TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL (Monday 27th September 2021)
“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. ” John 14:1-3 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 270TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF HIGHER HEIGHTS!
Welcome to another day from the King of kings and LORD of lords. This is the day He has made, I believe with the whole of my heart that you will rejoice and be glad in it. Hallelujah!
Today we are continuing a fresh journey of truth that we started yesterday, the season six of the seven days seven mountain, at the Cry of the Spirit Ministries Here in Nairobi. We have covered five seasons where the LORD indeed visited us with marvelous deeds and revelations of what He is.
Indeed, the people who sit in darkness has seen a great light.
These meetings are driven by the desire to execute a part of the big mandate Jesus handed over to end time apostolic ministries. The mandate is in the book of Acts chapter 26; an extension of what the LORD gave to our father Apostle Paul.
That mandate includes baptizing or immersing people in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Many have taken this to be just water baptism. They have done all that and produce un saved believers and saved. They make people believe that once you deep them in water, they are born again. But that is a lie.
Being born again is a product of an encounter with Jesus Christ that translate one’s spirit from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light.
Once you are translated, you begin to life a life that is opposite what you use to live before, and if you have a good Church where you are fed the word, you will find yourself progressing from translation to transformation, then to transfiguration. And all that happens when you are constantly baptized in the name, power, presence, word, nature of Spirit of the Father and the Son, which is the Holy Spirit; the Spirit of Truth.
THE MANDATE, THEREFORE IS NOT A WATER BAPTISM THING.
But a mandate to baptize people in the presence, will, nature, Spirit or word of the triune GOD. That is the only baptism that will take away the curse of the fall as removed on the cross and make us Heaven worthy. That is what I call the blessing of the great commission.
One of the missing ingredients in the Church today is this blessing of the great commission. That is why we have all kinds of hypocrites in Church today. God lamented in His word saying;
“They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.” Titus 1:16 NKJV
This is so true of many so called Christians, especially we the preachers. And because the head (spiritual leaders) is sick the whole body cannot be healthy.
We have all kinds of impostors as ministers of the gospel and all kinds of demonic oppression in the lives of those the Church is certifying saved. Curses are still resting on people and preachers are making great deal of money from them because the Blessing of the great commission has not come upon them.
Those God gave the Ezekiel treatment; taking them behind spiritual scenes to see how depraved their spiritual leaders are, do not have the courage to walk away because they have been under the spell of Charismatic intimidated for too long. Those who eventually live fall back to where the come from or even die because they do not have a personal relationship with the LORD, their refuge.
They should have left for an apostolic house that can help them spiritually after the assemblies of Satan they called Church.
There is a lot of ignorance of the revelation of who Jesus Christ is and a lot of knowledge of the depths of Satan. People who think they know the LORD, do not really know Him. One of the sign of knowing the LORD is life of righteousness. That is the fruit of being knowledgeable or intimate with the LORD; a major blessing of the great commission.
BASICALLY BECAUSE OF THE ABSENCE OF THIS DIMENSION OF THE BLESSING OF THE GREAT COMMISSION IN LIVES, THERE IS NO PEACE OR REST IN THE LIVES OF MEN.
The Church ought to be the storehouse of the blessings of the Great Commission but sadly it is not so in our generation. So many of us do not even know what the great commission is. Others try to confuse people about it with their own ideas. But what the theologians call the great commission was what led to the salvation of lost souls from generation to generation.
Because the meaning is lost, we have left a vacuum for the wicked one to fill in our faith. We lost the meaning because the great commission is not even known by many in our generation; especially those of us in ministry.
Sometimes when I look at what some of us, ministers of the gospel claim to be our mandates from God, I wonder if we truly understand why Jesus put us in ministry.
I remember a preacher telling me in 2007 that GOD commissioned him to preach about tithing to the Church. It left me thinking and wondering if he was referring to the creator of heaven and earth whose sole mission is to seek and save that which was lost or one of the many gods in the kingdom of darkness.
The only god that will do that is the god of the belly or the god of gold. The god of the belly is the god of greed and covetousness. It is responsible for all charismatic robbery operations in Church today!
