It must be God's Way II

Friday 10 July
READ: Exo. 2: 11-15
MORE LESSON: Luke 4:1-13

The devil is never happy to see a man receive a vision from God and successfully implement it. He will attempt to stop you and most times, he won't do it by preventing you from receiving the assignment from God. He will not even stop you from going on the errand for God, but he will attempt to make sure that you do not succeed in that assignment by corrupting the way you do it. This was what he attempted to do to Jesus as we examined yesterday (Lk 4: 1- 13), and it was also what he planned to do to Moses.
Moses had a vision and purpose from childhood that he would lead Israel out of slavery in Egypt. The devil didn't try to convince Moses not to deliver his people but he suggested to him that he could use a method that God did not approve of. He told him to kill the Egyptian (Ex 2: 12). When Moses attempted to fulfill his God given vision using a way that was not ordained by God, he got himself into trouble. This cost him a wilderness experience of forty years. When Moses died, the devil tried to claim his body (Jude 1: 8). He may have argued that Moses was a murderer and angry person so he (the devil) had a claim in him.
This makes us know that if the devil suggests an alternative method to us and we accept that option, he will eventually accuse us and discredit our work on the basis of that same method that we accepted from him. This is the reason making sure you achieve your vision strictly God's way is non-negotiable in destiny. Has God promised you academic excellence, prosperity, marriage, children or success in ministry? Well, how you get them matters, it must be God's way. Don't say because God has promised you success and then you cheat to achieve the success and then proceed to come give testimony that you have achieved the success God promised you. God may have promised you a child but it is important that the child comes God's way.
Men will come and tell you to use your own initiatives in fulfilling God's promise and assignment. What they call 'initiatives' most times are contrary to the way of God. That is the devil trying to corrupt the vision so that it is not done God's way. Today the word of God to you is that you must insist on following God's way in achieving that promise and vision that He has given you.

Prayer/Action
* Pray that you will not fall into the snare of the devil as you pursue God’s purpose.
* Ask that you will walk closer with God as you work for him.
* Ask God for divine guidance and help for all your destiny assignments.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
I declare that in 2015, my blood is out of the reach of all blood sucking spirits; suck your own blood, in the name of Jesus.