The Cry Of The Spirit Devotionals

THE CRY OF THE SPIRIT DEVOTIONALS – BY RICHARD E. S. TAKIM

TODAY’S DEVOTION (TUESDAY 26TH DECEMBER 2023)

“Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.” 2 Corinthians 5:9-10 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 360TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF SIGNS AND WONDERS.

Today is Boxing Day. A day after Christmas is usually called that way.

It is called boxing day because it is a day of opening the boxes brought as Christmas presents. One of my kids complained of not having a present to open. I was surprised that they know about opening boxes.

Truly, the kind of work we do, people seem not to care about giving our kids Christmas gifts, even those we gave Christmas gifts to. Most of those we serve with resources, only think of collecting from us.

I was so shocked to discover that even those we lay down our resources for so they can be better in life during the year, those we took care of in Church all through the year, even those we forgave over and over, and those we brought back after terrible things they did; could not even get a gift for our kids in appreciation.

It is painful when you take care of other people’s Children so to speak (because we are not the biological parents of these people), but none of them think of your own.

Well, such is life. It teaches one that when we fulfill our days, and are long gone, our kids will only need God to survive, that those we are currently investing in might not remember them.

Ordinarily, those you care for now, should become an asset to your children in future, and they should show it by what they do to them now. People should be able to remember the good a father did and return same to the kids of that man.

SO, LIKE MY KIDS, SOME OF YOU MAY NOT HAVE ANY BOX TO OPEN, BUT PERMIT ME TO SAY TO YOU, “HAPPY BOXING DAY.”

If no one gave you a present in a box that you would have opened today, there are boxes of truth to open in God’s word. You can spend the day opening them in the Bible in your hands, or going back to teachings you receive during the year. Hallelujah!

That is part of what we do in our eagle’s nest.

By God’s mercies we have been opening boxes of truth in the Holy Scriptures all year long, every day on this platform. That is why our souls are glad and we are now better in Spirit than we were before.

When you open boxes of truth, and apply what you learn, freedom will become your portion, progress your heritage, and ordering of your life alright, your lifestyle. The Bible says, no good thing will be withheld from you.

Also, nothing that hinders the fallen man will be able to hinder you.
Freedom from sin, Satan, and the influences of the evil and corrupt systems of this world will become your heritage. Freedom from the works of the flesh, and the works of the devil, into the glorious liberty of the sons of God where you enjoy the works of God, will become the hallmark of your life.

In our devotional word today, we will be looking at the seasons that make a man vulnerable to satanic assaults.

God’s will is that we live in rest. But that is not possible if we are not aware of seasons that make a man vulnerable to Satanic assaults, and avoid them completely.

So, as we uncover them, I pray that you make them your guide so that 2024 can be a peaceful year for you and your family.

Generally, the ignorance of God in man makes him very vulnerable to satanic assaults, but there are two seasons that I want us to look at; the first is a season of pain, and the second a season of joy.
That is why you must be careful of what you do when things are not okay with you, and also be careful of what you do when things are okay with you.

BOTH SEASONS CAN BE VERY DESTRUCTIVE.

People manage both glorious and inglorious moments very badly sometimes. For instance, it was when he reaped the greatest harvest of his life that the rich fool lost his life.

He never lost it when he was poor. You have to be careful when things are okay with you, my friend.

The rich fool lacked the sustaining power of God’s word in his heart in his glorious moments, that was why he got his life cut short in the middle of his days by of plenty and abundance.

For this kind of people, poverty is a blessing.

Understand that, the glorious moments of a life that is not anchored on the rich and sustaining word of God, can usher in inglorious moments.
There is also an example of the possibility of losing it out in an inglorious moment. But if you have the rich word of God in your heart, it will save you. That example was the example of Jesus Christ in His days as man.

It was during His inglorious moments (when he had fasted and became weak), that Satan came to temp Him.

We are to be careful of what we do when things are not okay with us because that is when the tempter will come. He comes in both glorious and inglorious moments of our lives.

The Bible made it clear that Jesus had just finished a 40 day fast and was hungry when the enemy came. He did not come against Him blindly; he came against him in his season of vulnerability. But the word of God in Him, sustained Jesus all through.

You see, God sustain everything by the power of His word.

If we will not loose out to the devil in an hour of attack, we must be on guard through any season of life, giving the word of the LORD its ideal place in our hearts.

