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

TODAY’S DEVOTION (WEDNESDAY 11TH MARCH 2026)

“For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.” 2 Corinthians 5:4 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 70TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY

We bless the God of Heaven and earth for another day. I believe we all woke up this morning sound and well. The faithfulness of the LORD is ever new. His kindness is awesome. He has done us well, and we are grateful.

Now, let’s begin the journey into the word for the day! I will start with some thoughts on sound health. From the eternal point of view, sound health is not just living in a no-sickness realm. It is living in the very realm where Adam lived before the fall - the realm of immortality.

Sound health in God’s eyes is immortality, of the spirit, soul and body.

While God will continue to give us a foretaste of immortality by healing us of our diseases, we will never completely return to the realm, until after the rapture of the saints. I think at this point; it is important that we look at certain Biblical truths about our common salvation.

Salvation involves the redemption of the spirit, soul and body from eternal damnation.

In simple terms, it involves the redemption of the total man. While the redemption of the spirit and soul takes place while we are alive here, the redemption of the body will take place on the day of the resurrection of the righteous; also called the rapture of the saints.

THAT IS THE DAY THAT ALL THINGS THAT AFFECTS OUR BODY WILL BE FINALLY DEALT WITH.

That is the day that our body will completely return to the very state Adam was before the fall – the state Jesus stepped into after His resurrection. If you remember that kind of body could eat natural food that was why Jesus eat with the disciples after His resurrection. The body could pass through walls, float on water, and cover long earthly distances in few seconds.

It is a body that can transport between heaven and earth in seconds. Paul called it “a body that is sown in corruption and raise in incorruption.” Hallelujah!

When we return to this kind of body, we will no longer know what it means to be sick, attacked by diseases, or killed by death. The body we have now can deteriorate because of age, be sick, attacked by disease or killed by death but the one that is coming cannot.

What are we saying this morning? The redemption of the body is God’s final move to restore our bodies to the sound health of eternal point of view. If you do not understand why we serve GOD and should be faithful to Him and His Holy Spirit, you have just found out. The redemption of the total man is the main reason.

Our souls and spirits have been redeemed; it is the redemption of the body that we are now waiting for. No matter how much you serve God, stay very close to Him like Moses did, there will come a time in your life that age will begin to tell on your body. Yes, there could also be times when a health condition described in 2 Kings 13:14 as an illness of which a Kingdom Citizen would die will set in.

In this case the kingdom Citizen was Elisha. We all know that this prophet was very powerful and was not reported sick all his life. But when the curtains closed on his body, he fell sick. In fact, his dead body raised the dead, but the same power could not keep him from falling sick at his time of departure from the earth.

THAT HOUR WILL COME UPON EVERYONE NO MATTER HOW MUCH POWER THEY HAVE FROM GOD!!

Though the illness was obviously not the crazy ones we go through, or any other dreaded disease sin brings upon man, it was just the body giving way to time because it has not been redeemed and restored to its immortal state. Our worship of God may save us from so many things but not this one because when the appointed time comes, we will just have to depart from this body and wait in paradise for its final redemption.

It is then that we can return back to it to reign eternally with the LORD spirit, soul, and glorified body. Yes, some of us may enjoy supernatural health to the time of death, but the redemption of our body will never take place. It will only take place in the day of resurrection as appointed by God. Our devotional text today says;

“For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life”.

Our first cloth is this tent – our present bodies. But our future clothing is the body that cannot be corrupted by sin, Satan or sickness. A body that cannot be corrupted at all or deteriorate with time. This is the body that we are earnestly waiting for. It is the very body that will finally shut down all possibilities to be sick or die. It will be created from our current body.

It will simply be a supernatural body upgrade.

Meanwhile, as we wait for that to happen, we are to follow the Biblical steps to be healthy. The first step to staying Healthy is being Healthy in Spirit and serving the LORD in truth. The next key is proper feeding and health care; that is what I want to talk about.

GOD IS NOT AGAINST PROPER FEEDING AND HEALTH CARE.

I saw this in the life of Adam. His food was basically herbs and fruits that could keep his body healthy. The herbs he ate represent proper health care and the fruits proper feeding. Come to think of it, even in an environment of God’s glory man had to eat good food and herbs to be sound in health. That is a message.

If you say you are a man of faith and do not feed properly, one day you will be diseased and die, maybe in God’s presence and nothing can be done about it. If we sow to please the flesh, we shall of the flesh reap corruption. We must understand that. Proper feeding is one of the keys to sound health.

In my study of God’s generals many years ago, I discovered that most Evangelists in the early days of the faith movement died for lack of proper feeding. They fasted and over fasted until their bodies began to eat themselves, leading to diseases that led to their early demise.

Fasting is very good if you do it according to the rules that should govern it; the supernatural and natural rules. You don’t fast in such a way that your health begins to break down. If you deny yourself what God created for the health of your natural body because of foolishness, you will suffer the consequence of it.

One of the major things Israel did under the glory was eating. Being under the glory does not mean one should not eat. Neither does it also mean you should be a glutton. Eat good food and grow healthy so that your spirit can find a strong and healthy house to live in on this side of eternity. It is important that you fulfill your days on earth.

