TODAY’S DEVOTION (SUNDAY 18TH FEBRUARY 2024)
And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
Therefore “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.” ‘I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty.” 2 Corinthians 6:16-18 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 49TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF IMPACT.
It is another glorious Sunday of the month, and we give God the glory.
One of the major promises God made to us when we were crossing over to this year was a Promise of a constant release of a word in season to us. That we have been receiving through this platform and in our meetings at Our Apostolic Centre.
A Word in season is a Rhema word!
A Rhema word is a word that proceeds from God at an immediate present, basically to feed, refuel, refill, protect, unlock, and guide His offspring on the face of the earth.
In today’s devotional we shall be sharing a Rhema word from the LORD that came into my spirit for someone reading this piece. This word was first shared some years ago. But it pleases the LORD that we hear it again, because once has God spoken; twice we must hear.
As we can see in our devotional text, the rhema word is; “there is something to come out from, for God to come into your life to unleash His glory in and through you.”
The glory of God is the storehouse of God’s goodness, manifestations, gifts, callings, graces, and etc. Most of the divine promises we receive from God cannot come to pass until He steps into us and unleash His glory.
I don’t know if God has spoken to you of something, He wants to do for you, in you or through you, and yet it has not come to pass.
May be some prophets may have told you to give some money to them in order to activate it to come to pass, and perhaps you have done so yet it has not come to pass.
God sent this word this morning, to tell you that His glory manifesting in or through you, is the key to seeing that thing come to pass. Not some money placed on some church stage people call altar, or some sacrifices given to some prophets.
It takes the manifestation of the glory of God in man for God’s will to be done in or through man as revealed to him. That is why the ultimate vision of GOD for us is that He comes into our lives and tabernacle in us.
He wants to tabernacle in us to unleash His glory on the earth.
WHEN GOD COMES INTO OUR LIVES, OUR FRIENDS AND ENEMIES WILL KNOW HE HAS COME!
He will begin to guide us with amazing lights and understanding on issues of life, and driving darkness away from us. People who were not originally designed to be part of our destiny will suddenly withdraw from us or become hostile.
When God comes into you and dwell in you, whatever and whoever is not of God in your life will begin to recent you; even a Church or a minister of the gospel filled with the spirit of hell will react against you. Agents of darkness you may have taken for husbands or wives will begin to withdraw from you or cause problems for you.
Everything that is not of God that attaches itself to our lives, will react in one way or the other, when God comes in to tabernacle in us.
Some will make life hot for us. But all that is the burden attached to the blessing, because it is better for God to dwell in us and man stay away from us, than for man to stay with us and God stay away from us.
When man stays with you and God does not, your life will be full of problems. But when God lives in you (and maybe man refuse to live with you), your life will be full of peace.
The Bible says,
And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.
“And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.” Revelation 21:3-4 NKJV
If you look at this scripture carefully, you will discover that there are tears that cannot be wiped away from men, until God tabernacle in them.
If you try to wipe such tears away by sowing seeds as they call it, fasting and prayer, running after and looking for prophets to speak into your life, bringing anything they tell you to bring, or using whatever they instruct you to use in prayer, they will never be wiped away.
SADLY, SO MANY ARE TRYING TO WIPE AWAY TEARS THAT CAN ONLY BE WIPED AWAY WHEN GOD TABERNACLES IN THEM.
They are doing it using other ways.
Tears like persistent poverty, spiritual attacks, being due for marriage yet it’s not forth coming, what we call generational curses, things we blame on what deliverance ministers’ call “foundational problems” or “evil altars” will only be wiped away when you become God’s Tabernacle on earth.
Friend whatever evil work in your life, that deliverance ministers may have blamed on your foundation, or some evil altars, can only be neutralized when God comes in to tabernacle in you.
That is why I tell people that, it’s not the presence of an evil foundation in their lives that is responsible for their problems, but the absence of the foundation of the LORD. It is not the presence of evil in our lives that is our problem but the absence of God’s abiding or dwelling presence.
When God tabernacles your life, the Bible says no evil will befall you. Whatever cannot befall God will not befall you.
Now how do we come to the realm where God will tabernacle in us? Our devotional text today is full of the answers.
There is no other answer that can be more accurate than the one God Himself gave through Apostle Paul as captured in our devotional text. A major highlight in the text says;
As God has said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
Therefore “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.” ‘I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty.”
The only thing to do to come into that realm where God tabernacles people is to use His saving grace upon your life to come out of things that will not let Him dwell in you. You make use of that grace through fasting, prayers, and separation from anything considered unclean by Him (not by religion).
It could be a church that has become unclean in his sight, a business that is defiling you, a friend or carnal relationship, especially that very relationship that is ruining your relationship with God, a pseudo marriage or etc.
IT COULD EVEN BE A PARADIGM TO SHIFT AWAY FROM;
Yes, even a thought system or mindset to dissolve by the power of scriptural revelations.
The point is, you can use God’s saving grace upon your life to discern those things, places or people God wants you to come out from, and come out from them. The Rhema word remains, “Come out from among them and be separate … and I will receive you.” Hallelujah!!
As we bring this to a close, I want to submit to you that there are dimensions of God you will never know until you come out of things that are spiritually unclean, prophetically destructive to your future in Christ.
There are marriages that are considered in Heaven as unclean, businesses considered in Heaven as unclean, celebrated relationships considered in Heaven as unclean, magnificent Churches considered in Heaven as unclean, etc. You will need to come out of them and live separate for God to dwell in you.
God will never unleash more of Himself into your life if you have not used His grace upon your life to walk away from things, He consider unclean.
My prayer for us today is that we stop short-changing our destinies through illegal attachments and alliances.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY;
“O Corinthians! We have spoken openly to you, our heart is wide open. You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections. Now in return for the same (I speak as to children), you also be open.
“Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?”
“And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
Therefore “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.”
‘I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 2 Corinthians 6:11-7:1 NKJV