Open Heaven For Today 2024 Tuesday Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Prayers For The Church
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TOPIC: Prayers For The Church
MEMORISE:-"For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding." Colossians 1:9
READ: Ephesians 1:16-20(KJV)
16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Samuel 8-11
Open Heaven For Today 2023 MESSAGE
1. Father, thank You for the glory that you have put on Your church and for everything You are doing through Your church on the earth.
2. Lord, please help the church in my nation to remain faithful to Your calling. Don’t let the church derail from its purpose on the earth, in Jesus’ name.
3. Father, please let Your love increase amongst the different denominations of the church. Let us all see ourselves as one, in Jesus’ name.
4. Father, please help church leaders all around the world. Protect them from all the attacks of the enemy, and don’t let them get weary in doing Your work, in Jesus’ name.
5. Father, please provide the resources for Your church to advance Your kingdom here on earth, in Jesus’ name.
6. Father, please increase the influence of the church in every area of life and every aspect of human endeavour, in Jesus’ name.
7. Father, please help the church in my nation to overcome all the challenges that may arise; help us to emerge triumphant, in Jesus’ name.
8. Father, please let Your Spirit and power fill your church. Help us to experience more of Your power, even more than the churches of old, in Jesus’ name.
9. Father, please provide everything that the church needs to carry out Your mandate of winning souls to Your kingdom. Equip and empower us to fulfil Your mandate on earth, in Jesus’ name.
10. Father, please plant Your undying love in the church so that we can show love to the world and attract more souls to Your kingdom, in Jesus’ name.
11. Father, please give the church the wisdom to dominate in our generation, and even in generations to come, in Jesus’ name.
12. Your personal prayer points for your local assembly.
HYMN 12:– onward christian soldiers
1 Onward, Christian soldiers,
marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus
going on before!
Christ, the royal Master,
leads against the foe;
Forward into battle,
see his banner go!
Refrain:
Onward, Christian soldiers,
marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus
going on before!
2 At the sign of triumph
Satan’s host doth flee;
On, then, Christian soldiers,
on to victory!
Hell’s foundations quiver
at the shout of praise;
Brothers, lift your voices,
loud your anthems raise!
3 Like a mighty army
moves the church of God;
Brothers, we are treading
where the saints have trod;
We are not divided;
all one body we,
One in hope and doctrine,
one in charity.
4 Onward, then, ye people,
join our happy throng,
Blend with ours your voices
in the triumph song;
Glory, laud, and honor,
unto Christ the King;
This thro’ countless ages
men and angels sing.
5 Onward, then, ye people!
Join our happy throng;
Blend with ours your voices
In the triumph song.
Glory, laud and honor
Unto Christ, the King;
This through countless ages
Men and angels sing.
Open Heaven For Today 2024 Monday Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Stir Up The Gift
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TOPIC: Stir Up The Gift
MEMORISE:-"Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands". 2 Timothy 1:6
READ: 2 Kings 2:13-25(KJV)
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.
15 And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the Lord hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.
17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.
18 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
19 And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.
20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Samuel 4-7
Open Heaven For Today 2023 MESSAGE
There are many people who have received an impartation of God’s anointing; however, miracles are yet to happen through them.
When a fellow receives the anointing, it remains dormant in him or her until it is stirred up.
When Elisha got Elijah’s mantle, it remained an ordinary cloth until he used it to strike the river and asked the river to part.
I once attended a Kenneth Hagin meeting in Tulsa, USA, and saw a raw demonstration of the power of God. I made up my mind to see him, and by God’s grace, I was able to.
He asked me,
“Young man, what do you want?” I replied,
“Sir, I want everything in you that has made you who you are.”
After attending to everyone else in his office, he turned to me and said, “Young man, kneel down.” I knelt and saw his two big hands coming towards my head – that was the last thing I remembered.
By the time I came around, I was on the floor, and he was kneeling by me with his hands on my head while praying furiously in tongues.
When we returned to Nigeria, I begged Papa, the General Superintendent of RCCG, to let me line people up and pray for them.
In those days, we didn’t pray for anybody, everyone prayed by themselves. Papa allowed me, and so, during the evening service on that Sunday, we lined people up.
Some people who had been in Tulsa with me saw that people fell when Kenneth Hagin laid hands on them, so, they came to stand behind the people that were lined up to catch them if they fell.
I laid hands on the first fellow, but he didn’t fall. I wasn’t discouraged because I knew that people falling is not necessarily an indication that miracles have happened. However, by the time I got to the seventh fellow, someone fell under the anointing.
After that, a couple of others also fell. I stirred up the gift that I had received and then saw it work mightily.
If hands have been laid on you, or you have been anointed by a man of God, it is not time to relax.
The impartation will remain dormant if you don’t use it. Look for opportunities to pray for people and stir up the gift.
The first fellow you pray for may not be healed immediately, however, keep stirring the gift, and soon, you will see it work mightily.
Key Point
You should thirst for the anointing, and if you have already received an impartation, God is waiting for you to stir it up.
HYMN 23:– Take My Life And Let It Be
1 Take my life and let it be
consecrated, Lord, to thee.
Take my moments and my days;
let them flow in endless praise,
let them flow in endless praise.
2 Take my hands and let them move
at the impulse of thy love.
Take my feet and let them be
swift and beautiful for thee,
swift and beautiful for thee.
3 Take my voice and let me sing
always, only, for my King.
Take my lips and let them be
filled with messages from thee,
filled with messages from thee.
