
12/06/2025
THE CRY OF THE SPIRIT DEVOTIONALS – BY RICHARD E. S. TAKIM
TODAY’S DEVOTION (Friday 13th June 2025)
“One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple.” Psalm 27:4 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 164th DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
Today marks another weekend of the month that marks the second half of the year. I give God the glory for keeping us alive and bringing us to this special time of the year.
With what I have always seen over the years, some of the conmen we call God’s men and women, would be busy this month organizing what they call midyear deliverance services and programs, with many of them aimed at polluting the souls of men and feeding themselves from it.
I think it’s important to affirm what the Bible teaches about the church. The Bible teaches that there is a false Church parading itself as part of the true Church, and Heaven has launched an attack against it using certain voices on earth.
Sometimes people confuse this battle of the LORD and start joining issues with those the LORD is using to fight the false church; you hear them give warnings to this army of the LORD; warnings that are based on carnality and all forms of religiosity without knowing what the LORD is doing through His army.
They use words like, “stop pulling down other Churches to establish yourself.” This is nonsense. No one can pull down the Church of Jesus Christ. It is established firmly on the rock and will crush whoever tries to crush it. However, God can commission any one to pull down synagogues of Satan called churches.
In the days of the Bible, God called Jeremiah to pull down things He has not permitted and plant those He has permitted (Jeremiah 1:9-10).
Jesus Himself said, “every tree (ministry or spiritual leader) that my Heavenly father has not planted, will be uprooted” (Matthew 15:13). John the Baptist said, “the axe is laid down on the root (beginning) of the tree. Every tree (spiritual leaders) that is not bearing fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire” (Matthew 3:10). This is what Christ in doing right now!
There is a false Church, made up of heretics and falsehood parading itself as the true Church and confusing the harvest and sending souls to eternal damnation.
THESE ARE SOULS JESUS SHED HIS BLOOD FOR AND HE WANTS THAT TO STOP.
You see, when people call everything that cries the word “Jesus” the body of Christ, they are being unfair to the LORD. The body of Christ does not comprise of the likes of Simon the sorcerer, Balaam and Beelzebub, Baal and Ashtoreth, Bar Jesus, or any false apostles or false prophets and teachers.
Preachers or churches of this class are not part of the Body of Christ.
Also, if you say who gave us the authority to judge, you are not being fair because the Bible has already judged and given us the identity of who they are. The Spirit of GOD is only bringing it to the attention of this generation using our lips, hearts and minds.
Sadly, our generation is one generation that does not know the difference between the true Church and the false Church. Understand that, if the true Church is sick Jesus will heal it, but if the false Church presents itself as the true Church, Jesus will attack it.
That is the difference. That is why you find true preachers who missed their ways listening to some of us and repenting, and others attacking what the LORD is doing with such words and even adding the “David did not touch Saul” thing to it.
Come to think of that, whenever I hear such things, I feel deeply sorry for my generation. These good people forget that God killed Saul be himself, which is a whole message on its own.
You see, nobody God is using today to identify the false church, and its activities is touching Saul. None is cutting off his garment and presenting to him to prove any innocence like David did. God is only raising His voice against deception and falsehood parading itself as the Body of Christ like He did in Bible days, using end time Jeremiahs, Ezekiels, Peters, and Pauls.
HOWEVER, IF I WERE SAUL, I WOULD HAVE PREFERRED DAVID TOUCHING ME THAN GOD KILLING ME,
The reason is because it is a fearful thing to fall into the hand of the LORD. The Bible says.
“So Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he had committed against the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD, and also because he consulted a medium for guidance. But he did not inquire of the LORD;
Therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom over to david the son of jesse.” 1 Chronicles 10:13-14 NKJV
Some of these good people who use the DAVID-NOT-TOUCHING-SAUL thing, do not know they are weakening the voice of the LORD against the false Church. I read that portion of the Bible when I was first confronted with it in 2001 and saw what I never saw in my life.
I discovered that though David did not touch Saul with his hands, he touched him with His fiery words – sentences on his evil works.
The most amazing aspect of this story is, GOD honored David’s words on Saul. Here are two occasions where David touched Saul with his fiery words. In the first occasion, David said,
“Moreover, my father, see! Yes, see the corner of your robe in my hand! For in that I cut off the corner of your robe, and did not kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you. Yet you hunt my life to take it.
LET THE LORD JUDGE BETWEEN YOU AND ME, AND LET THE LORD AVENGE ME ON YOU. BUT MY HAND SHALL NOT BE AGAINST YOU.
As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand shall not be against you.
After whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea? Therefore let the LORD be judge, and judge between you and me, and see and plead my case, and deliver me out of your hand.” 1 Samuel 26:11-15 NKJV
YOU CAN SEE THE SENTENCE DAVID PASSED ON SAUL HIGHLIGHTED IN CAPITAL LETTERS IN THE SCRIPTURE ABOVE.
It says, “let the LORD judge between you and me, and let the LORD avenge me on you. But my hand shall not be against you.” Did you see something there? That was a sentence passed over Saul for his evil works. In simple terms, David handed Saul over to be killed by God, that was tougher than touching him. In the second occasion, the bible says,
Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered your enemy into your hand this day. Now therefore, please, let me strike him at once with the spear, right to the earth; and I will not have to strike him a second time!”
But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD’s anointed, and be guiltless?” David said furthermore, “As the LORD lives, the LORD shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go out to battle and perish. 1 Samuel 26:8-10 NKJV
This very sentence came to pass verbatim on Saul. The last verse said, “AS THE LORD LIVES, THE LORD SHALL STRIKE HIM, OR HIS DAY SHALL COME TO DIE, OR HE SHALL GO OUT TO BATTLE AND PERISH.”
The LORD struck Saul, and the man died in Battle as David’s sentences said (1 chronicle 10:1-14).
I grew up to discover that it is extremely dangerous for THE APPOINTED of the LORD to ask the LORD to judge between him and an EX ANOINTED of the LORD who is out to kill him. It will destroy the ex-anointed. That was how Saul was destroyed.
However, that is not what is happening right now. It is not what the LORD is doing now! I admonish you to join what the LORD is doing now. Do not take God’s battle against the works of the antichrist, as some David touching Saul thing. If you do, you will be either defensive or involved in dark religion.
Understand that when Jesus scattered the table of the money changers, even the blind Pharisees did not see it as a David touching Saul thing. Please, know what the will of the LORD is. We are in an uncommon season. This is the hour of Zion’s recovery.
Stop joining the army of Satan to weaken the voice of the LORD. Join us in fighting the battle of the LORD to expose the false church and deliver those trapped in it. That is what is written in the volume of the book for the End Time Army of the LORD in our age and time. Amen!!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY
“Likewise, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; prophesy against them, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their sleeves and make veils for the heads of people of every height to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of My people, and keep yourselves alive?
And will you profane Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, killing people who should not die, and keeping people alive who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies?”
‘Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I am against your magic charms by which you hunt souls there like [h]birds. I will tear them from your arms, and let the souls go, the souls you hunt like birds. Ezekiel 13:17-20 NKJV