TODAY’S DEVOTION (WEDNESDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER 2022)
“Now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be as a witness for the time to For this is a rebellious people, faithless and lying sons, children who will not hear the law and instruction of the Lord; Who [virtually] say to the seers [by their conduct],
See not! and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us what is right! Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceitful illusions. Get out of the true way, turn aside out of the path, cease holding up before us the Holy One of Israel.
Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: Because you despise and spurn this [My] word and trust in cunning and oppression, in crookedness and perverseness, and rely on them,
Therefore this iniquity and guilt will be to you like a broken section of a high wall, bulging out and ready [at some distant day] to fall, whose crash will [then] come suddenly and swiftly, in an instant. Isaiah 30:8-13 AMPC
WELCOME TO THE 257TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF AMAZING GRACE!
Welcome to another glorious day from the LORD. It is the LORD’s doing, and it is marvelous to our souls.
Oh Yes, We have seen the LORD’s goodness, His mercies and compassion. Hallelujah!
Day unto day we see His mercies and experience His compassion. Indeed, the steadfastness of our LORD never ceases. His mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning. Yes, new every morning. Great is His faithfulness. Hallelujah!
One of the greatest things you will learn about God is how He tie our livelihood on His own faithfulness, steadfastness, and consistency.
Like the Sun that keep shining and the rain falling, despite what men have been turning into, so is our God. There had been no day the Sun failed to shine because of men’s sins and wickedness, no day has the rain decided “I will not fall again on planet earth.
That is how the faithfulness, steadfastness and consistency of our God is. He has never withdrawn His mercies from the human race because of our sins and wickedness.
He has had mercy on whoever calls upon His name, even if it was an Ahab that killed a Naboth to take his vineyard, or a woman caught in Adultery, or a David that killed a man to cover his sexual sin with his wife, or you and I who dare live sinful lives from time to time.
However, none of that is a divine endorsement of our sinful ways and wickedness deeds.
WE MUST ALL UNDERSTAND THAT.
The Bible says;
‘The LORD is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’ Numbers 14:18 NKJV
His longsuffering of not dealing with us according to our sins and wickedness is not a divine endorsement of our sinful living and wicked deeds. That is what this scripture presents.
So, if you commit a terrible sin and God did not move immediately against you, it is not a divine endorsement or a blind eye. The New Testament described the reason for it as “GOD not wiling that any should perish.” The word says;
“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9 NKJV
Sadly, many consider this act of God’s faithfulness, steadfast love and mercies, or consistent compassion as either an endorsement of their sins or wickedness, or a sign that whatever they may be doing no longer matters to God since Christ has died on the cross.
In fact, they develop dangerous heresies from it and use them to keep strengthening their hands and the hand of others in sin. That is why many of us lead lives that are not pleasing to the LORD despite His mercies towards us.
We teach people not to talk about their sins and treat the talk about it as being judgmental; we call it a ministry of condemnation.
Off course no one wants to be judgmental or condemning others, hence maintaining seals lips despite the wickedness being witnessed. They forget that in every generation God will always raise witnesses for Himself; prophetic fingers whose jobs will be to do exactly what these set of Christians call “being judgmental” or “the ministry of condemnation.”
Yes, either we like it or not, in every generation, there will be men and women God will raise to operate like Micah. The ministries of these set of apostles and prophets, evangelists, pastors or teachers will not be palatable to all in the clergy or the laity who have sold themselves to a life of lawlessness, unethical conduct, sin or wickedness.
THEIR MINISTRIES WILL BE HEAVILY ATTACKED AND SPOKEN ILL OF BY THE PREACHERS WHO ARE MUTILATING OR ADULTERATING THE WORD.
They will be called names by those who are not holding the word of God in the progressive truth that the LORD presents it to be held for the now.
I have heard people try to counter the word by saying truth is not progressive. You see, the Truth is unchangeable just as God is unchangeable. But the truth is progressive because God is progressive.
God is progressive because of His dispensational moves and prophetic nature, and He is truth. So, to say His truth is not progressive, you are displaying ignorance.
Not holding the progressive truth of God is the reason for the errors and lying spirits in most departments of what we call Church. But we will leave that for another day!
People who say we should not talk about sin and wickedness must understand that each generation will have its own set of Micah apostles, prophets, evangelist, pastors and teachers. They will have people God will raised to speak against the falsehood of seers and diviners, declaring to Jacob his transgression and Israel his sins.
The man Micah said;
“So, the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners abashed; indeed they shall all cover their lips; For there is no answer from God.”
But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord, and of justice and might, To declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin. Micah 3:7-8 NKJV
However, as earlier stated, this breed of ministers will be accused of dividing the body of Christ. They will be called hateful and condemning. They will be called judgmental and all that. The enemy will raise people to tell people not to hear or listen to them. Preachers will tell their listeners not to pay attention to such ministers.
PEOPLE WILL CALL THEM DEPUTY JESUS, BUT THEY WILL REMAIN STRONG IN BATTLE.
