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16/12/2022

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

TODAY’S DEVOTION (FRIDAY 16TH DECEMBER 2022)

“Then [the guiding angel] showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at Joshua’s right hand to be his adversary and to accuse him.

And the Lord said to Satan, The Lord rebuke you, O Satan! Even the Lord, who [now and habitually] chooses Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this [returned captive Joshua] a brand plucked out of the fire?
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and was standing before the Angel [of the Lord].

And He spoke to those who stood before Him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And He said to [Joshua], Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich apparel.” Zechariah 3:1-4 AMPC

WELCOME TO THE 351TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF AMAZING GRACE!

We are in a festive period for some, and a holiday period for others. Many are preparing and getting ready for the yuletide. We have done this year after year after year, but many have not realized that it is a product of God’s investment in our lives.

We owe Him a lot of gratitude. That’s why I want to say something about showing GOD gratitude in a period like this.

The first way you can show God gratitude in a period like this, and maybe in other periods, is to testify of His goodness to those whose hearts are right towards you. Yes, those whose hearts are right towards you, and we will come to that as to why I said so.

Showing God gratitude through heart felt testimonies of His goodness in our lives is an ancient practice of people who walked with God in time past. They spoke about His goodness in their lives in gratitude, and some did that in public meetings with substances in their hands to sacrifice towards the prosperity of GOD’s purposes.

They handed over the substances to God’s messengers who He assigned to bear the responsibility of feeding them. We can borrow a leaf from that this period.

Another of showing gratitude is by singing songs that affirms or tell of God’s works in your life. You will not need a trained voice to do that. You just need a voice. Get your kids together if you have, form a beautiful team and lift up your voices to GOD who has kept you this year.

If you are living alone, put on the garment of praise and sing to He who lives for ever. David said;

“I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever; With my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness to all generations.

For I have said, “Mercy shall be built up forever; Your faithfulness You shall establish in the very heavens.” Psalm 89:1-2 NKJV

Now, I stated earlier that when testifying of what the LORD did in your life this year or before, especially as your way of showing how grateful you are to Him, tell your story only to people whose hearts are good towards you. Our Testimonies can be turned into trials if we do not do that.

Yes, what you shared may no longer exist in your life because Satan hates it when we tell of what God has done in our lives. Hence, he has special people planted around us, especially in our Churches, to make sure what we appreciated God for no longer exist after that.

THAT EXPLAINS WHY PEOPLE LOSE THEIR TESTIMONIES AFTER SHARING IT WITH OTHERS.

Sadly, you can never know who not to share your testimonies with by looking at people’s faces. No! That is why it is difficult. You can only know by walking in spiritual sensitivity. People who lack spiritual sensitivity will always ruin themselves so long as showing public gratitude to GOD by sharing testimonies is concerned.

If you ask me, I will suggest that you share your testimonies with people who do not have ties with you, basically to encourage them to know or trust GOD too. Someone you may have met in the bus, or on your way to the market, or somewhere else and etc. People you do not know before.

Just start a conversation with them, if prompted, and tell them how good GOD have been good to you, then share what He did, and give them room to share theirs also. If they have none, just encourage them to believe GOD to do in their lives what He did in yours. And maybe say a word of prayer. That will bring souls into the kingdom and glorify GOD the more.

Do not share your testimonies carelessly.

You can even share it with your pastor only, so long as his or her heart is good towards you, and offer whatever you want to offer to God as you show Him gratitude for His good deeds. Your pastors may in turn share it in Church without mentioning your name, with the aim of bringing glory to God.

I said share with pastors who have a good heart towards you because some of us preachers will hear what God may have done in the lives of our members and remember that, maybe they have not been contributing to the Church or giving us something, and then become bitter towards them. You can Safe them us from that by keeping quiet.

But if you have indeed, not been contributing to the Church enough, or giving your hard-working pastor substance from time to time, you have not been doing well. If you are under me, I will rebuke you sharply for seeing such mercies from the LORD and bearing no fruits in return.

IF THAT IS THE CASE WITH YOU, PLEASE USE THIS PERIOD TO CHANGE YOUR BEHAVIOR.

