TODAY’S DEVOTION (WEDNESDAY 10TH AUGUST 2022)
“And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” Revelation 12:13-17 KJV
WELCOME TO THE 222ND DAY OF OUR YEAR OF AMAZING GRACE!
The mercies of the LORD and His compassion has kept us alive again for another day. He has done again what no man can do.
Yes, no man can keep the other alive. Only GOD can keep all of us alive.
Let us begin this morning with Kenya, our place of primary assignment. I want to submit that as the results of the general elections comes, there will be those who will loose and those who will win. No doubt about that. But this is a contest among brothers and sisters.
In any contest among brothers and sisters, the doctrine of brotherhood should prevail not reactions that are capable of destroying the peace.
Those who win should consider the plight and interest of those who lost, and those who lost should consider the power of time to help heal the pain of losing, especially after investing so much in the race.
In my opinion, it is those who won that will help those who lost to get healed quickly, by being their brother’s keepers. I know it could be difficult going by the bitter contest in some regions, but we should allow love and brotherhood to prevail over personal victory songs like we already see among some aspirants.
May the destiny of Kenya be preserved no matter the outcome in Jesus precious name. Amen
We have been looking at the Cry of the Holy Spirit in the Holy Scriptures on spiritual fathering. This is a kingdom advance concept that may be new to some segments of the Christian faith.
For instance, while in the Roman Catholic Church, we called our priests “Reverend Fathers,” but the revelation behind fathering was unknown to us.
Personally, all I knew was the word “father” in the phrase. It did not mean anything to me. It was like a name to the man we all considered close to God and need a lot of honor and respect. In fact, we usually change our behaviors when we stand before him. We become sober!
WE PUT UP LOOKS THAT WERE NOT REALLY IN OUR TRUE CHARACTER.
Maybe, someone reading this can testify that they did the same. That was all we knew and did in response to the word father, we did not know anything more.
But as one began to grow in Christ, after salvation, we began to come into a deeper meaning of that word father. Those who led us to Christ actually fathered us into the Kingdom.
Personally, I was discipled by three different preachers of righteousness.
When it comes to salvation, I do not think one person qualify to be one’s father if you have a story like mine. I had three loving men of God as people God used to father me into the kingdom, and that is very important.
It is just that in the Charismatic world, we do not give much honor to those who led and groomed us in Christ. We only honor those who birth us into ministry as fathers. But if the one who groomed you into Chris had not done his job, you will not have met the one who birth you into ministry.
There is an Africa proverb that says “it takes a whole village to raise a Child.”
Truly, in the salvation of some, it took many spiritually fatherly people for them to become sound Children of God and be birth into ministry. Howbeit, there will always be one who stands out; who towers higher than others because of the significance of what God may have used the person to do.
In most cases, all our honor usually goes to that one, forgetting the rest who did one little thing or the other that the one who towers above them stood on to bring greater impact and significance from God to our lives on earth.
In my opinion, we should honor all of them, calling them our fathers. Because the word father means source.
They were the source of the spiritual encounters we had from God. Their fasting and prayers made that happen. But according to the apostolic doctrine, and according to the doctrine of nature, while one may have many fathers who helped in bringing one up, one has only one father whose seed one is.
The ones who made contributions could be our mentors, leaders or instructors, but the one whose seed we carry is our father.
THAT IS WHY IT IS NOT IDEAL TO HAVE MANY FATHERS.
We should only learn to honor all who made contributions to our lives as instructor-fathers. Apostle Paul puts it this way;
“For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.” 1 Corinthians 4:15 KJV
Fathering is begottening; it is a seed thing. Your father is the person who begotten you in Christian life ministry and I will explain. He is the person whose spiritual genes or seed you carry. And here is how it works;
He is ahead of you in Christ and ministry. He carries Christ and other Heavenly grace dimensions as seed in him. Then he bends the prophetic knee and birth same in you.
In other words, Christ used him to birth in you what He has birth in him. You become a seed of Christ through the seed of Christ in him. I hope you understand me!
That is why fathering should be built around the Tree of life Himself not around the need to succeed in ministry, not around the need for money or connections.
If spiritual fathering is not built around access to the Tree of Life, you will be the seed of images that look like Christ through fathering and not Christ, leading to loss of eternal relevance. You will not know when you have become a catalyst of the spirit of lawlessness.
Fathering is a seed thing. A spiritual Son’s exploits are usually the harvest or fruit of a seed planted in him by someone Christ used as a spiritual father to birth Himself in him. That is why when someone unleash an uncommon dimension in the kingdom, the first question devils and people will ask is “whose son is this?”
In other words, what seed manifested this harvest or fruit?
When David was coming from the victory place where he stood to defeat Goliath, that was the question that came form the mouth of Saul.
THE BIBLE SAYS;
“When Saul saw David going out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this youth?” And Abner said, “As your soul lives, O king, I do not know.”
So the king said, “Inquire whose son this young man is.”
Then, as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
And Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” So David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.” 1 Samuel 17:55-58 NKJV
I can’t forget when Apostle Kimani and his team sat on a TV station trying to figure out by the hand of a Nigerian preacher they brought, whose son I am. It was like Balak going to call Balaam to come curse Israel for him. I believe It will continue with other preachers doing the same to me. Bringing Nigerians to curse Israel for them.
