TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL (Friday 20TH August 2021)
“When He opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets.
Then another angel, having a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel’s hand. Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it to the earth. And there were noises, thunderings, lightnings, and an earthquake.” Revelation 8:1-5 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 232ND DAY OF OUR YEAR OF HIGHER HEIGHTS!
We are in a prophetic season of the opening of seals – seals of divine revelations of the kingdom, power and glory of God. The opening of seals triggers the opening of portals. Yes, seals are like access codes to Heavenly portals in God’s Kingdom. When the Holy Spirit break them for you, a portal open for you.
It’s another day that the LORD has made. We shall rejoice and be glad in it. It’s been a blessing, waking up each morning and receiving from God light and understanding for each new day. And today will not be different.
Our devotional text this morning is a deep revelation that we cracked when I was teaching on the Signs of the Baptism of the Holy Ghost and Fire in our school of the Spirit in 2016. One of the highest points of the sessions was when the LORD tore the veil placed in hearts by the doctrine of evil altars from the hearts of the people.
And today, I want to revisit that subject!
Deliverance ministers have veiled the Church from seeing the true altar in Heaven by teaching, emphasizing and harassing us with books, tapes, and sessions on evil altars. Some even demanding great financial sacrifices to be free from them, or asking that they follow us to our villages to uproot them. But that day, God broke through our spirits, tearing those veils and opening His seals to us.
We left the meeting with eyes on the altar of God in Heaven, and were forever separated from the doctrines of evil altar that has formed the revelation of many today. It was one of the greatest liberation services we have ever had in east Africa since we came.
I remember petitioning the few ministers of the gospel who were with us then, at the end of the session, to start teaching about what we saw in the scriptures that day. I remember sending the CDs to another Bishop in Nairobi then, who I thought wanted to move out of the scamming gospel to the doctrine of Christ.
My thought then was to mobilize him and the few who came to come together to chase the darkness away from the hearts of the elects. But I was very wrong because those men only took what was taught to use in defending the scamming gospel they were preaching. I was disappointed.
THAT WAS WHEN I DECIDED TO GET BACK TO THE WORD THE LORD GAVE ME WHEN WE FIRST STARTED THE WORK HERE.
Previously, I had planned apostolic conference for preachers. I thought if they get it right, their members will get it right. But the LORD was like; “Don’t go that direction. The work will fail if you do. Leave the shepherds and focus on the sheep. Feed my sheep because the shepherds have been the problem.” Then He took me to Ezekiel 34.
Allowing those preachers into that meeting, and giving them the messages to preach to their congregants was a violation of my rules of engagement on this battle field. So when I saw what happened, I had to repent and go back to the rules of engagement the LORD gave me.
But how did I start preaching and teaching things on altars? I think I need to recount the story again.
You see, It is very easy to preach another gospel if you have not heard about the doctrine of Christ. It is very easy to copy paste messages if you are still an echo. Except you are a covenant son of some Elijah, you have no right in the spirit to copy what he preaches. It is lawless to do so!
Sadly, this generation do not know that. They will rather argue with you on matters like that. You can’t believe that people even argue that sleeping with another man’s wife is not a sin. I mean preachers. They say you are just helping her husband. That is how evil this generation is. So arguing about not copy pasting someone’s message is small to them.
So when I started ministry, I was an echo. Yes, most voices of God do start ministry as echoes of God’s voice. I was one, so it was easy to become part of the altar breaking deliverance ministers in Nigeria. That was 1996 or so.
Honestly, like the spirit of divination did in the book of Acts chapter 16, the revelation brought money to us.
It all started when I stumbled into a book written by a particular Nigerian preacher who we all considered to be a powerful prophet of God. He lives in the Northern part of Nigeria. Some ‘leading‘ apostles here in Kenya are his sons. That is why they are making a lot of money through the doctrine of altars.
THE TRUTH IS, EVERY FALSE DOCTRINE BRINGS MONEY TO THE PREACHER. IT DOES NOT BRING HEAVEN TO THOSE WHO HEAR THEM.
