TODAY’S DEVOTION (Wednesday 15TH January 2020)
“A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; He rages against all wise judgment.”
“A fool has no delight in understanding, but in expressing his own heart.”
“When the wicked comes, contempt comes also; and with dishonor comes reproach.” Proverbs 18:1-3 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 15TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF REJOICING
Yesterday the LORD spoke to us about the power of the content of our memories. We were able to see that what lies in our memory is what really get printed in our lives over time.
That is why one of the things God will do to us by His Spirit is to fill our hearts with Heavenly visions of His plans and purposes for our lives. The essence is to fill our hearts with what He wants to make manifest in our lives!
One major thing that every encounter with the LORD leaves us with is glorious and blessed memories. A memory that is full of glorious or blessed things from an encountered with the LORD will always result in a life full of glorious and blessed things. That is why glorious and blessed encounters are necessary keys to becoming all that GOD has called us to be in life!
But this morning, we want to look at a devotional that was published in our year of GREATER THINGS. It’s my prayer that GOD use it to add to whatever was imparted into our lives yesterday. Amen
THE CRY OF THE SPIRIT DEVOTIONALS – BY RICHARD E. S. TAKIM
“The Lord gave the word; great was the company of those who proclaimed it:” Psalm 68:11 NKJV
WELCOME TO OUR YEAR OF GREATER THINGS
Today we will continue with the flow of the Spirit of GOD through these devotionals. Relationships will go a long way to play a major role in your life this year.
Yes, God use men to reach men; He use men to visit men. Satan also uses men to destroy men. He uses men to kill, steal and destroy. Managing the gift of men to men is therefore one of the major aspects of divine wisdom that you must embrace this year.
God created us to “depend” on Him for success. But He also created us to “need” OTHER men to succeed. That is why the self-made syndrome is a deceit. No one can be self-made. At one point or the other another man will be involved in your quest for success.
The divine visions in your heart cannot be fulfilled until you are surrounded by great men and women who love the LORD and LOVE YOU ALSO. That is part of the wisdom of God. Until divine purposes are surrounded by men brought by the divine hand of God to help fulfill them, they will either remain unfulfilled or be terminated all together.
If your heart carries a divine vision to be fulfilled or a prophetic purpose to be accomplished, you will need to be surrounded by those God moved to help you – people whose God’s given purpose in life is to help you fulfill your God given purpose in life. That is the way it works. If you lack such people, you will be in trouble!
Here is something you must understand about divine plans, purposes and visions from the LORD!
WITHOUT VISIONS PEOPLE PERISH, AND WITHOUT PEOPLE VISION PERISH!
Visions and all divine purposes need men that God has touched to be executed and completed. God will make helping you to actualized what He may have called you to do their purpose in life so they can stand with you at all times. Their success will heavily depend on your success. .
That is why if a pastor has people whose prophetic purpose has nothing to do with helping him fulfill the heavenly mandate that birth the Church, he is bound to fail. They will sap him of all GOD given energy until he dies. Some will even desire to marry him or just be sleeping with him.
It is very important that Church members understand that God brought them to pastors to help them actualize His call upon their lives. That should be their own purpose for living. Their success in life will depend on their faithfulness to him and God.
If they fulfill it faithfully, they could even get more reward in Heaven than the pastors – the carriers of the mandate. Our devotional text said “The Lord gave the word; great was the company of those who proclaimed it:”
Friend most of what the LORD will put in the heart of His servants to do will need a company of people to take from start to finish. The work of the LORD is too huge for one man to take from start to finish. He may provide leadership but without a corresponding follower-ship, things will be difficult.
At conception, a vision may need just a man but for its manifestation to take place, it will need people. Don’t forget that! You must know that GOD made you a church member to help His servant carry the mantle upon his life. But if the man or woman is a charlatan then you all will go for it in the day of reckoning.
You don’t help falsehood to be established and not suffer for it at the later end. You must be sure who you are dealing with. Mistakes can be very damning!
Whenever God seek for a man, it is to impregnate his spirit with His plans and purposes. But whenever He wants to move those plans and purposes from the declaration to the manifestation, He will seek for men.
If you are around a true servant of GOD, your prophetic destiny is to be that man or woman the LORD has given him to fulfill His plans and purposes.
IT TAKES MEN TO MOVE THINGS FORWARD. BE THAT MAN AND GOD WILL ALSO GIVE YOU MEN TO MOVE YOUR LIFE FORWARD!
Every life need needed men. If your life lacks needed men, your efforts will not produce anything meaningful. it will be full of failed DREAMS and HOPE. This is what makes Isolation a curse in the life of people who are heavily pregnant with divine purposes that need to be fulfilled on earth.
If God isolates you, it is a blessing. Because He isolates to either protect us from pollution or impregnate us with purer seeds from His throne. But if Satan isolates you, it is a curse because you will be cut you off from needed men. Most times he will paint them as wrong men before you, using gossips or weird dreams to drive you away from them!
I have met quite a lot of people here in Kenya who knew our ministry back in 2016 and 2017 but regretted not joining then because of what people said about me and Nigerians. I remember one lady literally crying for believing the lies.
Satan will always use misunderstanding, gossips, and all forms of accusations to separate you from needed men.
You must be careful!
