Open Heaven [10 December 2018] It is not a virtue!

Open Heaven 10 December 2018: [Monday] Daily Devotional By Pastor E.A Adeboye –It is not a virtue!

IT IS NOT A VIRTUE! Monday December 10^th 2018

Memorise: For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. 2^nd Corinthians 8:9

Read: 1^st Chronicles 4: 9-10 (KJV)

⁹ And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.

¹⁰ And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.

Bible in one year: Daniel 5-6, John 9:13-34, Hymnal: Sing Hymn 6

Message:-

I have tasted both poverty and a little of God’s blessing and I can tell you that the difference is clear. 

Open Heaven 10 December 2018 It is not a virtue!

I have concluded in my spirit that poverty is not a virtue rather, it is a vice. A vice is something evil. Poverty is evil and a root of iniquity which every child of God must pray against. No wonder Agur prayed in Proverbs 30:8-9, saying:

“Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.”

 According to this scripture, a poor man is on the borderline between innocence and the crime of stealing.

 Open Heaven 10 December 2018: [Monday] Daily Devotional By Pastor E.A Adeboye –It is not a virtue!

Today’s Bible reading gives a classic example of someone who did not see poverty as a virtue but rather as a vice, and he desperately prayed poverty out of his life. Jabez recognized poverty for what it is, and he asked God to enlarge his coast so that he could be kept from the evil that poverty brings. Every one of us needs to be like Jabez who acknowledged that the God of Israel was the one who could get him out of poverty. Promotion and increase comes from God, and He is the only one who can take away financial, mental and spiritual poverty all at once. Any other source will give you wealth but will take away your peace. For this reason, Deuteronomy 8:18 says:

“But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.”

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Every believer needs to ask God for the power to create wealth. You need to ask God to open your eyes of understanding to see the opportunities He puts in front of you to produce wealth and move you out of poverty. Our Lord Jesus Christ has already paid the price for us to be free from poverty. Our memory verse tells us that He became poor so that we can be rich. It is therefore a waste of God’s grace and a belittling of the price that Jesus paid for us to still live in poverty. You should however note that we are also expected to live a life of contentment (1^st Timothy 6:6-8). Today, pray like Jabez for God to enlarge your coast and open your eyes of understanding to see the opportunities He brings your way to create wealth.

Prayer Point: Father, deliver me from the shackles of poverty today and grant me all around prosperity to the glory of Your Name.

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 Churches in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer's Ministries.