It is responsible for the many money collecting visions prophets see. It will give them visions of the kind of money to collect from people, how to collect it, and what to do or say to anyone who refuses to submit. It is responsible for all Church projects that make the preacher richer and the members poorer.
IT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL FALSE MANDATES IN THE CHURCH TODAY – THINGS THAT LOOK TRUE TO THE IGNORANT BUT ARE ALL FALSE.
The great commission is always at the core of the visions of all authentic Heavenly mandates. But sadly, so many so called Heavenly mandates have no great commission at the core of their visions.
Many preachers just pretend under it, making great fortune for themselves. They lead people through sinner’s prayers and called it the ministry. It is the recitation of the sinner’s prayer that certified a soul saved but the renunciation of a sinner’s life.
I have seen a lot of preachers who make a lot of money for themselves by leading Churches to contribute money towards missions that were never executed, or were executed without anyone getting truly saved apart from reciting the sinner’s prayer.
I have seen preachers ask people to give money for crusades, church buildings and etc. that either did not see the light of the day but were just a decoy to milk money from people.
Have you ever seen a Church that collects money for Church building whose collection has refused to come to an end? Off course they are everywhere today! I know a Church that the Elders were collecting the money and sharing it but claiming one thing or another for years. They made sure the project never came to an end so that the collection will not come to an end.
The day of judgment will be terrible!
So many preachers and Church workers now collect money for Church projects just as a decoy. They collect but use on personal needs. There are false mandates everywhere today with people who are ignorant spending so much on those mandates, offering what the Bible calls sacrifice of fools.
If you take a true scriptural gaze at the ministries of so many preachers today, you will discover that they fall outside the spirit and letters of the great commission. You will discover that many are just made their man- made religious desires, peddled as the work of GOD. A lot of preachers who tell us are building things ‘for GOD’ are indeed building them for themselves.
The great commission will get you ready for what Jesus said in our devotional text today. He said,
“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you.
I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. ” John 14:1-3 NKJV
This place is already prepared. God is only waiting for the last mass evangelism that will usher in Jesus as King of Kings and LORD of lords to get to its crescendo. Presently the Spirit of Christ is fulfilling major prophecies to put the Church in order, because a sick Church cannot save a dying world.
He is manifesting as a swift witness to sorcerers, diviners, false grace preachers and perjurers we call servants of God. He spoke through the prophet Malachi saying;
“For the lips of a priest should keep knowledge, And people should seek the law from his mouth; For he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
But you have departed from the way; You have caused many to stumble at the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” Says the LORD of hosts.
“Therefore I also have made you contemptible and base Before all the people, because you have not kept My Ways but have shown partiality in the law.” Malachi 2:7-9 NKJV
This prophecy is being fulfilled as we speak. He is making the perverted many call anointed contemptible. Sadly, the ignorant are screaming, “touch not God’s anointed.” They supposed to be saying; “touch not Satan’s perverted.”
What they do not know is the LORD is the one doing it, he is stirring everyone to speak of their sinful acts publicly. He is making them contemptible as a correctional judgment so that they could repent, but sadly, as it is they will never repent of their sinful acts. That is why what is coming next will be terrible.
God is going to make many more contemptible as He moves to cleans and build His Church. Many preachers have broken the covenant of being a minister of the gospel with their sinful life styles. That is why more correctional judgment should be expected.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY
“And now, O priests, this commandment is for you. If you will not hear,
And if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to My name,” Says the LORD of hosts, “I will send a curse upon you, And I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.
“Behold, I will rebuke your descendants and spread refuse on your faces, the refuse of your solemn feasts; And one will take you away [a]with it.
Then you shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, That My covenant with Levi may Continue,” Says the LORD of hosts. “My covenant was with him, one of life and peace, And I gave them to him that he might fear Me; So he feared Me and was reverent before My name.
The law of truth was in his mouth, And [c]injustice was not found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and equity, And turned many away from iniquity. Malachi 2:1-6 NKJV