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

TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL (Wednesday 03 June 2026)

“So, I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.”

“Therefore, I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed their deeds on their own heads," says the Lord God. Ezekiel 22:30-31 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 154TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORIES!

This is the day the LORD has made, we shall rejoice and be glad in it. Marvelous are His works. That our souls know very well!

Today we want to begin with the message of God’s kingdom in the number three. I hope we are ready. God speaks in colors, vision, dreams, numbers and symbols. He speaks in so many ways. He conceal knowledge in things. Three in God’s numbering represents resurrection, restoration, or revival. It is the number of Christ.

We call it the number of Christ for many reasons.

One of the reasons lies in the fact that Jesus died and after three days He came back to life. His death brought to us restoration to God, salvation, redemption, and eternal hope. It gave us eternal life where there was death, divine health where there was illness, moral excellence where there was moral decadence, power for living where there was none.

His death killed death itself and gave us life. That is what makes the number three significant. It is a number of our eternal salvation from sin, Satan and the evil and corrupt system of this world.

That is why the greatest blessing available in the kingdom is the blessing of salvation and rest on every side. That was the blessing most of the Israelites missed in their walk with God. They got miracles, economic and marital blessings. They got the blessings of Childbearing and many other blessings but missed the two majors.

Consequently, many did not enter the promised land.

Sadly, the blessing of salvation and rest is still the very blessing many in the Church today are yet to come into. That is why they queue for deliverance, prayers, breakthroughs and all that. Consequently, we now go to Church basically to be free from enemies not really to know God and walk in His ways. But in the beginning, it was not so.

THE EARLY CHURCH HAD REST EVEN IN THE MIDST OF GREAT TRIALS OF FAITH AND INTENSE PERSECUTIONS.

As stated previously on many of our teaching platforms that most departments of the end-time Church today are not facing persecutions or trials of faith. Our nations are not telling us not to serve Jesus; neither are they putting us in prisons for serving Him.
Yet there is no rest in our lives.

Having earthly desires satisfied has been the main reason for going to church for so many. For others it is spiritual needs.

People assemble weekly to have curses broken, spiritual attacks extinguished and all that. The enemy and what he is doing seems to be the focus of their lives. There is no rest in their lives. If you are living in rest, the enemy will not be the focus of your prayers. He will have nothing in you.

Concerning the generation of the nation of Israel that could not come into the blessing of God’s rest, the Bible says;

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, and saw My works forty years.

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, 'They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.' So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest.'" Hebrews 3:7-11 NKJV

There is so much here that we cannot uncover in one devotional. From this scripture it’s clear that they could not come into God’s true rest because they always went astray in their hearts and refused to pursue the knowledge of God’s ways. This is a perfect description of the Church of our generation.

IT CAPTURES THE IDENTITY OF MANY OF US WHO PROFESS TO BE BORN AGAIN. THAT IS WHY THERE IS NO REST IN MANY LIVES.

I have always said, in the spirit what goes on in our hearts sounds louder in Heaven than what comes out of our mouths. And because in the natural it is not so, we do not realize this Biblical truth. In the natural what goes out of our mouth sounds louder to the ears and men cannot pick what goes on in the heart.

But God is not a man to operate that way. He is not natural but Spiritual. He therefore hears the utterances of our hearts first before the utterances of our mouth.

That is why when you step into the God dimension as a Child of God, you can pick what goes on in people’s heart faster than what comes out of their mouths and come out with a proper judgment of who they really are. That is what Isaiah meant by “not judging according to what you hear with your ears or see with your eyes.”

The Bible says;

“There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots. The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.”

“His delight is in the fear of the Lord, and He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears; but with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked.” Isaiah 11:1-4 NKJV

What are we saying this morning? People who do not know God or people who go astray in their hearts, will never come into God’s rest. That is what the Bible teaches.

Rest is for the righteous and upright, not the wicked and ungodly. The Bible says there is no peace or rest for the wicked. God’s perfect will remains that we come into His rest. However, there is something you must know; that thing is the reality of Rest and Relief.

IF YOUR HEART IS NOT RIGHT TOWARDS GOD, THE BEST YOU CAN GET IS RELIEF.

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IF YOUR HEART IS NOT RIGHT TOWARDS GOD, THE BEST YOU CAN GET IS RELIEF.

God does not give rest to anyone who calls on the name of the LORD with an impure heart. He may give them relief but will never give them rest. God gives rest only to those who call upon His name WITH A HEART; a heart that is perfect towards Him.

Which brings us again to another prophetic number in God’s numbering - the number seven. It’s a number that represents completion. As we have seen in most of the teachings of the LORD, the 3rd day of Christ is the seventh number of God. It also means perfection.

The Bible says we should be perfect just as our Heavenly Father is perfect. Beautifully, grace has been supplied to us to help us achieve that in Christ Jesus. It’s just that people are not making use of it. His Holy Spirit is there to help us achieve that.

Only people whose hearts are perfect towards God will be given rest and made pillars in His kingdom. Only they can be counted upon by Heaven. the need of the hour is men and women Heaven can count on to do things on earth. That is why our devotional text today is very vital.

A major highlight of it says;

“So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.”

There are very few people that Heaven can count on today; very few who can be truly, selflessly and sacrificially committed to a move of God.

Sometimes we wonder why there is no move of God in our Churches today; why there are only moves of men of God and not moves of God. Yes, so many so call moves of GOD are moves of men of God; some networking with unclean spirits.

A GENUINE MOVE OF GOD WILL ALWAYS PRODUCE THE MIRACLE OF THE MIND.

