Open Heaven 25 November 2022 – Beware Of Covetousness I

Open Heaven 25 November 2022: [Friday] Devotional By Pastor E.A. Adeboye – Beware Of Covetousness I

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Open Heaven 25 November 2022 TOPIC: Beware Of Covetousness I

Memorise: Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Hebrew 13:5

READ: 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (KJV)

9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Acts 21-23

Open Heaven 25 November 2022 MESSAGE:

Covetousness is when you are so eagerly desirous of wealth or material possessions that you are willing to do anything, even committing sin, to get it. In Colossians 3:5, the Bible calls covetousness idolatry:

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Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

In other words, the covetous fellow is not a child of God, but an idol worshipper.

There are many people in the Bible who covetousness ruined. Lot, for example, was a man who was picked up by Abraham. He became rich because of his association with Abraham. When his wealth grew and there was contention between his servants and those of Abraham, the issue revealed what had always been within Lot: a covetous heart.

 

And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. – Genesis 13:10

 

Ordinarily, when Abraham asked Lot to choose first which side he wanted to go to, he should have said, “No, Uncle. You are the one who brought me along with you. You are the one who has been taking care of me all this while. You choose which side you want and I will go to the other side”. At the end of the day, his covetousness brought him trouble because he lost all that he took to and even gained at Sodom. He lost his wife too.

Covetousness is so terrible that it can destroy a man completely. Check yourself to know whether you are having some inordinate ambition to be rich. Kill that ambition now and look to God, trusting Him to make you rich in His own way. Only the blessings of God will make you rich without adding sorrow to your life Proverbs 10:22.

Open Heavens 25 November 2022 Prayer Point

Is there any sign of covetousness in your life? If there is, pray that God would remove it in Jesus’ name.

Open Heaven 25 November 2022 HYMN 11: Let Us With A Gladsome Mind

1 Let us, with a gladsome mind,

praise the LORD, for He is kind:

for His mercies shall endure,

ever faithful, ever sure.

 

2 Let us blaze His Name abroad,

for of gods He is the God:

for His mercies shall endure,

ever faithful, ever sure.

 

3 He with all-commanding might

filled the new-made world with light:

for His mercies shall endure,

ever faithful, ever sure.

 

4 All things living He doth feed;

His full hand supplies their need:

for His mercies shall endure,

ever faithful, ever sure.

 

5 He His chosen race did bless

in the wasteful wilderness:

for His mercies shall endure,

ever faithful, ever sure.

 

6 He hath with a pious eye

looks upon our misery:

for His mercies shall endure,

ever faithful, ever sure.

 

7 Let us therefore warble forth

His high majesty and worth:

for His mercies shall endure,

ever faithful, ever sure.

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.