TODAY’S DEVOTION (Thursday 8th May 2025)
“I will make a covenant of peace with them, and cause wild beasts to cease from the land; and they will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing.” Ezekiel 34:25-26 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 128TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
This is the day the LORD has made, we shall rejoice and be glad in it. Day unto day we have been seeing God’s mercies. That is why there is no day that the enemy has successfully messed our lives up.
Yes, He has tried all he could, but the mercy of the LORD is always there to help us. When Moses saw this mercy on the mountain, he spoke words that sounded for centuries about the mercy of the LORD. Paul will pick them later and express them as the riches of His grace, the riches of His mercy and the riches of His glory.
Today we will be sharing some truths on the riches of God’s glory.
What is so special about God’s glory? One may ask. First, it is something that the devil cannot handle. I have seen the devil handle many anointed men and women of God, but I have never seen him successfully handle a man or woman of God who moves in the glory!
I have seen him sway anointed men and women of God into a life of sexual sins and all forms of deceit. But he is yet to do so with men and women who move with the glory. That is why it is when the glory departs that a life of sin persist. The glory is what God uses in preserving the salvation and consecration of His people.
We live in a generation of no glory, hence people careless about a life of sin. Our generation moves from depravity to depravity because the glory of the LORD is not ruining our lives.
Many now twist scriptures to preserve their ungodly lifestyles. For instance, some have twisted the Biblical account of the life and times of David, saying, “David was an adulterer, yet he was a man after God’s heart. So, if God called him a man after His heart despite who he was, then there is no problem with whatever professing, but sinful Christians may be doing.”
THEY SAY SUCH NONSENSE AND PEOPLE BUY INTO IT, KILLING THE ZEAL OF THOSE WHO WANTED TO LIVE RIGHT.
But let me tell you this. When David killed Goliath, he had not even known a woman in his life. When he was anointed king and carried out great exploits for God, He was not an adulterer or murderer. He became all that after the exploits and suffered dearly for it.
Under the glory, God chastises those who sin against Him. David was chastised greatly. Besides, his sin so burnt him that he lost his Kingdom for three months. He received the highest royal disgrace of his life when his son slept with his concubines in the sight of all Israel, and when people who were less than him in life hurled insults and curses on him.
His reputation was almost eroded, but for genuine repentance.
So, it is wrong to say David was an adulterer, yet God called him a man after His heart. GOD did not call him that when he was an adulterer. God allowed sin to treat him like an adulterer and a murderer when he was one, and released the Holy Spirit to treat him as a man after his heart when he was one.
The dichotomy must be understood!
The Bible indeed says, “our sins will find us out” that is if we do not repent of them. The Bible also made it clear that sin burns. It says it will consume anyone who lives in it. It’s just a matter of time!
That is why men and women who move with the glory do not give in to the devil to take them to any “sin cell.” They may fall like David, but God will always confront, chastise and cleans them up to return to righteousness.
There are other damaging things the enemy does to keep anointed people in “sin cells.” One of them is to remove the true meaning of repentance from their understanding and sale a lie to them.
THE NEXT IS TO MAKE THEM WALK IN THE FALSE MEANING OF THE GRACE OF GOD.
Grace is presented as a license to sin instead of a release from a life of sin. It is presented as a pardon for sins without the power to go and sin no more. It is not presented according to scriptures.
When you go deep into the word, you will realize that true grace of GOD is Christ Himself, manifesting His life in a man or woman as the Holy Spirit. That is why the true Grace of God evokes righteousness and Holiness. It transforms a sinner into a saint and does not conceal or permit sinful living.
Paul, a true apostle of the Grace of God said:
“For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,” Titus 2:11-12 NKJV
From this scripture it’s clear that any grace that does not evoke right living is a polluted grace. Any grace that is not a cure to a life of sin, is a false grace. Any grace that does not teach us to deny ungodliness, live soberly and righteously in this wicked world, is a false grace.
Another thing I have heard ‘anointed’ people who live in “sin cells” say is this; “It’s wrong to preach righteousness since Jesus has become our righteousness.”
I am sure they do not mean it or maybe they are just wicked and satanic because Jesus said, “seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all other things shall be added.” Everything He ever preached or moved holy men to write, from Genesis to Revelation, can be captured in one word – RIGHTEOUSNESS.
I have people who claim that we destroy the works of the Cross when we preach Righteousness. But the Bible made it clear that you don’t destroy the works of the cross by PREACHING or living RIGHTEOUSNESS, you rather ESTABLISH them by preaching, living and enforcing righteousness.
Those who declare that they are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus do not know that being the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus is not a confession to make but a life to live.
PAUL DESCRIBED THE LIFE THIS WAY:
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. Galatians 2:20-21 KJV
This scripture is not a confession given to us to make, but a life given to us to live. If you are indeed crucified with Christ, your old nature will be dead.
You will not be frustrating the grace of God from helping you take care of the old nature. The nature of Christ will become alive within you. You will no longer find yourself living a life of sin because Christ never lived a life of Sin.
I REITERATE AGAIN THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT A CONFESSION TO MAKE BUT A LIFE TO LIVE!
Due to lack of proper understanding of these things, so many preachers and their members have become very good at “suppressing the truth” just to have their way. They believe they are the righteousness of GOD in Christ Jesus irrespective of how they live.
But they do not know that if they continue living in sin calling themselves the righteousness of GOD in Christ Jesus, they will incur the wrath of God either in this life or the life to come. The Bible says:
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,” Romans 1:18 NKJV
Satan will always use the carnal desires of anointed men and women to sway them to suppress the truth basically to keep them in “sin cells” in the spirit realm. But He cannot do that with those who move with the glory! He cannot do that with people with the fulness of God.
So, make up your mind to become a man or woman of the fullness.
THE GLORY OF GOD IS THE FULLNESS OF GOD ON DISPLAY.
But the anointing is not. It is like the perfume of the Holy Spirit; not even the Holy Spirit Himself. Yes, it is powerful, but it can be counterfeited by the devil. That is why it is not safe to remain at the level of the anointing. You must strive to move to the realms of Glory.
There is something God deposits in the glory that you only find in any ministry or Church that is a pillar and ground of truth in the Spirit realm. It is called “the Covenant of Peace.” That brings us to our devotional text for the day.
God said in His word.
“I will make a covenant of peace with them, and cause wild beasts to cease from the land; and they will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing.”
When you step into a church that is a pillar and ground of truth, a city of refuge in the Spirit; you will begin to enjoy the covenant of peace!
It will make wild beast or demonic activities to cease from your life! You will not need to be praying “die, die, die” or “catch fire” because you will cease being the man of war. God will take over your life as the man of war and you become the man of REST. Hallelujah!
Like Solomon in the Bible, you will just be busy building the temple (you and your personal walk and talk with God) and executing God’s assignment for your life, while GOD will be busy taking care of your enemies and making sure you live in REST ROUND ABOUT.
Child of God, you will never know what this means until you experience it yourself. There is a place of rest in God, and it can only be found in “the glory of God in the City of refuge!”
Like I always say, we can go on and on but this is a devotional. Make use of what you have read and improve your life in Jesus precious name. Amen!
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY!
“And it shall come to pass that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy — everyone who is recorded among the living in Jerusalem.
When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the blood of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning,
then the Lord will create above every dwelling place of Mount Zion, and above her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a covering.
And there will be a tabernacle for shade in the daytime from the heat, for a place of refuge, and for a shelter from storm and rain.” Isaiah 4:3-6 NKJV
