TODAY’S DEVOTION (SATURDAY 2ND NOVEMBER 2024)
“But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.” Hebrews 12:22-24 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 307TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF IMPACT.
I can’t believe we are in the eleventh month of the year. God is faithful! I can’t be tired of saying that.
God is faithful, He is faithful, and will remain faithful. It is His faithfulness that we have fed on since January to this day. He is faithful, yes, He is. It is His faithfulness that we will keep feeding on until our days are over.
I remember preaching a message during our 2015 New Year Prophetic Assembly titled, “Feeding on His Faithfulness.” That prophetic word sat upon our lives, and have been speaking into us daily. It became a major anchor of my soul. It has seen us through for nearly ten years now.
I believe it will see us through even to the end of our days in Jesus precious name, amen.
The most beautiful thing that can ever happen to a man is salvation experience. You may have experienced the best boat rides in the world. You may have experienced the best entertainment or financial empowerment in the world.
Whatever glorious you may have experienced in this life is cheap compared to a genuine salvation experience. That is what the president of the most powerful country in the world has never experienced.
It is an experience that places the poorest of the poor on a pedestal that even the richest man in the world cannot acquire with all his wealth.
IT IS A TREASURE THAT CANNOT EVEN BE FOUND ON THE RICHEST PLACES OF THE EARTH.
It is a treasure that separates the sons of Light from the sons of darkness. It is a treasure that makes a man happy, even when there is nothing to be excited about. It makes him supernatural. That is why I said, the greatest encounter you can have on earth, is a salvation encounter.
Yes, a genuine salvation encounter. The fountain of a genuine salvation experience is a genuine salvation encounter. But it is not just an experience; it is a translation from one realm to another. Our devotional text calls that realm “Mount Zion.”
On major thing you find in mount Zion is the blood of Jesus that speaks better things than that of Abel. In other words, the blood speaking God’s mercy upon you. That is a revelation to allow into your soul. Do not forget, this is your month of “GOD’S MERCY.”
Let that sink into your heart and be an answer to all that devils might say to you. God’s mercy is unique and manifest in so many ways.
One way it manifest is by making sure we do not receive the punishments we deserve. So, this is a season of repentance so that we will not receive what we deserved. It’s a season of putting the evil, dark or bad things you do, so that the mercy of God can take care of the consequences.
David said, God’s goodness (Grace) and mercy, shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD, forever and ever. God’s goodness or grace, gives us what we do not deserve, but God’s Mercy makes sure we do not get what we deserve.
A month of God’s mercy is a month of not getting what we deserve. That is the best way to understand this month. Under God’s grace, you receive what you do not deserve, but under God’s mercy, you do not receive what you deserve. His mercies just cover you.
So, when the devil wants to give you what you deserve, tell Him, “it’s not for me. God has said I will not get what I deserve this month.” Amen!! That is the prophetic word to make warfare with this month.
THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT WE NEED BOTH GOD’S GRACE AND MERCY TO SURVIVE OR THRIVE ON THIS EARTH.
There are people today who do not deserve having children because of what they did when they got pregnant maybe out of wedlock. There are men today who do not deserve a wife because of what they did with the hearts of the young women who loved them unconditionally.
There are women who do not deserve a husband because of what they did with the loving ones God gave them. But in a month of getting what we do not deserve, God is abolishing the curses that sprang up from those bad behaviors, and healing the breaches. Hallelujah!!
It is important that you believe His word and come into freedom, and begin to seek the LORD to give you what His mercies has unlocked for you; to give you the things you do not deserve but are needed in your life, for you to be what He has created you to be.
Yes, there are people who do not deserve having a job because of what they did with the ones they once had. But in this month of mercy, God is saying the breach is healed, the curse is broken.
There are people who do not deserve Heaven because of what they did to preachers God sent to them. But in this month of God’s mercy, there is a voice from the blood of Jesus Christ, speaking right now, and calling for their repentance and restoration, so that they can become worthy of the Heaven they do not deserve.
Yes, God’s grace is also working here. Remember, God’s grace is we receiving what we do not deserve; the miracles, healings, jobs, peace, families, privileges and etc. Understand that, when mercy speaks, grace wakes up and goes to work.
God had said, “I will have mercy.” When God says I will have mercy, one of the many things He mean is, He will not give us any punishment or consequences of sins we deserve, because we have repented. That is when His grace will begin to work to bring all we do not deserve into our lives. Hallelujah!!!
Our devotional text tells of the Blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel that cried for justices in Genesis chapter 4. Yes, it cried for justice and God wanted Cain to repent and receive mercy from the cry, but he was hardened.
I PRAY NO ONE WILL BE HARDENED THIS MORNING.
The Bible says,
“To Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.” Hebrew 12:24
The blood of Abel spoke vengeance, and that was justified because Cain never repented. But the blood of Jesus speaks mercy today; and will keep speaking mercy until the Day of Judgment. In the Day of Judgment, it will no longer speak mercy, but justice – which will mean final punishment for all un-repented sins of humanity.
The blood of sprinkling today, is actually the blood of Jesus, that was sprinkled on the altar of GOD in Heaven on the day of His resurrection.
It cancelled all consequences of sin, and the legal rights of the devil over us, and everything that may be speaking against us in any realm of the spiritual. We only need to come into repentance to be positioned not to get what we deserve.
Paul in his letter to the Colossian church, captured it this way;
“And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.” Colossians 2:13-15 NKJV
These are the scriptural revelations that make God’s Mercy the greatest utterance in Heaven and on earth. The utterance is stronger than any utterance from anyone on earth, anointed or not anointed, angry or happy, wicked or weak.
Whoever speak an evil word against us, what the blood says is stronger. That is why the Bible says, no weapon formed against us shall prosper, and that any tongue that rises against us in judgment, shall be condemned. The utterance of the blood of Jesus, will condemn it.
IT IS THE ONLY UTTERANCE THAT YOU NEED TO BE FREE FROM ANCESTRAL FORCES, EVIL FOUNDATIONS, GENERATIONAL CURSES AND ETC.
In this month of God’s mercy, that utterance is already activated for you.
It is stronger that the utterances of “sowing seeds.” It is the only utterance you need to be free from whatever your fathers did, not taking prophets to your village or having them speak into your life.
Most do not know that most prophets who speak into people’s lives are evil. That is why they get offended when you leave their churches and begin to curse you.
It is very important to note that, if prophets speak into your life, but God did not speak, nothing has really been spoken. Hence, you will still be in trouble.
Ordinarily, when a prophet speaks into your life, He should be speaking into it, what God has already spoken into it, which he caught in the Spirit.
But most let-me-speak into-your-life-prophets today are alienated from God. Their greed for money and covetousness for people’s properties has separated them from Heaven’s throne where authentic prophetic utterances flow from.
They now prophesy by Baal, greed and covetousness.
I don’t care who may be speaking into your life, if the blood of Jesus has not spoken into it nothing about you will change. Your past will keep killing your present and making sure you did not step into your future; and what makes the blood to speak into your life is not the financial seeds you sow or are told to sow. It is a repentance that has conversion.
The Bible says;
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. Acts 5:19KJV
Yes, if we repent and get converted like the Prodigal son was, we will come to the place where Gods mercy will begin to deny us from getting the punishments and consequences of sin we deserve; the very place where God’s grace will be giving us what we do not deserve.
As this year ends, may you come to the place where your access to all you deserve, the punishment and consequences of sin you deserve, is denied. May you come to where your access to all you do not deserve; jobs, family, wife, father, mother, child, husband, money, opportunities, and etc., will be granted. Amen and amen!!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY
“He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.” Proverbs 28:13 NKJV