Date: Tuesday, 12th August, 2025
Text: Matthew 12:43-45
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
Nature is not created to accommodate vacuums. Something must fill every empty space, whether positive or negative; good or evil.
Our Lord Jesus Christ told taught that when a demon is dislodged from their hiding places in the life of a man, they go about looking for a new accommodation; but they find none. The next thing they do is to go back to their former habitation and investigate the new condition. If they find out that their former place is swept clean and empty; they go out and look for demons that are seven times more wicked than themselves and the last state of the man becomes worse than the first- Matthew 12:43-45.
A man was brought to my father in the Lord for healing. His neck was stiff and he suffered from paralysis on one side of the body. He was preached to and led to Christ. Thereafter, he was prayed for and he obtained the mercy of God. His health was restored and he was perfectly made whole.
It was not long after he got his healing that he stopped attending church services. A follow-up team was sent to check on him and found out why he no longer attended the service. He told them that he didn’t see any need to continue to attend, after all he had gotten his healing.
He compared the church yo a hospital; asking the team whether it is right to continue to attend a hospital after a patient has got his healing. The devil successfully deceived him into seeing the church as a mere ‘hospital’. He had lost out of the fact that he got his healing on the basis of his relationship with Christ and not like a hospital where you pay to get treatment.
The follow-up team left his house. Not long after, he lost his healing and this time around they saw him paralyzed in the two sides of the body; neck stiff and saliva drooping out of his mouth. The demons that left him came back and found him empty- empty of God’s presence because you can only drive true joy from his presence; he was empty of God’s word and empty of a robust relationship with the Lord which formed the basis of his healing in the first place.
Reflective Nugget: May you not lose your miracles in Jesus name.
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