Open Heaven 29 November 2020: [Sunday]
Daily Devotional By Pastor E.A Adeboye – Be A Doer of the Word
BE A DOER OF THE WORD – Sunday November
29th 2020
Memorise: But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,
deceiving your own selves. James 1:22
Read: James 1:21-25 (KJV)
21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness,
and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your
own selves.
23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like
unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway
forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Bible in one year: 1st Corinthians 5-8, Hymn: Sing hymn 20
Message:-
Life, like a coin, has two sides. You are either stingy or generous, proud or humble. Hardworking or lazy. In the same vein, you are either a mere hearer of the word of God or a doer.
Open Heaven 29 November 2020 – Be A Doer of the Word
A hearer is one who
listens to the word of God with rapt attention only to later forget and revert
to his/her normal way of doing things. He/she may even have resolved to change
during the course of the teaching; however, the hearer would not change because
he/she would not make a conscious effort to initiate the change process.
With every word which convicts your heart, you must make the change immediately, or else you would be a mere hearer of the word. Don’t begin to analyse it; just make the change. In the process of analysing, you will give the devil the opportunity to suggest why you should not make that necessary change.
Open Heaven 29 November 2020: [Sunday] Daily Devotional By Pastor E.A Adeboye – Be A Doer of the Word
If after listening to a sermon, you realise the
need to repent from committing adultery, you must immediately break the evil
relationships that make you open to the sin, before you even think about it.
Send a message to your partner in sin and delete his/she contact immediately.
If you delay, the devil would tell you how hurt the person would feel; he would
also remind you of the sinful pleasures that you would be missing. At the end
of the day, if you entertain the thoughts of the devil, you may eventually
return to adultery and end up in hell. John 15:14 says:
“Ye
are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.”
Open Heaven 29 November 2020 Sunday:Key Point
Once I hear a word that touches me, I act on
it immediately without hesitation. When I heard that worldly music invites
evils spirits into the home, I immediately destroyed everything connected to
worldly music in my home. I did not even look at any of the cassettes for the
fear of seeing one or two that might make me reconsider my resolve. I acted on
the word immediately and become better afterwards.
Your mind is a battlefield; if you give the
enemy the opportunity to re-strategise, you could eventually lose the fight.
Key Point
Delay may be dangerous when God’s word convicts you, act on it
immediately.
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