There is time to fast strongly and time to eat properly. You must understand the times and know what ought to be done. Proper feeding should not be compromised. As previously stated, Adam ate fresh vegetables or herbs to be sound in health. And that was in an atmosphere of God’s glory not the very atmosphere we find ourselves.

THERE ARE HERBS IN MY VILLAGE THAT KEEPS THE BODY SOUND AND IMPROVES ITS IMMUNE SYSTEMS.

There are some that if your blood level is low, you take them and get everything restored again. God is not against all these things that is why He created them. But Satan has a way of bringing demonic influence to this by using witch doctors to provide such services. I am not saying you go get herbs from a witch doctor.

Satan is crafty, he will always use what God has created to inject himself into people basically to kill, to steal and to destroy. I am only showing you what God originally put in place in the Garden of Eden for our health.

As you take these truths to heart, may you walk in the fullness of God for your life, in Jesus precious name! AMEN!!

LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY!

“Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.” 2 Corinthians 5:5 NKJV

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

TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL (Thursday 18th February 2021)

“Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart.

“But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.”

“But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.” 2 Corinthians 4:1-4 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 49th DAY OF OUR YEAR OF HIGHER HEIGHTS

One way you know a man or woman in Church who is perishing is in how he or she handles the word of truth and righteousness. If what the Bible says has been made clear by the Holy Ghost directly or indirectly to them, and they still cannot agree with truth, it’s a sign that the gospel has been veiled to them, and that if they die they may not make heaven.

There are two kinds of gospel ministries today; we have those that are adding veils to the veils people already have in their minds primarily to scoop worship and wealth from them, and we have those that are removing veils from people so they can see things in scriptures as God intends and connect the glory of GOD for our age.

The ministries that are removing veils from hearts have renounced the hidden things of shame. In other words, they do not walk in craftiness calling it wisdom nor handle the word of God deceitfully. Their ministries are simply driven by a pure motive not by a money motive; hence the manifestation of the truth is what you see.

End time prophecies tells us there will be ministries that will specialize in putting veils of deception in people’s hearts. That is why we do not need a prophet to tell us about future events or any other if he is not established in Bible prophecy.

Sadly, the church today is full of believers who do not have a hint of what Bible prophecies are. With the kind of events happening now, if there is any time to look into Bible Prophecy and be established in it, it is now.

Apart from warning us of what is to come, it will reinforce our faith in Christ and helps us purify ourselves for the age to come. The Bible says,

“Beloved, we are [even here and] now God’s children; it is not yet disclosed (made clear) what we shall be [hereafter], but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall [[a]as God’s children] resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him [b]just as He [really] is.

And everyone who has this hope [resting] on Him cleanses (purifies) himself just as He is pure (chaste, undefiled, guiltless).” 1 John 3:2-3 Amplified

Walking in the revelation of Bible Prophecy has a way of enhancing holiness, as we can see in this scripture. It says that everyone who have this hope in him; who knows what lies ahead is getting ready for it, purifies himself just as Christ is.

NO ONE WILL LIVE COMFORTABLY IN SIN IF HE OR SHE HAVE THE DETAILS CONTAIN IN BIBLE PROPHECY

Church history tells us that the most solid Christians in the early church were those who were taught bible prophecy as soon as they gave their lives to Christ. That alone is a lesson that if our faith is anchored on the revelation of the ages to come, we will remain solid in Christ and hell will never have us back; especially, in a season of the falling away like the one we find ourselves.

So many today, are departing from the faith that was once delivered to the saints and God wants it stopped. He wants this population of hell through hyper deception to stop.

Jesus indeed warned us that as we approach the end of times and days, there will be catastrophic events that will shake the human world. But these events will be preceded by hyper deception both in the Church world and the outside world.

In our devotional yesterday, we did share on “hyper deception” and made it clear that it will take a daily cultivation of “Hyper Spiritual sensitivity” and “Deep Discernment” for us to be able to deal with and overcome the scourge. It means if you will not cultivate Spiritual sensitivity and deep discernment this end times, you will be a victim of deception.

Actually, people are in hell today because of deception.

Some were deceived that there is no hell and there is no heaven; but when they died the reality dawned on them. Others were deceived that the redemptive death of Jesus Christ was a criminal punishment for ‘his’ sins and that ‘he’ did not die for anyone. Today they are in hell!

SOME EVEN DIED BELIEVING THE LIE THAT SAYS JESUS IS NOT GOD BUT A PROPHET, HENCE ENDING UP IN HELL.

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SOME EVEN DIED BELIEVING THE LIE THAT SAYS JESUS IS NOT GOD BUT A PROPHET, HENCE ENDING UP IN HELL.

While others who believed in His redemptive death believes that He died for their sins, but they do not believe that they have to accept that sacrifice for their sins by living His life on the face of the earth; a life of Holiness and righteousness. To these unfortunate ones the grace of God was “a license for sin” instead of “a pardon from sin” and “an empowerment to go and sin no more.” They called Him, “LORD, LORD” but do not do what He said.

