TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL (Friday 1st October 2021)
Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.
Many people shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. Isaiah 2:2-3 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 274TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF HIGHER HEIGHTS!
Welcome to a brand-new month from The LORD – the Month of October. For me, it is a unique month because it is one of the two months in a year where external portals of Heaven open over earth.
Spiritual portals open both externally and internally.
For those who may not be aware of spiritual portals, I have been teaching about them since 20214. A “spiritual portal” is an entry point between the visible and the invisible world. It is a gate of either hell or Heaven that opens on the face of the earth either through wicked acts (for gate of hell) or righteous acts (for gates of Heaven).
When you read Jesus saying, “The gates of hell shall not prevail” He was referring to portals of hell that opens on earth due to multitude acts of wickedness. In the school of portals, we have portals of hell and portals of Heaven. Portals of hell open downwards, but portals of Heaven open upwards.
Everyone who has ever died and gone to hell but granted mercy to return has said his or her spirit descended downwards through a tunnel (or portal). And everyone who has ever died and gone to Heaven but sent back to earth to complete one assignment or the other has always said his or her spirit ascended into Heaven through a glorious portal. Heavenly portals can be opened over us while we are alive. Sometimes after a season of going through divine process, or after serving God painstakingly.
As earlier stated, the months of September and October covers a space in a divine season where Heavenly portals open over righteous acts that have been consistent in the last 12 months. That is why it is not good to lead an inconsistent Christian life.
As many as have been consistent for the last 12 months will experience a kind of harvest of blessings this month. If it did not come this month, then you will get it next season. I have witnessed great moves of God in my personal life during seasons like these in some months.
THEY ALWAYS BRING A BLESSING OF A KIND ON THE FAITHFUL.
In Genesis Chapter 28:11-22 you find Jacob stumbling into a Heavenly portal while running away from Esau. He was beginning a new face of life. God do open portals over us when we are beginning a new phase of life. The entire earth is usually ushered into a new phase of life every of these seasons. It is during seasons like this that a lot of things are determined for GOD’s people.
The Bible has the stories of other people who stumbled into portals. For instance, it was a Heavenly portal that both Enoch and Elijah used in going to Heaven alive. They both walked with God faithfully in different dispensations and experienced same blessing.
On the flip side, there are also stories in the Bible where portals of hell opened over people. For instance, it was a portal of hell that opened over Sodom and Gomorrah, hence the perversion and subsequent destruction. It was the same portal that Moses command that it open to swallow the rebels who rebelled against the LORD and questioned his authority.
Though under the New Testament, we do not ask the same judgment of God to strike because of the spirit we are made up off. We do not ask the LORD to strike those who rebel, we only ask Him to protect us, and in cases that needs vindication, we ask Him to vindicate us. He could open the grounds to swallow people if He so wishes.
The portal that Jacob stumbled into when he was running away from his brother Esau was first discovered by his grandfather Abraham, in Genesis Chapter 12. The Bible says God used a dream language to reveal the presence of the portal in that place to him. And he woke up and said;
.. “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.” And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!” Genesis 28:16-17 NKJV
IF PORTALS OF HEAVEN DO NOT OPEN OVER DESTINY PEOPLE, THERE IS NO WAY THEY WILL BE ABLE TO FULFILL THEIR DESTINY.
Jacob’s encounter here and subsequent battle in the house of Laban shows that if our lives must be under the glory of Heavenly portals for portals of hell not to consume us.
It’s my prayer that this month you will seek the LORD until you stumble into a portal of Heaven designed for you in the Spirit realm in Jesus precious name. This only calls for us to take responsibility of our spiritual lives. It calls for rising up to the occasion and submitting to God’s will and ways.
This is a new and very serious month. It calls for not playing the blame game. Obviously, we live in a “blame game” generation! We must not do what this generation is good at doing. Don’t forget, we are not of this world.
I have seen so many crazy things in the lives of believers who do not like taking responsibility of their lives. A woman will get married to a good man but for lack of character and goodly conduct she will lose the man. Then when she goes to meet a prophet or prophetess for help, the so-called man or woman of God will blame it on her father’s house, or some voices crying against her from her village, or some altars, gods or men out there.
The same can be seen in the lives of men who cannot keep their marriages.
