TODAY’S DEVOTION (WEDNESDAY 6TH NOVEMBER 2024)
“Yes, in the way of your judgments, O Lord, we have waited for You; the desire of our soul is for Your name and for the remembrance of You.
With my soul I have desired You in the night, Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek you early; For when Your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
Let grace be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness; In the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.” Isaiah 26:8-10 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 311TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF IMPACT.
This is the day the LORD has made, we shall rejoice and be glad in it. Day unto day God has been showing us mercies. We give Him the glory for His kindness and compassion.
He has been so good to us; guiding us, convicting us, washing us with His word, shining His light into our hearts, defending us against our enemies, and showing us mercy in all fronts.
Today, we want to look at one major blessing we enjoy from the LORD when He shows us mercy – the blessing of divine backing. Yes, the blessing of supernatural backing from God is one thing you enjoy when God shows you mercy.
He showed mercy on Daniel and his friends in Babylon, and they got divine backing as a result. They did not perish with the wisemen of Babylon. In the Lion’s den, God backed Daniel to overcome all that was planned against him, and the lions could not eat Him. In the land of Egypt, God showed Joseph mercy, and he prospered despite being in a foreign land.
When God show you mercy, among other blessings, it will result in divine backing.
You will begin to experience supernatural support to progress in life. He will begin to give you the support you need to have victory over those who are stronger than you. The support you need to succeed in anything you might be doing, and etc.
Divine backing is a major blessing of God’s mercy.
Now, because divine backing is a blessing only for those who are in divine will, you will therefore not find mercy to experience divine backing or support in your life, except you are in divine will. That is why people who are not in divine will, do not see God’s mercy, except the mercy to collapse whatever they might be doing and return to divine will.
In other words, if your marriage is not within divine will, you will never see “God’s mercy,” consequently it will be full of unquenchable troubles and all kinds of wars.
DIVINE BACKING IS FOR ANYONE WHO IS IN DIVINE WILL.
If your economic life is not governed by divine will and ways, you will be toiling all day or night, depending on what you may be doing, and if you finally get the money, something will always happen to eat it up away.
I have heard people call that a curse.
Yes, financial curses exist. They are responsible for the poverty of some. But we must also understand that if a man’s ways please the LORD; if a man is in divine will, the curses on his life will be turned into blessings.
I think the real curse in people’s lives is not the presence of the curse itself, but the absence of divine backing in their lives!
In the light of this, we can see that the reason for toiling all day or night, and yet not coming out well economically, is because we are not doing it in divine will. In other words, we are not living our economic lives in symphony with God’s will and ways.
Except we key into the prosperity of the wicked, we may be doing a viable job, business, or any other economic thing, yet not prospering, because our ways are not right before the LORD. It is when a mans way pleases the LORD, that he sees divine backing in anything he might be doing.
Only the demon of deliverance gives you success even when your ways do not please the LORD. It is important to understand that Divine backing is the missing ingredient in the life of anyone suffering any form of economic hardship.
It is the missing link in the life of anyone who may be having any of these questions;
1. What in the world is happening to me?
2. What am I not doing right in this ministry, marriage or business that is making things to be difficult?
3. Why are things not working for me?
4. Etc.
Sadly, most preachers blame these things on curses and evil foundations. They are blind to the things of God hence teaching the things of Satan. The real curse in anyone’s life is not the presence of any curse in his life, but the absence of divine backing.
That is the simple truth.
DIVINE BACKING TURN CURSES INTO BLESSINGS.
I have come to realize that your “Christian mouth” may be full of prayers, positive confessions, and your hands full of giving, but your life will still be full of troubles if there is no divine backing in it.
That is why the Bible teaches that we first secure divine backing before even opening our mouth to pray or confess anything positively.
You can get in one week, what people get in a life time, if God is with you.
Life will remain negative (in spite of being positive) if there is no divine backing; and like we shared earlier, divine backing is a child of God’s Mercy, released upon a life, that is in symphony with divine will and ways.
A generation that want to spend their days enjoying God’s mercy, must learn to spend their lives within His will and ways. God’s mercy cannot be released to back us in things that are not God’s will, or done in His ways. God’s mercy does not manifest in the lives of people who are doing things their own ways.
Every one of us must understand that and sit up.
The nature of God will not let Him back anyone who is doing things his or her sinful way. We must all understand that God does not release mercy on people who are doing things in their will and ways.
That is why you cannot find Him pouring His mercy on the wicked, apart from the mercy of delaying punishment for sin so that they could learn righteousness.
The only act of mercy you see God pour on the wicked, is the restraining of His Spirit not to judge them and the release of His word to exhume repentance from them. Except they repent, He will not show them mercy by solving the problems generated by their personal wickedness.
For instance, here is a man or woman with another person’s wife or husband, or with a woman or man he did not marry in God’s will and ways, having troubles created by their sinful relationship, even when they trust God, there will be no solution to their problems.
Trusting God for mercy to sought you out, when you are not running your life in His will and ways, will result in frustrations, because God will never show up!!
GOD WILL NOT SHOW UP BECAUSE HE DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE WICKED.
We must first repent of our evil ways, and return back to Him in repentance, before we can secure His great mercies. That is one lesson you can glean from the story of the prodigal son.
He did not remain in the land of his rebellion and sin when he needed mercy. He returned to the father before he secured mercy.
Many of us do not return, yet we want GOD to have mercy on us. You find people who are living comfortably in the pool of sin and sorrows without repentance, crying unto God to have mercy on them and take away their sorrows. It does not work that way.
The God of mercy and compassion, will never show up with any miracle you need, except the miracle of bringing you to repentance, so that you can obtain your freedom. That is why the message of repentance is what all suffering sinners need to be free from their sufferings, not the message of raising of altars, sowing of seeds or using oil, water, salt, or incense to pray.
The enemy killing, curse breaking, or seed sowing gospel will never save anyone. Until the sinner repents, he stands unjustified before GOD to get freedom from the consequences of sins.
Justification by faith, is a child of repentance from dead works, not a child of reciting the sinner’s poem called “sinners’ prayer.” That is the word of the LORD this morning!
Life will be full of miseries if we do not have divine backing. And divine backing is not always a child of prayers, fasting, or giving. It is surely a Child of God’s Mercy, sometimes found when we pray, fast and give while walking in God’s will and aligning with His ways.
You cannot be living an ungodly life, and expect peaceful things from the LORD, or divine backing to be happening. It will never happen. God does not work that way. A major highlight in our devotional text this morning says;
“For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. Let grace be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness; In the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.”
It’s my prayer that GOD use this word to sustain you in your walk and talk with Him so that you will not be found following the counsel of the wicked, standing on the ways of sinners or seating on the seat of the scornful.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.
He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.
The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish. Psalms 1:1-6 NKJV