The saints of Old sang to the LORD saying “I need thee every hour.” Any hour that God’s sustaining word is not given its place in our heart, has a way of leaving a deficit in our spiritual lives.

NOW, TO THE GLORIOUS MOMENTS OF CHRISTMAS; WHAT DID THE ENEMY USE THIS FESTIVE SEASON TO DO IN YOUR LIFE?

What successful enemy attack did you succumb to during the festive season? This is the time to deal with it! This is the time to bow your knee in prayer and ask the LORD to save you from it.

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Our devotional text said, “Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad”

This is a forgotten truth in the Church today! What did you do during this festive period that is not well pleasing to the LORD?

Accountability is part of the Christian faith. Any Christianity that lacks accountability is insanity. The Bible says if we cover our sins we will not prosper, but if we confess and forsake them God will have mercy.

I pray that the LORD neutralizes whatever attack the enemy successfully launched at you this season. I declare that as you bow the knee in prayer, Heaven will pour mercy upon you and every unclean thing will be made clean in Jesus precious name. AMEN!

LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR US TODAY!

“And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance, as the Lord has said, among the remnant whom the Lord calls.” Joel 2:32 NKJV

THE CRY OF THE SPIRIT DEVOTIONALS – BY RICHARD E. S. TAKIM

TODAY’S DEVOTION (MONDAY 25TH DECEMBER 2023)

“For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger."

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men!" Luke 2:11-14 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 359TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF SIGNS AND WONDERS.

Merry Christmas to all my Face book friends especially those who usually take time to read and absorb what the LORD has been saying to us through the devotionals.

Glory to God in the Highest, and on earth peace, and goodwill toward men!

The Christmas story is a great story! Like I said in one of our devotionals, it tells us of “Christ-Move-Against-Sin.” To me the Christmas story is a redemptive story. It is the story of how God stepped into the human flesh as second Adam, to redeem the first Adam with his offspring.

It’s a story of how God picked Himself up again after His initial plan for mankind was disrupted. God actually suffered a set-back. That could be strange to some of us, but He did.

Let me share with you how it happened!

God’s initial plan was to outsource Heaven to the earth through a creature in His own Image and Likeness, hence creating man. You need to read the book of Job to see how Heaven celebrated with Joy when man was created.

Adam was GOD-Man on earth. And that progressed until the tempter came and beguile Eve, who later brought Adam down. That was it! Everything stopped, and God suffered a major setback.

I JUST SUMMARIZED A ONE WEEK TEACHING IN FEW LINES!

God had to pick Himself up again by stretching forth His hands to execute Man’s redemption and correct the mess, with the aim of continuing from where He stopped. But let me backtrack a bit.

You see, when the Bible said, “we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses or infirmities,” it is not a myth. There is nothing you are going through now that God has not gone through, and maybe He is still going through.

He went through some in the eternal past, and went through others on the Cross when He came as man. So, He is able to help!

For instance, if you say God does not know what it means to lose a precious one, He lost His first Son, Adam; and had to sacrifice His only begotten Son to get him back. So, He knows!

He lost you and I to sin, and had to sacrifice Himself and pour out His Holy Spirit upon us to get us back. So, He knows the pain of loosing a love one and even know what we may never know because we do not have what it takes; sacrificing yourself to bring your lost one back.

If you say God does not know what it feels to have an unfaithful spouse. Go read the books of Hosea and other prophets and you will gain wisdom. He lamented severally calling Israel an unfaithful wife.

If you say God does not know what it means to suffer losses, you lie.

When fallen angels invaded and corrupted the earth, it was a big lost. When Lucifer became Satan, it was a big lost. When one-third of His angels decamped and became loyal to Lucifer, it was a great lost and a terrible betrayal.

Talking of betrayal, God suffered the worse betrayal in creation.

If you say God does not know what it means to be betrayed, you forget that whenever we sin against Him, we betray him. And also remember what He went through “as man” in the hands of Judas Iscariot.

If you say God does not know what it means to have eyes filled with tears because of a grief that will not go away, you forget that the Holy Spirit weeps daily for souls that are going to hell, and those that have gone and will never be recovered again.

I can go on, and on. But what is important is how God picks Himself up again each time He suffer these things. We can be enabled by His Holy Spirit to do the same, over and over. He is our helper. He is also our comforter.