The many so-called moves of GOD today are rather stealing the minds of the people and making them charismatic witches and wizards. Youths are being thrown demons upon, and made to operate like diviners in the many so-called moves of GOD. Those who are genuinely seeking GOD are finding counterfeits instead.

Genuine moves of GOD, among many other things, will restore back the sanity of GOD’s people and make them unconditionally committed to the LORD. it will expose error, break the many codes of deception paraded by false prophets and heretic teachers. It will neutralize the spirit of lawlessness.

The church today is full of people who can commit to men of God but cannot commit to God Himself. They can commit to their papas and mamas not to the truth of GOD’s word as contained on the pages of the scriptures. They can commit to doctrines of devils, and not sound doctrines.

They can commit to raising altars of sacrifice and not offering themselves as a living sacrifice holy and accepted to GOD. They can commit dream interpretation ministries, and not to ministers who expound the word and bring accurate scriptural interpretations to us. They can commit to seed sowing instead of becoming the seed of GOD to be sown in the nations of the earth.

Most preachers serve money and fame; they serve the sex goddess and the money god but put on the appearance of servants of God. These misguided souls can commit to them. They can commit themselves to Simon the sorcerer but not to Paul the apostle.

The Bible says while they promise them liberty, they themselves are servants of corruption. And that is the breed most Christians love committing to because of the promises they make to them. They tailor their messages to their carnal desires and feed their gullible nature.

EVEN WHEN THEY ARE SCAMMED MILLIONS, THEY DO NOT CARE. THEY DO NOT CARE UNTIL THE PYTHON SPIRIT BEGIN TO EAT THEM.

I have come to discover that Christians, who fall victims of false preachers and prophets - with huge sums of money taken from them, are not really people Heaven can count on financially to move things forward.

In fact, most of them are not born again!

Others are selfish and cannot lay down their money unconditionally to push the work of the kingdom forward. When they get to where their money is truly needed, they no longer go out of their ways to push God’s move forward the way they did in assemblies of Satan.

God cannot count on them the way those preachers and prophets counted on them. That is why they still will not have rest from the days of adversity. They will just have relief. God’s rest is exclusively for those He can count on. It’s not for everyone in Church.

The clarion call this morning is very clear. Can Heaven count on you to push God’s purposes forward? Are you really responding adequately to God’s needs or you are serving Him based on your needs? I leave the answers to these questions to your conscience.

God spoke to us yesterday about making proper decisions in the remaining months of this year. One of the decisions to make is the decision to become one of those Heaven can count on. The decision to be that seed that can fall into the ground of GOD’s will and die to self, sin and the system of this world, so that GOD can use him to multiply Himself in the nations of the earth.

LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY;

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it dies, it bringeth forth much fruit.”

“He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.”

“If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.” John 12:24-26 KJV

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

TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL (TUESDAY 2ND June 2026)

“I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.”

“He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.”

“I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.” Ecclesiastes 3:10-12 KJV

WELCOME TO THE 153RD DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORIES!

It is the second day of our month of Jubilee, yes Jubilee de golden. The LORD has done us well, and we are glad. We look forward to His mercies, kindness, grace and compassion this month. If we have all that in our lives, then no weapon that might be formed against us will prosper.

Today God has a word for us; daily He loads us with benefits, one of such benefits is the benefit of His word. His words that when applied will fill our lives with His blessings, miracles and amazing wonders. Though difficult to apply if you are carnal but remains our best shot in a wicked world.

To start with, the scripture of our devotional text today is loaded with mysteries about time – truths that we will need a move of the Spirit in our spirits to uncover. Friend, life in time is a gift that comes with many opportunities. I believe that the life we have all lived from January till date came with many opportunities as well.

The maximization of these opportunities, created by God, remains what we must all do in time.

Beautifully, some have used the opportunities God created for them in time to do God’s righteous will for their personal lives; they used it to changed their behavior, understanding, relationships, and even places of worship. Now they are experiencing God in deeper ways, further broadening their understanding and strengthening their faith.

There is a lot of improvement in their spiritual lives.

Their decisions made it possible for all that to happen. Decisions remain the controller of destinies. If you make the right one concerning an aspect of life, it will give you so much peace and prosperity in that aspect. If you make the wrong one, it will give you war. Decisions are the strongest forces on earth. They control how our lives turns out in time and eternity.

Sadly, there are those who have not made a positive use of this year yet. Today they are worse, and some either still stagnant or completely hopeless. Things are not working for them. Sadly, some are even dead. Very heartbreaking how our decisions can shape our lives very badly. Life can only be better if our decisions are better.

That is why God speaks to us. He gives us light and understanding so we can make better decisions in life and live improved lives.

HE GIVES US LIGHT TO MAKE PROPER DECISIONS.

Now, it is important that we know what proper decisions are. Proper decisions are decisions that aligns a man’s life with God’s will and ways. Proper decisions will bring the best of God to a man’s life. To make them is the reason God gives His Spirit, word and revelation. It is the reason He blesses us with fathers and teachers.

It is the reason He commission some to preach His word. It is the reason He inspires the devotionals. He inspires them to help us improve our decision making. He inspires spiritual feeding for the same.

That is why, without a spiritual father to feed you with rich spiritual food, a divine plan to guide you daily, some natural and divine wisdom to apply in your daily decision making processes, and a courageous heart to use in facing the challenges of life squarely with the aim of defeating them under God, a year will come and go and leave you worse than it met you.

This is the middle of the year; you can still do something you never did before to make the year beautiful. If you do not make proper decision now, the year might leave you in a very bad shape. You will be stepping into 2027 in sorrow and disappointment. But that is not God’s will for you, hence sending this word to stir you.

