TODAY’S DEVOTION (Wednesday 21st October 2020)
“These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
“For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error.
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.
For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.” 2 Peter 2:17-21 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 293rd DAY OF OUR YEAR OF REJOICING
One of the common words in the Book of Psalm are the words of David that said “This is the day the LORD has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.” The word “let” means even if our souls are down, we should force ourselves to rejoice and be glad in a day that the LORD may have given us.
In some other places, you will read David saying, “my soul rise up and praise the LORD.” You know he was a kingdom warrior, and kingdom warriors sometimes do not wake up feeling great. They are full of battles to fight because of the critical assignment on their lives. You can then understand why his devotional was full of such expressions.
Spiritual war can be intense and excruciating. The stress and stretch of events that surrounds our assignment as kingdom warriors can sometimes put one’s soul in a state of lacking the emotions to even put up a smile. Sometimes our souls do not co-operate with the sanctified us. We just have to ask it to cooperate, and maybe put up a smile!
It is another day in seasons that make the twilight of our year of rejoicing, and the LORD has given us a word to share with us. We will be gleaning truths that will help us understand the ways of GOD further.
Let me start by stating that it is dangerous to give your life to a Christ whose ways you do not know! That is what makes schooling in the things of God very vital to the Christian faith, and even the survival of the human race. It is the things of GOD that we are ignorant of that makes it impossible for us to know and walk in the ways of GOD.
BUT AS SOON AS ONE GIVES HIS LIFE TO CHRIST, THE NEXT THING HE OR SHE SHOULD DO IS TO SPEND HIS OR HER DAYS KNOWING THE THINGS OF GOD.
Many do not know that by kingdom identity, we are to be disciples of Christ and not JUST Church members. Discipleship is a call to learning. Giving your life to Christ without spending the rest of your days schooling in His things, therefore, will not do you any eternal good at the end.
Many do not know that the greatest danger on the face of the earth is not an airplane that has lost control and is heading to crash. Neither are the greatest dangers on the face of the earth, cars that are driven without brakes, devastating earthquakes, or unending wars.
The greatest danger on the face of the earth is not even covid-19 or any of the dreaded diseases you may think of. The greatest danger on the face of the earth is “ignorance of the things of God.” If you are ignorant of the things of God, your life will be full of darkness!
The world is said to be full of darkness because the world is ignorant of the things of God. If not for the restraining power of the Most High God, we would have been destroyed by every global crisis that has hit our planet. Yes, there would have been even total annihilation.
The Bible actually warned that the world is passing away, and that those who love the world will pass away along with it.
If you will not pass away with the world as a Child of God, you must love the LORD enough to be schooled in His things with a ready heart to walk in what you are taught. And one of the major thing of God you must be schooled in is “how not to love the world.”
YES, NOT HOW TO MAKE MONEY, GET MARRIED, OR COME OUT OF GENERATION BONDAGES, BUT HOW NOT TO LOVE THE WORLD.
The reason is simply; it’s our love for the world that hinders us from succeeding in financial, marital and money matters. It’s our love for the world that sales us to generational bondages and all activities of the wicked one.
Demons are sitting in many households and afflicting them from generation to generation because they do not know the LORD. They love the world and have no relationship with the LORD! If you will not see what your father or mother suffered repeating itself in your life as a Child of GOD, you must mot love the world neither the things that are in the world.
The word says;
“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life — is not of the Father but is of the world.
And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.” 1 John 2:15-17 NKJV
Many Christians who are seeing what happened to their parents or grandparents repeating itself in their lives, are dealing with it the wrong way. You find them running after prophets and prophetesses who specializes in demonology instead of theology. You find them doing this and that witchcraft thing to survive the consequence of loving the world.
The Bible says people should “learn about God from our mouths – we the preachers.” The Bible did not say they should learn about devils and their evil works.
But you find this unfortunate souls running after these demon specialists without solution to their problems. Instead, the specialists are the ones receiving solution to their financial problems. They use the predicaments of the people to solve their financial problems, leaving them hoping for breakthroughs that will never come.
Friend if there is something in your lineage that seems to be repeating itself in your life, you do not need a curse breaking service to come out of it. Neither do you need to take a prophet or intercessor to your village to pray.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO GIVE MONEY TO ANYONE.
All you need is to learn how not to love the world or the things that are in the world. If that software that makes men love the world and the things that are in the world is deleted from your spirit, and the power of the Holy Ghost kindled in your life, nothing your parents or entire lineage went through will be repeated in your life!
I have studied my life and that of others around me and come to realize that what makes household demons to repeated in a current generation, what they did in a previous generation, is the dust of sin, and Satan and their love for the evil and corrupt system of this world. If we deal with these things, it will become impossible for those devils in our households to find a common ground to repeat in our lives what they did in the lives of our fathers.
That is the breakthrough key that virtually all deliverance ministers in Church today do not know hence leading people astray! And I have come to discover that if you are lead astray by a heretic teacher or deliverance minister you will be killed by a stray bullet in the spirit.
People who go astray do not last long!
So many marriages, spiritual lives, finances, and etc. have been killed by stray bullets in the spirit realm simply because they were led astray be heretic and lying prophets, prophetess, apostles, pastors and etc.
A MAJOR HIGHLIGHT IN OUR DEVOTIONAL TEXT THIS MORNING SAYS;
“These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error.
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.” 2 Peter 2:17-20 NKJV
What more can we add to this great words from the mouth of the Holy Ghost through the vocal cords of Apostle Peter other than concur with every statement made here. These preachers promise people liberty yet they themselves are servant of corruption. Some are servants of sexual perversion, greed or covetousness, and many others servants of devils. That is why the people they promise liberty to do not have liberty.
What is the message of our devotional this morning?
God is saying to us if we will be free from every evil works, we must learn how not to love the world or the things in the world. The things in the world are lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life. If these things can be erased FROM our lives, we will be free from generational curses, evil altars and all that make believers in Christ run after prophets and prophetesses.
It’s my prayer that God use these words to enhance your peace and increase your dominion in the Spirit in Jesus precious name, Amen!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!
“So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” Acts 20:32 NKJV