THE CRY OF THE SPIRIT DEVOTIONALS – BY RICHARD E. S. TAKIM

TODAY’S DEVOTION (WEDNESDAY 15TH MARCH 2023)

Shall I bring to the time of birth, and not cause delivery?” says the LORD. “Shall I who cause delivery shut up the womb?” says your God.

“Rejoice with Jerusalem, And be glad with her, all you who love her; Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn for her;

That you may feed and be satisfied With the consolation of her bosom, That you may drink deeply and be delighted With the abundance of her glory.” Isaiah 66:9-11 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 74TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF SIGNS AND WONDERS!

God has been faithful to us, we give him the glory. He remains our king, our Judge and our lawgiver. To Him belong all the honor. Amen!!

He said man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from His mouth, and went beyond to be making the words available to the human race. For us, this platform has been a huge channel for carrying out the responsibility of making His word available to us.

Why should the word of the LORD come to us daily? It is basically to help those who want to live lives that will let the holy seed (precious word), they carry to be born (fulfilled) in its appointed times. If we do not feed on the word of the LORD, the holy seed we carry, will end up mixed with other things, and born as the seed of a god instead of GOD, or even get aborted.

Understand that as human history move second by second, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, week by week, month by month, and year by year, to its expiry date, what should take your attention is the holy seed you carry, as a Child or seed of the Most High God. Your devotion should include, how to protect it, and make sure it is born in its appointed time.

Friend, we are all matching towards a massive fulfilment of end time prophecies. Only carriers of the holy seed will have the best of the times when they shall be fulfilled. If you are still empty of the holy seed, meet the LORD, who is called the Righteous Seed, to give you the holy seed to carry. He said in His word;

“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

The rest or shalom that Jesus promised in this scripture, comes when we are implanted with the holy seed. The yoke is the price we pay for carrying it, and it comes with the holy seed. As soon as you get the holy seed, you also get the yoke of the LORD and the burden of bearing it that comes with it.

BUT FROM BIBLICAL EXAMPLES, YOU WILL FIND OUT THAT NO MATTER HOW TOUGH THE PRICE MAY BE, IT IS STILL EASY AND LIGHT.

When he met Peter, James, John and all the 12 He called when He was physically here, you can see the trend. He got them all impregnated with a holy seed, and asked them to go to the Upper Room after His resurrection to receive the power to bring it forth, and they did.

He said to them;

“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts 1:8 NKJV

Previously, He had asked them to wait in the upper room until they are endued with power from on high. You will never carry the Holy Seed to full term if you are not walking in the power of the Holy Spirit. That is why the first thing you get, most times after being implanted with the holy seed of God for your life, is power from on High. Most of that power is for the seed you carry.

Understand that, the most precious possession of GOD in your life is the holy seed. That is why God protects you, fights for you, blesses and empowers you. He asked the disciples to wait in the upper room until they receive that power; it is called the promise of the Spirit.

The holy seed of God in our lives, is the ultimate reason of God’s power in our lives.

I reiterate again, that if you have the seed but do not have the power, it could be aborted. God gives His power so that we can deliver the seed at its appointed time. We saw that in one of Isaiah’s messianic prophecies. He prophesied saying;

“The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, Because the LORD has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn,

To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.” Isaiah 61:1-3 NKJV

IF YOU READ THIS SCRIPTURE CAREFULLY, YOU WILL SEE THAT THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON HIM BECAUSE OF THE HOLY SEED HE CARRIED.

The scripture line that made that clear reads, “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, Because the LORD has anointed Me To…

What He was anointed to do, was what brought the Spirit of the LORD upon Him. In other words, the precious word He was anointed to fulfill in His life; the holy seed He was anointed to carry and bring to full term, was the reason the Spirit or power of the LORD rested upon Him.

The sentence made it clear that God’s precious word or holy seed is the reason for the release of His power in our lives. Without His power, His seed will either die and get rot within us, or get mixed to become the seed of another, or get aborted all together.

That is the power that separates us from sin, filths, defilements and all the unclean things and people, and dedicates us to GOD alone, whose seed we carry. If it is not upon us, we will see accurate visions of what the LORD wants us to be or do, but will never have the power to do it or see it come to pass.

If there is a holy seed in you, there is power from God according to the weight of it for you. You only need to consecrate for it.

