TODAY’S DEVOTION (MONDAY 5TH JUNE 2023)**
Also, Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of running water there. But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek because they quarreled with him.
Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that one also. So he called its name Sitnah. And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, because he said, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.” Genesis 26:19-22 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 156TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF SIGNS AND WONDERS.
God has been gracious to us, keeping us alive and bringing us into another day. To Him belong all the glory!
We will say like David, we sleep and wake up because the LORD keeps us. If the LORD has not been on our side, when men rose against us, they would have swallowed us alive. Blessed be the name of the LORD, who has a history of not giving His own to the teeth of their enemies.
Permit me to begin with a comment on the word of the LORD that came expressly yesterday during our amazing Church service. God keeps surprising us every now and then, in every service, with so many things that are beyond our imaginations.
It seems to me that we are having a foretaste of what happens in Heaven, where the angels are always shouting “holy, holy, holy” because of the different dimensions of God’s Holiness and the glory they see. We see different dimensions of His manifestation, in every service.
Every service has its own Throne Room grace, truth, power, and glory manifestation. There has never been a carnal, dull, or dry moment in any of the services. Yesterday was not an exception. It was a destiny charged service, where the LORD was dropping His power and grace as the teaching of the word was ongoing.
Many people were having spiritual encounters, others where slain in the Spirit, while the word of the LORD was being taught. It has always been few people in previous services, until the word session ends, and then we move into the Holy Ghost power session. But yesterday, it was different.
Everyone got it while seated on their seats listening to the word. So there was no need for a separate time set aside after the message, for impartation of Grace, after receiving truth.
GOD MERGED THE SESSIONS TOGETHER
He animated each word, and used each statement to kindle the hearts of all, especially those He brought into the ministry to become ministers that will function in His last move on earth. I showed us what that move is in the book of Isaiah and how it started brewing in the year 2000 (23 years ago).
I consider yesterday’s service to be a semi global apostolic invasion summit yesterday. Apostolic invasions Summits are summits main for preparing people to execute the great commission without omission. I urge you to get the messages and keep for your own good.
If you were not aware of the services, and you sense you have a stake in the last move of God, go watch the messages online, especially the second service. Do that before Friday, because the word was a word in season. Words in season have timelines attached to them. They have a “Now is the day of Salvation” dimension in them.
So, be swift like the eagle. This is the time to be an eagle Christian, not a vulture.
God has been revealing to us certain things that were made for our peace in His kingdom, things our divine destinies need to be fulfilled. We have seen three key things. The next is a church that functions like the Antioch Church in the early Church.
The Antioch Church in the early Church functioned as a midwife to people of divine destiny; men and women who later invaded the rest of the world with the authentic gospel and brought the gates of hell in nations to its knees during the first 100 years of the Church. That is the kind of Church you will need today to unleash your destiny this end time.
The Antioch church was not a miracle oil giving or carrying church, it was not a miracle water selling or buying Church. It was not a Church that prayed with salt, soil, prayer clothes, and all that. No! It was a Church that moved in the substance of all the shadows Moses taught in his days.
They did not teach that people’s stars were missing, or that those who were suffering were suffering because of an evil altar fighting them. They did not mention altar breaking, silencing or raising in their teachings. They were not driven by such man-made doctrines.
THEY TAUGHT THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST TO THE PEOPLE.
Your destiny will need a Church that functions like that to be midwifed according to divine pattern. Do not put it in oil carrying, water buying, doctrines of devils peddling, or any money-making Church to be fulfilled, else it will be distorted.
Someone may be wondering, what dimension is this? Well, I want to say, destiny matters are matters of the deep. They are not matters of the shallow waters. That is the dimension you are reading.
In God’s kingdom, matters of divine destiny are communicated in words which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. They are not of the wisdom of this age, or that of the rulers of this age, hence are not communicated in the language of this age. They are communicated in the language of the wisdom of God, in a mystery. The Bible tells us;
“However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
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.
