Topic: God Does Not Change What He Has Said [TREM Devotional 21 February 2019]
“God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” Numbers 23:19 KJV
God doesn’t change what He said about you simply because the devil is showing up. His Word is forever settled. And no power anywhere has the capacity to overrule what He has said. Balaam, the man that was hired to curse Israel said: “Behold, I have received a commandment to bless: and he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it.” (Numbers 23:20 KJV). He said to Balak, I have received commandment, He has blessed and so I can’t reverse it. Anywhere I see them, I call them blessed.
Beloved, God says you are blessed; (Numbers 22:12) You cannot be cursed. So I call you blessed. This blessing of God will set you on high. The blessing will separate you among equals. Every time God looks at you He calls you blessed. Even when the devil throws circumstances around you, His verdict concerning you is that you are blessed. His verdict is that you are holy. ‘But I saw stain and dirt in his body,’ His verdict remains blessed and holy.
God calls the things that be not as though they are. He said to the devil: I cannot say what you are doing to them; I will say what I have done for them. The devil can’t make God speak in agreement with him. God will always say what He had done and what He had done overrules whatever Satan is doing. Whatever obstacles and hindrances the enemy is throwing in your pathway will not stand. You cannot be stopped, because what you carry in Christ is irrevocable. Because of who you are in Christ, favour will follow you. Favour will attend all your ways! Favour will announce you! They said you are not qualified for the interview and you don’t have a godfather, but favour will speak for you.
Further Reading: Deuteronomy 7: 6-9, Numbers 23:19-24
Daily Bible Reading: Morning- Numbers 1-2; Evening- Mark 3:1-19
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.