Get something substantial and send to your man of GOD who have been used of the LORD to bless you. Doing that, especially sacrificially, will propel Heaven to bless you in the coming year. Heaven do not forget people who know How to be grateful.

That is why if you say God has forgotten you, check the last time you truly gave Him thanks. Check when last you showed Him or someone He may have used to bless you some serious gratitude. You will find out that it was years before Hi**er went after the Jews (laughter).

Now, showing God gratitude is one thing that is beyond sharing testimonies, offering God sacrifices, and singing songs. It is something we also do with our lives. In other words, In addition to sharing testimonies, offering God sacrifices, and singing songs, we show God gratitude by living.

Yes, we show Him gratitude by living lives that serves His interest on earth.

We show Him gratitude by offering ourselves to do whatever will prosper His will, by spending our days doing only what He assigns us to do, and making sure our lives on earth prospers His interest anywhere we find ourselves. That is one beautiful way we show GOD gratitude.

We have been sharing about the indwelling presence of God, one way we show God gratitude that way is by serving as His holy Temples on earth.

You see, When you carry GOD’s indwelling presence, you are serving as His temple on earth. Now, every other thing you do to show Him gratitude will make so much meaning, both in your life and in the lives of those around you.

And do not forget what we shared the other day, you cannot pretend to be showing God gratitude and ignoring or despising those He may have used to bless you. Show them gratitude as well. If you do all these with the presence of God in your life, all will be well with you.

TODAY IS THE 16TH DAY OF OUR 31-DAY JOURNEY OF FAITH WITH THE CRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ON THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD.

And we have been looking at the third category of God’s presence, the indwelling presence. If you are a man or woman of gratitude, you will enjoy the most of God’s indwelling presence in your life through what you do to give Him thanks.

The songs you sing, the testimonies you share, the sacrifices you offer, and the life you live in gratitude to God’s mercies, kindness and compassion in your life, will make your life highly inflammable with God’s holy presence. Oh yes. You will be set on holy fire.

In fact, if you carry God’s indwelling presence, whatever you do with God or in His kingdom (be it tithing, serving, or whatever), will set your life on fire. That is why you should not live a Christian life that lack the indwelling presence of God in its full strength.

Your services to God and all you do in His name will not result in a blessing in your life if you do. There will be no enough indwelling presence of GOD in your life to make great things happen to you for serving the LORD.

That brings us to a final phase of this journey. We have 15 days to end it.

In this phase, we want to look at the rewards or blessings of God’s indwelling presence in our lives, especially if we carry it in its full strength. Which brings us to our devotional text.

The text is about a prophetic vision that Zechariah, one of the prophets that lived in Bible days, saw concerning the man that was serving then as the High priest then. The office of the High Priest was very sensitive then. In the days of that vision, It was gradually becoming both a position of spiritual and political influence. Which was not good for the office.

Maybe, since politics is dirty, the political side was responsible for the filthy garment that God’s prophet Zechariah saw on the high priest. The Bible says;

“Then [the guiding angel] showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at Joshua’s right hand to be his adversary and to accuse him.

And the Lord said to Satan, The Lord rebuke you, O Satan! Even the Lord, who [now and habitually] chooses Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this [returned captive Joshua] a brand plucked out of the fire?
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and was standing before the Angel [of the Lord]. Zechariah 3:1-3 APMC

God has angels in Charge of nations.

THE GUIDING ANGEL IN THIS SCRIPTURE WAS THE ANGEL IN CHARGE OF ISRAEL.

The Angel of the LORD there was Christ pre incarnate, hence the capital letter “A” in the word angle. Satan stood at the right hand of the high priest Joshua, who was standing before Christ, the one who was coming to be the final high priest for mankind, by fulfilling the eternal role of the high priest on lost souls. How do you expect condemnation in such a sitting?

It will be impossible because of the presence of Christ. What will always happen before CHRIST on this side of eternity is redemption by stripping one of the filthy garments.

Friend, there is so much in this scripture that cannot be uncovered on this platform, but what we want us to know is this, the first reward or blessing of having God’s indwelling presence in our lives is the removal of the filthy garment from us. The indwelling presence Of God will networks with His manifest presence in our lives to take away any filthy garments from us.