The LORD has given us another six months to use in making the right decisions and improving our lives. Another six months to be fed spiritually, develop a divine plan to follow if we have none, apply our hearts unto wisdom, make proper decisions, face the challenges of life courageously under God, and do His blessed will.

God wants you to make use of the next six months to make sure the year leaves you more blessed than it met you. God’s purpose for creating days, weeks, months and years must be understood! They are created to help us mark signs and seasons. They are created to help us number our days so we can apply our hearts to wisdom.

THAT IS WHY I SAID AGE IS NOT A NUMBER. IT IS A MESSAGE.

It is a message that you are older and seen enough time to make proper decisions. It is a message that you have seen enough time to stop being stupid and foolish.

Yes, it is a message that you have seen enough time not to marry someone younger than you in very ridiculous years. You have seen enough time to know that it is lawless to do so. You have seen enough time to apply your heart unto wisdom. That is why people say a fool at forty is a fool forever.

Meaning you should no longer be a fool at forty. But many are still fools even at 50, 60 and 70. Their age has not spoken anything to them. They have refused to pick the message of wisdom concealed in their ages. They are still driven by emotions like children.

If we do not make use of the days, weeks, months and years God gives us wisely, and spend them applying our hearts unto Heavenly and practical wisdom, we will lose big time. We will come to the end of our days in sorrow.

Friend, the end of your days can only be as good as the quality of your wisdom. Do not forget that and do not mix it up!!

It may interest you to be reminded again (as we have always done through this devotionals) that God does not live in time. He lives in eternity. To Him therefore, there are no natural nights, no days, no weeks, no months; no January to June or July to December.

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It may interest you to be reminded again (as we have always done through this devotionals) that God does not live in time. He lives in eternity. To Him therefore, there are no natural nights, no days, no weeks, no months; no January to June or July to December.

God lives in eternity, created time as a very small piece of eternity, placed us in it and gave us wisdom on how to live in it. He does not do things according to our Calendar. He does them according to His. He created our Calendar (natural days) and placed us within it so we can live in our Calendar looking at His calendar.

Your life on earth will only be meaningful if you spend it looking at God’s calendar for it. Yes, looking at His own unique calendar for your earthly life.

YOU MUST THEREFORE UNDERSTAND THAT GOD’S PLANS FOR US ARE NOT IN TIME. GOD’S PLAN FOR US ARE IN ETERNITY.

They are only unfolded in time to enable us to lead our lives according to His calendar for them. In other words, we are not to be governed by our own time alone but by His. Consequently, things do not leave Heaven to the earth in our own time frame.

They do so in His own time frame.

Sadly, sometimes His time frame clashes with ours and since many of us do not know how to recognize or submit to His time, we end up losing whatever He may have prepared to bless our lives with. That is why the Life of many Christians goes in a cycle from year to year.

They do not know how to recognize God’s time of visitation and things that makes for their peace.

Sadly, instead of their preachers giving them the anointing or sound teachings to do so, they point them to the altars of their father’s houses and some devils as being responsible for their problems. Jesus Himself made it clear that many of us suffer and are stagnated in life because we do not know our time of visitation.

In other words, we do live our earthly lives according to God’s calendar for them.

If we do not humble ourselves under the mighty hand of the LORD, lead our lives according to His calendar for them, we will not be experiencing seasonal exaltations. We will be missing divine visitations and breakthroughs. The Bible says;

“Be you humbled therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in the time of visitation: Casting all your care upon him, for he hath care of you.” 1 Peter 5:6-7 Douay-Rheims

God’s visitation and exaltation comes in season. We are not to allow our cares to force us into carving out our own Calendars and making decisions according to our plans for our lives. That will be dangerous. It is very important to learn how to relate successfully with God who lives in eternity while you are in time.

ONE OF THE MANY WAYS TO RELATE SUCCESSFULLY WITH HIM IS TO KNOW HIS TIME OF VISITATION AND BE READY FOR IT.

A major highlight in our devotional text today says,

“I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.”

The word “travail” in this scripture simply means God given task. It has nothing to do with suffering or adversity. The Bible was referring to what God has assigned us to do within our own time frame. And that to me is to discover His time and align to it - align to its demands. Or in other words, respond to it!

God’s time comes with deliverances to receive, blessings to collect, instructions to obey, visions to pursue and execute, plans and purpose to make our goals, etc. That is why His time is called “day of visitation.” It is usually full of divine moments to sense and see through with the eyes of faith.

One thing about divine moments is that when they come and we do not see, sense, and cease them, they go back to eternity, leaving us dry. That is why many of us are still stagnated in life.

Don’t forget, until things leave Heaven to the earth of our lives, we will never go forward in life. And the time they do so is called God’s time not our time. That is why they say, God’s time is the best. No one has ever said our time is the best. That brings us to the second truth we can glean from our devotional text. It says “He hath made everything beautiful in his time:”

Why is God’s time so powerful? It is powerful because that is the only time He moves to make things beautiful! If you wait for Him in your own time, you will never see Him. I Pray that we allow the timings of the LORD guide us all the days of our lives. That we know how to make proper decisions. Amen and amen.

LET THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY!

Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.”

“For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation." Luke 19:41-44 NKJV

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TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL (MONDAY 1ST June 2026)

"And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, so that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field," Says the Lord of hosts;

And all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land," Says the Lord of hosts.” Malachi 3:11-12 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 152ND DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORIES!

What a blessing to be alive and well, as we step into the 6th month of the year 2026. It is out of His mercies that we have not been consumed because His compassion fails not.

