TODAY’S DEVOTION (SATURDAY 02ND MARCH 2024)
“But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.
If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?” Matthew 12:25-27 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 62ND DAY OF OUR YEAR OF IMPACT.
Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. He remains the One and only true God from generation to generation. His ways are past finding, and His compassion from ever lasting to everlasting.
He does not demand human sacrifices to bless or protect people like gods and deities do. He instead, became the sacrifice that people needed to be blessed and protected.
What a gracious God He is! He sits in Heaven, far above principalities and powers, and still consider the poorest of the poor on earth.
He does not consider them because He wants to oppress them through tithing and sacrificial giving, or ask them to raise altars or silence some, like darkened preachers do. He considers the poor because He wants to pour His grace into their lives, and make them part of His Kingdom princes that will reign on earth.
If He had not been our sacrifice, we would have been sacrificed by our enemies.
Our lives are proofs that, if Jesus Christ becomes a man’s sacrifice, his enemies will not be able to offer him as a sacrifice to any devil. It is when the LORD is not your shepherd that dark forces can feed on you.
It has been a great experience knowing the LORD and feeding from His faithfulness.
It has been a great experience seeing God’s mercies fight our battles; and making sure that the flesh, the devil, and the evil and corrupt system of this world does not destroy us.
AS ONE GOD HAS SHOWN MERCY TO OPERATE IN THE PROPHETIC, I CAN TELL WHEN PEOPLE ARE SPEAKING OUTSIDE GRACE AND TRUTH.
If you are not sold out to the LORD, you will become a victim of those who speak very gracious words, but are operating outside God’s true grace and truth.
This is the finest hour of righteousness and it is important that we all press away from wickedness and allow God’s glory to beautify us! The Bible says, “say unto the righteous it shall be well with you.”
That should make every one of us to tremble, and understand that it shall only be well with us, especially in the presence of our enemies, if we are standing right before God.
If we are not, we will be going through all kinds of deliverances and scamming programs of preachers, like leading people to do what they call raising altars or silencing altars to stay alive, or dedicating enemies monthly, and engaging in every form of insane dedication service.
Yesterday, we looked at the subject of the glorious things that are spoken concerning us, cities of GOD. Today we want to look at some other truths that will add to the building blocks of our faith.
I hope we are ready!
To start with, let me say this; our departure from the realm of glory in Adam, has not really helped us as a human race.
One major thing it did, apart from raising a self-seeking generation, is the injection of enemy consciousness through the exaggeration of the activities of our enemies.
Today, most believers talk more of the enemy, and less of Christ and His life-giving truths. This has led to establishment of the image of Jealousy, in the house of the jealous God! I guess we do not really know that we provoke God to jealousy when we talk more about the works of the devil and not Him.
The fall down and die and enemy talk, like I have always said, has planted so much hate in the hearts of Christians today. The very people God wants us to preach to, through our life styles, we want them dead.
We want our biological fathers who gave birth to us dead, and our spiritual fathers, who are stealing from us and shortchanging our eternal destinies with lying doctrines and dark practices, alive.
WE GIVE THEM WHAT WE EARN AND EVEN BORROW TO GIVE, BUT CAN’T SEND A DIME TO OUR BIOLOGICAL FATHERS WHO GAVE BIRTH TO US.
Our spiritual fathers make us think our biological parents are the sources of our poverty, and then manipulate us to keep giving to them to be free from the poverty of our households, while the real source of our poverty is our spiritual fathers, who keep teaching us to give to them.
They become rich, we become poor. God wants all that nonsense to stop.
For too long His kingdom on earth has been divided and neutralized by dark doctrines, dark practices, and etc. Now He want all that to stop. His glory that is full of grace and truth has been deployed into local churches headed by pastors who grieve over these things.
I believe He will do a quick work and finish it in righteousness; and when that happens, His kingdom will no longer be divided by dark doctrines, practices, and false prophets and heretic teachers.
Our devotional text this morning, has a very profound revelation. It says,
“Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.
If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?”
This statement was not made by a mere man. It was made by the creator of the Universe Himself who manifested as man. Wisdom therefore demands that we give it double attention and glean some truths from it.
The first truth we can glean from it is this; there is no household, church, family, or life that can stand when it is divided against itself. So many believers live by dark doctrines, practices peddled by greedy men and women of God and etc., consequently not standing because they are divided.
Others live in sin, calling themselves born again. That is a terrible division there against yourself; It is very dangerous.
That is why you see us pass through so much and get no divine intervention from the LORD, except we key into charismatic witchcraft like the use of oil, water, salt and raising of altars, and etc. How can you enjoy the rest that Christ brings, if you are not of Christ?
MOST OF US SAY, WE ARE CHRIST’S, BUT LIVE LIVES THAT ARE ANTICHRIST IN ALL FRONTS.
We are divided because our mouths say one thing but our hearts are keeping other things.
Like Lucifer did while working for GOD, we sing, dance in Church, give offerings, and so this and that, but iniquity is in their hearts. Child of God, the enemy has made the church worldly by dividing with dark doctrines and practices.
God wants to restore us back by uprooting them.
The presence of dark doctrines like spirit husband, raising of altars, redemption of first born, giving of first fruits, and etc., that are intelligently presented by many preachers today, has made many church members satanic in all fronts.
Jesus tells us that, one major sign of a heart that is Satanic is that it will become mindful of the things of men; like money, fame, material acquisition, and etc., in pretense of serving God, and not genuinely mindful of the things of God.
It will lead to the love of many growing cold.
Sadly, that is what the Church has become, hence losing the power of the Cross that brings permanent rest from spiritual attacks, a life of sin, and deliverance from all works of the devil.
Again, our devotional text says,
“Satan cannot cast out Satan, because His kingdom cannot be divided against itself.”
What has become satanic cannot cast out what is demonic or satanic. It would have to key into dark practices, like what they call raising of altars, silencing of altars, sowing this seed for freedom, and the other seed, use of oil, water, and etc., resulting in people receiving relief and not rest.
I believe enough has been shared for some serious minded Christian, to either embrace a call of GOD upon their lives, or stand with truth in this dark hour.
I BELIEVE, EVEN A YOUNGER ONE IN FAITH OUT THERE HAS BEEN GUIDED.
As we bring this to a close, understand that, if we are satanic in any form, we will never be delivered from his works no matter how strong we pray, long we fast, or sacrificially we give, or how many times we are prayed for.
Finally, I want to say this; satanism is not just the dark practices of the devil we all know, it is also allowing any of Satan’s attributes to live in you as a Christian. It is being satanic in your relationship with others.
For instance, Satan cannot forgive or walk in love. If you say you are “born again” but cannot forgive or walk in love, you are satanic. You will never be free from any spiritual attack.
What makes us powerful Christians, is not always from our prayer knees, but a forgiving heart. If we cannot walk in mercy, forgiveness, and compassion, we are doomed.
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR US TODAY!
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.” 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 NKJV