The word garment is a bible word for acts or lifestyle. Filthy garments then mean filthy deeds or acts, filthy character, filthy habits, or a lifestyle of filthiness and uncleanliness.

Joshua was engrossed in it, giving the enemy the leverage to stand at his right hand to hinder him through accusations; which would have been justified. But the Judge of all who took away the legal right for justifiable accusations of Satan against us to be just, was on hand to stop Satan.

The voice of the Judge of All sounded in Joshua’s defense saying: “The Lord rebuke you, O Satan! Even the Lord, who now and habitually chooses Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this returned captive Joshua, a brand plucked out of the fire?”

Then the next instruction was, “Take away the filthy garments from him.”

What can we glean from these scriptural verses? Very clear truths. You see one assignment of God’s manifest presence and one blessing of God’s indwelling presence in the scriptural verses.

While God’s manifest presence rebukes Satan by pointing to the finished works of the Cross whenever he tries to stand on our filthy lives to hinder us, God’s indwelling presence moves to take away the filthiness from us and make us holy so that Satan will no longer have the leverage over us.

I hope you understand that.

It is those who resist or hinder God’s indwelling presence from doing so, by being responsive to the flesh instead of the Spirit, that will continue to have Satan standing at their right hand to successfully resist them.

YOU CAN NOW UNDERSTAND WHY PAUL WROTE TO THE CHURCH AT GALATIA SAYING;

“But I say, walk and live [habitually] in the [Holy] Spirit [responsive to and controlled and guided by the Spirit]; then you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh (of human nature without God).” Galatians 5:16 AMPC

As stated in previous days, the gratification of the cravings and desires of the flesh remains the number one enemy when it comes to enjoying all the blessings of our redemption in Christ Jesus. If we do not use God’s grace and Truth available in Christ to bring our flesh under subjection, it will hinder the indwelling presence of God from taking away any filthy life style that exist in our lives.

What that happens, we will begin to manifest what the Bible calls “the work of the flesh” thereby hindering us from entering the kingdom of Christ. Sadly, most famed preachers preach against this Bible truth.

Child of God, do not let any deceive you. God wants our live pure and holy.

That is why the first blessing of God’s indwelling presence in the life of a man, is always the removal of filthy garments (habits, deeds, lifestyle etc.) from him, and the replacement of the same with holy garments (habits, deeds, lifestyle etc.).

It is not money, marriage, success in anything earthly, or whatever, as good as they may be. It is a life of Holiness unto the LORD.

God’s indwelling presence is the facilitator of Holiness in the life of a filthy soul. It works in our lives to take away the filthy garments of the works of the flesh, and cloth us with the rich robes of the works of the Holy Spirit; works of righteousness, purity and holiness.

That is why if we say we carry the presence of God in our lives, but walk in the flesh, we are just being hypocrites. The first thing that we will see as evidence in the lives of those who carry God’s indwelling presence will always show in their relationship with the flesh. They will spend their days crucifying the flesh and not feeding or glorifying it.

It is eternally dangerous not to allow the indwelling presence of God in our lives deliver us from filthy garments.

Sadly, present day believers will prefer that it gets them money, marriage and all the earthly things. But its first priority is always to free us from the works or practices of the flesh; it’s priority remains to take away filthy garments from lost souls who are speeding to hell because of putting them on.

There are details we need to know about how that happens. Unfortunately, that is all we can take for today. We pick up from here when we return tomorrow.

LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR US TODAY!

“Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): they are immorality, impurity, indecency, Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper), selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar opinions, heresies),

Envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:19-21 AMPC

28/11/2022

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

TODAY’S DEVOTION (MONDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2022)

“For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.” Exodus 20:11-12 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 332ND DAY OF OUR YEAR OF AMAZING GRACE!

We bless the LORD for giving us life. We thank Him for His great deeds in our lives and His amazing grace and mercy. He has been so good to us. We sleep each day and wake up because He watches over us.

