TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL (Saturday 5th June 2021)
“For there is no sorcery against Jacob, nor any divination against Israel. It now must be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘Oh, what God has done!’
Look, a people rises like a lioness, and lifts itself up like a lion; it shall not lie down until it devours the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.” Numbers 23:23-24 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 156TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF HIGHER HEIGHTS!
Yes, let us join David this Morning in saying
“Bless the LORD, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the LORD, O my soul, who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, who satisfies your mouth with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.”
Having a relationship with the God who does all these is the best things that can ever happen to a human. If there is no one to redeem our lives from destruction, He can be there to do it. If there is no one to crown us with loving kindness, He is there to do it.
If there is no one to satisfy our mouths with good things to renew our youth like the Eagle, He is there you do it. You miss so much in life not having a relationship with this God.
David went on to say;
“The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed. He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.” Psalm 103:6-7 NKJV
Sometimes we find no human government to execute righteousness or human court to execute justice for the oppressed. But our God is always there to help. The LORD Jesus, who is known in the Kingdom as the Judge of all, is always there to execute righteousness and justice for the oppressed.
May He execute justice for you this day in Jesus precious name!
There were two major things that flowed from the LORD when He was leading Israel to the land of Canaan. Those things were His acts and His ways.
Moses went after His ways when He asked the LORD to show him His glory. Israel went after His acts when they questioned if He can furnish a table in the wilderness. It is your spiritual disposition that determines what you get form the LORD.
On this platform we have been taking a disposition to know His ways, because people who know His ways will enjoy the greatest levels of His acts. The greatest dimensions of His acts are released only to those who know and walk in His ways.
Lately in our devotionals we have been receiving excerpts from the book “OVERCOMING WITCHCRAFT BY THE GREATNESS OF GOD’S POWER” The Holy Spirit have been teaching us God’s way of dealing with witchcraft.
Many of us have dealt with it the devils way as taught be so many so called deliverance ministers. Sadly, it has backfired very terribly like it did in the days of the Sons of Sceva. Marriages have been brought to an end, children either killed or permanently separated from parents because they said they were witches, economies have been ruined and churches destroyed.
Whenever you try to deal with the devil in his own way, you will end up doing his work for him – the word of killing, stealing and destroying. This witchcraft thing has shattered and destroyed so many lives and God wants that to stop. There is God’s way of overcoming witchcraft and that is what we have been learning in this devotional.
As we pick up from where we stopped yesterday, may the LORD empower you to begin to walk in victory without ding the devils job of killing, stealing or destroying in the bid to overcome witchcraft.
NO WITCHCRAFT OR DIVINATION CAN SUCCEED AGAINST JACOB
The fourth basic reason why God’s marvelous helps against the forces of witchcraft are sure, has to do with matters of our prophetic destiny.
Believe it or not, your prophetic destiny is the most important thing in God’s redemptive program for your life. Thank God for our new book “WALKING IN DIVINE DESTINY.” It is coming out this month! You will learn a lot about your prophetic destiny.
What we call “prophetic destiny” is the totality of God’s plans, goals, program, and purpose for our individual lives and the processes for actualizing them.
Satanic forces are usually mobilized through witchcraft against people basically to stop their march towards a glorious destiny. God’s marvelous helps are usually released to enable us push against the forces and actualize our destinies.
Samson comes to mind at this point. The Bible says,
Afterward it happened that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”
So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and with what you may be bound to afflict you.”
And Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings, not yet dried, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man.”
So the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings, not yet dried, and she bound him with them.
Now men were lying in wait, staying with her in the room. And she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he broke the bowstrings as a strand of yarn breaks when it touches fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.
Then Delilah said to Samson, “Look, you have mocked me and told me lies. Now, please tell me what you may be bound with.” So he said to her, “If they bind me securely with new ropes that have never been used, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man.”
Therefore Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And men were lying in wait, staying in the room. But he broke them off his arms like a thread.
Delilah said to Samson, “Until now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me what you may be bound with.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head into the web of the loom” —
So she wove it tightly with the batten of the loom, and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he awoke from his sleep, and pulled out the batten and the web from the loom.
Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”
And it came to pass, when she pestered him daily with her words and pressed him, so that his soul was vexed to death, that he told her all his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.”
When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up once more, for he has told me all his heart.” So the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand.
Then she lulled him to sleep on her knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him.
And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” So he awoke from his sleep, and said, “I will go out as before, at other times, and shake myself free!” But he did not know that the Lord had departed from him.
Then the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza. They bound him with bronze fetters, and he became a grinder in the prison. Judges 16:4-21 NKJV
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST INSTRUCTIVE STORIES OF THE BIBLE.
The young man of God Samson did not know that when he touched Delilah he was not just touching a woman. He was touching witchcraft. He brought his entire life and destiny under the siege of a woman due to Romantic desires.
There are no words to describe the witchcraft activities that are going on the lives of people simply because their sexual desires cannot be curtailed.
Sex is one of the greatest weapon of mass destruction in the realm of the spirit that is why witchcraft uses it. It is only safe if done within the boundaries the LORD created it to be.
Samson ruined his calling and cut his life short because he underestimated the terrible consequences of one moment of romantic pleasure with one you are not legally married to. We shall uncover that in a later Chapter when we will be looking at the witchcraft software.
