TODAY’S DEVOTION (SUNDAY 28TH September 2025)
“We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him. We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.” 1 John 5:18-19 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 271ST DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
Few years back we said, “if there is a place in God that if we step in, all demonic activities will remain out; that is where we want to be. If there is a place in God that if we step in, we begin to see ahead of our generation, that is where we would like to spend the rest of my days from as a church.”
Yes, if there is a place in God that if I step in, poverty, lack, all forms of slavery to sin, Satan and the systems of this world will come to an end in my life, that is where I would like to be. The good news is, such place exists in God. It’s just that very few Christians have found it.
It is the place of rest, a place of peace, a place of supernatural love, mercy, economic supplies and power. It’s a place full of grace and truth. You do not locate it by Google search. You locate it by scriptural search. Jesus said,
“You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. John 5:39-40 NKJV
When you search the scriptures in Spirit and in truth, it brings you to Christ Himself. Christ is like a holy place in the Spirit realm, a holy home. He is the Home that when you step in, all the works of the devil will stay out of your life. He will not just take out the evil works but will also give you a new nature that will keep evil away from you forever.
THE ONLY THING THAT REMAINS IS THE PRICE YOU PAY TO GET TO THIS PLACE.
It is a price that will put you in Him and make you part of those who see ahead of their generation and move in His power, kingdom and glory. Hallelujah! As you keep searching the scriptures and imbibing the truths and virtues therein, you will find yourself finding more of Christ and moving from faith to faith, grace to grace, and glory to glory.
Friend, if there is a thing that if I do I begin to move from faith to faith, grace to grace, and glory to glory, friend that is what I will want to be doing all my life.
If there is a Church that will help me do that or push me into that place in Christ, where I need to stay in, for the glorious things spoken concerning me to come to pass, and my enemies to become my foot stool, that is the Church I will want to attend all my life.
These are not days of allowing preachers to be playing religious games with your destiny. Hell is hot, and Heaven is real. Without holiness no eye will see the LORD. So, find a church that can move you from a life of struggle with sin to a life of holiness, a life of drug addiction and moral decay, to a life of freedom and moral excellence.
A life of constant demonic attacks to a life of rest roundabout that comes without sowing seeds, raising altars, or going to mountains and caves to pray. God wants you to live free, but you must find that church Heaven has ordained for you. That is how He will make all that the pit of hell throw at you, your foot stool.
Talking about our enemies becoming our foot stool, David eavesdropped into a divine conversation between God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost in one of his deep intimacy sessions. He heard the Father say something to the Son that he thought would be helpful to humanity and captured it in a Psalm and today we have it by God’s arrangement. He said;
The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool.” The Lord shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies! Psalms 110:1-2 NKJV
THIS PSALM HAS A LOT FOR US.
First, it demonstrated the possibility of a child of God to eavesdrop into divine conversations. There is a generation that can attend the council of the God head in Heaven from the earth to bring timely revelations and eternal strategies for vanquishing the enemy of our souls.
The activation of that generation is part of God’s way of helping us to manifest His likeness on the face of the earth. David was a template of that generation.
He was a man ahead of His generation in so many ways, and that was because He made the pre incarnate Christ (the LORD) his shepherd. The blessing of doing that was the activation of His spirit to eavesdrop into the heavenly conversation captured in Psalm 110.
God has not stopped holding such conversations in Heaven, and He wants you to participate like David did. That is why you must stop attending churches that do not aid you to step into such realm of grace. So many believers are yet to taste great realms of grace and glory because they are in wrong assemblies. They are just limited in their experience of God.
What David heard that day was a messianic prophecy, but it reveals two basic prophetic truths to us.
The first is hidden in the words “Sit down at my right Hand till I make your enemies your footstool.” That makes it clear to us that there is a place in God where one can step into and sit down (or settle there). And when that happens, He (God) will begin to make the person’s enemies his or her footstool.
Enemies like the gates of death, the gates of hell and the gates of grave, will become the person’s footstool by the power and glory of God. Enemies like sin, self, Satan, the evil and corrupt system of this world and all demons they carry, will become the person’s footstool. Hallelujah!
