Easter Greetings to you in the name of the Lord. Whatever that is dead in your life, receive strength now in Jesus name. What we need today is not a lot of material things. We have that. We don’t need greater churches. We don’t need greater congregations. We don’t need more on radio and on television. We don’t need so many more of these things. But what we need today, to be spiritual, is a person that will humble themselves before God, if they haven’t got a penny, and will pray till that spirit within them is satisfied with the goodness of God, and a revival takes place on the inside of their heart, that changes their attitudes and atmosphere that they live in .
The spiritual system in place. Most of the Christians are waiting for heaven to move while heaven is waiting for them to move. Genesis 2:4 God finished all his work and rested on the 7th day Meaning If God finished His work ,He set a system in place and the world should follow and He is sited watching and monitoring it hence if you follow the system answers and breakthroughs come but if you skip it nothing works even if you pray.Move something for God to move something. Simply manipulate the spiritual system God put out in place. You Tithe windows upon, you knock the door will be opened. You need healing go see a man anointed in that,you need deliverance go see a man anointed in that its a system God put in place. Pual wanted sight Jesus sent him to a man with the grace.If you want a baby sleep with your wife its a spiritual system in place already .you work it out you see results .You don't study you don't pass. You do business you see financial breakthroughs. You sit as a civil servant no business you sterve for life. God is sited in Heaven laughing not working Psalms 2:4. Arise child of God do something and visit an anointed man don't die ignorantly like cheating pastors say that God will hear & heal you even on your own when you pray ask them why Jesus sent Pual to a man, why a woman for 38years never prayed to heal herself from the blood issue, why the blind man never prayed to heal himself. May this truth set you free.
One person gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty" (Proverbs 11:24, NIV) ". In the natural, it doesn’t make sense that you will have more if you give more. But God’s kingdom operates on the principle of sowing and reaping. This is one of the first things He established with Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis. He said, “As long as the earth remains, there will be seedtime and harvest. We have to realize that everything we need in this life has been given to us in seed form. We set the blessing of God into motion in our lives when we plant those seeds and give what we have. Galatians tells us that whatever we sow, we will reap. Seeds produce after their own kind. If you sow apple seeds, you reap apple trees. If you sow kindness and blessing, you reap kindness and blessing in the future. If you sow financial seeds, you’ll reap a financial harvest. Today, no matter what you need, you have it in seed form. Ask the Holy Spirit to show you how to plant and water that seed. Trust Him because He is faithful to His Word. Know that when you give, it will come back to you in greater measure. When you give more, you have more. So sow a seed and watch what God will do!
PRAY
"Father, thank You for Your Word which is truth that sets me free! Today, I choose to sow good seeds so I can reap a good harvest. Guide my thoughts today. Direct my path. Use me for Your glory in Jesus’ name. Amen"
DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY
REJECTION OF KNOWLEDGE
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: BECAUSE THOU HAS REJECTED KNOWLEDGE, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. Hosea 4:6
Our opening scripture for today's devotional is one of the most quoted scripture among many believers. While looking at this scripture in meditation one day, I discovered that there is a truth in this verse that many believers miss. What comes out in the minds of many is that the people of God are being destroyed for lack of knowledge. What surprised me is that how can the people of God lack knowledge when they hear powerful and countless sermons every week from various pulpits that transmits knowledge in churches, through the TV and radio, in news papers, spiritual books, and on the social media. This baffled me a lot.
The answer to this question was given to me in the following statement of this scripture which says that 'because you have rejected knowledge then I will also reject you.' This is when I discovered that it is not actually the lack of knowledge that is a challenge with many believers but the rejection of knowledge. For instance, there are many believers that has heard powerful and anointed messages on tithing but they have never attempted to tithe. These believers are simply rejecting knowledge. Any truth of God's Word you hear and you do not obey has been automatically rejected by you.
One thing you have to understand is that the scriptures are not opinions and arguments to be debated. There is a debate that is being propagated on the social media that believers should stop tithing. The people who are busy propagating this erroneous teaching are just out to confuse people.