That is why the Bible made it clear that except there is genuine repentance, none among us today will see His blessed face when we die if we are calling Him LORD, LORD, but not doing what He says in the Bible about Holiness, righteousness and etc.

So people go to hell because they are deceived. That is why Heaven considers ministries that are raised by God to expose deception and deal strongly with it as some of the greatest ministries born on the face of the earth. The true gospel of Jesus Christ actually exposes deception. Don’t forget, He is the way the TRUTH and the life. Truth will indeed expose falsehood.

God has raised and planted ministries on earth today that we must encounter to be free from deception. These ministries are very few because many of us preachers are not willing to say some things. That is why you see God raising people in the market places and on our streets to say what we are not willing to say. It is the people’s movement.

Personally, if I had not encountered one of the few ministries that exposes deception in my days of being separated from the error in Church, I would not have taken my separation seriously. Wat God was telling me then would have not made meaning to me as much.

God had to bring me in contact with those great but unknown men and women to further reinforce what I already knew is not part of the gospel of our LORD and savior Jesus Christ as an upcoming Christian and preacher. Honestly, I had already been deceived to become part of the half-truth preachers in Nigeria when the LORD intervened.

I remember attending conferences in Nigeria that were capable of turning any preacher into money spinning machine or a diviner called prophet. We were told by those we considered fathers that any gospel we are preaching that is not bringing money and men to us should be thrown away. It was all about money and crowds, not about getting Christ formed in people.

So I would have been doing ministry today believing that the anointing oil is the Holy Spirit, and leading people to pray with sand, salt, candles, mats, bottles of Water, etc. Maybe I would have constructed a healing pool, and be taking people to their villages for deliverance ministry.

I WOULD HAVE BEEN DISHING OUR MONEY SCOOPING REVELATIONS AND PROPHECIES TO THE NAÏVE AND SMILING TO THE BANK SAYING “THE LORD IS GOOD.”

I would have taken sorcery for prophecy and divination for prophetic ministry and yet not know that I have been deceived and that I am being used to deceive others. Ministry to me would have been all about how much money I can scoop from people through the promise of liberty and miracles and all that.

Sleeping with the beautiful woman and young girls who come to me for pastoral oversight would have being nothing to me. But mercy said no! God met me early enough and saved me from the dissipation and corruption we are seeing in Church today.

I can tell you, Child of God, that if you are not planted in a ministry that is raised by God to deal with hyper deception these end times, you will become a victim of deception. Sadly, every deceived person believes that he is the one walking in truth and that others are in error.

Just as a mad man sees sane people as mad, so do deceived people see those walking in discernment as mad. I have never seen a deceived person who does not treat those who know the truth of the gospel as mad. Deception is actually akin to insanity! That I God is suing the few He has set apart for Himself to expose it and deliver the hearts of men from it.

For instance, those who are being told to sleep with prophets and prophetesses for cleansing are doing it trusting that God will really visit them. They don’t see anything wrong with it until the promises they got from those prophets fail to come to pass.

Those who are being told to sow this seed and that one, and will get that miracle or this blessing, or drink this oil and that oil and will get one breakthrough or the other, are seeing nothing wrong with the rituals.

In fact, if you try to show them what the Bible says about what they are doing, they will say you are judging them or criticizing their man of God. They have been deceived or “zombified” hence not seeing the light of the gospel.

A MAJOR HIGHLIGHT IN OR DEVOTIONAL TEXT TODAY SAYS,

“But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.”

One day I was worried about people in Church complaining that my teachings are too deep. Even some pastors will come up with rebukes and other corrections, telling me that they don’t even understand what I am saying that I should water it down. I was worried because young believers and those who are not even born again understood me perfectly.

Then it began to dawn on me that it was not that they did not understand me; they really understood me but their hearts just refused to accept what they understood because of the religious veils in their hearts. If there are veils in your heart, the Bible says it’s a sign that you are perishing.

Apart from perishing eternally, there is perishing also in time. People are perishing in marriages, financial troubles, sinful habits, and etc. God wants them free! However, they must have the veils in their hearts dealt with.

The purpose of present day apostolic and prophetic ministries by content (not by Titles) among other intents, is to deal with the veils in the heart of believers so they can step into realms where deception and error can no longer ensnare them. That realm is a realm of God’s glorious Light!

You cannot get to that realm drinking from fountains where preachers preach themselves and how to get earthy success instead of preaching Christ.

You cannot get to that realm giving heed to preachers whose ministries does not have the manifest presence of Jesus Christ as “the commander of LIGHT from darkness.” If you will get to that realm, you must plant yourself in ministries that are operating in that realm.

It’s a new day for you!

LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!

“For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus' sake.”

“For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” 2 Corinthians 4:5-6 NKJV

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

TODAY’S DEVOTION (MONDAY 9TH MARCH 2026)

“Afterward it happened that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.” Judges 16:4-5 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 68TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY

The LORD God has spoken, who can but prophesy!!

