TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL (Sunday 14th March 2021)
“Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,
speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving; 5 for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. 1 Timothy 4:1-5 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 73rd DAY OF OUR YEAR OF HIGHER HEIGHTS!
We will not cease thanking God for His mercies in our lives. It’s been our month of “School of Eternal Life.” This school is not the secular type but a school of the Spirit, where the Holy Ghost is teaching the doctrine of eternal life, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
One of the major things we must know and understand is the season we find ourselves. We are in the valley of Shittim, so long as God’s end times redemptive moves are concerned. That is why this morning, we will be looking at the rumblings of the Holy Spirit for our age and time.
There are things that are bigger than our human needs. When they happen, you will not even think of marriage, house rent, food, clothing or any other physical thing. We are right in a season where such things will be happening. This is not to say people will not get married. They will, but there are things bigger than all these things that are about to happen.
Like I said some time ago, I feel strongly that something catastrophic is about happening in our present Generation as a sign that our redemption is drawing near!
Though I sense a short time of peace coming to some nations (peace from the LORD that will allow us to harvest some souls into the kingdom and mature or perfect the Church for our general home going), the worst of world History is not behind us but ahead of us.
OUR DEVOTIONAL TEXT TODAY IS EXTREMELY PROPHETIC.
It is a “rumbling of the Spirit” that warns us of the times we live in as Children of God. I have come to discover that if we do not pay attention to “the rumblings of the Spirit,” we will rot when the things the Holy Spirit might be rumbling about begin to take place. A major highlight of it says,
“Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,
Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,” 1 Timothy 4:1-2 NKJV
These are the very times this scripture was talking about! There are doctrines of devils everywhere today, consequently many have departed from the faith and delved into real occult practices.
From the doctrines of first born to the doctrine of evil altars, evil patterns, using of sand, Candles, salt, and etc. to pray or carrying prophets to one’s village to uproot some things, and to all sorts of things we preach and demonstrate that inflict people with fear or scoop money from them. A large number of people no longer go to Church because of these things. There is a great departure from the faith!
Today there are certain local Church Assemblies that you must withdraw your feet from if you really want to make Heaven. These Church ministries look like Churches outwardly but they are just crowds by spiritual content. They major on earthly things at the expense of the eternal. They do not labor in the word and doctrine until Christ is formed in people!
Consequently, if something is not done quickly, the last seconds of these last days will meet so many acclaimed Christians unprepared to spend eternity with Christ. They will be like the five foolish virgins who did not carry enough oil in their lambs, and when a cry for the Bridegroom’s arrival was sent they were not ready to meet Him.
CHILD OF GOD, ARE YOU READY TO MEET YOUR KING?
If God should withdraw His restraining force and allow nations with all kinds of nuclear weapons to start using it on themselves, it will touch every nation under Heaven. If that happens will we be happy to go meet our LORD and KING in eternity to see His blessed face, or we will be afraid of judgment?
Do we have sufficient Oil to sustain us every day? When I say “Oil” I am not referring to the anointing Oil in battles or Jars but the works of the Holy Spirit in your life. Do you have enough work of the Spirit to sustain you these end times?
I leave you with these thoughts!
Now, how do you know if your Oil is not sufficient? The answer is simple; carnality will begin to rule your life. The passions of your flesh will begin to influence your decisions. That is when you see yourself driven by hate, the carnal passions of the flesh, pride, lust, sexual desires, and all kinds of the filthiness of the flesh and spirit.
It’s my prayer that the LORD uses these devotional to improve your walk and talk with HIM. Amen
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY;
“Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. “And at midnight a cry was heard: ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!’
Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’
But the wise answered, saying, ‘No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut.
“Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ 12 But he answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’
“Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. Matthew 25:1-13 NKJV