TODAY’S DEVOTION (SATURDAY 13TH AUGUST 2022)
“For thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘Once more (it is a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land; and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this temple with glory,’ says the LORD of hosts.
‘The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,’ says the LORD of hosts.
‘The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former,’ says the LORD of hosts. ‘And in this place I will give peace,’ says the LORD of hosts.” Haggai 2:6-9 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 225TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF AMAZING GRACE!
Glory be to the LORD God for giving us another day. It is out of His mercies that we are not consumed, for His mercies fail not.
Day unto day we have been loaded with His benefits.
As we sit before Him to be taught, He waters our lives with His presence. He visits our lives like the earth. We are sure, with all the manifestations of His love, our year will be crowned with His goodness.
The Bible says;
“You visit the earth and water it, you greatly enrich it; The river of God is full of water; You provide their grain, for so You have prepared it.
You water its ridges abundantly, you settle its furrows; You make it soft with showers, you bless its growth.
You crown the year with Your goodness, and Your paths drip with abundance. Psalm 65:9-11 NKJV
This scripture is true of us. The Cry of His Holy Spirit has made it true in our lives, even as we look at matters of spiritual fathering. It is my prayer that they will produce more of the righteousness of GOD in our lives in Jesus precious name. Amen!
The importance of what we are looking at cannot be overemphasized so long as God’s activities of the now are concerned. God will use a generation of righteous fathers, whose lives are established around the Tree of life to lay righteous foundations for what He wants to do with a generation of righteous sons.
Everything from start to finish, will be on the foundation, culture and tradition of righteousness. That is why if there is lawlessness in what we call fathering, we should be sure we are dealing with something else.
The main evil that is happening today through fathering is the transfer of the spirit of lawlessness from one generation to another. The spirit that allows you to have everything you desire but nothing of what God desires for your life.
YES, THE SPIRIT OF LYING WONDERS AND MIRACLES THAT PUSHES ONE FURTHER AWAY FROM THE NARROW WAY THAT LEADS TO LIFE.
A spirit that makes one place value on gaining the whole world and losing their souls. The spirit of wickedness that multiplies itself from generation to generation; promoting the use of antichrist systems of ministry and not allowing people to come into the fullness of GOD for their lives.
One major thing righteous son must check before submitting to fathers is the presence or absence of the mystery of lawlessness that is at work in many fathers today.
It’s clear that a lot of fathers have become catalyst or vectors of this spirit. Therefore, it is not disrespect to check but maturity. When you become mature in the spirit as a son, you will be able to chose what is good and refuse what is evil.
If you cannot look at fathers and know what is good for you and chose it, and sense what is not good and refuse it, you are not a son but a puppet.
Ideal fathers look for sons who can look at them and make a choice for their destinies. Those are the sons who are easy to raise, not the puppets who have no direction in live and see no evil in what their fathers are doing.
Puppets calling themselves sons only look for the success that the fathers have gathered to use for their selfish gains, hence flattering them or singing their praise. They cannot labor; they just look for father’s congregations to inherit. Those are not sons but puppets.
In their desire to use what the fathers have gathered over the years to grow their ministries, they become blind to what they should not be blind to, and present in their preaching even those the lost world know as scammers, to be fathers of the faith.
THEY DO NOT KNOW THAT BY SO DOING, THEY ARE SHUTTING THE DYING WORLD AWAY FROM THE FAITH AND MAKING SURE THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH OUR GOD.
You send a sinner further to hell when you acknowledge a renown wicked soul in ministry as a man of God. When you acknowledge a drunk, an adulterer, a murderer and a scammer they all know to be a servant of God, you shut the doors of the kingdom to the lost sinners.
Sons who cannot discern if their spiritual fathers are still alive in Christ or dead before submitting to them, will fail GOD like the young prophet from Judah. The things of God move from glory to greater glory, and if that order will be maintained, a generation of greater glory must look into the previous generation to know where it failed GOD and amend their ways.
