TODAY’S DEVOTION (SATURDAY 9TH NOVEMBER 2024)
For a long time Israel has been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law; but when in their trouble they turned to the Lord God of Israel, and sought Him, He was found by them.
And in those times there was no peace to the one who went out, nor to the one who came in, but great turmoil was on all the inhabitants of the lands.
So nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every adversity. 2 Chronicles 15:3-6 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 314TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF IMPACT.
It is another end of week, and we thank God for sparing our lives. His mercies are indeed new every morning. Great is His faithfulness.
Talking about God’s Mercies, the kingdom of God is not like the kingdom of men. It functions on clear Bible truth platforms. One of the platforms is how spiritual benefits and blessings increases in the lives of God’s Kingdom Citizens.
The Bible teaches that spiritual benefits and blessings, increases in our lives by the power of what we feed on spiritually, and also diminish when we are not properly fed spiritually.
That is why the greatest invitation of God to the human race – an act of God’s mercy itself – has been to come and be fed spiritually. The Bible says, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God'” (Luke 4:4 NKJV). A large percentage of the Bible is a call to spiritual feeding.
In fact, God said to mankind through His prophet Isaiah,
“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword”; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken” Isaiah 1:18-20 NKJV
The sword is not the sword of the LORD, but the dangerous swords of personal sins, ignorance of God, and etc. in our hands and the sword of the enemy. The Bible teaches that to escape them we should come to sit with the LORD and reason together with Him.
When we reason together with GOD, He will feed us with choice spiritual truths.
In simple terms, our spirits are fed whenever we sit down with God to reason together with Him through corporate or private study of the Bible. So, the call to come reason together with the LORD is a call to be fed spiritually.
SADLY, SO MANY ARE YET TO OBEY THIS CALL. THAT IS WHY YOU FIND PEOPLE, EVEN IN CHURCH DEVOURED BY SWORDS.
The Bible says if we are willing to be fed and obedient enough to make spiritual feeding our highest priority in our Christian life, we shall eat the good of the land. The good of the land is not just the earthly blessings of the nation or City of our residence. That is what it was to the nation of Israel. But to us the spiritual nation of Israel, it is more.
The land is no longer just a natural land but Christ Himself.
The Bible says, “the LORD is my portion in the land of the living.” Christ is the portion of all who are truly saved in a wicked world like ours. The good of the land therefore, is the riches of God’s Mercy, the riches of His grace and the riches of His glory.
The very riches we enjoy at “the Cry of the Spirit Ministries.” Hallelujah!
In simple terms, the good of the land for the saved and sanctified, is the blessing of knowing Christ and making Him your portion in the land of the living; a blessing that can only come through proper spiritual feeding. That blessing manifest in your life as the riches of His mercies, the riches of His grace, and the riches of His glory.
Sadly, many saved and sanctified people do not have these three-fold blessing in their lives.
They have the labels on their lips but do not have the content. They do not have the content because they have not plugged into God’s spiritual feeding program.
Until we plug into God’s proper feeding program, we will not have these blessings manifesting in our lives. If these three blessings are not manifesting in our lives, we will not be saved from our own swords or the swords of our enemies; and until we are saved from our own swords, and the sword of the enemy, we will not fulfil God’s assignment for our lives.
So many are just living lives that are controlled by carnal ambitions, feelings, and difficult seasons of life. They do not have the riches of God’s mercies, the riches of His grace, and the riches of His glory that enables the elimination of piercing swords and the release of destiny.
THE REASON THEY DO NOT HAVE THAT IS LACK OF PROPER SPIRITUAL FEEDING.
As a believer in Christ, you must understand that there is a proper spiritual feeding program of God for the end time church. It is not just for the end time Church, but for the entire human race. You will never enjoy the good of knowing Christ until you plug into this program and begin to draw your spiritual daily food from it.
If there is any time to quit Churches where they do not feed you but practice charismatic witchcraft and sorcery on you, it is now.
Many preachers are not feeding the sheep. They are fooling the sheep of Jesus Christ. You must discern that and escape for your eternal life.