From the first hour of the year till this day, it’s been strategic victories all along. I can say, this is the month the LORD has made. We shall rejoice and be glad in it. The LORD has been mindful of us; we are the evidence. He has been faithful and kind and has never allowed the enemy to rejoice over us.

We have seen Him make it possible for us to get to this month, frustrating the plans of the wicked that were against us and making sure the evidence of liars does not stand against us. The Bible says;

“Thus, saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;

That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish; Isaiah 44:24-25 KJV

It is also the month of my 50th birthday. I have been dreaming of this since the last time the LORD rescued me from death, after several escapes from it. I don’t think the enemy wanted me to see this month, following the warfare that surrounded me from the day of my natural birth to the day I was called into ministry, even after being called.

It is something I must be grateful for because there was no time it crossed my mind that the LORD will keep me to see half a century on earth. My life mistakes use to roar things into my soul that prevented me from having the vision of seeing half a century. But Our God, who is stronger than our fears, saw me through all along.

I HAVE GROWN TO LEARN THAT, WHEN OUR FAITH CAN NO LONGER CARRY US, HIS MERCIES COMES IN TO SUSTAIN US.

The LORD made it happen. His banner over me is love!! To him belong the glory!! No one can be compared with Him in redeeming those He formed in their mother’s wombs. No one can be compared to Him in stretching forth His arm to frustrate the tokens of the liars and making diviners mad.

Yes, none can stand against Him when He moves to turn the wisdom of wise men backward and make their knowledge foolish. Our lives are proof of His faithfulness and marvelous deeds. He is our security! We trust no man! He is the reason we are here. If He close His eyes, we will be gone. But thank God, He does not sleep nor slumber. David said;

“Behold, He who keeps Israel Shall neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD is your keeper; The LORD is your shade at your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, Nor the moon by night. The LORD shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your soul.

The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even forevermore.” Psalm 121:4-8 NKJV

If you look at our lives, you will see this scripture in demonstration.

God have been speaking to us from the book OVERCOMING WITCHCRAFT BY THE GREATNESS OF GOD’S POWER. It has been really a journey and this morning, the 1st day of the sixth month of our year of Strategic Victory, we will be wrapping up the journey with few other excerpts from the book. We will encourage you to get the book and complete the journey after today if you do not have a copy already.

DEFEATING WITCHCRAFT ATTACKS ON YOUR FINANCES

"And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, so that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field," Says the Lord of hosts;

And all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land," Says the Lord of hosts.” Malachi 3:11-12 NKJV

One of the most sensitive aspects of life that witchcraft crashes down in the life of men is the financial aspect of life. We are highlighting this aspect in this chapter because of how sensitive it is. In defeating witchcraft in one’s financial life, there are spiritual technicalities involved that must be understood. That is why we singled out this aspect of life to talk about.

Besides, the financial aspect of life was the first aspect of life that went down after the spiritual aspect, after Adam was dismissed from the garden. That is the first part of your life that will go down whenever witchcraft comes against you. And that is the first part that will be restored, after your spiritual life, when you start returning to God.

God said to Adam (mankind);

Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it': "Cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life.

Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return." Genesis 3:17-19 NKJV
The scripture above described how a man’s economic life will look like when he comes under witchcraft attack.

When Adam was in the Garden, there was no toiling, neither was the ground cursed for his sake. He was under the glory, and in the glory, there is no time for things to grow. Hence, there was no toiling and waiting in vain. Good things just grew! So, as soon as you throw a seed to the ground it grows immediately.

THE GROUND WAS ACTUALLY BLESSED FOR HIS SAKE.

We can only prosper when things are blessed for our sake. When the Bible says something is blessed for your sake, it means even when it was not working, as soon as you get there it will begin to work because of you. That was how the house of Laban prospered for Jacob’s sake. The word says;

And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my country.

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service which I have done for you."
And Laban said to him, "Please stay, if I have found favor in your eyes, for I have learned by experience that the Lord has blessed me for your sake."

Then he said, "Name me your wages, and I will give it." Genesis 30:25-28 NKJV

There was one other Bible Character that got to the house of another and it began to prosper for his sake. His name was Joseph. The Bible says;

“The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

And his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made all he did to prosper in his hand. So Joseph found favor in his sight, and served him. Then he made him overseer of his house, and all that he had he put under his authority.” Genesis 39:2-4 NKJV

When God said, to Adam “CURSED IS THE GROUND FOR YOUR SAKE” it means the ground was previously blessed for his sake. That is why I tell people, sometimes the problem is not where we are working. Yes, the problem is not always with the ground but with the person standing on it.

If you are carrying the glory of the LORD, things will be blessed for your sake! Companies that were shut down will re-opened for your sake. Things that are not working will begin to work for your sake. But when you come under witchcraft attacks, the story will be the opposite.

THINGS THAT WERE BLESSED WILL BECOME CURSED FOR YOUR SAKE!

Your economic life will just shut down completely and life will be difficult. The opposite of what happened through Jacob and Joseph will be happening in your life wherever you go.

The first thing therefore that witchcraft attacks in your finances is not your business but you as a person. It will attack your spiritual life with sin, iniquity or trespass so that it can attack any other aspect of your life.

In other words, before any attack reaches your business or place of economic sustenance, it will reach you first. That is why God said He will rebuke the devourers for our sake and that they will not destroy the fruit of our ground.

