TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL (Tuesday 21st September 2021)
“These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
“For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error.
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.
For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.” 2 Peter 2:17-21 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 265TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF HIGHER HEIGHTS!
From tomorrow we are beginning our journey towards the last hundred days of this year according to the Gregorian calendar. But according to the Hebrew Calendar which matches God’s prophetic time clock, which some prophetic sons of Issachar follow, we are already in in the twilight of the new year.
But either you are following the Gregorian calendar of that of the Jews, the faithfulness of GOD remains evident.
If you follow the Gregorian calendar and you multiply the 265 days we have seen, by the 24 hours that makes each day, you will know how many hours the God of all flesh has kept us alive and well this year alone. It could help you develop a heart of gratitude.
It will help us to be thankful! I believe being thankful to God for at least keeping us alive and helping us to breath is a seed that brings more days as a harvest. We preachers have taught people to take money as seed but thanksgiving is a greater seed. It is the only seed a man needs to use in entering the gates of GOD’s presence.
THAT IS WHY DAVID SAID, “ENTER HIS GATES WITH THANKS GIVING. COME INTO HIS COURTS WITH PRAISE”
This morning there is a word for us from the LORD; a word to start our day with. We will begin by looking at the importance of being schooled in the things of GOD. It may interest you to know that for the righteous, the only schooling that will continue in eternity is a schooling in the things of God.
The Bible makes it clear that even angels school themselves in the revelation of who God is by the moments – they do that by just observing His glory and screaming “Holy, Holy, Holy!” Sadly, many in church today do not really know who Christ is or what His ways are because of absence of proper schooling in the things of God!
It is really dangerous to give your life to a Christ whose ways you do not know! That is what makes schooling in the things of God very vital to the Christian faith, and ultimately the survival of the human race. As soon as one gives his life to Christ, the next thing he should spend his days doing is schooling in the things of the GOD who he has given his life to.
Giving your life to Christ without spending the rest of your days schooling in His things will not do you any good. Many who gave their lives to Christ took it back long ago without even realizing it. They do not realize because they are not schooled in His ways enough to know when they have departed from them.
Many do not know that the greatest danger on the face of the earth is not an airplane that has lost control and is heading to crash into a City with a nuclear plant – as dangerous as that may be. The greatest danger on the face is not a car driven without brakes, a devastating earthquake, or unending wars.
The greatest danger on the face of the earth is not the most dreaded disease you can think of. The greatest danger on the face of the earth is “ignorance of the things of God.” It is ignorance of the things of God that is responsible for all other dangers.
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THE WORLD NEEDS THEREFORE IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE THINGS OF GOD.
But the most important things the world needs are given names that will not let people go for them. Making mankind more ignorant!
The things of God are the most important things mankind need but people call them Egyptian, Jewish or Greek methodologies, depending on the person’s level of spiritual blindness called academic persuasion. Many have been trained to call critical matters of eternal life empty religion. Those in the Church call them, “legalism” preventing lives from coming to the knowledge of the truth.
If people are ignorant of the things of God their lives will be full of spiritual darkness! The world is said to be full of spiritual darkness because the world is ignorant of the things of God.
Spiritual Darkness is the breeding ground of criminalities, poverty, diseases, insecurity, social ills, sin, and all that makes the lives of men horrible. If not for the restraining power of the Most High God, we would have drifted into major global crisis outlines in the book of revelation. Though they are still on the way coming; God’s restraining hand is responsible for not allowing the human race to annihilation itself.
Ignorance of the things of God is the worst form of ignorance on the face of the earth. No matter how literate you are, you are still ignorant if you are not schooled in the things of GOD.
The Bible actually warned those of us who are saved that the world is passing away. And that those who love the world will pass away along with it.
If you will not pass away with the world as a Child of God, you must love the LORD enough to be schooled in His things with a ready heart to walk in what you are taught.
AND ONE OF THE MAJOR THINGS OF GOD YOU MUST BE SCHOOLED IN IS “HOW NOT TO LOVE THE WORLD.”
Yes, not how to make money, get married, or come out of generation bondages, but how not to love the world. The reason is simply; it’s our love for the world that hinders us from succeeding in our walk with GOD. It’s our love for the world that has sold us to generational bondages and other forms of spiritual captivities.
Demons are sitting in many households and afflicting them from generation to generation with unprecedented attacks because they do not know the LORD. They love the world and have no relationship with the LORD hence living under attacks!
If you will not see what your father or mother suffered repeating itself in your life as a Child of GOD, you must mot love the world neither the things that are in the world. The word says;
“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life — is not of the Father but is of the world.
And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.” 1 John 2:15-17 NKJV
Love the LORD enough to learn His ways, not the world.
Many Christians who are seeing what happened to their parents or grandparents repeating itself in their lives are dealing with it the wrong way.
You find them running after prophets and prophetesses who specialize in DEMONOLOGY instead of THEOLOGY. Demonology is the study of demons but theology is the study of the revelation of who God is. It is they that know their God that will be strong and carry out great exploits not they that know demons.
The Bible says people should “learn about God from our mouths” (as preachers) and not about devils – yet we teach them what they should not learn about in the guise of not being ignorant of the devices of the devil – revelations that will never help them carry out any exploit in life.
YOU FIND THESE UNFORTUNATE SOULS RUNNING AFTER THESE DEMON SPECIALISTS WITHOUT SOLUTION TO THEIR PROBLEMS.
Instead the specialists are the ones receiving solution to their financial problems. They use the predicaments of these precious souls to solve their financial problems, leaving them hoping for breakthroughs that will never come.
Friend if there is something in your lineage that seems to be repeating itself in your life, you do not need a curse breaking service to come out of it. Neither do you need to take a prophet or intercessor to your village to pray. You do not need to give money to anyone. All you need is to learn how not to love the world or the things that are in the world.
If that software that makes men love the world and the things that are in the world is deleted from your spirit, and the power of the Holy Ghost kindled in your life, nothing your parents or entire lineage went through will be repeated in your life!
I have studied my life and that of others around me and come to realize that what makes household demons to repeated in a current generation what they did in a previous generation is the dust of sin, Satan and love for the evil and corrupt system of this world. If we deal with them, it will be impossible for the devils to find a common ground to repeat in our lives what they did in the lives of our fathers. That is the breakthrough key that virtually all deliverance ministers in church today do not know hence leading people astray!
If you are led astray by a heretic teacher or deliverance minister you will be killed by a stray bullet in the spirit realm. So many marriages, spiritual lives, finances, and etc. have been killed by stray bullets in the spirit realm simply because they were led astray be heretic and lying prophets, prophetess, apostles, pastors and etc.
A MAJOR HIGHLIGHT IN OUR DEVOTIONAL TEXT THIS MORNING SAYS;
“These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error.
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.” 2 Peter 2:17-20 NKJV
What more can we add to these great words from the mouth of the Holy Ghost through the vocal cords of Apostle Peter other than concur with every statement made here.
These preachers promise people liberty yet they themselves are servant of corruption. Some are servants of sexual perversion, others servants of greed and covetousness and many others servants of devils. That is why the people they promise liberty to do not have liberty.
What is the message of our devotional this morning? God is saying to us if we will be free from every evil works, we must learn how not to love the world or the things in the world. The things in the world are lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life. If these things can be erased away from our lives, we will be free from generational curses, evil altars and all that make believers in Christ run after prophets and prophetesses.
It’s my prayer that God use these words to enhance your peace and increase your dominion in the Spirit in Jesus precious name, Amen!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY
“So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” Acts 20:32 NKJV