TODAY’S DEVOTION (Friday 20th June 2025)
“When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, Judah became His sanctuary, and Israel His dominion. The sea saw it and fled; Jordan turned back.” Psalms 114:1-3 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 171st DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
Obviously, the days appointed for human life seem to be running faster than ever. I cannot believe that we have just hit the 171 day of 2025.
Indeed, we need to number our days, so that we will apply our hearts unto wisdom. The day you don’t number will become a useless day. Numbering implies planning or proper use. One way the LORD helps us to properly use our days is by reading these devotionals, so we have Bible wisdom to apply our lives to on daily bases.
In our devotional yesterday God gave us some wisdom to apply our hearts to. He highlighted the life of Achan to us and warned that if His glory will remain with us, we must learn to discern the Achans in our lives and do away with them.
Achan represents that person whose presence in your life is putting the presence of God away from you or doing some sinister things that are undermining your success, efforts, or crippling your vision for living. He represents the wrong people in our lives.
I think there is more wisdom to glean from that story today!!
Sometimes, the process of removing Achan can be painful and emotionally excruciating. If he or she is so attached to you, sentiments will come in to make things difficult. If you have benefited or are benefiting in some way from him or her, it will be more difficult.
The closer the person is the more the price you may need to pay. But I have come to discover that when it comes to having the presence of the LORD in our lives every price is worth it.
WHAT YOU WILL SUFFER FOR LOSING THE PRESENCE OF GOD CANNOT BE COMPARED WITH WHAT YOU NEED TO GO THROUGH TO KEEP IT.
Let me put it in another way; what you go through for not having the presence of GOD in your life cannot be compare with THE PRICE you need to pay to have it. You will suffer so much in life, and if you are the type that run after spiritual people for help, you will be so exploited until you start hating the word CHURCH.
It’s therefore important that you pass through the process and make sure that Achan churches, pastors, friends, business partners, fathers, sons, and daughters in the LORD are done away with – you just have to redefine boundaries of relationship and separate from them.
The best preachers on earth, are preachers that have the word and consecration to push us into realms where we can access and carry the manifest presence of GOD wherever we go. This breed will overwork you and push you so hard until you become a temple for GOD in the Spirit.
The achan story is one of the most painful stories in the Bible. It is a story that depicts the cost and blessings of having the manifest presence of GOD in your life, and the consequences of losing it.
The most painful part of the story is that of his wife and entire Children. Perhaps many of them did not even know what their father did. Maybe they got to know it the day God exposed him. Yet they were not spared. Sometimes, it is dangerous to have an Achan biological or spiritual father. The Bible says;
“Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the garment, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had, and they brought them to the Valley of Achor.
And Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? The Lord will trouble you this day.” So all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire after they had stoned them with stones.
Then they raised over him a great heap of stones, still there to this day. So the Lord turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Achor to this day.” Joshua 7:24-26 NKJV
DO YOU SEE SOMETHING IN THIS SCRIPTURE? ACHAN’S INNOCENT KIDS DIED FOR WHAT THEY DID NOT KNOW.
How many innocent Church members are suffering for what their pastors are doing secretly, which they are not even aware of? How many men and women are suffering for what their wives or husbands are secretly doing which they are not aware of?
How many parents are going through hell for what their children are doing in secret? How many Church members are putting their spiritual parents into terrible problems because of the wicked secret lives they live? They do terrible things in secret and when the repercussion comes, they begin to send you prayer points and a few monies to water your heart.
Just as we have Achan spiritual fathers, so also do we have Achan spiritual children.
The worst person you can have in your life is an Achan for anything. He or she is gifted at bringing corporate destruction. And from this Achan story, I came to learn that Secret sins are personal but not private. One man will secretly disobey God but everyone who is under his influence will openly pay for it. That is why the Achan phenomenon is dangerous.
If a pastor is an Achan, every one of his members will pay for it. That is what many who are sexually perverse and money-making pastors do not know. At best guest ministers will be invited to breathe some fresh air into the place but there will be no rest from adversity in the lives of the people.
Those who give their tithes or any other kind of financial support to a church whose pastor is an Achan in the spirit, are putting their money in the valley of Achor. Consequently, they will be going from one crisis to another.
Achan members who also put their monies into the covers of true gospel ministries and Churches with an evil intention will end up in the valley of Achor. God’s judgment on anything Achanic is the valley of achor.
Achan pastors have what it takes to preach and promise men liberty, but they are servants of corruption, spilling the effects on the congregation. That is why you see funeral services replacing revival services in those Churches.
EVERYTHING WILL JUST BE DEAD AND STINKY SPIRITUALLY.
The spiritual identity of any Church, family, nation, or place led by an Achan person is called “the valley of Achor.” The valley of Achor simply put means the valley of trouble. That explains why many Christians cannot be free from their troubles. Most are spiritually sharing their lives either with those living in valleys of Achor (trouble) or with the valley of Achor itself.
Sadly, some of these valleys have the natural outlook of a great place to be.
If you take the valley of Achor for a Church, you will never know the peace of the LORD. If you take the valley of Achor for a home or marriage, even prayers from the most anointed and holy man of God will not help you. If you live spiritually in the valley of Achor, or share your life with someone who lives there, troubles will remain a constant occurrence in your life.
If you want to fulfill your divine destiny, you must come out of Achan churches, break free from Achan spiritual fathers and mothers and make sure you are not connected to the valley of Achor in any way. The Children of Achan; his wife, Sons and daughters could not fulfill their destinies under such a father. They died premature! Do not be the next!!
No one can fulfill a divine destiny in the valley of Achor. No one can execute God’s plans for his or her life living with Achan. You must come out of every strange person and place, else you will disappoint divine destiny. That was what Israel did.
Our devotional text says,
“When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, Judah became His sanctuary, and Israel His dominion. The sea saw it and fled; Jordan turned back.”
If you want to become God’s sanctuary and dominion, you must separate yourself from strange people and places. The Bible made it clear that Israel dispenses so much glory when they did that. The sea (the red sea) saw it and fled. In fact, it parted into two and created a way for them. Jordan could not stop them.
Your enemies are only as powerful as the absence of God’s glory in your life. In other words, the absence of God’s glory in your life is the reason your enemies are more powerful than you.
If you will get away from what or who is keeping the glory of God from you, you will become God’s sanctuary and dominion. Then it shall come to pass that you will begin to look for your enemies and not see them again because they will see it and flee from you.
It is a new day for you in Jesus precious name. AMEN
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR TODAY;
“Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters” Psalms 114:7-8 NKJV
