TODAY’S DEVOTION (FRIDAY 4TH OCTOBER 2024)
“To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;
to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him.
Therefore I ask that you do not lose heart at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. Ephesians 3:8-13 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 278TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF IMPACT.
We thank God for divine protection, but we are already sailing some trouble zones in the spirit realm as humans.
The earth is experiencing a terrible traffic in the spirit realm. Beings are moving from hell to the earth in alarming proportion – they are almost jamming themselves because of the urgency that the evil one has placed on them.
These things could be weird or even strange to you but are very real. The devil is doing all that because of the shortness of the time that is still left for his final judgment. The Bible says,
Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.” Revelation 12:12 NKJV
Friend, only the devil really knows how short his time has become in our generation; hence the massive deployment of forces from hell to the earth.
He is deploying forces to the earth, specifically the systems of this world and all that is not founded in divine will, in his last push against the Kingdom of light. The Church is not even left out in this massive deployment of the satanic regiment from hell.
The reason is simple; a lot in so many Church circles are not founded in God’s will, hence functioning as shelters for satanic onslaughts against God’s end time people and programs.
One of the massive forces he has deployed, have been sent to the pulpit (the clergy) and pews (the laity) of most departments of the present Church. That is why we find so many false or out of order preachers today. There are those in the religions of this world, but my concern is the Church because that is my constituency.
The enemy is raising very terrific, accurate but false prophets, on the continents of our sin infected world to do his bidding.
IN AFRICA, THERE WAS A TIME THAT SOUTH AFRICA WAS THE WORST HIT.
Those God exposed in some places around Africa, ran there to South Africa to fester and haunt for souls. Sadly, East and West Africa are not left out! Today, West Africa has become the training ground of these army of Satan.
Wrapped in garments of flamboyancy, armed with lips of accurate prophecies by the power of sorcery many call prophecy, these special forces of hell, are stealing the minds of the naïve and gullible.
Friend, there is a complete repetition of the ministry of the sorcerer in Acts chapter 8 in our generation. Concerning this pseudo prophet, the Bible says;
“But there was a certain man called Simon, who previously practiced sorcery in the city and astonished the people of Samaria, claiming that he was someone great, to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the great power of God.”
And they heeded him because he had astonished them with his sorceries for a long time. Acts 8:9-12 NKJV
Child of God, there is a second coming of ancient devils in our generation. They Copy paste so they can establish their deceit in the hearts of men.
I remember sharing about the mystery of evil patterns in our 50 Days Wings of the Spirit. We saw how the enemy can get into the patterns of GOD, draw them on the lives of earth men, to establish his evil works. That is the real evil pattern, not the one preached by so called deliverance ministers.
Two major areas the ministries of some of these false prophets and prophetesses flow, is money and deliverance; or prosperity and protection.
They lead NEED BASED MINISTRIES and tailor their prophecies according to the carnal needs of people, thereby having a lot of crowds that gather around for their worship and adoration, calling them “great power of God!”
Whenever I see such crowds and naïve people around the Simon the sorcerers of our generation, I see how huge hell is enlarging itself, and how populated the way that lead to eternal damnation is!
BUT GOD ALSO HAS PROGRAM – A REDEMPTIVE PROGRAM FOR THESE PRECIOUS SOULS.
Yes, as we are seeing in the apple of the eyes of the Spirit, there is a move of God to deliver those who are trapped in “Broad Way Gospel Ministries.” There is an ongoing program of God to delivers His people, and due to the nature of the spiritual war, most of these moves are classified.
If you are wondering if God has classified information in His kingdom, here is a scripture that will help you discern the right answer to that. The Bible says;
“The secret things belong unto the Lord our God, but the things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all of the words of this law.” Deuteronomy 29:29 AMP
The secret things that belong to the LORD are the classified revelations from Heaven that sometimes He will share with few ears and tell them, “Seal it till the time appointed by the Father.” The Bible says such revelations belong to the LORD.
But the ones that are DECLASSIFIED or REVEALED, belong to us, the Sons of the Kingdom, and our families. They are revealed so that we may do the words contain in them!
Yes, these ones that are designed to be declassified, are calling on us to come up higher to get them declassified. There are things that were classified in previous Church generations that are being de-classified in our generation – things hidden from them for us!
