Open Heaven 13 November 2022: [Sunday Devotional By Pastor E.A. Adeboye – God Requires Diligence
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Open Heaven 13 November 2022 TOPIC: God Requires Diligence
Memorise: The soul of the sluggard
desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. Proverbs
13:4 (KJV)
READ: Proverbs 6:6-11 (KJV)
6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy
sleep?
10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to
sleep:
11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Open Heaven 13 November 2022 MESSAGE:
Many people assume that God blessing them means that money will just
suddenly fall in their laps. That is not true. If you want things to get
better, then as God opens doors, you also need to work diligently.
ALSO READ: Open Heavens 12 November 2022 – Things Will Get Better
A few years ago, I gave someone an assignment in January which he could
have completed in 3 months. My plan was to give him another as soon as he
completed the first. However, as at September, he was still struggling to
finish. There was no way I would give him another. God had opened doors of
financial blessings to him, but he refused to be diligent so he only got the
blessing from one door.
On the other hand, there was a son of mine who would always ask me to pray
for him to have a breakthrough whenever he saw me and I always obliged him. One
day I received a letter from him saying he had gotten a big contract. When I
saw the amount, I believed he must have mistakenly added more zeros than the
actual value. I thought he mistook N500,000:00 for N50,000,000. After some
time, to my amazement, I got a cheque from him and a cover note saying, “Daddy,
I have paid my tithe, but you are the one who prayed, so here is another 10%
for you”. I was shocked to see that he wasn’t mistaken after all, so I called
him to hear his story. He said that he had executed a project for a state
government, and the governor was so impressed with his performance that he
invited him to his office and gave him another project that ended poverty in
his life.
God wants to answer many people’s prayers, but their lack of diligence has
blocked the breakthrough from coming. Luke 16:12 says:
And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall
give you that which is your own?
You say your salary where you work now is small and you want God to give
you a breakthrough so that you will be paying people salaries; however, if you
are not faithful in another man’s business, how will God give you yours?
Open Heavens 13 November 2022 Key Point
God requires diligence for your breakthrough to come.
Open Heaven 13 November 2022 HYMN 3: Deeper, Deeper In The Love Of Jesus
1 Deeper, deeper in the love of Jesus
Daily let me go;
Higher, higher in the school of wisdom,
More of grace to know.
Refrain:
Oh, deeper yet, I pray,
And higher ev’ry day,
And wiser, blessed Lord,
In Thy precious, holy word.
2 Deeper, deeper! blessed Holy Spirit,
Take me deeper still,
Till my life is wholly lost in Jesus,
And His perfect will.
3 Deeper, deeper! tho’ it cost hard trials,
Deeper let me go!
Rooted in the holy love of Jesus,
Let me fruitful grow.
4 Deeper, higher, ev’ry day in Jesus,
Till all conflict past,
Finds me conqu’ror, and in His own image
Perfected at last.
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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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