THAT IS WHY THE WORD “REDEMPTION” IS VERY IMPORTANT.

This Christmas day may be a day of regret for someone. It’s not a sin to regret a thing because God Himself regretted for creating man.

But in His regrets, He stretched forth His mind towards His redemptive plan. And Noah was that plan. There is someone, some ministers, some Church, some ministry, some book; some fellowship meeting that is part of God’s redemptive plan for your life the way Noah was to Him.

It takes sensitivity to discover God’s redemptive plan for your life! The Christmas story is all about How God picked Himself up again, by stretching His hands towards His redemptive plan for His lost son, Adam, and bringing him back to fellowship.

One day the LORD said to me, “Every attack of the devil, is preceded by a redemption plan”.

Meaning, God’s redemption plan, is always ahead of any attack of the devil. It is always there waiting for what the devil will do. It usually come far ahead of the coming of the lawless one. That is why the righteous falls seven times and rises again.

We can learn the same lesson from our cars.

If you own a car, you will understand that a “spare tyre” is a redemption plan for a “flat tyre.” When a serving tyre goes flat, you don’t sit down and lament over it if you have a spare. You just reach out to the spare and use it to replace the flat tyre.

It is when you do not have a spare that things become awry.

In similar way, for everything that has gone flat in your life - marriage, finance, family, ministry, health, career or spiritual life - there is a redemptive plan of God for it.

Just reach out to God in prayers and ask Him to reveal it to you, and then use it as a recovery plan for your life from 2024.

THAT IS THE GREATEST MESSAGE OF THE CHRISTMAS STORY!

Our devotional text made it clear that as soon as God’s redemptive plan, Jesus Christ, was born, angels descended with song and praises to God. Then the shepherds arrived to confirm what they heard while on the fields, and then finally the Wiseman came with gifts!

What is the message here? If you will stretch through prayer into God’s redemptive plan for your trouble and lay hold on it, God will release angels to minister to you.

Yes, they will do things that will change your story and the bad side of your life. Shepherds will also come; not self-serving preachers, but pastors after God’s heart who will feed you to enter into God’s redemptive plan revealed.

Then destiny partners will invade your life with amazing favours like the Wise men did to Jesus after that.

My Christmas prayer for you is that you stumble into God’s redemptive plan for any area of your life that may have been wasted and ruined, in Jesus precious name. Is it possible to be redeemed even after the worse case? Yes!

Is it possible to be redeemed after many years of ruin? Yes! I and many others are living testimonies of this.

My life, Family, and ministry were badly ruined. I remember, like it happened yesterday.

But in His mercy, God started speaking to me about the mystery of redemptive plans. Then the revelation started coming. Today I have recovered so much, and for some other aspects of my life, I am at a very advanced stage of recovery.

You are the next on God’s list!

Everything the enemy held back will be restored!

Whatever is ruined in your life will be redeemed. The LORD will enable you to access His redemptive plan, in Jesus precious name.

As you celebrate this season, let these truths be your meditation!

One Again, Merry Christmas and a glorious New Year!!!

MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!

'Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.' Jeremiah 33:3 NKJV

THE CRY OF THE SPIRIT DEVOTIONALS – BY RICHARD E. S. TAKIM

TODAY’S DEVOTION (SUNDAY 24TH DECEMBER 2023)

“For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.” 2 Corinthians 5:4 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 358TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF SIGNS AND WONDERS.

We thank the LORD for all He did in our lives in 2023, especially the healings and health He gave us. Doubtlessly, part of His vision for our lives in 2024 and beyond, is sound health. That is why He have been speaking to us on health matters!

Returning to His original plan for our health has been God’s eternal plan for all mankind. That has been made known in the devotional of yesterday and the days back. Today, we will continue on the same flow.

Let me remind us again that the effects of the fall on both man and creation, are responsible for sicknesses, lack of sound health or diseases.

From the eternal point of view, sound health is not just living in a no-sickness realm. It is living in the very realm where Adam lived before the fall - the realm of immortality.

Sound health in God’s eyes is immortality of the body. We will never enter complete immortality until after the rapture of the saints. But in God’s plan we can have a foretaste of it!

Let us recount some Bible mysteries at this point.

Salvation involves the redemption of the spirit, soul and body from eternal damnation. In simple terms, it involves the redemption of the total man - the spirit, soul and body.