Some even did a video and called me a bastard. I just laugh at the carnality and wickedness on display.
But all that happened after telling then to stop the use of oil and embrace the replacement for the oil, the Holy Spirit. Something that apostle Paul would have praised me for.
I counseled them to stop pouring oil on the streets and start discipling the nation instead. I pointed to them that the great commission was not a commission for sanctifying nations by pouring oil on the street.
Indeed, by their reactions it is clear that the giant of religious darkness was brought down by the LORD, and that Balak is afraid of what Christ want to do in His Church in Kenya.
But that is normal. It is not just men that usually seek answers to whose seed you are if you walk with the LORD to do things, even devils will seek answers because in the spirit realm you prosper by whose seed you are.
You are a fruit of a seed from someone’s walk and talk with GOD. Yes, you ought to be the harvest of the seeds one designed and raise to function as your spiritual father sowed even in tears.
Sometimes those God may use to make you the seed of Christ go through a lot as He transfer what He has planted in them, from their loins to your life. Look at the life of Paul and see what he went through.
That is what makes the person your father. Such a person is not your instructor but your father.
When it comes to the Christian life and ministry, you can only manifest the fruit of the seed you are. That is why, if your life is not moving forward, it is not your enemies you should blame or a system, it is the quality of the seed you are that you should look at.
WHOSE SEED, ARE YOU? THAT IS WHAT IS MAKING YOU SUCCEED OR FAIL IN LIFE.
It is not an altar or an evil pattern. The sons of Satan could not place even a curse on Israel because Israel was the seed of GOD. At one time, the seeds of the wicked ones said this about Mordechai;
“…..If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him” Esther 6:13 kjv
From this scripture it is clear that fathering is important because Spiritual warfare is a battle of seeds. It is always a battle between the seed of the righteous and the seed of the wicked. It becomes a work over for us if we are the seed of the Righteous One, Christ.
Our devotional text presents this truth in a prophetic expression. It says;
“And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” Revelation 12:13-17 KJV
The enemy is launching attacks against us as seeds of the righteous ones, using the seeds of the wicked one even in the Church. The seeds of the righteous One are depicted here as the seed of the woman.
They are depicted as those who keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. That is what a spiritual fathering that is built around the tree of life will seek to achieve in your life.
IT WILL SEEK TO MAKE YOU ONE WHO KEEPS THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST.
That is why if your spiritual father is not making you one who keeps the commandments of God and have the Testimony of Jesus Christ, in life and ministry, you are in an eternal trouble, no matter what other good thing you may be getting from the system.
The dead, burial and resurrection of Jesus and the recovery of men like Job in the Bible should tell us that in any spiritual warfare, the seed of the wicked will never prevail over the seed of the righteous.
Yes, those who keep the commandments of God and have the Testimony of Jesus Christ will never be defeated in any spiritual warfare. They may pray and fast, but it is not because of their prayer and fasting that they will come out victoriously. It is because of the person of Christ whose seed they are that they will come out victoriously.
I pray for us today that we do not carry the seed of the antichrist claiming we carry the seed of Christ.
A lot of believers cannot stand demons in battle because they are not the true seed of Christ. And they are not the True seeds of Christ because of the kind of spiritual fathers they have. They have fathers who have birth what looks like Christ in them but not really Christ.
You see that in their habits and life styles.
We say we are saved but behave like lost sinners and demons. We have no character that match our confessions. We say we are born again but have no seed of Christ in us.
Friend, we are the very seed of the preacher whose ministry we submit to. The spirit the preacher represents in truth will form its nature in us. I knew this too late. It was after I had submitted to a particular ministry and wrecked my life that I realised this truth.
I realised that if the preacher whose ministry you submit to represents the Spirit of Christ, he will present the doctrine of Christ to you, not the doctrine of altars or first born and etc. It is when he labors in the word and doctrine of Christ to form Christ in you that you can become the seed of Christ in deed.
WHEN YOU BECOME THE SEED OF CHRIST INDEED, YOU BECOME VICTORIOUS IN WARFARE WITHOUT GOING FOR WHAT THEY CALL DELIVERANCE.
God’s plan is that we all walk away from the so-called spiritual fathers, whose aim is to make people zealous for them; defending their prosperity by the misfortune of people, upholding their doctrines of altars and etc.
His plan is that we are not made zealous for some spiritual fathers who are cut off from Christ, defending their scamming ministries, upholding their prophetic witchcraft, divination and sorcery, and convincing people that their hell made ministries will set them free from curses and all they are going through.
If spiritual fathering makes you zealous for the preacher instead for Christ, you are under charismatic witchcraft.
Yes, sometimes if we are zealous for Christ, people may see us as if we are zealous for preachers who are zealous for Christ.
The truth is, anyone who is zealous for Christ will contend with any preacher who present any other doctrine apart from the doctrine of Christ and uphold preachers who uphold the doctrine of Christ.
It is my prayer that God will cut us off from spiritual fathers that lack the apostolic upbringing to form the True Christ in us and give us those who can be like Paul in our lives, laboring in word and doctrine until Christ is formed in us! Amen and amen.
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR US TODAY!
“Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth. They zealously court you, but for no good; yes, they want to exclude you, that you may be zealous for them.
But it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, and not only when I am present with you.
My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you, I would like to be present with you now and to change my tone; for I have doubts about you.” Galatians 4:16-20 NKJV