TODAY’S DEVOTION (Thursday 10th September 2020)
“And He said, Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make Myself known to him in a vision and speak to him in a dream.
But not so with My servant Moses; he is entrusted and faithful in all My house.
With him I speak mouth to mouth [directly], clearly and not in dark speeches; and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?” Numbers 12:6-8 AMP
WELCOME TO THE 252ND DAY OF OUR YEAR OF REJOICING
If there is anytime we need a word from the LORD, it is now! That is why if God is not speaking to you directly and clearly look for those He is speaking to directly and clearly and join them. Blessed be the name of the LORD who made it possible for us to see another great day today.
It’s been a season of schooling in the things of GOD, especially in our ongoing 50 DAYS WINGS OF THE SPIRIT on the Morning Cloud Television. Yes, streaming helped all who followed on our You Tube and face book pages. It’s God’s school of the Spirit that has helped many. Glory to His name!
Schooling in the things of God is the greatest preparation for life in time and eternity. It is God’s way of increasing or bringing us into greater things of His kingdom. Many people do not know that increase in GOD’s kingdom happen when our knowledge of GOD increases.
Like we learned in our 40th session of our 50 Days wings of the Spirit, blessings come when we follow GOD’s ways, and abundance when we walk in His paths. But until we come to the knowledge of God’s ways and paths, we will not walk in them. Schooling in the things of GOD helps us to know GOD’s ways and paths.
PERSONALLY, I HAVE COME TO DISCOVER THAT WHENEVER GOD WANT TO INCREASE ONE’S GRACE HE WILL UPDATE HIS REVELATION KNOWLEDGE OF HIM.
Whenever He wants to increase one’s dominion in the spirit, He will update or upgrade the person’s revelation of who God is. The upgrade of a man’s revelation of God is Heaven’s way of increasing God’s dominion, grace and even power in a person’s life. That is why this season is important. A word from God is heaven’s medium of increasing our revelation of God.
Friend, there is a silent move of God to release a people of “end time exploits” into His Harvest field. We are already experiencing this move of God. Our 50 Days Wings of the Spirit is all about that. The Bible says,
“Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.” Daniel 11:32 NKJV
Knowing GOD is the most important knowledge on the face of the earth. God is against boasting but He permits boasting in our knowledge of Him. That tells us how importance it is to God for us to know Him.
But talking about boasting in righteous things, the reason God permits that we boast that we know Him is because it’s impossible for anyone to boast that he knows God when He is really revealed to him. You could boast of knowing “about” God, but you cannot boast of knowing God. The two are different. Knowing God is deep, but knowing about God is shallow!
Knowing about God leaves a portion of our flesh alive, making it possible for us to blow up in pride. But knowing GOD kills our flesh completely and keeps us in a state of humility because the more of God that is revealed to us the more we realize that we are nothing. The more of God we know the less of us we become, making it impossible to boast that we know Him.
In simple terms, schooling in the things of GOD will reveal Him to you and reduce your pride level. That is why no one who really met GOD came out full of pride. If you see someone who claims to have seen a vision, an angel or God’s glory walking in pride that person has not seen God.
I am sharing all these to tell us how God helps us to develop what we call Christian virtues – it is through the revelation of who He is to our human spirits.
MOSES COMES TO MIND AT THIS POINT.
The Bible made it clear that He spoke to God face to face. The result of that on His character was amazing. It made him the most faithful and trustworthy in God’s entire house. A major Highlight in our devotional text says,
“And He said, Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make Myself known to him in a vision and speak to him in a dream.
But not so with My servant Moses; he is entrusted and faithful in all My house. With him I speak mouth to mouth [directly], clearly and not in dark speeches; and he beholds the form of the Lord.
There is so much we can chew in this text. But we will limit ourselves to the emphasis of this devotional.
Character reformation is not possible where there is no revelation of who God is. The revelation of God to Moses so much affected his character that there was no report of evil conduct, like sleeping with some of the woman he brought out of Egypt or “prophelying” to the Israelites to scoop money or other form of support from them – the very sad reports you read and hear about many of us in gospel ministry today.
Sometime I wonder why a preacher or Christian who claim to either have seen an angle, have an encounter with God, or heard a word from Him does not have Godly character. In the Old Testament it could be so but in the new it’s impossible; no one will hear from God or see from Him will come out of that experience walking in ungodliness or depravity.
Divine encounters will leave a deposit of God’s holiness behind whenever it happens. But that will never happen when it is our hearts are not ready for it or when it is falsified! Again I say, if you see anyone claiming to be seeing the form of God like Moses but walking, swimming, living and eating in sin and calling it weakness, that person is not operating from the divine realm. He or she is operating from the demonic realm.
THE REALM A MAN OR WOMAN OPERATES FROM IS THE REALM THAT WILL REFLECT IN HIS CHARACTER.
The Bible says Moses saw the form of God like most preachers claim today, but the difference was it changed his life forever. He became the meekest man on earth. Not the proudest or the most arrogant man on earth. He did not take advantage of the people.
He never told them to sow seed into his life having saved them from the hand of Pharaoh. He was too meek to rob them the way most of us preachers do today!
The reason for sinful living and ungodliness in the Church today is partly because of the absence of the true revelation of who God is.
Most people have secular humanism spiced with scriptures as revelation. I have shared it again and again; there is a lot of ZOMBIFICATION of the Sons of God today while the earth is waiting for the MANIFESTATION of the sons of God. It’s really sad.
What is the message of today’s devotional? The message is simple; Godly character is achieved through deep encounters with God – I mean the true God. When God reveal Himself to you over time, it’s like taking a snap shot; His likeness will be super imposed in your spirit resulting in a Godly living. That is the secret!
In summary, I want you to understand that Schooling in the things of GOD will reveal more of God to you. The more God is revealed to you, the less of yourself you become. The less of yourself you become, the more of Godly character people will see in you.
The easiest way God shapes our Character, therefore, is through the revelation of who He is; especially in the school of hard things we shared about few days ago. May God use this word to improve your “walk” and “talk” with HIM in Jesus precious name! Amen!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY;
“I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you. Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” Job 42:5-6 NKJV