It is a new day from our GOD; I want to begin by thanking Him for the successful Abuja Prophetic Apostolic Training School that we had. He did it and our hearts are full of thanks. He gave us the word of direction to organize the meeting and gave us the resources by the hands of His sons and daughters at the Cry of the Spirit Ministries Global to actualize every of His intention.

Indeed, what a glorious God is He, heaven and earth adore Him, angels bows before Him. Until He moves, we have nothing of such to celebrate. To Him belong all glory. Amen and amen.

Let me also appreciate the beautiful people He used; all who gave towards this meeting. The meeting was a training school for key leaders in the fore front; the men and women have been oiled and have gone back to the field, with blueprints for kingdom building. You will therefore be surprised at the rewards you will get in Heaven when you fulfill your days on earth.

Thank you for trusting me enough to commit your resources for this noble apostolic assignment. Thank you for the financial sacrifice we all paid; yes, for some of us, it was painful, but am here to tell you, with all I saw God did in the meeting, it was worth it.

It takes sacrifice to do certain things in God’s kingdom. We had such a meeting without taking an offering, all because you stood in the gap, and men in gap will not miss their rewards. My prayer is that you will continue to serve the LORD, walking with Him, and doing His blessed will until your time on earth is over. Amen

TODAY, THE LORD HAS A WORD FOR US. I HOPE WE ARE READY!!

We want to look at the blessing of having good people in your life and the curse of having the wrong ones. There are people who function as the messengers of peace in a man’s life, and those who function as messengers of death. The life of a man needs the messengers of peace to become what God wants it to be, not the messengers of death.

The Bible is full of people who functioned as messengers of peace or death in the lives of others. Delilah was a messenger of death in the life of Samson, but Elijah was a messenger of peace both to Isreal and Elisha. While Delilah succeeded in reducing Samson’s ministry to nothing within a few weeks, except for the intervention of God, Elijah withstood Baal and empowered Elisha to release destiny.

It was the ministry of Elijah that exposed the works of Baal to the nation and took Elisha from being a farmer to becoming what God created him to be, a prophet in the shoes of Elijah. On the flip side, it was the ministry of Delilah that took a formidable man of God in Samson, to the place of blindness and eventual shame and reproach until God intervened.

The wrong people will bring you shame, death, pain, and all your life do not need to be bright and beautiful, but the right ones will bring you all your life needs to be bright and beautiful; yes, it will propel you to the release of destiny. You need the messengers of peace in your life.

Jezebel was a messenger of death and destruction of moral values in the life of both Ahab and Isreal. God had to use a messenger peace, in Elijah to stop her activities in the land and wipe them away over time. God’s messengers of peace are sometimes used as weapons of war in dealing with the enemies of His people.

Yes, they can be used to neutralize the works of the messengers of death and destruction in our lives. It is my prayer that the LORD unleash His messengers of people upon your life to fix or eliminate the activities of the messengers of death and destruction in your life, in Jesus precious name. Amen

A LIFE WITHOUT GOD’S MESSENGERS OF PEACE, MIGHT BE DESTROYED BY THE MESSENGERS OF DEATH.

Sadly, our fallen nature pulls the messengers of death to us, in so many ways. Either by making us lust after them, desire their presence in our lives, or give them our time, talents, treasures and even hearts. Once they have all that we are gone.

That is why it is dangerous to yielded to the flesh. If Samson had walked in the laws of the LORD, which was what it means to walk in the spirit in that dispensation, he would not have attracted Delilah to his life. Our devotional text says:

“Afterward it happened that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.” Judges 16:4-5 NKJV

His love for someone who was in the Valley of Sorek, was by the power of the flesh. If he was walking in the spirit (ways of the LORD), he would not have loved her. You do not love people in spiritual valleys of fatal darkness, contagious sin, iniquity and trespass, with a romantic love. You love them with agape Love, the love that redeems them from the valley.

The reason is because most of them are usually connected to invisible spirits, dark habits, and unclean things that will defy your life or destroy you altogether. Delilha was connected to those who wanted Samson death, hence passing that death to him, and qualifying as a messenger of death.

She was not the one that wanted him death, but she was connected to those who wanted him death.

THAT MADE HER A MESSENGER OF DEATH. SHE WAS NOT AN ASSASIN BUT A DIFFERENT CLASS!!

A messenger of death in her class, can be loving, caring and needful, but connected to things, people, spirits, or unclean factors, that are very dangerous and contagious, or circumstances and devils that are looking for you, naturally or spiritually, to kill, destroy, defy, defame, or neutralize you. That is what makes them dangerous.

Usually, this class of messengers of death do not possess wicked intent against the victims but are helplessly connected to things the devil can use to kill the victim; to kill their purity, prophetic foresight, success, life progress, sometimes finances, good name, and whatever will make their lives bright and beautiful.

God sent this word this morning because he wants us free from the messengers of death. Time to bow the knee in prayer seeking the LORD for help. Time to ask Him for the wisdom, courage and strength to circumcise yourself from such people, and move on in life!!!

Sometimes the school of circumcision is where one need to go to be able to deliver themselves from this class of messengers of death!! The church at Corinth had some of these kinds of people, whose presence was defying the church through sexual immorality, and the apostolic order was circumcision. You must apply the same to your life!!!