Don’t forget, in the days of the Bible that scripture was referring to the farms produce of the nation of Israel, today it is referring to something deeper. The fruit of the ground is mankind (you and I).
The Bible says;

“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” Genesis 2:7 NKJV

Our earthly part came from the ground, but our eternal part came from God. When devourers come against the fruit of our ground, they will descend upon us (especially, our eternal part). It is when they have touched us successfully that the result will reflect on the work of our hands. To defeat witchcraft attacks on your finances you must understand this mystery.

When you understand that you are the fruit of the ground that witchcraft touches first to be able to shut down your finances, you will not take someone to your business place to pray and receive some money. You will make the right decisions.

Taking someone there to pray may bring a temporary relieve but the permanent one comes when you are personally visited by the LORD - when devourers are rebuked from your life – the fruit of the ground.

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Get The Book, “Overcoming Witchcraft by the Greatness of God’s power” for the rest of this mystery! You can pick it today in our service or any day from the Church office. Reach out to 25479133311.
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THE CRY OF THE SPIRIT DEVOTIONALS - BY RICHARD E. S. TAKIM

TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL (SUNDAY 31ST May 2026)

“How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations!

For you have said in your heart: 'I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north;
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.' Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.” Isaiah 14:12-15 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 151ST DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORIES!

We want to bless the LORD for keeping us alive and giving us another day. It is indeed out of His mercies that we are not consumed for His compassion fails not. If He marks iniquity no man can stand. But there is forgiveness with Him so that He may be feared.

It is Sunday here in Africa, and this morning we are continuing with excerpts from the book OVERCOMING WITCHCRAFT BY THE GREATNESS OF GOD’S POWER. We will be picking up from where we stopped - the signs or terrible consequences of living in iniquity or trespass. We have seen three of the signs.

They are written in the life and times of the first creature that iniquity was found in - Lucifer. As we continue with the fourth, may the LORD continue to speak to us, in Jesus precious name. Amen

4. HE WAS DESTROYED FROM BEING A COVERING CHERUB: Meaning, he could no longer cover God’s throne with worship. That tells us that if iniquity or trespass is found in us, we will not be able to cover God’s throne with worship. I did not say we will not be able to sing but we will not be able to cover God’s throne with worship (even when we sing).

The reason is, worship is not singing! Worship is living. Worship is living a life that is in complete synch with GOD’s will, ways and Spirit. We sing, give or pray to worship God but worship is not singing, giving or praying.

5. HIS HEART WAS LIFTED UP: Meaning if Iniquity or trespass is in you, you will be lifting your heart against God as explained in previous chapters. When your heart is lifted against God, you start withdrawing, reducing or completely terminating your commitment or service to Him. You will be giving reasons that are legitimate in your own eyes and the eyes of those who may not understand, for withdrawing from God.

There are two seasons that you find people lifting their hearts against God. The first is when they are comfortable and the second is when they are in trouble. What do I mean by that?

There are people you find withdrawing from God because they no longer have the problems that took them to Him, and there are those you find withdrawing from Him because they feel He should have saved them from a trouble that hit them. The spirit of Iniquity and trespass are responsible for all that.

6. HIS WISDOM WAS CORRUPTED AND HIS SANCTUARIES DEFILED: When iniquity was found in Lucifer, he trespassed. When he trespassed, his wisdom was corrupted and his sanctuaries defiled. The Bible clearly stated that he profaned his sanctuaries by the multitude of his iniquities and the enormity of his guilt. By the unrighteousness of his trade everything became very bad. He became the father of lies and all deceit.

The sanctuary of Lucifer was the holy place of worship where he dwelled. What was found in him and his trespass, polluted all the places and rendered then unholy and unusable by God. You see another sign of trespass here – pollution of holy places.

For us humans, our sanctuaries are, our spirits, souls and bodies. That is God’s sanctuary; our holy places for worshiping Him because God is Spirit. He can only be worshiped in spirit. The places ought to be Holy so that He can dwell within us and be truly worshiped.

But when our will, ways and spirit comes in opposition with His will, ways and spirit, or when we lead lives and make decisions that take us beyond the boundaries He has set, we corrupt our wisdom and pollute these internal holy sanctuaries.

WHEN THEY BECOME POLLUTED BY OUR INIQUITY OR TRESPASS, GOD CAN NO LONGER DWELL THERE.

We will begin to affect wherever we go and whatever we do with the same pollution that is lying within us! Except we repent genuinely and get sanctified, if we stand before people to sing, pray, or lead, what will be coming out of us spiritually will be pollution and corrupt wisdom.

That is why it is important that ministers of the gospel and all who serve in the Church rush to the LORD for sanctification as soon as they sin against Him. There should be no delay, and sin should not reign in our mortal bodies. If sin reigns in our mortal bodies, it will pollute our holy places spiritually, consequently transferring the same pollution into people.

I have come to discover that it is not places that pollute people, it is people that spiritually pollute places and atmospheres.

When your wisdom is corrupt, you become crafty and deceitful – you become a surgical liar. (Of course, people lie when their ways are not clean. They lie to cover who they really are). When your internal life or sanctuaries are defiled or polluted, you begin to struggle with what the Bible calls vain imagination.

That tells us that if you are deceitful, crafty and full of filthy imagination, it is a sign that iniquity is in you and you are living a life of trespass. You need God’s grace and truth to purge them out of your life. Trespassing against God corrupt our wisdom and defiles our internal lives. But sitting under Him to purge and cleans us always keeps us holy for His use.

Personally, I subscribe to praying for forgiveness of sins and cleansing before preaching. My goal is to make sure, like Job did, that there is no sin that I know or do not know should be flowing out of me to God’s people when preaching to them. These are critical matters that some do not understand.

