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Today’s Devotional Scripture: 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
- 1 Peter 1:7 KJV
12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
- 1 Peter 4:12-13 KJV
13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. - 1 Corinthians 3:13 KJV
The Message For Today (April 19, 2026):
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We experience trials by fire when things get heavy, when life seems to turn up the heat, when doors open that we didn’t expect, and when doors close that we depended on. When life changes from day to day and from season to season, we are being tried by fire.
We are being tested in our faith.
We are being challenged to look at every situation through the eyes and the mind of Christ. God has shown us time and time again through His word that trouble doesn’t last always. Testing is temporal. Whether it be a year, whether it be 20, life always changes, and nothing lasts forever.
So while we are in the midst of our battles and in the midst of our trials, we can begin to see these things as part of our growth and development. We can look at the unplanned circumstances, the sufferings that we endure, the strange things that almost make no sense that they happened.
We can look at these things and begin to see them as trials that were allowed to make us stronger, to develop us, to cultivate and strengthen our faith. We see in the cornerstone scriptures that faith is a journey of development. It’s a journey of growth, and that the fire tests it over and over again, that it may be able to stand and be present when Jesus Christ returns.
As we look at our lives and we see the growth and we see the trials and we see the tribulations, we can begin to see each one of those as a blessing for us to develop, to overcome, to assess and to heal old wounds and to overcome new battles day in and day out, that we may be partakers of Christ’s sufferings.
That’s what it says in 1 Peter 4:12, to partake that we may also partake in the glory of the Lord. The trials that we experience are not there to harm us but to give us a future and a hope. When we begin to trust our God completely and lean in in times of trials and lean in in times of struggle, we are indeed trusting God.
We are healing.
We are trusting. We are breaking. We are binding the old man, the old habits, the old patterns, all breaking when we walk by faith. When we encounter strange situations that cause us to shift, to lean into God, to do something new, and to break old habits.
All of these things are part of the development process, and they’re blessings from God. They’re a reminder that He is with us and that He desires for us to grow, that He would not leave us in patterns, that He will not leave us stagnant. Pressing towards the mark of the prize of the high calling of Christ Jesus, that is how we see the King of glory.
That is how we see the glory of the Lord in our lives. That is how we see the manifestation of His word and His will in our life. So that we will become the evidence, as it says in 1 Corinthians, that every man’s work will be made manifest because it will be revealed by the testing and by fire.
In this season, release every old thing and embrace the moment that you’re in, being thankful in all things, for this is the will of the Father towards us. This is the thing to do, is to be grateful, to lean in, and to trust God to lead us forward.
Closing Devotional Prayer
My Prayer for You:
Father, in the name of Jesus, thank you, God. Thank you, God, that the just are led by faith and not by sight. Thank you for the mighty woman of God who is here now. I thank you for the breaker anointing. I thank you for the sudden shifts.
I thank you, God, that ways are being made, that there’s no distraction in you. You know what you have for us. You know what you need of us, oh God, and you know the plans that you have for her to give her a future and a hope.
I thank you, God, for her future. I thank you, God, for you being the King of glory and that her hope will become manifest, that the desires of her heart are yes and amen. That’s what your word tells us. I thank you, Lord, and I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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