#WordForTodayDevotional Sunday November 6, 2022 WISDOM FORBIDS LIVING WITHOUT VISION And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.Habakkuk 2:2 (KJV) Contrary to what some believe, vision is not that dream one has in the night. Neither is it what transpires …
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DANGERS OF LIVING WITHOUT PURPOSE
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Saturday November 5, 2022
DANGERS OF LIVING WITHOUT PURPOSE
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 12:8 (KJV)
Firstly, meaning in life is a function of purpose. You will not be able to wrap your mind around existence if you fail to discover your purpose. Can you imagine being in a journey that has no destination and objective. A wise man had said that if you don’t know where you are going, everywhere will look like it. Meaninglessness is a function of purposelessness. People are growing up, going to school, getting a job or running a business and living life without defining why. “Why am I living?” Are you living just to get degrees, get the best paying jobs, buy the best car and house and then continue like that? There is nothing more vain like living without purpose. It makes you live for things and as long as you live for things, you will live in mirage.
HOW TO DISCOVER YOUR PURPOSE
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Friday November 4, 2022
HOW TO DISCOVER YOUR PURPOSE
4 Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Jeremiah 1.4-5 [KJV]
Purpose is the secret of satisfaction in life. Purpose is what ends the evil spirit of jealousy and competition in your life. There is a lane that your creator has curved out for you. You have a track that only you can function in. Joel 2:7 says, “They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:” You are here to serve the purpose of Yahweh in your generation just like David. Acts 13:36 (NET) says, “For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, died, was buried with his ancestors, and experienced decay,” “But how do I know my purpose?” Someone might ask. We shall discuss a couple of indicators or ways that you can discover your purpose. Proverbs 25:2 says, ‘It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.’ Your purpose is your discovery. It is your honour to discover it.
WISDOM BRINGS YOU TO KNOW YOUR PURPOSE
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Thursday November 3, 2022
WISDOM BRINGS YOU TO KNOW YOUR PURPOSE
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Jeremiah 1:5 (AMPC)
Purpose is the original intention for the creation of a thing. Purpose is the reason for the making of a thing. Purpose is the thought in the mind of the manufacturer that necessitated the making of a thing. Nothing that is created is without a purpose. But the purpose of a thing cannot be known from the thing. You cannot ask a mobile phone for instance, “what is your purpose?” It does not know its purpose. Purpose is only known from the maker or manufacturer of a product. That is the reason, every manufacturer accompanies their product with a manual that describes the purpose, functions and maintenance of its product. If you want to know the purpose, functions and how to maintain the mobile phone, it behoves on you to consult the manufacturer’s manual. So many people carry mobile phones that are laden with extraordinary functions beyond texting, calling and receiving calls, but are not making use of those functions because they are ignorant that those functions exist in those phones they are using. Man is a product of Yahweh. Genesis 1:27 says, ‘So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.’ Beloved, you are not a biological accident. No matter, how you came, you are a product of pre-ordination of Yahweh. He picked you, out of the millions competing spermatozoa released. You are not an accident.
INTRODUCING WISDOM
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Wednesday November 2, 2022
INTRODUCING WISDOM
But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
I Corinthians 1:24 [KJV]
In Genesis 1:26 we saw the Father saying “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:” That scripture introduced the blessed Trinity. John 1:1-3 says, “1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him? and without him was not any thing made that was made.” That showed us that the second person of the Trinity is the person known as the Word. Genesis 1:2 says, ‘And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.’ We saw the third person of the Blessed Trinity called the Spirit of Yahweh. Beloved, just follow me, we are trying to meet Wisdom. Proverbs 8:22-31 showed us that Wisdom was at the Creation. Even before creation, he was right there. However, we have seen that it was only the Holy Trinity that was there at creation. This shows us that the Word is Wisdom. Apostle John told us that by the Word all things were made (see John 1:3). Psalms 104:24 says, “O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.” Collaborating what Proverbs 8:22-31 said that Wisdom was there at creation. We can state authoritative by these scriptures that the Word of Yahweh is the Wisdom of Yahweh.
PROPHETIC FOCUS FOR NOVEMBER 2022
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Tuesday November 1, 2022
PROPHETIC FOCUS FOR NOVEMBER 2022
Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.
