TODAY’S DEVOTION (THURSDAY 21ST April 2022)
“receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls. Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you,
searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.
To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things which angels desire to look into. 1 Peter 1:9-12 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 111th DAY OF OUR YEAR OF AMAZING GRACE
The grace of God is indeed amazing in all of its ramifications. For 111th days we have slept and woke up even when we do not deserve it. Grace is indeed getting what we do not deserve, while mercy is not getting what we deserve. This can only be found in the Throne of the one and only true GOD.
In the days of our biological roots, when Africa was filled with the darkness of idolatry, I don’t think our fathers had it this good with those demons they worshipped. It was a no mercy, no grace galore.
Those evil spirits really showed them what Satan is not capable of.
Once you break their laws you are in for it, irrespective of the repentance. The gods never showed mercy. They never demonstrated grace because such beautiful acts of love do not exist in the nature of Satan.
The kingdom of darkness does not have any form of light, and grace and mercy are two of the many forms of divine light that can shine in the darkness of sin, iniquity and trespass, without the darkness comprehending it.
Yes, they can shine in the darkness of our evil and sinful deeds, whenever they spot repentance, restraining God from giving us the punishment we deserve, and preventing Him from withholding the blessings we do not deserve.
But it was not so with the deities our biological roots served. That was why they left them with curses, and all kinds of evil occurrences that are still speaking in the lives of many today, even when they no longer bow to the gods they bowed.
The consequences of serving God is generational, and the consequences of serving Satan is also generational. Just as God is a faithful giver of blessings so is Satan is a faithful giver of oppression and curses. Once he starts with one generation he will continue to the next until they find God, and begin to serve Him. That is why the doctrine of devils has never blessed anyone.
We have been on a 30-day journey with the Cry of the Spirit on Doctrine. We have been looking at the doctrine of Christ on spiritual life. But today we want to launch a bit into the ministry of the prophets because the new Testament version of the ministry of the prophets is designed to unveil to us the doctrine of Christ.
When I got here in Nigeria few days ago, some pastors who knew I was around by information of the birds of the air, so to speak, came to see me. We were sharing with some of them and I heard some amazing things.
ONE OF THEM TOLD ME OF HOW A PROPHET OF DARKNESS SEEN AS A MAN OF GOD GAVE A MIRACLE TO SOMEONE VERY CLOSE TO HIM.
He was told how she was dying of an ailment, and how the man of ‘God’ sent one of the instructions the bible call the doctrine of demons, to the ailing woman. Amazing the woman was healed instantly as soon as she obeyed. It left the family astonished.
This made the whole unsaved but ‘saved’ family to believe in the prophet.
Then the prophet who is now seen by them as a mam of God, stood on that healing to release other prophecies that almost destroyed the life and ministry of this preacher who was talking to me (he was related to the woman who went seeking help from the prophet).
Then the LORD came through for them.
They told me how He used what He have been doing by our hands in Kenya to save them from the death and destruction that was coming from the prophet through indirect contact with us. But the woman who was healed by the prophet suddenly died many weeks after her healing.
Child of God, that is the texture and nature of miracles from Satan. The Bible says;
“So, Jesus said again, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that I Myself am the Door for the sheep. All others who came [as such] before Me are thieves and robbers, but the [true] sheep did not listen to and obey them.
I am the Door; anyone who enters in through Me will be saved (will live). He will come in and he will go out [freely], and will find pasture.
The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).
I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd risks and lays down His [own] life for the sheep. John 10:7-11 AMPC
This scripture is one of the best scriptures in the Bible. It is full of life and revelation of the texture of God’s kingdom and whatever God does on earth and the nature of our LORD and savior Jesus Christ. It tells us so much of what we will never see in any part of the kingdom of darkness, especially the part that work miracles.
From this scripture, we can see that no matter what miracle people get from a prophet or prophetesses of darkness, it will never make them prophets and prophetesses of light. The agenda of Satan still remains to kill, to steal and to destroy. Even when giving one a miracle they so desire, the agenda will still manifest even after the miracle.
ONLY JESUS HAS AN AGENDA OF LIFE FOR THE HUMAN RACE.
Even when we see death in our lives, His agenda of life remains unchangeable. He releases life by the hands of His apostles, prophets, evangelist, pastors and teachers. He also releases life by the hands of those who call upon His name. No preacher of darkness can release such life, even when unleashing miracles to the oppressed.
Sadly, despite Satan’s unchangeable agenda, people still go to his prophets and prophetesses for help, especially those who strongly present themselves as GOD’s servants. They go there because they see the miracles performed on lives and advertised everywhere but do not see the approaching death and destruction in the whole thing.
Only Christ give miracles by laying down His life for us. Satan gives miracles by taking away our lives. Don’t forget that.
I reiterate again that Satan does not have an agenda of life. He is not the good shepherd. Jesus called all his agents and prophets “Thieves who came in by the back door.” He said they come to kill, to steal and to destroy. Today, they do all that through generosity, miracles, signs and wonders. And people look at their generosity, miracles, signs and wonders but do not look at the death in them.
Genuine prophets of God today are different from prophets of old in prophetic delivery and patterns, because the agenda is to give life by forming Christ in men. So, they carry Christ in their voices and they bring you to the foot of the Cross where you are trained to live a Christ centered life. They do not major their ministries on miracles and prophecies like the prophets of darkness do.
