TODAY’S DEVOTION (THURSDAY 2ND JUNE 2022)
“And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.” Revelation 21:5-8 AKJV
WELCOME TO THE 153RD DAY OF OUR YEAR OF AMAZING GRACE
We bless the LORD of another day! His mercies are indeed new every morning. They are responsible for ushering us to each new day within our appointed days on earth. We believe as we continue to follow the LORD, they will usher us into His arms at the end of our days on earth.
Our journey here on earth can be very troubling at times, but challenging all the times. If we do not need God’s mercies for falling into sin and trying to come back to the paths of righteousness, we need GOD’s mercies to overcome the pressure of living right before GOD in a world where living right is persecuted discouraged and misjudged.
We give God the glory for not withholding His mercies from us even when we never deserved it. We thank Him for oiling our lives with his grace and compassion, and not dealing with the world according to its sins. If God were to deal with the world according to its sins, we would have all been annihilated by His furry.
If we were still in the days before the cross, many of us would not have been alive today because we have done worse than Sodom and Gomorrah, Eli and sons who corrupted the priesthood, Uzza who only touched the ark with the aim of preventing it from falling, Manasseh who brought witchcraft to Israel and enthrone occultism in the land, Nebuchadnezzar who was reduced to an animal for seven years, Cain who entered the curse after killing his brother, and other guys in Bible days who were consumed by the wrath of GOD.
We are not seeing the things they saw for doing what they did, even when doing worse than they did because we are living in the dispensation called the acceptable year of the LORD, the dispensation of grace. That alone should make us to be thankful to the LORD.
THIS KIND OF DEMONSTRATION OF GOD’S MERCIES WILL CONTINUE TILL WE ENTER INTO THE AGES TO COME.
It is a wealth of kindness that is released to foster something eternal in the lives of men of our age and times. The vision for it is captured in the holy scriptures. The Bible says its for us to make use of GOD’s forbearance and kindness to repent from our wicked and sinful ways.
The wealth of kindness is to foster a life of repentance and holy living. In other words, a change of our minds and inner man to accept God’s will and walk in His ways. It says;
“Or are you [so blind as to] trifle with and presume upon and despise and underestimate the wealth of His kindness and forbearance and long-suffering patience? Are you unmindful or actually ignorant [of the fact] that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repent (to change your mind and inner man to accept God’s will)?
But by your callous stubbornness and impenitence of heart you are storing up wrath and indignation for yourself on the day of wrath and indignation, when God’s righteous judgment (just doom) will be revealed.” Romans 2:4-5 AMPC
I believe this is clear enough and needs no further explanation.
Anytime any of us commit a sinful deed and do not see an immediate consequence from God, it is a message that we should not repeat it again. But we do not get the message. If we were getting the messages, we will be striving on daily basses to live right and not bow to the flesh.
This scripture made it clear that if we remain callous, stubborn and impenitent despite the wealth of God’s kindness, we are storing up for ourselves indignation that will be poured upon us in the day of wrath when God’s judgment will be revealed. But God does not want that to happen hence sending this word to us.
You must understand that this wealth of GOD’s kindness recognizes that mankind is constantly under attacks from the kingdom of darkness, hence offering help to us.
This month, as we saw yesterday, the cry of the Spirit is taking us on another journey to discover what the voice of the LORD says about fear!
We are often attacked with fear by the forces of darkness. Some have the fear of walking out of destructive relationships.
OTHERS HAVE THE FEAR OF WALKING OUT OF WRONG CHURCHES, CURSES THAT MAY RESULT AND ALL THAT.
Some others have the fear of loosing their jobs. Some who want to live right have the fear of what people will say when they do what is right and redemptive that none understands. Many others have one type of fear or the other. While some fears holds no eternal consequences others do.
You see, there is a fear that can be eternally damning. Some of the fears mentioned about falls into the category.
The fear that can be eternally damning includes the fear of what to lose when we live right or do the right things. That is the kind of fear that hinders people from walking out of or away from wrong places, wrong people, damning relationships, synagogues of Satan called churches and etc.
There is also the eternally damning fear of confessing and owning up to sins, or letting people know that you need help to live right with GOD, especially when you are in leadership and appear to them that you are very okay while internally you are sinking fast to hell.
There are no words to describe what will happen to us eternally if we allow any fear that has eternal consequences to rule our lives. It will ruin our eternal destinies completely.
Our devotional text says;
“And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. BUT THE FEARFUL, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.” Revelation 21:5-8 AKJV (emphasis mine).
THIS SCRIPTURE MADE IT CLEAR THAT HEAVEN IS FOR OVER-COMERS NOT JUST PEOPLE WHO RECITE THE SINNER’S PRAYERS.
In other words, there are battles to fight and things to overcome. Things that if we do not fight and overcome, will make us unworthy for Heaven and throw us into the lake of fire on the last day.
