TODAY’S DEVOTION (Friday 27th June 2025)
“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.” Galatians 6:7-8 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 178TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
In our devotion yesterday, we began a short wisdom walk on behaving ourselves wisely. We shared that behaving ourselves wisely is one thing our divine destiny will need to be fulfilled.
Foolish conduct has never been a blessing and will never be. The Bible says David behaved himself wisely in the affairs of his prophetic destiny and was promoted. Even when his mentor became his tormentor, he behaved himself wisely, and God used that to preserve him from the sword of his mentor turned tormentor.
Sometimes we are the ones to give God what to use in preserving us from the things the enemy throw at us to sabotage our divine destinies.
If we do not learn to behave ourselves wisely in each circumstance of life, God will be handicapped in bringing redemption when we need it. We will give the enemy so much to use in damaging our lives and our GOD will have nothing to use in repairing our lives.
Understand that there are life issues that we may be in, that God will need something from us to use in bringing the needed miracle, blessing or intervention. That thing is not always faith or an offering. Sometimes, it is not even prayer and fasting. For most cases, that thing is wise behavior.
For instance, imagine a born-again woman, whose home is at the verge of breaking down taking her husband to her pastor for prayers and counseling, and on getting there she threw a slap at him hoping God will save the marriage. That will be the end of that marriage!
Even if God wanted it saved, she has given the devil what to use to kill it finally and at the same time rendered God handicapped.
When we do not behave ourselves wisely, we render the supernatural power of God useless in our lives. That is why you hear people complain of hardship and hard life despite being prayed for or spending time in prayers and fasting.
HEAR THIS, WHATEVER EFFECTIVE PRAYER DID NOT TAKE CARE OF, GOD IS SAYING TO YOU “USE EFFECTIVE WISDOM.”
It could be the wisdom of always behaving wisely. If we do not behave wisely in matters of life, no matter how much or how effectively we pray, our lives will remain the same. Yesterday, we highlighted some ways to behave wisely. Today we can find few more ways in our devotional text.
But the one that caught my attention this morning says:
“…for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life”
If I do not like what life is giving to me, what I should do is not to put a blame on my mother who got me out of wedlock, the husband who left me for another woman, my boss who does not like me, or any other thing. I should just check what I am giving to life.
I have said before that, Life is built in such a way, that whatever you give to it will come back to you either 30-fold, 60-fold, or 100-fold. A dear man of God once said, “life is an echo.” Meaning, whatever you cry out to it, is what will cry back to you!
Sadly, in a “kill my enemy” conscious Church generation, we have become blind to these facts of life. When things go wrong in our lives, we are quick to point out to some witches and wizards out there, or some uncles, mothers and fathers who may be responsible.
We forget that it is when the enemy has something in us that he can attack us successfully.
I am not saying there are no witches and wizards. What I am saying is that if there is no dust in your life, the devil will have nothing in you to feed on. Behaving ourselves foolishly by sowing to please our flesh, is the most powerful way we make ourselves prey to some predators in the spirit and natural realms.
GOD IS CLEAR AND EMPHATIC ABOUT THAT; HE THAT SOWS TO PLEASE HIS FLESH WILL OF THE FLESH REAP CORRUPTION.
It does not matter if he is anointed or not. This is a heavy truth that you must sit to ponder on. He could be the pope, the general overseer, the apostle, prophet, or just a believer who comes to church earlier than others. The law remains the same. He who sows to please the flesh, will of the flesh reap corruption.
When Samson sowed to please his flesh in Judges 16, he reaped corruption or spiritual decay. That resulted in chains and imprisonment in the life of the most powerful and dreaded man of that age. But when he was sowing to please the Spirit in Chapters 13, 14, and 15, he was a man of exploits.
Wherever the enemy is dealing with you successfully and perpetually, it can be traceable to the moments you spent your life sowing to please the flesh. Wherever he may be successfully hindering you from getting healed, married, success, peace or prosperity, is the very area you may be sowing to please your flesh.
As citizens of God’s kingdom, we soar high in power, glory, and Heavenly peace when we sow to please the Spirit, and descend in weakness, shame, and crisis when we sow to please the flesh.
If you do not wake up to this spiritual reality, you will perish even in God’s presence. Angels will sadly watch you self-destruct. The Holy Spirit will be grieved because you took away the right, He needs to help you. People call me to give me graphic details of what Satan is doing in their lives and all the bad things happening, and I listen carefully to see if they will be sincere enough, to tell me how they sowed to please their flesh, resulting in the harvest of sorrows they are sharing with me.
What usually piss me off is when they claim to be born again and give details of all the fasting and prayers they have done and giving. We forget that liberty is not in fasting, prayer or giving.
LIBERTY IS IN LIVING. LIVING A LIFE THAT DOES NOT SOW TO PLEASE THE FLESH.
If there is anything in your life that prayers (I mean accurate and effective fervent prayers, not powerless and stupid prayers), has not taken care of in your life, it means you are responsible for the problem. You are sowing to please your flesh! As a result, the supernatural power of God cannot work in your life.
In the spirit whatever problem that came upon you because you sowed to please the flesh could be taken care of by a miracle. However, it has a way of returning if you go back to a lifestyle of sowing to please your flesh. That was the spiritual code Jesus demonstrated when He said to the man who was sick for 38 years and then Healed by His touch:
“See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you” (John 5:14 NKJV).
If sowing to the flesh was what brought problems upon you, it will take both prayers and repentance to be free indeed from that problem. If you do not stop doing what you were doing that brought your problems, there will always be a reversal of healing, deliverance or whatever the LORD blesses your life with.
For instance, if taking cigarettes or alcohol was the reason for the problem God healed you of, if you go back to it again after you have been healed, what God took away will return. Jesus said it could be even worst thing.
Though conmen called preachers, have used this truth to manipulate those they deceived with lying prophecies to collect money from them – you find people they promise a liberty that never came, being told its their sins, that is, after making them do all they were told to do, and give all they were told to give.
You must walk in discernment and not allow a thief in God’s garment to use the Bible in His hand to gain leverage over you because of some spiritual problems.
The truth remains, if adultery, lust, pride, idleness, foolishness, lack of integrity, spiritual blindness, sexual perversion or any other seed of uncleanliness was what you sowed to please your flesh; resulting in what God took away by His power, what you were healed or delivered of will return if you return to sowing to please your flesh again.
BEHAVING YOURSELF WISELY IS AN IMMENSELY POWERFUL FORCE IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD
Yes, it is! Especially when you refuse to sow to please your flesh under any given circumstances. Sowing to please the Spirit always is the key to unleashing a divine destiny even if trapped in the valley of the stiffest opposition of life. That is the only way we align with God to break forth through us and unleash His power and take us from the declaration to the manifestation.
Remember, Moses sowed to please his flesh by the waters of contention and lost the grace to bring Israel into the promise land. The mandate was to deliver and take them in. But one seed he sowed to please his flesh, denied him the completion of his assignment. Joshua had to take over from there.
We can never move from the declaration to the manifestation of our divine destiny sowing to please our flesh! We must lead lives that sows to please the Spirit always.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY;
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works. Matthew 16:24-27 NKJV