We must not be misguided by the need to be respectful and become a reproach before the LORD.
It is like the relationship between a woman and her father. She must not allow him to sleep with her because she wants to be respectful. That is nonsense. Do not allow anyone to use the need to be respectful to manipulate and destroy your destiny or become quiet on matters of morality, godliness or truth.
You should make sure you do not have other gods before you!
If the need to be respectful is used to manipulate a son generation, that generation will end up being eaten by lions like the young prophet was. It will hinder the glory of the later house from breaking forth.
A portion of our devotional text says;
“The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former,’ says the LORD of hosts. ‘And in this place, I will give peace,’ says the LORD of hosts.” Haggai 2:9 NKJV
If the glory of the latter house will be greater than the former, the generation of the later house must come into recognition of the spiritual state of the generation of the former house, like David did in the case of Saul.
A son generation that does not know how to improve on what a father generation has done, by looking at where they failed GOD and amend their ways, will become a Manasseh generation.
Ordinarily, we were not supposed to look at where fathers have failed God because it seems out of order, but the story of the Old prophet was not put in the Bible to fill up the space.
IT WAS PUT THERE TO SHOW A SON GENERATION THE NEED TO ALWAYS CARRY OUT A CHECK ON A FATHER GENERATION.
The message of today is simple, do not be a puppet in matters of spiritual fathering. Sadly, matters of spiritual fathering have been exalted higher than matters of Heavenly fathering. This is because of the witchcraft that has been introduced into it.
If you take spiritual fathers to be infallible, you have made them deities.
You must learn to carry a check on spiritual fathers by beaming Bible truths on what they are doing. That will help you to see if they are still active in the LORD’s army or dismissed altogether. It will help you know if they are still alive or dead in Christ.
If you allow the need to be respectful to misguide you, you will not carry out this check, hence perishing like the young prophet from Judah!
The rest of our devotional text says;
“For thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘Once more (it is a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land; and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this temple with glory,’ says the LORD of hosts.
‘The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,’ says the LORD of hosts.
‘The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former,’ says the LORD of hosts. ‘And in this place I will give peace,’ says the LORD of hosts.” Haggai 2:6-9 NKJV
This scripture has helped us to understand the desire of the LORD to give us monies to use for kingdom advance, by sending His power across the nations to shake things up so they funds can be released.
But there is a prophetic photograph in it of what awaits our generation – the shaking of the holy nation itself (the church) so that what is not established in GOD’s will and way can go down. This includes fathering systems that are established in men’s ways, human and demonic traditions, to take down those GOD has selected to birth the glory of the later house.
There is a fathering system that is blind folding their sons not to become part of the glory of the later house. The sons of the old prophet in 1 Kings 13 were of such breed.
They shut their eyes to what their father had become, and made themselves instruments for bringing the young prophet from Judah to the slaughter house of their father’s corrupt anointing. The Bible says;
“Now an old prophet dwelt in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel; they also told their father the words which he had spoken to the king.
And their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” For his sons had seen which way the man of God went who came from Judah.
Then he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.”
So they saddled the donkey for him; and he rode on it, and went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak.
Then he said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” And he said, “I am.” 1 Kings 13:11-14 NKJV
As you watch for spiritual fathers who have become weapons of destruction in the hands of the spirit of lawlessness, do not forget that their sons have the capacity of bringing you to the slaughter house of their fathers corrupt anointing.
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY!
“Now it happened, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back; and he cried out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, “Thus says the LORD: ‘Because you have disobeyed the word of the LORD, and have not kept the commandment which the LORD your God commanded you,
but you came back, ate bread, and drank water in the place of which the LORD said to you, “Eat no bread and drink no water,” your corpse shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.’ ”
So it was, after he had eaten bread and after he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey for him, the prophet whom he had brought back.
When he was gone, a lion met him on the road and killed him. And his corpse was thrown on the road, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the corpse. 1 Kings 13:20-24 NKJV