The blessing of fellowship with God is divine union. Whenever we are in fellowship with God, we are in divine union with Him. That is why working or serving the Lord is not by human ability. Divine assignment is always enjoying strong divine backing. This makes people working with God or in God’s purpose to excel among men. This is because they are working with the energy of God.

STAY CONNECTED Psalms 27:1-6 Devotional  Verse -  “One thing I have desired of the Lord, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, And to inquire in His temple” ( V. 4)      Every time you find the privilege to be in fellowship with God, you will be able to get the best of His presence when you stay connected. To stay connected means you don't give in to distractions. When you are personally fellowshipping stay there connected. When you are in church with other believers stay connected. It could be prayer time or worship or message or even offering time. In any of this time, refuse to be offline.

THANKING HIM Ephesians   5:15-21 Devotional  Verse -  “giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” ( V. 20)      A major way to fellowship with God continually is to keep thanking Him. This is because He deserves it. Looking into the goodness of the Lord, you cannot really exhaust the reason for thanking Him. It is in the time of thanksgiving that you have quality fellowship with God. The Holy Spirit always helps us in giving thanks to the father.

CORPORATE FELLOWSHIP Hebrews  10:19-25 Devotional  Verse -  “not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching” ( V. 25)      We experience corporate fellowship whenever we join with other believes to fellowship together. This has tremendous power in bringing about the manifestation of God (Matthew 18:18-20). Fellowshipping alone with God is great for your growth in Christ Jesus but fellowshipping together will make more grater power available for the deliverance of a believer.

PRAYING IN TONGUES    Jude 1:20-25 Devotional Verse -  “But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit” (V. 20)      A time of fellowship with God demand that we communicate with our spirit. This is beyond the realm of the mind. This is through meditation in our mind as we pray. This is by focusing and opening our eye of the spirit to behold the throne of God. Whenever this happens, we become connected with God and we speak in tongue of the spirit.

LISTEN TO HIM Psalms 85:8-13 Devotional Verse - “I will hear what God the Lord will speak, For He will speak peace To His people and to His saints; But let them not turn back to folly” (V. 8)      So many people always talk to God in the time of prayers but many have not learnt how to hear Him. Communication is not complete till there is a response. Prayer is like a monologue to many but it ought to be a dialogue. A prayer life without response from the Lord will be totally frustrating. This has actually been the experience of many.

ASK SCRIPTURALLY 1 John 5:14-1 Devotional Verse -  “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us” (V. 1 4)      Everyone who loves to always have the experience of answer to prayers must understand the principle that guides it. We know that the principles of men are different from the principles of God. (Isaiah 55:8-9). That is when our prayers will not be religious or an experience of trial by error.

REVEAL YOUR WEAKNESS 1 John 1:5-10 Devotional Verse -  “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (V. 9)      People can only have the best of fellowship when they don’t hide under one finger. True fellowship demands openness in sincerity. This is important so that God’s mercy can allow us to access His presence. Man by every standard can never be qualified to stand in the presence of God. All that the Lord desire of us is that we humble ourselves and open up to Him.

WORSHIP HIM John 4:19-26 Devotional Verse - “But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him” (V. 23)      The act of fellowship with God becomes a genuine affair when you can truly worship God. To worship is to prostrate in your spirit man in the presence of God and worship Him. This is not a physical idea but spiritual. To worship is to totally connect with God in true act of submission and surrender. This is done when you no longer counting on your worth but giving all the worth and value to God. Worship is actually worth-ship.

FOCUS ON HIM Hebrews 12:1-5 Devotional Verse - “looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God” (V. 2)        No one can get the best of fellowship until there is a focus. Our nature of creation cannot really connect together until there is a focus. To focus is to set your mind and heart on God. There is this saying that we only communicate when we are focused on each other. So, when we are in fellowship with God, we must focus on Him. The devil will tempt you by creating several distractions. Anytime you want to focus, something will start to cross your mind to change the course. You must overcome it.

CONSISTENTLY COMMITTED 1 Thessalonians 5:12-22 Devotional Verse -  “Pray without ceasing” (V. 17)      Fellowship with God is the act of relating with God. Any serious relationship will demand consistency and commitment to grow. It is only a growing relationship that can profit the parties involved. It is only a growing relationship that brings us into the best of relationship. 

