DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR YOUTHS AND STUDENTS. Today’s devotional for 25th July 2026, inspired by the teaching of Apostle Arome Osayi. Topic: You Can’t Know God Without Making Time for Him.
MEMORY VERSE: “But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.” (John 4:23, KJV)
TEXT: John 4:5-26
TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL
When Jesus left Judea for Galilee, Scripture tells us He “needed” to go through Samaria, a route most Jews of His day deliberately avoided. It was not the shortest path on a map; it was the path His spirit was led to walk. Tired from the journey, He sat by a well at noon, alone, waiting for a woman whose name we never learn but whose life would never be the same. Nothing about that meeting was an accident. It was arranged by a Man who was willing to be inconvenienced in order to be found.
That is the quiet lesson underneath the whole story: God does not force His way into a life that has no room for Him. He waits by wells. He shows up on roads we would rather not take. But knowing Him has never been something that happens to us while we are busy with everything else. It is something we walk toward, the same way Jesus walked toward Samaria, the same way the woman walked toward the well not expecting to meet her Maker there.
Notice, too, what Jesus said about worship: it must be in spirit and in truth. Not performance, not a mood we work ourselves into, not something borrowed from the atmosphere around us. Real worship is sustained from a place deep inside a person who has actually spent time with God, the way a well is sustained by a spring underneath it rather than by rain that falls once and dries up. You cannot fake a well. You can only dig one, patiently, over time.
If you are a student reading this, you already know how loud a single day can be. Lecture halls, group chats, deadlines, a hundred tabs open in your mind before you have even said good morning to God. It is easy to let “later” quietly become “never.” But the woman at the well did not have an appointment with Jesus; she simply came to the same place, at the same hour, day after day, and one day He was there. Keep showing up. Keep a place and a time that belongs to Him alone, even if it is only a few honest minutes before the noise of the day begins. That consistency is what He is actually looking for.
Jesus told the woman that whoever drinks ordinary water will thirst again, but the water He offers becomes a well springing up within, one that never runs dry. So much of what we chase, approval, achievement, distraction, promises to satisfy but only leaves us back at the well the next day, drawing again. Only a real relationship with God fills the place in us that keeps asking for more.
Worship, in the end, is not a song we sing on a Sunday; it is a life laid down, the way Isaac lay down on the altar and did not resist, though he had the strength to. Making time for God is a small, repeated act of laying something down, our schedule, our excuses, our comfort, so that we can actually meet Him rather than merely talk about Him.
KEY POINT: You cannot stumble into intimacy with God; you must deliberately make room for Him, the way Jesus made room for one woman by a well.
FURTHER READING: John 4:1-26; Psalm 27:4; Psalm 63:1; Jeremiah 29:13; Hebrews 11:6
DAILY PRAYER
Father, forgive me for the many days I have let busyness crowd out time with You. Teach me to make room for You the way You made room for me, deliberately and without excuse. Give me a hunger for Your presence that outweighs every distraction fighting for my attention today. Let my worship rise from a true place in my spirit and not from routine or performance. Be the well that never runs dry in my life, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
