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Today’s Devotional Scripture: 12 Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. - Joel 2:12-13 KJV
25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. - Joel 2:25 KJV
The Message For Today (May 13, 2026):
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There are going to be ebbs and flows in life. Years of plenty and years where getting by will be the blessing. In these seasons that are up and down, and in the ebb and flow of life, if not for the grace and glory of God, many would not understand that the years of resistance, and the years where things move more slowly, are the grace of God as well.
His grace does not just cover the blessings and the favor, but his grace also covers the years where we are being sustained by the mighty hand of God.
Ups and downs. This is the issue of life.
Moments of plenty and moments where it feels like there’s just barely enough. And throughout every season, God is still preeminent. He is still God. He is still ordering our steps. He’s still guiding us along this journey. So even though we may feel as if we are late or delayed or behind, God is still God. Even though we may feel that we are trailing in comparison to others, God is walking with each of us individually.
This walk is one where you and God are co‑creating together in the grace and glory of God over your life. So even in seasons where it felt like there was no movement, in times when it feels like you’ve waited too long or it has been too far delayed, God is faithful to remind us that He holds time in his hands.
He sits outside of time and has the ability to transform, to renew, and to bring about deliverance, sudden breakthroughs, sudden increase, sudden turnarounds. So even in our years of waiting, in the times where we feel like the delays are heavy, it is in our best interest to hold fast to the confessions of our faith.
Hebrews 10:23 shows us that many times, as we’re waiting on God, there will be tests, there will be trials; even our patience will be cultivated by these times of weight, by these times of just making it. These times and seasons of being sustained by His mighty right hand. In those seasons, God is still God and we are still able to do what we have been called to do, to operate in the grace and glory of God.
It just may not be on our schedule.
It doesn’t mean that it is finished or that it’s done. The Lord goes forth to restructure, to rebuild, to break and to heal by His Spirit and according to the plans that he has over our lives and the plans that he has to prosper each and every one of us. This is the journey. This is the outpouring.
This is how we begin to understand the terminology that is “never too late.” We can turn back, and we can repent, as the cornerstone scriptures show us. We can go before the Lord ready to surrender to him in every single way. The fasting, the weeping, the surrendering of our hearts that Joel 2:12 describes is essential.
This rending, this surrendering, this fasting, this giving it all? This is what allows the beginning of breakthrough. This is what transforms our hearts and minds. This is what breaks us from conforming to the patterns of the world and leads to being transformed by the renewing of our minds. This transformation and this renewal, this is the grace and glory of God.
There is no confusion in God.
He knows what He’s doing in us. But even in our limited understanding and in our finite beings, we see these things, and we may think that it’s over, that it’s too late, that it’s done, and that it is finished. That God didn’t come through when we needed Him, or that somehow He might have willed something different. And there are times when God may will a different outcome.
He may have a different desire. But that is not a reason to give up or to believe that it’s too late. When it is His will, God does it. He removes, he binds, he delivers, he uproots, and he breaks free in the name of Jesus, in His own name. He does this because it’s never too late. He’s the God that saw many dead in scripture and saw them as sleeping, because he sees life and death, and he sees “too late” and “on time” differently than the way we see it.
Thank God that His ways are higher than our ways and his thoughts higher than our thoughts. What if we always got things when we thought we needed exactly as we desired them, right when we wanted them? What if everything always happened exactly when we desired or when we willed it? Would we trust in Him? Would we lean on Him?
Would we be before Him, leaning not on our own understanding, but acknowledging Him in all of our ways? If it was easy, if it was always available, if it was always when we expected? Would faith be needed if it was always what we expected and it didn't require waiting, passionate patience, and holding fast to the crown that God has given us? All of these things are a part of our walk.
So, no, it’s never too late. No, God can do that. It’s not too hard for God. It’s not too hard for the Lord. He can bring about great change and do the impossible with the person who is ready, with the woman who submits, and with the heart that is full of His glory. He can do all things by His mighty right hand. Receive that today and walk in it in Jesus’ name.
Closing Devotional Prayer
My prayer for you:
Father, in the name of Jesus, thank you for the mighty woman of God. Thank you for this morning. Thank you for the weighty glory of God. Lord, I thank you, O God, that everything that is not like you is breaking; that we can turn to you in and out of season. That we can trust you, for you are the Lord our God. You are mighty to save, mighty to deliver, and mighty to set free.
Thank you, King of Glory. You are the great I Am, the King of kings and the Lord of lords. I thank you, Lord God, for the shift. I thank you, God, for the outpouring. I thank you, God, for the weighty glory of God. I thank you for uprooting every lie of the enemy, O God, and casting down all imagination and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. I give you glory, O God, that this day will be exactly what you ordained it to be.
That every weapon that is formed will not prosper. For the weapons are formed, O God, but you are mighty to stand in the midst. For this battle is not hers, O God; it is yours. I thank you that her children are blessed, and her family is blessed.
I thank you for the weighty glory of God this morning. I pray that the glory of God will go forth to break, to bind, and to uplift; to refill her, O God, with your Spirit and your love; to break every hindering spirit, every lie, every principality, and every dark force. Let it break now in the name of Jesus. For Lord God, you are the sovereign God, the great I Am, the King of kings and the Lord of lords. I thank you, Lord, and I pray in Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.
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