TODAY’S DEVOTION (Wednesday 15th July 2020)
“Behold, God is my helper; The Lord is with those who uphold my life. He will repay my enemies for their evil. Cut them off in your truth.”
“I will freely sacrifice to you; I will praise your name, O Lord, for it is good. For He has delivered me out of all trouble; and my eye has seen its desire upon my enemies.” Psalm 54:4-7 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 195th DAY OF OUR YEAR OF REJOICING
It has been our month of “God’s Rhema Word” and He has been faithful in sending a proceeding word to us each day. Even in our weekly TV and online Church services, Church in the House, it has not been different. Indeed, God is always under pressure to reveal Himself.
He smashed the gods of Egypt, pull Israel away of the iron fist of Pharaoh, parted the red sea, kept them for 40 years in the hot desert, and ultimately raised Jesus from the death just to done thing; reveal Himself!
When GOD reveals Himself, especially in power, Satan cannot manifest Himself. The Bible says say, “unto GOD, how great are you. Through the greatness of your power shall your enemy submit themselves.” That was why, when GOD created man in the beginning, He placed Him on the wings of His power, and when He birth the Church, He also placed her on the wings of power. It was not just any power, but apostolic power.
It takes apostolic power to make it through a world like ours today; a world that is under the sway of the wicked one; a world full of people with capacity to hate you for no just cause.
A world that when you are healthy, people wish you would become sick, and when you become sick, they wish you die. And if you eventually die, they wish you go to hell, and even before your death is announced to anyone, your properties will be shared, if you have any.
Perhaps if God have mercy on you and send you back to life, they will be so angry because they would have to give back what they shared among themselves while they thought you had gone for good. Some will even become religious, questioning why GOD allowed you to return.
FRIEND THAT IS THE KIND OF WORLD WE LIVE IN.
If you do not therefore, spend your days in apostolic power, you will spend them fulfilling the will of your enemies.
The most miserable people on the face of the earth, are the powerless. These are not days of living a powerless life. You will be eaten by devils, and cut down by aggrieved people, if you are powerless in the spirit as a Child of God. That is why the first gift God gives us, as soon as we become genuinely saved, is apostolic power.
The Bible says “But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name:” (John 1:11 kjv).
God knows the kind of world we live in that is why power is the first gift He gives to us. He knows it is a world that one cannot survive without apostolic power, hence making it the first fruit of genuine salvation experience.
What is apostolic Power? How do we encounter this power?
The word ‘apostolic’ describes anything that relates with either the teachings of the 12 Original apostles of the lamb or the New Testament. Apostolic power therefore is the very power that the original 12 apostles and the early Church walked flowed in. It is the same as the resurrection power.
That was the power that backed every apostolic work on the face of the earth in the first hundred years of the Church and is still present with us today. That is what we experience every time we sit before the Morning Cloud Television.
It is very costly to spend a moment of your life without the apostolic power! Paul describes the marvelous acts of that power as “signs of an apostle.” He wrote to the Church at Corinth saying,
“Truly the signs of an apostle were accomplished among you with all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.” 2 Corinthians 12:12 NKJV
The sign of a true apostle of Jesus Christ is the manifestation of the glory of God with all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds in his ministry. The manifestation of God’s glory is Heaven’s way of authenticating or validating things that proceeds from the throne room, apostolic and prophetic ministries inclusive.
ONE MAJOR WAY YOU CAN TAP INTO THIS POWER IS TO JOIN ANY APOSTOLIC AND PROPHETIC TEACHING MINISTRY FLOWING IN IT.
If you do, your life will not remain the same. God will begin to deliver you out of all trouble and your eyes will begin to see your desire on your enemies. The only trouble you may not be delivered from, when you are among a people moving in the signs of an apostle, is the one that is ordained to be used as a catalyst for your spiritual advance.
A major highlight in our devotional text this morning says; “For He has delivered me out of all trouble; and my eye has seen its desire upon my enemies.”
What is the message of our devotional this morning? The message is simple; you need a regular encounter with God’s apostolic power to succeed in any endeavor of life.
You need a regular touch with His apostolic power to get and stay married. You need a regular encounter with this power to be free the curses of life, delivered from spiritual sexual harassment (what you call spiritual husband or wife) and demonic possession.
God did not create the human life to survive outside apostolic power. In Genesis Chapter 1:26-27 that power was called dominion. Dominion was lost at the fall. But now it is restored. You can access it anytime by becoming part of a Church or ministry that moves in apostolic signs like the early Church.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY,
“Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.” 1 Corinthians 12:27-28 NKJV