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Devotional
Friday 30th of July 2010
Jeremiah 23:11-12 (NIV)
11 "Both prophet and priest are godless; even in my temple I find their
wickedness," declares the Lord. 12 "Therefore their path will become slippery; they
will be banished to darkness and there they will fall. I will bring disaster on them in the
year they are punished," declares the Lord.
Here He says that their ways are like slippery ways. Have you ever seen that in
people that are fellowshipping with the spiritual realm and they never try the spirits just
as long as they receive goose bumps? Have you ever seen people that are fellowshipping with
wrong spirits where they take one step forward and two steps back and they never ever get
into prosperity, they never ever walk out of their problems? "Oh we are just having a
wonderful time in Jesus." But they've been having a wonderful time in Jesus for how
long? "Man I've been saved for ten years and halleluiah." Woops (slip), there
they go again. There is never that gospel lift that brings them up out of the miry clay and
sets their feet upon a rock to stay. There isn't that progressiveness in their finances.
There isn't that progressiveness in their relationships. There isn't that frugalness
that comes.
Friday 30th of July 2010
Numbers 13:1, 2, 23, 27, 28, 32 (NIV)
1 The Lord said to Moses, 2 "Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am
giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders." 23 When
they reached the Valley of Eshcol, they cut off a branch bearing a single cluster of grapes.
Two of them carried it on a pole between them, along with some pomegranates and figs 27 they
gave Moses this account: "We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow
with milk and honey! Here is its fruit. 28 But the people who live there are powerful and
the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there." 32 And
they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said,
"The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of
great size."
When Israel was promised great things all of a sudden they saw the giants. Moses
sent out the ten spies and they went down into the Promised Land. They said, "It's
everything that you said it was and what God said but what He failed to tell us is that
there were giants in the land". I see people, they get so excited, "I'm going to
be a preacher of God. I'm going into business. I'm going to get married to this
wonderful woman or this wonderful guy, you never told me I'd have problems. He never
told me she had problems. I see all the good parts, it is the bad parts I'm worried
about." We start to give this verbal consideration to the giants. We don't major on
the goodness of God.
It takes courage to believe when there is something looking at you that seems real.
It takes courage to believe that by His stripes you are healed. When they have the blood
tests and everything else that says you have cancer. It takes courage to believe that God is
a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. It takes courage to say, "No this is not of
God. Get out of here. You are a thief and a robber. I will not entertain you."