Welcome to the midpoint of your week. Wednesday has a reputation — it is the day when the energy of Monday’s fresh start has faded and the relief of the weekend still feels far away. It is the day when the weight of the week settles most heavily on the shoulders. It is the day when many people simply want to give up.
But what if Wednesday is not the middle of your struggle — what if it is the edge of your breakthrough? What if the very fact that you have made it to the middle means you are closer to the end than you realise?
This devotional is for everyone who is in their Wednesday season — in the middle of something hard, holding on, and wondering how much longer.
Today’s Key Scripture
“And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” — Galatians 6:9 (NKJV)
Opening Story: The Farmer and the Seed
In the farming communities of rural Nigeria, there is a wisdom that every farmer learns early: the most dangerous moment in the farming cycle is not the planting and not the harvest. It is the waiting period in between.
During the waiting period, nothing visible is happening. The ground looks exactly as it looked before the seed was planted. Rain falls and soaks into the soil, seemingly without result. The farmer wakes up day after day, walks to the field, sees nothing, and must choose whether to believe that something is happening underground that the eyes cannot yet see.
The farmer who gives up in this season — who concludes that because nothing is visible, nothing is happening — will never see a harvest. The farmer who stays, who continues to water, to tend, to believe, will eventually see the ground crack open and the first green shoot push through.
That shoot does not come gradually. One day there is nothing. Then, almost overnight, there is something.
This is exactly what Paul is describing in Galatians 6:9. The “due season” is not a vague promise — it is a farming metaphor with a very specific meaning. There is a season for planting, a season for waiting, and a season for reaping. The season for reaping is certain and coming. But it will only come to those who do not grow weary and give up while the ground still looks empty.
Why We Grow Weary: Understanding the Midpoint Crisis
The Greek word Paul uses for “grow weary” in Galatians 6:9 is ekkakeo, which means to be utterly spiritless, to faint, to lose heart, to become exhausted and give up. It is a vivid word — it describes not just tiredness but a kind of interior collapse, the giving way of the inner person under sustained pressure.
Paul does not say “if you grow weary.” He says “let us not grow weary.” The phrasing acknowledges that weariness is a natural and expected experience on the road to breakthrough. It is not a sign of spiritual weakness — it is a sign that you are human, that you have been carrying something real, and that you have been carrying it for a while.
But understanding why we grow weary can help us resist it. There are three primary reasons why believers hit the wall of weariness in the middle of their faith journey:
1. The gap between promise and fulfillment.
When God speaks a promise into our lives — whether through Scripture, through a prophetic word, through a deep impression of the Holy Spirit — there is usually a gap between the moment of the promise and the moment of its fulfillment. Abraham waited twenty-five years. Joseph waited thirteen years from the dream to the throne. The gap is real, and it is in the gap that weariness most often strikes.
In the gap, doubt has plenty of material to work with. “Did God really say that?” “Maybe I misheard.” “Maybe I am not worthy of the promise.” “Maybe the promise was for someone else.” The enemy specializes in making the gap feel like evidence of God’s absence rather than evidence of God’s timing.
2. Visible setbacks that contradict the promise.
Ironically, the path to breakthrough often passes through situations that look like the opposite of breakthrough. Joseph’s path to the palace included a pit and a prison. David’s path to the throne included years of running for his life. Paul’s path to apostolic influence included beatings, shipwrecks, and imprisonment.
When your visible circumstances seem to contradict what God promised, the temptation to conclude that the promise was wrong — or that God was wrong — can be overwhelming. This is the moment of maximum weariness, and it is also the moment of maximum proximity to the breakthrough.
3. The exhaustion of sustained faith.
Faith is not passive. It requires active, continuous engagement. It requires choosing to believe when doubt feels more reasonable. It requires continuing to do the right thing when there is no immediate visible reward. Over time, this sustained exercise of faith can produce a deep weariness that has nothing to do with lack of commitment — it is simply the fatigue of the long obedience.
The Promise Hidden in the Word “Due”
Look again at the key phrase: “in due season.”
The word “due” is doing significant work in this verse. It is not saying “in a random season” or “in a season you might like.” It is saying “in the appointed, designated, precisely scheduled season.”
There is a divine appointment written for your harvest. God has set it on His calendar. It has a date, a time, and a circumstance. It is not subject to cancellation. It is not at risk of being delayed by the enemy’s interference. It is not going to fall through because of human failure.
What can prevent you from arriving at that appointed season? Only one thing, according to this verse: losing heart and giving up.
The harvest is coming. The only variable in the equation is whether you will still be standing in the field when it arrives.
Three People in the Bible Who Almost Gave Up at the Midpoint
1. Elijah Under the Juniper Tree (1 Kings 19)
Elijah had just experienced one of the most dramatic spiritual victories in Old Testament history — the confrontation with the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel, where God had answered with fire and proven His power before an entire nation.
And then, within days, he was running for his life, sitting under a tree in the wilderness, asking God to take his life. “It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!” (1 Kings 19:4)
This is not the prayer of a man who has given up on God. This is the prayer of a man who has given up on himself. Elijah’s weariness was the accumulated exhaustion of years of faithful ministry, the aftermath of sustained spiritual battle, and the emotional crash that often follows a great spiritual high.
God’s response is instructive. He does not rebuke Elijah. He does not give him a theological lecture about trusting more. He lets him sleep. Then He sends an angel to feed him. He allows him to sleep again. He feeds him again. Only after physical and emotional restoration does God speak to him about what comes next.
