TODAY’S DEVOTION (MONDAY 29TH APRIL 2024)
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.” Matthew 7:15-20 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 120TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF IMPACT.
One of the powerful hallmarks of a Christian, is the renunciation of things that are sinful, ungodly, and un-Christlike, and a pressing into the fullness of Christ.
That is one of the beautiful things that GOD has used this ministry, the Cry of the Spirit ministries, to accomplish in the lives of so many who never knew what Christianity is. We are still basking in the euphoria of God’s faithfulness, power, and moves in this mantle for 10 years.
Many have testified that the shift in the religious atmosphere of Kenya, and other nations the LORD has reached through unworthy vessels like us, is beyond words.
Personally, what our kids and teenagers did yesterday, speaks so much in my heart. I saw a work that is accomplished even to the fourth and fifth generation if Jesus tarries. I felt happy that this ministry will not die, after our days are fulfilled.
I discovered that it will be more powerful, impactful, and amazing.
In fact, if I were to hand over the mantle to any of those kids to carry to their generation, and the generation after them, I have already seen a little boy and a teenage girl who would have collected it.
Yes, I saw few other kids who the Holy Spirit descended on, young hearts that I believe can take this mantle from me, and run with it, and then hand over to the next generation, and to the next generation, and to the next, until Jesus comes. I felt fulfilled yesterday.
Indeed, out of the mouth of babes and sucking infants God has ordained strength because of the avenger. I was the age of some of them when I began preaching in crusade. I saw the same grace sitting on them.
Those young hearts have been touched by the LORD, and I believe the hand of the LORD is upon them. Everyone saw it. Child of God we are in the days of God’s last moves. He is strategically raising vessels by Himself for Himself. He is doing that by right, based on His sovereignty, hence without consultation with any one, great or small.
Yes, the LORD God will do nothing until He speaks to His servants the prophets, but there are things He does without telling us.
HE TELLS US WHEN IT IS TIME FOR US TO PLAY A ROLE.
Friend, there is a lot God does without telling anyone; a lot He does without revealing to anyone. The Spirit of God is not restricted, neither is He under the command of any authorities among men or spirits. He is sovereign and even overrules the rulings of any authority, among men or spirits.
So, I see Jesus Christ, parading the earth as the LORD of the Harvest, recruiting men and women, kids and teenagers, who will grow and function this end time as holy vessels, carriers of His most holy things for the end times, and executive officers of His last move.
He is recruiting them without discussing with anyone about it. He is recruiting some by planting word seeds that will not die in them, and others by raising them through the mantles of His holy apostles and prophets.
Sadly, the devil is also recruiting his own army. The scripture is clear on an ancient battle that has been going on between the vessels of light and that of darkness, parading themselves as sons of light.
Yes, there has been a battle between the prince of this world and his team (the Bible calls them the tares), and the Sons and Daughters of the King of kings and LORD of lords (those the Bible calls the wheat).
So, whatever God is doing in His kingdom with His wheat, is usually copied or duplicated by the tares. It is copied not to extend the frontiers of what God may be doing, but to neutralize its impact.
The system is called counterfeiting.
Satan and his army are good at masquerading as angels of light to counterfeit the things of God, or infiltrate the people of the LORD, or better still, entrap those who are coming to the LORD.
This, he and his team of spirits do, by the hand of men and women that are known as His ministers.
The ones in church go by the titles of apostles. That is why there is a great rise in men and women calling themselves or being called apostles. It is still part of the devil’s big counterfeit program. The Bible says,
“For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.” 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 NKJV
THERE ARE SO MANY MINISTERS OF SATAN WHO HAVE SUCCESSFULLY TRANSFORMED THEMSELVES INTO MINISTERS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Sadly, so many are sitting under them without even realizing it.
So many well-meaning, and God seeking men and women are sitting, week in and week out, under ministers of Satan. They sit there because these ministers are good at speaking things that the hearts of the needy or the carnal crave for.
They will tell them how they will get visas before the end of the month, be the first to travel in their family, be the first to build a house in their family, and all that. They base the Satanic ministries in human needs, hence entrapping many souls.
The Bible says many will follow their destructive ways.
Yes, many will follow because they are good at counterfeiting and copying what is true, so that they can be seen as ministers of righteousness, or apostles of our LORD and savior Jesus Christ. People get entrapped because of all that.
Sadly, among their die-hard followers, are people who are in Church but are perishing. They are perishing but they do not know. However, that is Satan’s intention, to use these false apostles to keep souls who are perishing thinking they are not, until they fulfill their days and slip into hell.
One way you know a man or woman in Church who is perishing, is in how he or she handles the word of truth and righteousness.
These followers of the crowd pulling apostles and prophets, fears the word of truth and righteousness, and gets angry at those who preach or teach it, especially, when it exposes the errors that they and those who preach to them walk in.
Indeed, so many are in church but not in Christ. So many are perishing without knowing.
The point is this, if what the Bible says has been made clear by the Holy Ghost directly or indirectly to you, and you still cannot agree with the word, then the gospel has been veiled to you.
SADLY, IF YOU DIE THAT WAY, YOU MIGHT NOT MAKE IT TO HEAVEN.
It is therefore very important that we all know what happens when a man have been seduced by the evil one, and given a minister of Satan as a spiritual authority over his life, one who has been transformed to function as a minister of righteousness, paraded either as a pastor, an apostle, or a prophet.
If we do not know how to spot it, we will all be deceived this end time. One of the most important question to ever ask this end time as a Christian is how to identify who a minister of Satan is.
You do not know them by their leaves, because by leaves we are all the same. The true and the untrue look alike by leaves.
Yes, the false and the true, those in error and those in truth, those who are true ministers of righteousness, and those who are not but have been transformed into one, look alike by leaves.
So, by our leaves, you will call all of us ministers of Christ.
That is why, when you hear someone calling everyone in God’s garments “ministers of God,” just know they are looking at the leaves not the fruits of the trees. I can’t forget when Benny Hinn came to Kenya, even some of those I sent away from the Church went on social media calling all who sat on the platform those days, “men of God.”
You will fall into the snare of the evil one doing that these end times.
I was shocked, but I also rejoiced that I took the right decision to have expelled them. Anyone who looks at the leaves of all preachers, will say the same blasphemy. He or she will call all in God’s garment, servants of God.
So, to recognize who these transformed ministers of Satan are, you must start looking at the fruits not the leaves. You must remove your eyes from the attractive leaves they have grown, and fix it on the terrible fruits they are growing in-between those leaves.
OUR DEVOTIONAL TEXT SAYS;
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.” Matthew 7:15-20 NKJV
Run for your eternal life, before you are cut down along those ministers of Satan and are thrown into the fire. Do not think because they look prosperous today, they won’t be cut down if they do not repent. They will. It is just a matter of time.
Start looking at the fruits of preachers in your walk with God.
If they are making you to be mindful of the things of men rather than the things of God, if they are keeping you comfortable in sin, wickedness, and the ways of this world, you are sitting under a minister of Satan, irrespective of any miracle you may be getting.
Yes, by leaves we are all men and women of God, but by the fruits of our ministries on the eternal lives of people, out of every 10 preachers today, eight are not of God. They are ministers of Satan in the Church system that people see as the body of Christ.
Let he that has an ear, hear what the Spirit is saying to the Churches!
But there is a Bible prophecy to neutralize their works these end times, and delivers those who are appointed unto Salvation from their hands. It is being fulfilled by the hands of so many principalities of God these end times.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!
“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, ‘These things says He who is holy, He who is true, “He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens”:
“I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name.
Indeed, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie—indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.” Revelation 3:7-9 NKJV