Wisdom For The Day Devotional 9 November 2023 By Bishop Mike Okonkwo – Enter Your Rest By Believing
TOPIC: Enter Your Rest By Believing (TREM Devotional 9 November 2023)
“Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.” Isaiah 28:16 (KJV)
MESSAGE:
Beloved, what God is doing in the present situation in our nation is that things are being re-arranged and you are being re-positioned. People who have never been millionaires will now have opportunities to be millionaires. It’s a re-arrangement. It is a shaking and a spiritual earthquake. Praise God! Just like earthquakes shake foundations, so also the things that have been rooted over the years that have been difficult to uproot in your life shall be uprooted. You are entering a season of new things. You will surely testify.
The book of Hebrews 4:1: “Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.” You see that! God is telling you what to fear. In other words, don’t fear the devil or what he is doing. That is not what we are called to fear.
He said the fear you should have is the fear of not entering the rest that God prepared for you. The devil has been dealt with. The Bible made us understand that he has been stripped of his sham powers and authority. “Then Jesus made a public spectacle of all the powers and principalities of darkness, stripping away from them every weapon and all their spiritual authority and power to accuse us. And by the power of the cross, Jesus led them around as prisoners in a procession of triumph. He was not their prisoner; they were his!” (Colossians 2:15 TPT)
You must learn to enter your REST by believing in what Jesus did for you. “There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.” (Hebrews 4:9-11 KJV)
FURTHER READING
Isaiah 28:14-22; Hebrews 4:1-16
DAILY BIBLE READING
Morning – Jeremiah 46-47; Evening – Hebrews 6
Wisdom For The Day Devotional was Written by Dr. Mike Okonkwo; Is the Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM); a versatile man of God with over 30 years of dedicated service unto the Lord.