Understand that God’s power is first for His Holy seed in us, and then set yourself apart to go for it. It is for its protection, gestation, and release. Go for it if you are sure you carry the holy seed of GOD in you.

Go for it because all carriers of the holy seed where also carriers of God’s power in certain measures and manifestations. For instance, the holy seed of Joseph was to be one who will preserve lives in the ancient world, standing as an authority in Egypt.

To successfully carry and deliver the seed at its appointed time, he needed the power to survive the hate of his brothers, get hurt with fetters and survive, prosper in the house of Potiphar, resist the sexual temptation of his wife, and understand dreams and visions, with a unique ability or wisdom to interpret them.

The manifestation of the power of God in his life, enabled him to do all that, and finally stand before Pharaoh at the appointed time, for the delivery of the holy seed he had carried for 30 years. That day, the power of God so rested on him, that Pharaoh saw the pre-incarnate Christ in him as said to his royal staff and high-ranking officials, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?

THE BIBLE RECORDED THE EVENT THAT HAPPENED THAT DAY, IN THESE WORDS;

“So, the advice was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of all his servants. And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Inasmuch as God has shown you all this, there is no one as discerning and wise as you. You shall be over my house, and all my people shall be ruled according to your word; only in regard to the throne will I be greater than you.”

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.” Genesis 41:37-41 NKJV

The power that rested on Joseph that day was not born out of prayer and fasting, because the Bible did not say he fasted when he was going to appear before Pharaoh. In as much as fasting and prayer are good in helping us maintain spiritual fitness, they were not involved that day.

The power of God reserved for the delivery of that holy seed he carried for 30 years, was what manifested that day. It manifested out of GOD’s sovereign will. That is how that power dimension manifest. That is why it makes a mere man a wonder without the person’s impute.

Joseph was able to become four different things in one day without a formal training, because the power of GOD came upon him; the power for the delivery of the precious word or holy seed he carried. The Bible says he was made a Prime minister, a minister of Agriculture, the senate president, and a father to pharaoh in one day, and that lasted for 80 years.

Not 8 years, but 80 years. Can you beat that? No one else has ever achieved that in history. That is what the power to bring forth a holy seed can do to a man. It turns the person into another man, and makes him achieve the unachievable within an unbelievable time frame.

Friend, if God give you a word-seed to bring forth for Him at its appointed time, a holy seed to carry for Him; you will need to maintain intimacy and consecration until its appointed time.

WHEN THE APPOINTED TIME COMES, A SPECIAL ANOINTING OR SOVEREIGN POWER FROM HIM WILL REST UPON YOU AS NEVER BEFORE.

When the power come upon you, you will be shocked at what you will become in few seconds, minutes, weeks, days or months, depending on the content of the precious word or holy seed. I believe Joseph was shocked at all that happened to him in one day.

He was shocked at what he became. It is called the manifestation of the power to bring forth. Our devotional text says;

“Shall I bring to the time of birth, and not cause delivery?” says the LORD. “Shall I who cause delivery shut up the womb?” says your God.

“Rejoice with Jerusalem, And be glad with her, all you who love her; Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn for her;

That you may feed and be satisfied With the consolation of her bosom, That you may drink deeply and be delighted With the abundance of her glory.” Isaiah 66:9-11 NKJV

The first verse of this text caught the most of my attention. You find God asking, “shall I bring to the time of birth, and not cause delivery?

Joseph got to the time of birth, and God caused delivery. God unleashed an uncommon power on him and the preincarnate Christ was made manifest in him. Then the baby came out! I hope you understand me.

Previously, the same power had seen him through until he got to the time of birth. At the time of birth God caused delivery, and he became all we stated in one day. You are the next on God’s list. May you follow the LORD wholly, allowing His power to rest on you, in Jesus precious name.

When you get to your time of delivery, may the LORD cause delivery. May He unleash so much power upon your life that you will become a wonder to your generation. May you get what certificates will not give you. May you get what a life time of labor will not give you.

May you become God’s superman or woman in your sphere of influence, in Jesus precious name. Amen!!

MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY!

“Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

Now in the seven plentiful years the ground brought forth abundantly.

So he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities; he laid up in every city the food of the fields which surrounded them.

Joseph gathered very much grain, as the sand of the sea, until he stopped counting, for it was immeasurable.

And to Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him. Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: “For God has made me forget all my toil and all my father’s house.”

And the name of the second he called Ephraim: “For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.” Genesis 41:46-51 NKJV