TODAY’S DEVOTION (THURSDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER 2023)
“These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
“For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error.
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.
For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.” 2 Peter 2:17-21 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 250TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF SIGNS AND WONDERS
I did not say 250TH hour, but 250th day. If you multiply that by the 24 hours that makes a day, you will know how many hours the God of all flesh, has kept you and I alive and well, this year alone.
Child of God, let us appreciate God. A heart of gratitude will keep us afloat even in the midst of the worst storms of life! Let us be thankful. Being thankful to God, for at least keeping us alive and helping us to breath, is a seed that brings more days as a harvest.
This morning there is a word for us from the LORD – a word to bless us as we face the day. It is a season of schooling in the things of God.
The only schooling that will continue in eternity is schooling in the things of God. The Bible makes it clear that even the angels of God in heaven, school themselves in the revelation of who God is by the moments – they do that by just observing His glory and screaming “Holy, Holy, Holy!”
Sadly, many in church today do not really know who Christ is, or what his ways are, because of the absence of proper schooling in the things of God in their faith!
So many have not been schooled in the things of God, that is why most do not know the ways of the LORD. Most are serving the LORD without knowing His ways. They gave their lives to a Christ whose ways they do not know.
It is really dangerous to give your life to a Christ whose ways you do not know! That is what makes schooling in the things of God very vital to the Christian faith, and ultimately the survival of the human race. As soon as one gives his life to Christ, the next thing he should spend his days doing, is schooling in the things of the GOD who he has given his life to.
Giving your life to Christ without spending the rest of your days schooling in His things will not do you any good. Many who gave their lives to Christ took it back long ago, without even realizing it due to that. They did not realize because they are not schooled in His ways enough to know when they have departed from Him.
Many do not know that the greatest danger on the face of the earth, is not an airplane that has lost control, and is heading to crash into a City with a nuclear plant – as dangerous as that may be. The greatest dangers on the face of the earth, is not a car driven without brakes, a devastating earthquake, or unending wars.
Yes, the greatest danger on the face of the earth, is not the most dreaded disease you can think of. These things are very dangerous. But the greatest danger on the face of the earth, is “ignorance of the things of God.”
IGNORANCE OF THE THINGS OF GOD, IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL OTHER DANGERS.
Sadly, the most important things the world needs, are given unfriendly and unattractive names by dark people to prevent the world from coming to or accepting them. Making mankind more ignorant!
For instance, the things of God are the most important things mankind needs, but we call them religion, and kill the value they hold. But God calls them LIFE. If you call “religion,” what God calls “Life,” you will keep a number of people ignorant of the things of God. Sadly, that is what the enemy has achieved.
If people are ignorant of the things of God, their lives will be full of darkness! The world is said to be full of darkness because the world is ignorant of the things of God. Darkness is the breeding ground of criminalities, poverty, diseases, insecurity, social ills, sin, and all that makes the lives of men horrible.
If not for the restraining power of the most High God, we would have drifted into the major global crisis outlined in the book of revelation. Though they are still on the way coming; God’s restraining hand is responsible for not allowing the human race to annihilate itself.
Ignorance of the things of God is the worst form of ignorance on the face of the earth. No matter how literate you are, you are still ignorant if you are not schooled in the things of GOD.
The world is passing away. The Bible actually warned those of us who are saved, saying we should not love the world, and that it is passing away. That those who love the world will pass away along with it. If you will not pass away with the world as a Child of God, you must love the LORD enough to be schooled in His things, with a ready heart to walk in what you are taught.
WHICH MEANS, ONE OF THE MAJOR THINGS OF GOD WE MUST BE SCHOOLED IN, IS “HOW NOT TO LOVE THE WORLD.”
Yes, not how to make money, get married, or come out of generational bondages, but how not to love the world. The reason is simple; it’s our love for the world that hinders us from succeeding in marriage, coming into all kinds of bondages and all that. It ruins our walk with God and make us vulnerable to satanic attacks.
It’s our love for the world that has sold us to generational bondages and other forms of spiritual captivities.
Demons are sitting in many households, and afflicting them from generation to generation, some with unprecedented attacks, simply because they do not know the LORD. They love the world and have no relationship with the LORD, hence living under attacks! Some go to Church but have never been part of the spiritual body of Christ, because the churches they attend are empty.
