Open Heaven 21 November 2022: [Monday] Devotional By Pastor E.A. Adeboye – No Automatic Power
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Open Heaven 21 November 2022 TOPIC: No Automatic Power
Memorise: And he said, Thou hast
asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it
shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so. – 2 Kings 2:10 (KJV)
READ: 2 Kings 2:9-14 (KJV)
9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto
Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And
Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me
when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not
be so.
11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold,
there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both
asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of
Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of
his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back,
and stood by the bank of Jordan;
14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the Lord God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.
Open Heaven 21 November 2022 MESSAGE:
One day, long ago, as I entered a room, a man jumped from behind the door,
grabbed my hand and started professing, “I receive the anointing, double
portion of the anointing is mine!” I shook him off. You get the anointing by
sacrifice, not by professing it. You spend hours, if not days, on your knees.
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You fast for weeks, spend hours studying the word to know this God, you
leave your comfort zone and go out to preach the gospel, you serve God with all
your might. You sow seeds – seeds so great as to make you cry while sowing
them. You have to be ready to make sacrifices to get power. The anointing will
not come automatically by only following a man or woman of God.
When Jesus was on earth, hundreds of people were following Him, but only
about 120 tarried at the upper room as He instructed and those were the ones
who were filled with the Holy Ghost in Acts 2:1-4. Elijah
had a servant before he had Elisha. In 1 Kings 19:1-3, when
Jezebel was after Elijah’s life and he told his servant to stay somewhere, the
boy did not hesitate, hence, he did not get a double portion of the spirit.
However, when it was Elisha’s turn, Elijah did everything to get rid of the
young man but he stayed with Elijah to the end, then he got the mantle. Just
following the man or woman of God is not enough to get the mantle, you must
serve with all your heart and with all your might. You must follow him or her
to the end.
And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me
when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not
be so. – 2 Kings 2:10
By telling Elisha that if he saw him when he was going, he would get the
mantle, Elijah was saying “If we see eye to eye, if you love what I love and
hate what I hate, if you follow me with all your heart, then you will get my
mantle”. If you want the anointing upon someone, then you must see eye to eye
with the anointed. If your heart is not truly connected with the man or woman
of God you are following, you cannot get his or her anointing. Finally, if you
are not committed to serving God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength,
you cannot get His anointing.
Open Heavens 21 November 2022 Key Point
The anointing comes with sacrifices, not just confessions.
Open Heaven 21 November 2022 HYMN 14: Nearer, My God To Thee
1 Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
E’en though it be a cross that raiseth me,
still all my song shall be,
nearer, my God, to thee;
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
2 Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,
darkness be over me, my rest a stone;
yet in my dreams I’d be
nearer, my God, to thee;
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
3 There let the way appear, steps unto heaven;
all that thou sendest me, in mercy given;
angels to beckon me
nearer, my God, to thee;
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
4 Then, with my waking thoughts bright with thy praise,
out of my stony griefs Bethel I’ll raise;
so by my woes to be
nearer, my God, to thee;
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
5 Or if, on joyful wing cleaving the sky,
sun, moon, and stars forgot, upward I fly,
still all my song shall be,
nearer, my God, to thee;
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
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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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