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Open Heaven For Today 2023 – Open Heavens 29 December

Open Heaven For Today 2023 Friday Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Settled Beforehand

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TOPIC: Settled Beforehand

MEMORISE:"I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:" Isaiah 45:2

READ: Exodus 15:22-25 (KJV)

22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

Open Heaven For Today 2023 – Open Heavens 29 December

23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.


24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?


25 And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Revelation 15-17

Open Heaven For Today 2023 MESSAGE

In our Bible reading for today, long before the children of Israel got to Marah, there was a tree growing by the pool of water.


The implication of that is this: before your problem started, God had provided the solution.


Whatever may be the nature of your problem, the solution is already waiting. All you need from God is guidance on what the solution is and how to use it.


Psalm 90:2 says:

“Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.”


God has been there before whatever mountain might be blocking you, so He can uproot it easily.


The good thing is that God is not only the Alpha, He is also the Omega (Revelation 1:8), so He knows the future as well as the past.


He knows the things that the devil may be planning for you in 2024 and so will provide all you need to overcome him in the new year, even from now, in Jesus’ name.


He has already put in you all that you need to overcome in 2024. Fear not. Before Goliath started terrorising Israel, the stone that would kill him had been formed, waiting for when David would pick it up, put it in his catapult and shoot it at the giant.


Before the Philistines came for Samson, the jaw bone of the ass was already there, waiting. Before 2024 arrives, the things you will need to overcome in the new year are already available to you.


The tree that will turn bitter water to sweet had been there before the Israelites got to Marah; all that happened when Moses cried unto God is that light shone on a particular tree and God told Moses what should be done with it.


Isaiah 30:21 says that when you find yourself at a crossroads, you would hear a word behind you, showing you the way.


I pray that the way you will walk successfully through 2024 will be revealed to you today, in Jesus’ name. God will show you what to do to succeed in the new year, in the mighty name of Jesus.


Prayer Point

Father, please cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning; for in You do I trust. Please Lord, cause me to know the way I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto You.” (Psalm 143:8)


HYMN 5:– Blessed Assurance

1 Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!

Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!

Heir of salvation, purchase of God,

born of his Spirit, washed in his blood.


Refrain:

This is my story, this is my song,

praising my Savior all the day long.

This is my story, this is my song,

praising my Savior all the day long.


2 Perfect communion, perfect delight,

visions of rapture now burst on my sight.

Angels descending bring from above

echoes of mercy, whispers of love. [Refrain]


3 Perfect submission, all is at rest.

I in my Savior am happy and bless’d,

watching and waiting, looking above,

filled with his goodness, lost in his love. [Refrain]





Open Heaven For Today 2023 Thursday Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Talk Is Cheap

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TOPIC: Talk Is Cheap

MEMORISE:"The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach." Acts 1:1

READ: Matthew 23:1-7(KJV)

1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,


2 Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:


3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.


4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.


5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,


6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,


7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Revelation 12-14

Open Heaven For Today 2023 MESSAGE

Talk is cheap. I have seen countless people talk about things that are good, but when it comes to practicing them, they are nowhere to be found.


There are many Pastors who preach ‘powerful’ sermons on the altar, but at home, they don’t practice what they preach.


Talk is cheap, that is why only cheap people stay on the level of talk.


If I tell someone that over-speeding when driving is unsafe and then I do the same, does the fact that I talk about it exempt me from its consequences?


If you talk about prayer so well and you don’t pray, all the problems that follow prayerlessness will keep following you.


This is why we see many people who are sound in Scriptures, yet the word of God does not seem to be yielding anything in their lives.


Many a time, it is because they only know the Scriptures, they don’t live by it.


The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach.

Acts 1:1


The above passage shows how Jesus lived. He first “did’ before He ‘taught’. If you have not yet done that thing, you have no business teaching it. If it is really valuable as you claim it is, then you should do it first.


We who teach the gospel must note what James 3:1 says that teachers will receive the strictest judgement. 


This is because if you teach it, God expects you to have already been doing it. When you teach what you don’t do, thaat is hypocrisy. 


There are many people who are derailed when they see a teacher of the word not practicing what he or she preaches. 


May people not go to hell because you showed them the wrong example, in Jesus’ name.


Matthew 18:6 says:

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.


If you really believe what you teach, practice it. If you cannot practice it, stop teaching it.


Key Point

Merely talking about something does not accrue to you its benefits to you. Practicing it is what does.


HYMN 3:–Ancient Words

1. Holy words long preserved

For our walk in this world

They resound with God’s own heart

Oh, let the ancient words impart


Chorus

Ancient words ever true

Changing me and changing you

We have come with open hearts

Oh, let the ancient words impart


2. Words of Life, words of Hope

Give us strength, help us cope

In this world, where e’er we roam

Ancient words will guide us home


3. Holy words of our Faith

Handed down to this age

Came to us through sacrifice

Oh heed the faithful words of Christ


4. Holy words long preserved

For our walk in this world

They resound with God’s own heart

Oh let the ancient words impart




Open Heaven For Today 2023 Wednesday Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Attracting God`s Blessing 2

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TOPIC: Attracting God`s Blessing 2

MEMORISE:"And it shall come to pass, if thou shall hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth." Deuteronomy 28:1

READ: Deuteronomy 28:1-2(KJV)

1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:


2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Revelation 8-11

Open Heaven For Today 2023 MESSAGE

Believe it or not, you can attract so much of God’s blessings to yourself that at a point, you would say 


“God this is too much”.