It does not just bring money to preachers, but blindness to the people who receive such doctrines. So the altar doctrine was new and fresh to me when I found it, and I thought, “This is the highest revelation in the body of Christ. This is serious, we are in trouble. I need to start helping people by teaching them these things”
I was fresh in ministry and had spent my entire life before that time reading the Bible and any gospel book that can help my understanding of it. But when I stumbled into this one, it opened a fresh dimension of truth to me (so I thought). I took it for the deepest revelation I have ever read on the spirit realm and the works of Satan.
I would later grow up to be taught by the Holy Spirit that the deepest revelation is not about evil altars or any other works of the devil. Anything a man learns about Satan and his evil works is not “deep” but “dark.” The deepest revelation available to mankind is the revelation of Jesus Christ; things that eyes have not seen, ear heard or eyes conceived about the glory of God. Paul, one of our fathers puts it this way;
But as it is written:
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
“But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.” 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 NKJV
He went on to state that;
“These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.” 1 Corinthians 2:13 NKJV
It took several encounters with the LORD for me to understand that believers were not called to know about the mysteries of the kingdom of Satan but the mysteries of the kingdom of GOD.
We ought not to have relationship or fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness according to scriptures.
OUR SPIRITUAL FOOD OUGHT TO BE THE REVELATION OF THE DEPTHS OF GOD NOT THE DEPTHS OF SATAN.
But the reverse is the case now. Ministers and ministries that call themselves deliverance ministries and ministers teach what the Bible calls the depths of Satan to people and call it gospel. They go beyond the boundaries God has set about Satan and bring things that the fallen angels teaches in occult circles about himself. The end result is a people with all forms of spirits around their lives but no Christ in them.
Come to think of it, how can we be Children of LIGHT and be spending our energy educating ourselves about the works of darkness. That is why many of us are weak in the spirit. We cannot even dispense the power of God to heal a little headache. The Bible says, they that know their God shall be strong and do exploits.
On the flip side, they that know the devil shall be weaken and exploited. Don’t you see how people have been weakened in faith to accept sorcerers and wizards as prophets? Can you see how they call adulterers, drunks, fornicators and perverse men and women anointed men and women of God?
To them, no matter how perverse a man or woman who preaches is, they are still servants of God.
They have become too weak in faith to walk in truth and discernment. They call wicked men and women who would have been stoned to death in the days of the Bible servants of God. They cannot tell when a preacher has lost the divine character and permit to represent God. They just follow whatever the PREACHER say without checking the Bible.
We are in a pathetic situation for knowing so much about Satan and nothing about God, His ways, His justice system and etc.
No one can be free from the devil knowing about him. It is the knowledge of God that sets a man free from the works of the devil. That is the secret many do not know! The Bible says my people are destroyed for lack of the knowledge of the HOLY ONE, not for lack of the knowledge of the EVIL ONE.
IT IS HIS DEVICES WE ARE TOLD NOT TO BE IGNORANT OF, NOTHING ELSE!
There is so much to know about God – so much in the sea of Heaven’s mysteries that are yet to be revealed to us.
Daniel knew some and wrote it down in his book. Jeremiah, Isaiah, Moses, Ezekiel, some of the early Apostles, and finally John the beloved knew some of these things and transmitted them to us. None of them spent time reading, studying, and writing about evil altars or evil works of Satan.
The Spirit of God spoke by me saying, “Men who live under the glory, do not talk about evil altars or evil works. They talk about the altar of God in Heaven and His righteous works. It is men who are under the anointing and seek to bring deliverance to people outside the realm where permanent deliverance takes place that speak about evil altars and all related works of the enemy.”
I began to understand that the subject of evil altars is simply a money making doctrine and not a Heaven making teaching. It functions as an instrument of fear infliction that end up bringing people to the place of sacrificing greatly towards the economic freedom of those peddling the doctrine.
Why was the HOLY Ghost BAPTISM the greatest pursuit of the early Church? The reason is simple.
When a man gets Baptized in the true Holy Ghost and Fire, he will become God’s altar on the face of the earth and operate at a superior power; higher and greater than the forces of any form of evil on the face of the earth.
I abandoned the revelation of evil altar for the revelation of His glory in year 2000 or so.