A pastor, prophet, apostle, or priest who lack capacity to properly feed you spiritually, especially with the doctrine of Christ; will always be feeding you with deadly things like revelations of the depth of Satan, divination, sorcery, secular humanism, humanistic philosophies, and etc.
Others, in the guise of administering deliverance to you, will be asking you for money, with some asking women to sleep with them as a deliverance ritual, or use sand, salt, brooms, clothes, water, mustard seeds, and etc. to pray.
The easiest way to rebel against God’s call “to come and be fed,” is to get stuck to one heretic teacher, lying prophet or prophetess, or get hooked up to a Church that does not feed you properly but take away all your monies properly.
That is why there is no Christian generation that rebelled against spiritual feeding that did not fall on the sword of their enemies. It is the good of the land transmitted into our life through God’s spiritual feeding program that save us from the sword of our enemies or the consequences of our carnal and sinful decisions.
Heaven knows that since we left the Garden of Eden, spiritual malnutrition has been our greatest spiritual disease. That is why you see “proper spiritual feeding program” by the hands of God’s teaching priest (prophets and apostles) in every deployment of God’s mercy in His redemptive plans.
No Child of GOD can successfully pass through a season of no “proper spiritual feeding” without losing one thing or the other. That is why whenever God deploy mercy to a people, He will get them plugged to any ministry that is part of His feeding program on earth.
GOD WILL NEVER LEAVE A TRUE BELIEVER TO THE MERCY OF CHARLATANS. HE WILL ALWAYS PLUG THEM TO HIS FEEDING PROGRAM.
In fact, our devotional text tells us what happened to Israel one season of their lives when there were no men and women of GOD to feed them properly in the things of God. It says,
“For a long time Israel has been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law; but when in their trouble they turned to the Lord God of Israel, and sought Him, He was found by them.
And in those times there was no peace to the one who went out, nor to the one who came in, but great turmoil was on all the inhabitants of the lands.
So nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every adversity.”
If you look at this scripture carefully you will see a nation of God’s people living in a time and season where there was no proper spiritual feeding program for them. It says “For a long time Israel has been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.”
The same plague is upon us today.
There are preachers without the true God, doing the work of God. There are believers without the true God, without a teaching priest (accurate interpreter of divine will), and without law today. Yet, they know nothing about it. Satan has blinded their minds not to know they are in such a state.
The first consequence of this spiritual condition, is usually the emergence of an earthly need-based relationship with God. This kind of relationship reduces God into a good luck charm or a shrine you only run to when there is trouble. That is how Israel lived during those times. That is how many are living their Christian lives today.
In as much as it is great to have our problems solved by the LORD, our serving Him should not be founded on that. It will grant us our heart desire but send leanness to our souls, making us Heaven unworthy.
LET HE THAT HAS AN EAR, HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT IS SAYING TO THE CHURCHES.
The next consequence of the spiritual state of not having the true God, His teaching priest, or law in your life, is more grievous, as we can see in the lives of the ancient Israelites. The Bible says nation was destroyed by nation, and city by City, for GOD trouble them with every adversity.
I mean God troubled them, not demons troubled them.
This has become very true in the lives of many in our generation as well. Due to lack of a proper spiritual feeding, there is no peace in their lives; cities, Churches, marriages, businesses, families, finances, etc. Many move from Church to Church and place to place, looking for succour but finds none.
Even many of those who might be reading this had no proper spiritual program until they stumble into these devotionals. The devotionals are actually part of God’s global spiritual feeding program. That is why I began by urging us not just to read, but to chew the truths here.
If God bring a spiritual feeding program your way, you must open up your spirit to receive it into your life to experience the blessing!
As we bring this devotional to a close, I want you to understand that the Cry of the Spirit ministry is a product of God’s global spiritual feeding program for the End Time. If you are part of the house, just know that God has plugged you into a proper spiritual feeding program for your life.
The great call of God on you, is to be fed properly. Do not forget, whenever mercy says “no” over a people in perils, God will connect them to a spiritual feeding program to heal, deliver, then raise and build them up to do His blessed will.
LET THIS SCRIPTUTE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY!
“And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.
“At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.” Jeremiah 3:15-17 KJV