Open Heaven 19 September 2021: [Sunday] Devotional By Pastor E.A Adeboye – Provision Through Thanks
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Heaven 19 September 2021 Topic: Provision Through
Thanks
MEMORISE: Being enriched in everything to all
bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God. – 2 Corinthians 9:11
READ: John 6:11-13
(KJV)
11 And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given
thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were
set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.
12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples,
Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Proverbs 13:1-25
Open Heaven 19 September 2021 MESSAGE:
There are many so-called praise songs that are not
celebrating the beauty of Gods holiness and are thus unacceptable to the Lord.
The sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving can produce abundant prosperity,
according to our memory verse today.
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Spiritual Warfare
Let us consider prosperity
through the sacrifice of thanks, as we see in today’s Bible reading. We as
children of God need to understand that God has numerous ways by which He can
do whatever He says He will. We should not waste our time in trying to pre-empt
God or dictating to Him how our blessings or prosperity should come. We are to
simply pray for what we want with thanksgiving Philippians 4:6.
Open Heaven 19 September 2021 – OPEN HEAVEN FOR TODAY
When the battle against the
children of Israel raged in 2 Chronicles 20:1-37,
King Jehoshaphat merely obeyed the voice of the Lord by appointing choristers
to sing unto God. Who would have thought that soldiers from the attacking
nations would go to war with so many precious jewels and expensive clothes? God
had purposed to bless His people because He knew from the onset that they would
praise and bless the beauty of His holiness and He had to compensate them for
giving Him His due!
Another lesson we must learn from
this story is that our praise and worship must be inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Some of our so-called songs of praise are from our carnal man, not the Spirit.
“But the hour cometh, and now is,
when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for
the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship
him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” John 4:23-24
When we give God heartfelt praise
and worship, He in turn showers us with blessings. However, if we deny Him the
praise He is worthy of, He would also deny us His prosperity. In the text of
today, our Lord gave thanks upon five loaves and two fishes; the response of
His Father was phenomenal five thousand men were fed to satisfaction.
Many of us are so ungrateful. How
blessed we would be if we could learn to offer God the sacrifice of thanks. Let
us cultivate the habit of giving God worthy praise and thanksgiving and He will
bless us with abundant prosperity.
Open Heaven 19 September 2021 KEY POINT:
Decide to worship God in truth, in spirit and in
holiness, giving thanks throughout today as you go about your activities.
Open
Heaven 19 September 2021 HYMN: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
1.
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty,
the King of creation!
O my soul, praise him,
for he is your health and salvation!
Come, all who hear;
now to his temple draw near,
join me in glad adoration.
2.
Praise to the Lord,
above all things so wondrously reigning;
sheltering you under his wings,
and so gently sustaining!
Have you not seen all that is needful has
been sent by his gracious ordaining?
3.
Praise to the Lord, who will prosper your work and defend you;
surely his goodness and mercy shall daily
attend you. Ponder anew what the Almighty can do,
if with his love he befriends you.
Praise to the Lord! O let all that is in me adore him!
All that has life and breath, come now with
praises before him. Let the Amen sound from his people again;
gladly forever adore him.
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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