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

TODAY’S DEVOTION (TUESDAY 17TH FEBRUARY 2026)

“Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth." Genesis 1:28 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 48TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY

The life of a believer is designed to be sustained by the word of the LORD. Yes, we that are redeemed by the LORD to become sons of God, are designed to be sustained by the voice of our Father.

It is the voice of a father that feeds, protects, preserves, sustains, defends, builds, edifies, aligns, blesses and makes a son wise. If the voice of a father is absent in the life of a son, a lot of the father will be absent in his life. That is why people who do not have ideal fathers in their lives, providing the very voice they need, do not grow well. They live a life that is vulnerable.

God does not want us to live lives that are vulnerable. He is our Father and wants His voice in our lives. He wants us to give His word the attention it deserves so that His voice can be guiding our minds; emotions, will, intellect, imagination and memory. He wants His voice at the center of our lives.

Neglecting the daily intake of His word, in a season the old believers call quiet time, will not let that happen, and it is the reason for the problems believers go through. It is the reason many run to and fro looking for what God is saying from the mouth of those they call prophets.

They do not sit with Him as designed by Him to hear Him, or else doing all that.

If we do not have time to hear God, devils will make us hear them successfully, killing our joy, our health, our finances, our progress, and taking good advantage of the spiritual ignorance that results.

SADLY, THAT HAS BECOME THE SITUATION WITH MANY.

Understand that if we do not intentionally take our time to sit down and hear from God, Satan will make us sit down and hear from him through the things he will be doing in our lives, that is the truth. To hear from is a euphemism that means to suffer a backlash. We will suffer spiritual attacks and be hindered by the enemy as a backlash if we keep neglecting the word.

Time has come to tell ourselves the truth and wake up, because even those of us who are busy for God do not give the word of the LORD its due time to speak to us, edify us, build our faith and bring us into the presence of God right there in our homes. We go about edifying others, but we are not being edified.

Yes, some get the word in their churches but have no time for it at home. That is very dangerous, because over 90 percent of God’s goodness will be missed in your life if you do not give His word its rightful place. If the word of the LORD is neglected, it will not do what God designed His word to do in our world of pain, sorrow, restlessness, etc.

Now, it is one thing to give the word of the LORD the attention it deserves and another for it to benefit us. If one does not know what it means to mix the word with faith, then even attention to it will not change anything. That is why yesterday’s devotional is important.

In it, God spoke to us about the true meaning of mixing His word with faith, and the mystery of a human spirit that is fruitful and full of God.

Today we will be going further to see how to get our human spirits full of God, alive and fruitful. Let me begin with the natural. In the natural realm, Fruitfulness is something we are born with. Apart from genetic alteration that cause unfruitfulness in men and women sometimes, fruitfulness is a gift of nature. In other words, God designed that a man or woman be born fruitful.

Our devotional text explained it all. It says, “and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply;” If you look at those words you will realize that God did not say to them be barren. He said to them be fruitful.

THAT IS WHAT WE WERE DESIGNED TO BE; FRUITFUL NOT BARREN.

However, some are barren, and they are not barren because God created them to be barren; they are barren because genetic alteration, satanic hindrances, or what they did with themselves made them so. Bareness was never a plan of God for mankind. God designed that a man or woman be born fruitful.

The same word was spoken to all animals. God created all living things to be fruitful and multiply. Now, what is true of the natural is true of the spiritual. God designed that we are born again with a fruitful spirit. In other words, “salvation experience” is God’s way of getting our spirits alive and fruitful.

When we are born naturally our spirits are dead, unfruitful, and empty of God. But spiritual birth changes everything. It quickens our spirits, transmits life into it, and makes it unfruitful in the things of this world and fruitful in the things of God. Hallelujah!!

That is why when someone is genuinely saved, he will no longer be fruitful in the things of this world. If he was an active sinner, he will no longer be able to live that way any longer. If he were a night crawler, a drunk, a sexually pervert, a liar, a thief, a fraud, a greedy or covetous person, his encounter with Jesus will change everything.

Everything changes because his spirit has become fruitful in the things of God and barren in the things of this world, ungodliness, sin called pleasure etc. Genuine salvation experience is therefore the key to spiritual fruitfulness. That is why it is dangerous to falsify your salvation. If your salvation is false, your spirit will never become fruitful in the things of God and barren in the things of the world.

A fake salvation experience will result in a Christianity that is empty of God, dead in spirit, and unfruitful in the things of God.

In the light of this truth, you can see that many, even among us preachers, who claim born again are not really born again. We think being born again is joining a Church or making an empty confession. That is why many of us remain unfruitful in the things of God, but fruitful in the things of this world despite our so-called salvation.

YOU FIND US LIVING THE VERY LIVES THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD LIVE AND CALLING IT WEAKNESS.

To get our spirits fruitful for the word to profit is, we must be born again and learn to keep our spirits full of God by committing to Him. If you genuinely get saved but do not keep your spirit full of God, alive and fruitful by being committed to Holy living, corporate worship, personal devotion, and in-depth study of God’s word, the word of the LORD will not profit you.

The Bible says, “Work out your salvation with fear and trembling.”

If each of us will not wake up from spiritual slumber and begin to work out our salvation with fear and trembling, we will be sorry both in time and eternity. We will not be able to maintain the spiritual condition that allows the word that we feed on in our closet or hear in church, to profit us.