You see, the reason the enemy raise even preachers to speak ill and persuade people not to listen to the present-day Micah set of preachers (whose job remains to expose falsehood, and tell Jacob her sins and Israel her transgression) is because he knows what the Holy Spirit can accomplish in the lives of spiritually sick souls with their teachings.
It is what the Spirit of God place in the hearts of a present-day Micah to say or teach that the Spirit of God will use to rescue souls that are sinking in personal sins and heading to hell, even in church.
Understand that the Holy Spirit wants to convict men of their sins and drive them to the threshing floor by raising people to talk to them about it. So, if you join the derail Christians we have today, to persecute, malign, ill-treat and maltreat any Micah preacher He may using to do that in our days, you will have yourself to blame when time comments.
There are people who will never come to repentance until someone is raised by the LORD to talk to them about their sins and tell them something about their transgressions. That is not the ministry of condemnation, it is the ministry of consecration. That is not being judgmental, it is being redemptive.
The set of Preachers God raises in every generation to do what Micah did will be equipped by His grace and Truth to be able to see into things in God’s word that others cannot see. They will be God’s seers in that respect. They will not operate like Satan’s seers who only see into people’s lives.
They will be seers who see into God hidden word in the Holy Scriptures to deal with the hidden secrets of men’s heart.
Sadly, they will be told by those who have sold themselves to a life of sin and wickedness – the faithless and lying sons of GOD, “See not! Do not prophesy to us such words that you see in the Holy Scriptures! Prophesy to us smooth things!” The faithless and lying sons will by their conduct do all that.
THEY WILL HATE SEEING THE ANY MICAH OF TODAY PREACH, TEACH OR PROPHESY!
They will stir hate against them with the aim of using such actions to push them out of the true way, and influence them to turn aside out of the paths the LORD has placed them.
They will be attacked in other to cause them to cease from holding up before the Church the Holy One of Israel, so that His ways can be remembered. It will be vicious attack against the Micahs of this generation so that our generation will continue to forget or be ignorant of the ways of God!
Our devotional text put it this way;
“Now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be as a witness for the time to come forevermore.
For this is a rebellious people, faithless and lying sons, children who will not hear the law and instruction of the Lord; Who [virtually] say to the seers [by their conduct],
See not! and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us what is right! Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceitful illusions. Get out of the true way, turn aside out of the path, cease holding up before us the Holy One of Israel.
Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: Because you despise and spurn this [My] word and trust in cunning and oppression, in crookedness and perverseness, and rely on them,
Therefore this iniquity and guilt will be to you like a broken section of a high wall, bulging out and ready [at some distant day] to fall, whose crash will [then] come suddenly and swiftly, in an instant. Isaiah 30:8-13 AMPC
A major accusation I have seen labeled against the set of preachers raised by the LORD in our age to be His Micah is the accusation of promoting sin consciousness.
What those who believe such accusations do not know is, if talking about, and firmly condemning falsehood, sin and transgressions, promote sin consciousness by the definition of perverted grace preachers, then the LORD would not have left us a Bible.
EVERY BIBLE STUDENT KNOW THAT THE STRONGLY TALKS ABOUT AND FIRMLY CONDEMNS SIN AND WICKEDNESS.
What does it mean to be sin conscious, because it has not been defined properly for many years.
The Bible sense of sin consciousness is different. It is being aware of the power and presence of sin in our lives so that we can lead a life that pleases God by relying on the power of His grace and sanctity of His truth all the time. That is what makes living a Christian life without being conscious of sin very dangerous.
When you experience the ministry of a Micah, you will become sin conscious according to the Biblical definition of it, and respond by going to the threshing floor.
IT IS THE ABSENCE OF MEN LIKE MICAH IN SO MANY CHURCHES THAT BREEDS A LIFE OF SIN, WICKEDNESS AND DECEPTION.
We have been looking at the Cry of the Holy Spirit on Biblical Fasting. One of the major things that inspire Biblical fasting is a push to go to the threshing floor after experiencing the ministry of Micah.
I have shared repeatedly that the threshing is the place of unending flow of GOD in a person’s life.
If you want to lead a life that is full of the flow of God, especially through Biblical fasting, then you must open your heart up to the ministry of a present-day Micah placed around your life by the LORD. The Bible says the Threshing floor shall be full of vats of God’s presence and the wheat of the word that comes through deep encounters with the LORD.
If your life has been dry and empty of the constant flow of God’s presence, there is either a sin or transgression that is hindering you. You will need a Micah to point what it is to you and send you to the Threshing floor.
If there has been no move of God in your personal life, there may not be a sin in your life hindering it. There could just be another form of transgression. Sometimes, we will never know what it is until we sit under our Micah.
There is a way we can be blinded to the things we may be doing that are not letting the Presence of the LORD to constantly flow in our lives. The job of the Micah preachers is to help us find them out.
Understand that GOD’s Micah in your life will show you things about you that will lead to you cleaning your life up and aligning your ways with the LORD.
May our generation never lack their ministries! Amen!
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY!
Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I tell you.”
So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three-day journey in extent.
And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.
Then word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; do not let them eat, or drink water.
But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?
Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.” Jonah 3:1-10 NKJV