Ecclesiastes 8:1 [KJV]
Yeah! Congratulations! You made it already! Welcome to the Eleventh month! It is already November 2022 just like that? I feel like singing: “we have seen the Lord’s goodness, His mercies and compassion. We have seen the Lord’s goodness, Halleluyah, praise the Lord!” Father, what you have done for us is beyond words. If we take this month out just to thank you for 2022, it won’t still be enough. Thank You for bringing us through from January to this day November 1st. To You alone be all the glory in the name of the Lord Yahushua Hamashiach Amen! Beloved, we trust you have not and will not recover from the spiritual and even wholistic metamorphosis that the month of October 2022 sparked off in you. 2 Corinthians 3:18 says, “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” The Word is the glass of the Holy Spirit that brings us into continuous change (Greek: metamorphoo – transformation, transfiguration, etc). The Green Pastures is real but not automatic. Just as we saw all through last month that it requires getting the Word, which is the seed in Luke 8:11. Planting that seed in the ground of our heart, watering it by meditation; making the climate conducive by praying in the Holy Spirit which turns the seed to a fruitful field and then a forest by remaining a doer of the Word. The impact of that is a life of wonders and metamorphosis. May the impact of that Word-bath in October 2022 remain an eternal deposit in your life and destiny that keeps speaking to eternity in the name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!
THANKFUL FOR OCTOBER 2022
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Monday October 31, 2022
THANKFUL FOR OCTOBER 2022
In God will I praise his word: in the Lord will I praise his word.
Psalms 56:10 [KJV]
The Lord and His Word are the same. For us to come into His presence, the divine protocol is to enter with thanksgiving (see Psalms 100:4). You cannot enjoy the Word from the outer court. It is the Spirit that teaches us the Word. You must come into His presence first and that entails having a thankful/grateful heart. Maybe this is the link that is missing in the lives of so many students of the Word. Thanksgiving and praise is the way to enter into the presence of the Lord. Also it takes thanksgiving and praise to access revelation from the Word because you are only inside the court by thanksgiving and praise. Mark 4:11 says, ‘And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:’ You are within the court by thanksgiving and praise. No matter how in a hurry you are to read or study, close your eyes and thank the Lord for the privilege to have His Word and to read it.
ARE THERE DANGERS OF NOT BEING BUILT UP BY THE WORD?
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Sunday October 30, 2022
ARE THERE DANGERS OF NOT BEING BUILT UP BY THE WORD?
And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
Acts 20:32 (KJV)
In this kingdom, it takes maturing into sonship to enter into your inheritance. Isaiah 9:6 says, ‘For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.’ You are born a child when you are born again. But it takes the training of the Word to come into sonship and until you come to sonship, you don’t enter into rulership. Romans 8:19 says, ‘For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.’ The creation is not waiting for the children of Yahweh but for the sons. These are ones that have been trained by the Word and are able to receive the government upon their shoulder. They are people who are fully developed in the Word to understand the will of the Father and how to respond in obedience to Him. All these development is only possible by the Word. It is only the agency of the Word that see the development of the child of Yahweh into sonship. Sonship is about coming to the stage of knowing the will of the Father and that comes by much training in the Word.
TO ENCOUNTER THE WORD (5): ENGAGE THE HOLY SPIRIT
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Saturday October 29, 2022
TO ENCOUNTER THE WORD (5): ENGAGE THE HOLY SPIRIT
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself? but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
John 16:13 (KJV)
The Bible is not a newspaper or magazine. II Peter 1:21 says, ‘For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.’ The Bible is the product of the Holy Ghost. The Bible is the collection of the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. This is why it is expedient to engage the author of the Bible in trying to understand and apply what He inspired. It is the moving of the Holy Spirit on the lives of holy men of Yahweh that resulted in the Bible. That is to say that there is no other person that knows the Bible like the author, the blessed Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is our teacher and guide into the deep things of the Father. He guides us into all truth. The Word of Yahweh is the truth and it takes the Holy Spirit to come into this truth. With the Holy Spirit, the Bible is new everyday because He keeps expounding the truth and bringing out new things from same chapter and verse that you have been reading everyday.
TO ENCOUNTER THE WORD (4): STAY LONG WITH THE WORD
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Friday October 28, 2022
TO ENCOUNTER THE WORD (4): STAY LONG WITH THE WORD
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Proverbs 23:30 (KJV)
No matter how light a person is, no one gets intoxicated with one cup of wine. Conversely, no matter how hard a person is, tarrying long at the wine will pass even the hardest person out. That is true with the Word. Just skipping a few pages, won’t achieve the result we are describing this month. It is tarrying long with the Word that brings about saturation. There is what is called saturation. It is the act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid. You cannot encounter the Word with a measure that cannot even satisfy you. Before you talk of saturation, then you have gone beyond satisfaction. But you are still in control at the level of satisfaction. We are talking of the level where you are no more in control. We are saying, stay long with the Word until the Word takes a hold of you and begins to control you and your actions. We are saying that the Word cannot saturate you in the skimpy way that you are handling the Word now. The principle of intoxication is staying long at the wine of the Word. Isaiah 5:11 confirms that it takes staying long at wine to be inflamed therewith, “Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!”
