TODAY’S DEVOTION (TUESDAY 19th August 2025)
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.” Matthew 5:5-6 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 231ST DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
We have been having a great time with our LORD and savior Jesus Christ in our ongoing journey of truth; truths on what our divine destiny needs to be fulfilled. It’s a transfiguration period for sons of God.
It is my prayers that God use these truths to bring us all to the place of transfiguration.
There were three parts of the tabernacle of Moses. It had the outer court, the holy place, and the most holy place. Today, Jesus, the grace of our God, is the Tabernacle. In the outer court we experience His salvation, in the Holy place we experience His sanctification, and in the most holy place, we experience glorification.
If you experience His salvation but do not use that grace and mercy to press into His sanctification, into a separation from the vile, the unclean and the unholy, you stand the risk of being part of those believers He will say these words to in the day of judgment, “you called me LORD, LORD, but did not do what I said. Depart from me you workers of iniquity”
But if we experience His salvation and press on to experience His sanctification which gives birth to a crucified life, we will experience His glorification, the place where His fullness will tabernacle in us. Our divine destiny will need all that to be fulfilled.
Sadly, a lot of believers are not progressing or growing into the life God pre planned, a life that has moved from salvation experience to sanctification experience, resulting in the crucified life, and then glorification, resulting in the fullness of Christ in us.
MANY ARE JUST BACK TO A LIFE OF SIN, A LIFE OF CALLING HIM “LORD, LORD,” BUT NOT LIVING THE LIFE HE DIED FOR US TO LIVE.
To progress or grow is to move from salvation to sanctification and from sanctification to glorification in our experience with God.
Do not forget, in the outer court we are saved, hence our salvation, in the holy place we are being saved, hence our sanctification, leading to living a crucified life. In the most holy place we shall be saved, hence our glorification, resulting in the fullness of God or Christ manifesting in us.
Our divine destiny will need this progression of the work of grace to be fulfilled, because it is when the fullness of GOD manifest that we fulfill the scripture that says we are gods. Divine destiny is not fulfilled when we live like mere men. It is fulfilled when we live like gods (not gods to be worshiped). The Bible says:
I said, “You are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High. But you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.” Psalms 82:6-7 NKJV
God does not want us living or dying like mere men, or falling like one of the princes, hence our salvation, sanctification and glorification. He wants us saved, sanctified, and glorified. But we must understand that it is a work of God’s grace that can only be made possible by our hunger and thirst for righteousness.
Yes, without a hunger and thirst for righteousness, we will never progress from one level to the next. What takes us from the outer court where we are to experience salvation, to the holy place where sanctification is experienced and the most holy place where glorification is experienced is a heart that is hungry and thirsty for righteousness.
That is the heart that God’s grace responds to and take from one level to another. A major highlight of our devotional text says:
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.” Matthew 5:6 NKJV
MOST PEOPLE ARE STUCK IN BETWEEN SALVATION AND SANCTIFICATION FOR LACK OF THIRST FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Our lack of hunger and thirst for righteousness has taken many of us from being children of God to becoming sons of hell. It has given us false salvation; a salvation that lacks sanctification, consecration and holiness. Those who claim to be saved are not being saved (sanctified, consecrated, made holy), hence shall not be saved on the day of judgment.
Sadly, many do not know this, hence not walking to get back to order. But God has sent this word to get us back to order.
I urge us to share the word with as many people as we can, globally. Send the link or copy paste the devotional without editing it to look like it came from you, as we have found some doing. Give honor to whom honor is due, as you spread the word. Do not deny yourself the blessing of doing what is right.
The missing link in the spirituality of many is “hunger and thirst for righteousness.” Yes, the very hunger and thirst for righteousness that existed in early church is not there. We are millions of miles apart in our devotion to God and worship of the same.
Many in the present church are hungry and thirsty for money, sex, the opposite sex, same sex, carnal pleasures, ungodly passions, comfort, fame, attention, recognition, pleasures and all that the Bible describes as the things of men. Hunger and thirst for righteousness are nonexistent in the hearts of many of us in church today.
From the pulpit to the pew, a thirst for the unclean, the vile and the unholy because of the pleasure, the prosperity and the comfort they bring has consumed our hearts.
We thirst for the carnal and the mundane and seek God to satisfy us with them but outwardly looking like people who seek God for the right reason. You see that in the way we live, the sins we commit, the gods we commit to, and the Almighty God we refuse to commit to.
YOU SEE THAT IN WHAT WE PURSUE MOSTLY IN LIFE, BECAUSE IT IS YOUR HUNGER AND THIRST THAT DECIDES YOUR PRIORITIES.
Genuine hunger and thirst for righteousness do not really exist in our hearts, hence many of us are not experiencing the progression of the work of grace we are talking about; a work that results in a salvation with both sanctification and glorification.
We are just stuck with a salvation that does not have sanctification and glorification and are happy about it, believing we will be saved on the final day. But the Bible teaches otherwise.
As we bring this to a close, understand that Salvation without sanctification is a scam. Salvation should propel you to sanctification. You can not be saved and unsanctified, you can only be saved and sanctified. When you are sanctified, you will be living a crucified life, leading to being glorified with the fullness of GOD.
Child of God, there are too many saved but not sanctified Christians today, thereby putting their salvation into question. A lot are back to the old way of the filthiness of the flesh and spirit, while in church. Some have been ordained as pastors in that state. But God want you saved from deception!!!
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR US TODAY.
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Mathew 7:21 NKJV.
