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Today’s Devotional Scripture: 3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
- Zechariah 3:3-4 KJV
The Message For Today (May 10, 2026):
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The Bible tells us in Romans not to be conformed to this world, but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds, that we may know what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.
And when the Bible tells us to be transformed by the renewing of our minds, that renewing happens through Scripture, through prayer, through fasting, but also through sitting in the presence of the living God. Praying and resting with Him, worshiping in the fellowship with other believers, and connecting with those who are walking on the journey with us in accountability and in mutual support and love.
God gives us so many avenues to walk with Him, so many things that we can do to stay upright in the grace and glory of God. Even with all of that, sometimes we fall short of the glory of God. We make mistakes, we say things we wish we could change, we do things we wish we could undo. And we wonder how we can move forward knowing that those things are just in the atmosphere; they never go away.
But God restores. We utter the words, and yes, these things are in the past, but God makes all things new. He restores us in this hour. He keeps us in the time of trouble. He turns the tables for us day in and day out.
He is faithful. He is our great God.
So when we look at situations that we wish we could change, things we wish we could do, we unintentionally get caught up in things and before we know it, we look up and realize, “man, what am I doing?” In those moments when you look up and realize:
“This might not be the will of God for me.
And maybe, just maybe, I’ve gone too far astray. Let me go back into the will of God. Let me sit in the presence of the living God. Let me just rest in the grace and glory of God”.
The decisions you make in those times that you look up, that’s the decision that God is waiting on.
He’s waiting to see if you will turn to Him. He’s waiting to see if you will receive grace. He’s waiting to see if you will let the old thing pass away so that the new thing can come. There’s a grace and the glory that’s being released over your life; it is coming. It is undeniable.
But the chains of the old you, the things of this world, the patterns that the enemy operates in, it’s easy to get caught up, it’s easy to drift, it’s easy to get distracted. But the Lord has already provided. He’s provided a way of escape. He provided a way for us to repent, to release, to let go of the things that we cannot change and take hold of things that we can affect here in our future.
To sit in His presence, to repent, to know that it’s wrong to let go and to do what is right in the Lord, to do us right in His Spirit, do us right before it gets too far or any further than it’s already gotten. To turn around, no matter how comfortable it is and to pour out our hearts before God in truth and receive correction and direction in love.
There is always a way out.
There’s always a way to overcome. Here in the cornerstone Scripture, we see that Joshua is shown with the filthy garments. And he’s shown being before the Lord, and before the Lord, as Joshua stands there in the filthy garments, the Lord says to him to take away the filthy clothes. He says, I have caused the iniquity to pass from thee.
So the filth was the iniquity, the wrongness, the sin, the turning away from God, the walking in the ways of the world. That’s what the filthy garments look like now. They may not be filthy to the world. It may be where the world says it’s not so bad.
But this is where the Bible comes in, in the scripture where it tells us in Romans 12 to be upright in the Lord. It says in Romans 12:2 in the King James Version:
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. - Romans 12:2 KJV
This is where Romans 12:2 steps in, and it tells us that we don’t have to do what the world is doing. And yes, it may conform to the world, but it does not mean that it is of God.
It may not be a big deal to the world, but to God, it may come up before him as filthy rags. That’s what he tells us in scripture, that we are not as righteous as we suppose, that when we come before God, there are things that we don’t even consider that are causing a stitch or a smell, or it is causing a reaction to our God. And so in Isaiah 64:6, it states:
6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. - Isaiah 64:6
Like the wind. The ease of it. One step at a time, one moment at a time, day after day. And the next thing you know, you look up, and you wish you could go back and maybe go back to center and see what it is you can do to change things, to get back to the truth of who you are in Christ Jesus.
That’s what happens when you get off track, when it feels like you think you’re doing the right thing, and you look up, and it’s not really the will of God for you to do that thing, but it is the will of God that it be done. But not necessarily by you.
There are so many things that God calls us to and so many things that he doesn’t. It is when we start operating in our own understanding that we’ll pick up the weight that God did not give us. We’ll pick up the crosses that God did not give us. We’ll pick up assignments and purposes that God did not give us, while ignoring the things that God has given us.
Ignoring the things that don’t seem glamorous, ignoring the thing that is uncomfortable, ignoring a discipline that’s required to grow. All of those things are what happen when we lean into our own understanding, and we fail to acknowledge God in all of our ways. God is waiting right there to give us direction. And the cornerstone scripture shows us, when you continue to read, that there is a path to redemption.
When you read through Zechariah 3 in this fullness, it’s a pretty short chapter with about 10 verses. You see that this is just the beginning. The Lord telling him to take off the filthy clothes because he has taken away his iniquity. That’s just the beginning. The angel of the Lord then speaks to Joshua and says to him in Zechariah 3:7:
7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.
8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the Branch. - Zechariah 3:7 KJV
Now, remember in Isaiah 11:1-2, that there’s a scripture that talks about the Branch. In Isaiah 11:1-2 in the King James Version. It states:
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; - Isaiah 11:1-2, KJV
That the Branch is saying: this is what God is doing. This is what God is birthing forth, is that Branch. He will bring forth his Branch. Now we are so blessed that God does wash away sin. He does restore us. He does keep us. He does strip us of iniquity and sin the way he did in the beginning of Zechariah 3.
But going beyond that stripping away, there’s a warning in verse 7. And that warning in verse 7 is: “if you will walk in my way”, meaning if you will walk in the goodness of God, if you will walk into obedience of the Lord our God, if you will walk with Him past iniquities, distractions, overwhelm, worry, fear, shame, busyness.
Beyond all of that, if you will walk with the Lord our God and walk in His ways, those moments that seem to trickle in where it seems like the enemy is taking root or taking a stronghold, you can begin to rip it up. You can begin to rip it up, you can tear it down, and you can begin to walk in liberty. Suddenly, you can begin to walk into liberty.
Now. We don’t have to wait months and months and years and look up and wonder where time has gone. We have the time now, in the name of Jesus, to walk with God, to turn our hearts to him, to turn away from our wicked ways, and to trust him, to love on him, to trust that he is El Shaddai and that even though we are human, even though we make mistakes, that He will show us a better way.
He will show us a way. He will show us a way of escape. And that way of escape is exactly what a lot of us need right now. We need that way out, that way up, that way to tear down so that we can be rebuilt in Christ Jesus.
Closing Devotional Prayer
My Prayer for You:
Father, I thank you for the mighty woman of God. I thank you for the breaking, God. I thank you, God, that there are no more distractions in you. Let every wall come down in the name of Jesus. I thank you for the grace and glory of God. Thank you, God.
Thank you for the breaker here and now, that the anointing breaks the yoke, O God. Go forth, O God, and break every chain in the name of Jesus, that there will be liberty. For where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, O God, there is joy. I thank you, O God, for the liberty of God, with what you’ve given us.
By your sacrifice on the cross, you’ve already paid the cost. So, God, I give you glory. I bless you, God. The mighty woman of God is ready, O God.
We’re ready to face this. We’re ready to look at what we have not taken action on. We’re ready to look at the things where we have kind of gone astray. Lord, I thank you that you can call us back home at any moment. Remind us, O God, of things that we’re operating in that you’ve no longer graced us for.
O God, show us the way forward, the way to move with you, the way to walk in your ways, that we may be blessed, O God. The way to walk in your ways, that we may not be full of distraction or dismay. Teach us, O God, to walk in your ways, that the land will be prosperous, that our heart will be filled, and that the glory of God will go amongst us.
That it will go before us, that we will be like a shining light on the hill that cannot be hidden. I thank you, Lord God. I thank you, Lord. I thank you, and I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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