Monthly Archives: March 2017

1. Burdens are loads imposed on a person by the wicked forces of this world or by circumstances of life.
2. They come under certain categories, one of those being physical burdens.
3. Physical burdens are exemplified by the case of Naaman who had an incurable disease (2nd Kings 5:1). Also, the woman with a spirit of infirmity, who could not straighten herself for years, is another case in point (Luke 13:11). No matter how much she tried, everywhere she went, she remained bent. Similarly, the man who had been at the pool of Bethesda for 38 years had a physical burden (John 5:2-9).
4. Do you have a physical burden? Are you physically handicapped? Jesus Christ will lift your physical burdens today! You shall experience a turnaround in Jesus’ Name.
5. Burden could also be material in nature. The widow of Zarephath was carrying a material burden (1st Kings 17:8-16). Things used to be good for her, but her situation deteriorated to the point where she had only one meal to her credit.
6. In addition, the heavily indebted widow of 2nd Kings 4:1-7 was plagued by the debts left by her late husband. The creditors came calling and threatened to enslave her sons. Thank God she knew the right place to run to. She cried to the prophet, who was connected to the Burden Bearer, and the tide turned for her and her children.
7. What about the wedding feast in John 2:1-11? They thought they had everything in place, but midway through the celebration, they ran out of wine. They called on the Burden Bearer and He supplied what was lacking.
8. A very wealthy man with a fleet of 14 cars once picked a quarrel with his wife, and she threatened that by the time she was done with him, he would be trekking about the streets of Lagos, Nigeria. The man laughed it off, not knowing the kind of woman he had as a wife. Not long after, his business began to nose-dive, and things became so bad that at a point, he had only one car left with 50 Kobo in his pocket. Then he reasoned with himself, “If I buy petrol with this money, I will starve, and if I spend the money on food, then I would have to trek in fulfilment of my wife’s evil decree.” That was when he decided to run to Jesus Christ for help, and the Lord turned things around for him. By the time he was sharing this testimony, he was dedicating two new houses on the same day.
9. What material burdens are you carrying presently? If you run to Jesus, He will help you carry it. Through Him all material burdens can be lifted.

Matthew 11:28‭-‬30 says; Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. This call in Matthew 11:28‭-‬30 is a call to rest and a burden free life. If there is any burden that we desire freedom from, we should not hesitate in running to Jesus because His yoke is easy and his burden is light. May we be free from every burden as we surrender to the burden lifter in Jesus name. May God continually increase Pastor E.A Adeboye for greater insight into the word of God in Jesus name

1. But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!” Matthew 8:27
2. Are you currently in a state of perplexity? Does it seem as if the devil has vowed to sink the boat of your life? I have good news for you: he is only joking. Why? One reason why the boat of your life cannot sink is because all the elements, wind, storm and waves working against your boat were created by God, and they must hear His voice and obey Him.
3. The disciples could not believe their eyes when they saw the manifestation of this. Jesus spoke to the contrary wind and the waves of the sea and they obeyed him.
4. This season, everything working contrary to your boat and sail will hear the voice of the Master and beat a retreat in Jesus’ Name.
5. Everything God has created treats His voice with fear and awe.
6. According to today’s reading, this voice is so powerful and awesome that there is no one and nothing that can withstand it.
7. When the Lord speaks, thunder and lightning follow (Isaiah 30:30). When He speaks, the world beholds the true majesty of God. When He speaks, mighty cedar trees are split in pieces. When He speaks, the hottest of fires is cooled. When He speaks, the earth shakes and the wilderness quakes. When He speaks, hidden secrets are exposed and the impossible became possible.
8. What can resist God’s voice? Nothing in or out of this world can!
9. Today, the Lord will speak into your situation and every force or power actively working against you will take their flight. Yes, when He speaks, everything standing in His way will have to give way.
10. At a point in time, the Philistines gathered together to invade Israel like they had done in times past. Samuel cried to the Lord and the voice of the Lord sounded from heaven to roundly defeat them. They never invaded Israel again after this (1st Samuel 7:8-13).
11. As God speaks into your situation today, the speed at which your oppressors will disappear will be quite amazing.
12. Look around you today, what are those things that have refused to let you go forward? Call on the Lord to speak into your situation now and there shall be change.
13. The Lord will speak into your life, family, work place, finances and academics today, and all your enemies shall scatter.

