TODAY’S DEVOTION (Friday 7th March 2025)
And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
Therefore “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.” ‘I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty.” 2 Corinthians 6:16-18 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 66TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
We are not a people without a Shepherd. We are a people with a Shepherd who leads us each day to green pastures. The LORD is our shepherd, we shall not want.
He takes delight in leading us to green pastures. He takes delight in restoring our souls. Though we walk in the valley of the shadow of death, we will fear no evil because He takes delight in being with us. People might not like our faces, our demeanor, or presence, but He loves us the way we are.
He is our defender, our refuge, our light in a dark world, the one who rises upon us with healing in His wings, our righteousness, our judgment and mercy seat, our shelter from the storms of life, our peace and everything.
We are so happy to have Jesus Christ as our LORD and personal Savior.
We are so happy to have Him as our purifier, sanctifier, and Holy One. We are so happy to have Him as our Adonai. That is why no devil can sale our souls or blessings to anyone in the spirit realm. We cannot be sacrificed on the altars of witches, wizards, death, hell or grave.
We have someone who owns us. We are not without an owner.
When we fail, He comes to raise us up. When we are afraid, He comes to strengthen our hearts with His faith. When we are not confident about our future, He comes with visions and revelations that takes away the doubts and make us confident.
When we are tempted to sin, He comes with the light of the darkness we will usher into our lives if we yield.
THAT IS HOW HE KEEP HIS OWN FROM FALLING.
But if we eventually fall, He comes with corrections, rebukes, chastisement or words of comfort, exhortation or edification to grant us what it takes to sin no more. His manifestation is what destroys a life of sin, iniquity and trespass. His precious Holy Spirit is the one who seals our lives for the final redemption He promised us.
When we are in need, He comes with the supply of our needs according to His riches in glory. When we are sick, He comes with the healing our bodies need. When we are threatened for doing His blessed will and standing for Him, He comes to make us a brazen wall, against those threatening us, an iron pillar, and a fortified city.
He has never abandoned us on the battlefield.
He is a friend that stick closer than a brother, a Father who pities His children, by giving them the forgiveness, miracles and blessings they do not deserve with one hand, taking away the judgment, sickness, destruction, perils, sorrows, and life ills that they deserved with the other.
He is the man of war who fights our personal battles. He takes delight in doing the fight while we get the victory.
He is the only one with a name that is above every name. At His name, knees bow, and tongues confesses that He is LORD. He is the LORD who lives and reigns in eternity and time. Nothing in existence can resist His kingdom.
He is the only defender who makes sure that no weapon, formed against His own prosper. That He does by preparing destroyers to destroy whatever is fashioned against them. He rejoices over His children with singing and do not get tired filling their lives with His goodness, grace and mercy.
Friend, life is not what you live without someone bigger and greater than the entire planet being your owner. You must have someone with Heaven as His throne, with the earth as His footstool, as the owner of your life to survive an earth that is full of darkness and wickedness.
YOU MUST HAVE SOMEONE WHOSE GLORY IS STRONGER THAN THE ENTIRE CREATION AS YOUR PARTNER IN LIFE TO SUCCEED ON EARTH.
You must have His Spirit working in your life for things to be working for you.
His presence must be in your presence for the things that make life a misery not to survive your presence. His anointing must rest upon you for the wicked not to come near your dwelling. His shadow must become your dwelling place for your life not to be a dwelling place of any strange thing.
If you have this person in your life, the storehouse of your prosperity will not be among men. It will be in realms where devils cannot cross into or destroy anything, making what the Bible calls “the blessings of the LORD that make rich and adds no sorrow” to be ever present in your life.
Yes, if you have the One who sits in the circle of the earth in your life, you will not have a star that is lost that you must meet some prophets to find. You will be the star, turning many to righteousness and having your life feet on paths that shine brighter and brighter into a perfect day.
The most beautiful part of this revelation is this, this person who sits in the circle of the earth, wants to live in your life.
Yes, the one who rises with Healing in His wings upon those who fear Him, wants to live in you and with you, so that all that has been stated in this devotional and much more, can be made manifest in your life. But there are conditions that must be fulfilled.
A major highlight in our devotional text for the day says:
As God has said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
Therefore “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.”
‘I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty.”
THE CONDITION IS THE COME OUT AND BE SEPARATE.
We cannot be having things He considers as unclean in our lives and experience the wonderful things He wants to do in us in their fullness. We might experience some miracles, signs and wonders, but the things He wants to do will never be seen in their fullness.
The condition to have the one who sits in the Circle of the earth in our lives as a Father and see Him do the wonderful things He has a history of doing is not drinking oil, raising an altar, sowing a seed, going to mountains or caves to pray. It is separation from the unclean.
A people who cannot use the grace of God upon their lives to separate from unclean behaviors, unclean lives, unclean people, unclean churches, unclean preachers, unclean marriages, unclean systems, cultures and traditions, will never have God as a Father. That is what the word says.
Again, it says, “Come out from among them and be separate… Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you. I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters,”
It is my prayer that the LORD will use these words to keep building us up and giving us an inheritance among they that are sanctified. Amen and amen!!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY.
Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 2 Corinthians 7:1 NKJV