God knows that sometimes the most spiritual thing He can do for a weary servant is let them sleep and make sure they have eaten. If you are in a season of deep weariness, take care of your body. Rest without guilt. Eat well. Sleep. God can speak to you again when the basic foundations are restored.
And when God did speak to Elijah again, He revealed something remarkable: “I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal.” (1 Kings 19:18) In Elijah’s worst moment of isolation and despair, he thought he was alone. He was not. He had never been. God always preserves a remnant, and the remnant is never as small as our discouragement tells us it is.
2. The Disciples After the Crucifixion (Luke 24)
The disciples of Jesus had believed. They had left everything. They had followed Him for three years, witnessed miracles, heard teaching that had rearranged the furniture of their understanding. And then He died.
Luke 24:21 records the heartbreaking words of the disciples on the road to Emmaus: “But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel.” Past tense. Were hoping. The crucifixion had converted their hope from present to past tense.
They were in the Wednesday of the greatest story ever told — between the death and the resurrection, in the dark middle, unable to see either end clearly.
And then Jesus showed up on the road beside them. Not in glory. Not in obvious divine splendor. He walked alongside them and asked, “What kind of conversation is this that you have with one another as you walk?” (Luke 24:17) He entered their discouragement before He revealed Himself as the answer to it.
He is doing the same thing with you. Even now, on your Wednesday road, He is walking beside you. You may not recognize Him yet. But He is there.
3. The Prodigal Son in the Far Country (Luke 15)
The prodigal son had reached what seemed like the absolute end. He had spent his inheritance, lost his friends, lost his position, and was now feeding pigs in a foreign land — a Jewish young man’s most profound image of degradation. He had nothing. He was hungry. He had no prospects.
The verse that turns the story is Luke 15:17: “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!'”
He came to himself. In the middle of his worst situation, a moment of clarity broke through the fog of shame and failure. And in that moment, he remembered his father. He did not know how his father would receive him. He fully expected to have forfeited the right to be called a son. He was prepared to accept the status of a hired servant.
But the father — who had been watching the road — ran to meet him while he was still a great way off.
God is watching your road. He knows you are on your way back. And when you turn toward Him, He does not wait for you to arrive — He runs.
If you have been in the far country — distant from God, distant from faith, distant from the promises — know that the return is possible and the reception is ready. Your midpoint is not your endpoint.
Practical Encouragement for Your Wednesday Season
If you are in the middle of a long season of waiting, here are four things to hold onto:
1. Remind yourself of what God has already done.
Pull out your faith journal, or mentally recall every time God came through for you in the past. The God who was faithful then is the same God today. His track record is perfect.
2. Find someone to carry you.
Paul’s instruction in Galatians 6:2 — just a few verses before our key text — is to bear one another’s burdens. You were not designed to carry your midpoint alone. Tell a trusted friend or pastor where you are. Let them pray with you and hold you accountable to pressing through.
3. Keep doing the last thing God told you to do.
Often in seasons of waiting, we are tempted to stop the last thing God instructed because it is not producing visible results yet. Keep doing it. Keep serving. Keep giving. Keep praying. Keep showing up. The seed is underground — that does not mean the planting was wrong.
4. Speak the Word over your situation.
Declare Galatians 6:9 out loud over your life today: “I will not grow weary in doing good. In due season, I WILL reap. I will not faint. My harvest is coming.” What you confess with your mouth matters. Speak life over your Wednesday season.
Today’s Prayer
Father, I am honest with You today. I am tired. I have been believing, praying, serving, and waiting — and sometimes the waiting feels longer than I can bear.
But I come to You today with this Word: I will not grow weary. I refuse to grow weary. Not because I have found hidden reserves of strength in myself — I have not. But because Your Word says that in due season I will reap if I do not faint. And I choose to believe Your Word over my feelings.
Strengthen me today, Lord. Carry what I am too tired to carry. Believe on my behalf where my faith is failing. Remind me of Your faithfulness. Show me that You are still working, even when I cannot see the evidence.
And thank You — in advance — for the harvest that is coming. I declare by faith that I will not just survive this season. I will reap from it. I will testify of it. I will help others through it. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Today’s Declaration
Say this out loud, wherever you are:
“I am not giving up. I am not giving in. I am in my due season, and my harvest is closer than it has ever been. The ground may look empty, but the seed is alive underground. God is working in what I cannot see. I choose faith over fear. I choose perseverance over retreat. I will not faint. I WILL reap. In Jesus’ name!”
Midweek Challenge
Do one of the following today as a practical act of faith against weariness:
– Write a letter to your future self — describe the breakthrough you are believing for as if it has already happened. Date it today. Seal it. Open it when the breakthrough comes.
– Bless someone else in the middle of your own need — buy a meal, send a message of encouragement, pray specifically for someone else’s breakthrough. Sowing in your seed time is an act of faith in your harvest season.
– Share this devotional with someone you know who is also in a Wednesday season. Your act of sharing is an act of faith that says: “The God who sustains me will sustain them too.”
May your Wednesday become the turning point you have been waiting for. God is not done. Your story is not over. And your harvest — your due season — is on its way.
See you on the other side of the breakthrough.
Also read:
– Monday Devotional: God’s Grace Is Sufficient for Every Challenge
– When God Says Wait — The Power of Divine Timing
– Friday Devotional: Ending the Week in Gratitude and Expectation