TODAY’S DEVOTION (Friday 11th July 2025)
“Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way you should go.
“Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.” Isaiah 48:17-18NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 192nd DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
What a day to be alive and well. God have been faithful to us. We cannot thank Him enough for His glorious moves and marvelous works in and through our lives. To Him belong all the glory in Jesus precious name. Amen!!
May He continue to move us from victory to victory, from faith to faith, from grace to grace and from glory to glory!! Amen.
In our devotional text yesterday we read these words, “man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceed from the mouth of God.” I am so glad that the statement did not come from a theologian or a religious person, it came from God Himself. That alone explains how critical it is to our survival on earth.
He taught Israel just that one lesson for 40 years. If the lesson were not important, learning about it would not have been that long. That brings us to the next thing our divine destiny needs to be fulfilled, a constant or proceeding word from the LORD!!!
If we are not fed with fresh words; fresh truths, fresh revelations, fresh scriptural insights, or teachings that come from the LORD to us as spirit and life, from time to time, we will not be able to fulfill our divine destiny. I reiterate that our divine destiny will need proceeding words from God, sometimes on daily bases, to be fulfilled.
Let me show you something important. You see, when God speaks, He does not speak to the body of man. He speaks to our spirits. So, when He feeds man with His word, He does not feed his body. He feeds his spirit.
So, when God said, “man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from His mouth” He was revealing to us what the human spirit needs to become alive in the spirit and propel people into God’s plans for it.
Simply put, He was telling us that just as the human body needs natural food (bread) to stay alive, so the human spirit needs spiritual food (God’s Rhema or proceeding Word) to stay alive.
If the preaching you hear in your church is not a proceeding word from God, you will never come alive in the spirit.
YOU WILL REMAIN SPIRITUALLY WEAK, MALNOURISHED, AND EVENTUALLY YOUR FAITH. BUT LET’S GO FURTHER!
You see, man is made up of spirit, soul, and body because he was created in the image of God, who is also made-up Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. The spirit of man was designed to be his divine communication gadget. That is why the Bible says, “God is Spirit they that worship Him must do so in spirit and in truth.”
Now, what is the practical meaning of that?
Here is it; with our spirits, we commune with God, with our souls we assimilate from God, and with our bodies we carry out the execution of what is assimilated. You see, God designed life to begin from within. He never designed life to begin from without.
That is why the Bible says in proverbs 4:23 “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.” (NKJV)
The heart within context refers to the spirit of man. It is in the heart or spirit of man that all divine activities take place. Then they are subsequently communicated or transmitted from the spirit to the soul, and then the body. The body then brings into the natural world whatever was received by our spirits.
God designed our bodies to carry out whatever our spirits and the soul transmit to its senses, that is either good or bad. That is why He counseled us to yield our spirits to Him alone so that good things alone will be coming out of our lives. Now, why did God create man that way?
The reason is simple; man was originally created to outsource Heaven to the earth. Though his body was created from the ground or the earth, his spirit – the real man – came from God. In other words, the spirit of man came from GOD where his survival resources are.
HIS PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY, THEREFORE, WAS TO BRING THINGS IN HEAVEN TO EARTH AS WRITTEN IN HEAVEN.
That was how he named the animals. Obviously, He outsourced the names from Heaven to the earth and God did not change any of the names because all names corresponded with the names God gave those animals in Heaven.
The Bible says,
“Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.” Genesis 2:19 NKJV
Life before the fall of man was so beautiful because he successfully outsourced his earthly life from Heaven until the fall. He did that through the proceeding word from the LORD. But after the fall, he was disconnected from God and could no longer outsource his earthly life from Heaven. He began to outsource it from the earthly and satanic realms, resulting in all kinds of crisis on earth.
In other words, the spirit of man started outsourcing his earthly life from the earthly and satanic realm. So, when you see a man suffering or living an unbelievably bad and sinful life, his spirit is outsourcing something from another realm outside Heaven, into his life.
That is why the Bible says we should keep our spirits (heart) with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life.
God is saying to us through this scripture that we should make sure that our spirits are reconnected back to Heaven and fed with what proceeds from His mouth. That is the only way we can go back to the kind of life Adam lived before the fall; a life of outsourcing his earthly life from Heaven. A major highlight in our devotional text this morning says,
“Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.”
This scripture is one of the lamentations of the almighty in the Bible.
God is saying to us through it that no matter what may be going on in our lives, if we heed to His commandments or proceeding word, it will connect our spirits back to the Heavenly realm and change our circumstances.
IN THE HEAVENLY REALM THERE IS NO WAR. THERE IS JUST PEACE!
So, if our spirits are connected back to the Heavenly realm, peace will begin to come into our lives like a river. Hallelujah!
This is where sitting in Churches planted in the Holy Place comes in. One of the greatest problems of men today is Church failure. Church has failed in connecting many back to the true GOD. But God want us all to rise above Church failure and begin to live like Kingdom citizens.
What is the message this morning? The message is simple; Our divine destiny will need a proceeding word from the LORD to be fulfilled. With the proceeding word, we will begin to source our lives from the Heavenly realm, not the earth realm.
Understand that God never designed that our earthly lives be outsourced from the earth or demonic realm. God designed that our earthly life be outsourced from Heaven. Only then will we be able to unleash our destinies.
As we bring this to a close, it’s important to understand that we malfunction spiritually, and come under intense hardship, curses, satanic attacks, and total disharmony in all aspects of life when our earthly lives are not outsourced from Heaven. In other words, if our earthly lives are not Heavenly governed, there will be no peace in our lives.
And God’s way of returning us back to that Heavenly governed life is by feeding our Human spirit (the man in us) with what proceed out of His mouth – the Rhema word.
There is always a Rhema word that will connect us to God to quench adversity in any crisis area of our lives. That word is what you must seek God to receive, assimilate and obey. If you do, your peace will be like a river according to the word of the LORD.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY
“Oh, that My people would listen to Me, that Israel would walk in My ways! I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn My hand against their adversaries.
“The haters of the Lord would pretend submission to Him, but their fate would endure forever. He would have fed them also with the finest of wheat; and with honey from the rock I would have satisfied you.” Psalms 81:13-16 NKJV
