KnowingJESUS Daily Devotional | October 8, 2019 – Enrich and Sustain your relationship with Jesus reading our daily devotional – SUPERIORITY OF JESUS’ WORDS TO ANY PROPHETS OF OLD AND EVEN NOW
Heb 1:2 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Beloved, from the outset of creation, God delighted in speaking with His people. Glory to God , you are one of such people , it must give you pleasure to hear from Him giving you instructions for your earthly and eternal well beings.
It shall be well with you here and hereafter in Jesus name.
Psalms 32:8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go:I will guide thee with mine eye.
Isaiah 48:17 Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
God raised holy prophets and finally Christ , our Lord as vehicles through which He could speak to His own beloved people.
Heb 1:1 — Heb 1:2 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
What our Father was doing from the outset, was still on till this contemporary times.
Jeremiah 3:15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Jeremiah 23:4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the Lord.
God in turn wishes that His own people and you in particular, chooses wholeheartedly, to follow godly prophets through which you can hear His mind made know unto you.
Unfortunately, the churchgoers of today prefer false prophets, who will tell them what they want to hear and not necessarily what God wanted them to hear. Praise God, you are not one of such people.
Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
It might interest you to know, who is a prophet of the Lord and how you can identify them? It is very easy to identify godly prophets revealing the mind of God to His beloved people.
See how the scriptures described then.
1. They bring God’s people out of satanic captivity and kept them preserved.
Hosea 12:13 And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved
2. They speak God’s words and not fables.
Jer 23:28 — Jer 23:29 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord. Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
3. They guided God’s own people from going astray or bring them back if they have.
Jeremiah 35:15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
4. They delighted in holiness standard of God.
Luke 1:70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
5. They teach God”s people the way of biblical salvation and freedom from sins.
Luk 1:76 — Luk 1:77 And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,
6. They continually exhorts the beloved people of God to be grounded in His ways.
Acts 15:32 And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.
It is also very easy to know a prophet not sent by the Lord?
1. They speak their words not what makes people to turn from their evil ways.
Jer 23:21 — Jer 23:22 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
2. They speak their deceptive dreams which makes their hearers not to bother about their eternal wellbeing.
Jer 23:25 — Jer 23:27 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart; Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
3. They make their hearers to go far from God’s ways to be pursuing momentary and not enduring or eternal fortunes.
Jer 23:30 — Jer 23:32 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that steal my words every one from his neighbour. Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the Lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the Lord.
Beloved, the buck stops with you. You are responsible for choosing the prophet, you are following. As an heavenly minded believer, endeavor to follow a godly prophet. It shall be well with you in Jesus name.
Deuteronomy 32:29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Dearly beloved, Jesus our Lord was a good Shepherd, who came principally to speak God’s words to His own people.
John 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
John 17:8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
John 17:14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Our Lord then severally warns His Bible days followers and by extension believers of today and you in particular, to be aware of false prophets, and do everything to avoid them
Mat 7:15 — Mat 7:20 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Mat 24:11 — Mat 24:12 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Mat 24:23 — Mat 24:25 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before.
This same warning the blessed Holy Spirit is sounding loud and clear for believers of today, including you, as He, the Spirit of God is preparing to take raptured saints to meet with the Lord in the air.
The Spirit of God is tirelessly urging them to follow godly prophets, that are themselves following God in all things and preparing His people for their earthly and eternal well being.
Heb 1:1 — Heb 1:2 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
1 Thessalonians 2:10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
Painfully, the churchgoers of today, turned deaf ears to this all important call and chose the prophets that shall be speaking what they wanted to hear.
2Ti 4:1 — 2Ti 4:4 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 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; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
But then for you , who shall be part of the saints, the blessed Holy Spirit shall take up in the dawning rapture. See the warnings, He gave.
Rom 16:17 — Rom 16:18 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Phi 3:17 — Phi 3:19 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
2Pe 2:1 — 2Pe 2:3 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not
May the good Lord help you to heed, this all important warnings for your eternal well being in Jesus name.
1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
Friend, the end time is here and the rapture is dawning. Perilous times have come. It is important for you to be hearing from God, through His godly prophets, to help you to adequately prepare.
Heb 1:1 — Heb 1:2 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
The reality of what is happening globally is a pointer that we are in the perilous times and you must avoid anything and everything, anyone and everyone, who can make you stray away from pathway of preparedness for the coming of the Lord.
2Ti 3:1 — 2Ti 3:5 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
As you are preparing you shall see some so called believers, professing to be expecting the coming of the Lord, but rejecting the wholesome truth of God”s words and also departing from the faith.
2Th 2:10 — 2Th 2:12 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
1Ti 4:1 — 1Ti 4:2 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
Such churchgoers have preferred prophets who teaches them, what they choose to hear.
2Ti 4:1 — 2Ti 4:4 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 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; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
However, for you to validate your earnest desire to partake in the dawning rapture, you must not and never entertaining false prophets and teachers and merchandise motivational speakers, to have access to you
2Jo 1:8 — 2Jo 1:11 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
But continually associate yourself with heaven minded believers and engaging in services that will get others prepared and earn you reward at eternity. The good Lord shall help you in Jesus name.
Mal 3:16 — Mal 3:18 Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Friend , till our Lord comes, continue to live by biblical truths that shall help you to ultimately meet the Lord in the air. You shall not be missing in Jesus name.
Isa 33:15 — Isa 33:17 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure. Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
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