TODAY’S DEVOTION (Friday 28th March 2025)
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’ Matthew 25:23 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 88TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
Years ago, precisely between 1997 and 2002, I was part of those who were teaching about raising, silencing, and the breaking of altars. I keyed into it as a young minister and began a lot of altars breaking, sacrificial giving, prayers and all that.
I joined the rest of the preachers in telling believers how terrible evil altars are and got so many converted to that gospel until the LORD began to speak fresh truths to me. Then I realized how wrong I was and divorced myself from the army of the rising altar preachers of that era.
Thank God that today all I sold the dummy to have been delivered from it.
I am happy to be free from the blood of all those wonderful men and women. Bible prophecy has it that one of the greatest battles we will face this end time will be around doctrine. There would be doctrines of devils on the lips of preachers trying to replace the doctrine of Christ in the Bible.
First, you may not agree with me on this but there are three kinds of doctrines in Church today. We have the doctrines of men, the doctrines of devils, and the doctrine of Christ – which is the apostolic doctrine.
Most of what the present Church teaches as redemption of first born, giving of first fruits, evil altars etc. is a mixture of the doctrine of devils and men. For instance, that is why no one has really been free from what they call evil altars.
They will just pick some scriptures from the Old Testament about altars and brew them up with operational codes from the kingdom of darkness into what Jesus exposed as “flesh and blood revelation,” and start teaching and mesmerizing the ignorant.
CONSEQUENTLY, KEEPING THE CHURCH BUSIER WITH WHAT THE DEVIL IS DOING THAN WHAT GOD HAS DONE ON THE CROSS.
It seems to me that the only way a present-day preacher shows to the naïve that he or she is called is to come out with some man-made “revelations” on evil altars, and spice it up with the first-born doctrine. What I just stated is made to prosper in the Church today by the enemy consciousness gospel.
Talking about enemy consciousness, many of us do not know that “enemy consciousness” is a major sign of no glory in the Church. Sadly, it has become the processing ground of most false doctrines that sound true in the ears of listeners. But I will leave that for another day.
Today we want to talk to us on matters of evil altars. To start with, let me ask, are evil altars real? Secondly, what is an altar? Is it the locally made pots intercessors, prophetesses and prophets take people to their villages to uproot?
Is it the prayer zones people are led by certain preachers to construct in their houses, with some using candles, and a few other occult materials they can gather? What is an altar?
Well, the Bible made it clear that an altar is a point of communication between two spirits; it could be good or bad. It is a place where submission is made to a higher spiritual authority. Mostly, such places are not physical. Whatever you see in the Physical is only an expression of the real place which is exclusively spiritual.
That is why people who go uproot what they call an altar, convincing themselves to be doing what Gideon did in the Old Testament, cannot be free.
The reason is because the weapons of our warfare are not carnal; and we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
In the Old Testament, things were basically physical because the people had no power to bind demons. But that Changed with the death of Jesus and the outpouring of the Holy Ghost. However, before all that, God led people like Abraham and the rest to build physical altars to Him. Satan also led people to do the same to him.
BUT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, THINGS CHANGED.
I submit to you therefore that nothing about a point of communication between two spirits is physical: be it between a human spirit and God’s Spirit or a human spirit and a demonic spirit. That is what made the word altar not a description of anything physical.
The physical places called altar in the Old Testament were an expression of the spiritual, the real altar.
Meaning even when Abraham or Balaam stood before what was called an altar to commune with the Spirit or spirit that each of them was in covenant relationship with, the real altar was their hearts. In simple terms, the heart of any man has been the altar all along.
So, today you don’t raise an altar of sacrifice. You are the altar to the LORD.
As the LORD’s altar, if you yield to the flesh, the world or the devil, demonic spirits will live in your space afflicting your life. But if you yield to God, Heaven will make your space God’s home, filling your life with peace. God will make you His altar of great and beautiful things on earth.
This Bible truth made it clear that when an altar is blamed for what you might be going through, the preacher has missed it. An altar cannot be responsible. But I want to share with us on how to come out of any affliction your pastor may have said an evil altar is responsible.
To start with, I want to say that it is not by going for deliverance. Permit me to share a revelation. One day during those days of altar breaking, silencing, or raising doctrine, the LORD said to me, “most of what people blame on evil altars is caused by portals of hell.”
HE ALSO SAID THAT MAN CANNOT BE FREE FROM SUCH CAPTIVITY BY APPLYING WHATEVER WE TELL THEM TO DO.
That whatever we were teaching was a lie. He said to me that, freedom from such captivities only comes by receiving a spiritual inheritance from the LORD!! That was my turning point. It opened my heart to more revelation knowledge.
That day, I knew why many of those we were leading to break or silence altars had fasted, prayed, given, sowed seeds, drank oil, used salts, mustard seeds, holy water, and all we tell them to use in prayer to pray, has no results to show.
Friend, the satanic method of deliverance cannot cast out any demon. You must learn that. There is something called spiritual inheritance in God’s kingdom.
Our devotional text this morning said,
“’Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’”
This scripture tells us what will happen on the final day; when we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ for our rewards. But it has a shadow of what presently happens in the spirit realm as regards spiritual inheritance. There are things we can only enter into by spiritual inheritance, not struggle.
For instance, divine healing is a miracle that can take place in a man’s life by prayer. But divine health is a product of spiritual inheritance. One financial miracle can take place because you prayed. But no one can come into financial blessings except by spiritual inheritance.
The subject of spiritual inheritance is deeper than we can uncover in a devotional. I pray the Holy Ghost take you further into depths on this issue. When we give our lives to Christ we receive a spiritual inheritance by the blood of Jesus. But when Christ is formed in us, we receive a higher level of spiritual inheritance.
Another way you come into spiritual inheritance is by allowing God to bring you into your spiritual family. A spiritual family is a group of people supernaturally brought together by a common kingdom spirit, mandate, or spiritual DNA.
Spiritual families are bigger than local Church groups. They are the supply channel of God for local Church groups and ministries. God will first set the solitary in spiritual family before He blesses them.
He does not bless disorder. If you are not in a spiritual family, you will never access the fullness of your spiritual inheritance in Christ.
In other words, you can only access your inheritance among they that are sanctified when God brings you into His appointed spiritual family for your life. Just as no man chooses his natural family so we do not choose our spiritual families. God places us in them by sovereign means.
Permit me to close this devotional with these gracious words from the only true apostle of grace – Paul.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION TODAY!!
“So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” Acts 20:32 NKJV