TODAY’S DEVOTION (TUESDAY 25TH FEBRUARY 2025)
“All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:27-30 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 56TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
Today we will be looking at the depths in God and the heights of faith, and how walking in the light of God brings us there.
There are four kinds of depths in God. You will never experience great heights of faith if you are not operating from the depths of God. Your spiritual roots must be developed and rooted strongly into the depths of God for your faith to be towering like the mustard tree.
That is why Christianity in shallow places is like a curse. It will never add any meaning to your life.
Going deeper in God and allowing Him to help take your spiritual roots deeper into Himself, using your faithfulness, obedience, purity, resistance to sin, tenacity, patience, devotional life, and true worship is absolutely a necessity this end times.
To move from faith to faith is God’s will, but there can be no moving from faith to faith if you do not move from one depth of God to another. It is people who move from one depth of God to another, that find themselves moving from faith to faith, and grace to grace.
However, the starting point is always the place of Divine Light. If there is no light from God, there will be no progress on our side. We will be halted by the works of darkness. Light remains the place to start from.
When we say light, we are referring to the manifestation of God’s truth, favor and presence (the presence of Jesus, the light of the world), which is the direct work of the Holy Spirit.
I have come to discover that no work of darkness can be successfully expelled out of our lives and no journey into any depth of God is possible until God’s light, a manifestation of truth, the favor and presence of the LORD is experienced.
IN GENESIS CHAPTER ONE, WE SEE HOW THAT FIXED THINGS IN THE ETERNAL PAST.
All God said and did in Genesis chapter one verse one and two shows that the manifestation of God’s light is the most effective answer to any darkness problem. Sin, sickness, poverty, and all forms of spiritual attacks are darkness problems. It will take light from the LORD to solve them.
When they are solved, barriers can be removed and a journey into the depths of God can begin.
That is why, one may pray, fast, give and do whatever seems powerful, but if the light of God is not experienced, there will be no results. If light and understanding from the LORD of Heaven and earth has not been experienced, the best we will keep having in all we may be doing is RELIEVE.
Light is experienced when we sit at the feet of the LORD to learn. That is the way we come into the rest that He promised us.
If you study the early Church, you will discover that it is people who sit at His feet to experience God’s truth, His favor and presence that comes to the depth in God where rest exist. A major highlight in the text quoted Him saying.
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”
The first thing we can see here tells us what sitting down to experience God’s truth does. It tells us what a learning posture at the feet of Jesus will do in our walk and talk with Him. We must be clear on that.
IT SAYS IT WILL BRING US TO THE PLACE OF EXPERIENCING REST FROM THE DAYS OF ADVERSITY.
He said, “take my yoke upon you and learn from me…and you will find rest for your souls.” He did not say “take bottles of oil and drink and you will find rest for your souls.” He did not say please use salt to pray, or sand, water, sticks, brooms, mats in prayer and fasting, and you will find rest for your soul.
It is always important to note what Jesus did not say if you want to experience the light of God from the Holy scriptures. He did not say give some money when you commit certain sins, and you will find rest for your soul. He did not say any of these things that many preachers are making people do.
Most Christians are in error and under the grip of heretic teachers and lying prophets because they either do not read the Bible or they read it without taking note of what Jesus did not say! They do not have the posture or faith that helps one to sit at the feet of the LORD to learn of Him.
For instance, He did not say “sow seeds for divine activation and you will find rest for your souls.” A lady who was promised marital rest was told to give a million shilling. She did and she remained restless. When you give money for what ought to come through schooling, you will never get it.
Rest from the attacks of Satan comes through schooling in the things of God, not giving. It comes through sitting down at the feet of Christ to experience God’s truth, favor and miracle working presence. Anything outside that, is a scam.
You must understand that God blessed us with more when we give according to His standard, but rest does not come through giving. If it did many of us that have been giving would have been getting it.
Rest comes through schooling in the things of GOD! It was schooling that gave me rest from the days of adversity not giving. In fact, it added efficacy to my giving. Jesus said, “learn of me and you will find rest for your souls.”
HE DID NOT SAY “GIVE TO ME.” IT IS PASTORS THAT SAY, “GIVE TO ME!!”