The early Church leaders led the Church to keep their spirits full of God, alive and fruitful in the things of God by committing themselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word. In other words, they used dedication to prayer and the word to maintain the spiritual condition that kept making the word of the LORD to profit them. Their lives teaches us about the power of spending time with the LORD.

Friend, how long we spend with God and His word in prayer on daily bases is what truly determine how full of God, alive, and fruitful we will be in the things of God. People who have no private relationship with God will never have a life that is fruitful in the things of God.

If you are fruitful in the things of God, no resistance will be able to stop you. The enemy will not be able to build a wall of resistance against you. Your branch will always run over his wall of spiritual attacks and resistance.

As you embrace this day, may these precious truths be your meditation in Jesus precious name. Amen

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

"Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a well; His branches run over the wall. Genesis 49:22 NKJV

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

TODAY’S DEVOTION (MONDAY 16TH FEBRUARY 2026)

“For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.”

“For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: "So I swore in My wrath,' They shall not enter My rest,'" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.” Hebrew 4:2-3 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 47TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY

This is another day that the LORD has made, we shall rejoice and be glad in it. Day unto day we have been experiencing His mercies and night unto night His faithfulness. There would have been no breath in our lungs if the LORD had not been our keeper.

Indeed, the keeper of Isreal will not sleep or slumber. Amen and amen.

We are in warfare!! In this war the enemy has terrible intentions. He wants the righteous out of this world so that he can colonize it for himself, and for his host. He wants the bearers of the true light of Jesus Christ to be quenched so that his darkness can fill the souls of men.

Sadly, he is using the least expected to accomplish some of these things, namely the preacher who either has no original calling from God, has not been trained in matters of righteousness or is heretic. He also uses the aggrieved Church members. God indeed said,

“For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; But the Lord will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you.” Isaiah 60:2 NKJV

While God has raised people to preach the gospel of light and cause His glory to rest upon men, there are preachers and aggrieved Church members out there who wants that light quenched. Ordinarily, a preacher and a Christian should protect the light of God from going out no matter what happens but not these ones. It’s is very dangerous when a generation cannot find people with the true light burning. That was what led to what Church Historians call “the dark ages.”

WHEN A GENERATION DO NOT HAVE TRUE LIGHT BEARERS, DARKNESS WILL SET IN AND CONSUME THAT GENERATION.

During the 1st century, the birth of the Church took place, and our Bible fathers kindled their world with the authentic light. It neutralized hell, shook the foundation of cultures and pulled down ungodly traditions, leading to great salvation of souls. It was also resisted terribly. But that did not last beyond that century.

The last set of bearers of that true light would later pass away leading to a long season of light out called the dark ages. During that time, there was no gospel light anywhere. The world was in moral darkness for years, with millions of people dying and going to hell both from the dead Church that existed then, and the dying world.

History has it that darkness prevailed until mercy spoke and one Catholic priest named Martin Luther caught a ray of light from the throne room on salvation. However, before him there were great reformers who God used to bring fiery lights that pieced through the darkness of the time.

All they did would later be sustained until moves that resulted in fresh moves that got us saved today were born.

Our generation is sitting in another spiritual war where people are bent on quenching the light. But this time around, it will not go out. God’s throne has mobilized great angelic host, and Heavenly forces to make sure that His end time light bearers remains strong and solid enough to shine His light to the hearts of men.

If there are no known men to give them support, I believe God will raise unknown men to give them the support they need to remain solid with the torchlight of truth shinning right into the dark hearts of mankind.

The God who stood by Paul when all forsook him, and by Peter and the rest of the apostles when their time of departure had not come, has not died. He is standing with His own like a mighty terrible one to neutralize the forces of the evil one.

Understand that God’s greatest redemptive tool remains the light of His revelation word. As we get closer to the consummation of all things, and final return of our LORD and savior Jesus Christ, the Bible made it clear that the mystery of God shall be finished.

MEANING, WE SHALL COME TO A PERFECT UNDERSTANDING OF HIDDEN TRUTHS IN GOD!

That is part of God’s sovereign desire, the desire to fill our lives with the knowledge of His glory as the water cover the sea. Our devotional word today is simple, instructive, and maybe deep! It tells us what God expects to happen in our hearts when we hear His word. God expects His word to be mixed with faith in our hearts.

When the word we hear is mixed with faith, it will produce fruits in our lives, resulting in the manifestation of the glory of God. But when the opposite happens, our lives will still be filled with darkness in spite of what we may be hearing, resulting in Ichabod or no glory in our lives.

One of the common forces that facilitate this sad occurrence in the lives of many is spiritual barrenness. Many are spiritually barren, yet they do not know. That is why they are doing nothing about it. But let’s take a little lesson on the subject at this point. I trust it might help someone to wake up!!

From the natural realm, barrenness and fruitfulness has a lot of lessons to teach the end time Christian.

While in some cases it is the seed of a man that is responsible for barrenness, in other cases it is the womb of the woman. Everyone knows that no matter how fruitful the womb of a woman is, if the seed of the man that enters it is bad it will never get the womb of that woman pregnant with Child.

