TODAY’S DEVOTION (THURSDAY 19TH MARCH 2026)
“Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.”
“It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for so He gives His beloved sleep.”
Psalms 127:1-2 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 78TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY
We give God the glory for all He is doing in our lives. We thank Him for watching over us and giving us another day to be alive and serve Him. We do not take His kindness for granted.
Day unto day He has been showing His benefits upon us, one of which is the present word for our present times. Today He has another present word for us. I hope we are ready.
To start with, let me say this, when Jesus said, “And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock, I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it (Matthew 16:18NKJV)” He was not giving a speech, He was making a declaration of spiritual war! I believe that is the declaration that has kept us and His entire global Church.
It is a declaration that has been responsible for outbreaks of His presence in our lives and all moves of the Holy Spirit on earth, raising the standard and neutralizing the enemy.
It is a declaration that lying prophets, heretic teachers and untrained pastors do not take to heart. If they do, there would have been none of them running what they call churches or ministries. They would not have embraced falsehood, deception and heretic ministries irrespective of how lucrative they may be.
Yes, if they had taken that declaration seriously, they would not have turned the Church into a money-spinning machine, metaphysical cult, social clubs or political parties! They would have known they have become the very gates of hell Jesus spoke about and resist doing any of that.
THERE ARE MANY GATES OF HELL ON PLANET EARTH. 12 MAJOR GATES SUSTAINS EVERY ONE OF THEM.
Some are in people, others in places while others are in systems, cultures and lifestyles and traditions. The closest ones to a believer in Christ are the preachers who have become gates of hell themselves. When a preacher becomes a gate of hell, his ministry will be turning people into sons of hell.
In many spiritual climes you find preachers who have become gates of hell majoring in giving, money, marriage fame etc., and never talking about Heaven, Hell, or anything that helps the believer gain eternal relevance. You will find them using all kinds of things for prayers. From water, to oil, to salt, to pieces of clothes called mantles, to sand from villages or from graveyards, to fruits, and to mud.
There will be the use of what I call deliverance inventions presented as power instruments, to minister to people. Money making teachings will be coming out of their mouths, replacing all Heaven making doctrines in the Bible. They will be using the Bible and not teaching the Bible.
Sadly, many people do not know that there is a difference between teaching the Bible and using the Bible. It is important that we all know that difference. It is important to know that where the Bible is used and not taught, people will be practicing all forms of witchcraft calling it deliverance.
Where the Bible is used and not taught Prayers goes for specific amounts of money. Where the Bible is used and not taught, religious gadgets will be given to you to pray with, or you will be asked to bring them to be prayed for. There will be magic based miracles in replacement of the true power of God.
All that will be done with twisted scriptural backing to deceive, even the one performing. But where the bible is taught these things do not happen.
WHERE THE BIBLE IS TAUGHT, THERE IS SOUND DOCTRINE AND NONE OF THESE PRACTICES.
People walk in scriptural revelation and perfect understanding of the ways of the LORD where the Bible is taught. They are taken to an apostolic construction site through schooling in the things of God where they become temples of God in the Spirit.
Where the Bible is taught, the great commission is executed without omission. People are made disciples of Christ, and not just Church members. You find spiritual growth, and you find believers focusing on the eternal and not the mundane. You find them bearing fruits of righteousness.
Understand that our primary assignment as ministers of the gospel is to execute the great commission without omission.
The great commission without omission is executed by making lost sinners disciples of Christ. Friend, if you truly understand what the great commission is, you will realize that so many preachers have become a hindrance to its execution.
They have become gates of hell themselves the way the preachers who functioned under Judaism in the days of the early church were. But thank GOD, the declaration says they will not prevail. There is a generation of God’s reserves who have not bowed their knees to Baal rising all over the planet.
This generation will carry the end time keys of the kingdom and uncommon authority of the Spirit. They will be able to sense what Christ has bound in Heaven concerning His Church and bind it on earth. And sense what He has loosed in Heaven and loose it on earth. The Bible says.
“And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
Matthew 16:19 NKJV”
THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT EXECUTING THE GREAT COMMISSION THAT WE MUST UNDERSTAND.
It will be fought by the dragon. That is why we will need the keys. When you hold the keys of the kingdom of heaven on earth, every other kingdom will have no choice but to listen to you! The dragon may fight but will always not prevail if the keys are in your hands.
Sadly, so many in the body of Christ today are keyless in the spirit that is why they cannot exercise dominion over evil works. They had to drink oil, use water and live very powerless lives or tap into the supernatural of the demon of deliverance. It’s sad.
God is passing through His prophetic reserves in our generation called the remnant; a people who still have their garments as white as snow. He is passing among them to raise Himself an army of apostolic warriors who will execute His end time redemptive plans in herald of His return!
This is time for us to become synchronized in the Spirit like Jesus was. Yes, this is the time to start spending your days based on the revealed paths and programs of God for your life. This is the time to begin to make your decisions based on what is written in the scroll of the books concerning you.
It’s my prayer that God will use these words to further build you up this morning and give you an inheritance among they that are sanctified! AMEN
LET THIS SCRIPTURE NE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY!
“Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; My ears You have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.
Then I said, “Behold, I come; In the scroll of the book it is written of me.I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart.”
Psalms 40:6-8 NKJV
