TODAY’S DEVOTION (Tuesday 1st September 2020)
“Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing.”
“I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Genesis 12:1-3 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 243RD DAY OF OUR YEAR OF REJOICING
We give the LORD the glory for helping us to sail through this tempestuous year with ease and peace, with His Holy Spirit on our side, calming the storms and protecting us from disasters. The COVID thing is one plague the LORD has visibly protected us from. It is not because we are more righteous then others, but because of His mercies.
With these comments of gratitude to my LORD and KING, permit me to welcome you to a new month! This is a month that 31 days of sitting daily at the feet of the LORD, to ride on WINGS OF THE SPIRIT, ushered us into. I know this has never happened before. It happened because it is an unusual year, so the LORD decided to do an unusual thing.
I believe the foundation we will need to survive the next ten years and even beyond, is being laid through this 50 DAYS WINGS OF THE SPIRIT.
I am sure that the remaining days of this year will end well for us. God will make sure the arrows of hell that may be shot against us do not prevail. He will be our shield at our right hand and our shade at the left. He will make sure that the Sun do not strike us by day nor the moon by night.
YES, THE LORD WILL BE OUR MAN OF WAR IN EVERY SPIRITUAL BATTLE FOR THE REST OF THIS YEAR.
The enemy may be raging against us, but I am persuaded that GOD will fight for us and we will hold our peace. Yes, He will contend with those that contend with us and He will deliver our Children. He will feed those who oppress us with their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as wine.
Indeed, if we will stay in line with His will, and allow His purpose to be our passion this month, He will be an enemy to our enemies and an adversary to our adversaries. If God be an enemy to your enemies, then you do not have enemies, because no one can survive the consequence of being God’s enemy.
One major thing I discover God did in the life of all those He called and placed in His will is “taking good care of their enemies.” God is interested in our personal security because He knows the threats we face from the enemy of our soul when planted at the Center of God’s will. You can see this all through the scriptures.
For instance, when He met Abraham and asked Him to separate from His earthly root and move into divine destiny, as we saw in our devotional, one promise He gave Him immediately was about His personal security. He said to him,
“I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Now the vision was to use Him to bless all the families of the earth through His seed in the flesh (Our LORD and savior Jesus Christ). But there was no way Abraham would have fulfilled this mandate if every curse people throw at Him alight, and every blessing that is release to him is hindered from manifesting.
Security from curses, evil works and evil workers is a major key to the fulfillment of divine destiny.
This month, the LORD will make sure that those who rise against us fall for our sake! He will bless those who bless us and curse those who curse us because of our Abrahamic heritage in Christ Jesus. He will also secure us from premature death (this month) because to Him belong escape from death!
Satan has a way of cutting the lives of destiny people short so that they do not completely fulfill their God given assignments. That is why some, as we can see even in the media, who started the month of August did not see the end of the month. They died! Some of these folks where not sick, they just died.
IT WAS NOT THE WILL OF GOD TO HAVE THEM SO QUICK IN THE GRAVE.
Sadly, some who also started this month will also not see the end. But our names will not be among the dead. To our GOD belongs escape from death. Because we have a destiny to fulfill, I declare unto us that this month shall not be our “death month.” The LORD will satisfy us again with enough life to do His will in Jesus precious name.
I remember our LORD and savior Jesus Christ introducing Himself to John the beloved as He who holds the keys of hell and of death. Meaning, even death do not have its keys in its hands. In simple terms, death lost its keys to the LORD. Hallelujah!
When the keys were in the hands of death, it had the unlimited power to choose who should die – both in the camp of the righteous and the camp of the wicked. But when Christ conquered it by His redemptive sacrifice, it lost the keys to Christ, and indirectly to the redeemed.
Today, death can no longer determine who dies in the camp of the righteous. It can only do that in the camp of the wicked. That is why it pays to serve Jesus!
Friend, if you are part of the family of Jesus Christ on the face of the earth (NOT JUST IN Church playing religion), the power of death over your life has been stripped. Death only determines the longevity of those who are not in Christ.
Our longevity as Sons of God is determined by our LORD and savior Jesus Christ, the one who holds the keys of hell and of death. And because He will not use the keys against us, we are saved and secured to live long enough to finish His blessed will for our lives! Hallelujah!
