TODAY’S DEVOTION (Tuesday 23rd November 2021)
“The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nought; He makes the thoughts and plans of the peoples of no effect.” Psalm 33:10 AMP
WELCOME TO THE 326th DAY OF OUR YEAR OF HIGHER HEIGHTS.
The LORD has blessed us with life, health, peace and so much progress despite the hurdles of this life’s journey. To Him belong all the glory for ever and ever!
It has been a year of His amazing helps giving us the higher heights we needed to serve our generation according to His will. Now He has promised us amazing grace for the season that started in September 2021.
Yes, it is the next category of spiritual resources from Heaven to use in serving our generation according to His will.
All these have been happening because in His mercies, we are in His perfect plans for our lives as a spiritual family.
We have discovered that the best place to spend a year is not in your nation of birth, family, dreamed job or marriage. The best place to spend a year is in God’s plans for our lives. People who spend their years in God’s plans for their lives will automatically enjoy God’s provisions for their lives.
I have never seen a man who is at the center of God’s plans for His life struggling. No! There is no struggle in that realm. There could be giants to bring down and mountains to climb and others to level down, but you will never struggle or toil in life.
If we truly come into the revelation of what God’s plans can do in our lives, especially economically, we will strive by all means, first to know God’s plans for our lives, second to spend our years within them. God’s provisions happen in our lives basically when we are in God’s plans for our lives not when we give a sacrificial offering.
Giving a sacrificial offering to the LORD may bless you but if you are not in God’s plans for your life, no kind of giving to God will attract blessings to your life because you are not in order. In fact, if the giving is acceptable, it will unlock a Heavenly resource upon your life to take you out of what is not God’s plans, and bring you into what is His plans.
WE MUST UNDERSTAND THAT UNTIL WE ARE IN HIS PLANS, WE CANNOT ENJOY HIS PROVISIONS IRRESPECTIVE OF OUR SERVICES TO HIM!
It may interest you to know that God’s provisions are not limited to money. The truth is, God’s provisions are anything spiritual or natural that Heaven provides to enable man live peacefully and successfully in this world and the world to come. So it is not limited to money!
Some of the things God provides to enable us live peacefully and successfully in this world are divine direction, divine peace, divine wisdom, divine presence, visions and revelations, divine favor, divine attention, divine intervention, divine visitation, divine habitation, economic fatness, a destiny partner for a life partner, redemption from sin and the sorrows of sin, deliverance from every work of the devil, and lots more.
Most of these things do not come by prayer and fasting (as good and helpful as prayer and fasting can be) they come through stepping in God’s plans for your life. Our devotional text this morning says “The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nought; He makes the thoughts and plans of the peoples of no effect.”
That includes our selfish plans.
I am yet to see God establish plans that are a product of our carnal and selfish thoughts. God does not prosper what He did not originate. A thousand years of prayer, fasting and financial sacrifice cannot make Him prosper what He never originated – be it a marriage, a business, a job, a career, a church work, a crusade, a singing ministry or any other form of gospel ministry.
The easiest way to keep God out of your life is to spend your years pursuing a selfish plan or ambition. The surest way to keep your life away from His provisions is to walk in your plans for your life instead of His plans for your life.
Many are struggling in great need of the God’s provisions listed because they are outside God’s plans for their lives. Without the revelation of His plans for their lives, and without them stepping into them, they will remain in great sorrows in life.
EVERYTHING FROM HELL IN OUR LIVES, WILL GIVE FOR ALL THE THINGS FROM HEAVEN WHEN WE STEP INTO GOD’S PLANS FOR OUR LIVES.
The Bible says;
“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11 TLB
There are three basic plans that are influencing humanity on our planet earth today; the plans of God, the plans of man, and the plans of the evil one (the devil). The Bible sometimes calls plans “counsels.” And it says “the counsel of God shall stand.” Meaning others may manifest but will never stand the test of time. Only that of God will both manifest and stand the test of time.
The plans of God are the only God’s plans on planet earth that has a glorious future for any man. Sadly, many are living according to the plans of men and the evil one for their lives with some calling it, “God’s plans for their lives.” That is why they are in misery.
They put all the energy to cause them to prosper but nothing is happening. They are taught, trained and encouraged to keep pushing and making until things turn around because they believe they are in God’s plans, but nothing is turning around.
Child of God, we do not cause God’s plans to prosper. We let them prosper. If you are in God’s plans, you do not have to push for them to prosper. They have inherent power and blessings to prosper on their own accord. That is why you prosper as you follow them. They make your path like a shining light; shining brighter and brighter unto a perfect day!
We were not originally designed to survive in our own plans for our lives, or the plans of the devil – irrespective of how lofty they may look. We were designed to survive in God’s plans. Christianity is not receiving power from God to succeed in our own plans. That will be Christianity controlled by the spirit of Babylon.
CHRISTIANITY IS SUBMITTING YOUR ENTIRE LIFE TO JESUS CHRIST AND HARMONIZING IT WITH HIS PLANS FOR YOUR LIFE.