IT IS A MAJOR PROTOCOL TO COMING INTO THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD TO MINISTER TO HIS PEOPLE.

Each time I do that, the anointing of God wears me like a garment, and I see Heavenly virtues flowing from me to God’s people. That is why we have so many who have broken sinful habits among us. To God be the glory!

The next thing that happens when we become defiled within is terrible. It also reveals another sign that one is living in trespass.

7. SO, I SET A FIRE AROUND AND WITHIN YOU. IT BURNED YOU UP. I REDUCED YOU TO ASHES: When Lucifer defiled his sanctuaries and corrupted his wisdom, God set a fire around and within him and burned him up. He was reduced to ashes symbolically. It was not a natural fire, just as the phrase “reduced to ashes” is not a reference to being burnt to ashes.

The statements means Lucifer lost his original self beyond redemption and became Satan.

There is a fire that burns wherever God withdraws Himself from anyone or anything. It is called the fires of hell. Hell is not just a place of torment but a description of any atmosphere outside God’s manifest presence. Whenever God withdraws Himself completely from a person or people, a terrible burning atmosphere is created in and around them, reducing them to ashes.

When your life is full of such burning, you are spiritually on fire (not a positive fire). When you are that spiritually on fire, nothing about you will be surviving. Anything you set your hands to do will just be devoured, and anyone who extends help to you outside divine covering will be devoured.

It is a sign that iniquity is found in you and you are living in trespass – maybe in a marriage that is just a trespass before God.

Talking about marriages that are trespasses; many do not know that if they snatch another person’s husband or wife, all the days they spend with him or her are trespasses. A fire of hell will break out around and within the so-called marriage because God will not put His blessing or presence on it.

TRESPASS WILL SET A MAN’S LIFE ON FIRE.

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TRESPASS WILL SET A MAN’S LIFE ON FIRE.

Sadly, when that happens, we begin to blame the curses in our father’s houses and all that. While that could be true, you must realize that most happenings in our lives are caused by our personal lives of trespasses and iniquity.

8. THE USE OF THE TONGUE: One other sign that iniquity or trespass in the life of a person shows in the use of the tongue. If iniquity and trespass is in a man’s life, the tongue will be filthy. It will be spewing out curses and destructive languages at the slightest provocation. It will fit the description in the book of James that says;

“Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles!

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.” James 3:5-8

When we become defiled by iniquity and trespass, and the burning described earlier break out within and around us, it will show on the use of our tongues just as the outpouring of the Holy Ghost into a man’s life shows on the use of his tongue. This burning within will set our tongues on fire making it unruly and getting it filled with deadly poison.

Consequently, whatever we say will defile those who hear it. We will find ourselves cursing in one moment and blessing in another; depending on the mood. That is why the Bible says,

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.

Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh. James 3:9-12 NKJV

DO NOT FORGET, A MAN’S TONGUE WAS NOT DESIGN TO BLESS AND CURSE AT THE SAME TIME.

In the Garden of Eden, it could not speak evil, defiling anything God created or setting them on the fire of hell. It was only designed to outsource Heaven to the earth. And that he did successfully until he was thrown out of the garden. In other words, our tongues were not originally designed to be cursing but outsourcing heaven to the earth.

The Bible says with the tongue man gave names to animals and God did not change the names. His tongue was a sword for exercising dominion and bringing Heaven to the earth.

That tells us that the prophetic purpose of the tongue is defeated whenever it becomes either unruly or evil. The fires of hell within makes it either a deadly poison, a fire, a world of iniquity or a defiler of men. The prophetic purpose of the tongue is defeated whenever we start using it to sets on fire the course of nature by speaking words that do not give grace to the hearers.

The Bible says,

“Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.” Ephesians 4:29 NKJV

But whenever iniquity or trespass reigns within us, it becomes impossible to do what this scripture says.

9. HORRIFIC OUTLOOK: Lucifer became horrible after iniquity was found in him and he started trespassing. Life will indeed be horrible if you spend it trespassing against God. You will never enjoy the beauties of God in trespass.

10. HIS FALL WAS UNREDEEMABLE: The Bible says he was brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit. These are pits that we now know are in hell, the place. The final pit will be the lake of fire. This is the last sign of iniquity and trespass that makes it eternally dangerous to live in any transgression.

The eternal consequence of trespass and iniquity cannot be fully described in human terms. Anyone who live in iniquity and trespasses and die without repentance will not make Heaven. His soul will be thrown into Sheol, the lowest depths of the pit (hell).

The greatest valley of Achor that a trespass can bring a man into is the lake of fire. This is the valley we must all avoid by living our lives within the boundaries that God has set. The essence of truths like these is not just to help us make earth but to help us make Heaven.

Any truth that is not making us Heaven worthy is dangerous.
God did not send this word to scare us but to sanctify us. Jesus has paid the price for all these transgressions. The Bible says,

“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” Isaiah 53:6 NKJV

Our job is to accept Him into our lives as LORD and savior indeed through repentance so that what He did on the cross can be implemented in our lives.

It’s my prayer that you will allow Him the liberty to use these truths that you have discovered, not just to set you free from witchcraft attacks but clean you up and make or keep you both Heaven ready and earth useful, in Jesus precious name! AMEN

In the next chapter we will be uncovering how to defeat witchcraft in finances.

TO BE CONTINUED…. in June!!

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

TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL (SATURDAY 30TH May 2026)

“How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations!

For you have said in your heart: 'I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north;
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.' Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.” Isaiah 14:12-15 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 150TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORIES!