SECRET PLACE Matthew 6:6-15 Devotional Verse - “But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly” (V. 6)      The principle of secret place is part of the pattern of the prayer life of the children of Israel. They love to go to a solitary place to be alone with Jesus. This surely helps to concentrate and focus. This helps to put your mind together with God. The principle of out of sight is out of mind helps you to remove your mind from so many other things that could distract you.

CREATE A PATTERN Isaiah 26:1-9 Devotional Verse - “With my soul I have desired You in the night, Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; For when Your judgments are in the earth, The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness” (V. 9)      Pattern helps us to create a culture or a routine of what we like to do. The moment you create a pattern your spirit, soul and body will get adjusted to your pattern. This will always help you to flow in the place of fellowship. Pattern is the approach or method you love to employ. Pattern helps you to easily switch on in your spirit man and connect with God.

CREATE A TIME      Acts 3:1-10 Devotional Verse - “Now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour” (V. 1)      Any appointment without time can always fail. This is very vital when it comes to personal time with God. Remember the enemy doesn’t want you to have it. So, he will do everything to discourage you. He will use people; he will help you create excuses.  That is why you must be so determined and always fix a time to be with the Lord your God.

CREATE A THIRST Psalms 63:1-8 Devotional Verse -  “O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You In a dry and thirsty land Where there is no water” (V. 1)      To be able to enjoy God in regular fellowship a man must generate a thirst for God. In the course of doing this, your friends are bound to nickname you ‘Pastor’ This is because it is not the way of the world. The world often creates fellowship at a club house or beer parlor. But you are creating one with your God. That is why many people will be used by the devil to try to stop you. The devil knows that you will gain dominion over him. That is why it must be a strong decision to become a Christian who regularly fellowship with God.

ANSWER TO PRAYERS Job 22:21-30 Devotional Verse - “You will also declare a thing, And it will be established for you; So light will shine on your ways” (V. 28)      A great virtue that you will notice in the life of people who create time to regularly fellowship with the Lord is the grace of Answered prayers. This can also be called an anointed mouth. This is not because of your perfection but because you give yourself to fellowshipping with the Lord (Matthew 18:18-20). This is because God in His faithfulness will have to appoint His angels around you to bring answers to your prayers (Psalms 103:20).

CARRYING HIS WORDS Jeremiah 1:1-10 Devotional Verse -“Then the Lord put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me: "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth” (V. 9)      One of the greatest beauties of fellowshipping regularly in the presence of God is the blessing of having his words in your mouth. When such people open their mouth, the right word naturally flows out. Without this, no one will find it easy to speak the word of God before the crowd or in the public. This is a deep mystery of God that you will be speaking as though a sound system is been played from your inside. You cannot also totally explain how you are making up the vocabulary. This is not a manifestation of the act of public speaking. This is God speaking through you.

AUTHORITY  Luke 10:13-24 Devotional Verse - “Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you” (V. 19)      It is the level of fellowship a man has with God that will determine the measure of authority he will be able to exercise in life. Authority is not something that anyone can just handle. It is in the place of fellowship that God will be able to test us before He can trust us with authority. This is because it is more than one person. It involves the participation of the forces to enforce the authority. That is why the Bible says we should not say we are sorry before the angels (Ecclesiastics 5:6).

BLESSING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS Job 1:1-10 Devotional Verse - “Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land” (V. 10)      People who value and give themselves to fellowship with God are always enjoying the blessings of righteousness. This is because God’s presence gives us access into divine instruction in righteousness, and we also enjoy grace to obey Him (Psalm 23:3). As a result of our constant fellowship with God, we enjoy His presence with us. There, He hides us under the shadow of His feather (Psalm 91:1). This makes us to be untouchable to the enemy. God becomes a wall all around us and members of our family.

CLOTH OF GLORY Exodus 34:29-35 Devotional Verse - “Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Testimony were in Moses' hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him” (V. 29)      God made all human like Himself, and the creation of human has a beauty attached to it. This is the reflection of the glory of God. God has reserved this to those who will keep fellowship with Him. That is why it is important to know that our lives are not made to be completed without God. That is why God love to fellowship with man.

SECRET THINGS Daniel 2:13-23 Devotional Verse -“Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a night vision. So Daniel blessed the God of heaven” (V. 19)      In this word, people of great feet trade with secrets. When you have access to secrets, you don’t expose it anyhow, you could just endanger yourself. This is because, most people live in the limitations of ignorance. They know that there are secrets to good life but they don’t know it. And since they are not willing to learn, they assume that those who have the secrets are wicked and deceitful. So, secrets are always kept secret.

