THE CRY OF TODAY’S DEVOTION (FRIDAY 20TH MARCH 2026)
“Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.” Proverbs 4:23-24 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 79TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY
Today is another weekend. We give God the glory!! It’s been 79 days of experiencing His mercies, compassion and marvelous help.
His love is so deep that we cannot get over it. Come to think of it, God knows your dark secrets, yet He still love you. He knows things about you that if people find out, they will not touch you again with even a long spoon. Yet His presence still touches you and His mercies sustains you.
How many people will still love you if they discover your deepest secret – I mean bad secrets that the blood of the lamb has covered? None! But God still loves you. His vision is to cleanse you and make you holy, righteous and pure from your secrecy.
Many of us are not worthy of even being alive but He has not stopped His life from flowing through us. These are the things that should exhume right living and submission to His will, ways, and purpose from our lives. If we do not know this, we will begin to take His grace for granted and destroy our life.
When grace is taken for granted, its purpose will be abused. It will no longer fulfill its primary mandate, which is to cure sin and establish a heart of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
There are two major reasons why God relates with us the way He does – two basic reasons why He does not deal with us according to our sins; the first lies in what the Spirit of God said in 2 Peter 3:9.
“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9 NKJV
THIS CLEARLY MEANS, GOD DEALS WITH US ACCORDING TO HIS MERCIES TO EXHUME REPENTANCE FROM US.
If therefore we do not consider His mercies, then repent from it, we will be doomed at the end, because there is a second reason. The second reason is in what the Spirit said to the early church. He spoke to a group of people that day saying:
“Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,
because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.” Acts 17:30-31 NKJV
You can see what we can described as one of the most precious passions of the Holy Spirit in this scripture, which is to bring men to repentance (but now commands all men everywhere to repent). If God’s grace is not bringing you to repentance, it’s a sign of grace abuse or the abuse of grace.
It shows that God’s power has been shut down by your will. Bringing us to repentance is the greatest desire of the Spirit for our lives.
There is the initial repentance that is like Isreal coming out of Egypt, and there is the subsequent repentance that is like Egypt coming out of Isreal. In simple terms, the first repentance the Holy Spirit brings out is the repentance that takes us out of the world of sin, the next one is the one that takes the world of sin within us out of us.
HIS IS THE ONE THAT REQUIRES US TO DIE TO THE FLESH DAILY. IF WE DO NOT HAVE THIS ONE, IT WILL ERASE THE FIRST ONE.
Salvation without daily repentance or a dying to the flesh daily will rob us of the very glory of God that should be on our lives. God designed that our lives fulfill every word in Isaiah 60:1-22, but that will not happen if we do not die to the flesh daily.
God does not want any evil to befall us. He does not want us to perish either in hell in the after life or in the hell that is in this life. But this beautiful intention of God can be defeated by a life that lacks repentance, because any sin we keep committing or evil we keep doing will destroy this plan.
The one that did not receive judgment on this side of eternity, will ultimately be judged on the other side of eternity – a timeless side, and that is dangerous. But I say again that God does not want that to happen to us. The scriptures admonished us to take advantage of His grace, by yielding to His Holy Spirit and words, instead of yielding to the pleasure of sin, so that He can purge us of that kind of life.
If we do not, things will be bad. Our hearts can become hardened because we did not experience an immediate consequence of an abominable act, deceiving it to believe God does not care how one lives and that there is no punishment for sins. This is what the Bible calls the deception of sin.
The grace of God remains the attitude to a life that is not Heaven worthy. It delivers from both the penalty and practice of sin, two things that takes people to hell. It will also deliver us from the presence of sin.
Friend, there are things we ought to know that if we do not know we will be ruined in this life and the life to come. All of them are in the Bible. Those are the things GOD designed our souls to know and accommodate so that we can live right.
THE BIBLE DESCRIBES THEM AS THINGS THE HOLY SPIRIT TEACHES, COMPARING SPIRITUAL THINGS WITH SPIRITUAL.