Today is the second to the last day of the month, and we are grateful. A song writer once sang that we should count our blessings and name them one by one. One of the blessings is the blessing of being kept alive freely by God. We have not paid for our heart beats, not even for a second. We have not paid for the air we breathe in by the second. All have been free!

Count that blessing. Count the blessing of divine protection, divine peace, divine direction, divine provision, divine revelation, and divine health. God has been faithful to us, keeping us day after day and today we are getting ready for the last day of the month. We are trophies of God’s mercies.

I know that before we were formed in our mother’s wombs, God had ordained this day for us. Even when it seemed some of us were not to see this day, we are here today. He is ever merciful and kind and ever gracious.

I don’t think we have fully grasp what the depth of His love towards us is, just as we have not fully grasp what the weight of His severity is. We are all alive today because of His love and severity at the same time. We need both to be alive and in shape. Yes, the world need both to be saved in time and eternity. Every soul needs to escape eternal damnation.

His love was commanded towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. His severity on sin, Satan and the evil and corrupt system of this world was also commanded, that is why there is the fear of God in some hearts, and that is why we have not been consumed.

TO HIM BELONG ALL THE GLORY IN JESUS PRECIOUS NAME!

We have been looking at excerpts from our book OVERCOMING WITCHCRAFT BY THE GREATNESS OF GOD’S POWER. It’s been enlightening and revolutionary by the mercies of the LORD. We have come to discover that the witchcraft software is the real reason why many do come under successful attacks of the evil one.

It’s been made clear that anywhere you see people under successful attacks of witchcraft, there is a witchcraft software in their lives, making those attacks possible. And we have also seen what this software is. Jesus said;

“And now I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe. I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.” John 14:29-30 NKJV

If the prince of this world have anything in your life, he will successfully deal with you. If witchcraft has anything in your life, it will successfully deal with you. If the witchcraft software is in your life, you will not escape witchcraft attacks. Wherever there is a successful witchcraft attack, there is a witchcraft software there.

The witchcraft software is sin, iniquity and trespass. Whatever we do in sin, iniquity or trespass will make us vulnerable to witchcraft attacks.

I once listened to a woman share with me in pain what she and her children have been going through. From mysterious snakes appearing in their homes, to blindness and illnesses. When you hear how she got into that home and who she married, you can tell why those things may never cease. The paths were not paths of divine will or righteousness. God was never involved in her journey into marriage.

She was just following tradition, which is trespass.

There are witchcraft attacks that will never cease because the people literally built their lives through sin, iniquity, and trespass all at the same time. Some got married through the software and cannot leave those marriages because of how improper it will be; hence the attacks remain.

THEY JUST MUST REMAIN ON THEIR KNEES AND IN A GOOD CHURCH FOR SURVIVAL.

Wherever you find a successful witchcraft attack, look properly, you will find a functional witchcraft software. You will need to uncover the software and deactivate it. This book is to help you uncover and deactivate it. We have shared the first two aspects of the software, sin and iniquity. Now we are looking at the last aspect – trespass.
We have been uncovering how to know you are in trespass.

If you look at the life and times of the first creature to commit trespass, Lucifer, you will discover ten signs that one is living, either in iniquity or trespass or ten ways to know that you are in either iniquity or trespass. Today we will be picking up from the third, having ended yesterday’s devotional on the second.

3. HE WAS EXPELLED OUT OF GOD’S PRESENCE: Meaning, if God’s manifest presence is not in your life, it’s a sign that iniquity is found in you or you are living a life of trespass. If the Omni presence of GOD cannot translate into His manifest presence anywhere, there is iniquity or trespass there.

There are Churches where you cannot experience God’s manifest presence. In fact, people do not even know what it is. In such places, they stick to shadows and lack substance. Whenever you see a Church where the manifest presence of God does not manifest, it’s a sign that they Church is living in iniquity or trespass!

Sadly, 85% of local Churches, preachers and ministries have been expelled from God’s glory due to iniquity and trespass. They now struggle with a mixture of the anointing and sorcery. You cannot find the true presence of the LORD and His fullness on display. That is why there is no transformation in the lives of people – from the pulpit to the pew.

You see gays and lesbians going about with the title of Prophets and prophetesses, and moving in a corrupt and demonic version of the supernatural and saying, “if God is not please with us, why is this anointing on us?” But people do not know that it is not the anointing of the Holy One but that of the anointed cherub.

HERE IS A MYSTERY YOU MUST KNOW; INIQUITY AND TRESPASS WILL NOT LET GOD INHABITS THE LIVES OF PEOPLE EXCEPT THERE IS REPENTANCE.

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HERE IS A MYSTERY YOU MUST KNOW; INIQUITY AND TRESPASS WILL NOT LET GOD INHABITS THE LIVES OF PEOPLE EXCEPT THERE IS REPENTANCE.

It will expel them from the fullness of His presence but leave them in the outer court hoping that they repent. That is why today we fast for 70 days, 40 days, 21 days, 7 days, and 3 days without food, yet we do not see God the way our fathers saw Him with fewer days of fasting and prayers. For us, we only become lean and thin! No glory in our lives.

You do not unlock the glory when you fast or pray in iniquity or trespass. Saul declared a fast in trespass and weakened the capacity of God’s people to lay hold on the victories God gave them. They did not know God had expelled him from his presence and were still following him (the dilemma of so many believers today). The Bible says,

And the men of Israel were distressed that day, for Saul had placed the people under oath, saying, "Cursed is the man who eats any food until evening, before I have taken vengeance on my enemies." So none of the people tasted food.

Now all the people of the land came to a forest; and there was honey on the ground. And when the people had come into the woods, there was the honey, dripping; but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath.