REVELATION Revelation 1:9-20 Devotional Verse - “I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet” (V. 10)      God made us to see physical things but there are many things invisible to our physical eyes. The different in human ability to achieve great things in this world is by revelation. This is because; no man will attempt to do what he does not see. Before we make an attempt to act on anything, it must have been revealed to us and we are convinced on the workability of the idea.

INSPIRATION Job 32:1-8 Devotional Verse - “But there is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding” (V. 8)      As great as the creation of human being, as incapable we will be without the inspiration of God (John 15:5). Inspiration is the release of light of understanding flooding our mind suddenly and revealing to us things we have not perceived before. Inspirations always come to show us a way to solution and strength to accomplish it. Under inspiration human being will always operate beyond the natural.

WORKING TOGETHER 1 Corinthians 3:5-17 Devotional Verse -  “For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, you are God's building” (V. 9)      Fellowship is working together. Whenever a group or set of people are working together to achieve a common goal, they are in fellowship. Been in fellowship demands our coming to the same level and share as fellow in the same ship. People who are journeying together in the same ship have common destination in mind. This makes them to work together and make the goal achievable.

DRINKING FROM THE SPIRIT John 6:60-71 Devotional Verse -  “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life” (V. 63)      Fellowship is the act of drinking or mixing with the same spirit. Man by nature need to know that he is a spirit and when we fellowship, we share the spirit in us. You drink of mine; I drink of yours. This is possible because we are fellowshipping together.

DIVINE INFLUENCE Proverbs 13:11-20 Devotional Verse -  “He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will be destroyed” (V. 20)      A wonderful blessing, we get from divine fellowship is divine influence. This makes us different when we come from a place of fellowship with God. God’s gracious influence shows on all that we are doing. We become carriers of the divine grace and we manifest His glory, just because we are in fellowship with God. When Moses returned from the presence of God his face was showing the glory of God (Exodus 34:29).

DIVINE HONOUR 1 Samuel 2:23-33 Devotional Verse -  “Therefore the Lord God of Israel says:'I said indeed that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever.' But now the Lord says:'Far be it from Me; for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed” (V. 30)      Everyone loves to be honoured. But people need to know that honour is in degree. There is an honour people give to you because they know you, and those who do not know you may not give you the same honour. There is an honour people give because of your look. But there is another one that comes because of the person they see you with or the office you represent. When you stand regularly in fellowship with God, you earn divine honour. This is possible because you honour God to be in fellowship with Him and people see you manifest the glory of God.

SHARE AND CARE Genesis 18:16-33 Devotional Verse - “Then he said,"Let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak but once more: Suppose ten should be found there?" And He said, "I will not destroy it for the sake of ten."” (V. 32)      A time of fellowship with God is a time to experience opportunity to share and enjoy the care of God. In this world, we don’t often have that opportunity to share deep things with people. This is because everyone seems to be busy pursuing their own plans and desires. So, those who need to share are often seen as unserious people. Who have that time for you? Who cares whatever you don’t understand, no one seems to care to explain. So many with questions of life without a satisfying answer. This is the purpose of fellowship.

HANGING AROUND GOD Psalms 23:1-6 Devotional Verse -  “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever” (V. 6)      Your life is a reflection of who you are always hangs out with. Fellowshipping is hanging around God. Very many people see coming to God as coming to just enjoy service or see friend and return home. Yes, these are part of fellowship but the major one is that we should always come to hang around is God. That is when we can look like Him (Proverbs 13:20).

WELCOME Psalms 65:1-8 Devotional Verse :-  “Blessed is the man You choose, And cause to approach You, That he may dwell in Your courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, Of Your holy temple” (V. 4)      As human, we don’t just go to other people’s house when we don’t know whether they will accept us in their house or not. We only do this under divine instruction or compulsion in our spirit. Fellowship only occurs when someone welcomes you to His fold and you can have time to interact as friends. This also goes with God.

WHAT IS FELLOWSHIP   Hebrews 12:21-29 Devotional Verse -  “But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels” (V. 22)      One of the greatest privilege men have with God is opportunity to fellowship with God. Fellowship is also God’s desire (John 4:24). From the beginning of creation, we see that God desire to fellowship with man (Genesis 3:8-10). This is greatly revealed in the journey of God with men all through the ages and this is visible from Genesis to Revelation.