TODAY’S DEVOTION (Sunday 6th April 2025)
“Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; By knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.” Proverbs 24:3-4 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 96th DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
It is another glorious day from the creator of Heaven and earth. Each new day is a gift from Him. Each new day also announces the approaching end of days.
Those who are walking with the LORD in holiness, purity and submission to His will and ways, are the only people who are preparing for the end of days. Every other people who are not doing so are not preparing. I hope you are one of those who are preparing for it.
God wants more people prepared. That is why the end of days that is coming will be preceded by a great revival of righteousness that will produce people who will lead the last mass evangelism that will usher in a worldwide harvest of souls, into the kingdom of God. It is therefore important that we apply our hearts unto this prophetic wisdom.
Talking about wisdom, the first word of devotion of the month was about Heavenly wisdom.
Maybe it will be helpful for us to refresh our minds on this: there are three kinds of wisdoms; the wisdom from the earth, which is the wisdom of man, the wisdom from the dark world, which is the wisdom of the evil one, and the wisdom from above, which is the wisdom of God.
Each of this wisdom types produce different results in the lives of men.
The first two levels of wisdom are not pure or peaceful. They are from a fallen realm, but that of God is pure and peaceful, because it is from a glorious realm. Due to the Spirit nature of where it is sourced from, which is the Throne of GOD, God’s wisdom is full of mercy, love, by God’s definition, and brings forth righteousness as its fruits.
It is not human or demonic but divine. It is the very wisdom God used in creating the heavens and the earth.
The importance of divine wisdom, therefore, cannot be over emphasized. When it is missing in a man’s life, the misery that will fill his soul any day the enemy strikes will be terrible.
DURING THE ERA OF THE CORONAL VIRUS, WE FOUND THE WORLD FALLING FLAT FOR IGNORING THE WISDOM OF GOD FOR CENTURIES.
You could feel the misery and anguish of the souls of men in the air during those days. It was the wisdom of God that kept some of us. The world never acknowledged the LORD Jesus, the healer and restorer of our souls. The result was devastating. People that would not have died fell ill and died.
It was one of the global signs of the weakness of human wisdom. A major highlight in our devotional text this morning said, “Through it is a house built.” Meaning, through divine wisdom good things can happen, lives can be built and diseases healed.
The word house there means life. Many lives have been shattered by wrong decisions, outright satanic attacks, and all that. It will take divine wisdom to rebuild them back. I have intermeddled with it and found out that it is the key to all forms of divine interventions in a man’s life.
Even the Corona Virus would have been cheaply handled by it at the time.
Divine wisdom is that profound understanding and insight that comes from God. It is what enables people to use what they have, to come out with outstanding results that are out of this world. It is usually Christ centered, and Holy Spirit enabled. You need that to live a blessed life on earth!
There is a segment of the Church that believes prayer and fasting does everything. Truly, prayer and fasting do the most significant things, but what we use in doing all significant things is divine wisdom. Divine wisdom also takes care of small things. That is why when we pray right, God will respond with Heavenly wisdom.
There are two sets of things that can kill a man: significant things and small things. If you use prayer to take care of the significant, but there is no wisdom to take care of the small things, the small things will still kill you.
YOU MUST THEREFORE UNDERSTAND THAT THE REBUILDING OF A BROKEN-DOWN LIFE IS NOT DONE BY PRAYER AND FASTING ALONE
Though many do not fast and pray at all, it is done by the wisdom of God also. God arranged it in such a way that effective prayer and fasting can make us receptive to His wisdom and give us the required understanding to apply in our daily lives. That is how He helps us in rebuilding the broken us.
Let me state something more about Prayer and fasting and how it relates with the pursuit and acquisition of divine wisdom. Apart from being the wisdom of God in itself, prayer and fasting helps us to access the manifold wisdom of GOD. It gives us the clarity of spirit needed to get into the Holy Spirit – the very realm where God’s wisdom exists.
