Open Heaven 7 June 2021: [Monday] Daily Devotional By Pastor E.A Adeboye – Identify Your Enemies II
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HEAVEN 7 June 2021 TOPIC: Identify Your Enemies II
MEMORISE: Plead my cause, O LORD,
with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. –
Psalm 35:1
READ: Luke 18:1-3 (KJV)
1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought
always to pray, and not to faint;
2 Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God,
neither regarded man:
3 And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Samuel 4-7
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Heaven 7 June 2021 MESSAGE:
You cannot afford to be gentle with your enemy – the devil
because if you do not get him first, he will get you. When the woman in the
Bible reading of today prayed thus “avenge me of my adversary”, I assume:
1.
That the adversary was
not a stranger.
2.
Since the adversary was
known to her, it means the battle was not new.
3.
The adversary must have
wronged her significantly. Once an adversary discovers your weakness, he will
keep hitting you at the same spot.
4.
When the widow said, “my
adversary”, it means the adversary was personal to her. It is sad that some
people fight other people’s enemies-leaving theirs unchallenged.
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YOUR ENEMIES I
The fact that the woman cried to the judge shows that she knew
she could not fight for herself; she needed a higher power. This is exactly
what David knew and wrote in Psalms 35. Goliath was a mighty external enemy;
however, it was easy for David to kill him. This is because David knew that the
spiritual controls the physical even from the utterance of his adversary who
said in 1 Samuel 17:43:
“…Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with
staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.”
OPEN HEAVEN FOR TODAY 7 JUNE 2021
Why did Goliath curse David by his gods and then go head to use
his weapons against the lad? Beloved, unbelievers believe that no life can be
taken if the thing they believe in does not allow it. It was as if Goliath was
taken permission from his gods to take David’s life. As for David, he saw
Goliath as someone who tried to ridicule the Almighty God. In the end, David
dealt with Goliath. Some people seem to be more benevolent than God, to their
peril. When they are asked to pray to God to fight their battles for them, they
keep mute, thinking it is wrong to say such prayers, whereas the man whom our
memory verse described as after God’s heart prayed when confronted with the
destroyers of his life. While we are not permitted to take vengeance on our
adversaries, we must act like the widow in today’s Bible reading; she reported
the case to a higher authority. God is the Righteous Judge and His judgment is
the most accurate (Psalm 9:8). As you do, the Lord will fight your battle for
you today in Jesus’ name.
Open Heaven 7 June 2021 PRAYER POINT:
Cry
to God; ask Him to fight on your behalf, against the enemies who want to
destroy you.
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Heaven 7 June 2021 HYMN 4: Conquerors And Overcomers Now Are We
1.
Conquerors and overcomers now are we,
Thro’ the precious blood of Christ we’ve victory,
If the Lord be for us, we can never fail;
Nothing ‘gainst his mighty pow’r can e’er prevail.
Refrain:
Conquerors are we, thro’ the blood, thro’ the blood;
God will give us victory, thro’ the blood, thro’ the blood,
Thro’ the Lamb for sinners slain,
Yet who lives and reigns again,
More than conquerors are we,
More than conquerors are we.
2. In
the name of Israel’s God we’ll onward press,
Overcoming sin and all unrighteousness;
Not to us, but unto him the praise shall be,
For salvation and for blood-bought victory.
3.
Unto him that overcometh shall be giv’n
Here to eat of hidden manna sent from heav’n;
Over yonder he the victor’s palm shall bear,
And a robe of white, and golden crown shall wear.
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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