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THE CRY OF THE SPIRIT DEVOTIONALS – BY RICHARD E. S. TAKIM

TODAY’S DEVOTION (SUNDAY 2ND November 2025)

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day?’

They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right you will receive.’ Matthew 20:1, 6 -7 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 306TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY

Glory be to the LORD GOD almighty for His unspeakable love and glorious works in our lives. We have experienced His living truths as never before. I believe the best meal on earth is yet to be cooked by any chef on the face of the earth because the best meal on earth is the meal of the word and the goodness of the LORD, and only the Holy Spirit cooks such meal.

Talking about spiritual food, I want to submit that no matter what you eat from the kitchen of men, devils can still feed on you. But when you feed from God’s kitchen, no demon can feed on you. You see that all through the scriptures.

For instance, after the flood, the first generation of people to feed from GOD’s word was the nation of ancient Israel. The Bible says they were fed with manna from God’s kitchen in Heaven.

Manna was a template of God’s word. They ate it for 40 days. During those days the Bible says their garment did not wear out, neither did their feet swelled. There was no feeble or poor one among them. Yet, they were walking in a terrible wilderness full of snakes and scorpions. It is clear in scriptures that the words they ate made sure nothing ate them.

Friend, we are what we eat. If we eat the word of God, we become sons or offspring of the GOD whose word we have eaten. If we don’t we become like mere men.

Jesus made it clear that anytime the word of the LORD enters our hearts, and we allow it to become our main spiritual meal, dimensions of God will break out through us. That was why He said in John 10:35 “If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), (NKJV). The entrance of the word, gives supernatural life to the heart that opens for it to go in.

When the word comes to you as spirit and life, and you feed your spirit with it over time, your humanity will be swallowed by God’s divinity. When humanity get swallowed by divinity, you are no longer a mere man, but a son of God indeed. A lot can begin in your life that was not there before, moved of God can be unleashed through you.

THAT BRINGS US TO OUR DEVOTIONAL TEXT FOR THE DAY. IT SAYS:

“AFTER THESE things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I am your Shield, your abundant compensation, and your reward shall be exceedingly great (Genesis 15:1 AMP).”

The constant and consistent coming of the word of the LORD to our hearts is the greatest thing that can ever happen to us.

It came to Abram only once that day, and it took him from where it met him to where the enemy could no longer catch up with him. If the word of the LORD keeps coming to us daily, we will come to a realm of manifestation that will fit what creation is waiting for.

It is a new month, cherish the word of the LORD than anything else. Let it keep coming to you!! If it does, it will create a beautiful world in you, for you and around you. God will never stop sending His word. He will never stop giving His word to be published.

So long as the sin age is still here, the word of the LORD will not cease coming; yes, it will not cease coming until we enter the age to come. God will keep giving us His word and great will be the company of the men and women who will be enabling it to spread or publishing it. The Bible says:

“The Lord gave the word; great was the company of those who proclaimed it:” Psalm 68:11 NKJV

That brings us to a major truth on the gift of men to men. It was God that says, “it is not good that a man should be alone.” No matter how align we are with God, how Heavenly backed we are, or how much we live in the Glory, we will need men prepared for us by the LORD to become all He may have created us to become.

I GREW UP TO DISCOVER THAT GOD CREATED MEN TO “DEPEND” ON HIM FOR SUCCESS BUT TO “NEED” FELLOW MEN TO SUCCEED.

That is why the self-made syndrome is a deceit. No one can be self-made. At one point or the other another man will be involved in your quest for success. Whatever the LORD gives us from Heaven, will need people on earth for it to take root and prosper among men. That is why God gives the gift of men to men.

You must begin to pray and fast for God to bless you will the gift of men in 2026 as we step into the 11th month of the year. You will need God, and you will need men and women from God in 2026, Let no one lie to you about that.

There was a time in my life that the LORD led me to spend months praying that He give me men and women that I will need in life to fulfill His call. I believe He is leading you to do the same now. So, spend every day of this month asking the LORD for people your life will need in order to blossom; also, do not forget to ask Him for the character to retain them when they come.

Anyone with a divine assignment from the LORD will know that Divine visions cannot be fulfilled until they are surrounded by great men and women who love the LORD and the vision given by the LORD to be fulfilled. Until divine purposes are surrounded by men brought by the divine hand of God, they will either remain unfulfilled or be terminated all together.

You must understand that visions cannot be fulfilled without men and men cannot live fulfilled lives without visions. Visions and all divine purposes need men to be executed and completed. Most of what the LORD will put in your heart to do as His child will need the company of people to perform it.

Most of the burdens He will place in your heart will need people from Him to be performed.

The work of the LORD or the burdens of the LORD are usually too heavy for one man to carry. That is why you will never step into significant blessings until you find a man with a burden from the LORD and support faithfully. Yes, whatever is divine is are usually too huge for one man to take from start to finish.

YOUR SIGNIFICANCE WILL COME WHEN YOU ALLOW GOD TO LEAD YOU TO BE PART OF THE MAN HE HAS GIVEN A BURDEN TO BEAR FOR HIM.

Talking about visions, at conception, they may need just a man, but for them to get to their manifestation, men will be needed. If you are that one man, then ask the LORD for people, but if you are not the man, ask the LORD for the man, and make yourself part of the man’s support person.

Whenever God seek for a man, it is to impregnate his spirit with His plans and purposes.

But whenever He wants to move those plans and purposes from the declaration to the manifestation, He will seek for men. It takes men to move things forward. So, if your life is without needed men, or if you are not one of the needed men in the life of someone with a heavenly vision, your life will be slow and sorrowful also. The word says:

“The Lord gave the word; great was the company of those who proclaimed it:” Psalm 68:11 NKJV

You must either be a person the LORD has given the word to publish, in need of helpers in the war, or a helper in the war. You must not live life in the middle ground described as a “no one has hired us” life. Our devotional text says:

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day?’ They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ … Matthew 20:1, 6-7 NKJV

Do not live a “no one has hired us life.” You will suffer if you do. In fact, you will not be visited with due season blessings. You might be visited with evil, because the earth does not favor a “no one has hired us” breed. That is why wherever God finds them, He will engage them.

As we bring this to a close, understand that if you are not a person with the word from the LORD to publish, then be the person helping the one with the word. Woe is he who is at ease in Zion. Be either a bearer of the God given word, or one who is helping the bearer.

Do not live in isolation or in the middle ground. Living in such isolation will also isolate you from becoming part of God’s kingdom greatness.

MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY;

“A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; He rages against all wise judgment.”

“A fool has no delight in understanding, but in expressing his own heart.”

“When the wicked comes, contempt comes also; and with dishonor comes reproach.” Proverbs 18:1-3 NKJV

“A brother offended is harder to win than a strong city, and contentions are like the bars of a castle.” Proverbs 18:19 NKJV
“Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:” Hebrews 12:14 NKJV