We have been on a 30-day journey of faith with the Cry of the Spirit on practical wisdom. For me, it has been a journey where we have been enlightened by the LORD on so many things. We have seen the integral role of practical wisdom in our everyday lives and we are grateful to the LORD who made that possible. We have seen that without walking in practical wisdom, we will not be able to assemble in our lives what God has finished concerning us in Heaven.

We have seen that we may get married, but without practical wisdom we cannot stay married. We may be doing spiritual things well but without practical wisdom, it will not translate into positive results in our physical lives. A lot in our lives depends on practical wisdom, that is why the wisdom is the principal thing.

The Bible says through wisdom a life is built. Meaning, we will not be able to build our lives without walking in practical wisdom. We could be prayerful or doing spiritual things right, if we are not walking in practical wisdom, discernment, knowledge and understanding we will live miserable lives.

That is why true spirituality will make someone wise. Everything we do with God will always give us a portion of practical wisdom. If the God you are walking with is not making you wise, it means you are not touching the part of Him that make even the worst dummy the wisest person.

Yes, there is a part of God that we can touch that can make us wise. It is a part of His presence that imparts revelation knowledge, discernment, wisdom and understanding. If you are walking with God, touching other parts but not touching this one, you will still lead a miserable life despite your walk with God.

TO TOUCH THAT PART, THE MANIFESTATION OF GOD AS THE WORD MUST BE ESTABLISHED IN YOUR LIFE.

The Bible says;

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. John 1-1-5 NKJV

When God manifest Himself in our lives as word, we experience Him as light. The Bible then says, the light we experience, becomes life in us – the very life we need to live. That is why people live miserable lives where God do not manifest in their lives as light. Their lives will lack the very life they need to survive a dying world like ours.

The manifestation of God in our lives as the world cannot be over emphasized. When God manifest in our lives as the word, He will shine Himself into any darkness that may be residing in our hearts, giving us an illumination that will result in proper decisions at an immediate present.

Understand that not walking in wisdom itself is a form of darkness, so when God shines in our hearts every form of darkness because light.

THAT IS WHEN WE CAN TAKE DECISIONS THAT CAN IMPROVE OUR LIVES.

It is so sad that many believers live in spiritual darkness. They do not walk in prophetic or redemptive revelation, hence not having the practical wisdom of walking in the laws of God and man.

The Bible is very clear that people who do not walk in redemptive revelation of GOD or in the wisdom of respecting the laws of God and man, will definitely find the earth too hot for them; they will perish. It says;

“Where there is no vision [no redemptive revelation of God], the people perish; but he who keeps the law [of God, which includes that of man]—blessed (happy, fortunate, and enviable) is he.” Proverbs 29:18 AMPC

To perish means to pass away. It means to be destroyed or ruined by violence or things out of control. It means to disappear or suffer destruction. It also means to die spiritually. That is what will characterize a life that has no vision or a redemptive revelation of God; that is what will characterize a life that is not keeping the laws of God and man.

When we say the law as of man, we are referring to natural laws God stipulated for our natural lives not to be ruined or destroyed. Those are the laws you must study and keep.

The scripture means, if we do not want to perish in any area of my life, we should be led by the redemptive revelation of God for our lives. We should also keep the His laws for man.

Practical wisdom is applying walking according to the revelation of God’s redemptive knowledge for our lives. It is respecting the natural and spiritual laws that govern success in life. It is not placing our success in the hands of God without recognizing our part in the road to the success we look for.

We have seen some sources of practical wisdom. The first we saw was education. Through education we can learn the natural laws that governs things on earth and help us live blessed and successful earthly lives. That is why education, depending on the curriculum, is a key to success in life.

WE ALSO SAW EXPERIENCE AND PRAYER AS TWO OTHER SOURCES OF PRACTICAL WISDOM.

When we come into the prayer realm, God will begin to show us great and mighty things that we know not. Things we may not be doing right will be revealed. Leading to making proper decisions. I remember how prayer guided David in 2 Samuel chapter 5 and Joshua in Joshua 7 to solve the problems that were facing.

I encourage you to read those chapters of the Bible and see how prayer gave both Bible characters the wisdom to handle the situations they found themselves. They all moved from the prayer realm to take proper actions after a mind improvement session with the LORD in the prayer realm.

