TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL (Friday 26th February 2021)
“Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.” Proverbs 4:23-24 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 57th DAY OF OUR YEAR OF HIGHER HEIGHTS,
It’s been days of experiencing His mercies, compassion and marvelous helps. His love is so deep that we cannot get over it. He knows even our deepest secrets and still love us. How many will still love if they discover our deepest secret – I mean bad secrets that the blood of the lamb has covered? None!
Many of us are not worthy to even be alive but He has not stopped His life from flowing through us. These are the things that should exhume right living and submission to His will, ways, and purpose from our lives from us. If we do not know this, we will begin to take His grace for granted and destroy your life.
There are two major reasons why God relates with us the way He does – two basic reason why He does not deal with us according to our sins; the first lies in what the Spirit of God through Apostle Peter said in some of the things he penned down for us. He wrote saying;
“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward [a]us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9 NKJV
Meaning, God deals with us according to his mercies to exhume Repentance from us. If therefore we do not consider His mercies then repent from it, we will be doomed at the end, because there is a second reason. The second reason is in what the Spirit says through Apostle Paul. He spoke to a group of people that day saying;
“Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,
because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.” Acts 17:30-31 NKJV
You can see what Peter said reflecting even in this verse of the Bible, showing us what one of the most precious passions of the Holy Spirit is – the bring man to repentance.
A DAY HAS BEEN SET ASIDE BY THE LORD WHEN WE WILL ALL BE JUDGED FOR OUR UNREPENTANCE.
Any sin we keep committing or evil we keep doing that did not receive judgment on this side of eternity, will ultimately be judged on the other side of eternity – a timeless side. And that is dangerous. That is why we should not take the grace of God for granted by continuing in our sins because there were no immediate repercussions from the LORD.
Our hearts can become hardened because we did not fall down and die or come into any immediate consequences for doing abominable acts, but that does not mean what we may have done is good. It only means God is merciful and prefers repentance to judgment.
If it is immaturity that is causing us to do that, He will come with impartation of His word and Spirit to mature us; most times by even changing out churches and bringing us under more anointed and spiritually formidable pastors. But if it is rebellion that is responsible for our actions, He will keep warning and calling for change until we either respond or come into sudden stripping and judgment.
As I consider these things I came to realize that one of the major things we must do as humans is to learn to put the Word of God in the Holy Bible to use. Yes, we should stop looking at the Bible as a religious book for a religious sect. The Bible is God’s BASIC INSTRUCTIONS to mankind BEFORE LEAVING EARTH – BIBLE. If we do not treat it that way, we will be sorry when our spirits leaves our bodies to the next life.
There are things we ought to know that if we do not know we will be ruined in the life to come, and all of them are in the Bible. These are the things GOD designed our souls to know and accommodate them. There are things the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing the spiritual things in the Bible with other spiritual things in the Bible.
Sometimes they are taught at advanced level – that is Spirit if God to spirit of man level. Other times they are shared through human vessels. That is why Jesus gave us His fivefold ministry gifts to helps us. It is a redemption system of the Godhead for the human race.
SADLY, THE ENEMY HAS DESTROYED MOST OF THE SYSTEM BY RAISING COUNTERFEITS OF THESE GIFTS AND PLACING THEM IN EARTH.
But if we are privilege to come in contact with the original and sit under them, the Holy Spirit can use them to teach us so many things in the Holy Bible and even open Heavenly portals in our souls and spirits using the revelation imparted into us.
There are scriptural revelations with capacity to open Heavenly portals in our spirits. Heavenly portals are spiritual gates that connect the invisible world of God with our visible world. Jesus said something to an ancient disciple of His, Nathaniel, when he was still a prospective follower; something that is worthy of note. The Bible says,
“And He said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” John 1:51 NKJV
Jesus was referring to the opening of Heavenly portals over His Spirit, Soul and Body. One of such moments was in Matthew 17 where the portals opened and His face was transformed like the Sun. The soul of a man is built in such a way that Portals (either from Heaven or hell) can open within it. That is how people communicate with either God or demons.
When Heavenly portals opened over you, it will change your life. It is God’s way of transferring Blessings from Heaven to earth. When a Heavenly portal opened over Jacob in Genesis 28, it brought some eternal things upon His life that made him one of the richest and most blessed persons of the ancient world.
The Bible says;
“And behold, the Lord stood above it and said: “I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants.
Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.” Genesis 28:13-15 NKJV
IF YOU LOOK AT THIS PORTION OF THE BIBLE CAREFULLY, YOU WILL DISCOVER THAT EACH VERSE TELLS US WHAT THE HEAVENLY PORTAL BROUGHT INTO THE LIFE OF JACOB.
The first was the promise to possess the land he was lying on. Along with the promise was the Heavenly backing which have not left earth since then. That is why Israel is still where it is today in spite of the opposition. The second verse speaks of the blessing to increase and spread everywhere that came. We saw that speaking when Israel went to Egypt and in the days of Solomon.
The next was the promised Messiah; it says in your seed (Christ) all the families will be blessed. That also came to pass in the miracle of Immaculate Conception, the birth of the Church, and the outpouring of the Holy Ghost on all flesh. Indeed, in him all the nations of the earth have been blessed.
The last blessing that was released upon him that day was an ever abiding presence of God. The LORD said to him;
“Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.”
What more can we glean from these prophetic truths in the encounter Jacob had that day? So much! But one more thing I realize is this; spiritual oppression in life and hardships are most times a by-product of evil portals opened over the souls of men and women for not coming to the place of being imparted with accurate scriptural revelations.
There are things we are not designed to accommodate in our souls – doctrines of devils are some of them.
These things open evil portals over us and keep us in demonic oppression, that is why people who are taught things about the devil, evil altars, curses, evil patterns, in father’s houses, and etc. are usually under persistent oppression. Sadly, those who teach them call them “deliverance teachings.”
YOU CANNOT BE FREE FROM OPPRESSION SITTING UNDER TEACHINGS THAT SPEAKS CHIEFLY ABOUT THE OPPRESSOR!
They will subtly open the portals of the oppressor in your soul. They will never open the portals of the deliverer – Jesus Christ.
If the portals of the oppressor, Satan or his demons are subtly opened in your soul, either you know it or not, you will never have rest from demonic oppression. They will need to be closed for you to have rest. Our devotional text this morning says;
“Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.”
The portals that are opened in your heart determine what flows out of your life.
If your life is full of poverty, misery, and all kinds of oppression, there are no portals of Heaven within you. You must put away persistent sins or evil deeds, and turn your heart away from heretic preachers. Then commit to right living, the truth of the Bible, and those who the Holy Spirit will use to get you established in Christ. That is how the evil portals will be closed for the Heavenly ones to be opened, bringing a great change to your life!
MAKE THESE SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY;
“Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves; and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.
And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him. Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here; if You wish, let us make here three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!” Matthew 17:1-6 NKJV