TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL (Saturday 12th December 2020)
“You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” Psalm 16:11 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 346TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF REJOICING
The LORD our God has loaded us with benefits for 346 days of this year. That is huge! He has watched over us, provided for us, spoken to us, imparted His Spirit into us and done so many wonders in our lives this year!
Above all He has used us to our amazement, considering how unqualified we are. He has used our lives to show that Heaven does not choose the qualified. Heaven qualifies the chosen with the instrumentality of God’s grace.
My primary apostolic mandate and the boundaries of my calling falls within the Body of Christ, and you will agree with me that the body of Christ no longer need shallow rooted sermons or write ups. We need the deep things of God that can only be revealed by comparing spiritual things with spiritual! The Bible says;
“But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 NKJV
I believe strongly that our church generation is yet to see the full manifestation of the potentials of God’s presence – His glory.
There are things prepared for us before the foundation of the world – things that eyes have not seen, ears heard or hearts conceive. These are the things which the Holy Ghost teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. Our generation must rise beyond the status quo and begin to search for those things and seek them with the whole of our hearts, our souls and our might!
We must dig the wells in God’s glory and unlock those things on the face of the earth!
Sadly, we have seen miracles, signs and wonders in some quarters, but most local Churches are just dry of significant moves of God, and they do not care. While many others have been plugged to the demonic through the diviners and the sorcerers they call prophets, in God’s garments others are just spiritual grave yards where no sinner can be turned into a saint by the power of GOD.
MANY YEARS AGO THE LORD SPOKE TO ME SAYING “…SORCERERS ARE COMING.”
It got me so troubled then, because I thought we have had enough. I thought we are going to have a break. The Bible says impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived themselves. But the good news is as they try to darken the spiritual cloud with their ministries, God promised an adequate response through the Sons of light that will render them impotent.
He said in His word;
“And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, against adulterers, against perjurers, against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, and against those who turn away an alien — because they do not fear Me,” Says the Lord of hosts. Malachi 3:5 NKJV
This is a glorious sword that is stretch out towards every impostor, perjurer and charlatan presenting themselves as preachers. It is a sword that has been laid to the root of these evil tress. Jesus says any tree my Heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.
We are in the season of uprooting some of these trees – the ones that have hit their judgment time. Friend our generation will witness great glory. We will witness a great release of the fullness of God’s presence. That is why one of the major THING OF GOD to be schooled in today is the protocol and density of the presence of GOD.
We must know everything about it so we can flow with it like our fathers did. The presence of God is different from the presence of men of GOD or that of a people of GOD. It is men or people of God who live in the presence of God that carry His presence everywhere.
God will not be able to use us to be a swift witness against the sorcerers and other unclean people in the body of Christ if we do not live in His presence. These are end time moves of God that can only be done with men and women who live in the presence of God.
Friend, our Church generation must understand the presence of God so that we can live within it all the days of our lives. Our devotional text said,
“You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”
UNDERSTANDING THE LEVELS OF GOD’S PRESENCE
There are degrees God announces His presence in our lives or in a meeting. It all depends on how much the preacher Heading or leading a meeting has died to things; died to carnal cravings, self, sin, satanic tendencies, or works of the flesh.
There is no magic about these things. It has a principle that guides them. The more we die to the flesh the more of God’s presence we see! In other words, when we decrease, He will increase!
It is through dying that we activate the potentials of God’s presence. Paul said I die daily, that was why He saw the full manifestation of God’s presence in His life and ministry every day. If you are not seeing the manifestation of the presence of God in your life, family or ministry, you are not dying to the flesh. You are living to the flesh!
You are living up to the flesh and FEEDING IT all it wants without compromise!
Like I shared yesterday in kingdom wealth 06, the first degree or level of God’s presence is the omnipresence of God. The Omni presence of God is everywhere but His manifest presence is not everywhere. It can only be found where men have died to things – especially the things earlier stated.
A lot of people have not translated the Omni presence of God in their lives into manifest presence. That is why they are not seeing the works of God. They are not dying to the flesh enough to see it.
The Principle remains, no dying means no manifestation of the manifest presence. It means no revelation of God’s glory. Less dying means less manifestation of the manifest presence of God. It means less manifestation for God’s glory.
I have come to realize that not enough finances in the life of the righteous is a direct consequence of not enough manifestation of God’s presence. Just enough finance is a direct consequence of just enough manifestation of God’s presence. And more than enough finance is a direct consequence of more than enough manifestation of God’s presence in the life of the righteous.
Again, there is no magic in these things. There is just a principle that must be followed by all of us who call upon the name of the LORD. The principle of dying to the flesh to have more of the manifest Presence of the LORD.
MORE DYING MEANS MORE MANIFESTATION OF THE MANIFEST PRESENCE.
