TODAY’S DEVOTION (Thursday 11th November 2021)
For a long time Israel has been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law; but when in their trouble they turned to the Lord God of Israel, and sought Him, He was found by them.
And in those times there was no peace to the one who went out, nor to the one who came in, but great turmoil was on all the inhabitants of the lands.
So nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every adversity. 2 Chronicles 15:3-6 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 314TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF HIGHER HEIGHTS.
Many doubtlessly, slept and did not wake up! But we did! Others woke up on death roll, not by government verdicts but by the verdicts of their health.
Child of God, is there nothing to thank God for in your walk and talk with him? If you think there is nothing to thank Him for, maybe because you are surrounded by impossibilities, thank Him for waking you up this morning.
It’s being our Month of God’s Mercy, and yesterday’s devotion on “GOD’S GREAT MERCIES” is still resonating in my spirit. I do not know how if there is anyone out there who is taking these gracious truths further by chewing on them until the day rises and the Morning Star (Christ) rises in him.
These truths are not for entertainment but for food – spiritual feeding.
I am urging you to feed yourself from the stable of these apostolic and prophetic truths because taking truths like this, and internalizing them, will be important to your spiritual well being, especially these prophetic seasons that we are in.
Talking about God’s Mercies, the kingdom of God is not like the kingdom of men. It functions on certain platforms of truth.
One of the platforms is how spiritual benefits or blessings increases in the lives of God’s Kingdom Citizens. Spiritual benefits and blessings increases in our lives by the power of what we feed on spiritually, and also diminish when we are not properly fed spiritually.
That is why the greatest invitation of God to the human race; which is an act of God’s mercy in itself, has been to come and be fed spiritually. The Bible says,
“It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God'” (Luke 4:4 NKJV).
A large percentage of the Bible is a call to spiritual feeding.
IN FACT, GOD SAID TO MANKIND THROUGH HIS PROPHET ISAIAH,
“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword”; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken” Isaiah 1:18-20 NKJV
Reasoning together with GOD is one way we are fed by Him. In simple terms, our spirits are fed whenever we sit down with God to reason together with Him, most times through corporate or private study of the Bible.
So the call to come, sit and reason with the LORD is a call to be fed spiritually. Sadly, so many are yet to obey this call. That is why you find so many souls in need of help and many others are being devoured by the sword of their enemies and false prophets.
The Bible says if we are willing to be fed and obedient enough to make spiritual feeding our highest priority in our Christian life, we shall eat the good of the land. The good of the land is not just the earthly blessings of the nation or City of our residence. That is what it was to the nation of Israel. But to us the spiritual nation of Israel, it is more.
The land is no longer just a natural land but Christ Himself. David said “the LORD is my portion in the land of the living.” Christ is the portion of all who are truly saved in a wicked world like ours. The good of the land therefore, is the riches of His Mercy, the riches of His grace and the riches of His glory. The very riches we enjoy at “the Cry of the Spirit Ministries.” Hallelujah!
In simple terms, the good of the land for the saved and sanctified is the blessings of knowing Christ and making Him your portion in the land of the living; a three-fold blessing that can only come through proper spiritual feeding (the riches of His mercies, the riches of His grace, and the riches of His glory).
SADLY, MANY SAVED AND SANCTIFIED PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE THESE THREE-FOLD BLESSING IN THEIR LIVES.
If you have them, you will not be giving money to be blessed again. In God’s kingdom, we do not serve God with our substance to be blessed. We serve God with our substance because we are blessed. In the First and Second Day Churches, you are urged to serve God with your money to be blessed, but that is misleading. Christ in the Third Day urge us to serve Him with our substance because we are already blessed.
They have the labels on their lips but do not have the content. They do not have the content because they have not plugged into God’s spiritual feeding program.
Until we plug into God’s proper feeding program, we will not be saved from the sword of our enemies, step into certain kingdom blessings or fulfill Heaven’s assignment for our lives on earth.
There is a proper spiritual feeding program of God for the end time church. The cry of the Spirit Ministries is part of His arm on earth, feeding the souls of the perishing and those who are being saved, with choice spiritual food. That is the Third Day way of feeding the hungry.
Like we have noted earlier, there is a spiritual feeding program of God for the human race, especially the end time Church. You will never enjoy the good of knowing Christ, until you plug into this program and begin to draw your spiritual daily food from it.
