26 May 26 Devotional - Are your pipes ready? - learning to wait on God

 

Day 2 — Learning to Wait on God

Scripture: Acts 1:4

“Wait for the gift My Father promised…”

Waiting is difficult.

We want immediate answers, immediate healing, immediate direction, and immediate breakthrough. Yet God often does deep spiritual work in seasons of waiting.

The disciples had received incredible promises from Jesus, but before Pentecost came, they had to wait in obedience and prayer.

Waiting does not mean God is inactive.

Often, while we are waiting, God is preparing us for what He has prepared for us.

The disciples were being shaped into a people who would depend on the Spirit rather than their own strength. Their waiting produced expectancy, unity, humility, and prayerfulness.

Sometimes God delays what we want because He is developing what we need.

Do not lose heart in the waiting season.

God keeps His promises in His perfect timing.

Reflection Question:

What are you currently waiting on God for?

Prayer:

Father, help me trust You while I wait. Teach me patience, dependence, and faithfulness even when I cannot yet see the answer. Amen.

25 May 26 Devotional - Are your pipes ready? - Remove the obstructions

 

Day 1 — Remove the Obstructions

Scripture: Acts 2:1–4

“They were all filled with the Holy Spirit…”

One of the frustrations of homeownership is dealing with clogged pipes. Water is meant to flow freely, but hair, dirt, grease, and debris eventually create blockages.

Spiritually, the same thing can happen to us.

God designed believers to live filled with His Spirit—walking in worship, obedience, love, and boldness. Yet over time, sin, bitterness, pride, fear, distraction, and compromise can begin to clog the heart.

The Holy Spirit has not abandoned us, but unresolved sin and resistance can hinder our fellowship with God and our effectiveness in ministry.

Pentecost reminds us that God desires to fill His people. Before the disciples were empowered publicly, they first waited before God privately with surrendered hearts.

Revival often begins with honest confession.

Today, ask the Lord to reveal anything obstructing His work in your life. Do not excuse it. Do not hide it. Bring it honestly before Him.

God does not reveal our sin to shame us but to free us.

When the obstructions are removed, His grace flows again.

Reflection Question:

What attitudes, habits, or sins may be restricting God’s work in your life?

Prayer:

Lord, search my heart and reveal anything that is hindering my walk with You. Cleanse me and make me ready for Your Spirit to flow through my life again. Amen.

22 May 26 Devotional - Rewritten by Grace - A new future is still possible

 

Day 5 — A New Future Is Still Possible

Scripture: Romans 4:17

“God… calls into being things that were not.”

This verse is filled with hope.

God creates futures that once seemed impossible.

He restores marriages people gave up on. He heals hearts crushed by loss. He calls wounded people into ministry. He gives purpose to those who once felt forgotten. He brings beauty from brokenness.

Your story is not over.

No matter how painful your past has been, God can still write redemption into your future. The enemy wants you to believe your best days are behind you, but God is still speaking life over you.

The greatest danger is not your pain—it is refusing to surrender the pen.

God will not force His will upon you. He invites you to trust Him. To yield. To believe that His plans are better than your own.

Will you hand Him the pen?

Will you trust His sovereign hand enough to let Him rewrite the story?

The Author of life is still writing.

Reflection Questions:

• What would change if you truly believed God could rewrite your future?
• What step of surrender is God asking you to take today?

Prayer:

Father, I give You every broken piece of my life. Rewrite my future according to Your will and purpose. Help me trust You completely and walk boldly into the future You are preparing for me. Amen.

21 May 26 Devotional - Rewritten by Grace -Yielding to the Sovereign Hand of God

 Day 4 — Yielding to the Sovereign Hand of God

Scripture: Romans 4:17

“…in the presence of the God in whom he believed…”

True surrender is deeply personal.

It is standing before God honestly and saying:

“Lord, Your will matters more than my plans.”

Yielding to God’s sovereign hand does not mean life becomes easy. Abraham still waited. He still faced uncertainty. Yet he learned that God’s timing and wisdom were trustworthy.

Often we want God to rewrite our lives while still allowing us to hold the pen. We want His blessings without surrendering control. But transformation happens when we place every chapter into His hands.

Surrender requires courage because it means trusting God with unanswered questions:

• Why did this happen?
• Why the delay?
• Why the pain?
• Why this season?

Yet even when we do not understand His process, we can trust His character.

The same God who spoke stars into existence is fully capable of leading your life. His sovereign hand is not harsh; it is loving, wise, and faithful.

You do not need to know every detail of the future to trust the One who holds it.

Reflection Questions:

• What area of your life are you still trying to control?
• What would full surrender look like today?

Prayer:

God, I yield my plans, fears, and future to You. Teach me to trust Your sovereign hand even when I do not understand the path ahead. Lead me where You desire. Amen.

19 May 26 Devotional = Rewritten by Grace - Faith trusts before the rewrite appears

 Day 2 — Faith Trusts Before the Rewrite Appears

Scripture: Romans 4:17

“…the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.”

Abraham believed God before he ever saw Isaac.

That is the essence of faith: trusting God before the evidence appears.

Sometimes God begins rewriting our lives quietly. While we are praying, healing, grieving, and waiting, He is already working beneath the surface. Yet because we cannot immediately see change, we are tempted to take the pen back.

We want control because control feels safer than surrender.

But faith says, “God, even when I cannot see the outcome, I trust Your hand.”

Pain often convinces us that our future will always mirror our past. Trauma whispers that nothing will ever change. But God speaks differently. He calls forth things that do not yet exist.

He called Abram “Abraham”—father of many nations—long before the promise was visible.

God may already be speaking a new identity over you:

• restored instead of broken,
• healed instead of wounded,
• useful instead of discarded,
• beloved instead of forgotten.

Faith begins when we choose to believe His voice over our fears.

Reflection Questions:

• Where are you struggling to trust God’s process?
• What fear keeps you from fully surrendering control?

Prayer:

Father, help me trust You before I see the results. Teach me to walk by faith and not by sight. Silence the lies of fear and remind me that You are still writing my story. Amen.