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Open Heavens 27 September 2017: Wednesday daily devotional by Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Principles, not tears

Posted: 26 Sep 2017 05:16 AM PDT

PRINCIPLES, NOT TEARS – Wednesday September 27^th 2017

Memorise: Forever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. Psalm 119:89

Read: Genesis 13:14-18 (KJV)

^13:14And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

^13:15For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

^13:16And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

^13:17Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

^13:18Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord.

Bible in one year: Esther 1-3, Ezekiel 47:13-48:7, Hymn: Sing hymn 9

MESSAGE:

If your giving reflects a financial status below the level God has placed you on, this would amount to demoting yourself. A wise fellow would rather promote himself or herself by giving beyond the level of his or her current financial status, so that God will upgrade him or her to that level. Some people look at me with envy, thinking that God is partial. No, He is not! God is not a respecter of persons, but He is a respecter of principles. Open Heaven 27 September 2017: Wednesday daily devotional by Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Principles, not tears. When Peter realised this truth in Acts 10:34-35, He said:

"Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him."

When you simply do what I do and follow the Bible principles that I fellow, you will get the results that I get. I am not boasting, but if you think it is boasting, then I am simply boasting in the Lord. My God is not a God that is ruled by emotions. He is not moved by your tears or by you rolling on the ground. If there is something He expects you to do in accordance with His word, but you leave it and begin to cry your eyes out or roll on the ground for days and weeks, at the end of the day, He will still be waiting for you to do what He expected of you before He fulfils His promise to you. So the earlier you obey God, the sooner His intervention will come. Some people think they can manipulate God with their tricks. No they can't. God would rather wait for you to obey, even if it takes years, before releasing a desired blessing. Unfortunately, some people out of stubbornness are making God wait almost their entire life time!

"Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:"

Genesis 12:1

When God called Abraham and gave him some promises, He also gave him three conditions he had to meet to access those promises. Abraham met two of these conditions, but he considered one of them not to be as important. He took Lot, his kindred, along with him. Probably he believed that his family would consider him a wicked fellow if he left his late brother's son behind. For as long as he did not fulfil the condition of leaving his entire kindred, God also refused to fulfil His promises. This continued until Abraham began to feel the consequences of not separating from his relatives as instructed by God. It was after he obeyed and separated from Lot that God resumed discussions with him concerning His promises. Abraham lost 13 years to disobedience! Don't be so wise in your own sight. Obey God today!

Key Point

Noise, acrobatics and tears do not move God: simple obedience does.

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Open Heavens 26 September 2017: Tuesday daily devotional by Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Because He is big

Posted: 25 Sep 2017 06:52 AM PDT

BECAUSE HE IS BIG – Tuesday September 26^th 2017

Memorise: For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name. Luke 1:49

Read: Luke 1:46-52 (KJV)

^1:46And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,

^1:47And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.

^1;48For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

^1:49For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name.

^1:50And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.

^1:51He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

^1:52He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.

Bible in one year: Nehemiah 12-13, Ezekiel 47:1-12, Hymn: Sing hymn 3

MESSAGE:

Our God is a great and big God. In terms of size, He is so massive. Imagine that He sits on His throne in the third heavens and His feet still touches the earth (Isaiah 66:1). Due to the fact that our God is so big, He does great and big things. In Genesis 1:20-22, when He said the waters should bring forth living creatures, the oceans were soon filled with all manner of fish and sea creatures. All He has to do is to say "Let there be", and it will come to pass. Open Heaven 26 September 2017: Tuesday daily devotional by Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Because He is big. The Lord will do great and mighty things in your life this season in Jesus' mighty Name! Doing great and mighty things is His specialty. No wonder in Jeremiah 33:3, He said:

"Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not."

When He met a young, ordinary and unknown virgin and He picked her for His great purpose, she was overwhelmed and had this to say:

"For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name."

Luke 1:49

In the mighty Name of Jesus, the Lord shall pick and use you for His great and mighty works to demonstrate his Almightiness!

In Genesis 1:28, God said "Be fruitful and multiply." When He says "multiply", He really means it. During creation, when He spoke that command, it was just Adam and Eve, but today, the world has several billions of people in it. Also, when Israel came into Egypt in Exodus 1:5, they were just 70 people; but by the time they were leaving, there were 600,000 men besides women, who would not have been less than 800,000, and children, who would have been at least 1,000,000 (Exodus 12:37). They kept multiplying in accordance of God's word, in spite of all that the government of Egypt did to drastically reduce their numbers. From today, no matter what the enemy does to stop your increase, God's word on increase will continue to thrive in your life! In addition to being a big God, He does big things. His purpose for your life is therefore big. Are you small, little, unknown and a local champion? Because your God is big, you cannot remain small. His size will definitely affect and transform your size. In the Name of Jesus Christ, you are breaking out of every barrier and limitation! You are coming out of every box of limitation that both you and others have enclosed you in! You shall be great, and you shall achieve great things for God's Name, far beyond your dreams!

Key Point

God cannot be big and you remain small. Your vision should reflect the size of your God.