If you do not embrace circumcision, the reproach of Egypt might remain on your life, not because of you but because of someone in your space or your life!!

MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY:

“I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.”

“But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner — not even to eat with such a person.

“For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? But those who are outside God judges. Therefore "put away from yourselves the evil person." 1 Corinthians 5:9-13 NKJV

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

TODAY’S DEVOTION (SUNDAY 8TH MARCH 2026)

"Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'There!' do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand.

"Therefore if they say to you, 'Look, He is in the desert!' do not go out; or 'Look, He is in the inner rooms!' do not believe it. For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together. Matthew 24:23-28 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 67TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY

It is another day that the LORD has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it, reflecting on His word.

We are products of God’s word and will always need His word to thrive in this dark world. Everyone who fears the LORD knows we are living in the last days. The sons of Issachar will tell you we are in the late end of the last days. It is therefore important that certain things be always brought to our attention.

I pray as you go through these precious lines, the Holy Spirit will speak to you and add something to the building blocks of your faith. Amen and amen!

Let’s begin with the revelation of the apostolic need of the hour. Two places we hold gospel meetings today as the body of Christ is either in the desert (under tents and camps) or in the inner rooms (conference rooms and Church buildings).

Our LORD and savior, Jesus Christ warned us saying that in the last days, people who present themselves as men of God will come to many saying “they are our messiahs, the mightiest prophets, and all that. They will tell us without them we cannot go to God.”

He said they will also convince us through signs and wonders that our destinies are in either their hands, mouths, or prayer for us.

That if we want to get married, succeed in life, in our finances, academics, ministry or any other thing we may be doing we must either worship them, sacrifice our finances to them, or even have sex with them.

YES, I HAVE MET QUITE SOME LADIES WHO WERE TOLD TO HAVE SEX WITH THE PROPHETS FOR THEIR DELIVERANCE.

This is not a man of God falling into sin. No! It is a deliverance minister making sexual relations one of the requirements for deliverance, especially deliverance from demons they call spirit spouses.

He also warned that if people point some so-called men of God to us as our only hope; saying “look, your messiah is in these tents or that camp meetings” or “in this Church building or conference halls” we should not believe them. For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered.

Sometimes people may not point them to us, we point them to ourselves, especially if they operate in our definition of the prophetic. If they can call our names and tell us hidden things about our lives.

Friend, the apostolic need of the hour is the cultivation of hypersensitivity in the Spirit and impartation of deep discernment through the teaching of sound, and practical eye-opening biblical truths; we need the very apostolic and prophetic truths that the early Church was established on.

We are living in the last days. Jesus spoke of the horrors of these days and warned us that deception – I mean hyper deception - will be the first horror of the last days. It will be a very horror that will usher in other horrors, and it’s happening already.

From suppose men and women of God deceiving people to have illicit sex with them as a deliverance ritual, to financial exploitation through the mutilation of the doctrine of giving called “sowing seeds,” or just “giving,” to the use of sand, mustard seeds, water, incense, candles etc. to invoke miracles, the list is endless.

Actually, from the day Adam lost the likeness of God in the garden till date, mankind has been battling with the consequences of spiritual blindness and lack of discernment, making us cheap preys to terrible predators in the spirit and human realms.

Part of the likeness of God is spiritual sensitivity and deep discernment – which can be simply defined as the ability to see through the eyes of God.

NOT SEEING THINGS IN THE EYES OF GOD IS THE REASON MANY DO NOT SEE THE SPIRITUAL SIDE OF THINGS.

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NOT SEEING THINGS IN THE EYES OF GOD IS THE REASON MANY DO NOT SEE THE SPIRITUAL SIDE OF THINGS.

Not seeing things in the eyes of God is the reason we call the unclean clean, and the unholy holy. It’s the reason we call abominations weaknesses and accept devils and mediums as prophets of God.

Example is the spiritual side of who people are about marrying is not usually seen until they get there, they cannot see the spiritual side of churches they are about joining or have joined for years, neither are they aware of the spiritual side of the places of work they are about being employed in until they get there and begin to suffer attacks of the enemy

We consequently lose our marriages shortly after marriage because of these things or come into intense financial hardship after a season of financial success or suffer one fate or the other for not seeing things through God’s eyes.

If there is anything we need at this very hour, it is hyper spiritual sensitivity and deep discernment. That is the only way we can deal with the scourge of hyper deception among us today. David says, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psalms 119:105 NKJV).

Jesus also said …“I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me will not be walking in the dark, but will have the Light which is Life” (John 8:12 AMP).

If a Christian life is not guided day by day by a word of truth and righteousness from the Light of the world, it will be full of darkness. Jesus said about the possible deception of the elect. A major highlight in our devotional text says;

"Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'There!' do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand.

A WISE MAN ONCE SAID, “TO BE FOREWARNED IS TO BE FOREARMED.”

Divine warnings are God’s way of arming us before the main days. That is why Satan hates people being warned. Today He even sways some preachers to give a bad name to divine warnings simply to stop people from listening. But no one can take away “the stewardship of divine warnings” from God’s end time apostolic and prophetic ministries.