Hallelujah! The voice of the Lord is thunderous and it wraths miracles. Everything about God symbolises His greatness. Powerful question and answer in the second paragraph of today’s devotional. It goes thus: “what can resist God’s voice?” Nothing in or out of this world can! God be praised forever more! It’s my prayer that the Lord will speak into every situation of our lives and turn it around for good for all to see that they may glorify our Father in heaven in Jesus name. God bless Pastor E.A Adeboye for blessing us with the word of God daily. His strength is renewed in Jesus name.

1. For quite a long while in times past, I usually said that the Lord of Host never loses a battle, but quite recently, the Lord corrected me and said, “Son, I can lose a battle to win a war. I never lose a war.” According to His divine wisdom, when it pleases the Lord, He can choose to lose a battle in order to win a war.
2. He can give up a battle, but He has never lost a war. We need to tap into this divine wisdom and apply its principle in our lives. It’s all about looking at the bigger picture. You will gain more from winning a war than from winning a battle.
3. You will also lose more when you lose a war than when you lose a battle. Some people are not ready to lose any battle, and as a result, they lose the war that is more crucial. Take for instance, evangelism. If you go to preach to an individual about Christ and an argument ensues, you are faced with the choice of winning a battle (the argument) or winning the soul of the sinner (a war). If you choose to win the argument, you will most likely lose that soul.
4. This is why you should not get involved in arguments when preaching the gospel to unbelievers. Time to evangelise is not a time to argue about whose religion is more superior.
5. Faith in Christ Jesus is more than just a religion. Simply tell the sinner about Jesus and God’s love towards him or her. Share your salvation experience with him or her. Stir up his or her interest in Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit will do the necessary work of conviction. After playing your part, you can then invite the person to surrender his or her life to Christ.
6. When you observe that God is seemingly losing a battle or battles, it is because there is a bigger war He wants to win. For instance, in the midst of intense persecution of the early Church, God allowed His beloved Stephen to be martyred. Why did He allow this? It’s because He wanted to win the war of saving the ring leader of Stephen’s murderers, Saul. Through Saul, He planned to convert whole cities and to virtually turn the world upside down, and He succeeded in this (Acts 17:6).
7. At the end, it became a double gain for the Lord as Stephen had a triumphant entry into Heaven while Paul, who supervised his martyrdom, became a mightier instrument in the hand of God for the salvation of souls on a massive scale across the globe. This testimony about Paul in Acts 19:26 show the awesomeness of God’s wisdom:“Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:”
8. Anytime you follow God’s wisdom, you will know when to lose a battle in order to win a war.

Our God is an extraordinary strategist. He is strong and mighty. He is all powerful and He knows the end of a thing from the beginning. This is why it is important for us to seek His face and Will concerning everything we do. When we do this we receive direction on what to do and how to do what to do if we have to do it at all. His wisdom is needed in every aspect of our lives and when we show that without His counsel we can’t succeed, He gives us the Holy Spirit to guide our steps in the right path. We must also be sensitive to the leading of God through the Holy Spirit and that way we fight to win wars instead of battles. Today’s devotional unveiled an uncommon revelation and we thank God for His vessel Pastor E.A Adeboye. May His zeal for the Lord’s business never go weak in Jesus’ name.

1. God’s voice is so powerful that it can bring about abundant increase.
2. When He speaks in a situation of lack and acute shortage, whatever is responsible for that anomaly is arrested and there is bountiful provision.
3. An example of this can be seen in the lives of the children of Israel. In Genesis 46:26-27, we read that all the people that Israel brought with him into Egypt including Joseph and his family were 70. However, when they were leaving Egypt, the men alone were numbered at 600,000 (Exodus 12:37). In fact, the Israelites’ rate of multiplication in Egypt was so rapid that it became a source of worry to the Egyptians (Exodus 1:7-10).
4. Sometimes, we think that such miracles can only occur in Bible times. By the grace of God, in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, we have seen God’s faithfulness demonstrated in the area of multiplication. In 1952, the Church started with about 12 people. By the time I became the general overseer in 1981, we had only 40 parishes including the headquarters. The convention we had in 1980 had a little over 600 people in attendance, yet we thought that was quite large. Today, through the grace of the Almighty God, this same Church has spread to over 174 nations of the world! Why? It is simply because there is a God who can speak from Heaven to make something little increase abundantly. This shall be your portion today in Jesus’ Name!
5. A blessing summons all the forces in heaven, on earth and underneath the earth to help an individual to succeed.
6. To bless someone, you have to open your mouth to declare it.
7. When God blesses you, all the angels of God will assist you, and even demons will fight one another to clear the way for you.
8. In Genesis 48:8-20, Joseph, while visiting his father Jacob with his two sons, carefully guided his father to rest his right hand on the head of the elder son, Manasseh, and to rest his left hand on Ephraim the younger. At this time, Jacob was old and sick, and could no longer see. When Jacob crossed his hands over the two boys, Joseph protested but Jacob insisted, saying the younger will be greater than the elder, and then he blessed them. Within a short period of time, the younger son had become 10 times more blessed than his elder brother (Deuteronomy 33:17).
9. This is what the declaration of a divine blessing can do in the life of a person.
10. Ask God to declare His blessings on you. You can also seek the declaration of blessings from a father that is connected to God.

