TODAY’S DEVOTION (WEDNESDAY 6TH April 2022)
“I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
But if they had stood in My counsel, And had caused My people to hear My words, Then they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their doings.” Jeremiah 23:21-22 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 96TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF AMAZING GRACE
Glory to GOD almighty! Today is a great day in our family! We celebrate the woman who the LORD has made the matriarch of my lineage. It is my Wife’s’ Birthday today and I want you to join me in celebrating this amazon and woman of valor.
I remember when we first came here for work, it was so unpromising and hopeless but she never deterred. She remained resolute and committed to the course. Sometimes she was stronger than me in faith having gone through a lot in life and ministry. She indeed has being a woman of valor, despite some challenges we have faced.
I call her woman of valor because it takes a warrior to marry a warrior.
The things we have seen in this battle field can send any average woman back home to grow farms instead of being in the battle field. When we are talking about women who can stand in prayer and fasting, long enough until hell shift base, you will not do history a favor if you do not include her name.
I cannot forget the lives of those who have been shaped for GOD by her influence, and those whose prayer lives have been kindled. May the LORD GOD continue to keep her for Himself and use her to His glory in Jesus precious name!
As stated, few days back, a song writer once said
“the steadfastness of the LORD, never ceases. His mercies never come to an end. They are new Every morning, new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness, oh LORD, great is thy faithfulness.”
When I look at the battles that have raged and still raging, Indeed, this song sums up all about our lives in this apostolic mission field.
There have been very bad prophecies about me, my family, her and us, but we have also had a very good God by our side.
It’s very shocking sometimes when People who know nothing about my warfare try to prophesy to me or make absolute comments about our lives, then come out with judgments that are very provocative. They forget that we have one who is the judge of all.
It takes God to be able to deal with people who know nothing about your past, but are trying to shape your future, using distorted stories from those who wanted to ruin your life and ministry in the guise of marriage. That has been part of my battle.
It is also disheartening when I see People who know nothing about the marks of the LORD Jesus Christ on me, trying to prophesy about my future, issuing out bleak and inglorious prophecies.
BUT WHO IS HE WHO SAY AND IT COME TO PASS WHEN THE LORD HAS NOT SPOKEN?
Indeed, if the LORD has not been with us like a mighty terrible one, we would have been made food for them. But blessed be the LORD who have not given us as food to their teeth. Our God will keep using His marvelous helps to prove them wrong until we fulfill our days, if Christ tarries.
Our lives are a testimony that only a good God can frustrate bad prophecies spoken concerning you.
Some of the prophecies were full of facts that would have scared anyone, but I did not see truth in any of them. The people were just driven by hate, unclean spirits, and etc. to speak. Some keyed into the witchcraft on their flesh to prophesy.
I have come to learn that factual lying prophecies are some of the worst weapons of darkness and can make you believe a lie and bring you to the place of following directives of the evil one, but taking everything be God.
God may not even speak to you at that time to counter them. What you have known in His word is what will speak to you. Which means, if there is nothing in your spirit, you will just be following them like a fool.
That brings us to the subject of our 30-day voyage with the Cry of the Spirit – the subject of doctrine. If your heart is not established on sound doctrine, you will not be able to overcome factual prophecies from lying spirits.
The truth is, factual prophecies from lying spirits are a sword aimed at your heart. If you do not treat them that way and go after those speaking them with the weapon of prayer, they will sink you.
You will not just need prayer but the sword of the Spirit and the shield of faith created in your heart by sound doctrine. That is why we want to look at the role sound doctrines play in helping is overcome lying prophecies, especially factual personal prophecy from lying spirits.
ONE OF THE MOST POTENT WEAPON IN THE SPIRIT REALM, IS THE WEAPON OF LYING PROPHECIES THAT CARRY FACTS IN THEM.
That is why in the days of the Bible, people who brought such prophecies were killed. They were killed to demonstrate how much God hates their activities, and how we should deal with them.
These days we do not kill them physically, we kill the spirit they bring.
They killed them then because they had no power to bind demons. Today we have the power, so we can neutralize and kill the spirits they bring using sound doctrine.
The spirit that is in charge of the department of hell that manufacture lying prophecies, most times using factual things, is called the spirit of Jezebel, and we will come to that shortly. That is why most people Satan uses to aim that sword at us are women.
Some of them appear morally chaste and spiritual deep but are unclean at heart and dark in their souls.
I have received a lot of prophecies from quiet a number of them. I had to send one away from the church recently, and others are on their way out. They are poor, filthy, dark in the soul, but full of dreams, visions, and prophecies. The worst of all is, we were deceived that they belonged to the LORD until they begin to manifest their fruits.
Do not forget, the young prophet from Judah was killed because of a lying prophecy that carried facts in it.
The young man was naïve and believed the prophecies of the Old Prophet and lost his life. That is why personally, I burn with a holy anger each time I see old prophets around. They are very dangerous to any young generation God is raising to clean the mess they created.
We are in warfare and many have not realized that Satan also has his own version of the sword of the spirit, which he do launch from time to time against the righteous in forms of prophecies. Once you believe or obey the directives from them, you will become a slave in the spirit realm, following the unclean spirit behind them.