If we therefore want to see greater manifestation of God in our lives, Churches, or families, we must be ready for greater level of dying, because “except a seed of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it abides alone.”
When I was teaching on “THE STREAMS OF THE SUPERNATURAL” in 2016, some I led my audience into scriptures to discover three streams of the supernatural – FAITH, ANOINTING and THE GLORY. Now, there are three levels of dying in the kingdom of God that brings us into the tree streams.
I want to refresh our minds again on these things because it is these levels of dying that are responsible for the streams of the supernatural we see.
The first level of dying is 30 fold. This one will produce faith in your life.
Without faith you cannot unlock things in the Spirit. You cannot access miracles, blessings, or covenant moves of God. Faith is the currency of the Spirit. By it the elders obtained good testimonies. But just as money cannot buy everything in the natural plane so do faith.
You may be shocked to find out that faith has its own limitations. That is why many have believed God for things that never came. Faith answers so many things in God but all of them falls into the 30-fold docket. There is the 60-fold and 100-fold dockets. Your faith cannot handle things in those dockets.
If you have a thing in your life that your faith has not handled, it falls outside the docket of things that faith can handle. I hope you understand me. True faith will plug you into the next level of dying to come into the next stream of the supernatural, which is the anointing.
The next level of dying is 60 fold. The presence of God that you get through this process is responsible for handling things that falls into the 60-fold dockets.
Sadly, the Church preaches people to live weak “lives” instead of to die for this level of the supernatural to break forth in their lives wherever faith has failed. What faith cannot handle, the genuine anointing of the Holy Ghost will handle.
THE ANOINTING IS SUPERIOR TO FAITH, BUT WE NEED FAITH TO STEP INTO THE ANOINTING.
Now, I did not say THE ANOINTING OIL I mean the true anointing of the Holy Spirit which is not in bottles.
There is the false anointing in Church today because we are dealing with a devil that operated as an anointed cherub. So he can release the anointing too. This is where you will need the Spirit of Truth to guide you because most of what you call the anointing today ANNOYS the Holy Ghost, and those who are sensitive in the Spirit knows this truth!
The last level of dying is 100 fold. This is the level that will plug you into the greatest stream of the supernatural called the glory. It handles things that falls in toe 100-fold docket in the Spirit realm. Whatever our faith and anointing cannot handle, the presence of God that breaks forth in our lives through this process can handle.
This is the realm the present Church is yet to come into.
We are stuck to the anointing and have not really seen the glory.
That is why many still carry bottles of oil everywhere, and see our ‘great Bishops’ with big jars in their hands. I watch one man receive some oil on His head, and was told he was being anointed to take over leadership. I marveled at the level of spiritual illiteracy. That is Judaism!
Did Jesus pour oil on the disciples to take over leadership? Who poured oil on Paul to take over leadership? When you import Judaism into Christianity, you will have a form of godliness that has no power. You will see devils living with the people of God and presenting themselves as God to them.
The Church is experiencing falsehood today because we have stuck to shadows. Everything under the anointing can be counterfeited. That is why we have counterfeits everywhere today. The only things that cannot be counterfeited are things in the glory of GOD.
The end time Church is a Church that is designed to operate in the glory! It is a Church that will stand on faith, tap into the anointing of the Holy One. Then stand on the anointing of the Holy One, to come to the realm of God’s glory.
There is so much I cannot state down here; so much you need to know.
I encourage you to get the entire message from our Church office titled, “STREAMS OF THE SUPERNATURAL” and all series I taught on “HOW TO LET ETERNITY INVADE TIME.” You will be thoroughly schooled in these things if more of God is what you want.
Many call the anointing the glory but there is a huge difference between the anointing and the glory.
THE GLORY IS THE FULLNESS OF GOD’S PRESENCE ON DISPLAY
It does not manifest until our lives are in order. But the anointing will manifest even when lives are not in order. That is where many who live in sin but walk in the supernatural are deceived. They take the manifestation of the anointing as proof that what they may be doing wrong is not really wrong in God’s sight.
Well, they are not the first to do that, Judas Iscariot was the first. He walked in the anointing and did great signs and wonders but ended up betraying Christ and losing his soul to eternal judgment.
Jesus made it clear that not everyone who operates in the anointing will make Heaven. You see that in Matthew 7:15-23.
Let me tell you this; a Christian who sleeps around or walks in deceit, can carry the anointing of God for a while, but can never carry the glory for a second because it will kill him. Don’t forget how Ananias and Sapphira died in Acts 5. The church then was under the glory not just the anointing.
Child of God, as you pass through this day, I want you to take time out to absorb this message. It is the key to the very breakthrough you have been looking for.
The presence of God is full of potentials but we will never see the manifestation of its fullness in our Churches, meetings, families, or general Christian lives until we fall and die to the flesh.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!
“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.”
“He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.” John 12:24-25