But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath; therefore he stretched out the end of the rod that was in his hand and dipped it in a honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his countenance brightened.

Then one of the people said, "Your father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, 'Cursed is the man who eats food this day.'" And the people were faint.

But Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land. Look now, how my countenance has brightened because I tasted a little of this honey.

How much better if the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found! For now would there not have been a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?" 1 Samuel 14:24-30 NKJV

WISDOM DEMANDS THAT YOU WITHDRAW FROM EVERY LEADER GOD HAS EXPELLED FROM HIS PRESENCE.

There are Saul Church leaders everywhere today. Whatever happened to Israel under Saul will happen to you under a Saul spiritual or political leader.

I know preachers today who lived in iniquity and trespass in the 1990s and were expelled from the presence of God as a result without even them knowing. Their ministries stopped growing and things shut down completely. Then they moved from place to place to see if things will pick, and nothing picked.

There are some who went to wizards and sorcerers to collect powers from them for their ministries to pick. They went to wizards and witches people see as great power of God to do that. For instance, so many dark prophets seen as great powers of God are empowering so many young ministers today.

Those empowering them are indeed prophets, but they are prophets of darkness. They were expelled from the presence of God and decided to seek the supernatural outside the presence and found it; the satanic version of it.

God expelled these ministers from His presence because of their trespasses and iniquities. They were supposed to repent of all that and return to His presence. But they rather went for the tapping the anointing syndrome and got the false supernatural, leading a Christian life and ministry outside the presence of the LORD. There can never be victory over witchcraft that way.

It is dangerous to lead a Christian life or run a ministry that is born out of expulsion from God’s presence.

People will not know you have been expelled, and sometimes you yourself will not know. It is the worst thing to happen to a child or minister of God. Some of these young ministers were expelled when they were sleeping with multiple young women and living like harlots with them and still preaching.

SO MANY CHURCHES AND PREACHERS ARE IN ICHABOD AND CANNOT HELP YOU OVERCOME WITCHCRAFT.

Young ministers who are involved in scandals, breaking the hearts of young women who they promised marriages but never married them, cannot carry the manifest presence to free you from witchcraft. Some of the women cried unto God in their pain and God expelled the preachers from His manifest presence as a result because they would not repent.

He expelled them but they did not know. Such cannot help any permanently overcome witchcraft. In fact, they will run to charismatic witches for power. If you read the Bible, you will discover that Saul was expelled yet he and the people did not know.

Saul ended up with the witch of Endor to get the supernatural help he desperately needed in his ministry, like the young ministers in question. Saul ended up with the witch of Endor, the young ministers are ending up with contemporary Balaams with the covering of God’s prophets.

Let he that has an ear hear what the Spirit is saying to the Churches. You may attack us because of this, so was Elijah, Jeremiah, Isaiah and any other person who was before us. If witchcraft will not prevail against you, stay away from sin, iniquity and trespass. The prince of this world may come; make sure he has nothing in you.

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

TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL (FRIDAY 29th May 2026)

“Do not remove the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.” Proverbs 22:28 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 149TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORIES!

This is the Day the LORD has made! We shall rejoice and be glad in it. The Psalmist said marvelous are His works and that our souls know very well, because He formed our innermost being and knitted us together in our mother’s wombs.

There was no advance technology to discover how babies are formed or how they grow in their mother’s womb in days of David, but he knew that by the Holy Spirit. That is why you find only those who refuse to acknowledge what every soul instinctively know, deny the existence of God.

But if any man humbles himself and look deeper into himself, he will realize God’s faithfulness and reality by His works in creation. It is called revelation! Revelation of who God is and what He will ever be is the most constant activity in Gods kingdom. The most important of all revelations, on this side of eternity, is the revelation of Jesus Christ on different matters of life.

Our devotionals have been on the revelation of Jesus Christ on matters of witchcraft and overcoming the evil. Yesterday we were dealing with part of the witchcraft software called trespass. Our devotional text speaks about not removing ancient landmarks which fathers have set.

In the days of the Bible, removing the ancient landmark which fathers have set was a very terrible trespass. Today, people still suffer the consequences of trespassing ignorantly. We need to know by revelation what trespass is, and we are going to get that by beginning with the first trespass that ever existed; the trespass of Lucifer. The Bible says:

How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations!

For you have said in your heart: 'I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north;
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.' Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit. Isaiah 14:12-15 NKJV

THIS SCRIPTURE TELLS US HOW TRESPASS BEGAN. IT BEGAN WHEN INIQUITY WAS FOUND IN LUCIFER.

In going against the will and way of God for his life, Lucifer went beyond the boundaries God has set for him. Trespass is going beyond boundaries that GOD has set. The Bible says,
“Do not remove the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.” Proverbs 22:28 NKJV

In the days of the Bible, fathers do share lands and leave beacons to demarcate the boundaries. People incur the wrath of God each time they remove those landmarks for mischievous reasons. The landmark was simply a truth concealed. God has boundaries or landmarks He set on earth – there are things in His word that we are not expected to infringe on. Instructions set to secure us.

For Lucifer, the boundary or landmark was within his place and purpose of creation. But the Bible says he began to say in His heart, “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.'

Every “I WILL” in His statement pitched him against the will and ways of GOD for him and took him beyond the boundaries God has set for him. But the angels with him did not know. That was why they fell with him. Most times we do not recognize when we have transgressed against God until the consequences begin to come upon us.

Sadly, when they come, we call it demonic attacks. The consequence of Lucifer’s trespass was the same as the consequence of his iniquity. And going through it will help us know when we are living in trespass.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE LIVING IN TRESPASS

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