Christian Healing Ministry - Devotionals

Devotional for October 6, 2026

BARREN BUT BLESSED

SCRIPTURE READING - 📖 Genesis 14:18-20

Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High. And he blessed him and said: Blessed be Abram of God Most High. Possessor of heaven and earth; And blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.

Additional Verses

📖 Genesis 14:17-24; Joshua 1:1-9; Luke 1:5-25

From the day you became born again as a child of God through the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, you became the blessed of the LORD. You may be afflicted in the body, or you may be suffering from a terminal disease or you may be unemployed or uneducated. You may be barren, and I mean without a child. Let me tell you that you must rejoice because you have something that many who may be employed, physically health or with many children and yet without Christ Jesus, do not have. Abraham was barren for twenty- five years and yet he was the blessed of the LORD. This is the reason why he was able to defeat all his enemies who while they seemed to possess all the physical wealth of this world, they still lacked the most important thing which is the wisdom of God. Job lost all his children, all his wealth and his health and yet he remained the blessed of the LORD. He never cursed God. He remained faithful to God even when his wife suggested the negative. Job 42:12 says, “So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand she asses. He also had seven sons and three daughters.” You must therefore stop comparing yourself with the people of the world around you. You do not even know how some of those men and women with lots and lots of children and wealth got them. Some went as far as consulting witchdoctors for the fruit of the womb or for their wealth. Some became wealth because they robbed someone. Proverbs 24:19-20 says, “Fret not yourself because of evildoers, and be not envious of the wicked, for the evil man has no future, the lamp of the wicked will be put out.” Because of the ungodly means they acquired their wealth or their children, such people are always experiencing nightmares. As for you, just hold onto the Word of God just like what Abraham did and what Job did. A day will come when your mourning will be turned into laughter and your sorrow will be turned into joy. Psalm 30:5 says, “For his anger endureth for a moment, in his favor is life, weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” Remember the story of Hannah in 1 Samuel Chapter 1, how she endured the pain of being barren with Peninnah looking down upon her. When it was time for her to receive her blessing from God, she gave birth, not only to a baby boy, but to an extraordinary baby who became a great prophet of the Most High God and a judge of Israel. She was even blessed with more children thereafter because she remained faithful to God. Elizabeth the mother of John the Baptist also received the fruit of the womb at a very old age, because she and her husband Zachariah remained faithful and connected to God. Alleluia!

Prayer

Thank You LORD for today’s Word which has taught me not to compare myself with all those who are around me as You have assured me in Your Word of a great future. I thank You LORD Jesus Christ. Amen.