And if you have not heard it before, I want to announce to you through this devotional that God has a plan for you. You must discover and harmonize your life with it. Because the rhythm your life will produce if you harmonize it with God’s plans is supernaturally pleasant. Two words we can use to describe it are “peace” and “Prosperity.”
Yes, because we live in an imperfect world there could be challenges, but the peace and the prosperity of God will always be available to deal with them. We must understand that our security, prosperity, protection, significance, and bearing in life are buried in God’s plans and programs for our lives.
If things are not working, stepping into God’s plans and programs for your life, is the only key to turning every good thing in our life on. Nothing great will ever happen in your life until that happens. Nothing significant happens in this life of a Child of God until he or she steps into God’s plan for his or her life.
What God has designed to be turned on in your life by stepping into His plan, cannot be turned on by praying, fasting, or sowing seeds, (as we call it today). When the bad and ugly are always happening to you, it is a sign that you are either outside God’s plan for your life or you are not following them accurately.
Stepping into God’s plan for your life remains the only solution to your entire problems. Life outside God’s plans will be very horrible even if you are rich economically. There are so many rich men and women who are horrible.
You will lack divine interventions when you need them most if you are not in God’s plans for your life.
Many do not know that God do not just intervene in things. He will first look into the situation to see if the people involved are in His plans for their lives. If they are not, it will be difficult to secure lasting interventions. Hence, in His love and mercy, He will send a prophet to them to bring them into His plans for their lives first, before intervening in their situations.
DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS ARE ONLY UNLEASHED AFTER A PEOPLE HAVE BEEN BROUGHT INTO DIVINE PLANS.
Like I shared before on this platform, the Israelites were in Egypt for 400 years. They were in slavery. Many people were also in slavery like them under other kings; especially in Africa. But God could not bring these other slaves out of their task masters with an outstretched arm, except the Israelites. He was able to bring Israel out that way because they were in His redemptive plans and program for their lives.
Those other slaves had nothing to do with God, only the nation of Israel had a covenant with God. Being in a genuine covenant with God places one in God’s plans; God covenant with man according to His plans for their lives. That is why genuine covenant cutting between a man and God brings him or her into God’s plans.
Israel came out because there was a covenant that placed them in a plan of God long before they were born.
What are we saying this morning, the easiest way to terminate the works of the devil in your life is to step into a divine plan of God for your life. Yes, step into a Church that is God’s plan for your life. Submit to a minister of the gospel that is God’s plan for your life. Get involved in any ministry that is God’s plans for your life.
Get married to a man or woman that is God’s plan for your life.
Pursue a career that is God’s plan for your life. Buy a car or live in a house that is God’s plans for your life. People who limit their lives just to things that are God’s plans for them will end up living the most peaceful and prosperous lives on earth.
When you step into God’s plan for your life, the enemy will step out of your life. God’s divine plans and demonic oppression cannot co-exist! Even in the school of receiving blessing from God, what will come to you by stepping into God’s plans for your life, will never come to you through any other means! Again, the word says;
“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
GOD‘S PLANS ARE THE ONLY PLANS WITH A FUTURE – A GLORIOUS FUTURE.
Yes, God’s plans are the only plans with a peaceful and glorious future, not our plans. Except His plans for our lives becomes our plans for our lives, our future is not secured. When you step into God’s plans for your life (even if they look bleak and inglorious at the onset) you have stepped into a glorious future. Your success in life will no longer be a matter of if but a matter of when!
Now, having known all that, how do we step into God’s plan for our lives?
It begins with a word from the LORD. It begins from the place of revelation. God will have to speak or reveal them to you over a period of time. Anything about God is not discovered on the surface of life but revealed to the Heart in the deeper places of the Spirit but by bit, over a period of time.
You follow the bit that have been reveal until the nit bit is revealed. For some, the bit is to sit down and be trained as Elisha, Apostle Paul and the rest sat. As you follow that bit another bit comes. Your pastor or father in faith will play a great role in helping you in all these.
In fact, if God blesses us with men after His heart as spiritual fathers, and we listen to them as they listen to God, we will find ourselves in God’s plans for our lives. But all these are not possible if our intimacy with God is shallow.
I want to encourage you to begin a deeper walk with God today.
You have been shallow for too long. You must go deep to discover God’s true plans for your life; get the first bit and follow until the next is revealed. God speaks in precepts. It is usually precept upon precept. Here a little and there a little.
Stop keeping God away from your life by doing your own things.
Make up your mind to make His plans yours and you will see Heavenly portals open over your life! In this month of mercy and as we prepare to exit the year according to the Gregorian calendar, seek the mercies of the LORD to reveal or establish your heart in His plans for your life.
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR TODAY;
“The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nought; He makes the thoughts and plans of the peoples of no effect. The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the thoughts of His heart through all generations.”
“Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He has chosen as His heritage.” Psalms 33:10-11 AMP