On the other hand, a Fruitful womb is the key to conception. If the womb of a woman is not fruitful, no matter how powerful the seed of a man is, that womb will never conceive a Child.

What spiritual truth can we draw from this natural reality?

The seed of a man represents the word of the LORD, and the womb of a woman represents the spirit of man. There are Christians whose spirits cannot conceive anything no matter how powerful, effective, anointed, sanctified, miracle-producing and deep the word of God they hear is.

In the spirit, conception is the key to delivery; in simple terms, what have not been conceived in your spirit cannot be born in your life. It is what we conceive in our spirits that God will make to be born in our lives. If our spirits conceive nothing while the word is being preached our lives will be barren of all the things promised or contained in that word.

Having a fruitful spirit is therefore very important. You must understand that if a word of favor, prosperity, healing, deliverance, or holiness comes from the LORD as a living seed through the mouth of a preacher to you, and your ear hears it but your spirit did not receive and conceive it, there will be no manifestation of that word in your life.

Our devotional text said “The word did not profit them because it was not mixed with faith in them that heard it”. Consequently, they did not enter into God’s rest.

The word they heard spoke to them about rest but they could not conceive anything in their spirit as they listened, hence not entering their rest. Friend, “Until a fruitful and living word meets a fruitful and living spirit over time, a man’s life will never come into God’s fullness and rest for it.”

Often we are troubled on every side and wonder and even blame God’s servants for our problems, particularly when they speak a word to us that we do not see it’s manifestations in our lives. While in some cases it is the word of the preacher that is responsible for the lack of manifestation, in other cases it is the spirits of those who may have received it that is the problem.

David said, “The entrance of thy word gives light.” It means when the word of the LORD enters into a man’s spirit, it will produce something in the man. However, if the word that enters is dead, empty and unfruitful and your spirit is alive and fruitful, it will not give you anything.

On the other hand, if the word is alive, full of revelation, and fruitful, it will not profit you as well if your spirit is dead, unfruitful, and empty of God. A rich, living, and fruitful word and a rich, living, and fruitful spirit must meet for any turn around to occur in a man’s life. Heavenly words are seeds; they are the medium of transaction between heaven and earth.

THEY BRING BLESSINGS FROM HEAVEN TO A MAN’S LIFE.

However, until they enter your spirit and plant a spiritual picture of what God is saying to you in it, your life will be barren of the manifestations of that word. A fruitful spirit meeting a fruitful word is therefore the key to the manifestation of God’s will in a man’s life.

Are there things that you are yet to enter into as a Child of God? Are there blessings you are yet to come into?

The key to coming into them lies in the truths you have just encountered in this devotional today. Get your spirit full of God. Make it alive and fruitful. Then locate a preacher with a true, living, and rich word that will meet your need and feed on it. Over time, there will be a conception, and you will come into the manifestation.

As you embrace this glorious day, spend this week meditating on these glorious truths.

LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY!

“Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.”

“For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Hebrews 4:11-13 NKJV

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

TODAY’S DEVOTION (SUNDAY 15TH FEBRUARY 2026)

“The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;

“The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes; Moreover by them your servant is warned, and in keeping them there is great reward.” Psalm 19:7-8, 11. NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 46TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY

It’s been 46 days of God’s faithfulness, kindness and marvelous helps. 40 of those days were used to seek the LORD in prayer and fasting. For many of us that participated, we believe we are in a new season. God does not leave people in an old season after they spend time waiting upon Him. The Bible says,

“Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall,

But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.” Isaiah 40:30-31 NKJV
There are many ways we wait upon the LORD. One of those ways is through prayer and fasting.

This scripture made it clear that no one remains in an old season of life after seeking God in fasting, prayers, and intense word intake for a long time. It will bring the person into the season of mounting up with wings like eagles (especially when challenges come),
running and not growing weary, and walking and not fainting.

That is the season the LORD thrusted us into, and if we follow the words taught during the season, things will remain that way for a lifetime.

Talking about following what the LORD teaches, sometimes I wonder why the Heavy truths God spews upon our souls do not make some people wise. This is not the first time we are having a 40-day prayer season. What we heard should make us wise. But like I said, I wonder a times why it does not.

However, I got the answer from a scriptural line in our devotional text. It says, “The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;” I found out that it is the simple at heart that the word makes wise not the complicated at heart.

To be simple is to be humble at heart, to be teachable and reachable by the Holy Spirit. That is one of the keys to receiving maximum impact through the word or testimony of the LORD. One could be reachable by a preacher but not the Holy Spirit speaking through the preacher.

THERE ARE PEOPLE I HAVE WEPT AND PRAYED FOR IN SECRET, BUT THEIR LIVES REMAIN THE SAME.

While there are others, I did the same that are changing by the seconds. Why is it so, one may wonder!! The answer lies in a statement I came across years back. The statement was by Juanita Bynum. It says, “The heart of the matter, is the matter of the heart.”

If we are simple enough to be made wise by the word and reachable enough to be healed by the Holy Spirit, it will not take us ages to move from inglorious states to glorious states.

Now, let us look at the power of rules, especially the ones made by the LORD. Understand that our bodies are mare earth suits for living. The real man is not seen. Our real self is invisible. We are simply spirits beings living in a natural body. As spirit beings living in physical bodies, there are rules that should govern us, else we destroy ourselves. The rules were made by our creator.