The key words in our scriptural highlight today are the words “to deceive if possible, even the elect.” In some of our major meetings around Africa, I have shared the difference between signs, wonders and Miracles.

There is a difference between signs wonders and miracles. For instance, Moses did not step into Egypt with Miracles but great signs and wonders. The primary assignment was to break the backbone of pharaoh and reveal the almighty God to the ancient nations; hence seeing God do things that no other god had done.

No god had ever or will ever be able to smash others gods, bring flees, frogs and darkness to judge wickedness the God Moses brought to Egypt. No god had ever parted even a stream come to talk of the Reed Sea. So when the nations saw and heard those signs and wonders, they knew for the first time there was GOD somewhere who is Higher than the gods they grew up to know.

The role of signs and wonders therefore, is to speak to a people and compel them, through supernatural amazements, to submit to either the almighty God or the many lesser gods in the spirit realm.

Prior to the coming of Moses, the lesser gods had used lesser signs and wonders to steal worship from the people and keep them submissive. Lesser forces do make people bow to them through signs and wonders. Yes, Satan can use signs and wonders as a tool to steal, kill and destroy. In other words, just as signs and wonders are the redemptive tools of God, so are they the operational tools of Satan.

DON’T FORGET, HE HAS NO CAPACITY TO CREATE. HE ONLY USES WHAT HAVE BEEN CREATED.

So Jesus warned that in the days we find ourselves, he will use the same tool to deceive, if possible, even the elects. That is where the issue of hyper deception must be understood! God’s way of dealing with hyper deception is through the cultivation of hyper Spiritual sensitivity in the lives of His sons and daughters, and impartation of deep discernment into our hearts through sound teachings.

The Prophet Ezekiel gave us a definition of what deep discernments is. He defined it as the ability to discern between the holy and the unholy.

He also defined hypersensitivity in the Spirit as the ability to spot the difference between two things that look very alike. That is why one of the primary responsibilities of genuine apostolic and prophetic ministries is to “Teach God’s people the difference between the holy and the unholy and cause them to discern between the clean and unclean” (Ezekiel 44:23).

Yes, we are called to teach you Bible truths that will give you the wisdom and grace to be able to spot the difference between two things that look very alike; but one is of God and the other not of GOD. That makes genuine apostolic and prophetic centers the ideal spiritual place to locate and plant yourself in.

Stop jumping from one kasha to another and from one church to another. There are “Church hoppers” everywhere today! That is why the hawks are on rampage, eating them up.

In these days of hyper deception, if you do not locate one assembly of God’s people that is equipped with the grace and revelation of the times and the apostolic knowledge of what Israel ought to do and plant yourself there; if you keep running from place to place, going wherever someone say to you “look the messiah is coming to this Church, or that tent, or this camp meeting” you will lose.

That is the message of today’s devotional.

May God use these words to build you up and give an inheritance among they that are sanctified! AMEN!

MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY;

“The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.”

“And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 NKJV

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

TODAY’S DEVOTION (SATURDAY 7TH MARCH 2026)

After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go.

Then He said to them, "The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore, pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest. Go your way; behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves. Carry neither money bag, knapsack, nor sandals; and greet no one along the road. Luke 10:1-5 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 66TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY

We give God the glory for giving us another day and pray that His mercies be upon us today.

We are all not worthy, but He made us worthy by His blood, He gave me this day to be alive and serve our generation according to His will. Let us give Him the praise for not dealing with us according to our sins but according to His faithfulness. The Bible says,

“Out of the depths I have cried to You, O LORD. Lord, hear my voice! Let Your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. If You, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared.” Psalm 130:1-4 KJV

The ultimate purpose for showing us mercies lies in this scripture. Yes, the reason God forgives our sins lies in this scripture. The scripture made it clear that God do not mark our iniquities so that He may be feared.

God forgives our sins iniquities and trespasses so that we begin a walk of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. It is not for us to keep sinning. If we keep sinning, we will end up frustrating His grace and unleashing hell upon ourselves. It is important that we understand and fulfil the purpose of His mercies in our lives.

This morning, I will be taking us back to a devotional written 12 years ago. It was written to show us the purpose of our gathering in the LORD. At the point of His departure from the earth, Jacob placed blessings upon the tribes that came out of his loins.

Some got judgments for what their father did years back, while others received blessings because of the prophetic destinies they are to fulfill on earth. One of the tribes that got the blessing was the tribe of Judah, whose lion is our LORD and savior Jesus Christ.

HE BLESSED THAT TRIBE SAYING.

“Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; Your father’s sons shall bow down to you.
Judah is a lion’s whelp; From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He couches, he lies down as a lion, and as a lion, who dares rouse him up?

The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes, and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.” Genesis 49:8-9 KJV

These prophetic words gave us insight on why the body of Christ gather every now and then in corporate fellowship in our different churches. It tells us who we gather to. It made it clear that our gathering is unto the LORD not unto any god, lord or thing. But sadly, we have turned these gatherings into gatherings that gather unto everything but the LORD. That is why we will be visiting that well of truth.