WHEN THAT HAPPENS, YOU WILL NO LONGER BE A HYPOCRITE OR LIVE IN SIN.
Our devotional text this morning states two important utterances of the Spirit of Truth on this line. The first says, “We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.”
If you look at this scripture carefully, you will see two major fruits of authentic salvation experience – two important fruits that should spring out of the life of a born-again Christian. The first is “he does not sin” which represents life of Holiness.
The second is “he keeps himself and the wicked one does not touch him” which describes a life that is divinely preserved from evil. This simply means you will not see such a person going for deliverance from anything because there will be nothing to be delivered from.
He will be able to keep himself and the wicked one will not touch him.
If you look at this scripture closely, you will see so much that our generation of believers is yet to come into. I think the major problem that is keeping us out of this place in Christ is the pseudo salvation experiences we call born again. Many who claim born again are hypocrites; they live perpetually in sin, and do not keep themselves hence becoming cheap preys of the wicked one.
If you are living in sin claiming born again, the wicked one will keep touching you.
A life of sin after salvation is the greatest betrayer of the Church to the devil. Sadly, many do this and still call themselves saved. But the Bible says otherwise. It says He that lives in sin is of the devil, not of God. So, the only way out is to get genuinely saved accompany your salvation with a life of sinless living; a life of total obedience to the will and ways of God.
If you get saved and you do not commit yourself to working out your salvation with fear and trembling, you will be lost!
The second utterance of the Spirit of truth in our devotional text today says, “We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.”
If you are born of God, Satan can sway dark things or ignorant people against you to do his will in your life. But the only way you can be saved from such attacks, is by locating that place in God where you need to sit to have Him (God) making everyone and everything the devil sways against you your footstool.
THAT IS WHY THAT CONVERSATION THAT DAVID EAVESDROPPED INTO IN PSALM 110 IS VERY IMPORTANT.
Again it says, The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool.” The Lord shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies!’
The right hand of God is that place in God that when we step in and sit (or dwell), our enemies will become our footstool. In other words, it is a place that makes whatever the enemy throws at us or sways people to do to us our footstool. When something is your footstool, it does not hurt eternally.
Yes, it may hurt you in time but not in eternity. It usually serves as a place for resting a foot to take a higher leap forward or climb higher in life. In God’s design, He wants everyone who bears His name to be living his earthly life from that realm or place in Him where enemies will no longer be a thing of concern to us. The Bible says,
“As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, who have been since the world began, that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us,” Luke 1:70-71. NKJV
Locating that place known as God’s right hand and sitting there is the key to seeing the LORD moving fiercely against all who hate you. But to make that happen David said God will have to send the rod of your strength out of Zion.
Zion is not just a prophetic name of Israel but the name of the Church of Jesus Christ. Whenever we gather as a Church, the Holy Spirit comes down to make the place Zion.
Now, I am not referring to what lying preachers, prophets or heretic apostles and money-controlled preachers gather people together to do weekly calling it Church.
THE BIBLE CALLS THAT AN ASSEMBLY OF SATAN.
I am referring to people gathered under genuine spiritual leaders on a Sunday like this or any other day to seek the LORD. That is Zion; that is where Heaven sends the rod of our strength to, and the first enemy it will help you rule in its midst is the sin that lives in us. Yes, it will take you from a life of sin to a life of purity and holiness.
That is the rod that will then empower and bring us into that place in Christ where our enemies become our footstool, resulting in us ruling in their midst. Hallelujah!
When that happens, life will become Heaven on earth even when one is facing the fiercest battle with the flesh, the world or the devil, the greatest enemies of the believer.
Friend God sent this word to stir us to come up higher in our faith and get planted in local churches where Jesus rules and builds. He wants us to deliver ourselves from the manipulation of preacher that is aimed at keeping us in empty Churches where we may find what our carnal nature needs but nothing from the third Heaven.
God wants us to worship in churches where Christ stands to build the lives of those who come there to become beacons of moral excellence on the face of the earth!!
May we heed His word!! Amen.
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY!
“Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.
But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.” Colossians 3:12-17 NKJV