One thing to pick from the story of Samson is, everyone with a destiny to fulfill will face witchcraft attacks.
The devil will want to sway him or her to do things that will bring him or her into a witchcraft siege. But if a man is clean, whenever he comes to zones in life where the witchcraft siege is usually attempted at people, God will roar at his enemies from Heaven to make sure that there is no enchantment against Jacob or divination against Israel.
Samson was caught through the witchcraft of Delilah and handed over to his enemies who plugged out his eye (vision), and chained him (tamed his progress). His carnal desires sold him out. That is what witchcraft does to anyone who comes under its siege.
The Bible says,
“Then the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza. They bound him with bronze fetters, and he became a grinder in the prison.”
When you come under the witchcraft siege, it will first take you and quench out your vision in life – making you hopeless and blind spiritually and mentally. If you become blind mentally, you will no longer be able to figure out anything in life.
YOUR THINKING CAP WILL BE LOST. FOOLISHNESS WILL BECOME YOUR HALLMARK.
In simple terms, you will experience a Baptism of foolishness. That is why everyone under witchcraft attacks is usually foolish. They see no wisdom in any counsel; they are so foolish that they leave you wondering what on earth is wrong with them.
If you have ever wondered why some believers whose prophets and prophetesses are renowned witches and wizards cannot see what you are seeing, you have just found the answer – prophetic witchcraft (a department of charismatic and black witchcraft) has a way of putting out the eyes (the minds) of people.
In other words, it has a way of stealing the minds of men. You remember how Simon the sorcerer stole the minds of the people of Samaria through his astonishing miracles that were done by the hand of magic or witchcraft. He would not have loved this book if it were published and placed in the hands of his victims called members then.
Some of you may have discovered why this book is hated by some preachers and their captives called members here in Kenya. It liberates their victims from their witchcraft by restoring back their ability to think in the Holy Ghost. When that happens, they break form the yoke and escape. Sadly, that Is what the so called preachers, prophets or prophetesses do not want.
God restore stolen minds through apostolic and prophetic teaching ministries. He stops witchcraft from doing its work in the lives of men.
I have come to discover that Witchcraft will first give you a Baptism of foolishness before taking the next step against you. That is why I believe before the Philistines put out the eyes of Samson physically, Delilah had already done so spiritually.
She stole his mind and gave him a baptism of foolishness through her seduction. If that did not happen, what on earth is a man doing with a woman who is asking questions whose answers will ruin a man’s life?
WHY DID HE REMAIN IN HER HOUSE AFTER THE FIRST TWO ATTEMPTS ON HIS LIFE? THE BIBLE SAYS,
Now men were lying in wait, staying with her in the room. And she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he broke the bowstrings as a strand of yarn breaks when it touches fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.
Then Delilah said to Samson,
“Look, you have mocked me and told me lies. Now, please tell me what you may be bound with.” So he said to her, “If they bind me securely with new ropes that have never been used, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man.”
Therefore Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And men were lying in wait, staying in the room. But he broke them off his arms like a thread.
Delilah said to Samson, “Until now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me what you may be bound with.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head into the web of the loom” —
So she wove it tightly with the batten of the loom, and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he awoke from his sleep, and pulled out the batten and the web from the loom. Judges 16: 9-14
Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”
After the baptism of foolishness, the next thing witchcraft will do is take or tame your progress in life. When that happens, your life will begin to slowly go backward instead of forward. You will not be able to progress in anything in life, partly because your mind has been stolen, and it takes a sound mind to live a glorious life.
A stolen mind cannot live glorious life on earth. That is why the Spirit of God will begin your journey into “deliverance from witchcraft” by passing you through the power and wisdom doors of the Kingdom.
APOSTOLIC AND PROPHETIC MINISTRIES ARE GOD’S POWER AND WISDOM DOORS. GOD WILL PASS YOU THROUGH THEM TO SAVE YOU!
The enemy knows that with no sound mind to take good decisions in life, you will find yourself taking very destructive decisions and bringing your entire life to ruin. Like Samson, you will literally become a grinder or laborer in the economic prisons of life. Some will even present themselves to you as jobs.
Sadly, if you ever come to the point what you begin to realize what may be going on, the enemy will have promoted to the position of a celebrated slave. I have been there and know what am sharing with you this morning. That is why you see people commit suicide at the end. They will consider how their lives have been wasted and spent and hate the desire to stay alive. It is all witchcraft.
All that is aimed at defeating GOD’s plans and programs for your life!
There are so many that have been taken that way in the spirit and bound with fetters and turned into prisoners in the realm of darkness. God wants them free so they can fulfill His eternal plans for their lives. Samson’s freedom began when his hair began to grow again.
The hair signifies his consecration. When consecration grows, liberty increases. When consecration grows yokes are broken. Your consecration grows when you become “Jacob.” I will explain what I mean, because there is no sorcery against Jacob, nor any divination against Israel. It now must be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘Oh, what God has done!’
If you become Jacob, no sorcery (witchcraft) or divination can prosper against you. That is what the Bible says. It’s therefore important that we understand who Jacob is or what he represents.
..TO BE CONTINUED…