Open Heaven For Today 2024 Wednesday Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye – The Challenges Of Being Anointed 1
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TOPIC: The Challenges Of Being Anointed 1
MEMORISE: “And he turned back, looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LordLordd there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.” – 2 Kings 2:24 (KJV)
READ: Numbers 20:1-13 (KJV)
1 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: the people abode in Kadesh, and Miriam died there and was buried there.
2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron.
3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LordLordAnd why have ye brought up the congregation of the LordLordo this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
5 And wherefore have ye made us come out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? There is no place for seeds, figs, vines, or egranates; neither is there any water to drink.
6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LordLordeared unto them.
7 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron, thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes, and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation, and their beasts drink.
9 And Moses took the rod from before the LordLord he commanded him.
10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
11 And Moses lifted his hand, and with his rod, he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
12 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
13 This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LordLordd he was sanctified in them.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Kings 3-5
Open Heaven For Today 2024 MESSAGE
Do you want to be heavily anointed? The One who generates the anointing has more than enough for everybody. Psalm 23:5 says, “Thou anointed my head with oil, my cup runneth over.” He has enough for everybody, but are you willing to pay the price? Are you willing to go through the challenges that come with being anointed? Hebrews 1:9 says that if you love righteousness and hate iniquity, God will anoint you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
Yesterday, I mentioned some benefits of being anointed, but it is also important to note that the anointing also comes with challenges. The major challenge with being anointed is that power can corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The more anointed you are, the more careful you must be because of the tendency to misuse power. In Numbers 20:1-13, especially verse 10, Moses said to the people, “Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?”
Only a few minutes before then, he was on his face before God, asking for a solution to the problem. When God told him what to do, he turned to the people who had been provoking him, called them rebels, and spoke as if the power to bring water out of the rock was from him and not God. In verse 12, God said that because he did not sanctify Him in the eyes of the people, he would not enter the promised land.
I have always told pastors in The Redeemed Christian Church of God that no one must ever feel like he healed anybody. Left alone, you cannot even heal a rat! God heals, and you are only a vessel through which healing occurs. You must always see that as a privilege. Since the power to perform miracles is not yours, God can use anyone else to do it. A man of God once said that if you remove God from him, there will be little left. I was surprised because, in my case, if you remove God from me, there will be absolutely nothing left.
Beloved, never forget that without God, you are nothing. Anyone who thinks that they can be something without God is clearly on a path to destruction. No matter how anointed you are, never allow yourself to feel all-powerful. Ensure that you remain humble.
KEY POINT
Never forget that it is God who works miracles, not you.
HYMN 1 – All Hail The Power Of Jesus’ Name
1 All hail the power of Jesus’ name!
Let angels prostrate fall,
Let angels prostrate fall;
Bring forth the royal diadem,
And crown Him, crown Him,
crown Him, crown Him;
And crown Him LordLordall!
2 Ye chosen seed of Israel’s race,
Ye ransomed from the fall,
Ye ransomed from the fall,
Hail Him who saves you by His grace,
3 Sinners, whose love can ne’er forget
The wormwood and the gall,
The wormwood and the gall,
Go, spread your trophies at His feet,
4 Let every kindred, every tribe,
On this terrestrial ball,
On this terrestrial ball,
To Him all majesty ascribe,
5 O that with yonder sacred throng
We at His feet may fall,
We at His feet may fall!
We’ll join the everlasting song,
Open Heavens 2024 Daily Devotional guide was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical churches in the world, and also the President of Christ the Redeemer’s Ministries. The Open Heavens devotional application is available across all mobile platforms and operating systems: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Nokia, Windows Mobile, and PC. Open Heaven for Today 2024
Ambydennis Notice Board: Until you are born again, God’s abiding presence will never be with you. It would be best if you were born again to enjoy continuous victory. Please say the displayed prayer below in faith:
Lord Jesus, come into my life. I accept You as my Lord and Personal Saviour. I believe in my heart that You died and rose from the dead to save me. Thank You, Lord, for saving me. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
If you just prayed the prayer of salvation online, please send your testimonies and prayer request to [email protected], +234-1-8447340, +234-0-7098213112.