Open Heavens Daily Devotional Lessons was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical Church in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer's Ministries.
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Open Heavens 25 September 2017: Monday daily devotional by Pastor E. A. Adeboye – No Skipping Details

Posted: 24 Sep 2017 08:45 AM PDT

NO SKIPPING DETAILS – Monday September 25^th 2017

Memorise: For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: Isaiah 28:10

Read: 2^nd Kings 4:1-7 (KJV)

4:1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.

^4:2And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.

^4:3Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.

^4:4And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.

^4:5So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.

^4:6And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.

^4:7Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.

Bible in one year: Nehemiah 10-11, Ezekiel 46:13-24, Hymn: Sing hymn 14

MESSAGE:

To avoid financial storms, you need to carefully note all the elements of a divine instruction. God is a God of details. When He gives you a recipe top solve a particular problem, He expects you to leave no details out. In today's Bible reading, so solve the serious debt problem of the widow of a late prophet, Elisha asked her to borrow vessels from all her neighbours, shut the door behind her and pour out her remaining pot of oil into all available vessels. If she had altered any element of this instruction, it would definitely have affected the result she got. Some people receive certain divine instructions and thereafter determine which to obey and which to discard. No! All the details must be observed! Do you know that if the widow had borrowed the vessels but refused to shut her door, the oil would not have flowed?

Beloved, always pay close attention to whatever instructions you receive from God. When it comes to sowing for instance, 2^nd Corinthians 9:6-7 says,

"But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver."

From the details of this scripture, it is not just sowing that will get you your expected returns, but rather, sowing bountifully and cheerfully. Today, many people have chosen to forget these details on sowing, and this accounts for the financial storms in their lives. On tithing, it is not enough to tithe, but to bring in all the tithes. After completing my PhD research, I recalled I still had part of my research grant with the university. So I went to my Head of Department (HoD) asking to draw out of it to bind my thesis. He refused to release it to me, and when I insisted, he sent me out of his office. With no other funds available, I wondered how to get the money I needed. A little past midnight, someone came knocking on my door. He said he could not sleep, and so he came to return the money I had loaned him five years earlier. Although I had forgotten this money, God had not. He paid me the exact amount I needed. After binding the thesis, I was scared, wondering if my HoD would accept it and give me a good score. So on the following Sunday, I paid my tithe, and on Monday, when I submitted my thesis to him, he was impressed and offered to personally take it to the external examiner. He also waited on the examiner until he finished his job in three days instead of six months. After this, my PhD grant was paid, and it became useful pocket money for me. You cannot tell the extent God will go to satisfy those who are totally obedient.

Action Point

Ask God to lead out youths aright in the choice of life partners.

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Open Heavens 24 September 2017: Sunday daily devotional by Pastor E. A. Adeboye – The Important Factor

Posted: 23 Sep 2017 08:31 AM PDT

THE IMPORTANT FACTOR – Sunday September 24 2017

Memorise: And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the pre-eminence . Colossians 1:18

Read: Matthew 6:31-34 (KJV)

^6:31Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

^6:32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

^6:33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

^6:34Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Bible in one year: Nehemiah 9, Ezekiel 46:1-12, Hymn: Sing hymn 3

MESSAGE:

First thing first, so the saying goes. As a believer in Christ, when you come before God's presence, the most important person is not you but Him. Also, unlike most of us believe, at God's Throne of Grace, the most important thing is not your requests, but rather the worship you offer to Him. if you fail to get this right, and you fail to adjust your approach and attitude to reflect this truth, you will always have issues with God. Do you know that every time you approach God's presence, it is like facing a test? Believe it or not, when you come before God, there are two crucial people at that meeting: God and you. One of these two must take pre-eminence. Similarly, God has a need and you also have a need; one of these two needs must be more important.

"But seek ye first kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."

Matthew 6:33

The scripture tells us about a divine order that must be followed. It also talks about God's need and man's need. It tells us that God has already provided for all of man's needs. In other words, God already has all you would ever need at anytime in your life. For you to receive them, all that He requires from you is to simply meet His needs. Give Him what He wants. Put Him first and your needs last. Give Him quality thanks, praise and worship. When you follow Heaven's protocol, you will easily receive a favourable answer to your requests. God expects you to come before His presence with thanksgiving, praise and worship, leaving your request as the last thing. Do you know that one way to know how important something really is to you us to measure the amount of time you give to it? When you pray for one hour and you use 50 minutes of the time presenting your requests, you are telling God that you and your request are more important than Him and His desires. How do you think this makes God feel? In any case, He has already expressed His thoughts about this in 1^st Samuel 2:30^d, where He said:

"For them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed."

Also, what you focus on becomes magnified. If you focus on your problems, they will be enlarged, but if you focus on God and on what He wants, He will be magnified to the extent that your problems will fade into insignificance. By the time you eventually remember them, you would discover that they have been swallowed up by His Almightiness, leaving you with the answer to your prayers.

Key Point

If you make God your priority, He will make you His priority.

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Open Heavens 23 September 2017: Saturday daily devotional by Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Resisting God?

