IT IS FINISHED! – Thursday May 21st
2020
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.
Memorise: Buried with him in
baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation
of God, who hath raised him from the dead. Colossians 2:12
Read: John 19:28-30 (KJV)
28 After this, Jesus
knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be
fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
29 Now there was set a
vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon
hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
30 When Jesus therefore
had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and
gave up the ghost.
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| Open Heaven 21 May 2020 – It is finished! |
Bible in one year: Psalms 95,
97-99, Hymn: Sing hymn 29
Message:-
“It
is finished” was the very last statement that Jesus Christ uttered on the cross
at Calvary, just before He died. There was a build-up of events, both
physically and spiritually, which culminated in the solemn moment that produced
that statement, it started in the garden of Eden when God created human begins
in His own image as His personal object of love, and began to have a most
intimate fellowship with them. Satan then played a trick on humanity by
tempting them to sin against God, thereby severing the beautiful relationship
between God and man. Therefore, God warned that the battle was far from being
over. Genesis 3:15 says:
Open Heaven 21 May 2020 – It is finished!
“And I will put enmity between thee and
the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and
thou shalt bruise his heel.”
God
put hostility between the seed of the woman and that of the devil. Without any
doubt, Jesus Christ is the seed of the woman. He was the only human being ever
to be born into this world without the input of a man as it was the Holy Spirit
the brought about His conception. Theologically speaking, it is believed that
God in His infinite wisdom carefully coded the plans of redemption into Genesis
3:15. This code remained hidden to the devil until the death and resurrection
of Jesus Christ. Jesus was however, fully aware of this divine plan to save
mankind; thus, in John 19:30, He triumphantly cried with a loud voice “it is finished!”
as a declaration of victory over the devil and his agents. Anyone who wishes to
be part of that victory must accept Jesus as his/her personal Lord and Saviour.
Open Heaven 21 May 2020: [Thursday] – It is finished!
This
acceptance must however not be in verbal confession only but in all our actions
as well. I pray that the devil’s reign of terror over your life and family will
come to an end today, in the mighty name of Jesus. Jesus already won the battle
and indeed, it is finished!
Prayer Point
Father, thank you for the
salvation of my soul through which you have given me victory ahead of my
battles.
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