Open Heaven For Today 2024 Tuesday Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Benefits Of The Anointing
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TOPIC: Benefits Of The Anointing
MEMORISE: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,” – Luke 4:18 (KJV)
READ: 2 Kings 2:15-22 (KJV)
15 And when the sons of the prophets to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and sMastery master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the Lord hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.
17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. Therefore, They sent fifty men and sought three days but found him not.
18 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
19 And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lordLordth: but the water is no, and the ground barren.
20 He said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
21 And he went forth to the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha, which he spoke of.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Kings 3-5
Open Heaven For Today 2024 MESSAGE
The anointing makes you a blessing to all kinds of people. In (2 Kings 4:1-7), Elisha was a blessing to a poor widow. You can put an end to someone’s poverty because you are anointed. Also, you can become a blessing, even to the rich and powerful. You can sit in your room and tell a wealthy fellow, “Go and wash,” as Elisha told Naaman, and if the fellow obeys, he will be healed. However, it is essential to note that if an anointed person blesses others solely for monetary gains, the problem of the rich will become the fellow’s problem, as Naaman’s leprosy came upon Gehazi (2 Kings 5:20-27).
The anointing gives you the power to put smiles on the faces of people who would otherwise have been sorrowful. When I turned 80, I insisted I wasn’t throwing a party. However, General Overseers gathered in my office after the Holy Ghost Service that day. When they were asked to share testimonies, one of them, a medical doctor now a General Overseer, said two of his daughters became sick. One was already gasping for breath when suddenly, he thought, “I have prayed, and nothing has happened; at least I know someone whose anointing is more than mine,” so he called me that night. When he told me what was happening, God asked me to tell him to do some things. When he started doing what I asked, the other doctors with him began to wonder what he was doing. He told them this wasn’t medicine but an instruction from Redemption Camp. The children survived miraculously; today, one is a doctor, and I think the other is an engineer. If you want to be able to turn sorrow away from families, pursue God’s anointing.
The anointing also gives you divine security. Our God is like a coin that has two sides: He is Love (1 John 4:8), and He is also a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29). When He says touch, not my anointed, He is saying, “Don’t touch fire.” In Africa, we have a saying that even when a dog is mad, it still recognizes fire. No matter how crazy a man may be, he will never walk into a fire. When anointed, you become too dangerous for the devil to touch.
KEY POINT
Seek the anointing of God.
HYMN 2 – Amazing Grace
1 Amazing grace! how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now I am found,
I was blind, but now I see.
2 Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed!
3 The Lord hath promised good to me,
His word, my hope secures;
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures.
4 When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Then, when we first begun
Open Heavens 2024 Daily Devotional guide was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical churches in the world, and also the President of Christ the Redeemer’s Ministries. The Open Heavens devotional application is available across all mobile platforms and operating systems: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Nokia, Windows Mobile, and PC. Open Heaven for Today 2024
Ambydennis Notice Board: Until you are born again, God’s abiding presence will never be with you. It would be best if you were born again to enjoy continuous victory. Please say the displayed prayer below in faith:
Lord Jesus, come into my life. I accept You as my Lord and Personal Saviour. I believe in my heart that You died and rose from the dead to save me. Thank You, Lord, for saving me. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
If you just prayed the prayer of salvation online, please send your testimonies and prayer request to [email protected], +234-1-8447340, +234-0-7098213112.
Open Heaven For Today 2024 Monday Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Judging The Anointed?
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TOPIC: Judging The Anointed?
MEMORISE: “Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to Mastern master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God can make him stand.” – Romans 14:4 (KJV)
READ: Numbers 12:1-16 (KJV)
1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
2 And they said, Has the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? Has he not also spoken by us? And the Lord Lordrd it.
3 (Moses was now very meek, above all the men upon the face of the earth.)
