TODAY’S DEVOTION (TUESDAY 23RD AUGUST 2022)
“Ephraim is a trained heifer That loves to thresh grain; But I harnessed her fair neck, I will make Ephraim pull a plow. Judah shall plow; Jacob shall break his clods.”
Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the LORD, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you.” Hosea 10:11-12 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 235TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF AMAZING GRACE!
We give God the glory for keeping us alive and bringing us to a new day. We thank Him for our lives. There is no one like Him in power and majesty. He has been our LORD and King. Our Morning star in trouble times and dark moments.
To Him belong all the glory.
This morning we will be continuing with our discourse on spiritual fathering. Like earlier stated, it is a phenomenon that has become a system for practicing charismatic witchcraft, establishing cult followership in Church, and ruining the lives of many.
For those who are called “fathers,” fathering has become their system for receiving hero worship from younger ministers, defense or privileges from any looking for their fathering, money from those who seek opportunity to minister in their Churches or help for ministry connections, and in most cases a system for receiving honor for even dishonoring God.
Like I said in one of those devotionals, if this was not a kingdom concept, I would have denounced it because of what it has turned into.
The generation of future leaders who want to get things right have a work to do. One of it is destroying and denouncing this satanic fathering system and restoring a fathering system that is built around the tree of life.
I have listened to so many broken lives sharing with me how their so-called spiritual fathers ruined their lives. I have also met few preachers whose lives were almost ruined by terrible church members they took as spiritual sons and daughters. There is problem on both ends.
Satan would not want this beautiful Kingdom system to thrive and fulfill what GOD had intended. For years, I have been a victim of terrible church members I had taken as spiritual sons and daughters. Obviously, the concept has been hijacked by dark forces.
A PEOPLE WHO ARE ON THE LORD’S SIDE NEED TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY AND BEGIN AN APOSTOLIC REFORMATION TO SANITIZE IT.
I think we have to look into the concept and make sure it is completely restored back to its original pattern. Personally, I am beginning to develop dislike for the spiritual father thing because of what I hear and see preachers do to people almost on daily bases, and what so called sons and daughters have done and still do to me.
Yes, spiritual sonship has been hijacked by devils to ruin spiritual fathers, but our focus this morning is on polluted spiritual fathering.
I heard an upcoming preacher the other day saying he cannot allow anyone to discuss anything about his spiritual father, who is establishing a citadel of Babylon in the nation. But he does not care what people say about Christ, the Bible and the Holy Spirit.
We have built a fathering system that now honors men of God above the God we claim we represent. The teachings on “the father’s honor” are actually teachings targeted at making men worshipers of so-called spiritual fathers. It has placed many spiritual fathers in the class of deities.
They are untouchables. For their sons, you can touch Christ, but do not touch their spiritual fathers.This is a second coming of hero worship.
For instance, People have said the Bible is not the word of God and have spewed all kinds of things against the Bible, reducing it to a text book for religious studies like I stated yesterday. But we do not care. The few of us who have resisted the heretic outburst are being called by their spiritual sons and fans all kinds of names.
A little boy sent me a message the other day saying “God should punish me for touching his spiritual father.” But will you blame him? No! He has been made a worshiper of a preacher and not the God the preacher was suppose to represent.
So, you can see that the concept of spiritual fathering, like marriage, has been hijacked by the antichrist and is being using against Christ and His purposes. Youths who were supposed to be zealous for the LORD are not zealous for their spiritual fathers instead.
That is why they are all crying for revival, while revival is not lost because revival has been here since the day of Pentecost.
The little boy who sent me the “God punish you” message said he is a spiritual son of one of those preachers shouting the word “revival.” I have received such messages, some from those who claim to be spiritual sons of Selman and other men.
THEIR WORSHIP OF SPIRITUAL FATHERS INSTEAD OF THE HEAVENLY FATHER HAS SEALED THEM AWAY FROM THE REVIVAL THAT LANDED HERE ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST.
It will never kindle their lives until the stop worshiping men and turn their hearts to one and only true God.
I want to submit to you that true revival is not lost. It has been hear since the day of Pentecost; flowing as the River of God. You only need to walk away from the old wine and come into the River.
