TODAY’S DEVOTION (Tuesday 22nd April 2025)
“For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.”
“For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath,’ They shall not enter My rest,'” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.” Hebrew 4:2-3 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 112TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
What a session we had on Easter Monday!! It was explosive!! The testimonies from our online members who were with us in person during the service were an outbreak of revival to my soul.
This God is real and amazing. If He is not real to you, please join in person or online membership of the Cry of the Spirit Ministries, global. He will become real to you in a few months. I learned so much from the amazing things they shared. I became fully persuaded on certain things I was becoming unsure of.
I understood why the attacks on my person from some quarters are ferocious.
If there is anyone who wants the righteous out of this world that person is the devil and his host. He wants bearers of the true light to be quenched so that his darkness can fill the souls of men. That is one of the major take aways from the precious words I heard. The Bible says:
“For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; But the Lord will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you.” Isaiah 60:2 NKJV
While God has raised people to preach the gospel of light and cause the glory of the LORD to rise upon men, there are preachers and aggrieved Church members out there who wants that light quenched. Ordinarily, a preacher and a Christian should protect the light of God from going out no matter what happens, but not these ones.
It is very dangerous when a generation cannot find people to keep the true light burning. That was what led to what the 1st century theologians call “the dark ages.” The last set of bearers of the true light lost the support of men, and the light finally went out of the temple, and the dark ages set in.
IT WAS A TERRIBLE SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT.
The world was in moral darkness for years consequently, leading to the eternal damnation of millions who died without the true light.
People were dying and going to hell, both from the dead Church that existed then, and the dying world. Church History has it that the darkness prevailed until mercy spoke and one Catholic priest named Martin Luther caught a ray of light from the throne room on salvation.
That light would later be sustained until it gave birth to other moves that resulted in fresh moves that got us saved today.
Our generation is sitting in another spiritual war where people are bent on quenching the light. But this time around, it will not go out. God’s throne has mobilized great angelic host and Heavenly forces to make sure that His end time light bearers remain strong and solid enough to shine His light to the hearts of men.
If there are no known men to give them support, I believe God will raise unknown men to give them the support they need to remain solid with the torchlight of truth shinning right into the dark hearts of mankind.
The God who stood by Paul when all forsook him, and by Peter and the rest of the apostles when their time of departure had not come, has not died. He is standing with His own like a mighty terrible one to neutralize the forces of the evil one.
God’s greatest redemptive tool today is the light of His revelation word. I want you to understand that, as we get closer and closer to the consummation of all things and the final return of our LORD and savior Jesus Christ, the Bible made it clear that the mystery of God shall be finished.
Meaning, we shall come to a perfect understanding of hidden truths in God!
That is part of God’s sovereign desire to fill our lives with the knowledge of His glory as the water cover the earth. Our devotional word today is simple, instructive, and maybe deep!
IT TELLS US WHAT GOD EXPECTS TO HAPPEN IN OUR HEARTS WHEN WE HEAR HIS WORD.
It tells us that His word should be mixed with faith. When the word we hear is mixed with faith, it will produce fruits in our lives, resulting in the manifestation of the glory of God. But when the opposite happens our lives will still be filled with darkness despite what we may be hearing, resulting in Ichabod or no glory.
One of the common forces that facilitate this sad occurrence in the lives of many is spiritual bareness. Many are spiritually barren, yet they do not know. That is why they are doing nothing about it. Let’s take a little lesson on the subject at this point.
From the natural realm, barrenness and fruitfulness in marriage has a lot of lessons to teach the end time Christian.
While in some cases it is the seed of a man that is responsible for bareness, in other cases it is the womb of the woman. Everyone knows that no matter how fruitful the womb of a woman is, if the seed of the man that enters it is bad it will never get the womb of that woman pregnant with Child.
On the other hand, a Fruitful womb is the key to conception. If the womb of a woman is not fruitful, no matter how powerful the seed of a man is, that womb will never conceive a Child.
What spiritual truth can we draw from this natural reality? The truth is simple.
To start with, understand that the seed of a man represents the word of the LORD, and the womb of a woman represents the spirit of man. There are Christians whose spirits cannot conceive anything no matter how powerful, effective, anointed, sanctified, miracle-producing and deep the word of God they hear is.
In the spirit, conception is the key to delivery; in simple terms, what has not been conceived in your spirit cannot be born in your life. It is what we conceive in our spirits that God will process to be born in our lives. If our spirits conceive nothing while the word is being preached, our lives will be barren of all the things promised or contained in that word.
HAVING A FRUITFUL SPIRIT IS THEREFORE VERY IMPORTANT.
You must understand that if a word of favor, prosperity, healing, deliverance, or holiness comes from the LORD as a living seed (not just some empty words) through the mouth of a preacher to you, and your ear hears it but your spirit did not receive and conceive it, there will be no manifestation of that word in your life.
Our devotional text said, “The word did not profit them because it was not mixed with faith in them that heard it”. Consequently, they did not enter God’s rest.
The words they heard spoke to them about rest, but they could not conceive anything in their spirit as they listened, hence not entering their rest. Friend, “Until a fruitful and living word meets a fruitful and living spirit over time, a man’s life will never come into God’s fullness and rest for it.”
Often, we are troubled on every side and wonder and even blame God’s servants for our problems, particularly when they speak a true word to us that we do not see it’s manifestations in our lives. While in some cases it is the word of the preacher that is responsible for the lack of manifestation, in other cases it is the spirits of those who may have received it that is the problem.
David said, “The entrance of thy word gives light.”
It means when the word of the LORD enters a man’s spirit, it will produce something in the man. However, if the word that enters is dead, empty and unfruitful and your spirit is alive and fruitful, it will not give you anything.
On the other hand, if the word is alive, full of revelation, and fruitful, it will not profit you as well if your spirit is dead, unfruitful, and empty of God. A rich, living, and fruitful word and a rich, living, and fruitful spirit must meet for any turn around to occur in a man’s life. Heavenly words are seeds; they are the medium of transaction between heaven and earth.
THEY BRING BLESSINGS FROM HEAVEN TO A MAN’S LIFE.
However, until they enter your spirit and plant a spiritual picture of what God is saying to you in it, your life will be barren of the manifestations of that word. A fruitful spirit meeting a fruitful word is therefore the key to the manifestation of God’s will in a man’s life.
Are there things that you are yet to enter as a Child of God? Are there blessings you are yet to come into?
The key to coming into them lies in the truths you have just encountered in this devotional today. Get your spirit full of God. Make it alive and fruitful. Then locate a preacher with a true, living, and rich word that will meet your need and feed on it. Over time, there will be a conception, and you will come into the manifestation.
As you embrace this glorious day, spend this week meditating on these glorious truths.
I have often rebuked people who listen to God’s teachings on my lips and come out with nothing in their lives after a long time. It saddens me deeply because the word the LORD brings to us is always rich, alive and fruitful. But the spirits of most of those who read or hear me are empty of God, dead, and unfruitful. Really saddening!
How do we get our spirits full of God, alive and fruitful? That will be our consideration in tomorrow’s devotion.
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY!
“Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.”
“For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Hebrews 4:11-12 NKJV