Whether you believe that is possible or not, I decree that in the new year coming, you will be telling God 


“Lord, these blessings are too many”. 


That will be your testimony, in Jesus’ name.


Many years ago, God asked me to sacrifice my first car and I did. After some time, somebody bought me a Mercedes Benz car.


In those days, most people believed that if you are a child of God, you were to remain poor, so I locked it up in the garage.


After some time, God visited me in the night and said, 


“Son, why are you delaying the blessings of my daughter who gave you the car? You had better use it now, because a bigger one is coming”.


At 3 a.m. one morning, a man came and said, 


“I couldn’t sleep; God said I should give you my car”. 


I came out to see the car and it was a limousine with six doors. I laughed!


After the man had left, I said to God, 


“Daddy, you know that even if I am dead and they put me inside this one, I will jump out of it, so there is no way I can use this. Will you please allow me to sell it and use the money for something else?” 


He said “No problem”.


However, God was not done. In a single day, a man came with three Mercedes Benz cars. He said, 


“God said I should give these to you”.


I said 


“God, what is happening? What am I going to do? These blessings are becoming an embarrassment”. 


The Lord then said to me 


“My son, you haven’t seen anything yet. The only way I can stop blessing you is if you stop living holy”. 


Now, since I cannot stop living holy because I am going to heaven, those who think I am already blessed haven’t seen anything yet; there is more coming by God’s grace.


You don’t know what you miss when you refuse to live holy. I advise you to try it and you would see how God will transform your life completely. 


When God sees holiness in the life of a person, He pours His blessings on him or her in abundance.


Key Point

People who live Holy attract God’s blessing to themselves.


HYMN 19:–Rock Of Ages Cleft For Me

1 Rock of Ages, cleft for me, 

let me hide myself in thee; 

let the water and the blood, 

from thy wounded side which flowed, 

be of sin the double cure; 

save from wrath and make me pure. 


2 Not the labors of my hands 

can fulfill thy law’s demands; 

could my zeal no respite know, 

could my tears forever flow, 

all for sin could not atone; 

thou must save, and thou alone. 


3 Nothing in my hand I bring, 

simply to the cross I cling; 

naked, come to thee for dress; 

helpless, look to thee for grace; 

foul, I to the fountain fly; 

wash me, Savior, or I die. 


4 While I draw this fleeting breath, 

when mine eyes shall close in death, 

when I soar to worlds unknown, 

see thee on thy judgment throne, 

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, 

let me hide myself in thee. 






Open Heaven For Today 2023 Tuesday Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Attracting God`s Blessing 1

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TOPIC: Attracting God`s Blessing 1

MEMORISE:"And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God." Deuteronomy 28:2

READ: Genesis 22:1-18 (KJV)

1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.


2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.


3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.


4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.


5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.


6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.


7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?


8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.


9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.


10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.


11 And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.


12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.


13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.


14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.


15 And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,


16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:


17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;


18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Revelation 4-7

Open Heaven For Today 2023 MESSAGE

A blessing is a manifestation of all the forces in heaven, on earth and under the earth helping someone. When God blesses someone, everything – family, career, finance and so on will be working well for that fellow.


If you really want God to bless you, you need to know how to attract His blessings. Psalm 115:3 says God is sovereign, He does as He pleases.


He can bless anybody He wants; He can bless the younger more than the elder, He is God.


In our memory verse for today, the word of God made it clear: 


"And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God".


In Deuteronomy 11:26-28 says further:

Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day: And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.


The choice you make between living holy and committing sin determines what you attract to your life – whether blessings or curses.


If you live holy, you would attract God’s blessings, if you choose to live in sin, you would attract curses. Which one will you choose?


Blessings don’t come without a cause. In Genesis 27:1-4, Isaac told Esau to go and prepare a very nice meal that would satisfy him, so that he could bless the boy before dying.


Though it was Esau that was to be blessed, Jacob who brought the meal first, got the blessing.


He provoked the blessing upon himself by doing something to please his father. If you want God to bless you, do His will and please Him always.


To achieve this, you must live a life of holiness. If you refuse to live holy, forget about attracting the blessings of God.


Don’t mistake just having money for divine blessings. A truly blessed man has all round peace and prosperity.


Key Point

Holiness attracts God’s blessings.


HYMN 10:–In Christ Alone

1 In Christ alone my hope is found,

He is my light, my strength, my song;

This Cornerstone, this solid Ground,

Firm through the fiercest drought and storm.

What heights of love, what depths of peace,

When fears are stilled, when strivings cease!

My Comforter, my All in All,

Here in the love of Christ I stand.


2 In Christ alone, who took on flesh,

Fullness of God in helpless babe.

This gift of love and righteousness,

Scorned by the ones He came to save:

Till on that cross as Jesus died,

The wrath of God was satisfied –

For every sin on Him was laid;

Here in the death of Christ I live.


3 There in the ground His body lay,

Light of the world by darkness slain:

Then bursting forth in glorious day

Up from the grave He rose again!

And as He stands in victory

Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me,

For I am His and He is mine –

Bought with the precious blood of Christ.


4 No guilt in life, no fear in death,

This is the power of Christ in me;

From life’s first cry to final breath,

Jesus commands my destiny.

No power of hell, no scheme of man,

Can ever pluck me from His hand:

Till He returns or calls me home,

Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand.

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