Sadly, the word revival is only being used today to seduce youths who are burning for the LORD to get married to the old wine Jesus came to replace over two thousand years ago. I look into the ministries of those using the word, revival, and I saw the old wine being presented as new.
I saw youths who are hungry for more of God, getting what look like what God has made available for them but it is not. They are only hooked up to all kinds of sexual sins and habits.
They are taught and built to worship their spiritual fathers, and practice all of the old wine practices like the use of oil, water, salt, mantle, prayer clothes and etc. They are given a mixture of a speaking in tongues spirituality that keeps them far from that Revival that brook out in the Upper Room thousands of years ago.
You can never have the true revival holding on to the old wine of shadows that have been fulfilled in Christ. You can never have the true revival worshiping a spiritual father. You are not even a Christian if you worship a spiritual father.
Christians do not worship men of God. They worship the One and only true God, and Jesus Christ whom He has sent.
You can never have a true revival without breaking these fallow grounds that God is pointing out to us; the fallow grounds of Babylon and the Old wine in many youths and ministries shouting the word “revival.”
These Follow grounds that many preachers have continued to hold unto using scriptures must be broken for the River of God to begin to flow to your soul.
OUR DEVOTIONAL TEXT SAYS;
“Ephraim is a trained heifer That loves to thresh grain; But I harnessed her fair neck, I will make Ephraim pull a plow. Judah shall plow; Jacob shall break his clods.”
Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the LORD, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you.” Hosea 10:11-12 NKJV
The first verse of this scripture demonstrated, in prophetic expressions, what the life of a youth becomes if he or she is trained by the LORD Himself using ideal spiritual fathering system – a spiritual fathering built around the tree of life.
The Bible says he or she will know how to thresh the corn and will be harnessed by the LORD to be able to pull a plow.
What does all that mean? To be harnessed by the LORD is to be broken enough by the LORD and brought under His control or His LORDSHIP. It means to be made a vessel that submits to His will and ways no matter what happens.
To pull the plough today means to be involved in the cultivation of the hearts of men to worship the one and only true God, and Jesus Christ whom He has sent.
These things will never happen until we come into the River of God and begin to experience the Revival that fell on earth right from the Day of Pentecost. That day the River of GOD began to flow from God’s throne in dimensions the earth had never seen. And it has bit stopped.
Therefore, like previous generations did, our generation must come up in faith, begin to sow to please the Spirit instead of the flesh, breaking up the follow grounds of the Old Wine, seeking the LORD until He comes and poured Himself on us.
Over 26 years ago, I read a book that said “age and treachery will always defeat youth and zeal.” I was just few years old in ministry and wanted to try my best and be all that God has called me to be. So, I was looking for every information that will help me.
ONE OF THE MANY THINGS I FEARED WAS FAILING.
So, I had to read the biographies of many men and women of God and how they succeeded and how they failed. Some of those Biographies no longer exist in present day bookshops. But they were all men and women called into Evangelistic ministries not apostolic.
And being an evangelist then, it helped me greatly.
One thing I did not seek is lawless spiritual fathering because I know it will not help me. The statement “age and treachery will defeat youth and zeal’’ made me to up my guard against all forms of spiritual fathering until the LORD gave me His choice for my life.
As we bring this to a close, you must understand that there are vulture spiritual fathers on ground and they do not appear so when you meet them. They will ruin you by making you believe that your success depends on them. Do not believe that lie.
What will give you the God designed success in life and ministry is you allowing the LORD to train and harness you. Spiritual fathers whose lives are built around the tree of life will guide you greatly on that.
They will let you know that while you need the spiritual heritage the LORD has given them for you to unleash your destiny, your success will depend on what you use the heritage to do with the LORD. That was what Moses let Joshua know.
God will later affirm the same to Joshua after Moses’ death. The LORD made him to understand that though he had the heritage of Moses, his success will depend on how he handles the book of the law, and all that is written in it.
The secret is, the spiritual heritage he got from Moses determined the seed, but his relationship with the Book of the law is what will determine the harvest. In hope you got that.
We must all understand that our relationship with a fathering system build around the tree of life only determines the seed, What determines the Harvest is how we relate with the LORD Himself through His book.
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR US TODAY! AMEN.
“No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you.
Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Joshua 1:5-8 NKJV