The truth is that the preachers who are advocating this hellish idea were born when the truth of tithing was already there and when they die this truth will still be there. What these preachers are doing is fueling the rejection of the truth among believers. If you are carried away by this evil news then you can find yourself drifting in the wrong direction. The truth is that the fulfillment of prophecies is just before us and one of the prophecies of the end times is that believers will be found rejecting the truth.
We are in the days where people are selective of the truth they want to hear. They have their own preferences of the kind of truth they want to hear. Apostle Paul saw this by the Spirit of prophecy. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 2 Timothy 4:3. It is very clear that the preachers that are advocating erroneous teachings will pull a large following because they are already people whose ears are tuned to hear such fallacies and heresies.
There are many believers who hear a truth of God's Word and begin to debate whether they should obey or not. That is toying with the opportunity that God given you. I consider every new scriptural truth I hear as an opportunity to have my life advanced.The scriptures admonishes us to obey the truth and not to debate the truth. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: 1 Peter 1:22. You always place yourself at an advantage when you make a choice to obey the truth. You equally deny yourself the blessing of God when you reject knowledge.
In conclusion, I want you to know that the rejection of knowledge can lead you into bondage. When you reject scriptural knowledge, you end up in bondage.An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered. Proverbs 11:9. Scriptural knowledge provides the way out of bondage. To reject knowledge is therefore to remain in bondage. I pray for you today, may you never be found in the category of believers who rejects knowledge, in the precious name of Jesus Christ!
KEY THOUGHT:
Scriptural knowledge provides the way out of bondage. To reject knowledge is therefore to remain in bondage.
PERSONAL DECLARATION: I do not reject knowledge, therefore I cannot remain in bondage!
LEARNING THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD
You must put the Word of God as your number one priority. There are six priorities you should have in your life ahead of anything else and in this order:
-1 Your relationship with God;
-2 Physical fitness of your mind;
-3 Family
-4 Finances
-5 Fellowship
-6 Fun.
All of these are part of your spirit life. Genesis 5:5; "And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died." Adam, who was physically alive, but spiritually dead, lived to be 930 years old. Genesis 2:17; "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."Your priority is your spiritual relationship with God. You have a physical and spiritual mind. Your physical mind involves your five senses, finances and things that are carnal. To glorify God you must use your spiritual mind. When Jesus died, you must think in your spirit and realize how vital and serious His sacrifice for you really is.
Proverbs 12:17; "He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit."
We must put emphasis on the truth. Jesus is the truth according to the Word of God.
Proverbs 12:25,28; 25. Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. 28. In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death."
When you tell the truth, it is pleasing to God. Righteousness through Christ, which is using your spiritual mind, is eternal life.
John 16:33; "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me, ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."
With Christ there is joy, peace, prosperity and success. So there is no need to worry or fear. You will have persecution and tribulation when you live a Godly life but you are an overcomer through Christ who dwells within you. Again, continue to use your spiritual mind.
James 1;19-20; 19. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20. For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God."
Learn through the Word of God. Listen attentively and don't become angry. Wrath, anger and strife are not glorifying to God and doesn't manifest His righteousness. Remember you are fearfully and wonderfully made. God gave you two ears, two eyes, but one mouth. So, you should do more listening and observing and less talking. The benefits of living according to God's Word which you do by faith with your spiritual mind are a happy and productive life. We are Christians because Christ abides within us.
THE LAW OF GOD
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. Genesis 17:7. Moses was not above being instructed by his father-in-law. God had exalted him greatly and wrought wonders by his hand. Yet Moses did not reason that God had chosen him to instruct others, and had accomplished wonderful things by his hand, and he therefore needed not to be instructed. He gladly listened to the suggestions of his father-in-law, and adopted his plan as a wise arrangement.
After the children of Israel left Rephidim, they came to the "desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount. And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto Myself. Now therefore, if ye will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people: for all the earth is Mine: and ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the Lord commanded him. And all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord."
The people here entered into a solemn covenant with God and accepted Him as their ruler, by which they became the peculiar subjects of His divine authority. "And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever." When the Hebrews had met with difficulties in the way, they were disposed to murmur against Moses and Aaron, and accuse them of leading the host of Israel from Egypt to destroy them. God would honor Moses before them, that they might be led to confide in his instructions, and know that He had put His Spirit upon him.
