TODAY’S DEVOTION (MONDAY 10TH November 2025)
“Then some of the sons of Benjamin and Judah came to David at the stronghold.
And David went out to meet them, and answered and said to them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if to betray me to my enemies, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers look and bring judgment.”
Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, chief of the captains, and he said: “We are yours, O David; We are on your side, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, And peace to your helpers! For your God helps you.”
So David received them, and made them captains of the troop.” 1 Chronicles 12:16-18 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 314TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
Yesterday, we said there is so much in scriptures about visionary relations from Heaven. We cannot uncover all of them here but what we must know is this, visionary relations from Heaven are of different types. Most of them are sent to us according to our mantles, mandates and rankings in the Army of the LORD. They come to serve as helpers in the wars of life.
Their destiny is only fulfilled when they help us to fulfill ours. We can call them destiny relations.
I believe with the few thoughts we have shared; we all understood the importance of this destiny relations. By definition, destiny relations are relationships that are planted in our lives based on our God given life visions or purposes. They are attracted to our lives by the power of our service to the LORD, mantles, mandates and sometimes ranking in the LORD’s army.
Meaning we must pursue something purposeful or visionary in life for this category of visionary relations to be sent to us. Yes, some of us must be standing on our mantles, mandates and rankings to attract them to our lives, especially the way David did as we can see in our devotional text.
I have come to realize that we will never attract and get planted into our lives a visionary relation from hell if we are living God defined and God given purposeful or visionary lives. We will never have them in our lives if we are living lives within our mantles, mandates and rankings.
Our fall or bad choices in relationships, has always been in our inability to respect the law or maintain the principle of visionary relations.
For instance, your ranking can guide you on who to relate with so well, especially in close quarters. Even in the natural or secular spheres, Generals relate with Generals, especially those who are fighting a similar course. They do not relate with recruits other than to train them. That is how our ranking guide us.
BUT WE IN GOD’S ARMY BEHAVE FOOLISHLY SOMETIMES. WE DO NOT LET OUR RANKING GUIDE US!!
Most of us do not follow the simple principle of ranking in our interpersonal relations. You will find one with a higher purity and character ranking, bringing into their lives persons with lower purity and character ranking to sit with them on the same table, and before you know it, they are unlocking the sin in them, defiling them and making them to sin against the LORD.
We do not know how to define boundaries. We forget that Jesus related with all He related with based on ranking.
For instance, He ministered to the woman that was caught in Adultery, and the one who was a harlot with seven demons but never brought them into the apostolic team. None started sitting at the table to talk with him or joined the team to work with Him even after that.
He knew their purity was low, and that they needed to grow up in holiness, hence keeping them where they ought to be.
His relationship with the men and women who later became the apostles was based on training and nothing else. He called them friends and all that but never prayed with them at any time because they were men of lower ranking in the Spirit.
Someone who do not understand this concept will call it pride but it is the law of visionary relations. You do not yoke together with people of lower consecration except to raise or train them in matters of righteousness. That is the principle.
If you read the four Gospels, you will discover that the only persons Jesus prayed with was an angel that was sent from Heaven to strengthen Him. He never prayed with any of the disciples. He only taught them how to pray and prayed for them.
If they were at the same ranking with Him, He would have had so many prayer sessions with them.
At one time, He needed someone at the same ranking with Him to pray with, so He took three of His disciples He trained to help at that time.
BUT WHEN THEY GOT THERE, THEY ALL FELL ASLEEP.
Things that are to be done by ranking capacity cannot be done by training capacity. If they were the same rank as Him, they would not have slept but helped. That is how difficult it is for a leader who need support but cannot find it among men and women of lower ranking.
God would have to send help another way. For Jesus it was an angel He sent to help Him according to scriptures. For Elijah, it was Ravens He used and later a poor widow He empowered supernaturally. The only prayer sessions Jesus had with the disciples was for them not with them.
Prayer sessions FOR people is different from prayers sessions WITH people.
Any prayer session that you find one of a higher ranking having for a people is meant to bring them under the prayer mantle. You must understand that. Prayer sessions a man or woman of high ranking have WITH a people, must be with people of same ranking in God’s army, so that it can make a needed kingdom impact in their lives.
