TODAY’S DEVOTION (Thursday 11th September 2025)
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart”. Jeremiah 29:11-13 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 254TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
Let us begin today’s word by inviting anyone that has been blessed by the devotionals all these years to reach us for an interview on MCTV Global. Call Loise on 0791333111, or Ephraim on 0718901132, to have time scheduled for you by the media team. We need people with life changing testimonies on what the LORD has done. The Bible says:
“ But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.” 1 Peter 2:9-10 NKJV
One of our primary responsibilities as believers is to declare the praise of Him who has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light. To declare His praise is to declare His works.
If there are works the LORD has accomplished in your life through these devotionals, things you feel if someone hear them, they will glorify God, we need to hear them. Call now and have time scheduled for you. You can send a WhatsApp message too indicating your interest and detailing your full name and contact information. All this is to mark the 10th year of writing the devotionals. Be part of the thanksgiving and lets all praise God together.
With God’s help, the September Edition of the Dominion Seminar begins today. We thank God because we are not stepping into things we want to make Happen but things God has already planned and finished.
Yes, God has already planned all the Dominion Seminars and finished them before reaching out to us by His Holy Spirit to start organizing them.
THAT IS WHY LIFE-CHANGING TESTIMONIES ABOUND.
The best things to live your days for are the things God has finished concerning you, because they are His eternal purpose for your life in time. The best things to build your expectations on, are the things God has finished concerning you, because they are bound to happen. The best things to meditate on are the scriptural revelation of things God has finished concerning you.
They are the best faith building materials. Besides, they will refresh your soul and take you away from any form of darkness that might be threatening.
A people who learns to fill their hearts with the scriptural revelation of the things GOD has finished concerning them, will know the joyful sound. The Bible says, blessed are the people who know the joyful sound. They will walk in the light of His countenance. The joyful sound is not music, but a prophetic rhythm of what God has finished concerning us.
Some of them can only be found if you understand the mysteries of the seven feasts of the LORD. To know the joyful sound is to be aware of the prophetic content.
God wants us to be aware of the joyful sound so that we can live our days according to its dance step. By dance step we mean, plans and purposes. Jesus knew His own joyful sound. The Bible made that clear to us in these words:
So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read.
And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him.
And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” Luke 4:16-21 NKJV
If you did not see the pattern of a beautiful display of a perfect knowledge of the joyful sound here by Jesus Christ, then you need to read this scripture repeatedly. Jesus had a perfect knowledge of the scriptural revelation of what God had preplanned for Him to fulfill on earth, and a perfect knowledge of how long it should or will take.
HE TOOK THE SCROLLS OF THE BOOK OF ISAIAH AND FOUND EXACTLY WHAT WAS PREPLANNED CONCERNING HIM AND READ IT.
After doing so, He even knew that the fulfilment is to start immediately. That is what it means to know the joyful sound. He would later spend three and half years walking in the light of what He knew that day. That is the level of knowledge God wants us to operate in.
If we learn to read the Bible with the author by our side, that is the Holy Spirit, He will lead us to so much in God including what Heaven has preplanned for us to accomplish on earth. He will show us scriptures that contain things that are settled in Heaven concerning us, the joyful sound to know about our lives.
If we know the sound, we will know the plans and programs of God in the sound and make them our plans and programs.
Friend, it is our responsibility to sit with the Holy Spirit with our Bibles by our side and know the joyful sound of God for our lives, so that we can spend our days walking in the light of His countenance. If we do not, we will be living a guessing or speculative life, even using scriptures or supposed voices claimed to have come from the Holy Spirit to validate the guess or speculation.
Many of us have speculated who our husbands and wives are and married them, speculated what God wants us to do with our lives and done them, only to discover we made those decisions by ourselves.
Some discovered in time while others discovered when it was too late to make any changes.
It is not the will of God that we live our lives either guessing, speculating or feeling our way through. It will ruin us. No life will have Heavenly color if it is lived outside the knowledge of the joyful sound of God for it. It will have problems that even prayers cannot cure.
YES, IT WILL HAVE PROBLEMS THAT EVEN PRAYERS CANNOT CURE.
The Bible teaches that prayers are only answered if prayed according to God’s will. In other words, according to what God has already preplanned to do. If you enter the real prayer realm, you will discover that prayer is calling on God to do what His word revealed that He wants to do.
It is calling on God to do what he has preplanned to do in our lives or the lives of others. Our devotional text calls those things, “the thoughts that He think towards us. Thoughts of peace and not of evil. To give us a future and a hope.” Many do not know that Jesus enjoyed answers to prayers because He prayed each prayer He ever made according to His knowledge of the joyful sound.
In other words, He prayed according to the will of God. God’s will is that we know the joyful sound and walk in the light of His countenance even in our daily devotional and prayer life. The totality of what you are to be as a Christian will come from the things God has preplanned for you, His joyful sound for your life. You must step into it before you can live a fulfilled life.
Paul stepped into his own joyful sound when he was on his way to Damascus and lived all his life according to its dance steps (plans and programs).
You are the next on God’s list, because He wants you to stop living the way you feel and begin to live the way He has pre planned for you. He wants you to step into His plans and programs for your life so that all that does not glorify Him can step out of your life.
Paul lived his life as Saul, pursuing what was hurting God’s kingdom without even knowing it because it gave him publicity, honor, and great authority to function. He was a very important personality who goes around with strong delegation. But when the LORD brought him into the joyful sound, he lost all that and begin to live his days as he should.
HE SAID TO THE CHURCH IN GALATIA:
“But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.
For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it. And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,” Galatians 1:11-16 NKJV
Matters that concerns God’s joyful sound for your life are not things you confer with flesh and blood about.
They are things you bury in your heart and open them up to special ears only. There are so many reasons for that. One of it is this, they contain how much your life is worth in God’s economy and tells the devil the kind of war he should prepare against you. So, God wants them treated as sacred and holy. Only time should be allowed to make them manifest.
They form the substance of your prayer life, the passion of your heart and your purpose for living. If you voice them out anyhow, you will begin to see strange attacks of the devil in your life, some successful others not successful.
Today’s word is just to stir you to come up to some heights of faith, where you live your days according to the content of the joyful sound. It is my prayer that God use all you have read in this piece to build you up and give you and inheritance among they that are being sanctified for eternal rest with Christ. Amen!!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!!!
“The enemy shall not exact from him or do him violence or outwit him, nor shall the wicked afflict and humble him.
I will beat down his foes before his face and smite those who hate him.
My faithfulness and My mercy and loving-kindness shall be with him, and in My name shall his horn be exalted [great power and prosperity shall be conferred upon him]”. Psalm 89:22-24 AMPC
