TODAY’S DEVOTION (FRIDAY 19TH JANUARY 2024)
“By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.” Hebrews 11:23 KJV
WELCOME TO THE 19TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF IMPACT.
TODAY we will be taking our journey BACKWARDS.
There was this devotional that was published years or months back, that fits the very seasons we find ourselves. It was full of pregnancy talk. Yes, living truths told in bits on pregnancy.
I believe our lives are pregnant with great things this year. That devotional would therefore be required. Yes, we will need the wisdom of God buried in those timeless truths.
The devotional was first published in our first 31-day journey with the glory in 2018, when we spent an entire month, attending meetings at our apostolic center and hearing the word.
It is my prayer that we all find fresh water from this living well this morning, in Jesus’ precious name. Amen!!
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There is what is called “Woman talk on pregnancy” among the married. I would like to begin from there.
If you ask any woman who has been pregnant, she will tell you that the signs of pregnancy can be very troublesome sometimes.
Some women will be having headaches, throwing up early morning, feeling feverish and very sick or uneasy. Others will be so sickly that they can’t even wake up from their beds in the morning without some help.
As it progresses in the life of some, you find their faces changing; some will become radiant and beautiful, others will become ugly, weak and always under fatigue.
We are not having an antenatal session or taking a pregnancy class this morning; I just shared those pregnancy sound bits to tell us that what pregnancy does to women naturally, is what the seed of prophetic destiny does to a Child of God spiritually.
We have been sharing about the role of spiritual fathers in helping us bring forth our divine destinies (with other deep spiritual truths) in our 31 Days Journey with the Glory (You can order for the entire 62 messages through +25471884445).
There are signs of divine destiny too. They vary from faith to faith and spiritual environment to spiritual environment. Maybe this story will help us understand what I mean. It happened in the late nineties.
A woman of God once met me for a fellowship. As we sat down in my office sharing, she began to complain about her youngest son. She said the boy spends more time in prayer than anything else.
THAT IT WAS BECOMING UNUSUAL.
She said, he will wake up in the morning, take his bath and retire to one of the rooms praying for hours. I told her it was a sign of a divine call. Suddenly, it dawned on me that the same thing happened to me as a little boy.
I always felt something pulling me to prayers. Not that I knew how to pray. It will just drive me to my knees and I will either be saying the rosary or anything I could. We were Catholics then. It was so unusual that my siblings became scared too.
As I grew up, I began to understand that those were signs of divine destiny.
Today I am fulfilling my divine destiny as God’s “teaching priest” and “scribe” to the nations under the apostolic and prophetic grace. This is actually the spiritual reality that was on display then as a spiritual pregnancy.
I hope you understand me!
If your life is pregnant with a divine destiny, it will begin to show in your devotional life. You will be feeling something pulling you to prayer from time to time. Whenever you feel that, you are experiencing what I call DESTINY CALLS.
If you respond, you will build a relationship with God that will be required for the release of your divine destiny. But if you do not, you will never have what it takes to release your destiny.
Consequently, becoming dis-eased and stuck in the spirit.
Sadly, many who cannot be happy or satisfied in life, are suffering from that. They cannot be happy or satisfied because they are dis-eased in the spirit and stuck. They have not allowed their destiny calls to result in effective relationship with the LORD.
NO ONE CAN RELEASE HIS DESTINY WITHOUT A CONSISTENT AND AN EFFECTIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST.
If you do not respond to destiny calls and build that relationship with God, you will develop a spiritual condition that is likened to that of a woman with a pregnancy that is not developing.
The 31 days journey with the glory, among other things, is aimed at helping prophetically pregnant people find a devotional Rhythm through prayer and fasting. The very spiritual rhythm they need in order to bring forth the things that God has pre-determined that they bring forth; the books they are yet to write, the churches they are yet to open, the families they are yet to have, and etc.
Lack of this prophetic and apostolic rhythm is the reason for the stagnation of many. They are like pregnant women who might never deliver their babies, due to lack of growth or other factors.
Incidentally, there are women who have been pregnant for ten years without giving birth.
Devils stalled the growth of their pregnancies and kept them in pains all those years until God delivered them. Their foetuses miraculously survived the ordeal. That will be the condition you will develop spiritually for not building the relationship with God that your destiny need to be fulfilled.
A divine destiny is made up of your eternal destiny and your prophetic destiny.
The primary purpose of the signs of divine destiny is to bring us to a point in faith where we can begin to live our lives according to the demands of our eternal and prophetic destinies.
Our devotional text today said when the parents of Moses discerned some signs of divine destiny in the life of Moses, even as a New Born Baby, they took necessary steps to hide him from the sword of the government of Egypt.
The sword then was bent at killing every male Child born to the Jews.
I like the word the Old King James version used in describing what Moses’ parents saw in him. It says “…because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.”
THE PHRASE PROPER CHILD IS VERY REVEALING.
I pray God give us spiritual parents who can discern any sign of divine destiny we may be struggling with; because if Moses’ parents had not discerned those signs in his life, they would not have hidden him from the enemy.
If they were blind like most spiritual fathers and mothers today, who are only interested in us giving them our tithes and offerings but do not care about our divine destiny, he would have had his life cut short as a baby.
But God forbid! They hid him. They did not expose him by singing his praise and sharing in pride what they have seen in their child, like many of us parents do today. They hid him!!
Many are under blind spiritual fathers who see the signs of the divine destiny they are struggling with as “spiritual attacks,” and try to give them spiritual treatments that are rather aborting those pregnancies, or getting them mixed with activities of dark spirits.
A group of intercessors once caused a pregnant woman to have a miscarriage because they did not know the sickness, she called them to pray against was a sign of early pregnancy. That is the dilemma of many in the Church today.
God wants to flood the earth with terrific prophets, apostles, intercessors and hell shaking gospel artist, pastors and Evangelist this end time.
But these pregnancies are under threat because,most of the peoplepregnant with these prophetic-destiny-products, are under blind guides who cannot tell how the signs of divine pregnancylook like. Hence, cannot protect the people from the spiritual swords the enemy has released against them because of what they carry.
If Moses’ parents were like the present-day money and worship seeking spiritual fathers and Mothers in the LORD, there would have been no Moses.
I fear that if those pregnant with these things, do not disconnect from religion and embrace the kingdom life, they will either stall the development of their pregnancies, or eliminate their Prophetic Babies all together.
This is time for someone to ask the LORD for spiritual parents who will serve as prophetic and apostolic midwives, not as predators, and submit to them.
I PRAY FOR YOU TODAY THAT YOU WAKE UP FROM ANY SLUMBER.
I pray that you take your eyes off you, your Church, and your lovely pastor, and for once, fix them on the signs of the pregnancy of your prophetic destiny.
I pray that you allow the signs of the pregnancy of your prophetic destiny lead you to submit to as your father in the LORD. Amen!
As we bring this to a close, understand that you will need a prophetic midwife, not just a preacher this end time to sit under. In the book of Acts, Saul had to be positioned by God in the Church at Antioch, so that his divine pregnancy as an apostle to the nations, will develop and the Child be born in due season.
He was surrounded by spiritual midwives who were graced by God to operate in the prophetic teaching grace. Acts 13 shows us that when his due season came, they called him out, laid hands on him, and pushed him into his divine destiny.
You are the next on God’s list. You need the same spiritual or prophetic environment.
I advise that you not allow a blind guide ordain you a deacon in a local Church, while you ought to be an apostle to the nations. Do not allow anyone to stall your true pregnancy and give you something else to bring forth.
You will be miserable at the end of your life if you do.
MAKE THIS DEVOTIONAL 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.” Acts 13:1-4 NKJV