TODAY’S DEVOTION (Monday 21st April 2025)
“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Romans 8:31-35 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 111TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
We bless the LORD God for His mercies. Today marks the end of our 21-day Apostolic Renewal Prayer and Fasting. The God who sits in the circle of the earth, who died and came back to life after three days, has been with us each day.
His paths are perfect, and all His paths are full of truth.
Yes, God lives in Eternity where there is no time, but He created time for the purpose of the execution of His redemptive plans. We bless His Holy name for keeping us alive to see this day; a day we believe that He preplanned for us to walk in Him and talk with Him.
I believe that His mercies will make this walk and talk with Him special ones in our lives. I trust in His mercy to preserve us from the sword of our enemies, the anger and attacks of the aggrieved, the venom of the serpents, and the fires of the dragon.
Yes, I trust God’s mercy to save us from the snares of the wicked, the pits that men dig for others to fall in, and the terror that walks either by night or by day.
I trust His mercy to make sure that the expectation of the wicked concerning us are disappointed. Yes, I believe that His mercy will speak for us during this walk, especially where we cannot speak for ourselves.
I trust His mercies to disappoint the craftiness of the wicked so that their hands do not perform their enterprise.
I don’t know what threat you are facing but believe in God’s mercy because His mercies are from everlasting to everlasting. So long as you have repented of your sins and are living a repented life, you are under the blanket of His great grace and amazing mercies.
The Bible says He commanded His love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. If God will love us while we were yet sinners, how much more now that His blood has washed us from filths and sin and made us a righteous seed.
That is why our devotional text today is very significant.
IT WAS BASED ON THIS REVELATION AND DIVINE CONVICTION THAT PAUL, A TRUE APOSTLE OF GRACE, WROTE TO THE CHURCH AT ROME SAYING:
“For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39 NKJV
So long as we remain in the paths of righteousness, nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God. It is love that keeps us from evil and all the enemy do muster against us.
The reason we need to keep on righteous paths is because sin has a way of separating men from the love of God. It separated Sodom and Gomorrah from His love and many others even in the New Testament.
It’s very important at this point to understand that the only person that can separate us from the love of God is us; when we take sides with sin and the devil and start doing his bidding, we bring upon ourselves the consequences of sin.
Outside that, nothing can separate us from the love of God! That is why the Bible admonishes that we keep ourselves in the love of God.
Child of God, keep yourself in the love of God, because it is possible for a man to do things that take him away from the love of God, and the early Church knew that very well, hence documenting that charge.
Sadly, the heretic preachers among us, who call themselves the preachers of grace, do not know that. They do not tell us that it is our responsibility to keep ourselves in the love of God by making use of His saving grace upon our lives to live right.
They do not tell us that if we do not keep ourselves in the love of God His mercy will cease speaking for us and making way for us among the living.
Child of God it’s a new day! You need God’s mercy to navigate through the waters of hate, spiritual warfare, lack, and all evil works.
You need God’s mercy and love to overcome the attacks of those who want you dead this month or year.
You need God’s mercy and Love to overcome the spiritual arrows that may be shot against you this month or year. So, keep yourself in the LOVE of God. That is the greatest covering in God’s kingdom.
IT IS STRONGER THAN ANY PRAYER COVERS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.
Our devotional text today is full of truths that you can glean from and save yourself from the judgments and condemnation of carnal men and satanic people.
When I say judgment, I am not referring to rebukes from people of God who want you to make Heaven.
Our Church generation calls rebuke Judgment and conviction condemnation. When I say judgment, I am referring to verdicts passed against you by evil powers or companions, and misguided pastors, Church leadership, or prophets.
There are people who felt their time in certain Churches were over and they needed to move on that are currently being trailed and attacked by their so-called pastors and prophets.
The question is why should shepherds turn themselves into wolves?
Why should a man or woman of God who received your tithes and offerings when you were with Him turn into an animal that wants you dead when you peaceful walked away from them without looking back to trouble them? It is wrong to be targeted for leaving a Church peacefully.
I feel strong in my prophetic spirit that the days of victory and prevail of wolves in sheep clothing over some poor ignorant Church members or innocent preachers are over. God will begin to move to save His sheep and shepherds from their mouths.
When I speak to ministers of the gospel, I usually tell them to do ministry right or they lose their members. I also tell members to respect and honor good shepherds else they come into unredeemable curses.
Jesus spoke to me years back and repeated it a year ago that He will begin to deliver His sheep from the hands of fallen and perverted shepherds and that there is nothing we can do about it. We just must sit up!
Even members who take delight in attacking God’s true shepherds must become careful. As God moves to save His sheep from the hands of dangerous shepherds, He will also move to save His shepherds from dangerous sheep.
Child of God, it’s a new day in the body of Christ! Keep yourself in the love of God and see Him break out against His enemies that surround you. Some major highlights in our devotional text this morning says:
“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
…Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.”
Believe this scripture and use it as your guiding light all through your walk and talk with God.
It will put God on His feet to keep and position you spiritually to escape the arrows of the evil one being shot by the hands of wrongly aggrieved ministers of the gospel or Church members the devil has taken over to harm God’s shepherds.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY:
“You whom I [the Lord] have taken from the ends of the earth and have called from the corners of it, and said to you, You are My servant — I have chosen you and not cast you off [even though you are exiled].”
“Fear not [there is nothing to fear], for I am with you; do not look around you in terror and be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen and harden you to difficulties, yes, I will help you; yes, I will hold you up and retain you with My [victorious] right hand of rightness and justice.”
“Behold, all they who are enraged and inflamed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; they who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.”
“You shall seek those who contend with you but shall not find them; they who war against you shall be as nothing, as nothing at all.
“For I the Lord your God hold your right hand; I am the Lord, Who says to you, Fear not; I will help you!”
“Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I will help you, says the Lord; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.” Isaiah 41:9-14 AMPC