Posted: 22 Sep 2017 06:25 AM PDT

RESISTING GOD? – Saturday September 23^rd 2017

Memorise: Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? 1^st Corinthians 10:22

Read: 1^st Corinthians 10:21-23 (KJV)

^10:21Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

^10:22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

^10:23All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

Bible in one year: Nehemiah 7-8, Ezekiel 45:10-25, Hymn: Sing hymn 6

MESSAGE:

Colossians 1:16 tells us that all visible and invisible things were created by God and for God. You were created to make God happy by following His will, plan and purpose for your life. However, when you take the path of self-government and go contrary to the purpose for which you were created, that is rebellion. Lucifer and several angels decided to walk out of God's original plan, and they became who we now refer to as Satan and demons (Isaiah 14:12-16, Revelation 12:7-9). Anyone who follows self-government today will also end up where the devil and his demons are. The truth is, if you fail God, you fail yourself. Therefore, pleasing God is the real path to true self-fulfilment, lasting peace and joy. I tell you the truth, living on earth without confronting to God's original blueprint for your life makes you waste that life. Without God, life is not worth living.

"No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier."

2^nd Timothy 2:4

We are not here on earth by our power or design. We were created and placed here to satisfy God's eternal plan and purpose for our lives. Even when Jesus was here, in all that He did, He did not try to please Himself but His father (John 8:29, John 5:30). Now that He has chosen us to be His soldiers, we cannot afford to please ourselves. When He gives us an assignment, we must do it exactly as He wants it done, or risk going against Him. In 1^st Samuel 15, King Saul was given an assignment by God to go and utterly wipe out the Amalekites. He went out to fulfil it but made slight changes to the instructions. In the end, he failed God and failed himself. He lost his kingdom because he could not totally comply with God's will. Today, for this same reason, many people are close to completely losing their place in God's divine plan. A king who resisted God had to go on a seven-year trip into insanity, and he lost his throne for that period (Daniel 4). Similarly, another king who said that God's word should not be heard was eaten alive by worms (Acts 12:1-24). If these great kings could not resist or withstand God, do you think you can? If you are wise, you will totally submit to His will today. God has a problem with the so-called obedience of a good number of His children. Although He is speaking to them, they are not listening to Him; rather they are more interested in hearing themselves. Hence, He has almost grounded them in all areas. Thinking it's the devil at fault, such people are wrongly praying against agents of darkness. It is time to do nothing short of God's total will in all your ways!

Key Point

Those who resist God are fighting a battle they can never win.

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Open Heavens 22 September 2017: Friday daily devotional by Pastor E. A. Adeboye – When You are Blessed

Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:42 AM PDT

WHEN YOU ARE BLESSED – Friday September 22^nd 2017

Memorise: By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. Hebrews 11:20

Read: Genesis 27:20-29 (KJV)

^27:20And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord thy God brought it to me.

^27:21And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.

^27:22And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

^27:23And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.

^27:24And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.

^27:25And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine and he drank.

^27:26And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.

^27:27And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed:

^27:28Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:

^27:29Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.

Bible in one year: Nehemiah 4-6, Ezekiel 44:28-45:9, Hymn: Sing hymn 14

MESSAGE:

A blessing is an invitation to all the forces in Heaven, on earth and underneath the earth to cooperate with an individual and assist him or her to succeed. When Isaac pronounced a blessing on Jacob in today's Bible reading, he summoned the dew of heaven, the land, and all the forces on earth to be of assistance to Jacob. As a result of this blessing, Jacob became exceedingly great. Hear what Genesis 30:43, says about his greatness:

"And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses."

How about his brother Esau? Genesis 27:38-40 says after Jacob had stolen the cream of the blessing from him, Esau came to ask for the remnant. What was the result of this "remnant"? From Genesis 32:3-6, we understand that this remnant got him so blessed that he could afford to retain the services of 400 personal bodyguards. If you become so rich that you require 400 men to go with you wherever you go, that is something remarkable. I can recall the first time a president visited us at the Redemption Camp; he came with an entourage of 250 people. So Imagine how blessed Esau was for him to have had 400 people in his entourage! I believe he was really blessed.

Moreover, let me add here that after a blessing is pronounced on you, it may not be obvious how the blessing will be fulfilled. Most times, it may not even make sense. You may not even be able to afford a bicycle now, and a blessing may be pronounced on you that a time will come when you will need a Boeing 747 to airlift those who will accompany you whenever you are travelling. It may not make sense to you, but that is what a blessing can do. I often say that I am where I am today by the grace of God and by the blessings of my mother. Any time I did something that pleased her, she would bless me. She would say, "You this boy, you will call one person, and two hundred people will respond." I didn't know what she meant back then, and I didn't know how it would happen, but I always said "Amen". Today, by the grace of God, I can say this has become reality. Have you provoked the blessing of your biological parents? Have you provoked the blessing of your spiritual parents? Most importantly, have you provoked a blessing from God?

Action Point

When a blessing is pronounced on you, simply sustain a conducive atmosphere for its fulfilment, and it will surely come to pass.

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