TODAY’S DEVOTION (TUESDAY 1st OCTOBER 2024)
“These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
“For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error.
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.
For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.” 2 Peter 2:17-21 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 275TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF IMPACT.
Glory be to The LORD God for His mercies, compassion, kindness, and marvelous helps. We have entered the tenth month of the year, with God by our side. We give Him the glory for His unconditional love.
This morning, God has a word for us. It is not just a word to start the day, but a word to start the month. We want to look at schooling in the ways of God; the essence of discipleship.
To start with, it is important to note that, no one who gives their lives to Christ will make it to Heaven if they remain ignorant of His ways. Yes, salvation will be false and hypocritical, if we are ignorant of the ways of the LORD.
If we do not make schooling in the ways of the LORD the main thrust of our faith, we will be fake. The originality of the Christian faith germinates from a heart that is established in the revelation of God’s ways.
The present Church is full of eastern ways, and very barren of God’s ways. That is why we have sorcerers called prophets, pot breakers called fathers of faith, sex predators called men and women of God and all that.
It is important to note that, if you are barren of the knowledge of God’s ways, you will become fertile enough for sins, iniquities and trespasses to grow out of your life. The faith that was delivered to the saints by the hands of the early Church, was centered on teaching men and women God’s ways.
That is why today, wherever the great commission is carried out without omission, you will see discipleship or a schooling in the ways of God at the centre of gospel activities.
The standard will be, as soon as one gives his or her life to Christ, the next thing he or she should spend his or her days doing, is schooling in the ways of the LORD.
GIVING YOUR LIFE TO CHRIST WITHOUT SPENDING THE REST OF YOUR DAYS SCHOOLING IN HIS WILL AND WAYS, WILL NOT DO YOU ANY GOOD.
The Bible teaches that knowing the will of the LORD, seeing His face, and Hearing His voice should be the purpose of your life as soon as you meet the LORD.
Sadly, because of the absence of this standard in so many local Churches, you find many who gave their lives to Christ taking it back, by not walking in His ways after professing faith in Him; some out of ignorance.
The greatest danger on the face of the earth is not the most dreaded disease you can think of. The greatest danger on the face of the earth is “ignorance of the ways of the LORD.” They are the very ways that when we follow, we find peace, healing, restoration, purity, hope, eternal vision, and etc.
Sadly, the most important thing the world needs, is the revelation of the ways of the LORD.
The world is full of darkness because the world is ignorant of the ways of the LORD. Darkness is the breeding ground of criminalities, poverty, diseases, insecurity, social ills, sin, and all that makes the lives of men horrible.
If not for the restraining power of the Most High God, we would have drifted into major global crisis outlines in the book of revelation. Though they are still on the way coming; God’s restraining hand is responsible for not allowing the human race to annihilate itself.
Ignorance of the ways of the LORD, is the worst form of ignorance on the face of the earth. No matter how literate you are, you are still ignorant if you are not schooled in the ways of the LORD. The world is passing away!
The Bible actually warned those of us who are saved that the world is passing away. And that those who love the world will pass away along with it.
If you will not pass away with the world as a Child of God, you must love the LORD enough to be schooled in His ways, with a ready heart to walk in what you are taught. And one of the major ways of the LORD we must all be schooled in, especially these end times, is “how not to love the world.”
YES, NOT HOW TO MAKE MONEY, GET MARRIED, OR COME OUT OF GENERATION BONDAGES, BUT HOW NOT TO LOVE THE WORLD.
The reason is simple; it’s our love for the world that hinders us from succeeding in our walk with GOD. It’s our love for the world that has sold us to generational bondages and other forms of spiritual captivities.
Demons are sitting in many households and afflicting them from generation to generation with unprecedented attacks because they do not know the LORD. They love the world, have no relationship with the LORD, hence living under the attacks of the enemy!
If you will not see what your father or mother suffered, repeating itself in your life as a Child of GOD, you must not love the world neither the things that are in the world. The word of the LORD God almighty says;
“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life — is not of the Father but is of the world.
And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.” 1 John 2:15-17 NKJV
It is important that we love the LORD strong enough to turn away from the world. Not loving the LORD enough to turn to His way and forsake the ways of the world is the reason for many so call generational curses.
Many Christians who are seeing what happened to their parents or grandparents repeating itself in their lives, are having it that way because they have not totally turned from the ways of the world. And instead of them realizing that, you find them dealing with it the wrong way!
You find them running after prophets and prophetesses who specialize in DEMONOLOGY instead of THEOLOGY.
Demonology is the study of demons but theology is the study of the revelation of who God is. It is they that know their God that will be strong and carry out great exploits, not they that know demons.
The Bible says people should “learn about God from our mouths” (as preachers) and not about devils – yet we teach them what they should not learn about in the guise of not being ignorant of the devices of the devil – revelations that will never help them carry out any exploit in life.
YOU FIND THIS UNFORTUNATE SOULS RUNNING AFTER THESE DEMON SPECIALISTS, WITHOUT SOLUTION TO THEIR PROBLEMS.
Instead of getting solutions for their spiritual problems, the specialists are the ones receiving solution to their financial problems. They use the predicaments of these precious souls to solve their financial problems, leaving them hoping for breakthroughs that will never come.
It sad and a thing that can bring tears out of one’s eyes
Friend if there is something in your lineage that seems to be repeating itself in your life, you do not need a curse breaking service to come out of it. Neither do you need to take a prophet or intercessor to your village to pray.
You do not need to give money to anyone.
All you need is to learn how not to love the world or the things that are in the world. Learn the ways of the LORD, and align with His word and all of that will leave you alone, or you will leave them alone.
Love the LORD not the world and all will be well in your world.
If that software that makes men love the world and the things that are in the world is deleted from your spirit, and the power of the Holy Ghost kindled in your life, nothing your parents or entire lineage went through will be repeated in your life!
I have studied the Bible, my life and that of others around me, and come to realize that what makes household demons to repeated in a current generation what they did in a previous generation, is the dust of sin, an alignment with the ways of the evil one, and a love for the evil and corrupt system of this world.
If we deal with these things, it will be impossible for the devils to find a common ground to repeat in our lives what they did in the lives of our fathers. That is the breakthrough key that virtually all deliverance ministers in church today seems not to know, hence leading people astray!
A MAJOR HIGHLIGHT IN OUR DEVOTIONAL TEXT DESCRIBE THEM THIS WAY;
“These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error.
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.” 2 Peter 2:17-20 NKJV
What is the message of our devotional this morning? The message is simple. God is saying to us if we will be free from every evil works, we must learn how not to love the world or the things in the world.
The things in the world, are things that evoke lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life. If these things can be erased away from our lives, we will be free from generational curses, evil altars and all that make believers in Christ run after prophets and prophetesses.
It’s my prayer that God do more marvelous things in our lives this month. That He use these words to enhance our peace this month, and increase our dominion, in Jesus’ precious name, Amen!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY
“So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” Acts 20:32 NKJV