TODAY’S DEVOTION (Thursday 22nd October 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 294th 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 our season of schooling for restoration. Schooling in the things of God is God’s way of increasing or bringing us into greater things in the kingdom.
Personally, I have come to discover that whenever the throne of grace wants to increase one’s grace, it will update the knowledge of GOD in the person. Whenever GOD wants to increase one’s dominion in the spirit, His Holy Spirit will update or upgrade the revelation of who God is in the person.
The upgrade of a man’s revelation of God, is Heaven’s way of increasing God’s dominion, grace, and power in a person’s life. 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 today. 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 is impossible for anyone to boast that they know God when He is really revealed to them. 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 see 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, the revelation of who God is has a way of reducing our pride level. That is why no one who truly met GOD in Bible days was full of pride. Moses who saw Him face to face was considered the meekest man on earth. It completely reduced His pride level to zero.
Don’t forget, he was a warrior. Warriors are usually full of the pride the fetch from the victories they get in the battle field. Knowing GOD has a way of eliminating a man’s pride.
If you see someone who claim 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 that we develop Christian values.
Again, Moses comes to mind at this point. The Bible made it clear that He spoke to God face to face. The result of that in His character was amazing. It made him the most faithful and trustworthy in God’s entire house. If we want to develop Godly character, we must be ready for great encounters with the revelation of who GOD is – great encounters with His glory.
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 our devotional text today. But we will limit ourselves to the emphasis of this devotional.
The revelation of God to Moses so much affected his character that there was no report of evil conduct, like sleeping with woman or “prophelying” to the Israelites to scoop money from them – the very sad reports you read or hear about many of us in 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 who hears from God or sees from Him would walk in ungodliness or depravity.
Again I say, if you see anyone claiming to be seeing the form of God, like Moses, but is walking, swimming, living or eating in sin calling it weakness, that person is not operating from the divine realm. The person has not even seen GOD. He or she is operating from the demonic realm.
THE REALM A MAN OR WOMAN OPERATES FROM IS THE REALM THAT WILL REFLECT IN THEIR CHARACTER.
The Bible says Moses saw the form of God like most preachers claim today, but the difference was it changed his character 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 was leading. 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 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. 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 of God 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