For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Corinthians 2:6-14 NKJV
YOU CAN SEE THE FREQUENCY THROUGH WHICH MATTERS OF DIVINE DESTINY ARE COMMUNICATED IN GOD’S KINGDOM IN THIS SCRIPTURE.
It made it clear that they are usually part of the things that eyes have not seen, ears heard, nor hearts conceived, hence they are only communicated in words which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. That is why Esau Christians will never get anything when matters of destiny are being communicated. They will not get anything because they are spiritually discerned. Their carnal minds build a resistance against them.
We are in the end times. Your destiny this end time will require a Church patterned after the Antioch Church, in the early Church, to be fulfilled. The pattern of things God set in early Church is the same pattern God wants us to end His work in the end time Church, which we all belong. Your destiny will need an Antioch church to be fulfilled.
Our devotional text is about the wells that Isaac dug. The text says;
“Also Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found a well of running water there. But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, because they quarreled with him.
Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that one also. So he called its name Sitnah. And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, because he said, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.” Genesis 26:19-22 NKJV
The story of Isaac and the wells he dug has been preached with Evangelistic mindset, which is not bad, because it has helped many to build resistance against satanic frustrations, but we can go deeper than that. We can uncover great prophetic and apostolic truths or movement of the Spirit for our age.
One of such truths or movements of the Holy Spirit, is the re-digging of ancient apostolic wells in God’s glory, that were dug in the early Church but have been buried by the invasion of the present Church, by dark men and women of God over the years!
Isaac represents Jesus Christ in so many respects. Christ patterned in Him what He would do these end times; re-digging apostolic wells that our fathers dug, buried by dark men and women of God over the years. The purpose of these ancient apostolic wells, is to help the present Church fulfill its end time purpose, like the early Church did in its own time.
PLEASE, DO NOT IGNORE THIS REVELATION IF YOU HAVE A STAKE IN GOD’S END TIME MOVES.
One of the ancient wells the Spirit of Christ is re-digging today, is the well called “the Antioch Church.” It was a well that flowed with apostolic truths, built on the doctrine of Christ. It flowed with the living truth of God’s word, that was untainted and undiluted in the early Church.
It is the same well you will need today, to fulfill your destiny this end time.
For those who may not know, I want to submit to you that the Cry of the Spirit Ministries is an ancient apostolic well, that the LORD re-dug and planted in Kenya. At the onset of the ministry, the LORD said to me, “run it like the Antioch Church in the early Church.” That was how I knew it’s an ancient well. I had studied about the Antioch Church years back.
Only those who have studied what the Antioch Church was, especially its prophetic details and what it dealt with in her days, will understand what the Cry of the Spirit Ministries is, and why we teach what we teach. Those who are ignorant, will call us terrible names and say evil things about us.
Among other firsts, the Antioch Church was the first church to neutralize a sorcerer and expose falsehood. Peter exposed the sorcerer in Acts 8 as an individual, but the guys in Antioch, exposed and neutralized it as a Church.
You can now understand why we at the Cry of the Spirit ministries are all out against falsehood and extra biblical doctrines and practices in the present Church. There are other Antioch churches in other parts of the world. Sadly, they are very few because very few have the courage to look at Eli and sons, and say to them what the LORD is saying.
What is the message this morning? The message is simple! Your divine destiny will need a spiritual well dug by the LORD to be fulfilled. It will need an ancient apostolic well, restored in our age and time by Christ to be fulfilled. That is the message!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!
Now in the church that was at Antioch there were certain prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” Then, having fasted and prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them away.
So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus. And when they arrived in Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. They also had John as their assistant.
Now when they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew whose name was Bar-Jesus, who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man called for Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.
But Elymas the sorcerer (for so his name is translated) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
Then Saul, who also is called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him and said, “O full of all deceit and all fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?
And now, indeed, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a time.” And immediately a dark mist fell on him, and he went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.
Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had been done, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord. Acts 13:1-12 NKJV