The rules are in God’s Holy Book, the Bible. This book calls these rules “The law of the LORD” “the statutes of the LORD” and “The commandments of the LORD.” Our devotional text made it clear that these rules are perfect and right and pure. It says they convert the soul, rejoice the heart, enlighten the eyes and by them we are warned.

Meaning we cannot live a perfect life in a chaotic and immoral world until we obey them. They are the source of true light in a morally dark world for the Child of God. They have divine capacity to protect us from harm and deliver us from evil. They transmit a kind of joy to us that keeps us happy even in very sad situations.

The first of these rules I want to present to us this great day says, “Mankind shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceed from the mouth of God” (Deuteronomy 8:3). I have taught this repeatedly due to its significance.

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT RULE OF ALL RULES.

The reason is, it sets the ball rolling and determines all things in the Kingdom of God that we all should belong. If we do not feed on what comes out of the mouth of God, we will die spiritually. And when we die spiritually, it’s just a matter of time. We will also die in our marital life, economic life, physiological life, psychological life, etc.

Many are already dead in their marital lives. That is why they cannot get or stay married! Others are already dead in their economic life, that is why they are either poor or rich through corrupt means. Many others are dead in their physiological life, that is why they are unnecessarily sick. It is not the will of God for our life that we die, that is why He gave the rule.

God never created man to die but to live forever. It was sin that brought death. That is why when we break this rule and suffer the consequence; there is nothing He can do about it other than to appeal to us to return to Him through repentance.

Friend, most things people struggle with and go through in life are products of spiritual malnutrition. We feed our souls with other things but do not feed it adequately with what comes out of the mouth of God. We forget that what we eat will eventually eat us.

We find ourselves eaten by things we have fed our souls with either knowingly or unknowingly. We find ourselves eaten by carnal desires, sinful pleasures, sexual immorality and all that because we have fed our souls with them for a long time.

Friend, if you are not always happy, check what you are allowing into your soul. If you are always suicidal, check what you are feeding your soul with. If you are lustful, check what you have fed your soul with. If you feed your soul with what comes out of the mouth of God, and apply it to your daily life, things will not be the way they are with you.

GOD’S BLESSINGS WILL BEGIN TO PURSUE AND OVERTAKE YOU.

Simply put, if we eat what Comes out of the mouth of God, God will eat us up, resulting in supernatural living and amazing blessings. Let me reiterate again that we suffer what we suffer as men because we do not keep the first rule God made to govern our existence.

We do not feed our spirits and live by what comes out of the mouth of God.

We feed our spirits and live by what comes from other sources. For example, many feed on the headline news, secular humanism, self-help knowledge, the social media, the words of the aggrieved etc. Until we change our spiritual diet, we will not be able to stop what the enemy may be doing in our lives.

The natural importance of good food is a revelation of the spiritual importance of feeding on what comes out of the mouth of God. If you change what comes into your spirit, you will change what comes into your life. If you change what you feed your spirit with, you will change your life completely.

Let me state something to kingdom citizens at this point;

sometimes when God want to change your life He will give you a fresh preacher to feed you spiritually. He will give you a preacher after His heart for you to commit your time, treasures and talent to for your spiritual feeding. If that person shows up in your life and you do not commit, your life will keep going in a circle.

He said to us in His word (Jeremiah 3:15-16) I will give you pastors after my heart who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. He did not say He will give us prayer warriors, as important as they are. He said He will give us spiritual leaders who will feed us.

That stresses the truth that lack of proper spiritual food is the reason for the woes of mankind.

As you embrace this day, do not forget that a healthy and proper spiritual feeding is the seed for a healthy spiritual life. You will never be free from any crisis until you are fed. Feeding is the key to freedom. If you are truly fed in any Church you belong, you will be truly free.

You will be free from sin, the power of the flesh, the forces of darkness, any form of spiritual attacks, curses etc.

MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY

“But Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.'" Luke 4:4 NKJV

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

TODAY’S DEVOTION (SATURDAY 14TH FEBRUARY 2026)

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Romans 8:31-36 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 45TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY

It is also a day after the end of the 40 days with the blessing, a special season we set aside to seek the mercies of the LORD to guide and help us, not just this year, but the years to come.

God’s mercies for me is personal. I have seen myself survive things that I wondered how. Only to wake up to realize that it was God’s mercies that saw me through.

His mercy has shaped my life for over 49 years. That is why I led the people of the LORD under my apostolic stewardship to seek it for these 40 days, and we believe we found it, because we entered boldly into His presence through the doorways of the precious blood of Jesus. The Bible says:

“But Jesus the Son of God is our great High Priest who has gone to heaven itself to help us; therefore, let us never stop trusting him. This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses since he had the same temptations we do, though he never once gave way to them and sinned.

So let us come boldly to the very throne of God and stay there to receive his mercy and to find grace to help us in our times of need.” Hebrews 4:14-16 TLB

For 40 days we sought the LORD and for 40 days He blessed us. We obtained mercy each day, that is why we are confident. Like our devotional text testified, “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” People God grants mercy cannot be messed up by any evil in time or Eternity.

The mercy of the LORD is the only insurance that takes care of things in all realms of visible and invisible realities. So, we sought the LORD for it for 40 days, and obtained it, now we believe we will be able to find grace in any time of need that might come our way. We are confident. Our minds are completely on Him.