People whose prayer lives are beyond the realm of empty religion do not lack divine wisdom. You find them operating in divine wisdom. If you look at their lives, you will understand that every ounce of Heavenly wisdom is acquired through a consistent life of prayer and fasting; especially a prayer and fasting season that is salted with hours that are spent in hearing or reading God’s word.
In fact, it is part of God’s wisdom to live a life of prayer and fasting salted with hours of studying and absorbing God’s word. Praying and fasting is the tool that activates God’s word to open our hearts up to great insights, making the Heavenly available to us.
If your spirit is cramped with the things of the earth, you cannot access Heavenly things. Until you access Heavenly things like divine wisdom, the demonic will keep consuming your life. That is why a life of prayer and fasting is necessary. It will clear away the cramps, connect you to Heavenly wisdom, and cause the demonic to cease.
Sadly, many are too comfortable to be free from the demonic. They are too gluttonous to come out of captivity.
For instance, someone’s family, finances, or faith will be going down, and he will not stop everything he is doing, and start seeking God in intense prayer and fasting for both Heavenly wisdom and power to come out of the situation gloriously.
RATHER THEY WOULD WAKE UP AT 5AM TO EAT A BOWL OF FOOD.
Then at 10 am they eat another bowl. Then at 2pm he or she is on another stable of food, and on and on and on, thereby becoming a disgrace to the Christian faith. You cannot be in crisis and see God helping you if you are living outside the confines of the communion of the Holy Spirit.
Prayer and fasting, salted with countless hours of reading the word, will enhance our communion with the Holy Spirit and deliver Heavenly Wisdom to us.
Friend, if you want the heavenly wisdom to come out of terrible situations, you must learn to deny yourself the legitimate to lay hold on the ultimate.
It is foolish to sit and watch your life go down, may be doing every other natural thing to salvage it, without personally seeking God through intense prayer and fasting for Heavenly wisdom to change your story. Sometimes we do not need to ask God to change things, we only need to ask Him to give us the wisdom to change them. That will work better and faster than praying the other way round.
When things are not okay with you, close everything and seek the LORD for Heavenly wisdom. It comes in the form of light and understanding. Other times it could come as a voice of assurance, transmitting a Heavenly directive of what to do to change the situation.
If you read Acts 27, you will discover how Paul the apostle, prayed and fasted during a fatal crisis, and through that God sent an angel to do the significant thing that needed to be done to safe His life.
The angel also came with a presence that gave him the Heavenly wisdom of how to handle other small things that needed to be done along with the significant things, to save his life.
HIS PRAYER STOPPED WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN CATASTROPHIC.
One thing you must learn is Paul did not just sit down in the sinking ship saying his last prayer or hoping that God will save him being an apostle who had touched lives. No! He sought God to save him, and God responded after 14 days of intense fasting by sending an angel to execute his rescue as explain above.
Storms are not respecter of persons. When they come, we must humble ourselves and seek God.
You who is expecting God to move in your life, have you done enough to move Him into your life? Have you laid down your life on His altar, seeking Him to cause His light to shine upon you and salvage you for His name’s sake, or you are just stupidly asking Him to kill your enemies? My friend, God is not a murderer!
If that is what you have been doing, then you have not been praying at all. Consider this devotional a wakeup call.
Do not watch your life go up in the flames of hell and wickedness. Seek the LORD to intervene now! Seek Him for heavenly wisdom and the needed direction to turn things around.
He parted the Red Sea and made Israel passed on dry land. You are the next to see His miraculous moves. He gave Israel angel’s food and used hail stones to kill their enemies. You are the next to experience supernatural supply and protection against the enemy that may be too strong for you.
Friends, His eyes are still moving to and fro today, looking for those whose hearts are perfect towards Him, to show Himself mighty on their behalf. May He find you in Jesus precious name!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION.
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
“Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.”
“I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.” Jeremiah 29:11-14 NKJV