TODAY’S DEVOTION (Sunday 20th April 2025)
“And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.”
“And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.” Joel 2:28-29 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 110th DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
I am glad we are in another glorious day in the month of April. God can carry us through even as we get ready for the last day of our 21 days apostolic renewal prayer and fasting.
God has been faithful to the righteous. He has been manifesting Himself as our redeemer.
I have come to discover that life is full of challenges but when you have a good God by your side, it does not matter who is not on your side. Yesterday marked the 11th year of our apostolic work in Kenya. Today we will be cutting the cake. We can say, it was not by might or by power but by the Spirit of the living God that we are here.
From what we have seen, we can also say “if God be for us, it takes a fool to be against us!”
We have seen so many miracles since we came to East Africa for ministry. God has been strategically intervening in the battles the enemy has been mustering against us, using men under his sway. To Him all glory belongs.
I remember the first independent meeting we had called FAMILY LIBERATION SUMMIT; it was full of God’s word and presence. The message that was preached that day was titled “PORTALS OF MERCY.” The attendance was 35 people. From that meeting, God began to enable us to continue with many other meetings till date.
I can say God has enabled us to preach hundreds of messages in these 11 years. We started with 35 people in attendance, running a non-denominational teaching ministry.
There were times when we had just four people. But today, through our privileged hands, the LORD is running an Apostolic Word Center that reaches the entire globe with the apostolic doctrine.
INDEED, IF A CHURCH BELONGS TO JESUS, HE WILL FILL IT WITH HIS WORD AND MANIFEST PRESENCE AND BRING HIS SHEEP TO LIE DOWN.
The best thing to do on earth is to submit to Christ and spend your years doing just His blessed will! That is exactly what we have been doing since we came to the apostolic fields of East Africa. I can now understand what Paul meant when he said:
“But life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus-the work of telling others the Good News about God’s mighty kindness and love.” Acts 20:24 TLB
My greatest satisfaction in life comes when i am doing things assigned to me by the lord Jesus.
There is wisdom in spending your days doing only what Jesus assigned to you. That is the wisdom that many are yet to come to terms with. It gives you all that Jesus offers for those who serve Him. It keeps the Holy Spirit working in your life.
Now, talking about the Holy Spirit, I have come to realize that the Holy Ghost is the Central Intelligence Agency of God’s wisdom.
If you have Him, you have Heaven’s system of unlocking the depths of God on earth in your life. The Bible says,
“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.” (1 Corinthians 2:11-12 NKJV)
We cannot over emphasize the necessity of God’s wisdom to us on earth – be it the wisdom of spending your days doing only what the LORD assigned you to do with your life, or the wisdom to properly manage your life daily. It takes the indwelling presence of God to access God’s wisdom daily.
The Holy Spirit in us is the indwelling presence.
He is the custodian of the wisdom of God because He alone knows what is in God. So, He helps us to access that wisdom as we fellowship with Him. That is why, as the Central Bank of God’s wisdom or God’s Central Intelligence Agency (God’s CIA) you will fill your life with foolishness if He is not living in you.
PEOPLE WHO CARRY HIM IN THEIR SPIRITS DO NOT WALK IN FOOLISHNESS.
Apart from transforming us to live the Christian life and to function in the Kingdom power and glory of God, the primary purpose of the Holy Spirit is to animate us with GOD’s wisdom including the revelation of the things that have been freely given to us by God.
In other words, one of the things He does is to impart divine wisdom into us by unfolding mysteries or hidden truths to us. On this note the Bible says:
“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.” 1 Corinthians 2:12 NKJV
This and other unstated reasons are what make the Holy Ghost the most important person on the face of the earth. He is so important to Humanity that the enemy fights relentlessly to sway men to ignore Him completely. Ignoring Him is the best way to keep people of God powerless and devour able.
Satan knows that if we give the Holy Ghost His place in our lives, we will become flames of supernatural fire making the earth too hot for his activities and kingdom. That is why he even got the Church stuck to “the anointing oil thing” that was instituted in the Old Testament to announce the coming of the Holy Ghost.
The greatest hindrance to genuine infilling of the Holy Ghost in so many churches today is a Christianity mixed with worldliness, with bottles of anointing Oil used to replace the true anointing of the Holy Ghost.
Friend, the true anointing of the Holy Ghost cannot be put in a bottle. God wants it in your life. And the Only way you can have it is to receive what we call an outpouring of the Holy Ghost upon your life.
OUR DEVOTIONAL TEXT TODAY IS A PROPHECY THAT IS YET TO BE FULFILLED IN THE LIVES OF SO MANY,
One of the reasons is because of this anointing oil madness that many are stuck to. It says,
“And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.”
Have you received this outpouring as a Christian? I am not asking if you have ever fallen under the anointing. I am asking if God has poured His Holy Ghost upon you like it happened in the day of Pentecost.
Sadly, present day Pentecostals do not have the Holy Ghost. They have a douse of His anointing but do not have His person, that is why they speak in powerless tongues and go for deliverance every week.
Your life will become a pillar of fire spiritually if God pours His Holy Ghost upon you like He did in Acts 2. You will be animated to operate the wisdom of God and to do supernatural things like the early Church when it happens.
Simply put, you will be turned into another man!
Friend, if you want to become a devil chaser instead of being the one chased by devils, you do not need the anointing Oil in a bottle that your Bishops call “power instruments,” you need an outpouring of the Holy Ghost. Anything about God you limit to a bottle, or other things makes you a sorcerer and a charismatic witch.
God want to pour His Holy Spirit into your life and turn you into a small “G” on the face of the earth so you can join the angels in the invisible realm to convert the Kingdoms of this world into that of God and of his Christ.
He wants to pour what will baptize you with supernatural wisdom. Are you ready! God can use anointed meetings like ours to help you experience it. Join us today!!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!
“Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,” Acts 3:19 NKJV
“Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.” Acts 2:38-39 NKJV