If you will not see what your father or mother suffered repeating itself in your life as a Child of GOD, you must not love the world neither the things that are in the world. The word says;
“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life — is not of the Father but is of the world.
And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.” 1 John 2:15-17 NKJV
Love the LORD enough, to learn His ways. Do not love the world! That is what the scriptures says!
You see, people do not know that if they love the world, the foundation of the world will be laid in their hearts. The foundation of the world, is the evil foundation that those who talk about evil foundations, know nothing about. For instance, many Christians who are seeing what happened to their parents or grandparents repeating itself in their lives, are having the foundation of the world in them.
But because they do not know what that is, they deal with the problem in other ways. They will need a Church that understands such things to be able to come to the rest that Christ promised us. But they do not know that either, so you find them running after prophets and prophetesses, who specialize in DEMONOLOGY instead of THEOLOGY.
Demonology is the study of demons, but theology is the study of the revelation of who God is. It is the people who know their God, that will be strong and carry out great exploits, not the people who know their demons.
THE BIBLE SAYS PEOPLE SHOULD “LEARN ABOUT GOD FROM OUR MOUTHS” (AS PREACHERS) AND NOT ABOUT DEVILS .
Yet we teach them what they should not learn about; we do that in the guise of having them not ignorant of the devices of the devil. But we actually make them ignorant of them, because you will never know the devices of the devil until you are well schooled in the things of God.
You find these precious souls, running after these demon specialists, without securing a permanent solution to their problems. Instead the specialists are the ones receiving solution to their financial problems. They use the predicaments of these precious souls to solve their financial problems, leaving them hoping for breakthroughs that will never come.
Friend if there is something in your lineage that seems to be repeating itself in your life, you do not need a curse breaking service to come out of it. Neither do you need to take a prophet or intercessor to your village to pray. You do not need to give money to anyone.
All you need is to learn how not to love the world or the things that are in the world. All you need is the demolition of the foundation of the world in your lives, and that happens when you give your lives to Christ and find a church with grace and truth to do that for you, and then plant yourself there.
Loving the world, and having the foundation of the world, are the two spiritual softwares that makes men come under generational curses and all that.
THEY WILL NEED APOSTOLIC AND PROPHETIC TEACHING MINISTRIES TO HAVE THE TWO SOFTWARES DELETED FORM THEIR HEARTS.
I have studied my life and that of others around me and come to realize that, what makes household demons to repeat in a current generation, what they did in a previous generation, is the dust of sin, the satanic nature, and love for the evil and corrupt system of this world, governing each family member’s heart.
If each person deals with them, it will be impossible for the devils to find a common ground to repeat in their lives, what they did in the lives of their fathers or previous generation. That is the breakthrough key that virtually all the deliverance ministers in church today, do not know, hence leading people astray!
If you are led astray by a heretic teacher or deliverance minister, you will be killed by a stray bullet in the spirit realm. So many marriages, spiritual lives, finances, and etc. have been killed by stray bullets in the spirit realm, simply because they were led astray by heretic and lying prophets, prophetess, apostles, pastors and etc.
A major highlight in our devotional text, described those kind of preachers in this way;
“These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error.
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.” 2 Peter 2:17-20 NKJV
What more can we add to these great words from the mouth of the Holy Ghost Himself, (through the vocal cords of Apostle Peter) other than to concur with every word stated in the verse?
These preachers promise people liberty yet they themselves are servant of corruption. Some are servants of sexual perversion, others servants of greed and covetousness, and many others, servants of devils. That is why the people they promise liberty, do not have liberty.
What is the message of our devotional this morning?
God is saying to us that if we will be free from every evil works, we must learn how not to love the world or the things in the world. The things in the world are lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life. If these things can be erased from our lives, we will be free from generational curses, evil altars and all that make believers in Christ run after prophets and prophetesses.
It’s my prayer that God use these words to enhance your peace and increase your dominion in the Spirit in Jesus precious name, Amen!
I hope you are getting set for the “September Break Through School.” We will be schooling on the things on God on Marriage. Do not miss it!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!
“So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” Acts 20:32 NKJV