The needed kingdom impact is called “strengthening of hands in the LORD.” Men of low ranking cannot provide such strength to one in a higher rank. It will take a Jonathan to strengthen a David not a Jonathan’s servant. I hope you understand me! The Bible says:
“And David stayed in strongholds in the wilderness, and remained in the mountains in the Wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God did not deliver him into his hand.
So David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. And David was in the Wilderness of Ziph in a forest. Then Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose and went to David in the woods and strengthened his hand in God.” 1 Samuel 23:14-16 NKJV
If you live your life within your mantle, your mandate and allow your ranking to guide you, you will never have planted in your life a visionary relation from hell. You will always have visionary relations, from Heaven; very helpful ones from God.
SAMSON DID NOT ALLOW HIS MANTLE, MANDATE AND RANKING TO GUIDE HIM ON WHO TO BRING INTO THE CLOSE QUARTERS OF HIS LIFE.
That was why he failed. Samson’s problems was not necessarily a conversation. There is nothing wrong with having someone to converse with. His problem was conversation with the wrong person. That is our problem too, we get drawn or attracted to the wrong people in life. Then they begin to influence us badly.
So, the problem is not always a conversation but a conversation with the wrong people.
Conversation with people of low ranking in purity and character has been my problem and the problem of some of you reading this. We had thought it was humility to sit with impure people at the same table and allow them into the close quarter of our lives. But now we know it was not humility but stupidity.
When we call stupidity humility, we ruin our lives.
If you take away the romantic aspect of the Samson and Delilah story, you will understand that if Samson, for example, had revealed the secret of his strength to a fellow general in the LORD’s army, one with the same purity ranking, kingdom mandate or prophetic mantle with him, it would not have been tragic.
In fact, it would have been called fellowship.
During fellowship among visionary relations, we talk about our accomplishments in the Kingdom, our vulnerabilities, or fears and shortcomings in life. We talk about our secrets and other things that are only good for selected ears.
WE DO THAT SO THAT WE CAN ENCOURAGE OURSELVES IN THE WAR AND KEEP FIGHTING THE BATTLES OF THE LORD.
The Bible says:
“Do not give that which is holy (the sacred thing) to the dogs, and do not throw your pearls before hogs, lest they trample upon them with their feet and turn and tear you in pieces.” Matthew 7:6 AMPC
If you share the holy things of your life, the pearls to the wrong ear, the Bible says you will be torn into pieces of trampled underfoot. They will be showing you contempt or tearing your honor down. No conversation or revelation to another on the secret of our strength will be tragic if the conversation is among men of similar purity ranking.
That is why we should not break our ranks in any kind of relationship we might be trying to cultivate. We should obey the law of visionary relations and maintain ranking.
So, the principle to apply to shut the door against visionary relations from hell, and attract visionary relations from Heaven, is to live a divinely orchestrated visionary and purposeful life, especially as defined by your mantle, mandate and ranking in God’s Army.
That was how David lived hence attracting the men who came to him, as we can see in our devotional text. The text says;
“Then some of the sons of Benjamin and Judah came to David at the stronghold.
And David went out to meet them, and answered and said to them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if to betray me to my enemies, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers look and bring judgment.”
Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, chief of the captains, and he said: “We are yours, O David; We are on your side, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, And peace to your helpers! For your God helps you.”
So David received them, and made them captains of the troop.” 1 Chronicles 12:16-18 NKJV
God will always send Heavenly men and women our way to function as righteous visionary relations in our lives if we cultivate interpersonal relationships based on the definition of our mantles, mandate and ranking. He sent them to David, and the Spirit of God helped him to integrate them into the army. He will send some to you!!!
As we bring this to a close, understand that it is difficult to live a Christian life within your kingdom mantle, mandate or ranking in a Church that has been taken over by all kinds of strange doctrines. You will be called Deputy Jesus, holier than thou, and all kinds of demoralizing names. But it is better to be called names than to be ruined.
It is my prayer that God will use these few thoughts to position you rightly for the visionary relations you need from His throne to unleash your glory on earth before your days are over. Amen!!!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!
“Who is the man that fears the LORD? Him shall He teach in the way He chooses. He himself shall dwell in prosperity, and his descendants shall inherit the earth.
The secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant.” Psalm 25:12-14 NKJV