They are able ministers of the New Testament who major their ministries in changing the moral landscapes of nations, cities, families and individuals through the Spirit of prophecy. They execute the agenda of Christ (the agenda of Life) by releasing living truths into the hearts of men as propelled by the Spirit of prophecies. They foretell and forth-tell standing on the foundation of the more sure word of prophecy, the Bible.
SO, THEIR MINISTRIES DO NOT HAVE THE TEXTURE AND NATURE OF DIVINATION AND SORCERY.
It has the texture and nature of the Spirit of Prophecy. The Bible says the Testimony of Jesus Christ is the Spirit of prophecy. It has the nature and texture of the Testimony of Jesus Christ. Which brings us again to the subject of sound doctrine – the doctrine of Christ.
The doctrine of Christ is the Testimony of Jesus Christ executing His agenda of life by bringing life to the lost. True ministry of the Prophet will breath life into hearts by using the Testimony of Jesus Christ. It will unveil sound doctrine to us by unveiling the doctrine of Christ, and not in words which human wisdom teaches, but in words which the Holy Ghost teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Do not forget, the prophetic anointing is an unveiling anointing.
Sadly, many do not understand this. They do not understand that prophetic ministry has changed with the resurrection of Christ. They do not know that the five-fold ministry gifts now execute the great commission (discipling the nations), hence still carrying prophetic ministry the way Isaiah and the rest of the prophets of Bible days did.
They do not know that they come under the spirit of Baal by doing that, because all prophets of darkness do prophetic ministry the way the old testament prophets unleashed theirs. They do it because Satan, the power behind them, do not have his own patterns. He cannot create patterns. He only photocopy patterns (Gods patterns) in unleashing his agenda.
So, he will follow the pattern of God to make Himself God before us all.
For instance, Isaiah prophesied for three years walking naked on the streets of Jerusalem just to show Israel that they were naked in the Spirit. Jeremiah at one time made yokes to show to the people what the LORD is saying to them. Moses used a rod while in and out of Egypt.
God would later request that he put the rod in the ark, as a result so that no other prophet will use it in ministry.
Moses did not only use rods, he used water, sprinkled blood, sacrificed animals, built the Tabernacle and did so much prophetic similitude. Him and all the Old Testament prophets had just one Agenda, to prophesy and create paths for the coming messiah.
SATAN CAN COPY ALL THESE PATTERNS TO BRING HIS WORD TO ANYONE TODAY. AND HE IS DOING IT INTELLIGENTLY.
There was this prophet who almost stripped himself naked before the whole church to bring a word of prophecy to someone. They call it prophetic similitude and twist Hosea 12:13 to demonstrate the deception. But they do not know that the Old Testament is the will of God (Christ) concealed. And that whatever the prophets did then is not to be repeated.
When the New Testament Prophetic Anointing comes, it comes to help us unveil what was concealed in the prophetic ministries of the Old Testament Prophets . That is why it will not copy paste what they did calling it prophetic similitude.
Any prophetic anointing that copy paste what those guys did is not of Christ. It is the spirit of Nehushtan in operation.
Those Old Testament Prophets were propelled by the Spirit of Christ to inquire, search carefully and prophesy through prophetic similitude, the grace of GOD (Christ) that was to come, and has now appeared to all men.
OUR JOB, AS NEW TESTAMENT PROPHETS, IS TO UNVEIL WHAT THEY CONCEALED IN THEIR PROPHETIC MINISTRIES.
We are to unveil the sufferings of Christ and the glories that will follow that they concealed in their prophetic similitudes. Yes, everything hidden in what they said and did, is to be unveiled by the Spirit of Prophecy working in the New Testament church, and God’s holy apostles and prophets for the end time.
Our devotional text for the day says;
“receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls. Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you,
searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.
To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things which angels desire to look into. 1 Peter 1:9-12 NKJV
They ministered in their generation birthing things that concerns our generation through similitudes. Whatever the LORD revealed to them was for us not for them. The job of present-day prophets is to make what was revealed to them for us known to us.
For instance, it is to tell us that the use of Oil by Moses and the Prophets of old is now obsolete; it was to announce the arrival of the Holy Spirit, and that now that He has arrived, we should no longer use it.
Yes, the present-day prophets of God will unveil the mysteries behind the Tabernacle of Moses, the rod that was in his hands, the manna in the golden pot, the animal sacrifices, the tablet of stones and etc.
THEY WILL NOT TO COPY PASTE WHAT MOSES DID.
There is so much on this beautiful discourse that will help us to understand the doctrine of Christ that brings life for the lost to the lost. But enough has already being shared for the day.
As we bring this to a close, understand that there can be no proper teaching of the doctrine of Christ without the prophetic anointing, released today as the Testimony of Jesus Christ. The prophetic anointing released as the Testimony of Jesus Christ is what is missing today in the lives and ministries of most present-day famed prophets.
They divine and foretell but cannot get hearts established in the doctrine of Christ.
That is what makes them part of the end time prophets of Baal, because Baal’s agenda is to turn hearts away from the true GOD using astonishing prophetic deliveries that comes as on point revelations and amazing miracles.
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY
“Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”
And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your ]stay here in fear; knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.” 1 Peter 1:13-20 NKJV