TODAY’S DEVOTION (Wednesday 2nd April 2025)
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.”
“But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.” 2 Timothy 4:3-5 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 92ND DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
God has kept us for 92 days of this year. I believe, irrespective of the raging battles of the year, we shall be fine all through the rest of the year. If you believe that says Amen!
God will not allow bad policies, the greed of men in government, diseases from the pit of hell, or any other assault to eat us. Yes, He has promised us a year of victory, He will be the one fighting, and we will be the ones getting the victory. Hallelujah!!
One of our own in the United States shared an astonishing testimony with us of how the LORD used the word He gave us in year 2020 on the coronal virus to protect her from the infection, despite handling so many cases as a medical personal. I drew some personal lessons from her testimony.
Of course, we all know how doctors, nurses etc. died, but the LORD kept her. The details of how it happened are astonishing. She said she held up to the word. That is the very things we are to do every day, holding unto the word. The word came before the Virus, and she used it to wage war against the virus in her workplace, and God honored His word in her life.
That is how we win our wars as believers. We win by holding on to the word of the man of war Himself. He said, man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from His mouth. What His mouth speaks, His Holy Spirit gathers its performance into our lives.
You see, when the storms of life blow, they gather sand even into the ears of people. When the storm of the corona virus was blowing, it was gathering the sand of fear into the ears of people.
WE NEEDED THE WORD OF FAITH AT THAT TIME, AND THE LORD GAVE IT TO US, AND WE WON THE BATTLE.
We ate the word, and absorbed it into our hearts, and our lives got the results. We are to do the same with the word of victory the LORD gave us. It is a new month, and that word is there to help us through the battle that may rage this month. We are to hold unto the word, keep feeding our spirits with it, until the month ends.
That is how to live through this month!!! If we live through it the way we should, it will end up in victory over sin, Satan, lack, diseases, destruction, or any warfare that might break out. from hell and men.
That brings us to one other thing we want to share with us, the law of eating. I have said this repeatedly and felt we should hear it again. The law of eating states that what you eat will eventually eat you. That is true!
For instance, when a man eats poisonous food, within some minutes the food will start eating up the man resulting in illness and sometimes death. If you check it, what you have been eating, either as food for the belly or food for your soul, has been eating you all the while, good or bad, and shaping how you behave or live.
It is also shaping how your life is turning out on daily bases. The earlier we all align with this fact of life the better. What we eat has been eating us and determining everything we do, think, see, perceive, know, etc. It has been determining our strength, health, growth, and vitality.
If we want something to change in our lives, we must change what we feed our souls with, either knowingly or unknowingly.
Eating is a very powerful thing. Yes, it is!! It is very important to be truth-checking what will be entering your soul this month because eating is a very powerful thing. It is very important not to allow the sand of the storms of each month to enter your soul.
YES, ONE WAY WE ARE TO LIVE THIS MONTH, THEREFORE, IS TO LIVE THROUGH EACH DAY FEEDING OUR SOULS WITH HEAVENLY WISDOM.
If we feed our souls with Heavenly wisdom, Heavenly things will eat us up, making sure the glorious things spoken concerning us in the Bible manifest in our lives this month. People who fed their souls with heavenly wisdom in bible days, lived amazing lives on earth.
Men like Abraham, Isaac and Jacob became great men for feeding their souls with Heavenly wisdom. They lived through the trials of this life triumphantly because what they fed their spirits with fed on them and filled them with God’s glorious treasures.
That is what we are going to do this month. We should not allow our hearts feed on what is not noble, praiseworthy, good report, pure, truly from God, no matter how much it confronts our sins, or etc. We are to feed on what comes from above, the Heavenly wisdom God has made available to us through the dynamic working of His Holy Spirit.
The Bible teaches that the operator or steward of Heavenly wisdom is the Holy Spirit. In fact, He does not just operate it, He is the store house of the same. He uses the Bible as an instrument for reaching and feeding us with Heavenly wisdom. We are therefore to maintain a working relationship with Him this month.
Hare is one Bible passage that affirms this:
“However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man. The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 1 Corinthians 2:6-13 NKJV
There is so much in this scripture. I counsel that you go over it repeatedly till you light fill your soul. The scripture presents the role of the Holy Spirit in our lives, when it comes to feeding our souls with Heavenly wisdom.
IT TEACHES HOW GOD’S HOLY SPIRIT COLLECTS HEAVENLY WISDOM FROM GOD AND DELIVER TO US.
If you spend this month developing a working relationship with the Holy Spirit and asking Him for wisdom, especially when at the crossroads of life, He will feed your soul with it and turn your life around.
The Bible remains His instrument for doing so. For instance, if you read the book of proverbs or Psalms with Him by your side, He will help you feed your soul with the wisdom God buried in those books of the Bible.
Friend, understand that so many bad things are happening to people today for not feeding their souls with Heavenly wisdom! Many bad things will still happen to people this month. But you can exempt yourself by following the word of the LORD today.
Our devotional text today calls what we get from the Bible without adulteration Sound doctrine. It says,
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.”
“But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.” 2 Timothy 4:3-5 NKJV
When you turn your ears away from the truth of the Bible, from sound doctrine, you have turned it away from the wisdom that is from above. It will never feed your soul. What will feed your soul will be from hell, bringing great trouble to you.
The word of the LORD to us this day is clear. Do not spend any day of this month turning your ears away from sound doctrine. Spend each day feeding your soul with the right food.
The right food is not from newspapers, doctor reports, what people say about you, or the sand of the things the storms of life blow into our hearts. The right food is Heavenly wisdom, collected by giving yourself to sound doctrine. Feed only on it and all will be well.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY
“Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.
Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all.
Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.” 1 Timothy 4:13-16 NKJV