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Today’s Devotional Scripture: 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. - 2 Corinthians 4:7-10 KJV
The Message For Today (June 3, 2026):
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It’s time to let go. It’s time to release the notion that you have control. When we face the issues of life, and we’re walking through situation after situation that is beyond our control, it can get pretty discouraging. You can begin to wonder if the healing will ever come. You can begin to wonder if the breakthrough will ever find you.
You can begin to think that maybe, just maybe, your desire is not the will of God because you haven’t seen it yet. Even the Word decrees that hope deferred makes the heart grow sick. In Proverbs 13:12 in the King James Version, it says:
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life. - Proverbs 13:12 KJV
So if the word shows us that our desires can take so long that it would cause us to just get frustrated, be diseased in our heart, to wonder, and to have our faith suffer, then it must be true even now. Hundreds, thousands of years after the scriptures were written, the Lord knows that there will be times when we begin to wonder as well.
Are we doing the right thing?
Are we asking for the right thing?
Is it the will of God that we ever see it?
Have we done everything right?
Or is it that we’ve done so much wrong that there’s no way that we can actually see the prayers and see the transformation? These are all the issues of life that we often carry from day to day.
This is what the Lord was discussing in Matthew 6 when He says that worry cannot add a cubit to your life, that worry cannot add an inch to your life. He is telling us that these things are normal, but that we have a choice: that by grace He gives us an option to believe, to receive that He is able, and to know that even though we haven’t seen it yet, that our God is more than able, and that our God is faithful.
In the cornerstone Scripture today, it says that “We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.” The dichotomy of dealing with struggle but still having that breakthrough, dealing with losses, dealing with frustration, but still having hope that there’s still a chance that God can do what He said He would do.
There’s still an opportunity. There’s still an open door.
Even when we believe it is over, we believe that it has taken too long, we believe that we’ve made too many mistakes, chances are we’re probably right. But thanks be to God that He shares with us that despite all of these situations, things we can’t change, situations that are beyond our control, that God is still God in the midst of it, that there is still a chance that we may experience the excellency of the power of God.
The excellency of the power of God is borne of His Spirit. This is bought by the sacrifice that Jesus paid when He went to the cross, and He said in John 19:30, It is finished. This removed the weight of perfection and removed the weight of us operating in our works, constantly in our works and not leaning into our faith.
Judging and believing and settling for the brokenness based on our actions versus understanding that despite the mistakes we’ve made and despite the despair and the distress and feeling forsaken, that God is still with us, and that the dying of the Lord Jesus Christ bore the weight of the resurrection.
It bore the weight of God’s Spirit in us, that we can step fully into the grace of God. That we can receive in our hearts that we are redeemed, not by might nor by power, but by the Spirit of the living God. Not because we’ve always had it right, but because God is faithful and He’s more than able.
Lifting up our hands and blessing Him, releasing the weight of this day, casting down our cares, is what the Lord requires of us day in and day out. Day in and day out, we are told and encouraged to release the weight, to come before Him, to seek first the Kingdom of Heaven in the land of the living.
In Matthew 11:28- 30 in the King James Version, it states:
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. - Matthew 11:28- 30 KJV
And Matthew 6:33 in the King James Version reads:
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. - Matthew 6:33 KJV
The “all these things” that are discussed in Matthew 6:33 in the previous verses are all clarified as where we’re going to live, what we’re going to eat, how we’re going to be provided for, all of the worries that so easily beset us. He tells us in Matthew 6:33 that when we seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness above all, that everything that we desire, all the things that we need, shall be added unto us by the Lord, by his grace, and by His Spirit.
It’s time to let go of walking alone. We are not alone. Situations may arise in life that may find us, issues that we must walk through, and conditions that we must endure. But God is faithful, that through the issues of life, through the turns and situations, through the contrary wind, that He is with us, that He will come bearing the weight of glory.
That when we walk by faith and not by sight, we can walk right out of situations, heartache, and breaking that cause us to feel that we are inadequate, that we are not enough. We can walk with God, and we can do the impossible, we can see the impossible, and we can be lifted by His Spirit.
Closing Devotional Prayer
My prayer for you:
Father, in the name of Jesus: thank you. Thank you for the mighty woman of God. Thank you for the grace and the glory. Thank you for being Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I thank you, God, that every weight is falling off the mighty woman of God this morning, that every distraction is coming down, that every lie is coming down.
That no matter what has happened before this prayer, no matter what the week has been like, no matter what the month has been like, no matter what the year has been like, I pray in the name of Jesus that this prayer, that this devotional, be the beginning of something new.
I pray hat it be a turnaround point, God, that she will receive in her heart that it’s not over yet. That you are still our great God and that you are more than able, that you are a faithful God, and that you are turning situations around. You are faithful, God, and you are more than able.
I thank you for the weighty glory of God, for you are Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I thank you, Lord, and I pray in Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.
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