THE BIBLE SAYS HE WILL KEEP THEM IN PERFECT PEACE, THOSE WHOSE MINDS ARE STAYED ON HIM.

The Living Bible Translation puts it this way:

“Open the gates to everyone, for all may enter in who love the Lord. He will keep in perfect peace all those who trust in him, whose thoughts turn often to the Lord!” Isaiah 26:2-3 TLB

Satan will not let you turn your thoughts often or always to the LORD. He will prefer you having your thoughts on your problems, your sins, your inadequacies, your sorrows, your failures and all that. He knows God will not keep you in perfect peace when that happens.

He also knows that He cannot handle people that God is keeping in perfect peace. He cannot destroy their faith, finances or family. He cannot manipulate them or create problems for them. That is why you must strive to turn your thoughts to the LORD, by meditating in his word day and night and absorbing His truths, listening to messages.

People who trust in God’s mercies turn their thoughts to the LORD often.

They live their days under the power of God’s commanded love. The Bible says He commanded His love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. That is why you do not do anything to earn God’s mercies. You just seek Him for it and have it.

If God will love us while we were yet sinners, how much more now that His blood has washed us from filths and sin and made us a righteous seed. That is why our devotional text today is very significant. It was based on this revelation and divine conviction that God’s servant apostle Paul, wrote to the Church at Rome saying:

“For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39 NKJV

SO LONG AS WE REMAIN IN THE PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, NOTHING SHALL BE ABLE TO SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD.

It is that love that keeps us from evil and all the enemy do muster against us. The reason we need to keep on righteous paths is because sin has a way of separating men from the love of God. It separated Sodom and Gomorrah from His love and many others even in the New Testament.

It’s very important at this point to understand that the only person that can separate us from the love of God is us; when we take sides with sin and the devil and start doing his bidding, we bring upon ourselves the consequences of sin. Outside that, nothing can separate us from the love of God!

That is why the Bible admonishes that we keep ourselves in the love of God.

We must all learn to keep ourselves in the love of God after such a season of prayers and fasting. It’s possible for a man to do things that take him away from the love of God, and the early Church knew that very well, hence documenting that charge.

Sadly, the heretic preachers among us, who call themselves the preachers of grace, do not know that.

They do not tell us that it is our responsibility to keep ourselves in the love of God by making use of His saving grace upon our lives to live right. They do not tell us that if we do not keep ourselves in the love of God His mercy will cease speaking for us and making way for us among the living.

Child of God it’s a new day! You need God’s mercy to navigate through the waters of hate, spiritual warfare, lack, and all evil works. You need God’s mercy and love to overcome the attacks of those who want you dead this month. You need God’s mercy and Love to overcome the spiritual arrows that may be shot against you this year and the years to come.

SO, KEEP YOURSELF IN THE LOVE OF GOD BY OBEYING THE LORD AND DOING ONLY WHAT PLEASES HIM. JESUS SAYS:

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SO, KEEP YOURSELF IN THE LOVE OF GOD BY OBEYING THE LORD AND DOING ONLY WHAT PLEASES HIM. JESUS SAYS:

“Yes, ask anything, using my name, and I will do it! “If you love me, obey me; and I will ask the Father and he will give you another Comforter, and he will never leave you.” John 14:14-16 TLB

This scripture teaches the power of praying in the name of the LORD. But praying in His name and getting answers is not possible if we do not keep ourselves in the love of God by loving the LORD. Loving the LORD is not by our libs but with our lives. That is why, the word said, “if you love me, obey me.”

Simply put, this scripture teaches that it is through obedience we demonstrate our love for God not even through a song in tears. Songs in tears only expresses love for God, or make meaning when obedience is complete. If our obedience is incomplete, we will be vulnerable.

Our devotional text today is full of truths that you can glean from and save yourself from the judgments and condemnation of carnal men and satanic people. When I say judgment, I am not referring to rebukes from people of God who want you to make Heaven. Our Church generation calls rebuke Judgment and conviction condemnation.

When I say judgment, I am referring to verdicts passed against you by evil powers, or by evil companions, terrible church members, witches in their covens, misguided pastors, Church leadership, or dark prophets and prophetesses. I am referring to judgments passed by wolves sitting on some pews or standing behind some pulpits.

People do not understand that when the LORD warned us about wolves, it was not just a reference to preachers, terrible church members are part of the wolves in sheep clothing movement. But I feel strong in my prophetic spirit that the days of victory and prevail of wolves in sheep clothing over some poor ignorant Church members or innocent pastors are over.

GOD WILL BEGIN TO MOVE TO SAVE HIS SHEEP AND SHEPHERDS FROM THE MOUTHS OF THE WOLVES IN HIS HOUSE.

When I speak to ministers of the gospel, I usually tell them to do ministry right or they lose their members. I also tell members to respect and honor good shepherds else they come into unredeemable curses. Jesus spoke in His word that He will deliver His sheep from the hands of fallen and perverted shepherds and that there is nothing we can do about it. We just must sit up!

Even members who take delight in attacking God’s true shepherds must become careful. As God moves to save His sheep from the hands of dangerous shepherds, He will also move to save His shepherds from dangerous sheep. I have had some dangerous sheep in my life and ministry over the years, but God has never given me over to their teeth.

