TODAY’S DEVOTION (WEDNESDAY 20TH JULY 2022)
“Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes; and they had crowns of gold on their heads.
And from the throne proceeded lightnings, thunderings, and voices. Seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.” Revelation 4:4-5 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 20TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF AMAZING GRACE!
This is the day the LORD has made, let us be glad and rejoice in it. Our God has been faithful to us. His presence in our lives is more than what money can give a man.
His amazing grace is a treasure out of this world. For 200 days it has ran our lives and kept us in perfect conditions in a chaotic world. It has also wiped the tears of those who became members of our ministry.
Yesterday during counseling sessions, I was almost left in tears by some of the counselees because of the turn arounds they are experiencing in their lives.
I remember one that I saw in May who was having all kinds of diseases and spiritual attacks in her body. She came and was looking so haggard and near the grave kind of. After listening to her pathetic story for almost an hour, all she has gone through in the hand of inventors of prophetic acts, I felt so sorry for her.
She shared so much that I cannot write here on how oil, water, sand and etc. users have not helped her, and the monies she has sown. She moved from a top person in the corporate and government circles with official cars and all that, to a pauper who cannot pay her rent despite all they asked her to do and prayers they asked her to pray.
She said she did all kinds of fasting and prayed all kinds of deliverance prayers from Elisha Goodman and many others. But no help! It was a clip that some bloggers did on me that got her attention because she gave up on church. She felt all preachers where the same, until she saw that clip.
Then she asked someone about me and the person said, “Kenyan Pastors hate that man of God, but you can try him.” There are other details but the long and short of the story is God’s amazing grace and throne room presence has visited her in less than two months of being in the Cry of the Spirit ministries.
SHE WAS SO DIFFERENT FROM THE PERSON I SAW IN MAY.
She was full of joy. I could not even recognize her. Even her face has changed from that of an old sick woman to that of a young healthy woman. She told me how she was visited by the LORD during each service. She will be on the floor for almost all the time of the services each Sunday.
Her amazement is God visited her without her having to sow a seed, use oil, water, soil, or some other prayer gadgets, prayer points, lengthy fasting and prayer, and so-called deliverance prayer.
The irony is, I did not even know she was being visited. I remember telling her to keep coming to church after hearing her ordeal but there is no way I would have seen her in the midst of so many people who gather every Sunday.
And I did not need to see her. She only needs the LORD to see her.
She said she was located by the LORD during each service via the word of knowledge I usually give while preaching or praying. Each word of knowledge would unleash the power of God upon her and send her to the ground for hours, she said. Jesus Himself said,
“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” John 6:63 NKJV
Yes, indeed, it is the Spirit who gives life by sending spoken words to suffering men and women. He will receive from Christ and send to us. When they get to us, they become spirit and life, revealing God in our lives and situations and demonstrating His marvelous works.
I saw God in this woman like I have always seen. I saw a woman transformed by words spoken in season; words of knowledge not words from knowledge.
Charlatans will use words from knowledge; things they have gathered about people from Facebook and information their stooges and host gather about the people they are targeting for exploitation. But God uses words of knowledge; what have been determined in the throne room for our salvation on earth.
IN OTHER WORDS, WHAT HAVE BEEN SETTLED IN HEAVEN CONCERNING US.
The Bible says;
“Revive me according to Your lovingkindness, So that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth. Forever, O LORD, Your word is settled in heaven. Your faithfulness endures to all generations; You established the earth, and it abides.” Psalm 119:88-90 NKJV
In other to demonstrate His faithfulness, establish, revive or deliver us, God will send words that have been settled in Heaven (His throne room) for our salvation on earth; when they come to us as Spirit and Life, no captivity will survive because they will unleash so much Throne Room power upon our lives as they proceed from the mouths of His servants to us.
Sadly, because of the falsification of the word of knowledge by many preachers, people do not experience this kind of divine moves on their lives again. The pastor will say what sounds like word of knowledge, most times from knowledge, and that will be it.
No power from Heaven to change lives, just demands for seeds, or prayers to empower the financial life of the preacher.