If there is any time to quit Churches where they do not feed you but practice charismatic witchcraft and sorcery on you, it is now!
A pastor, prophet, apostle, or priests who lack capacity to properly feed you spiritually, will always be feeding on your money in exchange of feeding you with deadly things like of the depth of Satan, doctrines of devils like redemption of first born, altars of sacrifice, prophecies from the spirit of divination or sorcery, information from secular humanism, humanistic philosophies, and etc.
THERE IS SO MUCH WITCHCRAFT BEING PRACTICED & ROBBERY IN THE NAME OF DELIVERANCE.
Because people are made to come for prayers by these enemies of the Cross called servants of God, instead of aligning with God’s authentic call of coming to be fed. Consequently, in the name of deliverance people are being asked for money, sex and etc. Others are asked to use sand, salt, brooms, clothes, water, mustard seeds, and etc. to pray.
The easiest way to rebel against God’s call “to come and be fed” is to get stuck to one heretic teacher, lying prophet or prophetess, or get hooked up to a Church that does not feed you properly but take away all your monies properly. One you rebel against it; you will never have rest from the days of adversity.
There is no Christian generation that rebelled against spiritual feeding that did not fall under the sword of its enemies. It is the good of the land transmitted into our live through God’s spiritual feeding program that save us from the sword of our enemies or the consequences of our carnal and sinful decisions.
Heaven knows that since we left the Garden of Eden, spiritual malnutrition has been our greatest spiritual diseases. That is why you see “proper spiritual feeding program” by the hands of God’s teaching priest (prophets and apostles) in every deployment of God’s mercy in His redemptive plans.
No Child of GOD can successfully pass through a season of no “proper spiritual feeding” without losing one thing or the other. That is why whenever God deploy mercy to a people, He will get them plugged to any ministry that is part of His feeding program on earth. In fact, out devotional text tells us what happened to Israel in one season of their lives when there were no men and women of GOD to feed them properly in the things of God. It says,
“For a long time Israel has been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law; but when in their trouble they turned to the Lord God of Israel, and sought Him, He was found by them.
And in those times there was no peace to the one who went out, nor to the one who came in, but great turmoil was on all the inhabitants of the lands.
So nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every adversity.”
THIS IS THE PICTURE OF THE SPIRITUAL STATE OF MANY IN THE PRESENT CHURCH!
If you look at this scripture carefully you will see a nation of God’s people living in a time and season where there was no proper spiritual feeding program for them. It says
“For a long time Israel has been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.”
The first consequence was a need based relationship with God. He was only important to them when there were in trouble.
That sound like our generation today! So many people today, have been without teaching apostle and prophets in their lives for a long time. That is why they have been destroyed by sin, Satan and his curses for a long time too. It is a terrible consequence of not being fed.
The next consequence was more grievous; the Bible says nation was destroyed by nation, city be City for GOD trouble them with every adversity. It did not say the devil trouble them but God. This is also true of many in our generation. Many are being allowed by GOD to be troubled by the evil one because they are not being fed.
Because of lack of a proper spiritual feeding program, they cannot find peace in their cities, Churches, marriages, businesses, families, finances, etc. They move from Church to Church, and place to place looking for succor but finds none. That is why the spiritual sojourn of those who are going about from church to church, usually comes to an end when they find a spiritual feeding center, a third day Church.
THE ABSENCE OF PROPER SPIRITUAL PROGRAM REMAINS THE REASON FOR EVERY WOE IN THE LIFE OF THE PRESENT CHURCH.
Even many of your reading this had no proper spiritual program until you stumble into these devotionals which are part of God’s global spiritual feeding program. That is why I began this devotional by urging us not just to read but to chew the truths here. If God bring a spiritual feeding program your way, you must open up your spirit to receive it into your life to experience the blessing!
As we bring this devotional to a close, I want reiterate again that the Cry of the Spirit Ministry is a product of God’s global spiritual feeding program for the End Time saints, dealing with the deceptions of the last days, and functioning as the voice of the bridegroom to His bride in His bid to make her Holy, perfect and blameless as He prepares for His return.
If you are part of the house, just know that God has plugged you into a proper spiritual feeding program for your life. The great call of God on you to be fed properly is being executed.
Don’t forget, whenever mercy says No over a people in perils, God will connect them to a spiritual feeding program to heal, deliver, then raise and build them up to do His blessed will.
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOUR 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.
“At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.” Jeremiah 3:15-17 KJV