Speaking about the reality of the existence of these things in Christ, Paul wrote to the Church at Corinth saying;
“To me, less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, to announce among the nations the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of the Christ, and to enlighten all [with the knowledge of] what is the administration of the mystery hidden throughout the ages in God, who has created all things, Ephesians 3:8-9 Darby
This is a rendering of a portion of the Darby translation taken from our devotional text today – a scriptural text that reveal the possibility of coming into things that were hidden from a previous generation, primarily to be revealed or declassified in a current generation.
Paul woke up to this reality, and became a custodian of revelations that were concealed from previous generations, to be unsealed in his generation.
IT WAS NOT JUST FOR HIS GENERATION, BUT OURS ALSO.
That was one of the reasons why he suffered more than all other apostles. The life of a custodian of the quality of truth he carried, is not always smooth. That is why we find very few people in every age carrying the very truth He carried, things we can still find in the scriptures.
There are in scriptures but no one want to carry them. They just want to leave them there, because of the price.
As we can see in the lives of those who found them in scriptures and carried them in the age and time they found themselves, the price is always very heavy to pay. It usually involves dying daily for the life of God to be made manifest through a man.
I submit to you that the heaviest thing to carry, is a heavenly treasure dispatched for the earth. However, no matter the weight, each generation must wake up to things that are hidden from previous generation for them. Until that happens, they will not be able to unleash their God given destiny accurately.
Moses had to get what was hidden for his age and time declassified before moving from being the adopted son of the daughter of Pharaoh, to becoming a Son of GOD. He became the first, and maybe the only mortal man to have literally spoken to GOD the Son face to face apart from Enoch and Elijah, before He became flesh.
This man Moses tapped into things that were hidden from Abraham – a friend of GOD – things hidden from Abraham, his father, for his generation.
That tells me that no matter the friendship between a man and GOD, if certain things are not for his generation, God will not reveal them to him.
I remember understanding this when I asked the LORD to reveal what He was showing me to the fathers of faith in my nation. It was like a Samuel in Eli’s house experience.
In my finite reasoning, if he reveals to them, it would bring the reformation He was talking about faster. Now I know, Abraham, though friend of GOD, was not allowed to know Him as Jehovah.
HE JUST KNEW HIM AS GOD ALMIGHTY.
The Bible says;
“ And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am ||the LORD: 3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of cGod Almighty, but by my name dJEHOVAH was I not known to them.” Exodus 6:2-3 KJV
Moses was one man who tapped into a system of divine communication reserved only for those who step out of their mortal bodies while in his mortal body. He touched things that we may never touch until we get to the parley gates of heaven.
Friend, there are no words to describe the glorious things we will tap into in Christ Jesus, if we come into the revelation of things hidden from previous Church generation for our generation.
Moses stepped into the very plane reserved for his generation to become like God to Pharaoh. We will never remain the same if we do; if we step into the plane for our generation. Don’t forget, when God elevated Moses to that plane, He said to Him;
“See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet (Exodus 7:1 NKJV)!
One thing I know about coming into the revelation of classified things for our generation is this, it helps us to partake of a higher measure of the divine nature, and makes us gods to the devils of our days and time.
I submit to you that you may never become what GOD created you to be in this generation until you encounter secret things classified in previous generation to be declassified in our generation – things hidden from previous generations for your generation.
Come to think of it, as great as Abraham was, God hid things from him for Moses to come into. For Abraham, it was for a righteous course.
Yes, as great as many preachers in our generation may be in our sight, there are things in the Bible that God deliberately hid from them to reveal to us, the younger generation. The truth is, no matter how much they read the Bible, they will never see those things.
For some, it’s their greedy and spiritually depraved hearts that are responsible. For very humble few, it is divine. That is why it is unwise for any one among the older generation not to accept a truth from a younger generation.
So many truths in scriptures are wrongly presented by the older generation of our age and time. If you allow their age or wealth to serve as the validity of the accuracy of what they may be teaching or preaching, you will be lost.
Until you come into the revelation of the scriptural truths hidden from the Older Generation of our age and time, you will never partake of higher measures of the divine nature. That is the word of the LORD.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!
When the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh. For with a strong hand he will let them go, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.” And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I am the Lord.
I APPEARED TO ABRAHAM, TO ISAAC, AND TO JACOB, AS GOD ALMIGHTY, BUT BY MY NAME LORD I WAS NOT KNOWN TO THEM.
I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers.
And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant ….. burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.
I will take you as My people, and I will be your God. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
And I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I will give it to you as a heritage: I am the Lord.'”
So Moses spoke thus to the children of Israel; but they did not heed Moses, because of anguish of spirit and cruel bondage. Exodus 6:1-9 NKJV