Child of God, it’s a new day in the body of Christ! Keep yourself in the love of God and see Him break out against His enemies that surround you. Some major highlights in our devotional text this morning says:

“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? …Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.”

Believe this scripture and use it as your guiding light all through your walk and talk with God. It will put God on His feet to keep and position you spiritually to escape the arrows of the evil one being shot by the hands of wrongly aggrieved ministers of the gospel or Church members the devil has taken over to harm you, if you are one of His shepherds. Amen!!!

MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY:

“You whom I [the Lord] have taken from the ends of the earth and have called from the corners of it, and said to you, You are My servant — I have chosen you and not cast you off [even though you are exiled].”

“Fear not [there is nothing to fear], for I am with you; do not look around you in terror and be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen and harden you to difficulties, yes, I will help you; yes, I will hold you up and retain you with My [victorious] right hand of rightness and justice.”

“Behold, all they who are enraged and inflamed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; they who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.”

“You shall seek those who contend with you but shall not find them; they who war against you shall be as nothing, as nothing at all.
“For I the Lord your God hold your right hand; I am the Lord, Who says to you, Fear not; I will help you!”

“Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I will help you, says the Lord; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.”

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

TODAY’S DEVOTION (FRIDAY 13TH FEBRUARY 2026)

“And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.”
“And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.” Joel 2:28-29 NKJV

WELCOME TO THE 44TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY

God has been faithful to us! He has been manifesting Himself in our lives as our redeemer. We can say with boldness and without any fear of contradiction that our redeemer lives. Yes, life is full of challenges, but our redeemer lives!!

It is our believe that when you have a good God by your side, it does not matter who is not on your side. I am persuaded that “if God be for us, it takes a fool to be against us!” We have seen so many miracles since the inception of this apostolic work in Kenya. God has been strategically intervening and has promised us strategic victory this year.

We rejoice in His marvelous kindness and unmatched power. April 19th, 2026, will mark the 12th year since we set our feet here. The ministry is 12 years young in East Africa, with a media presence across nations!! We look forward to that great day.

I remember the first independent meeting we had; it was named FAMILY LIBERATION SUMMIT; it was full if God’s word and presence. The message that was preached that day was titled “PORTALS OF MERCY.” Those portals has not shut down; the ministry is functioning under them.

Indeed, if a Church belongs to Jesus, He will fill it with His word and manifest presence and bring His sheep to lie down. We started with 35 people including children, then reduced to even two and half per a meeting. It continued fluctuating between that number and 15, then 20 and then Christ began to bring in large numbers to lie down on His green pasture.

The best thing to do on earth is to summit to Christ and spend your years doing just His blessed will! That is exactly what we have been doing since we came to the apostolic fields of East Africa.

I CAN NOW UNDERSTAND WHAT PAUL MEANT WHEN HE SAID;

“But life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus-the work of telling others the Good News about God's mighty kindness and love.” Acts 20:24 TLB

Though not easy most times, but my greatest satisfaction in life comes when I am doing things assigned to me by the LORD JESUS. There is wisdom in spending your days doing only what Jesus assigned to you. That is the wisdom that many are yet to come to terms with.

It gives you all that Jesus offers for those who serve Him. It keeps the Holy Spirit working in your life.

Now, talking about the Holy Spirit, I have come to realize that the Holy Ghost is the Central Bank of God’s wisdom, power, glory, provisions, mercy and redemptive blessings. That is why if you have Him, you have Heaven’s system of unlocking the depths of God on earth in your life. The Bible says:

“For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.” (1 Corinthians 2:11-12 NKJV)

We cannot over emphasize the necessity of God’s wisdom to us on earth – be it the wisdom of spending your days doing only what He assigns you to do, or the wisdom to properly manage your life daily. It takes the indwelling presence of God to access God’s wisdom on a daily basses. The Holy Spirit in us is the indwelling presence.

He is the custodian of the wisdom of God because He alone knows what is in God. So, He helps us to access that wisdom as we fellowship with Him. That is why, as the Central Bank of God’s wisdom or God’s Central Intelligence Agency (God’s CIA) you will fill your life with foolishness if He is not living in you.

People who carry him in their spirits do not walk in foolishness.

Apart from transforming us to live the Christian life and to function in the Kingdom power and glory of God, the primary purpose of the Holy Spirit is to animate us with GOD’s wisdom including the revelation of the things that have been freely given to us by God.

IN OTHER WORDS, ONE OF THE THINGS HE DOES IS TO IMPART DIVINE WISDOM INTO US BY UNFOLDING MYSTERIES OR HIDDEN TRUTHS TO US.

On this note the Bible says;

“Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.” 1 Corinthians 2:12 NKJV

This and other unstated reasons are what make the Holy Ghost the most important person on the face of the earth. He is so important to the Human race that the enemy fights relentless to sway men to ignore Him completely. Ignoring Him is the best way to keep people of God powerless and vulnerable.

Satan knows that if we give the Holy Ghost His place in our lives, we will become flames of supernatural fire making the earth too hot for his activities and kingdom. That is why he even got the Church stuck to “the anointing oil thing” that was instituted in the Old Testament to announce the coming of the Holy Ghost.