While the redemption of the spirit and soul takes place in this life, the total redemption of the body will take place in the day of the resurrection of the righteous; also called the rapture of the saints.

THAT IS THE DAY THAT ALL THINGS THAT AFFECTS OUR BODIES NEGATIVELY WILL BE FINALLY DONE AWAY WITH.

That is the day that our bodies will completely return to the very state Adam was before the fall, as upgraded by Jesus when He resurrected from dead. The Bible says we do not know how we shall be, but we shall be like Him when we see Him.

If you remember, the kind of body Jesus had after resurrection was immortal, but could eat natural food. He proved to His disciples that He was not a Ghost, or spirit.

He resurrected with a body that could eat. That is the same body we will have in the New Heaven and the new earth. But the kind of food we will eat then, will be the very same food angels eat now; the food GOD fed Israel with for 40 years.

The food helped them to stay healthy for those years, by experiencing supernatural health. It gave them a unique body that resisted diseases and all kinds of illnesses all through the 40 years journey to the promise land.

Though it did not totally transform their bodies into the very type Jesus had when He resurrected.

That type is a unique body that could pass through walls, float on water, and cover long earthly distances in few seconds. The Jesus type was a body that could transport between heaven and earth in seconds. That is the Body you and I will have if we remain faithful to the LORD till the end of our days on earth.

The Bible described it as “a body that will be raise in incorruption.” Hallelujah!

When we return to that kind of body, we will no longer know what it means to be sick, attacked by diseases, or killed by death. We will no longer know what it means to age. We will be ageless like our God and maker, Jesus Christ.

The body we have now, can deteriorate because of age, be sick, attacked by disease or killed by death. But the one that is coming will be stronger than time, sicknesses, diseases, and death. It will be beyond destruction.

It is the body God has prepared for us for the age to come.

GET READY FOR THE NEXT LIFE MY FRIEND! IT REALLY PAYS TO SERVE JESUS!

What are we saying this morning? What we are saying is this, the redemption of our body is God’s final move that will restore our bodies to the sound health of eternal point of view.

It is the redemption of the body that we are actually waiting for, even as we serve our generation according to the will of GOD!

Until then, no matter how much we serve God, stay very close to Him like Moses did, there will come a time when age will begin to tell on our bodies. Yes, a time when a health condition described in 2 Kings 13:14 as an illness of which a Kingdom Citizen would die, will come.

In this case the kingdom Citizen was Elisha.

We all know that this prophet was very effective, and moved in the Spirit of God so strongly, and was not reported sick at any time of his life. But when the curtains of time began to close on his body, he fell sick. That tells us that we will never step into our glorious body in this life, no matter how close we are to God. We will die one day.

In fact, Elisha’s dead body raised the dead when he finally died, but the same power could not keep him from falling sick at his time of departure from the earth, just as the amazing healing power Kathrine Kuhlmann worked in, never protected her from the heart disease that killed her.

The dimension of God’s power that is available to us now, cannot transform our mortal body. It can only quicken and heal it of any disease when our time to depart from this world has not come.
The power of God will never work outside God’s prepared plan for mankind.

It is important to note that, the illnesses of Elisha and Kuhlmann were not caused by any demon; It was just their bodies giving way to time, because the had reached the end of their days on earth.

Except we become part of the rapture generation, the fixed reality of the body submitting to the power of age and time, when our time on earth comes to an end, is what our worship of God will not save us from.

We will be saved on the final day, but until then the body remains a part of us that time will always kill.

THAT IS WHY AS SOON AS SOMEONE IS BORN, HE OR SHE WILL START DYING.

Some die for 90 years and finally dies on their 90th year on earth. Others finally die quiet early in life.

Yes, we may enjoy supernatural health even to the time of death, but that will not totally redeem our bodies. The redemption of our body will not take place until the day of the rapture. The Bible calls it the day of Resurrection.

Our devotional text today says, “For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life”.

Our first cloth is this tent – our present bodies. But our future clothing is the body that cannot be corrupted by sin, Satan or sickness. A body that cannot be corrupted at all or deteriorate with time. That is the body that we are earnestly waiting for.

It is the very body that will finally shut down all possibilities to be sick or die.

