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Today’s Devotional Scripture: 15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. - Ecclesiastes 8:15 KJV
4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. - Isaiah 64:4 KJV
The Message For Today (May 20, 2026):
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We are not halfway through the year, and you can feel the weight. The weight of responsibility, the weight of the day‑to‑day task, and the weight of the schedules. All of it is heavy. And there are times when you get your rest, and there are times when it feels like no matter how much you sleep, it just feels as if you are tired.
With the newsreel constantly prophesying wars and death and fear, it’s easy to get caught up in all of the noise in the atmosphere. However, our God is greater than the fear. He’s greater than the newsreels. He’s greater than the weight that you’re feeling even in this moment. He’s greater.
When we go before the Lord, knowing that we are not perfect, that we have flaws, that we make mistakes, but that God is making a way, we can let go of all of the weight and rest in His presence, knowing that He is pouring out His Spirit, pouring out a fresh song, a new song of victory. So we don’t have to carry all of the baggage, and we don’t have to carry all of the pain. You don’t have to carry all of the weight of the day.
We can release it and just rest.
We can release what we think we need and just rest. We can release the frustration, we can release the overwhelm. We can release the things that we cannot control. And the thing that we can control, we can do fully. We can rest in the presence of the living God. We can rest in the presence of our King, knowing that God is more than able to. He is battle‑tested, He is proven, He is faithful.
The cornerstone scriptures today show us the importance of joy, of going a little further, of mirth, of being merry. These things are things that we often feel are conditional on whether or not things are going our way, whether or not things are going as we planned, or whether or not things are going in our favor. We just believe inherently that joy and mirth and being merry are conditional things that depend on anything outside of us, whereas God tells us that joy is of the Lord.
When we make the decision to turn to God and to seek His face, we are making a decision about who we will serve that day. We’re putting down all of the fear, all of the weight of the world, all of the idols, all of the distractions. We’re releasing all of that, and we’re coming before the Lord, making a decision to find ourselves in Him, to seek His Spirit, to know that He is more than able, to believe in our hearts that God is indeed with us.
This is what the enemy wants to fight. This is how he wants to contend. This is what he wants to steal from you. He wants to steal that joy. That is the strength of God. He wants to steal that merriment. He wants to steal it.
So even in your moments of exhaustion and in your moments of tiredness, the enemy comes in the form of things not going well. Your body being tired, you not wanting to do it again, or you not wanting to get up again. It’s almost as if the enemy always finds you right when you’re at the weakest possible moment of you giving up and turning back.
But the Word tells us to grow not weary. Scripturally, Isaiah 64:4 gives us a good indication of what we can expect when we wait. It says in Isaiah 64:4:
4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. - Isaiah 64:4 KJV
And so this scripture clearly shows us that waiting is the key, and that when we wait for the Lord, when we wait, when we are pressing in His presence, when we trust Him, when we decide to walk with Him, when we put everything else down and decide to lean into Him alone, then we are opening the door to seeing things that the world has never seen, hearing things the world has not heard, and receiving what surprises everyone else, what surprises the world, and what shocks them.
And so from the beginning it says, eyes have not seen, and ears have not heard. Now it also gives us the scripture in 1 Corinthians 2:9. But here in Isaiah 64:4 it specifically says, for him that waiteth for him. That is very different from he who loves the Lord. We can love our God, we can know that He’s able. But loving Him and honoring Him and trusting in Him are all three different things.
These are all three different things.
We can love God but not trust Him. We can trust God, and we can know that He’s more than able, but we have this fear that we’re not going to be able to see it. And so even though we trust God, there can even be unbelief in the midst of it, and the Bible tells us to only believe.
The Bible tells us of the dangers of unbelief, which we saw in Numbers 14. The unbelief of the Israelites caused so many of them their lives, so many of them to actually pass without ever seeing the promise of God. In this season, be mindful that the tired moments and the moments of exhaustion: these are the moments the enemy tries to sift you as wheat. He tries to undermine you. But the Lord is interceding for you. He’s praying for you. He’s fighting for you.
This is what we must remember day in and day out: that yes, we get tired, but the Lord is fighting for us. There’s room being made as we begin to walk with God through every life situation. God begins to turn tables, loose shackles, and place us in different positions of victory, of grace, of peace, of glory, and of soundness of mind.
This comes with His Spirit. This victory, this love, this outpouring comes because we know there’s more. So we don’t give up, as it says in Galatians 6:9. We don’t surrender, we don’t grow weary. What we do is we hold fast to the promises. We hold fast to the confession of our faith because God is faithful who promised us (Hebrews 10:23 KJV).
We turn away from the world.
We do not conform to the world, but we come before the Lord for the renewing, that we may be transformed by the renewing of our minds. This is what God shows us is His will. And so as you look at the issues of life, as you consider all of the weight of yesterday and the past weeks, remember that there is so much more that God has for you than this.
There is so much more that is in store for those that wait, for those who press and they tarry, and they trust in the Lord. They don’t just trust, they have complete faith that He is God, and they pray for the Lord to deal with their unbelief. These are the earmarks of a woman of God who knows that God is with her and that He will not fail, that the Lord our God is mighty inside of her, and that the Holy Spirit is working to go exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we can ask or think.
When you begin to walk like this, when you begin to believe like this, everything else can fade away, and the grace and glory of God can come forth mightily.;
Closing Devotional Prayer
My prayer for you:
Father, in the name of Jesus: thank you. Thank you, God, that your mercies are new every morning. Thank you. Thank you for this beautiful morning. I thank you for this day.
I pray a blessing upon the mighty woman of God, whether she’s listening to this in the morning, in the evening, in the afternoon. I thank you, God, that you’re right there with her, that you are more than able, that you are Jireh, that through the issues of life you are good and your mercy endureth forever.
Thank you, Lord, for surrounding the mighty woman of God, for shifting her heart and mind, for opening her to receiving, O God, what thus saith the Lord through these scriptures. God, speak to the mighty woman of God. Speak to her spirit, God. Break everything that’s not like you.
Cast down every weight, O God, and help her to see the fullness of the Word in the land of the living. Help her to see it, God, while she is yet here. Help her to open her heart, O God, that she may see the evidence, that she may see the miracle signs and wonders. I thank you, Lord, and I pray in Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.
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