TODAY’S DEVOTION (Friday 18th July 2025)
“For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
“Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.” Isaiah 9:6-7 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 199th DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY!
It’s been our years of victory as the LORD has said. His word has been our pathfinder, creating paths for us, shaping our focus, and brightening our hearts to see through the darkness of this age.
Day unto day, even on this platform, the LORD has been creating paths for us to follow, this time on things that our destiny needs to be fulfilled. Today we will be looking at the next, and that is spiritual maturity.
Yes, spiritual maturity. You will never fulfill your divine destiny in a state of immaturity. The child must become a son for him to be able to unleash their destiny. Children might not know the death to die and how to die to unleash their destinies, but sons know. You must grow up in Christ to unleash the things He has preplanned for you to unleash.
I have come to realize that one of the curses of life is when one is immature in the things of God or not growing spiritually. This is a curse that not many take as a curse. But it is the mother of all curses, because you will never come into any significant blessing in GOD’s kingdom, and stay there for long except you are mature spiritually.
Spiritual maturity is so important in God’s kingdom that in Israel, once a male child turns 13, according to Jewish law, he becomes accountable for his actions. In other words, he becomes A BAR MITZVAH. A girl becomes A BAT MITZVAH at the age of 12 according to Orthodox and Conservative Jews, and at the age of 13 according to Reform Jews.
THESE THINGS HOLD A STRONG MESSAGE FOR US ON MATURITY. THEY TELL US HOW HEAVEN TREATS MATURITY MATTERS.
You see, some of the things that Israel did were symbolic, and holds a great deal of living truths that are concealed for our generation. In my opinion, they got the oracles from GOD for the planet. The Spirit of God was released to help us demystify what they got.
The 13-year maturity age for male children and 12 or 13 for female in this ancient nation, reminds us of God’s clarion call to become mature spiritually. That tells me that God expects us to come into Son ship after a while. Child of God, you must understand that one of the things that might hinder your destiny from been fulfilled for a significant amount of time is not a demon, but immaturity. Let no one confuse you about that.
Spiritual immaturity is a state of incomplete mental, spiritual or emotional development. It has been defined as the absence of expected responsible behavior for one’s length of time in Christ. It can be the one reason you are still where you are, and NOT actually the activities of Satan.
Yes, it could be the one reason your life is still going in a circle, not witches and wizard, what your mother or father did, or etc.
I have never heard a preacher blame bad things that happen in life to spiritual immaturity, but the Bible did. Sadly, while the Bible blames spiritual immaturity for most of the things, preachers blame the very things God blame on spiritual immaturity on demons.
But everyone who knows the truth will tell you spiritual immaturity is a silent curse that not many know about! A prophetic gaze into the spiritual lives of many in Church today reveals that so many, from the clergy to the laity, are still babies in the LORD despite how long they have been in the church system.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO FOCUS ON SPIRITUAL MATURITY OR AGE IN THE SPIRIT OF YOU WANT TO FULFILL GOD’S PLANS FOR YOUR LIFE!!
Most of us have grown in Church and become mature in religious practices and the things of men but are still Babies in the things of the Spirit. We do not know that there is age in the spirit, and that is the type of age that we need to release our destiny or be all that God has pre planned us to be.
For instance, it was preplanned by God that Saul kills the giant and use a total submission to God’s will to establish his kingdom over Isreal, forever. Forever means to the millennium reign of Christ. Meaning, Christ was pre planned to come out of his loins. But he lacked the spiritual age to become all that. His spiritual immaturity prevented all from happening and passed everything to David.
By biological age, Saul was older than David. He was mature in a biological sense, but not in spiritual age.
David would later kill the giant and go on to be the person whose loins Christ came through. All that happened because David had the spiritual age to make them happen. It takes people who are older to confront giants and release their destiny as planned by the LORD.
If you read the book of 1st Samuel 17, you will realize that when the Philistine appeared, all the spiritual babies then in Israel, including the king, went into hiding. It took one old man called David (old in friendship with God) to deal with the giant. Your spiritual age will be revealed on the day of war!
Yes, how mature you are in the faith to release your destiny against Satan and his works will be revealed when giants come against you.
If you run into hiding or start going about looking for who will help you deal with them, irrespective of how old you may be in Church or natural age, it is a sign that you are not yet mature in the things of God.
Our age in the Kingdom is determined by how long we have lived in God’s active presence. How many years we have spent our Christian lives in deep intimacy with God, deep challenges of the faith, and experiential knowledge God and His word.
THOSE WHO HAVE SPENT MORE YEARS IN ALL THAT ARE OLDER SPIRITUALLY THAN THOSE WHO HAVE NOT.
David was one of such men, that was why He was Older than Saul who knew nothing about being intimate with God. That was why he could understand that the Philistine was not defying any man but the armies of the LORD – the invisible army. And because he defied God’s invisible army, his days on earth were over.
It was David’s spiritual age acquired through countless hours of being with God that made him to know that battles with people who have defied the armies of the LORD are not fought with swords, spears and Javelins. They are fought with the name of the LORD. That was why he picked five stones, representing the five letters in the name “Jesus.”
He also picked 5 stones because goliath was one of the last five giants on earth. The other four were his brothers. Spiritual age taught him all that. What spiritual age will teach you in battle, no preacher can teach you on earth. They may confirm it, but the revelation will sit better if your age tells you.
You will not be able to fulfill your destiny because of how long you have stayed in a church. You will only fulfill it if you grow up spiritually.
Understand that there are people who have been in their Churches for many years and have grown through the ranks to become pastors or other officers of their denominations but have not spent even a day in the active presence of God.
I am not referring to a Church service, I mean the active presence of God – the very realm David spent his days in, that made him older than Saul.
You find them old and full of experience in Church and religious affairs, but very immature in spiritual age. They will see a burning flame for God and either push the person into marriage, or make the person blow up in pride, leading to the death of the flames, or do some other spiritually childish things.
PAUL WROTE TO THE CHURCH AT GALATIA SAYING,
“Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all, but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father.” Galatians 4:1-2 NKJV
God’s plan can be found in this scripture. No matter how great your destiny is, you must first submit to people that will help you grow up before going out to unleash it. You must sit under God given stewards and guardians until the time appointed by our Heavenly Father for your manifestation.
Our devotional text this morning is full of prophetic and apostolic truths. But a devotional is too small to unpack it.
It tells us about a child being born, and a son being given. That was a messianic prophecy that was fulfilled in the day Jesus was born. It was a word God sent to that generation to reveal the identity of the Messiah long before he was born. A major highlight in the text says,
“For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder.”
Hidden in this statement is the apostolic function of the true Church (I mean the Church global). The Bible says the government of Jesus will be on us because we are His shoulders. Do not forget, He is the head of the body. The Bible also says He is the governor among the nations.
So, as our Head (and we, His shoulders), we are called to carry out His governmental functions on the face of the earth. But the children that are born to do that must become sons for them to be able to do it. The government does not rest on children; it rests on sons. Children will always have the right to it, but their lack of spiritual age will deny them the reality.
God sent this word this morning so that we can make growing up our priority.
Yes, if you make “GROWING UP,” through proper spiritual feeding by the hands of God’s apostles and prophets, and countless hours with God your priority, you will gain stature rapidly in the spirit and begin to manifest as a Son of God on the face of the earth. Amen!!!
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!
“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
“For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.”
“For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.”
“For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.” Romans 8:18-22 NKJV