Now how many of us are really learning of Him? It is sad that so many churches are full of empty people; people who have not experienced Him come to talk of learn of Him. That is why He did not even say “attend any Church and you will find rest for your soul” as important as Church attendance is. He said, “learn of me!”
Meaning you can attend a church and not learn of Him.
Many preachers have a wrong motive for the ministry. That is why you find most Churches empty of the revelation of God. You find many full of the revelation of demons and all they can do in the lives of people. Others are empty of the revelation of God but full of the revelation of money making, sowing this seed and that seed because that is what profits the preachers financially!
Very few people who have been in Church for many years have really learnt of Him. That is why the majority is still restless in every aspect of Life.
The next thing we find in our devotional text shows us why Heaven attached REST to schooling. Our LORD and savior Jesus Christ said something that is very profound there. He opened my eyes to see what happens where people are schooled in the things of God and why REST is always the result.
The Bible says,
“All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
A MAJOR STATEMENT IN THIS SCRIPTURE MAKES IT CLEAR THAT IN AS MUCH AS GOD WANT TO REVEAL HIMSELF TO US, ONLY JESUS CAN REVEAL HIM TO US.
Sadly, many do not know that Jesus is God! Therefore, you will never know God until Christ is revealed to you. He is the Highest revelation of God to man on this side of eternity. Many are confused on this because they read the Bible without allowing the Holy Spirit to unveil things to them.
Some do not even have the Holy Spirit to unveil anything to them.
Maybe time has come for someone to start asking the Spirit of the LORD to reveal Christ to him or her each time they are in the place of studying the word. Jesus was man for just 33 and half years (or let me say God in man), but He is God.
To put that scripture in clear terms, we can read it this way; “no one can KNOW the Father-God except those who He the Son-GOD wills to reveal Him to.” So, when He said, “come unto me all you who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest…learn of me and you will find rest for your souls,”
He was in effect telling us WHAT we will learn of Him when we come to be schooled. We will catch the revelation of who the Father is. The Father will be revealed to us. Hallelujah! And when the Father is revealed to us, we will come into His Rest for our lives.
It is the revelation of the Father to us that gives us rest from the days of adversity. That is what makes schooling in the things of God different from schooling in other things.
When we are schooled in the things of God, He will be revealed to us. When He is revealed to us, His glorious Light will shine in our spirits and expel (or cast out) every form of darkness out of our lives! It will cast out a life of sin, sickness, economic hardship, spiritual attacks, and all the work of the devil and the flesh.
It will bring us to the realm where we experience the works of God alone.
IT THEREFORE PAYS TO BE SCHOOLED IN THE THINGS OF GOD!
As we bring this to a close, I want to make something clear to you; if there is a promise of God pending in your life, you will never come into its manifestation until you are schooled in the things of God concerning that promise.
Between the declaration of a divine promise and its performance there is a middle ground of divine process. And part of the process for the manifestation of every word of promise is schooling in the things of God on that promise.
If therefore, GOD gives you a word and you go sitting down doing nothing but just looking out for it to come to pass, you will die without seeing it come to pass.
A word of promise from God is most times a call to be schooled. That is why you must change your church if your church is not schooling you. Mary had to be school by Gabriel on how the word promised to her will come to pass in her life. It took a glorious moment for it to happen.
You may need much more than that one glorious moment of schooling to move from the declaration of God’s word for your life to the manifestation of that word in your life.
Many prophecies have failed in the lives of people just because of lack of proper schooling. They are too ignorant in the things of God to see those things God promised them come to pass. Most are very knowledgeable in the things of devils and his evil spirits hence compounding their problems.
When God speaks a word to you, ask Him where you need to go and plant yourself to be schooled in His things for that word to come to pass.
The reason is because waiting upon the LORD does not imply inactivity.
It implies doing the proper things that will position you properly for the release of God in your life. And one of those things is to get enrolled in the school of the Spirit where you will be schooled in the things of God until His word come to pass in your life.
It’s my prayer that God will use what He has shared with us this morning to improve our daily walk and talk with Him in Jesus precious name! AMEN!
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY.
“Wisdom calls aloud outside; She raises her voice in the open squares. She cries out in the chief concourses, at the openings of the gates in the city She speaks her words:
‘How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge.
Turn at my rebuke; Surely I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you. Proverbs 1:20-23 NKJV