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Today’s Devotional Scripture: 2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. - Isaiah 45:2-3 KJV
20 And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there, and said, The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baalperazim. - 2 Samuel 5:20 KJV
The Message For Today (May 3, 2026):
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When you are walking with God and building the way that God is directing you to build, it often seems as if you are building against a wall, a limit. It seems as if the building is almost pointless as you begin to build, and it seems like nothing is happening. The Lord is moving before you when walking with God, by faith and not by sight.
Movement, when it doesn’t make sense, is required. Building when it doesn’t feel logical is a necessity. Trusting that the Lord our God is mighty to save and deliver, and that he knows the plans that he has for you, is important. That trust allows you to be able to go forth without needing to know the outcome, without needing to know the destination, and without needing a 100 percent guarantee.
You start to move by faith and not by sight.
It is your faith that begins to make you whole when you walk with God. When you build with God, it is not going to make sense to you, and it may not make sense to others around you. When you start believing what you hear by prayer and by faith, and you start to move in the fullness of that faith, you will keep moving even if it feels like there’s a wall. You will keep moving even when it doesn’t make sense.
You will keep building while the rest of the world decides that it’s not worth it or that it’s time to put it down, and maybe time to go elsewhere. In the midst of that, the persistence in you, the passionate patience in you, will prosper you by faith. The movement that is required in this season must be full of faith and full of His glory, that you don’t stop when it looks difficult, when it looks impossible, and when it feels like the winds and the waves just refuse to obey.
This is when the chains begin to break by faith.
We see here in Isaiah that it says that the Lord will go before thee to make the crooked places straight. So He will go before thee to straighten out your path while you’re moving with Him. While you’re walking with Him, things that you have not yet seen, situations that you haven’t touched, begin to work themselves out because you’re walking with Him. Because you’re facing the things head-on.
The grace and glory of the Lord goes before you, covers you, and breaks every limitation. The promise there is that we will know that He is the God of Israel. That’s Isaiah 45. The second cornerstone scripture is a demonstration of what happens when we pray, and the Lord says yes. In 2 Samuel 5, David is crowned king, and the Philistines come and they spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. And in that place the Philistines desire to have victory over David (2 Samuel 5:17 KJV).
So David inquires of the Lord, Shall I go up? Shall I pursue? Will you deliver them into my hand? When David asks the Lord if he should go up, he is automatically leaning not unto his own understanding, but acknowledging God that the Lord may direct his path. And when he asks, Will you deliver them into my hand? he’s praying, If I go up, will you give me victory?
So that inquiry, that clarity, removes his earthly responses and places in him the wisdom of God, the might, and the guarantee that the Lord will give him victory. 2 Samuel 5:20 is the result of that inquiry. It’s the result of that prayer. It is the result of David seeking the Lord in what looks like a very difficult situation. And David reports that “the Lord hath broken forth upon my enemies”. Broken down every wall, every stronghold, every limitation. Physical enemies broken, physical barriers removed.
And even when they came back in the same scripture in 2 Samuel 5, the Lord gave him a new way to have complete victory. So yes, the Lord is with you. Yes, this is a walk where step by step, day by day, you can lean in and pray and know that the Lord our God will direct your steps when you trust him and walk with him. Tthose steps are ordered by the Lord and full of glory, full of peace, and full of power.
You are not alone in the thing that God has called you to. And the chains that you feel led to break, these things that have been extended and these things that have been delayed, these things can be placed before the Lord. And you can pray over those things, seeking the will of the Father to break the chains and to set you free of every affliction.
For the Bible decrees that many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers them from them all.
Let this be the season where you see complete deliverance from every affliction in your life, from every bit of the weight that you’ve had to carry, and from every doubt about whether or not you were doing the right thing. May this be the season that the Lord goes before you, in Jesus’ name.
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 weighty glory of God. Thank you that she is not alone. Lord, you are more than able. You are making the crooked way straight.
I thank you, Lord, for the grace and the glory. I thank you, God, for being the sovereign God, the great I Am, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Thank you for breaking every chain, God. Thank you for loosing every shackle. Thank you, God, for setting the captive free.
Set the mighty woman of God loose, O God, in the name of Jesus, that she may see complete victory. Utter victory in her finances, utter victory in her children, utter victory, God, over her family. Victory in relationships, God. Reconciliation in the name of Jesus, that the mighty woman of God would be blessed and full of your glory.
Thank you for covering marriages this morning, O God. Thank you, God, for covering hearts and minds this morning. Thank you for covering the relationships with children. Thank you for the peace of God, for the mighty women of God that are called to rise in this hour in prayer, in fasting, and in ministry.
Lord, I thank you for blessing the work of their hands. I thank you for the kingdom, God, which shall not fail when you are at the helm. Everything has to break when you are with us. So Lord, I thank you, and I pray in Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.
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