TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL (Thursday 15th April 2021)
“And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
Therefore “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.” ‘I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty.” 2 Corinthians 6:16-18 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 105TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF HIGHER HEIGHTS!
Due to circumstances beyond my control, I will not be writing a fresh devotional today. There is so much needing my attention that cannot be delegated.
We will be revisiting an old devotional that is still fresh with the present truth. I hope you will find something new from this old well to add to the building blocks of your faith. Amen and amen.
IT SAYS “THERE IS SOMETHING TO COME OUT FROM FOR GOD TO COME INTO YOU TO UNLEASH HIS GLORY.”
We have been teaching about the glory of God all the year. The glory of God is the storehouse of God’s goodness, manifestations, gifts, callings, graces, and etc. Most of the divine promises we receive from God cannot come to pass until He steps into us and unleash His glory.
I don’t know if God has spoken to you of something He wants to do for you, in you or through you, and yet it’s not coming to pass. May be some prophets may have told you to give some money to them in other to activate it to come to pass, and perhaps you have done so yet it has not come to pass.
God sent this word this morning to tell you that His glory manifesting in and through you is the key to seeing that thing Come to pass.
It takes the manifestation of the glory of God in man for God’s will to be done in or through man as revealed to him. That is why the ultimate vision of GOD for us is that He comes into our lives and tabernacle in us. He wants to tabernacle in us to unleash His glory on the earth.
When God comes into our lives, our friends and enemies will know He has come. He will begin to guide us with amazing lights and understanding on issues of life and driving darkness away from us. People who were not originally designed to be part of our destiny will suddenly withdraw from us or become hostile.
When God comes into you and dwell in you, whatever and whoever is not of God in your life will begin to see you as resentful. Even a Church or a minister of the gospel filled with the spirit of hell will see you as the one who is possess. Agents of darkness you may have taken for husbands or wives will begin to withdraw from you or cause problems for you.
Everything that is not of God that may have attached itself to your life has a way of reacting when God comes in to tabernacle in you. But all that is the burden attached to the blessing.
BECAUSE IT IS BETTER FOR GOD TO DWELL IN ME AND MAN STAY AWAY FROM ME THAN FOR MAN TO STAY WITH ME AND GOD STAY AWAY FROM ME.
When man stays with you and God does not, your life will be full of problems. But when God lives in you (and maybe man refuse to live with you), your life will be full of peace. The Bible says,
And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying,
“Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.
“And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.” Revelation 21:3-4 NKJV
If you look at this scripture carefully, you will discover that there are tears that cannot be wiped away from men until God ‘own them’ and ‘tabernacle in them.’ If you try to wipe such tears away by sowing seed, fasting and prayer, running after and looking for prophets who should speak into your life, bringing anything they tell you to bring or using whatever they instructed you to use in prayer, they will never be wiped away.
Sadly, so many are trying to wipe away tears that can only be wiped away when God tabernacles and live in them. Tears like persistent poverty, spiritual attacks, being due for marriage yet it’s not forth coming, what we call generational curses, things we blame on what deliverance ministers calls “foundational problems” or “evil altars.”
Friend whatever evil work in your life that deliverance ministers may have blamed on your foundation or evil altars can only be neutralized in your life when God comes into your life to tabernacle.
That is why I tell people it’s not the presence of an evil foundation in their lives that is responsible for their problems but the absence of the foundation of the LORD in their lives. When God tabernacles your life, the Bible says no evil will befall you. Whatever cannot befall God will not befall you.
NOW HOW DO WE COME TO THE REALM WHERE GOD WILL TABERNACLE IN US?
Our devotional text today is full of the answers. Because to me there is no other answer that can be more accurate than the one God Himself gave through Apostle Paul as captured in our devotional text. A major highlight in the text says;
As God has said:
“I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.” Therefore “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.” ‘I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty.”
The only thing to do to come into that realm where God tabernacles people is to use His saving grace upon your life to come out of things that will not let Him dwell in you. You make use of that grace through fasting, prayers, and separation from anything considered unclean by Him (not by religion).
It could be a church that has become unclean in God’s sight, a business that is defiling you, a friend or a carnal relationship, a pseudo marriage or etc. It could even be a paradigm to shift away from; a thought system or mindset to dissolve by the power of scriptural revelations.
The point is you can use God’s saving grace upon your life to discern those things, places or people God wants you to come out from, and come out from them. The Rhema word remains, “Come out from among them and be separate … and I will receive you.” Hallelujah!!
As we bring this to a close, I want to submit to you that there are dimensions of God you will never know until you come of things that are spiritually unclean – marriages considered in Heaven as unclean, businesses considered in Heaven as unclean, Relationships considered in Heaven as unclean, Churches considered in Heaven as unclean, families considered in Heaven as unclean, and etc.
God will never unleash more of Himself into your life if you have not used His grace upon your life to walk away from things unclean. My prayer for us today is that we stop shortchanging our destinies through illegal attachments and alliances.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY;
“O Corinthians! We have spoken openly to you, our heart is wide open. You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections. Now in return for the same(I speak as to children), you also be open.
“Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?”
“And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
Therefore “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.”
‘I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 2 Corinthians 6:11-7:1 NKJV