Daily Devotion Monday Motivation | January 19, 2026
Happy Monday! It’s time for your daily devotion. It’s amazing to know God can turn your situation around. You may be experiencing abandonment or loss, but God can elevate you faster than you can blink. In today’s daily devotion, declare that God is a Restorer.
Trust God in the Wait
When Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery, he became a servant in Potiphar’s house until Potiphar’s wife falsely accused him. Afterwards, he went to prison and served twelve long years. During that time, Joseph interpreted dreams for two of Pharaoh’s servants who’d been imprisoned. When one man was restored to his position, Joseph asked that he remember him to Pharaoh. However, he forgot about Joseph.
Two years later, God gives Pharaoh dreams that none of his wise men or magicians can interpret. Then the servant, Pharaoh’s cupbearer, remembers Joseph. When Joseph appears before Pharaoh, he interprets his dreams, speaks wisely, and in Genesis 41:41, Pharaoh elevates him instantly: “And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.” In your daily devotion, rejoice that God has a set time for your deliverance.
Restoration Belongs to You
Overnight, Joseph goes from prisoner to governor of Egypt. Even though he’d suffered betrayal, abandonment, and false accusation, God restores him with honor and recognition. Genesis 41:42 says, “And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.”
Joseph goes from prison garb to a gold ring, fine clothing, and a royal chain of pure gold. God has a plan for your life, and nothing can stop it. In this daily devotion, say out loud that no matter how dark the night, God’s light of day is on the horizon.
The Father’s Love
In Luke 15, Jesus tells the story of the Prodigal Son. He decides to take his inheritance from his father and go off and live as he pleases. However, with a lifestyle of spending, he soon finds himself broke and working as a swineherd. He decides to go back home, though he feels unworthy to be called “son.”
When his father spots him in the distance, he runs toward him with great compassion. Then the father tells his servants, “Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.” The Prodigal Son is not only accepted by his father, but he’s also completely restored as his son and adorned with gold and the finest attire. In your daily devotion, proclaim that God promises to “restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten.”
You’re God’s Son
In these two stories, you can see God at work restoring and elevating these two men whose lives seemed to have been dismantled. When Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery, they thought they’d finally be rid of him. And the friends of the Prodigal Son thought he was a hopeless case.
However, when the world sees you as invaluable, your Heavenly Father sees you as valuable. Pharaoh, like a father, valued, accepted, and restored Joseph as the Prodigal Son’s father did him. And your Heavenly Father restores you. In Monday’s daily devotion, declare that as a son of God, everything that goes with that position belongs to you.
Restoration Has Finally Come
An old song by the Winans, “Restoration Has Finally Come,” is about being restored to your place in God. God restored Joseph and the Prodigal Son, and He restores you as His son with full rights and privileges.