For me, prayer is more of a divine wisdom collection system than any other thing. It shows one what to do for GOD to act or for things that were not moving to move. I have always come out with a better mind after each prayer session. Yes, we may kneel down confused and ignorant but will definitely get up full of the knowledge of what to do.

By the mercies and compassion of the LORD we want to look at another source of practical wisdom - parenting. Our devotional text says;

“For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore, the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.” Exodus 20:11-12 NKJV

God created the earth and man for 6 days, and on the 7th day He rested. After resting, He saw that it was not good for man to be alone. Then He created a woman to help man form a family. That became the foundation of parenting. Therefore, a system that laid the foundation for Parenting was the first thing God created after resting. That system is called marriage.

That is why if you are going into marriage you must understand what you are going into. You must understand that you are about setting up a system for parenting. Which means you must not be a baby or ignorant. You must be matured enough to be a source of practical wisdom to your kids when they begin to come.

YOU MUST NOT LEAVE THEM AT THE MERCY OF HOUSE HELPS.

Understand that being ready for marriage will involve being ready to be a pillar of wisdom for kids that will come out as a result. That is why giving birth to children out of wedlock is very bad. Or bearing children with someone you do not intend to spend the rest of your life with.

God’s laws demand that we do not go into child bearing until we have become a pillar of wisdom for a generation that will come out of your loins through child bearing. Until we can be parents, we should not go into marriage or attempt having s*x with anyone. That is the rule.

But most of us break it and end up having kids who grow without parental wisdom to guide them in life. They grow like trees in the forest and become wild in their characters. They grow without practical wisdom and end up doing very destructive things in life. Some unredeemable.

If you had ever sat before an adult who grew without parents and hear the stories of the terrible things they went through, you will understand what we are sharing this morning. A child who grow without parents or without wise parents will be a wreck in life, except GOD helps him or her.

Parenting was designed by God to be a source of practical wisdom. If We do not follow His ways of getting and staying married, we will be destroying this pillar of practical wisdom for the next generation.

We pick up from here when we return tomorrow.

LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!

“The reward of humility and the reverent and worshipful fear of the
Lord is riches and honor and life. Thorns and snares are in the way of the obstinate and willful; he who guards himself will be far from them.

Train up a child in the way he should go [and in keeping with his individual gift or bent], and when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 26:4-6 AMPC

24/11/2022

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

TODAY’S DEVOTION (FRIDAY 25TH NOVEMBER 2022)

“I will fetch my knowledge from afar; I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. For truly my words are not false; One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

Behold, God is mighty, but despises no one; He is mighty in strength of understanding.” Job 36:3-5 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 329TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF AMAZING GRACE!

The LORD God has been so good to us having kept us for 329 days of this year. Each day was an investment into our lives. We are alive today because of that investment.

Yes, God invested His mercies, Kindness, goodness, favor, beauty, living word, Holy Spirit, wisdom, forgiveness for sins, and much more than human words can capture. Every one of us are pieces of His investment. With less than 37 days to go, we owe Him so much gratitude.

A people who will not remember what He has done will always complain for what He is yet to do. You may have had great expectations for this year that were not met, do not worry. If a man’s expectations do not align with God’s, there is no way they will be met. The Bible says,

“Hear counsel, receive instruction, and accept correction, that you may be wise in the time to come. Many plans are in a man’s mind, but it is the Lord’s purpose for him that will stand.” Proverbs 19:20-21 AMPC

There is a counsel, instruction or maybe correction in this scripture that we just read. It clearly states that if none of what you expected this year happened, it is because it was not aligned with God’s purpose for your life. It may be good for your life but does not fall into His plan for your life this year.

The Bible is clear that only the LORD ‘s purpose for our lives will stand not our own purposes. Do not expect any dream you wanted to achieve this year to materialize if it was not an offshoot of God’s immediate plan and purpose for your life this year. Let the failure of that expectation correct you so that next year will be different.

