Wisdom For The Day Devotional 24 May 2025 By Bishop Mike Okonkwo – God Will Fulfil His Word Without Your Help
TOPIC: God Will Fulfil His Word Without Your Help (TREM Devotional 24 May 2025)
“And the LORD visited Sarah as He had said; and the LORD did unto Sarah as He had spoken.” (Genesis 21:1 KJV)
MESSAGE:
When God speaks, you need to believe it. The last time I checked, He is relaxed in heaven, laughing, because He has spoken. When God made a promise to Abram, like most of us, he must have thought that it would happen immediately, but as time passed, nothing happened. Soon after, Abram felt like time was running out, but God came to him in a vision in Genesis 15:1 (KJV) and said: “…Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.”
Beloved, the Lord will protect you from all evil; always have that in mind because you matter to Him. Abram said, ‘Lord, You made me a promise when I was 75. Many years after, nothing has happened.’ And God took him out, showed him the stars of the sky, and asked him to number them, further stating to Abram, the vast number of descendants he will have.
In chapter 16, this would have been a likely conversation between Sarai and Abram; she must have said to him, “We probably have to make our own luck now, and take our destiny into our hands. I know God said it, but I believe that we stand a much greater chance of having a child through our own arrangement, instead of waiting on God.’ Unfortunately, this is where some believers are; they feel like God needs some help with bringing His word to pass, and want to assist Him. It is interesting to think that mortal, limited man can conceive to give an assist to the immortal, illimitable One. Beloved, God is God; leave Him in His exclusive class.
Sarai’s suggestion of Abram going in to Hagar her Egyptian maid in order to have a child, would have been with the idea that after all is said and done, “child is a child”. However, this was not the case; this was the case of a child of promise, and not one that was gotten by human efforts and collusion. That relationship produced Ishmael. But notice that the birth of Ishmael did not stop the promise of God. When it was the appointed time, God visited Sarah as He had promised. Child of God, it may not look like it now, but wait for it; God’s promise to you will come to pass. It will happen without your help. Keep the faith.
FURTHER READING
Genesis 16:1-16; Genesis 21:1-8
DAILY BIBLE READING
Morning – 1 Chronicles 22-24; Evening – John 8:28-59
Wisdom For The Day Devotional was written by Dr. Mike Okonkwo; Is the Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM); a versatile man of God with over 30 years of dedicated service unto the Lord.