Some of them are things that make people liars (people who knowingly convey what is untrue by word or deed), idolaters (people who give supreme devotion to anything other than God), sorcerers, whoremongers (those who are lewd, adulterous or sexually perverse), murderers, abominable (depraved and morally bankrupt) unbelieving and fearful (people lacking in courage, who submit cowardly).
The last word in that verse, THE FEARFUL talks about a lack of courage and coward submission that has eternal consequences, because that is what that kind of fear is.
Yes, Fear can take away your courage and make you submit cowardly. It can take away the courage to resist what you know is not good for you.
It can take away the courage to stand before your perverted parents, spiritual or biological, to refuse things they want you to do that are against the faith that was once delivered to the saints. Especially when you are ignorant.
That is when they use the scripture that says “honor your father and your mother” to crush any courage that may still be there and make you submit cowardly to them and damn your soul in hell.
And let me say this; a lot of people are being put in fear by parents (spiritual and biological) to do things their own ways; things that holds eternal consequence. When God said, “Honor your father and mother” He was referring to parents who are in the LORD.
In other words, parents who will never go against God’s will for your life, either saved or unsaved, biological or spiritual. Parents who will not manipulate you, expose you to witchcraft (either black witchcraft or charismatic witchcraft), or make you do things that negates God’s eternal will for mankind.
If you allow yourself to be inflicted with the fear that has eternal consequences by derailed parents, spiritual or biological, people who are not aligned with God’s will and ways, you will have yourself to blame. There are fathers who sleep with their daughters or hand them over to marriages that are not God’s will for the daughters.
GOD’S WORD OF HONORING PARENTS DID NOT COVER SUCH FATHERS.
Parents must be in the LORD, in alignment with Him, either saved or not, to enjoy the honor God commanded that children give them.
If someone is wondering how unbelieving parents can be in the LORD? Yes, they can be. They can align by not standing in the way of their kid’s desire for God. I have seen unbelieving parents who allow their children to follow the ways of the LORD instead of their own ways. They allow them worship in Churches that will help them live right and make Heaven.
They allow them to follow the LORD without resisting them. Those are the parents to honor with submission.
Do not allow anyone, to inflict you with a fear that has eternal consequences because they are your spiritual fathers or biological parents. You should understand why Jesus said if anyone love father and mother, he or she is not worthy of Him.
It is wrong to dishonor the LORD to honor your earthly father. It is wrong to dishonor the LORD and honor your spiritual father because of fear. Such fears will send you to hell.
I have also seen people who submit to sexual pressure or do other immoral thing because of fear. That is another fear that will send someone to the lake of fire. It is a fear that makes you submit to sexual pressure, lying or covering the truth, to either save yourself, or cover something about you that you do not want anyone to know.
It completely takes away one’s courage to do the right thing. So many are under this kind of fear.
It is the very fear that Jezebel used in caging God’s prophets not to prophesy against her activities in the land of Israel. It is same kind of fear that is spreading today through the Baal worshipers who do not want the activities of Nehushtan to stop because of the fortune they gather from it.
The fear that religious people inflict to prevent us from doing or saying the right thing is a fear that has eternal consequences and Jesus said we should not submit to it. If you do, you will find yourself on the wrong side of God’s judgment on the final day.
Child of God, the Holy Spirit has set this month aside to deliver us from all forms of fear. I believe enough has been shared for the day. It is my prayer that God will use it to build us up and keep granting us an inheritance among they that are sanctified. Amen.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!
“What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim upon the housetops. And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; but rather be afraid of Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell (Gehenna).
Are not two little sparrows sold for a penny? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father’s leave (consent) and notice. But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Fear not, then; you are of more value than many sparrows.
Therefore, everyone who acknowledges Me before men and confesses Me [[k]out of a state of oneness with Me], I will also acknowledge him before My Father Who is in heaven and confess [that I am abiding in] him. But whoever denies and disowns Me before men, I also will deny and disown him before My Father Who is in heaven.
Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to part asunder a man from his father, and a daughter from her mother, and a newly married wife from her mother-in-law— And a man’s foes will be they of his own household.
He who loves [and takes more pleasure in] father or mother more than [in] Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves [and takes more pleasure in] son or daughter more than [in] Me is not worthy of Me;
And he who does not take up his cross and follow Me [cleave steadfastly to Me, conforming wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying also] is not worthy of Me.
Whoever finds his [lower] life will lose it [the higher life], and whoever loses his [lower] life on My account will find it [the higher life].
He who receives and welcomes and accepts you receives and welcomes and accepts Me, and he who receives and welcomes Me receives and welcomes Him who sent Me.
He who receives and welcomes and accepts a prophet because he is a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward, and he who receives and welcomes and accepts a righteous man because he is a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward. Matthew 10:27-41 AMPC