THE BIBLE MADE IT CLEAR THAT FALSEHOOD CAN ONLY BE KNOWN BY ITS FRUITS; NOT ITS LEAVES OR SEEDS.
Jesus said;
“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 thorn-bushes 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
Sometimes when we read this scripture our minds go to the preachers who all know to be false prophets. During those times we forget that the warning of the LORD in this scripture is about all forms of falsehood in the Church, either from those in the clergy or those in the laity. And it made it clear that we will only be able to recognize them by their fruits not their leaves.
Do not forget, you do not see the fruit of a tree when it is still a seed. Meaning, until the people begin to bear their evil fruits, we will be deceived to treat them as warriors of GOD.
In other words, when they are at the seed stage, we will call them brethren. When they begin to grow their leaves that seems to be giving healing, we will call them children of God. But when they begin to bear fruits, that is when we will begin to know, “these are not part of us; these are an extension of Satan.” It is through sound doctrine that we recognize them finally.
With what we have experienced so far, I will say indeed, these are days of lying spirits.
At this point, let me show you something that will be of help!
BIBLE PROPHECIES SPOKE ABOUT THE SECOND COMING OF THE SPIRIT OF ELIJAH.
If there is going to be the second coming of the Spirit of GOD in sanctified vessels the way He worked in Elijah, then know that there will be the second coming of the prophets of Baal and Ashtoreth, and the spirit of Jezebel and Athaliah will also be here because these four are always together and are a formidable team.
In Bible days these four almost eliminated the coming of the messiah through spiritual infiltration. Baal spread lawlessness by giving out deliverance and economic prosperity, Athaliah wanted to kill the seed that was to continue the lineage that God was building to bring for the messiah, hence killing the royal seed in the palace.
Ashtoreth or Asherah was the god of sexual immorality who activities desecrated God’s holy people through temple prostitution and ritual sex. So, this team of four really created havoc in Israel in Bible days. But just as Heaven dealt with them then, GOD has a plan for them now.
For instance, God’s package of judgment for the spirit of Jezebel, which loves usurping authority and being in charge, sometimes by dishing out factual but lying prophecies, so that leadership or followership will submit to it, is contain in Christ’s admonition to the corrupt church in the book of revelation. He said to it;
“Nevertheless, I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.
And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds.
I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works. Revelation 2:20-23 NKJV
This scripture presented to us God’s way of dealing with the spirit of Jezebel as it sought to use out rightly lying prophecies or factual prophecies from lying spirits to neutralize us.
IT SAYS I WILL KILL HER CHILDREN WITH THE SWORD. HER CHILDREN ARE HER FRUITS. AND BY THEIR FRUITS THEY ARE KNOWN.
The sword the LORD will use to kill is the sword of sound doctrine – the doctrine of Christ. You must understand that.
God will use sound teachings and instructions from the Spirit of prophecy, which is the Testimony of Jesus Christ, to neutralize Jezebel and all she aims at His Church. That also tells us what will happen where there are no sound doctrines; the spirit will operate successfully and unchallenged.
I have been in church groups and prayer teams where this spirit operates. You see one person giving prophecies and everyone lining up to receive. Others go from house to house, dishing out dreams and prophecies to ignorant people or fellow church members.
Now that we are in the days of text messages, many now use their phones.
They will begin by saying they are praying for you while others will begin by sending text messages of unsolicited prayers. As soon as you respond, your journey into their mouths will begin.
Our devotional text says;
“I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
But if they had stood in My counsel, And had caused My people to hear My words, Then they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their doings.” Jeremiah 23:21-22 NKJV
Anyone God has not sent, who goes about prophesying to people, sharing dreams or interpreting it, or praying and bringing a word from ‘God,’ is a bullet in the hands of the enemy looking for a righteous soul to destroy.
There are so many of such bullets especially here in Kenya where we live and minister. And other nations are plagued with even much more. The aim of those bullets from Satan is to neutralize us.
For instance, when they bring a word that creates panic, you will seek solution from them. Then they give you the solution and you become their slaves in the spirit realm.
Once you are their slave, they will begin to neutralize you completely.
That is why God promised us that He will give us pastors after His heart who will feed us with knowledge and understanding, not preachers who will be prophesying recklessly on us, or seemingly spiritually deep church members who will be praying for us, or sending text messages of encouragement, or prophecies to us.
I believe enough to use in adding to the building block of your faith has been shared.
We must understand that Sound doctrine is what you should go for if you do not want to be a victim of deception this end time. One pastor after God’s heart is all you need. Yes, someone who can feed you with sound doctrine is all you need, not a chain of prayer warriors or a seemingly deep and spiritual brother or sister out there.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!
“Return, O backsliding children,” says the LORD; “for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
“Then it shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land in those days,” says the LORD, “that they will say no more, ‘The ark of the covenant of the LORD.’ It shall not come to mind, nor shall they remember it, nor shall they visit it, nor shall it be made anymore.
“At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem. No more shall they follow[c] the dictates of their evil hearts. Jeremiah 3:14-17 NKJV