That is why most of what sounds like most words of knowledge these days has always ended on money being removed from people’s pockets or charismatic witchcraft being practiced on them.
If you have eyes, you will always see the difference between what is fake and false and what is true and true in the testimonies of people like this woman, who I will prefer calling the miracle woman.
I saw the difference between what the demon of deliverance tries to do to the captives, in its bid to use preachers to deceive them and what the almighty God does. I have always said that the Almighty God gives the captives rest, while the demon of deliverance at most brings relief.
When the miracle women came to see me before her visitation, I remember asking her why she followed what was not working for over 15 years of her life. She said its because of the relief she was getting and promises that things will be better.
THAT WAS HOW SHE FOLLOWED WHAT WAS NOT WORKING FOR OVER 15 YEARS AND WAS TAKEN FORM THE TOP TO BE BOTTOM OF LIFE.
What she sought God to do in her life for over 15 years, following what she never knew was the demon of deliverance, was done in her life in less than two months of following the LORD, the deliverer Himself. She came each Sunday to sit and be taught the word of her LORD and savior Jesus Christ, and that word broke out and set her free. Hallelujah!
Jesus said.
“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30 NKJV
Yes, this scripture was fulfilled in her life. She came to the LORD and sat down to learn of Him, and ended up finding rest for her soul. If you want rest from all the works of the devil that is the pathway to follow in these perilous times. There is power in sitting down in an apostolic house to learn the ways of the LORD.
The Bible says;
“Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O LORD, And teach out of Your law, That You may give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit is dug for the wicked.
For the LORD will not cast off His people, Nor will He forsake His inheritance.” Psalm 94:12-14 NKJV
Indeed, the LORD will not cast off His people forever no matter what we may have done. He wants to dig pits for the wicked and give us rest from the days of adversity.
PROPHETICALLY, WE ARE IN THE DAYS OF FINDING REST BY SITTING DOWN TO BE INSTRUCTED IN THE WAYS OF THE LORD IN AN APOSTOLIC HOUSE.
Yes, we are in the days of permanent deliverance, but it will not come by using oil, water, salt, or soil in prayer. It will not come by sowing seeds, running after prophets, attending deliverance schools, being passed through what they call deliverance, raising altars and all that.
The miracle woman told how she raised altars and tried to check her maternal and paternal roots for curses by siting grandparents and so on down to ask them questions. He deliverance did not come by any of that but by sitting down to be instructed in the ways of the LORD and by righteous prayers.
That brings us to the focus of our 31-day journey of faith with the Cry of the Spirit on miracles signs and wonders. The miracle of her turn around was a throne room product. Remember we have been looking at some living truths about throne Room miracles.
Our devotional text revealed what happens in the Throne Room of God. It says;
“Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes; and they had crowns of gold on their heads.
And from the throne proceeded lightnings, thundering, and voices. Seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.” Revelation 4:4-5 NKJV
There is so much truths in this scripture but let me limit myself to what concerns this discourse. The part that tells us what proceeds from the Throne Room of God. The Bible says, lightnings, thundering, and voices proceeds from the Throne. These are some of the Heavenly forces around the Throne that are responsible for the miracles that comes from the Throne of God.
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY THE WORD OF KNOWLEDGE IS SO POWERFUL, YOU HAVE JUST SEEN IT IN OUR DEVOTIONAL TEXT.
Every genuine word of Knowledge comes from the voices that proceeds from the Throne of God. That is why they unleash power upon those that it concerns – the power touches them as soon as they hear what the LORD is saying to them.
The word of Knowledge is a gift of the Holy Spirit. It is the ability for a servant of God to be aware of what God is saying in His Throne for someone in a Church service or anywhere within reach. It is a major catalyst of Throne Room Miracles.
I believe enough has been shared for the day. It is my prayer that God will use it to keep building us up and giving us an inheritance among they that are sanctified.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!
“And in Lystra a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who had never walked.
This man heard Paul speaking. Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed, said with a loud voice, “Stand up straight on your feet!” And he leaped and walked. Acts 14:8-9 NKJV