TODAY’S DEVOTION (MONDAY 4TH MARCH 2024)
“O Lord, how manifold are Your works! In wisdom you have made them all. The earth is full of your possessions —
These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season. What you give them they gather in; you open your hand, they are filled with good.” Psalms 104:24, 27, 28 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 64TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF IMPACT.
It was a great teaching session we had yesterday in Church. I want to encourage us to share the link of the video, especially the first service, to as many as possible, so that we can save the unsaved who claim saved in Church.
We all claimed that too, without knowing what Salvation is. The result was a manifestation of Titus 1:16 in our lives. In that scripture, the Bible says;
“They profess to know God [to recognize, perceive, and be acquainted with Him], but deny and disown and renounce Him by what they do; they are detestable and loathsome, unbelieving and disobedient and disloyal, and rebellious, and [they are] unfit and worthless for good work (deed or enterprise) of any kind.” Titus 1:16 AMPC
As painted in this scripture, many of us profess to recognize, perceive, and be acquainted with God, but deny, disown and renounce Him by what we do.
In simple terms, we claim to be saved, from the clergy to the laity, but if you observe our behaviors and moral lives, you will see that we are not. We claim to know the LORD, but by our works, we deny ever knowing Him.
We are detestable, loathsome, unbelieving in many respects, disobedient to the word; the core teachings of the Bible, disloyal and rebellious.
We are in God’s sight unfit and worthless for good works, hence not experiencing the presence of the LORD that we need to experience. We just carry oil and water and so called prayer clothes, run to this prayer center and the other prayer center, doing what we call raising altars and etc.
Sadly, by the way we live it is clear that many do not know what salvation is.
Come to think of it, how can you claim to be born again when you do not know what born again is, except what the shallow rooted preacher told you? You did not search the Bible yourself to find out even after joining the Church system.
MANY DO NOT KNOW SUCH HEAVEN MAKING TEACHINGS, AND THEIR SOULS STANDS ETERNALLY AT RISK.
So, share that video on the ministry’s YouTube channel, PRESENT TRUTH FOR PRESENT TIMES (The Grace Connection Part one, | preached in Yesterday’s 1st service, Sunday 3rd March 2024), to as many believers as possible, and follow them up to listen to it. You might be saving some if you do, and earn some crowns in heaven.
In our devotional today we will be uncovering the power of divine seasons.
Actually, our Church generation is yet to come into the full revelation of divine seasons. That is why we struggle and let life go in a circle. God does things under Heaven in times and seasons.
It is really deadly spiritually to be ignorant of that, and more so to be prophetically deaf to a supernaturally determined season of GOD for your life.
The difference between the glorious us and the suffering us lies in our ability to recognize and seize a supernaturally determined season of God for our life. Life on earth is in seasons! Breakthrough is a season thing. Lasting blessings comes in their seasons.
Nothing significant will happen in your life if you do not live your days according to the seasons of God for them. That was one of the reasons why Moses prayed saying unto God, “teach us to number our days, so we can apply our hearts unto wisdom.”
One major wisdom to apply our hearts unto as we live our days is the wisdom of doing things according to God’s timing and season for them.
If we do not come to terms with this truth, we will keep struggling, fighting, competing with ourselves, and taking decisions that will result in more and more struggles.
You see, those who understand God’s will for their lives, and His determined success season for them, do not compete with anyone. They live according to divine will, comparing themselves with no one but the will of God for their lives.
MOST OF OUR WORRIES AND TROUBLES IN LIFE ARE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT UNDERSTANDING THESE SIMPLE BUT PROFOUND TRUTHS.
If you are working according to God’s will for your life, and Putting your hands to work diligently, there will come a season when God will announce your works to the world and lift you up greatly. For us in God’s will, Season is what determines our success in life.
Times and seasons carry a silent instruction from God to make the diligent who are in God’s will and ways succeed at appointed times and season.
Yes, they have been given the power to determine certain triumphs, especially in the lives of those who are serving their generation according to the will of God.