Meanwhile, as we wait for that body, we are to follow the Biblical steps to live by in other to be healthy. Serving the LORD was presented as key in our devotional yesterday. The next key is proper feeding and health care.

God is not against proper feeding and health care. I saw this in the life of Adam. His food was basically vegetables, and fruits. One of it would have kept His body immortal. Sadly, the fall cut him off from that fruit; a fruit from the tree of life in the Garden.

That tells us the importance of eating healthy food.

Understand that, we do not eat to fill out stomachs, we eat to stay healthy and live as long as God has preplanned for us. If you say you are a man of faith and do not feed properly, one day you will be diseased and die before your time, and prayer may not help you.

Proper feeding is one of the keys to sound health.

MOST EVANGELIST IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE FAITH MOVEMENT DIED FOR LACK OF PROPER FEEDING.

They engaged in lengthy fasting, broke them with very unhealthy foods, or in very unhealthy ways, and got their bodies diseased and died pre mature. That is not God’s will for us.

If you deny yourself what God created for the health of your natural body because of foolishness, you will suffer the consequence of it. Proper feeding should not be compromised.

Sadly, some people who like food, do not even eat in a healthy way. They do not eat healthy food. They just feed on anything like pigs. That is not a wise way to live.

Like previously stated, Adam ate fresh fruits; I also believe he ate fresh vegetables to be sound in health; and that was in an atmosphere of God’s glory not the very atmosphere we find ourselves today. Friend, it’s not wrong to eat vegetable or herbs to stay healthy.

There are herbs in my village that keeps the body sound and improves its immune systems. There are some that if the blood is going low, you take them and get everything restored again.

God is not against all these things, that was why He created them. But Satan has a way of bringing the demonic into everything God created including the herbs. That is why we have herbalists.

Though not all herbalist are witches and wizards. But we have many of them who are witch doctors. They combine witchcraft with herbs to administer healing to the sick and dying. This was not the plan of God for creating herbs, and it will never be.

If you collect herbs from a witchdoctor to cure some ailments, you have touched the demonic. It could help you for even a long while but the consequences will finally come upon you! Stay away from the demonic, no matter how helpful it looks.

Satan is crafty, he will always use what God has created to inject himself into people; basically, to kill, to steal and to destroy. As you take these truths to heart, may you walk in the fullness of God for your life, in Jesus precious name! AMEN!!

MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY

“Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.” 2 Corinthians 5:5 NKJV

THE CRY OF THE SPIRIT DEVOTIONALS – BY RICHARD E. S. TAKIM

TODAY’S DEVOTION (SATURDAY 23RD DECEMBER 2023)

"So you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you.” Exodus 23:25 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 357TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF SIGNS AND WONDERS.

God has been gracious to us. He has given us another day to be alive and well.

Glory to His glorious name for keeping us for 357 days of this year alone, without collecting “keeping you alive” fees or seeds from us. If it was a present-day dark prophet, apostle, or any other set of dark preachers, we would have sowed all kinds of seeds until we have nothing else to sow.

Come to think of it, preachers still collect money to keep people alive while God is already keeping them alive freely. But the preachers are not really keeping the people alive, they are using those monies to keep themselves and families alive financially.

The Almighty God is not like what the preachers present Him to be, a mean, money taking, and seed demanding God, who will not do anything for you until something comes from you.

He is rather gracious, compassionate, and eternal in His show of mercy. Even when we do not deserve it, He still makes sure His breath gives us life. To Him belong all the glory.

2024 is already here, and many of us are trusting Him for all the good things of life we need. But I have come to discover that if you do not know God’s plan for any aspect of your life, and align with it, the good things you expect from Him will never come.

Of late He has been showing us His plan for our health. It is important that we understand and follow it so that we can live healthy lives in 2024.

The central theme of our devotional yesterday, was a revelation of the stone to roll away for our health to come out of any grave of sicknesses and diseases. In other words, something to do to be saved from health problems.

The other aspect of what we saw yesterday is the revelation of the stone to us; we said it is something to be revealed to you personally by the Holy Spirit. However, in today’s devotional we will be looking at certain things that can be done for us to be saved from sickness and diseases; things that are already stated in scriptures.

I HOPE WE ARE READY!

Over 2000 years ago, a prison officer asked the apostles who were imprisoned for preaching the gospel, “What must I do to be saved.” The apostles responded, “Believe in the LORD Jesus, you shall be saved you and your house.”