Friend, either you believe it or not, understand that the greatest hindrance to genuine infilling of the Holy Ghost in so many churches today is a Christianity mixed with worldliness, with bottles of anointing Oil used to replace the true anointing of the Holy Ghost.

Friend, the true anointing of the Holy Ghost cannot be put in a bottle. God wants it in your life. And the Only way you can have it is to receive what we call an outpouring of the Holy Ghost upon your life.

Our devotional text today is a prophecy that is yet to be fulfilled in the lives of so many today because of this anointing oil madness that we got ourselves tuck in.

It says; “And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.”

HAVE YOU RECEIVED THIS OUTPOURING AS A CHRISTIAN?

I am not asking if you have ever fallen under the anointing. I am asking if God has poured His Holy Ghost upon you like it happened in the day of Pentecost. Sadly, present day Pentecostals do not have the Holy Ghost. They have a douse of His anointing but do not have His person that is why they speak in powerless tongues and go for deliverance every week.

Your life will become a pillar of fire spiritually if God pours His Holy Ghost upon you like He did in Acts 2. You will be animated to operate the wisdom of God and to do supernatural things like the early Church when it happens. Simply put, you will be turned into another man!

Friend, if you want to become a devil chaser instead of being the one chased by devils, you do not need the anointing Oil in a bottle that your Bishops call “power instruments,” you need an outpouring of the Holy Ghost. Anything about God you limit to a bottle or other things makes you a sorcerer and a charismatic witch.

God want to pour His Holy Spirit into your life and turn you into a small “G” on the face of the earth so you can join the angels in the invisible realm to convert the Kingdoms of this world into that of God and of His Christ.

He wants to pour what will baptize you with supernatural wisdom. Are you ready! God can use anointed meetings like ours to help you experience it.

MAKE THIS SCRIPTURAL PASSAGE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!

“Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,” Acts 3:19 NKJV

“Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call." Acts 2:38-39 NKJV

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THE CRY OF THE SPIRIT DEVOTIONALS – BY RICHARD E. S. TAKIM
TODAY’S DEVOTION (THURSDAY 12TH FEBRUARY 2026)

“Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.”

“Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.” Isaiah 5:13-14 KJV

WELCOME TO THE 43RD DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY

It is a good thing to give thanks to the LORD for all He has done for us these 43 days. He has kept our hearts beating, our minds functioning, our blood flowing, our spirits alive, and our lives far from death and destruction. Glory to His Holy Name!!

We are in end times, and a lot is happening both in Heaven and hell. Both realms are aggressively marshaling their forces towards the souls of men, through those who are submissive to each realm.

Men and systems that are submissive to the devil are being used by the forces of hell to kill, to steal and to destroy. While men and systems that are submissive to the God of Heaven and Earth are dying the necessary deaths to seek and to save that which was lost. Their spirits are crying like Paul the apostle cried, saying:

“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.

We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed — always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So then death is working in us, but life in you. 2 Corinthians 4:7-12 NKJV

This scripture contain the heart Cry of people God through His Heavenly force on earth, the Holy Spirit, is using to seek and to save that which was lost. One of the major deaths that these precious Sons of God are dying is in the area of their economy. They are dying the death that is required to allow God’s power to break through them and plug them to His supernatural supply chain.

THE VISION IS TO USE THE ENTIRE ECONOMIC RESOURCES GOD PLACE IN THEIR HANDS TO SNATCH AS MANY SOULS AS POSSIBLE FROM HELL.

The devil is also fighting to make sure that his earthly troop has all the economic might they need to do his work also. There are even battles in the heavenlies preventing economic might from coming to those who are submissive to God. That is why I want to talk to those of us who have made up our minds to die every necessary economic death to finance God’s end time redemption plans for mankind!

Friend, we live in a season where money will never come to you in God’s way until heavenly portals are opened over your life. When portals open over our lives, God’s glory penetrates into our realm to supply our needs according to His riches in glory.

We must therefore seek to live under the portals of Heaven for our economic freedom or fatness, and it is very simple thing to do!
Unplug your soul or keep your hearts away from the spirit of hell and plug on to the glory of God that is what to do. If we all do that, we will begin to live a life that is not just under a Heavenly portal, but a life that opens Heavenly portals over earth.

Due to the fall of man, everyone is born with a soul that is more receptive to hell than Heaven. In other words, the fall of man plugged all minds to the hell realm. You find this explained in the book of Romans 5 and 6.

However, one may say, “i am born again, my soul is not plugged to hell.” Well, that is true, but half of the truth. Understand that our human spirits are unplugged from hell at once through genuine salvation experience, but our souls are not, that is why we still fall into sin even after accepting Christ. It takes personal efforts empowered by the grace of God to unplug the soul from hell daily.

THAT IS WHY THE BIBLE ADMONISHED US TO WALK OUT OUR SALVATION WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING.

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THAT IS WHY THE BIBLE ADMONISHED US TO WALK OUT OUR SALVATION WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING.

It is through such intentional and dedicated daily salvation workouts that we extend what has taken place in the human spirit to our soul through grace, thereby unplugging or keeping it far from hell the spirit and its influences over the souls of lost men. One of such grace is the grace of meditating in God’s word day and night.