Time has also been given the power to kill and make alive. Yes, it has the power to reward wickedness and faithfulness. That is why we must be careful. For instance, when the time comes for the wickedness of a wicked person to be rewarded with death, nothing can stop time from taking his or her life.
That is how time sanitize or rip the earth of wicked men and women.
When the season comes for faithfulness to be rewarded by Heaven, no force on earth, in Heaven, or beyond the earth can stop that from happening. Your faithfulness to God and man will be rewarded immensely even in the presence of your enemies.
They will be watching you prosper effortlessly because it is your time.
It is therefore important that we respect the power of times and seasons, and remain faithful in doing good, because we will reap if we faint not.
In God’s kingdom, we do not run our lives aimlessly, we are driven by vision and the revelation of things that happen to us in their season. We gather in our times and season, especially after a time and season of faithfulness to God.
Our devotional text said.
“These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season. What you give them they gather in; you open your hand, they are filled with good.”
Whenever a faithful man or woman enters his or her season of reward in the Spirit, things will start lining up in the natural for him or her. They will begin to gather whatever God has given them that they could not access before.
They will see their season forcing God to open His arm towards them, and give them things that their eyes have not seen, their ears heard, or hearts conceived. They find the season pulling men and substance to them from unexpected ends.
Interestingly, I have seen those that such glorious seasons of their lives did not allow men to take note of their shortcomings.
GOD JUST COVERED THEM WITH HIS GOODNESS.
Child of God, divinely determined seasons for one’ success, victory in life, or blessing, are very powerful. They are more powerful than all our enemies put together.
For instance, it was the season for Goliaths demise that gave David victory over him. David sensed that it was time for the giant to go down, that was why he was confident. He went after him with that revelation knowledge. The result was victory and amazing lifting for David.
When you attack your enemies in their divinely determined season of defeat, they will fall like dead men even before you talk to God about them. May God bring you to your divinely determined season for success or victory. The Bible says,
“of the sons of Issachar who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their command;” (1 Chronicles 12:32 NKJV).
This week we are having our 2024 Sons of Issachar Summit. I hope you will be there.
If you want things to be at your command, understand the divinely determined times and season for doing them before you move to do them. God’s kingdom citizens fail for not knowing this secret.
David was one person in God’s kingdom before the Cross who fought terrible wars without a scar. He fought humans who moved like demons.
He killed a giant as earlier stated. He took over the stronghold of Zion from the Jebusites. He was always found in the forefront of the hottest battles, yet there was no one record of defeat.
What was the secret? He understood his times and season. He knew when to move against the enemy.
At one time the Spirit of the LORD said to him, “Wait until you hear movements on top of the mulberry trees. That will be a sign to you that God has gone ahead of you,” and he waited.
THE LESSON THERE IS, ANY ENEMY YOU MOVE AGAINST WHEN GOD HAS NOT MOVED AGAINST HIM, WILL DESTROY YOU.
You will be fighting the force outside its divinely determined season of defeat. Consequently, you will lack the supernatural supply from God to come out victorious. Spiritual warfare is actually going to pick the spoils of war, after God has finished the battle.
It is people who do not understand this concept that go head long against the enemy, and return with injuries to show, and sometimes to foolishly boast about.
Jesus said we shall tread upon serpent and scorpions and upon all the works of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt us. If they are hurting us, it is not God’s will.
Boasting about what you suffered for going on a spiritual warfare trip is therefore an act of foolishness.
Understanding your divinely determined times and season of victory, is key to dealing with the enemy and unlocking lasting miracles, and covenant blessings upon your life.
I pray that you make this devotional your meditation.
Also, if you live in Nairobi Kenya, or anywhere in the world, you can take a flight and stay in Nairobi this week for an International Conference, SONS OF ISSACHAR 2024 SUMMIT.
However, for those who will not be able to make it down here, it will be streamed LIVE on all our social media platforms. The meetings start on Wednesday 6th March 2024. 5:30pm is the arrival times. The adverts are already running.
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR TODAY;
“To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to gain, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away; a time to tear and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace” Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 NKJV