TODAY’S DEVOTION (Sunday 29th June 2025)
“When the righteous rejoice, there is great glory; but when the wicked arise, men hide themselves.”
“He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.” Proverbs 28:12-13 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 180TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
Truly, it is of the LORD’s mercy that we are not consumed. I will keep stating that until our time on earth is over.
Mercy is a shield. Mercy is God’s catalyst for a new start. Mercy is God’s way of telling the devil, “You can’t change my mind concerning my sons because, I see repentance in them so back off.” Mercy is the very reason we will make Heaven. It is the repairer of the fall and the terminator of the works of the evil one in a man’s life.
If you have the revelation of what I am sharing about, you will not cease saying unto God, “It is of your Mercies that we are not consumed; because your compassion fails not.” As we all prepare for corporate worship today, we should not forget this timeless Bible truth.
The timelessness of God’s mercy is demonstrated in the scriptures that states that God’s mercy is from everlasting to everlasting. This is because God is in eternity, everything that proceeds from Him is eternal.
His mercy for us is eternal. The only thing is that if we do not withdraw it here in time, we will never see it when we step into eternity in death, and the reason is simple; there can be no repentance in the grave.
Meaning after death, the spirits of men can no longer repent; and since they cannot repent, they cannot secure God’s mercy. Talking about repentance, from scripture to scripture, God made it clear that repentance is the only force we can use in withdrawing from His mercy.
THERE MUST BE REPENTANCE BEFORE FORGIVENESS, THEN AFTER THAT, GOD WILL RELEASE TIMES OF REFRESHING.
Many have thought prayer and fasting, or even sacrificial giving is the force. But the answer is no! Repentance is it. It is only when you fast, pray and give sacrificially in repentance that you experience God. In other words, God’s mercy is available to all but can only be accessed by those who have repented from their sins.
Understand that your repentance and total dependency on God are the greatest forces we can use against curses, demons, satanic barriers, life challenges or whatever hell launches against us. They are the most lethal faith positions to take on this side of eternity.
The Psalmist made it clear that there is no repentance in the grave.
In other words, when men step back into eternity through death (without repentance), they will forever lose the opportunity to repent; they might be remorseful and regret for not repenting while they were alive but that will not change anything. You see that in the story of the Rich man and Lazarus in the book of Luke 16:19-21.
That passage of scripture tells us that it is not possible to repent after death. It is only possible to regret and be very remorseful of your sins but not possible to repent. The Bible made it clear that those who will be cast into hell would only gnash their teeth in very painful regret and remorse but cannot repent.
If it was possible for people to repent after death, then no one would have been in hell. Since God’s mercy is everlasting to everlasting, He would have taken them all to Heaven. That is why it is especially important to make use of God’s mercy here and now, by living a life of repentance from dead works and faith towards our LORD Jesus Christ.
WHY ARE WE SHARING ABOUT GOD’S MERCY?
The flow of our devotional in recent days has been on matters of divine destiny. God has been showing us what our divine destiny will need to be fulfilled. God has showed us that if we will fulfill our divine destiny, we must have a consistent relationship with Jesus Christ, the LORD of our destiny.
Next, He showed us that we must spend countless hours in His presence and learn to behave wisely like David in matters touching our divine destiny. And yesterday, He made it clear that if we will fulfill our divine destiny, we must not pursue His purpose driven by a passion to become rich. We must not replace the love of God with love of money.
We learned that while we need money to pay our bills and do His work on earth, the love of money is still the root of all kinds of evil and has been the root of all kinds of evil in the present church and humanity in general. We discovered that many are pursuing destiny to make money that is why the glory of God is absent in their lives.
But today Heaven is taking us a step further; the next ingredient our divine destiny will need to be fulfilled is GOD’S ETERNAL MERCY. David made a profound discovery in one of his sessions with God and said:
“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” Psalms 23:6 NKJV
For me, God’s goodness and Mercy should be the travelling partners of apostolic and prophetic people. It should be the travelling partners of those with a passion for God. It should be the travelling partners of people of divine destiny.
For instance, if God’s goodness and mercy were not the travelling partners of Samson, the day he was flopped by Delilah and imprisoned, that would have been the end of him. But mercy spoke and said no when he repented of his sins.
The Bible says he finished strong at the end killing more people at his death than he killed in his lifetime. If Mercy had not said no, in the case of David and Beersheba, there would have been no David after the act. The Bible made it clear that under the law, whoever does what he did was to be stoned to death.
BUT WHEN GOD SAW REPENTANCE IN HIS HEART, GOD CHANGED THE LAWS.
God will always change the laws of justice when we repent of our sins. He will command avengers to return with their avenging demons, when He smell repentance in our hearts. He will deploy His mercy to suspend judgment and destroy the consequences of our sins when He smells repentance.
Friend, when it comes to the release of divine destiny, mercy is one of the greatest investment Heaven can make in your life to help you unleash it.
But you must lead a life of repentance. You must live a life that qualifies for divine mercy from the throne room. A major highlight in our devotional text today said, “He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.”
We cannot unleash our destiny without the manifestation of God’s mercy. That is why secret sins are the greatest killers of divine destiny. Sins carefully concealed are worse than all demons in hell moving against you.
They have a way of shutting down the doors of God’s mercy that are keeping people in a realm where they cannot access the ever present and much needed mercy of God for their lives.
He who covers his sins shall not prosper; it does not matter who he is. He may prosper economically because even the wicked can be prosperous but cannot prosper in health and in the place of having power from God. He cannot prosper in his walk with God.
He cannot carry the fullness of God’s presence. He cannot advance in His walk with God.
He may be able to develop friendship with men and people of God, and become one of their best, but will never be able to develop a personal friendship with God. He will be too filthy to live in God’s rest.
What is the message of our devotion today? The message is simple; your divine destiny will need God’s goodness and mercy to be fulfilled.
There will be seasons of carelessness, when we may sow to please our flesh, and sin against God. If we do not know how to confess to the right ears in those seasons, and repent thoroughly, we will destroy God’s program for our lives.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY.
Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest?
For all those things My hand has made, and all those things exist,” Says the Lord. “But on this one will I look: on him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at My word. Isaiah 66:1-2 NKJV
