Open Heaven 15 December 2021: [Wednesday] Devotional By Pastor E.A. Adeboye – Beware of Profiteering
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Heaven 15 December 2021 TOPIC: Beware of
Profiteering
MEMORISE A false balance
is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight. Proverbs 11:1
READ: t. Proverbs 11:1-4 (KJV)
1. A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but
a just weight is his delight.
2. When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with
the lowly is wisdom.
3. The integrity of the upright shall guide them:
but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
4. Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2nd Peter 11:21, 2nd Peter 2:1-22, 2nd Peter 3:1-18
Open Heaven 15 December 2021 MESSAGE:
Profiteering the act of making excessive and unfair profit usually
through illegal means is considered as wickedness before God. Profiteering
involves taking undue advantage of others.
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You may not know the havoc you are wreaking on humanity until
God opens your eyes to see that both the services and goods you are charging
exorbitantly for are not affordable by those who need them for survival.
Many people profiteer because they want to make excessive
profits and enrich themselves with worldly possessions. They have lost sight of Proverbs 13:11 which says: “Wealth gotten by vanity shall
be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.”
Proverbs 13:22 also says..the wealth of
the sinner is laid up for the just. It is tantamount to slavery when people
work for you and you deny them their wages or tactically delay their pay. God
will punish such people because they have been unfaithful.
Open Heaven 15 December 2021 – OPEN HEAVEN FOR TODAY
James 5:4 says: “..the hire of the labourers who
have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and
the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of
Sabath.”
The Scripture above expresses the mind of God about
profiteering. Consider the lives of those who have gathered wealth illegally
just to leave an inheritance for their children.
In many cases, even in their lifetime, their children sell
property bought with these looted funds to the children of those they have
defrauded.
We have heard the stories of children of labourers purchasing
the property of their father’s masters when the Lord of Sabaoth caused wealth
to change hands. Truly, the treasures of wickedness will never bring profit (Proverbs 10:2).
Beloved, remember the words of our Lord Jesus in Luke 12:15 and be wise. Wealth does not guarantee
satisfaction, joy, peace and security. It is foolishness to run after wealth
mindlessly.
Godliness with contentment is what brings great gain (1 Timothy 6:6).
Open Heaven 15 December 2021 PRAYER POINT:
Father,
please deliver my soul from greed. Let me never chase after uncertain riches,
in the mighty name of Jesus.
Open
Heaven 15 December 2021 HYMN: JESUS MY LORD MY GOD MY ALL
1. Jesus, my
Lord, my God, my all,
hear me,
blest Savior, when I call;
hear me, and
from thy dwelling place
pour down the
riches of thy grace.
CHORUS
Refrain:
Jesus, my Lord, I thee adore;
O make me
love thee more and more.
2. Jesus, too
late I thee have sought;
how can I
love thee as I ought?
And how extol
thy matchless fame,
the glorious
beauty of thy name?
3. Jesus,
what didst thou find in me
that thou
hast dealt so lovingly?
How great the
joy that thou hast brought,
so far
exceeding hope or thought!
4. Jesus, of
thee shall be my song;
to thee my
heart and soul belong;
all that I
have or am is thine,
and thou,
blest Savior, thou art mine.
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 kleinanzeigen in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer's
Ministries.
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