Sometimes, the things are taught at advanced level, that is Spirit of God to spirit of man level. Other times they are shared through human vessels. That is why Jesus gave us His fivefold ministry gifts to help us. It is a redemption system of the Godhead for humanity.
Sadly, the enemy has destroyed most of the systems by raising counterfeits of these gifts and placing them on earth. But if we are privilege to encounter the original and sit under them, the Holy Spirit can use them to teach us so many things in the Holy Bible and even open Heavenly portals in our souls and spirits using the revelation imparted into us.
There are scriptural revelations with capacity to open Heavenly portals in our spirits. Heavenly portals are spiritual gates that connect the invisible world of God with our visible world, making it possible for us to live Christian lives at advance levels, enjoying the Heaven the early church enjoyed on earth. It was what kept our fathers in their battle against the antichrist in their days and sustained them in the faith.
Jesus said something to an ancient disciple of His, Nathaniel, when he was still a prospective follower; something that is worthy of note. The Bible says,
“And He said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” John 1:51 NKJV
Jesus was referring to the opening of Heavenly portals over His Spirit, Soul and Body. One of such moments was in Matthew 17 where the portals opened and His face was transformed like the Sun. The soul of a man is built in such a way that Portals (either from Heaven or hell) can open within it. That is how people communicate with either God or demons.
WHEN HEAVENLY PORTALS OPEN OVER YOU, IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE.
The opening of Heavenly portals over man is God’s way of transferring Blessings from Heaven to earth. When a Heavenly portal opened over Jacob in Genesis 28, it brought some eternal things upon His life that made him one of the richest and most blessed people of the ancient world. The same will happen to you if it opens. The Bible says:
“And behold, the Lord stood above it and said: “I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants.
Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.” Genesis 28:13-15 NKJV
If you look at this portion of the bible carefully, you will discover that each verse tells us what the heavenly portal brought into the life of Jacob. The first was the promise to possess the land he was lying on. Along with the promise was the Heavenly backing which have not left earth since then. That is why Israel is still where it is today despite the opposition.
The second verse speaks of the blessing to increase and spread everywhere that came. We saw that speaking when Israel went to Egypt and in the days of Solomon.
The next was the promised Messiah; it says in your seed (Christ) all the families will be blessed. That also came to pass in the miracle of Immaculate Conception, the birth of the Church, and the outpouring of the Holy Ghost on all flesh. Indeed, in him all the nations of the earth have been blessed. The last blessing that was released upon him that day was an ever-abiding presence of God.
The LORD said to him:
“Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.”
WHAT MORE CAN WE GLEAN FROM THESE PROPHETIC TRUTHS IN THE ENCOUNTER JACOB HAD THAT DAY?
So much! But one more thing I realize is this; spiritual oppression in life and hardships are most times a by-product of evil portals opened over the souls of men and women for not coming to the place of being imparted with accurate scriptural revelations. There are things we are not designed to accommodate in our souls – doctrines of devils are some of them.
These things open evil portals over us and keep us in demonic oppression, that is why people who are taught things about the devil, evil altars, curses, evil patterns, in father’s houses, etc. are usually under persistent oppression. Sadly, those who teach them call them “deliverance teachings.” But the Bible calls them the depths of Satan.
You cannot be free from oppression sitting under teachings that speaks chiefly about the oppressor! They will subtly open the portals of the oppressor in your soul. They will never open the portals of the deliverer – Jesus Christ. If the portals of the oppressor, Satan or his demons are subtly opened in your soul, either you know it or not, you will never have rest from demonic oppression.
They will need to be closed for you to have rest. Our devotional text this morning says:
“Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.”
The portals that are opened in your heart will determine what flows out of your life. If your life is full of poverty, misery, and all kinds of oppression, there are no portals of Heaven within you.
You must put away persistent sins or evil deeds and turn your heart away from heretic preachers. Then commit to right living, the truth of the Bible, and those who the Holy Spirit will use to get you established in Christ. That is how the evil portals will be closed for the Heavenly ones to be opened, bringing a great change to your life!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY;
“Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves; and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.
And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him. Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here; if You wish, let us make here three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!” Matthew 17:1-6 NKJV