God established the messages of the dispensations in my spirit and said to me, “In the Old Testament altars were external, erected with stones, and sacrificed upon.” You see all that in the altars Abraham, and the rest who walked with God erected. “But in the New Testament” He continued, “altars are the spirits (or hearts) of men. Men become my altars when they give their lives to me and I send my Holy Spirit and Fire upon them.”
The Bible indeed said the spirit of man is the candle, lamp, or burning altar of the LORD searching the inward parts of the belly, and that the fire of in should not go out!
IF YOU ARE BORN AGAIN AND FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, YOU ARE GOD’S ALTAR IN EARTH.
I began to understand that the apostles functioned as God’s altars on the face of the earth that was why they could heal the sick, raised the death, cast out devils, and snatch souls from hell even in the midst of the stiffest opposition.
They never did what our generation is doing, yet they faced higher devils more than ours because they gospel was still fresh then, and the spiritual landscapes of the world had not been cultivated and the demons weakened before their time in the regions they preached.
They demonstrated that, we are called to function in the same capacity, connecting the fires on the altar of God in Heaven, and sending them on earth to convert the kingdoms of this world into that of God and of His Christ. Hallelujah!!
A major Highlight in our devotional text today says;
“Then another angel, having a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.”
“And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel’s hand. Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it to the earth. And there were noises, thunderings, lightnings, and an earthquake.”
If you are blind to this altar in Heaven, you will be limited by the evil on earth. Prophets will be deceiving you with doctrines on evil altars and scooping money from you. You will be moving from deliverance service to deliverance service, separated from what Jesus has done in for you by His death on the cross.
Are there really evil altars? Yes, they are!
The devil is doing today what God did yesterday when relating with Abraham and rest. His servants are being taught to summon the supernatural by raising altars. Everything is controlled by the spirit of Nehushtan; a department of the spirit of Baal and Asherah.
He is copy pasting what God did in previous dispensation in other to be effective in this dispensation and it is working for him, courtesy of preachers, who teach us to raise altars and pull down some using, his methods. That is why you must not submit to any preacher peddling such doctrines like the young prophet from Judah did. Don’t forget he lost his life.
CALLING EXPIRED PREACHERS, EXPERIENCED PREACHERS WILL DESTROY YOU!
Satan’s greatest ministry is to do what God did and sometime abandon. When he fell from Heaven, he built altars in his kingdoms after the pattern of things he saw in heaven.
Those altars manifest as portals of hell on the face of the earth. It was some of those portals he led our fathers to construct in their families that deliverance ministers preach and teach about. To this day he still leads people to erect altars to establish points of contact between hell and them.
When Israel settled in the Promised Land, they were told by the LORD to physically destroy such constructs so that they will not be seduced to do the same. God instructed them to go physical because the blood of Jesus had not been shed, the cross was nonexistent, the Holy Ghost and Fire was not yet given, and man was not yet redeemed. Hence there was no authority to bind demons.
But now all that has taken place. Permanent freedom from the evil works of these portals they call altars is no longer by breaking them down physically because we wrestle not against flesh and blood. Neither is it by doing what we call “raising an altar of sacrifice” (giving some money to some prophets).
Permanent freedom is now by genuine salvation experience, the Baptism of the Holy Ghost and Fire, and constantly feeding on the revelation of the kingdom, power and glory of GOD till you step back spiritually into the glory environment that Adam once lived in.
What is the message of our devotional this morning? The message is simple. Until you are connected to the altar of God in Heaven and become God’s altar on earth through genuine salvation experience, the Baptism of the Holy Ghost and Fire, and constant feed on the knowledge of the kingdom, power and glory of God, you will never be free from the evil portals they call altars of your father’s house. That is the message!
You need to be directed to an interpreter of divine will, an able minister of the New Testament, to be brought to that realm where the glory dwells and those evil construct of hell cannot reach you.
YES, You need a spiritual family headed by able spiritual parents, where you will be fed with knowledge and understanding until you become the ark of God on earth.
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR TODAY!
“And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.”
“And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.” Jeremiah 3:15-16 KJV
“But I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and bring them back to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.”
“I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, nor shall they be lacking,” says the Lord. Jeremiah 23:3-4 NKJV