4 Take my silver and my gold;
not a mite would I withhold.
Take my intellect and use
every power as thou shalt choose,
every power as thou shalt choose.
5 Take my will and make it thine;
it shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart it is thine own;
it shall be thy royal throne,
it shall be thy royal throne.
6 Take my love; my Lord, I pour
at thy feet its treasure store.
Take myself, and I will be
ever, only, all for thee,
ever, only, all for thee.
Open Heaven For Today 2024 Sunday Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Consecration
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TOPIC: Consecration
MEMORISE:-"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you." 2 Corinthians 6:17
READ: Romans 12:1-2(KJV)
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Samuel 1-3
Open Heaven For Today 2023 MESSAGE
Consecration means being totally surrendered to God, in other words, holding on to Him and Him alone.
Unfortunately, a lot of people hold on to Jesus with one hand and hold on to the world with the other.
How do you explain Christians who claim to have given their all to Christ but who still consult witch doctors over challenging situations?
Truly consecrated Christians are ready to go all the way for God. Such people may go through a lot of suffering for the Lord, but they will still count it all joy, as long as God is with them (James 1:2).
A good example of a genuinely consecrated person was Apostle Paul. He was totally sold out to God, such that even when God warned him about being apprehended in Jerusalem, he still went there to preach the gospel (Acts 21:11-14).
He was so consecrated that he declared in Galatians 2:20:
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Consecrated people care about God more than anyone or anything else. I was watching an interview on Dove Television one day, and the guest said that in the past, all Christians cared about was for God to use them, but nowadays, people are more interested in how they can use God.
Many people just use Christianity as a cover-up to look good in the society, but when a little test comes, they denounce Christ.
For example, these days, many Christians compromise their faith to get married. They wear revealing outfits to attract men, attend ungodly gatherings with the hope of finding suitors, and worse still, engage in premarital sex.
A missionary’s inspiring story greatly impacted my decision to be consecrated to God. She was serving in an area that was hostile to Christianity.
On her wedding day, while she was getting ready, the authorities raided her home and arrested her for preaching the gospel.
Instead of crying, she smiled, kissed the handcuffs and said,
“Lord, I didn’t know I was so special to You that You didn’t want to share me with anyone else. How beautiful is Your wedding ring to me.”
She was so sold out to God that while others saw a disaster, she saw the handcuffs as God’s wedding ring to her as His bride.
Beloved, are you consecrated to Jesus?
Reflection
Are you willing to go through sufferings for the sake of Christ?
HYMN 23:– Take My Life And Let It Be
1 Take my life and let it be
consecrated, Lord, to thee.
Take my moments and my days;
let them flow in endless praise,
let them flow in endless praise.
2 Take my hands and let them move
at the impulse of thy love.
Take my feet and let them be
swift and beautiful for thee,
swift and beautiful for thee.
3 Take my voice and let me sing
always, only, for my King.
Take my lips and let them be
filled with messages from thee,
filled with messages from thee.
4 Take my silver and my gold;
not a mite would I withhold.
Take my intellect and use
every power as thou shalt choose,
every power as thou shalt choose.
5 Take my will and make it thine;
it shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart it is thine own;
it shall be thy royal throne,
it shall be thy royal throne.
6 Take my love; my Lord, I pour
at thy feet its treasure store.
Take myself, and I will be
ever, only, all for thee,
ever, only, all for thee.
Open Heaven For Today 2024 Saturday Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye – He Did It All For You 2
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TOPIC: He Did It All For You 2
MEMORISE:-"For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself". Hebrews 9:26
READ: Matthew 26:37-45(KJV)
37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
39 And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
43 And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.
44 And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
45 Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Samuel 28-31
Open Heaven For Today 2023 MESSAGE
Jesus knows the end from the beginning, so He knew that what was going to happen to Him on the cross would be very terrible.
This made Him pray in Matthew 26:39, saying,
“…O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.”
The Bible recorded that while He was saying this prayer, His sweat was like blood. This tells us that He took that prayer very seriously. Yet, Jesus still decided to go through with the suffering.
Jesus did not lay down His life out of compulsion. He said clearly in John 10:18 that He laid down His life willingly.
That statement is heavy, and it made me ask,
“What kind of love will make a man surrender Himself to be humiliated and slaughtered like this?”
I saw the perfect answer to my question in John 15:13 which says:
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
This is the greatest kind of love in the world. Jesus loves you more than anyone in the world can ever love you, and He showed it by laying down His life for you.
Again, I asked myself,
“What will make a man surrender His life like this?”
I saw the answer to this question in John 10:11-12. The Good Shepherd never deserts the sheep when He sees a wolf coming.
He stays and protects the sheep from being devoured because of the love He has for the sheep.
The devil is the wolf that tries to steal, kill and destroy, while Jesus is the Good Shepherd that laid down His life for you to have eternal life.
Jesus is the only genuine protection you can get from the claws of the wolf – the devil.
If you believe in Him, and surrender your life to Him, the wolf will have no power over you because Jesus has already died for you.
The wolf, however, is free to devour anyone that is not following Jesus or believers that stray away from Him.
Beloved, if you don’t want to be prey to the devil, give your life to Jesus Christ now. Commit to following Him and Him alone.
He paid the ultimate price for you, and He is the only One that can lead you into everlasting life.
Key Point
Only those who are in the flock of the Good Shepherd are safe from the claws of the wolf
HYMN 19:– Hymn: 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.
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