To meditate in God’s word is to mutter God’s word to yourself. Prosperity is tied to meditation in God’s word. You find this in Joshua 1:8. People who keep their souls away from the influences of hell through meditation in God’s word on daily bases will suddenly plug onto the glory of God where their prosperity lies and change their economic lives. The psalmist explains it this way:

“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.”

“He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.” Psalm 1:1-3 NKJV

The first way to unplug or keep your soul from the influence of hell and plug it or bring it under the power of God’s glory is to personally walk out your salvation on daily bases in the light of this scripture. The second way lies in what Jesus said in Matthew 16:18. He said “On this rock I will build my Church, the gates of hell will not prevail against it.”

If you read between the lines of this declaration, you will understand that we are in a constant battle against the gates or spirit of hell. Don’t forget the dichotomy of hell; first, hell is a place, hell is also a spirit. And hell can be a situation or a person.

THE BIBLE SAYS THE WICKED WILL BE TURNED INTO HELL AND ALL THE NATIONS THAT FORGET GOD. SO, HELL CAN EVEN BE A NATION!

Our devotional text made it clear that lack of the experiential knowledge of God is the reason people are plugged unto the spirit of hell, which in turn take them to the place called hell. Experiential knowledge of God comes through personal time with God’s word and sitting under apostolic and prophetic ministries with the knowledge of God’s glory and the revelation of Jesus Christ on their lips.

Apostolic and prophetic ministries hold the rock of revelation for building the saints into temples for God in the Spirit. They are the building tools of Jesus Christ in the Church today. That is why you see the Evangelist giving way to Apostles in Acts 8 after getting the people saved! But today we no longer see that because of greed for gain and lack of knowledge among the clergy.

Sadly, all want to be called pastors with people under them just for the purpose of tithes. Even people who cannot build their own lives now have congregations under them calling themselves pastors and taking on other titles to satisfy their egos. They leave Heaven screaming “I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they are prophesying” (Jeremiah 23:21).

They are the devil’s material for building the false Church.
Friend, exposing yourself to deep teachings that centers on the revelation of Jesus Christ and the knowledge of His glory, instead of motivational talk, old wives’ fables, human philosophy, or secular humanism is the second way to unplug from hell and plug on to glory!

The church is facing an Ichabod situation today. The true word of the LORD has become very rare. People now eat dead spiritual things and stolen revelation calling them “powerful” because they do not even know what living truths sound like. Most of what we call church is full of self-help gospels and inspirational preaching that is not helpful in the battle against hell.

THAT IS WHY YOU FIND PEOPLE FULL OF JOY WHILE IN CHURCH BUT FULL OF DISAPPOINTMENT WHEN THEY GET HOME TO FACE REALITY.

The serious-minded go home with no voice of truth in their spirits (from church) to help them deal with the enemy at home. Others have been promised liberty for ages, yet they are still in captivity. Being Jubilant in Church and sad at home is a sign of descending into hell according to our devotional text. It says, “he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.”

You must save yourself from this Satanic onslaught by leaving churches with no voice and Spirit of truth from the LORD.

Understand that no man-made gospel will unplug your soul from hell the spirit, because man-made gospel and the stealing of other people’s messages to preach in other to look good or sound as if you are called of God as practiced by majority of preachers today, is inspired by the spirit of hell.

In fact, hell is the power behind all half-truths being peddled in Church, and all inspirational preaching that make you happy in Church but cannot help you when you face reality! So there is no way you can be unplugged from hell listening to teachings and preaching inspired by hell.

As you pass through this day, make fresh plans on your spiritual diet for the rest of your life (if you have not).

I have said repeatedly that what you eat will eventually eat you. What your spirit is feeding on will eventually feed on you. If you feed your spirit with messages preached from stolen waters, you will never come into the prosperity of the righteous. The Bible says stolen waters are sweet, but they will not produce a sweet life at the end. Specifically, it says.

“Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.” Proverbs 9:17-18 KJV

Do you know how many souls are submitted to the spirit of hell by preachers who preach stolen waters (inspirational but not transformational messages)? You may need to change the Church you attend, the preacher you drink from, and the books you read. If you remain under the grip of hell the spirit, you will be living outside the glory environment where your wealth is stored!

MAY THE LORD OPEN YOUR HEART TO THESE TRUTHS IN JESUS PRECIOUS NAME. AMEN!!!

“And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.”

"Then it shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land in those days," says the Lord, "that they will say no more, 'The ark of the covenant of the Lord.' It shall not come to mind, nor shall they remember it, nor shall they visit it, nor shall it be made anymore. Jeremiah 3:15-16 NKJV

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WHY YOU MUST STOP LISTENING TO PREACHERS WHO STEAL MESSAGES FROM OTHERS TO PREACH
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I have said repeatedly that what you eat will eventually eat you. What your spirit is feeding on will eventually feed on you. If you feed your spirit with messages preached from stolen waters, you will never come into the prosperity of the righteous.

The Bible says stolen waters are sweet, but they will not produce a sweet life at the end.

“Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.” Proverbs 9:17-18 KJV

Do you know how many souls are submitted to the spirit of hell by preachers who preach stolen waters (inspirational but not transformational messages)? You may need to change the Church you attend, the preacher you drink from, and the books you read.

If you remain under the grip of hell the spirit, you will be living outside the glory environment where your wealth is stored!

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