I declare unto you that you shall not die! You shall live to declare the name of the LORD in the land of the living! You will not just see the end of this month; you will see the end of many other months to come. The LORD will bless you this month and make you a blessing.
DON’T FORGET, UNTIL YOU BECOME A BLESSING, YOU CANNOT BE USED BY GOD TO BLESS OTHERS.
It is blessed men that produce miracles for others to come out of their crisis. This month, the LORD will make you a blessing in Jesus precious name. He will curse those who will curse you and bless those who will bless you, according to the Abrahamic covenant.
It is the 9th month of our Year of Rejoicing, and our 50 DAYS WINGS OF THE SPIRIT will terminate this month. Heaven stands ready to feed us with another set of quality spiritual food. Yes, the Spirit of the LORD will feed us fat through these devotionals and our interface meetings this month. We will gain a level of fatness in this school of FAT THINGS and become too heavy for our adversaries to sway us. Hallelujah!
The vision is to grow us into Spiritual giants. Which reminds me of how David stood before Goliath. The result shows that the real giant was not Goliath, the real giant was David! The spiritual controls the physical.
In fact, the Spiritual is more real than the physical.
You must understand that what we are in the spirit realm, impacts the physical realm stronger than what we are in the physical realm, impacting the spiritual realm. The world itself was framed by the word of the LORD. Things that we see were not made from visible things. They were made from invisible things.
So, what we are in the spirit is what counts in the natural. That tells us that when David and Goliath stood, the real giant in the realm of the spirit was not Goliath. He was a giant in the natural realm but an exceedingly small dwarf in the spirit realm.
DO NOT FORGET WHAT HE SAID IN PSALM 110:1.
He said,
“The LORD said to my LORD, sit down at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool.”
It takes a man who is taller, fatter, and bigger than normal men in the spirit to eavesdrop into divine conversations.
FRIEND, DAVID WAS THE GIANT NOT GOLIATH, THAT WAS WHY HIS STONE BROUGHT GOLIATH DOWN.
The stone of a Giant is not a normal stone. What is a pebble to a true giant is a big rock in the hands of a normal man! If he throws it at you, there are no words to describe what will become of you. The impact will sink in and kill you! That was what happened to Goliath.
There so many spiritual giants to kill, that is why God wants us to be feed into stature so we can assume our spiritual giant nature in the Kingdom and begin to undo things that the devil has done; pulling down kingdoms, uprooting evil works, throwing down satanic structures, and converting the kingdoms of this world into that of God and of his Christ.
As we embrace the new month, among other things, let becoming a spiritual giant be your vision. That will settle all your problems, because when you are feed properly, and gain stature in the spirit, you break from your yokes. When you gain stature in the spirit, you become a spiritual giant.
When you become a spiritual giant, you break from the yoke and enter blessings God reserved only for His giants on earth.
The need of the hour, therefore, is not men who have no spiritual strength to even withstand sin. The need of the hour are men who may look small on their outside like David but are spiritual giants on the inside. Men whose spiritual presence can baptize entire nations in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, in fulfillment of the mandate of the great commission!
Friend, we are a destiny people. Our lives are worth nothing except we spend them doing only the things assigned to us by the LORD Jesus.
So many in the Christian faith today are spending their lives doing the things assigned to them by religion, churches that are cut off from the power and purposes of GOD, pride, the perils of life, circumstances, carnal passions and etc. Very few are really doing things assigned to them by the LORD Jesus Christ.
THE REASON FOR THIS IN THE LIVES OF SOME, IS THEIR LACK OF STATURE IN THE SPIRIT.
They look smaller on the inside than one can imagine. As a result, they are easily carried away by the spirit of hell to do the bidding of the dark world. But the story will change in your life this month. You will receive strength to do only the things assigned to you by the LORD, in Jesus precious name. AMEN
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY;
“But You, Lord, are on high forevermore. For behold, your enemies, O Lord, For behold, Your enemies shall perish; All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.”
“But my horn you have exalted like a wild ox; I have been anointed with fresh oil. My eye also has seen my desire on my enemies; my ears hear my desire on the wicked who rise up against me.” Psalms 92:8-11 NKJV