When it comes to deliverance or salvation from something that may be troubling you, there are Bible things to do to be delivered or saved. If the prophetic goes active, it will tell you which of those Bible things is applicable to your situation.

As you go through them, my prayer is that you listen to the Holy Spirit and let Him whisper to you which of them can be applied on your situation, especially if you are sick.

The first Bible thing that brings divine health is serving the LORD unconditionally.

Our devotional text today says, “..You shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you.” Meaning, serving Jesus in spirit and in truth, brings healing to any sick or diseased body. God said He will take it away from you.

I have enjoyed the blessing of divine healing and health for over 28 years because of God’s faithfulness to this scripture. I see the blessing of divine healing when I am sick, and divine health when I am not sick.

Kingdom service is one thing you must do to be saved from sickness and diseases. Kingdom service is you and I serving God unconditionally, with our talent, our treasures, and our time. He has a way of making sure we are healthy when we do that. He has a way of saving us from sicknesses and diseases.

PERSONALLY, I WAS SAVED FROM COVID-19 DURING THE LOCK DOWN BY THAT.

When the Church was on lock down, I was not on lock down. I served the LORD by serving the saints all through that period with the word, through Television and social media.

The saints needed their faith up that period, and I stood with the LORD to serve them with what they needed to keep their faith up. In return, the LORD placed His mercy upon me, and kept me healthy all through the period.

BUT NOT EVERYONE OF US WHO IS SERVING THE LORD IS HEALTHY.

Some of us in Church serve Him with sicknesses and diseases in our bodies. This is not the will of God for anyone. That is why I defined the kind of service to God that brings healing and divine health. It is called “Kingdom Service.”

Kingdom service is different from Church or religious service.
While Church and religious services, are simply good ideas people conceived to move the work of God forward, Kingdom service is purely God’s idea. It has no religious or human stain.

Sadly, many are involved in what they think is God’s work, that is why they are not seeing the blessing of divine health or healing. No one can be involved in Kingdom service without being kept healthy by the KING of kings and LORD of lords Himself. That is His own way of making sure our services to Him continues.

Kingdom service is serving God according to His perfect will for your life.

It is not being involved in Church work just because you are a Christian. If we do not come to terms with that truth, we will keep denying ourselves the blessing.

By God’s grace, I have never been involved in religious or Church services. They are the foolish way to serve God.

I have always been involved in Kingdom services both in Church and outside the Church. The two are not the same. One is serving the LORD according to His perfect will, the other is not. It is just being good and religious.

I have heard of Christians who served and served and served, until they became sick and died at even very early ages. Making things appear as if God is not faithful to His promises.

If you ask many of us in Church today, we will tell you how we just came back from this crusade to preach to the lost, that hospital to pray for the sick, this camp meeting, how we clean up the Church every day, sing in the Choir, do not miss a weekly meeting, serve the pastor, visit the poor and give them support, and etc.

YET WE ARE NOT BLESSED WITH EITHER DIVINE HEALTH OR HEALING.

Many people in church today, work for God and not from God, that is why they are sick or not blessed. You find them always sickly, and suffering in spite of the services they render to God, because they are working for God and not from God.

To work from God, is to offer services He reveals to you to offer in His kingdom; especially at an immediate present. But to work for God is to just get yourself involved with Church work because it’s a good thing or because the pastor said so.

In most cases, people serve a non-existent will of God, and others, a dead will of God. That is why they do not see His word manifest in their lives.

You will never see the power of God in your health if you are doing what He has not assigned you to do. It’s His own way of telling you to walk out of it else you will have no reward for it in Heaven when you die.

Other times also people do what is clearly divine will but without a pure heart.

They do it to please men and have stories to tell. They do not serve faithfully, hence not abounding with the blessing. The Bible says a faithful man will abound with blessings.

The manifestation of a blessing from God, over one who is serving Him, is a sign that the person is faithfully serving God. And that the person is in Heaven’s assigned plan and purpose for his or her life.

As we bring this devotional to a close, I want you to understand that Kingdom service is a thing you must do to be saved.

If you are involved in Kingdom service, God will take away sickness from your life and keep you healthy. But if you are involved in what look like it but is not, you will never see this blessing.

I am a living testimony!

LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY

"So you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you. No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.” Exodus 23:25-26 NKJV