Open Heaven 11 September 2022 – When God Laughs

Open Heaven 11 September 2022: [Sunday] Devotional By Pastor E.A. Adeboye – When God Laughs

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Open Heaven 11 September 2022 TOPIC: When God Laughs

MEMORISE: He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision. Psalms 2:4

READ: Psalms 2:1-4 (KJV)

1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

 

2. The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

 

3. Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

 

4. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Ezekiel 14:1-23, Ezekiel 15:1-8, Ezekiel 16:1-63

Open Heaven 11 September 2022 MESSAGE:

When God laughs, two things are about to happen. The first is that His child or children are about to laugh at their enemies. The second is that the enemies of His children are about to be disgraced.

ALSO READ: Open Heavens 10 September 2022 –When God Brags  

From the Bible reading, the kings came together against the Lord and His anointed, saying they wanted to break their bands asunder and cast away their cords. We get an idea of which bands they were talking about in Matthew 11:29: “Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.”

 

They see the word of God as bands. They see His ways as cords binding them. They see Him and His anointed as people restricting them from living freely and doing whatever they like, and so they begin to bring up laws and various agenda just to oppose the ways of the Lord. God said He will laugh at them.

 

Several governments in our world today want to legitimise same-sex marriages, justify killing babies in the womb, do whatever they like and sear the peoples conscience against the word of God. They may seem to be happy and doing well, but when God decides to laugh at them, they will be in derision (Psalms 2:1-4).

 

No matter what you do, you cannot be greater than God. You either bow to Him willingly, or you bow in shame. You cannot come against Him or His children and go scot-free, you would be ashamed at the end of the day. When He laughs at a person’s schemes, it means He is about to take action and it is His children that will come out on the winning side.

 

Even if a person lives outside His restrictions and appears to be enjoying himself or herself, at the very end, the lake of fire will be waiting for such a fellow. Stop trying to break His bands off you, stop trying to break off the restrictions in the word of God; they are for your own good.

 

His yoke is easy and will give you rest at the end of the day. The day of the rapture is a day of laughter for God. If you discipline yourself to live according to His will now, you will be laughing with Him on that day, but if you decide to live the way you like now, it will be a day of mockery for you. Which do you choose?

Open Heaven 11 September 2022 Prayer Point:

When God laughs at His enemies, will you be on the winning side or the losing side?

Open Heaven 11 September 2022 HYMN: O WORSHIP THE KING

1. O worship the King all glorious above,

O gratefully sing His power and His love:

our Shield and Defender, the

Ancient of Days,

pavilioned in splendour and girded

with praise.

 

2. O tell of His might, O sing of His grace,

whose robe is the light, whose

canopy space.

His chariots of wrath the deep

thunderclouds form,

and dark is His path on the wings of

the storm.

 

3. Thy bountiful care, what tongue can

recite?

It breathes in the air, it shines in the

light;

It streams from the hills, it descends

to the plain,

and sweetly distils in the dew and

the rain.

 

4. Frail children of dust, and feeble as

frail,

in Thee do we trust, nor find Thee to

fail.

Your mercies, how tender, how firm

to the end,

our Maker, Defender, Redeemer,

and Friend!

 

5. O measureless Might, ineffable Love,

While angels delight to hymn Thee above!

The humbler creation, though

feeble their lays,

with true adoration shall lisp to Thy praise!

  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.