SEEK THE LORD FOR HIS PLANS FOR YOUR LIFE FOR THE COMING YEAR AND ROOT YOUR EXPECTATIONS ON IT

We have been on a 30-day journey of faith with the Cry of the Spirit on practical wisdom, and the LORD has opened our hearts to so much. We have seen things that will never happen if there is no practical wisdom within us. Things that even prayer cannot make Happen, expect prayers that reveals to us what to do.

Yes, there are prayers that can unlock the wisdom of what to do. Which brings us to the second source of practical wisdom. But before we get there let me first remind those who maybe joining us for the first time that we began looking at the sources of practical wisdom yesterday.

We have seen education as a major source of practical wisdom. Our hearts were opened through this platform on the same, and we saw why the message of the cross should form the foundation of our education systems. We discovered that we will keep having intelligent fools as educated fellows, so long as real-life situations are concerned, if we keep having education systems that are not founded in God.

We also spoke about education not being limited to the four walls of a class room. Every exposure is education. It should result in practical wisdom.

But one of the major things we did not state yesterday is the power of quality education in developing our minds. If you look at people who are thoroughly educated and those who are not, you will find out that their reasoning is not the same.

There is always a dichotomy in reasoning.

Now, am not referring to people who went to school and came out with certificates and degrees but school did not go through them. No! Am referring to those who went through the process of schooling and learning.

A thoroughly educated person (either one who was educated in a classroom or one who was educated by exposure), is usually broad in the mind and always have an open mind. They are not primitive in their thinking. You will not find them looking down on others because the weight of their exposure makes them humble and kind. They appreciate everyone and relates with everyone at their level.

YOU WILL NEVER FEEL SMALL STANDING WITH THEM BECAUSE THEY DO NOT MAKE PEOPLE FEEL SMALL OR INSIGNIFICANT.

Any educated fellow, therefore, who make people feel small around them was not thoroughly educated. They could have degrees or certificates, by their character they are semiliterate. They could be very polished with excellent grammatical expressions, they are still not educated.

We must understand that we are not literate or educated because we went to school. We are literate and educated because school went through us. School refined us and developed our character. If a man’s education did not refine his character, it was a waste.

I reiterate again that if your education did not refine your character, it was a waste. If it did not increase your value for fellow human beings and your respect for others, it was a waste. A thoroughly educated person will respect people at their own level. He will recognize his limitations and other people’s ability to compensate for them, and humble himself.

That is why if your education is making you proud, you are still an illiterate. If you are truly knowledgeable, you will humble yourself. You will see the reason why you must not over estimate yourself. You will allow people to sense your value and give you the respect or honor it evokes.

Our devotional text is about the character of God that should be in every one of us. For lack of better terms, permit me to say, the most knowledgeable person in existence is God. In fact, He is not knowledgeable, He is knowledge. The Bible calls Him the God of knowledge.

Our devotional text says;

“I will fetch my knowledge from afar; I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. For truly my words are not false; One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

Behold, God is mighty, but despises no one; He is mighty in strength of understanding.” Job 36:3-5 NKJV
The last verse is our point of reference.

IT SAYS, “BEHOLD GOD IS MIGHTY BUT DESPISE NO ONE.”

Now, let us look at this GOD who despises no one despite His exalted position. His does not need an education, He is EDUCATION. The wisdom of the most celebrated scholar is still foolishness compared to what He has and who He is.

In fact, we are going to spend eternity studying under His glory and absorbing high dimensions of revelation of who He is. When this life will be over, education in glory matters is what we will spend our eternal lives pursuing. Yet, in His eternally exalted power and unmatched understanding our devotional text says He despises no one.

Yet someone will acquire just a littler degree or certificate and begin to despise others. True knowledge will not make one despise others it will rather make them value them. Only illiterates who went to school and remain illiterates despise people and make them feel small or insignificant before or around them.

I believe enough have been shared for the day. This is a call to be like our God because we were originally created in His image and likeness. Our education should develop our minds and refine our character, and not leave us the way we are. It should not make us proud but humble.

May God use these words to keep building us up and giving us an inheritance among they that are sanctified. When we return tomorrow, we will look at Prayer as a source of practical wisdom.

LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!

“Likewise, you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for

“God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 1 Peter 5:5-8 NKJV

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