Open Heaven 17 February 2021: [Wednesday] Daily Devotional By Pastor E.A Adeboye – Build for God
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OPEN HEAVEN 17 FEBRUARY 2021
TOPIC: Build For God
MEMORISE: Is it time for
you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? – Haggai
1:4
READ: Haggai 1:1-10
(KJV)
1 In the second year of Darius the king, in
the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by
Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and
to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying,
This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’S house should be
built.
3 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the
prophet, saying,
4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your
cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts;
Consider your ways.
6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye
eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye
clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to
put it into a bag with holes.
7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your
ways.
8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and
build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith
the LORD.
9 Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to
little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of
hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own
house.
10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: John 17-18
Open
Heaven 17 February 2021 MESSAGE:
There are certain kinds of offences that the head of a corporate
organisation would not bother to address personally. However, there are also
some other kinds of offences that would have to be addressed personally by the
head of the organisation. This is similar to what happens in Heaven. All sins
are evil, but there are certain sins which God may send an angel to punish the
sinner, while there are some others that He addresses personally. One of such
sins is leaving the house of God uncompleted.
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God will fight anyone who leaves His house uncompleted by
ensuring that any money such a fellow makes goes into a pocket with holes
(Haggai 1:4-7).
“4 Is it time for you, O ye, to
dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? 5 Now therefore thus saith
the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. 6 Ye have sown much, and bring in
little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with
drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth
wages to put it into a bag with holes. 7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider
your ways.” – Haggai 1:4-7
Open Heaven 17 February 2021 – Build for God
Could it be that the reason you’ve been unable to do much with
your income is that you don’t care to contribute to the completion of your
local Church building? Today, God is saying “Consider your ways”. I don’t like
it when I see God’s building project uncompleted, especially when I have the
resources that can help complete it. I have discovered that in return, God has
given me houses that I did not build and cars that I did not buy, including
those I cannot afford.
One of my sons heard that we were building an auditorium in The
Redeemed Christian Church of God and immediately sent me a huge sum of money in
Naira. Within days, he got the same amount of money he had contributed, but in
dollars. When you join in completing God’s building project, He will thank you
wondrously, but when you ignore it, you may attract His wrath as it is recorded
in our Bible reading today.
Never miss an opportunity to build for God.
Open Heaven 17 February 2021 ACTION POINT:
If
you have resources that can help to complete a church building project,
contribute to it today. God will certainly reward you handsomely for it.
Open
Heaven 17 February 2021 HYMN 6: Great Is Thy Faithfulness, O God My Father
1. Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father;
There is no shadow of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not;
As Thou has been Thou forever wiltbe.
Refrain:
Great is Thy faithfulness!
Great is Thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see.
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord unto me!
2. Summer and winter, and spring time and harvest,
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above,
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.
3. Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide!
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow.
Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!
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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