TODAY’S DEVOTION (Saturday 19th April 2025)
“Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.”
“Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.” Isaiah 5:13-14 KJV
WELCOME TO THE 109TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
A lot is happening in our days, both in Heaven and hell. Both realms are aggressively marshaling their forces towards the souls of men, through all means in submission to them.
Men and systems that are submissive to the devil are being used by the forces of hell to kill, to steal and to destroy. While men and systems that are submissive to the God of Heaven and Earth are dying the necessary deaths to seek and to save that which was lost. Their spirits are crying like Paul the apostle cried, saying:
“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.
We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed — always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So then death is working in us, but life in you. 2 Corinthians 4:7-12 NKJV
This scripture contains the heart Cry of the people that God and His Heavenly forces is using to seek and to save that which was lost.
One of the major deaths that these precious Sons of God are dying is in their economy.
They are dying the death that is required to allow power break through them and plug them to God’s supply chain. The vision is to use the entire economic resources God place in their hands to snatch as many souls as possible from hell.
THE DEVIL IS ALSO FIGHTING TO MAKE SURE THAT HIS EARTHLY TROOP HAS ALL THE ECONOMIC MIGHT THEY NEED TO DO HIS WORK ALSO.
There are even battles in the heavenlies preventing economic might from coming to those who are submissive to God. That is why I want to talk to those of us who have made up our minds to die every necessary economic death to finance God’s end time redemption plans for mankind!
Friend, we live in a season where money will never come to you in God’s way until heavenly portals are opened over your life. When portals open over our lives, God’s glory penetrates our realm to supply our needs according to His riches in glory.
Now, how do I live under the portal of Heaven for my economic freedom? It’s simple! Unplug from the spirit of hell and plug on to the glory of God then you will begin to live a life that opens Heavenly portals over earth.
“But how do I do this?” You may ask! It’s Simple!
There are two ways to do it. You begin by unplugging your soul from hell because a soul that is unplugged from hell will be plugged into God’s glory automatically because there is not vacuum in the spirit. Find a church with Jesus at the center; a local assembly He is building, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against you.
Why hell? You see, because of the fall of man, everyone is born with a soul that is more receptive to hell than Heaven. In other words, the fall of man plugged all into hell when Adam sinned. You find this explained in the book of Romans 5 and 6.
But you may say, “I am born again, my soul is not plugged to hell.” Well, that is true, but half of the truth.
Our human spirits are unplugged from hell through genuine salvation experience, but our souls are not, that is why we still fall into sin even after accepting Christ. It takes personal efforts empowered by the grace of God to unplug the soul from hell daily.
THAT IS WHY THE BIBLE ADMONISHED US TO WORK OUT OUR SALVATION WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING.
In other words, we are to extend what has taken place in the human spirit to our soul through grace. One of such grace is the grace of meditating in God’s word.
To meditate in God’s word is to mutter God’s word to yourself. Prosperity is tied to meditation in God’s word. You find this in Joshua 1:8. People who unplug from hell through meditation on daily bases will suddenly plug into the glory of God where their prosperity is and change their economic lives.
The psalmist explains it this way:
“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.”
“He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.” Psalm 1:1-3 NKJV
The first way to unplug from hell and plug into the glory is to personally work out your salvation on daily bases in the light of this scripture. The second way lies in what Jesus said in Matthew 16:18. He said, “On this rock I will build my Church, the gates of hell will not prevail against it.”
If you read between the lines of this declaration, you will understand that we are in a constant battle against the gates or spirit of hell.
Don’t forget the dichotomy of hell; first, hell is a place, hell is also a spirit. And hell can be a situation or a person. The Bible says the wicked will be turned into hell and all the nations that forget God. So, hell can even be a nation!
Our devotional text made it clear that lack of the experiential knowledge of God is the reason people are plugged unto the spirit of hell, which in turn take them to the place called hell.
EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE OF GOD COMES THROUGH PERSONAL TIME WITH GOD’S WORD.
It also comes through discipleship under apostolic and prophetic ministries with the knowledge of God’s glory and the revelation of Jesus Christ on their lips.
Apostolic and prophetic ministries hold the rock of revelation for building the saints into temples for God in the Spirit. They are the building tools of Jesus Christ in the Church today.
That is why you see the Evangelist giving way to Apostles in Acts 8 after getting the people saved! But today we no longer do that because of greed for gain and lack of knowledge.
Even people who cannot build their own lives now have congregations under them calling themselves pastors and taking on other titles to satisfy their egos. They leave Heaven screaming “I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they are prophesying” (Jeremiah 23:21).
They are the devil’s material for building the false Church.
Friend, exposing yourself to deep teachings that centers on the revelation of Jesus Christ and the knowledge of His glory, instead of motivational talk, old wives’ fables, human philosophy, or secular humanism, is the second way to unplug from hell and plug on to God’s glory!
The church is facing an Ichabod situation today. The true word of the LORD has become very rare. People now eat dead spiritual things and stolen revelation calling them “powerful” because they do not even know what living truths sound like.
We are full of self-help gospels and inspirational preaching that is not helpful in the battle against hell. That is why you find people full of joy while in Church but full of disappointment when they get home to face reality.
The Bible says they have no root in them. Whatever they hear is too shallow to help them develop deep spiritual roots through a personal commitment to the LORD. Others have been promised liberty for ages, yet they are still in captivity.
BEING JUBILANT IN CHURCH AND SAD AT HOME IS NOT A GOOD THING.
It could be a sign of descending into hell according to our devotional text. It says, “he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.”
No manmade gospel will unplug your soul from hell the spirit, because man-made gospel and the stealing of other people’s messages to preach in order to look good or sound called-of-God, as practiced by majority of preachers today, is inspired by the spirit of hell.
In fact, hell is the power behind all half-truths being peddled in Church, and all inspirational preaching that make you happy in Church but cannot help you when you face reality! So, there is no way you can be unplugged from hell by listening to teachings and preaching inspired by hell.
As you pass through this day, make fresh plans for your spiritual diet for the rest of your life (if you have not).
I have said again and again that what you eat will eventually eat you. What your spirit is feeding on will eventually feed you. If you feed your spirit with messages preached from stolen waters, you will never come into the prosperity of the righteous. The Bible says stolen waters are sweet, but they will not produce a sweet life at the end. Specifically, it says:
“Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.” Proverbs 9:17-18 KJV
Do you know how many souls are submitted to the spirit of hell by preachers who preach stolen waters (inspirational but not transformational messages)?
You may need to change the Church you attend, the preacher you drink from, and the books you read. If you remain under the grip of hell the spirit, you will be living outside the glory environment where your wealth is stored!
May the LORD open your heart to these truths in Jesus precious name. Amen!!!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!!
“And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.”
“Then it shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land in those days,” says the Lord, “that they will say no more, ‘The ark of the covenant of the Lord.’ It shall not come to mind, nor shall they remember it, nor shall they visit it, nor shall it be made anymore. Jeremiah 3:15-16 NKJV
