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Today’s Devotional Scripture: 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. - Galatians 6:8-9 KJV
The Message For Today (May 11, 2026):
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The Bible tells us that even though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh. It tells us clearly that our battle is one that is mighty through God, mighty through His Spirit, mighty through the weapons of our warfare, which are not carnal. In other words, they’re not natural.
This is not us fighting a good fight in terms of doing what we can do, making things happen, making them work, and calling up people and making things change. Shifting, being passionate about changing our lives, or affecting change for others, is powerful. Working really hard to try to fix things and, you know, pay off debts and pay off our homes and create good lives for our children, these are all things that we do in the natural because we live in a natural world.
But when it comes to walking with God, we do that in spirit and in truth. We do it in the natural, but we also do it by His Spirit. Even the way we approach life is not to be seen as conformed to the world, but rather transformed by the renewing of our mind (Romans 12:2 KJV). So not thinking like the world, not thinking like society, not thinking like people who rely only on their own understanding.
But, versus that, we are called to sit in the weight of glory. We’re called to trust in the Lord our God. We’re called to acknowledge Him in all of our ways so that He can direct our paths. All of this is in the Word. We are not called to live natural lives with an occasional spiritual encounter with God in church or, you know, in Bible study.
We’re called to live lives that are immersed in His Spirit and full of His glory. We’re called to live life in pursuit of the grace and glory of God, and that we’re following the Lord and that we’re dwelling in the house of the Lord all the days of our lives, as it tells us in Psalm 23.
The cornerstone scripture today talks about sowing and reaping. And the sowing and reaping is flesh versus spirit. Very clearly, flesh is our desires, our wants, our needs, versus spirit: prayer, fasting, walking with God, meditating day and night.
The sowing that we do, the way that we invest our time, matters. And while we are yet building the world in a way, we’re building our lives in a way that requires a lot of hours: working in the world, working in corporate America, working in our families, working in our homes, working with our children, Working, working, constantly working, moving, and producing.
The Lord says, those who sow into the flesh will reap corruption. But he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
So to sow into the flesh, to sow into the desires, the heart, the wants, all of those things eventually cause corruption to come up because our hearts can be deceitful. Our hearts can be submitted to God, or they could literally have one foot in the world. And so our hearts, our emotions, and our responses are not always accurate. They’re not always real. They’re not always grounded in biblical reality, and they’re not always grounded in the truth.
And so when we sow into that flesh, those hearts, those emotions that we have, we are indeed potentially reaping corruption. Sowing into the flesh is never the answer. Sowing into the Spirit, that we may receive the desires of our heart, that we may receive the things that God says are for us, that we may see the tangible blessings of God and the favor of God, and that we are covered, whether abased or abounding?
This comes from sowing by His Spirit. Sowing to the Spirit and pouring in not by might nor by power, but by His Spirit. Moving according to our faith, not according to our flesh. This is a decision because, yes, we must live in the world, but we are not of the world.
We are simply in it. We were having a transformative experience through it, growing day by day, pressing towards the prize as a mark of the high calling in Christ Jesus. That is our walk. Our walk here is a spiritual walk that has spiritual and physical implications for ourselves and our families.
So as we’re sowing by His Spirit, we’re sowing into the Spirit, we’re pouring out. We will see tangible changes in our lives because we will reap of the Spirit. Those things will reap life. We will reap joy. We will reap peace when we walk with God by His Spirit and not simply by our own understanding.
Not by our flesh, not just by what we believe that we need in this moment, which may be partially accurate. But there are things that we need that we have no thought of. Remember that the Bible tells us in the book of Isaiah that God’s ways are not our ways. As it tells us that God’s ways are not our ways, it actually gives us examples.
And so in Isaiah 55:8-9, it states:
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. - Isaiah 55:8-9 KJV
Isaiah 55:8–9 is very clear in that we are called by God, and that His thoughts, the things that he has for us, are so much higher than what man can tell us, so much higher than what our flesh can tell us, and so much higher than what society believes they need or demand of us.
We have a walk with God, an assignment to walk with Him, not according to the ways of this world, but according to God’s ways alone. According to His desire, His will, whether or not it makes sense to anyone on the earth. We all have this divine assignment to come before the Lord and pray, to know that God has the final say over our lives, over our homes, and over our finances. He is God alone. He is El Shaddai.
He’s the conqueror. Our banner. The victory that we need day in and day out. He is the King of glory, the great I Am. And He keeps his promises. No distractions, just yes and amen. No fear, just the glory of God.
And if we are reaping what we sow, then sowing into the Spirit is our primary desire, our primary assignment. It is to sow into His Spirit, sow and build in the way He’s calling us to build, live in the way He’s calling us, the way of trust and the way He’s calling us to trust. Not by might nor by power, not according to what we think we can do and what we think we have together.
But what if God is calling us to operate by His Spirit to a whole new place, a whole new assignment, an entirely different level, a greater capacity than we ever thought possible? That’s going to take stretching. That’s going to take extending our hearts and minds. It’s going to take moving beyond our own limits and understanding, and acknowledging Him so that He can show us the way.
There is so much more. There’s more that He has for you. There’s more that He desires for you. But we must be tuned in by His Spirit. We must be locked in and ready to walk with Him by faith, not by sight. And we must accept in our hearts that we may want things to happen now, but we can trust that it will be done in due season.
Closing Devotional Prayer
My Prayer for You:
Father, in the name of Jesus, thank you. Thank you for your mercies are new every morning. Thank you, God, for your faithfulness. Thank you for the weighted glory of God. Thank you for the fire, God. I think that the mighty woman of God is going forth, O God, with the word this morning.
I thank you, God, that this word will go forth over her life, over her finances, over her money. O God, You are God alone, and you have the final say. Thank you for being a keeper, Lord. Thank you for breaking everything that’s not like you. Thank you for scattering the hand of the enemy. Lord, you are God alone, and you have the mighty woman of God in the palm of your hand.
And the Bible tells us, God, that nothing can take us out of your hand. Nothing can take us out of the hand of you, King Jesus, for you and the Father are one. That’s what it says in the Bible. So, Lord, I thank you, God, for your word. I thank you, O God, for being God in the midst of us.
And I thank you, Lord, that you are here, that you are faithful and that you’re more than able. I thank you, Lord, and I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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