We blame men, our parents, or evil spirits for what our Godless, carnal and wicked decisions brought upon us. And the matter becomes complicated if either of our parents suffered the same fate. We won’t see the lack of godly conduct, proper relationship with GOD, and wickedness in the hearts of the family under attack. We will just be seeing the demons all that brought as the cause.
For instance, any husband or wife your carnal desires, or anything outside the voice of the LORD gives you will eventually leave.
WHERE HE OR SHE DID NOT LEAVE, THERE WILL BE UNQUENCHABLE CRISIS IN THE MARRIAGE.
When lives are not established on divine will and ways, people go through a season of unquenchable fires. I have come to realize that it is the presence of curses, evil foundations or whatever that is the root cause of most problems, but the establishment of our lives outside divine will and ways.
Let us even agree that there are evil foundations that are responsible for problems as presented by deliverance merchants. If indeed an evil foundation is responsible for a case, once you do things in the will and ways of God, you switch foundations in the spirit realm and experience freedom.
You become established in the foundation of the LORD, resulting in total and complete liberty.
I was freed from all forms of household wickedness and what we call “evil altars and foundations” not by breaking the altars or curses, praying against or sowing seed to destroy them, but by having the foundation of the LORD laid in my life.
The foundation of the LORD is like a stone that crushes every other foundation. It is more powerful than any prophet or deliverance prayer. It is the missing “deliverance agent” in the lives of everyone under spiritual attack. The Bible says;
“And whoever falls on this stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.” Matthew 21:44 NKJV
Whoever is whoever; it covers people and the spirits behind them. It covers the gods of your house and all forms of household enemies. It covers ancestral curses and the voices they claim cry against people from their villages. It covers what they call evil foundation. Jesus said “whoever.”
It will be stupid to believe a preacher over Jesus Christ and what He has already said in His word.
This stone that breaks every other foundation or kingdom is the foundation to have in your life as a Christian to be free from all things that make people take prophets, intercessors and prophetesses to their villages to do the unthinkable.
WHAT AM I TRYING TO SAY THIS MORNING?
I know there are devils and curses. The Bible said so. But looking externally for what is caused by an internal filth, has not helped anybody apart from the prophets, intercessors, prophetesses and pastors who make money out of it. That is why many who joined their ministries full, leave empty.
Those who went empty of troubles are leaving full of wars and crisis. And they make matters worse by threatening others not to leave else they curse them.
Friend, you will increase your predicament looking externally while what is killing you is internal. You will be going from church to church looking for the acts of GOD without finding a solution to your problems. A generation that pursues the acts of God at the expense of the Scriptural revelation of God’s ways stands the risk of losing so much to falsehood and deception!
As we bring this devotional to a close, I want you to understand that there are two Churches in the “one Church” that make up what we call the body of Christ on the face of the earth today. It’s like the two Children in the womb of Rebecca.
We have the “harlot Church” of the book of Isaiah 4:1 and the “true Church.” The harlot Church seeks for the “manifestation” of the acts of God alone, but the true Church seeks for the “revelation” of His ways. Because you can never have His ways without seeing His acts!
There are two kinds of Church gatherings today. Those who gather to seek God’s acts and those who gather to seek or learn how to be established in His ways. Those who assemble for His acts will always be conned by con men and women in God’s garment, but those who will be assembling for His ways will be seeing His glory each time they appear in Zion.
Our devotional text this morning speaks of the rise of a unique breed that will rise out of the true Church in the end time. This bread will be more interested in learning the ways and paths of the LORD than pursuing His acts.
THAT IS WHY GOD HAS MADE THESE SEASONS A SEASON OF BEING SCHOOLED BY THE SPIRIT, THROUGH THE SEVEN DAYS SEVEN MOUNTAINS.
A major highlight says,
“Many people shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”
It’s my prayer this morning that you spend this month joining the breed that will say
“Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths”
in Jesus precious name!
Don’t forget the only place we can find peace in a trouble world, is in God’s paths. His paths are the only paths on earth that has His footsteps in the Spirit, and that is where true revival, restoration and refreshing takes place!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR TODAY;
“I will hear what God the Lord will speak, for He will speak peace to His people and to His saints; but let them not turn back to folly. Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, that glory may dwell in our land.
Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed. Truth shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall look down from heaven. Yes, the Lord will give what is good; and our land will yield its increase.
Righteousness will go before Him, and shall make His footsteps our pathway.” Psalms 85:8-13 NKJV