TODAY’S DEVOTION (MONDAY 13TH MAY 2024)
Say to God, “How awesome are your works! Through the greatness of your power your enemies shall submit themselves to you. All the earth shall worship you and sing praises to you; they shall sing praises to your name.” Psalms 66:3-4 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 134TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF IMPACT.
Today we will be refreshing our hearts on matters of deep intimacy. I hope you are ready!
To start with, the greatest curse on the human race is a life without the supernatural power of God. That is why the Dominion Jesus brought back to us is a necessity. It is the capacity to operate in the supernatural of God in a weak and wicked world.
There is financial power, political power, will power, success power, and all other kinds of secondary powers, but there is no power of God in the lives of so many. That is why the good things they have, either do not last long or end up ruining them!!
I trust God to use this piece of devotional to provoke our spirits to come to the deep calling unto deep realm of the Spirit, if we are not there yet, in Jesus’ precious name. Amen!!!
When God created man and placed him in the Garden of Eden, He did not give him political power to survive. He gave man HIS own Supernatural power called “dominion” to survive. We saw that in a previous devotional.
God’s supernatural power was man’s instrument of survival on earth.
That was what Adam used to subdue every other created thing on the face of the earth as God had commanded. That was his instrument of not just survival but ruler ship as God’s regent on earth. All animals and created things obeyed him because he spoke in power.
For instance, He gave names to all animals. Without that power he would not have been able to name the animals.
But after the fall, he lost everything. Life became chaotic because mankind was unplugged from his God given supernatural power. God’s Power is therefore the most essential blessing for living on the face of the earth.
WITHOUT THE POWER OF GOD IN YOUR LIFE, CURSES WILL REST, THRIVE, OR FESTER ON WHATEVER YOU LAY YOUR HANDS TO DO.
Without the power of God in your life, sicknesses and diseases will hold sway in your life. Without the power of God in your life, devils will turn your kids, business, ministry, or whatever carries your name into a playground of spiritual attacks, oppression, and afflictions.
The greatest hindrance to the success of many on the face of the earth is an absence of God’s supernatural power in their lives! A major highlight in our devotional text today said,
“How awesome are your works! Through the greatness of your power your enemies shall submit themselves to you.”
Enemies do not submit through the greatness of our boasting, anger, hatred, or ill feelings against them. That is why Jesus said love your enemies. Pray for those who hate and despitefully use you. Enemies submit through the greatness of the power of God in our lives.
Friend, if you catch the revelation of what God is saying this morning, you will choose to die than to live a Christian life without the greatness of God’s power flowing through you.
I have seen and heard Christians sing, “I’m walking in power, I’m walking in miracle, I live a life of favor, I know who I am.”
But if you look at their lives with the eyes of the Holy Spirit, you will begin to question which power they are really walking in. Is it sexual power, political power, sin power, or the power of the flesh?
Is it financial power they are singing about, because I can’t see the greatness of God’s supernatural power that flows from the womb of His holiness in their lives!!!
Yes, I can’t see their lives flaming with the Power of God’s consuming glory and their enemies submitting to them. You do not see the enemy submitting to them, rather you see the enemy of sin, Satan, and the corrupt world ruling over them.
Many can’t cast out a demon, heal the sick, raise the dead as Jesus had commanded or get people filled with the Holy Ghost. Yet they sing, “I am walking in power.” Well, they may be walking in power, as they sing, but obviously it is not God’s power they are walking in. It is other powers!
SADLY, MOST CHRISTIANS WHO SING THAT SONG ARE REALLY WALKING IN SEXUAL POWER.
They live in all kinds of sexual sins and use it to get economic freedom, then come out to sing, “I’m walking in power…” Friend, God does not want this trend to continue that is why He is calling us to deep intimacy.
The source of the power that your enemies will submit to is the glory of God. The Bible described that source as, “the womb of His Holiness.” In other words, the very place where God’s Holiness flow from is the same place God’s power flow from!!
That is why people who truly walk in God’s power also walk in God’s Holiness.
People like Elisha in the Old Testament were very powerful prophets and also very Holy men of God; all at the same time. The early apostles where men of power who did marvelous things in the name of Jesus; they were also Holy apostles of Jesus Christ – not like the sinful ones we have today.
The source of God’s power is where His Holiness also flows from. You cannot therefore be powerful and sinful. It is not possible. If you see a man or woman of God that is both sinful and powerful, that power did not come from God. It came from the evil one. That is why Jesus told the disciples;
“Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.” Luke 19:20 NKJV
This scripture means, devils can be subjected to you without your name being written in the book of life. And that happens when the power you are walking in is not from the womb of God’s Holiness – the place where God’s true power flows from.
To get to the place where God’s power flows from, you must be deep with the true God; not devils that supply supernatural power to many who are in church today. You must embrace the revelation of deep intimacy with God.
Deep intimacy with GOD is the only key that turns His power on in our lives.
When the apostles gave themselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word, they walked in the greatness of God’s power. They turned their world upside down and devils screamed wherever they went. But today, the reverse seems to be the case.
We drink Oil, use salt, light up candles, use mats, and prayer cloths to pray, and do all the sorcery things ignorant and perverted ministers of the gospel invented, yet do not walk in the power that God’s holy apostles and prophets walked in in Bible days.
At best some demonic manifestation will show up and we will call it God!
There is a clarion call from the Throne Room of God to us here on earth; a clarion call to DEEP INTIMACY. Only those who are deep with Jesus Christ will be strengthened with the power that comes from God’s glory and do exploits.
If you will therefore, give yourself entirely to prayers and to the ministry of the word as the early church did, you will truly walk in the greatness of God’s power and see your enemies submit themselves to you.
That is the message of today’s devotional!!!
MAKE THESE SCRIPTURAL VERSES AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR TODAY;
“Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.” Luke 24:49 NKJV
And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Luke 10:18-19 NKJV