TODAY’S DEVOTION (SUNDAY 31ST August 2025)
“And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.” Matthew 24:10-11 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 243RD DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
The Christian Life is designed in such a way that if we are not told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about whatever concerns it, we will be torn into shreds by the enemy of our souls. That is why by God’s mercy, I don’t massage people’s ego when I teach, preach or prophesy the word of the LORD.
However, telling people the truth can be expensive also. Sons of God will celebrate you, but sons of hell will detest you.
Sadly, there are so many sons of hell today who call themselves sons of GOD. They seem to be more in number than the number of true sons of God. That is also a truth that can cause you pains for saying it. So, if you are teaching, preaching or prophesying the truth today, there is the possibility of having more enemies than friends because those that will be against you will likely be more than those who will be for you.
A son of hell ort one who is perishing is easily offended by Bible truth. Jesus was killed by the Jews who called themselves Children of God. The book of John recorded an incident where the LORD Him asked them, “If you are children of God, why then do you then hate me since I am from God?”
Friend, no true Child of God will hate who or what is from God no matter how painful, convicting, judgmental it is.
God do not condone error or sin. He neutralizes them by calling them what they are. The price the end time Church will pay for teaching, preaching and prophesying scriptural truths will not be small. People in Church (especially preachers) will be their greatest persecutors because the errors they will neutralize will also lead to the shutting down of the shops the call Churches.
In our devotional today, I feel strong to share a strong truth that will help us if we submit to the word.
When error, half-truths or outright lies form our belief system as Christians, we will not last in the faith that was once delivered to our fathers. We will slip into another kind of Christianity, follow another lord, and submit to another spirit that masquerades as the Holy Spirit. That is why the whole counsel of God is so important.
I have met quite a few Christians who are good at coming out with a word from God. They will tell you God said this, God said that. God told them this and God told them that. Yet you cannot sense divine presence around them.
MOST OF WHAT THEY SAY IS EITHER BIBLICALLY BASELESS, HALF-TRUTHS OR OUTRIGHT LIES FROM THE PIT OF HELL.
In fact, when you meet them the first thing you sense is a demonic presence, and since they or those they speak do not know how demonic presence feels like in the spirit, they take their so-called prophetic words as divine. Unclean and lying spirits have been unleashed on so many Christians, giving them a false prophetic hearing that is sometimes accurate but not true.
The worst part is the pride that oozes out of them; this demonic pride that will not let them humble themselves for too long and be free is really killing!
The LORD began to show me something about this sad spiritual development. He made me to understand that what has increased the plague of false prophetic hearing today is the spirit of offense and bitterness in so many hearts. The LORD began to show me things about this spirit and its interference with our faith – things we cannot exhaust in a devotional.
We are in the end time, if you will fulfill your destiny, you must watch against this spirit. Our devotional text said,
“And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many”.
Do you see the connection between offence, betrayal, hate and the rise of false prophets in this scripture? God began to show me that offence, feelings of betrayal, and hate has a way of attracting lying spirits to the souls of believers. When these lying spirits come, they will begin to speak as God to them giving birth to a false prophetic hearing.
THAT IS WHY GOD INSTRUCTED US STRONGLY THROUGH ISAIAH TO SHAKE OFF THE DUST OF OFFENCE, FEELINGS OF BETRAYAL, AND HATE FROM OUR SPIRITS AND SOULS.
Sometimes these feelings leave our souls and go to dwell deeply in our spirits, attracting all kinds of lying-prophetic spirits to us and making it impossible for us to even know the feelings are still there. Most of those I have seen operating in the accurate but false and untrue prophetic hearing system are people who have been severely hurt in life.
Intercessors whose wives or husbands treated them so badly that they divorced them. I have also seen people severely hurt in life operating in this false realm.
The pain of betrayal and the bitterness of the offence committed against them still lies deeply in their hearts, making it impossible for them to be free from the false spirit they call God and come into the clean prophetic realm God has for them. These things sadden my heart each time I come across these precious people.
I am not writing this to hurt you but to partner with God to wash you so that you can come into the true prophetic realm reserved for the sanctified.
Hate, feelings of betrayal, and offence will always attract the polluted prophetic anointing to a Christian. There is no space to show you other Biblical examples. Every lying prophet and false prophetic hearing in the Church today germinated from the soil of ignorance, greed, covetousness, love of money, offence, feelings of betrayal, or hate.
That is why God will pass us through seasons of purging before opening the true prophetic realm to us.
As we prepare for the month of September, a month of spiritual portals, it is my prayer that the LORD sit over our lives, as a purifier of the Sons of Levi, so that we can have an accurate personal prophetic hearing system, and come out of the any chains we may have chained ourselves to, in Jesus precious name. AMEN
LET THIS PRAYER OF DAVID BE OUR MEDITATION!
“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”
“Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me by your generous Spirit.”
“Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners shall be converted to You.” Psalm 51:10-13 NKJV
