TODAY’S DEVOTION (FRIDAY 22ND MARCH 2024)
“And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, “For God has appointed another seed for me instead of Abel, whom Cain killed.”
“And as for Seth, to him also a son was born; and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on the name of the Lord.” Genesis 4:25-26 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 82ND DAY OF OUR YEAR OF IMPACT.
What a blessing to be counted among the living of today! The Bible says, “to all who are joined to the living, there is hope.” That a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Yes, to all who are joined to the living God, there is hope. The reason is because He is our Hope. Sometimes the world we live in can be so hard, but in Him there is hope. Maybe within your space, things are not okay, but God’s written word says there is hope because you are still alive.
This glorious morning, we will continue our devotional discourse on prayer. I guess you are in a prayer mode this season, being our Passover season. If you are not, you are missing a lot. It is required that, in every solemn season, men bow their knee deeper and longer to God in prayer.
One of the earliest songs I learnt when I encountered God’s saving grace was a song on prayer. It says; “Prayer is the key, prayer is the key. Prayer is the master key. Jesus started with prayer, and ended with prayer. Prayer is the master key!”
Sadly, one of the leading Bishops in NIGERIA, came up with what we all thought was a better revelation, and changed that song to, “wisdom is the key.” He anchored his opinion on the book of proverbs Chapter 4:7 that say “Wisdom is the principal thing. Therefore in all your getting get wisdom and get understanding.”
WE BELIEVED HIM WITH OUR THEN YOUNG HEARTS, AND QUIET PRAYING, THEN WE REPLACED IT WITH READING.
That was when the Church in Nigeria slipped away from God’s genuine Power. That was when the abuse of the anointing Oil took the center stage.
The same man started preaching that the Holy Ghost was now in a bottle. Consequently, the Holy Ghost was replaced with bottles of oil, and humanistic philosophies became the anchor of our faith. An intellectual god was created and worshipped silently in church.
Today, it has many followers.
During the events that led to all these things, the faith of many was no longer built on the power of God, but on the wisdom of men!
Things became so bad that carnality became the hallmark of Christianity, leading to an eventual lost of the prayer Spirit. Those who tried to remain on the prayer knee, replaced the lost prayer Spirit, with prayer books, and it became really worst.
Then God started using scriptures like Jeremiah 33:3 that says, “Call unto me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things which you know not,” to heal us of the Charismatic madness and wake us up from the terrible slumber. He started restoring the prayer Spirit, and taking away prayer books from the hands of few of us, using His apostolic grace.
Sadly, there is still more job to be done today, but some of us began to understand that prayer remains the master key and not wisdom.
James Chapter 3:14 to 18 tells us that there are two kinds of wisdom. One is earthly, and the other Heavenly. One is from the earth, and the other is from above. Then we understood that if you stop praying and start reading, you will only have the wisdom from the earth calling it divine wisdom.
You will never have the wisdom from above.
And I tell you, that was what the Church became filled with; the wisdom from the earth. We became filled with the relatives of the earthly wisdom, which are bitter envy, and self seeking.
Especially, in the Church headed by the very bishop who brought the heretic revelation.
The Bible made it clear in the book of James that a wisdom that gets the Church filled with such filthy things, is not from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
“FOR WHERE ENVY AND SELF-SEEKING EXIST, CONFUSION AND EVERY EVIL THING ARE THERE.”
Everything from above is above all filth. Hence, the wisdom from above is pure, peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy, and good fruits. It is without partiality and hypocrisy. And it takes prayer to receive this kind of wisdom not just reading.
So, prayer remains the master key because it is the key to the principal thing – the wisdom from above!
You see, whoever makes men to cease calling upon the name of the LORD, is usually blessed by hell with stupendous wealth. I saw this in the life of the first man in the Bible to cause men to stop calling upon the name of the LORD, like that Bishop did to us in Nigeria in the 1990s.
His name was Cain. This man ended up killing his brother Abel, and departing from the presence of God, seeking wisdom.
Sadly, the same was what started happening in the Church of the Bishop whose teachings did the same thing in Nigeria. Brothers started killing brothers. To this moment, the evil wind he generated is still blowing in his vast Church Empire among his members, pastors, and Bishops.
Cain’s life created events that eventually killed the prayer Spirit in his generation. But when Seth, a replacement for Abel was born, the Prayer Spirit was restored.
Now, you will never understand these prophetic things until you read the Book of genesis chapter 4 with the author, the Holy Ghost, sitting by your side to unseal it to you.
Our devotional text this morning made it clear that men began to call upon the name of the LORD when the Seth generation was born. It says, “And as for Seth, to him also a son was born; and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on the name of the Lord.”
Child of God there is a Seth generation that is being born today. This generation is leading a ministry that is bringing forth the Enosh generation – a generation that will activate the prayer Spirit again; the Holy Ghost is releasing this generation from the womb of His Holiness.
Men will once again call upon the name of the LORD with a pure heart, and the Prayer Spirit will be fully restored, replacing prayer books. Books on prayer are being cooked now, but then, they will be released on the earth.
CHILD OF GOD, IT IS GOING TO BE AMAZING FOR THE END TIME CHURCH.
My prayer for you this glorious day, is that the Holy Ghost opens your eyes to see, and your ears to hear these things in a language you will understand in Jesus’ precious name; because the prophetic message I am relating is very deep. We cannot uncover it in a devotional.
Whenever people cease calling upon the name of the LORD, especially with the prayer Spirit, hell will begin to hold sway in the lives of men.
Whenever prayer books replace the prayer Spirit in the Church, the prosperity of hell will come in and false prophets will begin to rise, and like an evil flame, they will begin to devour the faith that was once delivered to the saints – the apostolic faith.
Child of God, the Church is in dire need of the prayer Spirit, that is why God has sent us, among others, to activate the rise of the Seth generation.
If you are part of this generation, you will not be comfortable using prayer books to talk to your God. You will not be comfortable with what we call “dangerous prayer” books. Your spirit will be seeking something deeper to bring you into the prayer realm. That thing is the prayer Spirit.
The prayer Spirit is called the Spirit of grace and supplication. It is the authentic motivator of result-oriented prayers! Any result you get from prayer books will just be a relife and not rest! Only the Prayer Spirit activates the prayer that brings rest from all the works of the enemy.
This morning, spend time to ask the LORD for the prayer Spirit, so that your prayers can be Spirit controlled and result oriented. Though it will take away prayer books from your hands, but you will begin to unleash tremendous prayer power when the prayer Spirit comes upon you!
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR US TODAY!
“And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn” Zechariah 12:10 NKJV