Can you imagine a David without the strong warriors that surrounded him when he became King? There would have been no GREAT King David. He needed just God by his side to kill the giant, but to be great King David who conquered nations for the LORD, he needed God given men by his.
You must discern when you need just God in your life and when you need both God and God-given men.
In simple terms, you will need God strongly by your side to kill your giants but will need men He moved to be strongly by your side to become the king He wants you to be. That is the message!
EVERY VISION GOD GIVES WILL NEED PEOPLE GOD BROUGHT TO BE FULFILLED!
It will not need people you manipulate to join you. This is where manipulating people to join your Church as a pastor is dangerous. They will destroy your life and ministry later. At first you will think you were smart but wait for the day of reckoning.
A lot of Churches have closed down for manipulating people to join them. The people the pastors manipulated to join them later strangulated the ministry and killed it.
Heavenly visions do not need people you manipulated to join you. They do not even need sympathetic people. They need people God called or moved to come in with a life purpose of seeing the word grow and brought to its actualization. You must understand that wisdom and tailor your live to it.
Now this principle is not just for ministry alone. Whatever came from Heaven will need people moved by Heaven to support it. If the LORD gives you a marriage, He will surround you with people that care to help you enjoy the blessing.
If the LORD gives you a business Idea, He will have to give you the people you need to actualize the Idea and move things from your mind to the ground.
If the LORD gives you a Child, you will not raise him or her alone. He will also have to give you people who will make the provisions and love available to raise him or her.
If the LORD gives you salvation, He will also give you a pastor to help disciple you and raise you up in His fear. If the LORD gives you a calling or ministry, He will also give you an apostolic father or spiritual family to help you bring it forth successfully. If the LORD gives you a project to execute, He will also give you the men that you need to execute it.
If the LORD gives you a life to live, He will also give you people to help you enjoy it. Sometimes it is not those you expect that will be given to you, but those you don’t expect.
PEOPLE YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE IN YOUR LIFE.
The Bible says in proverbs 17:16 “Why is there in the hand of a fool the purchase price of wisdom, since he has no heart for it?” (NKJV).
I want you to have a heart for this devotional. I want you to spend time to meditate on these things. There are people you need to unleash your destiny. There are also some you do not need at all.
Sadly, sometimes we stick to those we do not need and give no friendship to those we need. That was what Samson did.
He never knew Delilah was not part of his destiny. There was no pastor or prophet to warn him and uncover her mission to him. There was no one to slap him in other to save him from what she was about bringing into his life. Sadly, she succeeded in her plans.
Relationships are doors to things good or evil. It depends on what the person you are in relationship with worships or is in covenant with. Your life would have been better if you had received men your destiny needs and push away those it does not need.
Most tears in our lives are products of living with men or women our divine destinies do not need.
However, I have also come to discover that whenever a man or woman of destiny is bringing someone his divine destiny does not need into his or her life, Heaven will use people to scream at his ears not to do so. Most times, we do not listen. Carnal passions and shortsightedness have a way of robbing us of reasoning pushing us into the snare of our enemy.
THERE ARE PEOPLE LIVING WITH MEN THEY CALL HUSBANDS THAT THEIR DIVINE DESTINY DO NOT NEED.
There are those living with women they call wives that their divine destiny does not need. Yes, their sexuality may need them, but their destiny does not need them. May you not cling to who your sexuality, financial needs, or carnal craving need but your destiny does not need. They will destroy you without you having the strong desire to walk away and save your destiny.
You see, I have come to realize that when these human errors or Satan binds you together with a man or woman you do not need, especially in marriage, your prophetic destiny will start screaming at you.
When prophetic destiny screams at a Child of God, confusion will set into his life. Darkness will become closer than light. God will withdraw his stamps of approval from whatever he may be doing. His life will begin to go down and down and down!
God’s stamps of approval are the manifestations of the miracles, signs and wonders we need to unleash His plans and purposes for our lives.
If you bind yourself with the wrong person in life (a man or woman you do not need) these dimensions will be absent in your life. The manifestations will cease gradually, leading to a life of sadness, darkness, and gloom. Gory things will just be happening replacing any glorious things God may have shown you that He wants to do in your life.
Child of God, time to take a stop and check through your relationships. Time to ask the LORD to push you away from whoever you do not need. Time to gain courage and run for your life. The Bible says in Proverbs 17:17 “a friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity” (NKJV).
THE ELIMINATION OF ADVERSITY AND THE RELEASE OF PEACE IS WHAT GOD USES TO SHOW US THAT WHOEVER WE MAY HAVE IN OUR LIVES IS FROM HIM.
In other words, as soon as the person comes into our lives, adversity will start dying. Our lives will be filled with peace over time; both internally and externally. The release of that inner peace is what God uses to announce to us that we are on course with His will for our lives.
May the Holy Spirit take these truths further and cause a brighter light to shine upon you in Jesus precious name!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURAL PASSAGE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY;
“A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; He rages against all wise judgment.”
“A fool has no delight in understanding, but in expressing his own heart.”“When the wicked comes, contempt comes also; and with dishonor comes reproach.” Proverbs 18:1-3 NKJV
“A brother offended is harder to win than a strong city, and contentions are like the bars of a castle.” Proverbs 18:19 NKJV
“Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:” Hebrews 12:14 NKJV