TODAY’S DEVOTION (SUNDAY 24TH NOVEMBER 2024)
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Romans 8:31-35 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 329TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF IMPACT.
This is the day our LORD God has made, we shall rejoice and be glad in it. His presence has been going before us and obviously, He has given us rest.
If you cut off the presence of GOD from your life, either through spiritual recklessness or rebellion, you will not have any beauty in your life. Things will just start dying, and if you are not taught properly, you will begin to run after false prophets and all that for help; raising altars and doing all they tell you to do which will never solve your problems permanently.
We must understand what God established in time to help us survive the rigors and troubles of living within time.
Talking about time, I want you to understand that though God lives in Eternity where there is no time, He created time for the purpose of the execution of His redemptive plans. While living here, we need His presence to be administering His mercies into our lives, every second, minute, hour, day, week, month or year.
It is His mercies that makes our walk and talk with Him special.
It is His mercies that we should trust to preserve us from the sword of our enemies, the anger and attacks of the aggrieved, the venom of the serpents, and the fires of the dragon.
Yes, it is God’s mercy that saves from the snares of the wicked, the pits that men did for others to fall in, and the terror that walks either by night or by day. So, having His presence ministering His mercies in our lives is key to a blissful living on earth.
The mercies that His presence administers will make sure that the expectation of the wicked concerning us are disappointed. It will speak for us during an attack of the enemy, especially when we cannot speak for ourselves.
God’s mercy has a way of disappointing the craftiness of the wicked so that their hands do not perform their enterprise.
I don’t know what threat you are facing, but I know that if you carry the manifest presence of the LORD in your life, it will administer the mercies you need to come out well. Do not forget, God’s eternal presence makes His mercies to flow from everlasting to everlasting.
IF THERE IS ANY SIN IN YOUR LIFE, JUST REPENT OF IT AND LET THE FULLNESS OF GOD’S MERCIES MANIFEST IN YOUR LIFE.
The Bible says He commanded His love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. If God will love us while we were yet sinners, how much more now that His blood has washed us from filths and sin and made us a righteous seed. That is why our devotional text today is very significant.
It was based on this revelation and divine conviction that Paul, a true apostle of grace, wrote to the church at Rome saying;
“For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39 NKJV
So long as we remain in paths designed by the Righteous One, nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God. It is that love that keeps us from evil and all the enemy do muster against us.
The reason we need to keep living on paths designed by our Righteous GOD is because, persistent sin and rebellion has a way of separating men from the rescue plan in the love of God for them. It separated Sodom and Gomorrah from it and many others even in the New Testament.
God sent warnings to them but they would not listen. I believe before Ananias and the wife could die in the presence of the LORD, they had been warned of lying over and over by the Holy Spirit.
The Bible teaches that God is not short tempered, that He is patient with us, not willing that any should perish. The day they died, they exhausted His patience. They separated themselves from His love!
It’s very important at this point to understand that the only person that can separate us from the love of God is us; when we take sides with sin and the devil over time, and start doing his bidding, we bring upon ourselves the consequences of our sin.
Outside that, nothing can separate us from the love of God! That is why the Bible admonishes that we keep ourselves in the love of God. You will carry the manifest presence of God if you keep yourself in the love of God.
JESUS TAUGHT THAT WE KEEP OURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD, BY KEEPING HIS WORDS OR COMMANDMENTS.
If you become one who is sold out to keeping the word of the LORD, you will be one with amazing presence of the LORD in your life. Jesus said.
….. “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.” John 14:23-24 NKJV
Take responsibility of your life! It is our job to keep ourselves in the love of God by obeying His word!
Sadly, the heretic preachers among us, who call themselves the preachers of grace, do not know that. They do not tell us that it is our responsibility to keep ourselves in the love of God by making use of His saving grace upon our lives to obey Him and live right.
They do not tell us that if we do not keep ourselves in the love of God His mercy will cease speaking for us and making way for us among the living.
Child of God it’s a new day! If anyone deceive you, do not deceive yourself. You need God’s mercy to navigate through the waters of hate, spiritual warfare, lack, and all evil works. But you must learn to keep yourself in the love of God for the mercy to navigate through to reach you.
You must keep yourself in the love of God to overcome the attacks of those who want you dead this year, or any other. You need to keep yourself in the love of God to overcome any spiritual arrows that may be shot against you or yours.
Keeping yourself in the LOVE of God will keep you from the reach of your enemies. It is the most effective way to put the covering of God over your life. It is stronger than the prophecy of any prophet, or prayer of any apostle.
It is more effective than any prayer-cover. It will defeat curses that might be spoken into your life, and most time return them back to senders. It will make sure the enemy cannot find you to destroy. It will cause the glory of God to surround you and His peace to be in your life.
If you keep yourself in the love of God, it will not matter who might be against you, all will be well with you.
No one will be able to destroy you. People who keep themselves in the love of God, have the Holy Ghost as the destroyer of their destruction.
GOD IS ALWAYS FOR THEM, AND NO ONE CAN BE AGAINST THEM.
They will receive strength to run over walls, run through troops, escape the edge of swords, turn to flight the armies of darkness, paralyze the plans of their enemies, and frustrate the counsels of the ungodly.
If you keep yourself in the love of God, you have kept yourself from all that might come against you from the pit of hell. You have kept yourself from curses, untimely death, sudden destruction, evil men and women, the sword of wicked and unreasonable people, secret killers, haters and etc.
Our devotional text today, is full of truths of the very power of keeping yourself in the LOVE of God, especially by obeying His commandments. Some major highlights says;
“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
…Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.”
If you want to see this scripture practically expressing itself in your life, then learn to keep yourself in the love of God. Not in the good books of people. Having your name in the good books of people will never help you maximally. You must keep yourself in the love of God to enjoy the best of Him.
This life can be beautiful. Yes, the peace and prosperity of God, can become the hallmark of your life. All you will need to do is to embrace the truth in this devotional and begin to live your days keeping yourself in the love of God. Amen!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY:
“You whom I [the Lord] have taken from the ends of the earth and have called from the corners of it, and said to you, You are My servant — I have chosen you and not cast you off [even though you are exiled].”
“Fear not [there is nothing to fear], for I am with you; do not look around you in terror and be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen and harden you to difficulties, yes, I will help you; yes, I will hold you up and retain you with My [victorious] right hand of rightness and justice.”
“Behold, all they who are enraged and inflamed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; they who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.”
“You shall seek those who contend with you but shall not find them; they who war against you shall be as nothing, as nothing at all.
“For I the Lord your God hold your right hand; I am the Lord, Who says to you, Fear not; I will help you!”
“Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I will help you, says the Lord; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.” Isaiah 41:9-14 AMPC