I pray you find something for your soul this morning in Jesus precious name. Amen!

There are a lot of money-spinning philosophies on the matters of our gathering unto the LORD flying everywhere today. But there are three or four kinds of gatherings unto the LORD predetermined for every Child of GOD.

The first is our regular gathering here on earth where we all assemble every Sunday or weekday for corporate fellowship. It covers all our conferences, seminars, summits, and all kinds of fellowship meetings we run on this side of eternity as Children of God.

THIS KIND OF GATHERING, LIKE OTHERS, HAS ITS PURPOSE.

Its purpose is to prepare us for the remaining two or three kinds of gathering unto the LORD. The ultimate is to help us receive and secure our salvation from sin, Satan and the evil and corrupt system of this world.

This is the gathering that is most critical to every human being on earth, which is why it has come under intense attack in recent times. The image of jealousy has been built and placed in so many Churches so that the gathering will no longer yield its purpose in the lives of the people.

It has simply been monetized in over 90 percent of local churches. Yesterday someone asked me on the social media platform to enlighten her on what really make a service complete. You know there is this money-spinning Philosophy in Church today that says, “a service is not complete without taking an offering.”

This lie is one of the money-spinning philosophies that has defeated the purpose of gathering in corporate fellowship as Children of GOD in the lives of so many.

Even men of God one think should know better sale this lie to their audience. When good men are made to say bad things, the bad things they say will sound good in the ears of listeners who know them as good men. That is how lies are accepted as truth by victims.

She sincerely asked me if a service was not complete without asking people for offerings since I end our services on Radio and Tv and sometimes in Church without asking people for money. Maybe she felt, “Are people not being disconnected from blessings by what I was doing?” Well, that was an honest heart looking for honest answers, so I did not beat about the bush at all.

I told her the Bible truth. My answer was simple; what makes a service complete is the presence of the glory of God in that service not giving of offerings after the service.

ANY CHURCH THAT EMPHASIS TOO MUCH ON GIVING INSTEAD OF REDEMPTIVE TRUTHS IS A SHOP AND NOT A CHURCH.

Most pastors, prophets, apostles, prophetesses and men and women in God’s garment are simply shopkeepers not preachers. They like sale the word to you and you like pay for it in form of offerings and sacrificial giving. The truth remains, either we give or not, a service is incomplete if we gather and God did not gather with us.

Jesus indeed said, “For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them." (Matthew 18:20 NKJV) But this scripture is not so in many gatherings.

What gathers with people who are said to have gathered at the name of the LORD, most times, are devils and all kinds of unclean spirits. That is why their pastors, prophets, apostles and prophetesses talk more of the devils than the God they claim to have gathered to!

A motive for gathering is usually what determines the presence that gathers along with a people, not really what they profess with their mouths. That is why at the Cry of the Spirit ministries we do not take it for granted when God gather with us each time we gather.

To Him belongs the glory in Jesus’ name!

Sadly, out of every 10 preachers today 8 of them or even more are driven by the love, craving, or need for money each time they stand before the church to preach. As we can see in our devotional text today, Jesus made sure His disciples never carried “money bags” into ministry when He sent them out; that was to prevent the “money virus” from infecting their hearts thereby soiling the execution of the great commission.

The greatest virus stopping the execution of the great commission is not a disease of the body but a disease of the spirit in the lives of many preachers called the money virus. The money-making virus is making most gatherings a gathering unto mammon!

You cannot gather unto mammon and experience the arm of the LORD’s glory upon the core of your being, delivering you from a life of sin and making you heaven worthy. When we gather unto mammon we cannot come into the rest that Jesus promised us.

I believe the word of the LORD has been passed to us today, His light has shone in our hearts, and our faith have been illuminated. Amen!!

LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR US TODAY!!

Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.

And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ” Matthew 21:12-13 NKJV

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THE WAY OF THE CROSS

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

TODAY’S DEVOTION (FRIDAY 6TH MARCH 2026)

“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.” Psalms 90:12-14 KJV

WELCOME TO THE 65TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY

It has been 65 days since we entered this year. We have 300 more days to cover. “How many of these days have I lived a holy and righteous life!” That is the question I chose to ask myself, and I want to extend it to you.

How many of these days have you lived a hoy life?

For many of us, none! For others some. But GOD kept us hoping we will change. He is worthy of our worship. For me, that is one way to number our days so that we can apply our hearts unto the wisdom of the just.

A generation that does not know how to number their days with the aim of applying their hearts to the wisdom of the just will be too foolish to be saved from the hands of their enemies. It will be devoured by the perils of life. Your life will only appreciate by the wisdom of God (the wisdom of the just) not the wisdom of men.

The Bible talks about GOD turning us to the wisdom of the just, because shortage of that wisdom is the reason for the shortages we suffer in life, shortage of peace, prosperity, and even the manifestation of GOD. It is the reason for broken homes, broken hearts, broken dreams, persistent poverty, successful satanic attacks, and incurable diseases.

It is the reason for all perils in life.

