TODAY’S DEVOTION (Sunday 16th March 2025)
“We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him. We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.” 1 John 5:18-19 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 75TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
There is a place in God, that if the oppressed step in, all demonic activities in their lives will step out and never return. The beautiful thing is that it is the place Jesus wants all humans to be. His love is so strong and yet unknown, making it impossible for most to acknowledge these things.
God wants all of us who call upon the name of the LORD to locate that place in Him and stay there. He wants us there because that is the only place where rest, supernatural love, mercy, and all that the LORD has in stock for us can be found. It’s a place that is full of grace and truth. A place we do not locate by Google search but scriptural search.
Jesus said,
“You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. John 5:39-40 NKJV
When you search the scriptures in Spirit and in truth, looking for what it says about Christ, it will lead you to the revelation then the presence of Christ. When you meet Him, you will realize, that the presence of Christ is the place one need to step in, and all the works the devil will step out.
You will discover that the only thing that will remain will be the price you would have to pay to remain there.
THAT IS THE PLACE THAT YOU WILL BEGIN TO SEE THE LORD MAKE YOUR ENEMIES YOUR FOOT STOOL.
Talking about our enemies becoming our foot stool, David eavesdropped into a divine conversation between God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost in one of his deep intimacy sessions. He heard the Father say something to the Son that he thought would be helpful to humans and voiced it out. He spoke saying:
The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool.” The Lord shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies! Psalms 110:1-2 NKJV
There is a generation that can eavesdrop into divine conversations. There is a generation that can attend the council of the God head in Heaven from the earth to bring timely revelations and eternal strategies for vanquishing the enemy of our souls.
The activation of that generation is part of God’s way of helping us to manifest His likeness on the face of the earth. David had some parts of His sanctified life that became a template of that generation. He was a man ahead of His generation because He made the pre incarnate Christ (the LORD) his shepherd.
The blessing of doing that was the activation of His spirit to eavesdrop into the heavenly conversation captured in Psalm 110. What He heard that day was a messianic prophecy, but it reveals two basic prophetic truths to us. The first is hidden in the words
“Sit down at my right Hand till I make your enemies your footstool.”
That confirmed to this Old Testament seeker of God that there is a place in God where one can step into and sit down (or settle there) and begin to watch God make the person’s enemies his footstool. Remember David was a man of war who needed those words.
ENEMIES LIKE DEATH, HELL AND GRAVE WILL BECOME THE PERSON’S FOOTSTOOL BY THE POWER AND GLORY OF GOD.
Enemies like sin, self, Satan, the evil and corrupt system of this world and all demons they carry, will become the person’s footstool. Hallelujah!
For us today that place is Christ. When one finds Him and begins to live in Him, he or she will no longer be struggling with any dark thing or live in sin. He or she will become born of God. Our devotional text this morning states two important utterances of the Spirit of Truth on this line.
The first says, ““We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.”
If you look at this scripture carefully, you will see two major fruits of being born of God or results of carrying the spiritual genes of God through authentic salvation experience. The first is in the words, “he does not sin,” which represents a life of Holiness. The second is “he keeps himself and the wicked one does not touch him” which describes a life that is divinely preserved from evil.
Everyone wants that. We want to be born of God and be able to keep ourselves from the evil one. If we are born of God and come to the realm of being able to keep ourselves from the evil one, one will not see us going for deliverance from anything, because there will be nothing to be delivered from.
We will be able to keep ourselves and the wicked one will not be able to touch us.
If you look at this scripture closely, you will see so much that our generation of believers is yet to come into. Most are not yet born of God hence living a life of sin. Many cannot keep themselves from the evil one, hence having ceaseless demonic attacks.
Sadly, many of us who claim born again are hypocrites; we live perpetually in sin, and do not keep ourselves from defilement, hence becoming cheap preys of the wicked one.
FRIEND, IF YOU ARE LIVING IN SIN CLAIMING BORN AGAIN, THE WICKED ONE WILL KEEP TOUCHING YOU.
A life of sin after salvation is the greatest betrayer of the Church to the devil. Sadly, many do this and still call themselves saved. But the Bible says otherwise. It says He that lives in sin is of the devil, not of God.
So, the only way out is to get genuinely saved, then use the grace of God upon your life to accompany your salvation with a life of purity, and total obedience to the will and ways of God. If you get saved and you do not commit yourself to working out your salvation with fear and trembling, you will be lost!
The second utterance of the Spirit of truth in our devotional text today says,
“We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.”
If you are born of God, Satan can sway things or people against you. But the only way he will not be able to prevail against you is when you hide yourself in the presence of Christ, the very place you need to sit to have God make everyone and everything the devil sways against you your footstool.
Jesus rebuked the Pharisees because of hypocrisy. He did that to show us how He detest that kind of life. He wants us to be pure inside out and not by outward appearances.
He wants us to resist anything that will turn us into Hypocrites. One thing that successfully turns a believer into a hypocrite is being a slave to sin, self, the devil and the evil and corrupt world but pretending not to be. God wants all that to stop. He wants us to be born of Him indeed, and keep ourselves away from the evil One. Amen!!
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY!
“Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.
But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.” Colossians 3:12-17 NKJV