Wednesday, 13^th May, 2026

Bible Reading: 1 Corinthians 9:27, John 3:30

Memory Verse: I am the LORD, that is My name; And My glory I will not give to another, Nor My praise to carved images. Psalm 42:8 (NKJV)

The anointing is the Oil of difference in your spiritual walk with God and in your daily living. You need the anointing both in your spiritual work and in your secular duties. Other prices needed for the anointing include:

6. The Price of Discipline: You will need to guard your time, your words, your emotions, and your focus. Carelessness is too expensive. The anointing thrives in disciplined lives. Spiritual power without discipline leads to collapse. God entrusts much only to those who steward well. Paul said, “I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest… I myself should become disqualified” (1 Corinthians 9:27). Proverbs warns that “He who has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down” (Proverbs 25:28). Discipline protects what the anointing produces. Carelessness leaks Oil.

Scriptures: , Proverbs 4:23, Luke 16:10

7. The Price of Letting God Take the Glory: You need to give up the right to defend yourself or promote yourself. Jesus alone would be seen. God will not share His glory. When self-promotion enters, divine promotion exits. Those God truly lifts are those who learn to stay hidden. John the Baptist captured this heart when he said, “He must increase, but I must decrease” (John 3:30). Jesus Himself made no reputation for Himself, but humbled Himself, and God exalted Him (Philippians 2:5–9). When God is your promoter, your life becomes His billboard.

In conclusion, the anointing costs everything, but gives you Jesus in return. At the end of the journey, the anointing is not the reward. Jesus is! The Oil, the power, the influence are byproducts. The greatest prize is intimacy with Him. Paul summed it up: “I count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord” (Philippians 3:8). When you lose everything for Him, you discover you’ve lost nothing that mattered. The anointing costs your life, but it gives you His.

Scriptures: Philippians 3:7–10, Matthew 16:25, John 17:3.

Quote: The anointing costs everything, but gives you Jesus in return.

Prophetic Decree: Altar of sin that embarrass the anointed shall not capture your soul, in Jesus name. 

Prayer Focus 

1. I receive the grace to guard my time, my words, my emotions, and my focus, in Jesus name. 

2. I receive the discipline needed to carry the anointing for exploits, in Jesus name. 

3. I receive grace not to defend or promote myself. Jesus alone must be seen, in Jesus name. 

4. Lord, you have my permission: Hide me that you may lift me in due season, in Jesus name. 

5. My Father, take me deeper in intimacy with You daily, in Jesus name. 

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  2 Samuel 11-12, 1 Chronicles 20

Memory Verse: Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Psalms 51:10 (KJV)

Shall we peruse into the depth of yesterday prayers made by Apostle Toluwalogo Agboola:

1. A man’s greatest battle is internal, not external: The prayer focuses on the heart, not achievements or activities.

Lesson: The greatest danger to a man is not what happens around him, but what happens inside him — pride, lust, ambition, disobedience, hidden motives.

2. Success without alignment is dangerous: Align (choose to understand and position yourself in God’s will for you) before fighting for accomplishments.

Lesson: To rise without being aligned is to eventually fall. A man is truly successful only when his desires are surrendered to God.

3. Small sins grow into strongholds: Let nothing begin small and rise to rule you.

Lesson: Men rarely fall suddenly; they fall gradually. A thought becomes permission → permission becomes habit → habit becomes bondage. Hidden compromises today become public destruction tomorrow.

4. The heart is always negotiating: This prayer reveals that a man’s soul has constant negotiations: quiet talks with pride, secret permissions to lust, unseen agreements with ambition and mammon

Lesson: The heart doesn’t drift loudly; it drifts silently. Men must watch the quiet conversations within.

5. Correction is mercy, not punishment: Allow God to interrupt you if He must. Wound you if He must.

Lesson: A man who refuses correction invites disaster. Painful discipline now prevents greater pain later. Correction is protection.

6. The fastest way to lose God is hurry: Never hurry yourself to a self-made pit.

Lesson: Many men destroy their destiny not by evil, but by speed without direction.

Hurry kills humility, prayer, reflection. Know when to slow down that you might discern God.

Quote:  The heart of a man is a battlefield, easily deceived and must be surrendered daily unto God.

Prophetic Decree: Receive grace to endure God’s dealings needed for the continuous emergence of a crucified heart, in Jesus name 

Prayer Focus 

1. Help me Lord to see my heart the way You see it, O Lord.

2. Today, I lay down my heart unto the Lord for spiritual surgery, in Jesus name. 

3. Dr Jesus, do a spiritual surgery in my heart, in Jesus name. 

4. Holy Spirit, please help my heart to stay on You, in Jesus name. 

5. O Lord, interrupt me if You must, wound my heart if You must. One thing is sure: My heart must be established at the centre of your will for my life, in Jesus name. 

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  1 Samuel 18-20, Psalms 11, 59