For instance, it is lack of the wisdom of the just that will make a man leave his wife and go after other women or a woman leave her husband and go after another man and bring so much trouble to their families. I came to realize that some of the people who do that are not really bad.

VERY GOOD PEOPLE ARE PUSHED INTO DOING VERY BAD THINGS BECAUSE THEY DO NOT HAVE THE WISDOM OF THE JUST.

They have good hearts but wrong heads when it comes to the romantic part of their lives. The Bible made it clear that adultery is a sign of foolishness, because it will always result in self-inflicted wounds spiritually or physically.

Obviously, it is lack of the wisdom of the just that get people involved in self-destructive things like sexual infidelity, stealing, corruption, not accepting Christ as LORD and savior, clubbing, drunkenness, prodigal living, insubordination, rebellion, betrayal, wickedness, stinginess, hate, gossip, taking other people’s wives or husbands, etc.

The only way to restore permanent peace to a trouble life is to found it on the stone of the wisdom of the just. Anything short will just bring a temporal peace. Some key highlights in our devotional text today says, ““So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” The other says, “O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days”

If you look at the order, you will realize that until hearts are applied unto the wisdom of the just, God will not satisfy us early with His mercy. To apply your heart unto this wisdom will involve going through the lives of the just ones who lived before us, see how they walked with God and apply it to our own lives.

Life is full of emotional, spiritual, and physical injuries. Sometimes, wisdom from these just men who lived before us is the only “medication” to use in applying to those injuries. Their lives contain the divine wisdom to use in leading our lives. For instance, if you have been leading a life of broken marriages; if you get but do not stay married - Deliverance ministers will blame it on a curse in your father’s house or some demons.

That is ignorance on fire. Marriage was designed to be initiated, built, and sustained by divine wisdom. That means lack of application of divine wisdom is the reason many get and do not stay married, not some curses or evil patterns in a household.

Check all the family with records of people getting but not saying married, you will find out that they all lacked divine wisdom, that was why it happened, it was not really a curse in the house.

BUT SOME WILL NOT EVEN AGREE WITH THE SCRIPTURES.

They will still blame curses for what foolishness did and keep giving money to prophets to break what does not really exist, then is why the consequences will remain. Application of divine wisdom to everyday life is the missing ingredient in the life of many. Not what perverted prophets may be saying!

Sadly, there is so much application of the wisdom of men and other destructive things to the injuries of life. Some apply drugs, others alcohol and others strife to the injuries of life and come out worse. There are some who apply outright foolishness to the injuries of life - the foolishness of heaping blames on others, becoming hateful and malicious, and wanting revenge, etc.

Someone will use foolishness to do so much damage to his or her life and then blame it on the devil, or innocent people. If we do not make up our minds to apply our hearts unto divine wisdom, the Bible made it clear that the mercy we all need from God will keep eluding us.

God’s Mercy is not as free as many teach. God’s Mercy is conditional. The Bible teaches that if we cover our sins we will not prosper, but if we confess and forsake them God will have mercy. So, mercy is conditional. It is conditioned on applying our hearts unto divine wisdom. We all need God’s mercy.

But we will never swim in it living in foolishness. Especially the foolishness of repeatedly living in sinful habits and thinking it does not matter, or the foolishness of repeating our sins and asking God to forgive us without repentance.

THE BIBLE MADE IT CLEAR THAT IT WILL DESTROY US.

Wisdom demands that we ask God in prayer and fasting for the release of the power of His grace upon our lives, so that we can have dominion over our carnal passions and put them under control. If Jesus while in the flesh needed to fast for the same reason, then we will be unwise not to fast for the same reason.

We must use intensive fasting and prayer to receive dominion over the sinful flesh and put the sanctified human spirit ahead of the body of sin. It is dangerous to put the body of sin ahead of the sanctified human spirit. It will lead to a frustration of the grace of God.

Some of us are living in secrets sins just because of that. We live in the foolishness of repeating our sins and confessing to God, then going back to them again, just because of that. Paul wrote saying,

“But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.” 1 Corinthians 9:27 NKJV

If we do not do the same as end time saints, we will allow the foolishness of putting the body of sin ahead of the Spirit to destroy even our salvation. As we embrace this day; make this devotional your meditation! You will gain a heart of wisdom if you do.

Any area of your life that is under persistent problems is the very area of life you lack divine wisdom. In other words, lack of divine wisdom is the reason for the problems you are may be facing right now, not really the devil. If you become wise, you will neutralize His activities in your life.

Divine wisdom has been certified by Heaven and earth as the most potent weapon of war in the KINGDOM of God.

That is why the first answer God gives to our prayers is impartation of divine wisdom. He will first give us the wisdom to apply to our troubles when we ask Him for help, before doing any other things that may be necessary. Most times it is the application of that wisdom that came to us in prayer that will meet the need that took us to God in prayer not any other move of His.

It was in the light of this that He spoke through Jeremiah saying, 'Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.' (Jeremiah 33:3 NKJV). I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among they that are sanctified!

LET THIS SCRIPTURES BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION.

“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.”
“But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.”

“For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.” James 1:5-8 NKJV

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