Open Heaven 22 August
2020: [Saturday] – How Hard are You Joined to Jesus?
HOW HARD ARE YOU JOINED TO JESUS? – Saturday August 22nd 2020
Memorise:
For to me to live is Christ, and tom dies is gain. Philippians 1:21
Read:
Romans 8:35-39 (KJV)
35 Who shall
separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or
persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is
written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep
for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in
all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am
persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor
powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor
height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from
the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Message:-
“And he
departed thence, and entered into a certain man’s house, named Justus, one that
worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.”
Acts 18:7
Open Heaven 22 August 2020 – How Hard are You Joined to Jesus?
Justus’ house joined hard to the
synagogue. How attached are you to the Church? Do you see the Church as just a
part of your life or is it your entire life? Are you only a Church-goer or are
you involved in the activities of the Church? Is Sunday the only time you think
about Church or do you also attend mid-week services and other soul-lifting
programmes? Are you more joined to your secular job than you are to the Church?
Do those who are you relate with everyday know you as you a member of the body
of Christ? How hard are you joined to Jesus?
Open Heaven 22 August 2020: [Saturday] – How Hard are You Joined to Jesus?
If I have to be involved in something,
I would be fully involved. If you are truly a child of God, you would not be
dormant in your Father’s house. Get involved, join the workforce, and give
towards the work of God.
Years ago we needed to fill an area of
the Headquarters church in Ebute-Metta with sawdust so as to reclaim land and
have more to build on. I bore a basin of the sawdust on my head, back and
forth, without any shame. A traffic jam on the main road caused a student of
mine to seek an alternative route near the church to his destination. Seeing
me, he cried out “Ah Oga” (meaning ‘Sir’). I looked at him and asked “Who is
Oga? I am no Oga in the house of my God; I am merely working for Jesus my
Master.” I am fully joined to the house of God. There is nothing being done to
advance God’s kingdom that I will not get involved in, even if it is just to
pray for them. How hard are you joined to the Church of Christ?
Open Heaven 22 August 2020 Saturday: Action Point
Those who are joined hard to the house
of God always enjoy His presence in every area of their lives. Because they are
very useful in His Kingdom business, He in turn makes anything that concerns
them His business. It pays to be joined hard to the Church of Christ. I am a
living witness.
Action
Point
Joined
the workforce in your local Church, if you haven’t done so already. Be more
fervent for the things of the kingdom.
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.
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