4 And the Lord suddenly said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, Come out ye three to the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.
5 And the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud stood in the tabernacle’s door, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.
6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I, the Lord, will make myself known to him in a vision and will speak to him in a dream.
7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LordLordll he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
9 And the anger of the LordLord kindled against them, and he departed.
10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lordLordbeseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.
12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.
13 And Moses cried unto the LordLordying, Heal her now, O God, I pray thee.
14 And the Lord said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut out from the camp for seven days, and after that, let her be received in again.
15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp for seven days, and the people did not journey until Miriam was brought in again.
16 And afterward, the people were removed from Hazeroth and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Kings 1-2
Open Heaven For Today 2024 MESSAGE
Yesterday, I made it clear that the anointed should not be dishonored for any reason. Now, someone may ask, “What do we do with ministers of God who we believe to be erring?” This is a very delicate situation that requires God’s wisdom and direction. For example, in today’s Bible reading, Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because they believed he did something wrong. Miriam became leprous, and Moses had to pray to God for her to be healed.
It is not in your place to judge God’s servants; leave their judgments tMasterr Master. In Romans 12:19, the Bible says vengeance is His; report the matter to God, and He will deal with His anointed as He pleases.
Anointed ministers of God cannot hide under the canopy of being God’s anointed and begin to treat His sheep the way they like. Hebrews 10:31 says that it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God; believe me, a fellow should not experience God dealing with Himself. We discipline erring workers to shield them from God doing it Himself. When a pastor misbehaves, and the General Overseer suspends him, it is so that the Consuming Fire Himself will not be the one to do it. So, suppose a pastor overlooks a fellow’s wrongdoings because of their contributions to the church treasury. In that case, that pastor is doing more harm than good because God Himself will come in, and nobody wants to fall into the hands of the living God.
In 2 Samuel 11, David used his position to snatch another man’s wife and also got him killed. Nobody could punish him as no one was superior to the king. God had to step in to punish him. From that point on, there was no peace in David’s home. Not long after, one of his sons, Amnon, raped his half-sister, and then another son, Absalom, killed him. Later, Absalom rose against his father. To date, the sword has not departed from Israel because of the LordLord’sgement over David (2 Samuel 12:9-10).
When God anoints a person and uses that anointing to cheat others, God punishes that fellow. The punishment might last throughout their lineage from generation to generation.
KEY POINT
Leave the judgment of anointed ministers who cheat you to God.
HYMN 31 – Yield Not To Temptation
1 Yield not to temptation,
For yielding is a sin;
Each vict’ry will help you,
Some other to win;
Fight valiantly onward,
Evil passions subdue;
Look ever to Jesus,
He will carry you through.
Refrain:
Ask the Savior to help you,
Comfort, strengthen, and keep you;
He is willing to aid you,
He will carry you through.
2 Shun evil companions,
Bad language disdain;
God’s name holds in reverence,
Nor take it in vain;
Be thoughtful and earnest,
Kindhearted and true;
Look ever to Jesus,
He will carry you through. [Refrain]
3 To him that overcometh,
God giveth a crown;
Through faith, we will conquer,
Though often cast down;
He who is our Savior,
Our strength will renew;
Look ever to Jesus,
He will carry you through. [Refrain]
Open Heavens 2024 Daily Devotional guide was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical churches in the world, and also the President of Christ the Redeemer’s Ministries. The Open Heavens devotional application is available across all mobile platforms and operating systems: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Nokia, Windows Mobile, and PC. Open Heaven for Today 2024
Ambydennis Notice Board: Until you are born again, God’s abiding presence will never be with you. It would be best if you were born again to enjoy continuous victory. Please say the displayed prayer below in faith:
Lord Jesus, come into my life. I accept You as my Lord and Personal Saviour. I believe in my heart that You died and rose from the dead to save me. Thank You, Lord, for saving me. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
If you just prayed the prayer of salvation online, please send your testimonies and prayer request to [email protected], +234-1-8447340, +234-0-7098213112.