God’s blessings comes in multiple folds. His blessings brings fruitfulness, multiplication, dominion and victory. Proverbs 10:22 says “The blessing of the LORD brings wealth, without painful toil for it.” (NIV) This means when we function in God’s blessings, our exploits and success is with so much ease. If we take a close look at the lineage of Abraham, this blessing is established in the lives of those who were specially blessed either directly or indirectly by God. May we experience this blessing of multiplication in every area of our lives in Jesus name. We pray that the Lord will strengthen our Father in the Lord Pastor E.A Adeboye for greater works in Jesus

1. One crucial question that many people asking God to prosper them have not answered is: what will you do with the wealth you are asking for?
2. While some people are sure of what to do with such wealth, many others are not so certain.
3. Why do you want God to prosper you? Is it so that you can have multiple spouses, build multiple houses or buy a multitude of cars? If you really desire great wealth from God, what you plan to do with it to bring glory to His Name must not be far from you. May you have the right reasons, motives and goals that will be honoured by God in Jesus’ Name!
4. Let us consider the case of Abraham our spiritual father. After God promised to bless Abraham in Genesis 12:1-3 and repeating the same promise in Genesis 12:7-8, what did Abraham do? Abraham immediately built an altar and worshiped God.
5. Note that at this time, all Abraham had was God’s promise; there was no blessing yet. In other words, he was saying, “for promising to bless me at all, You deserve my worship.”
6. Down the line, in Genesis 13:1-4, after the blessings started pouring in, Abraham did not forget his resolve to worship God. He travelled quite some distance to an altar he had earlier built at Bethel to worship God. By the time you get to Genesis 22:1-18, although Abraham had become truly blessed, he still proved to God that he loved Him more than any blessing he had received from Him, including Isaac his beloved son.
7. When God saw all these, He was so impressed that He released greater blessings on him; hence, Abraham’s servant could testify that God had greatly blessed Abraham (Genesis 24:34-35).
8. From the onset, Abraham was focused on worshiping God. As the blessings came, He remained committed to worshipping God. For this reason, the Holy Spirit in Isaiah 51:2 instructs us to learn from him: “Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.”
9. Not many of us are like Father Abraham. When you allow the little blessings you received from God to derail you from the faith, how can you then convince God to give you more?
10. If you truly want the exponential blessings that God has reserved for you, you must have a solid plan for how you will glorify Him with such wealth.
11. How are you spending the little you have now?

Like Abraham? This a question we have to answer individually and sincerely. How do we see others who are not as blessed much as we are? Are we faithful in the little we have now? Let’s carefully and faithfully answer these questions. As we answer these questions, let us also take step in correcting the mistakes we’ve made in the past, straighten our ways and walk in His plan for what He has blessed us with. We thank God for Pastor E.A Adeboye for blessing us and inspiring us in today’s devotional. God bless him in strength and greater ability in Jesus’ name.

1. One law that applies to everyone is the law of harvest. The Holy Spirit in Galatians 6:7 says it is what you sow that you will reap. As a universal law, it holds true irrespective of your religious inclinations, race, colour or tribe.
2. It applies, regardless of whether you believe it or not. Similarly, it is common knowledge that the kind of soil a seed is sown in will definitely affect and determine the harvest that will be taken from it. If the soil is good, the harvest will most likely be good, but if the soil is bad, the harvest will most likely be poor.
3. If there are several farmers sowing the same type of seeds in the same kind of soil, is it possible for one farmer to have a more prosperous harvest than his colleagues? The Bible answers this in 2nd Corinthians 9:6“But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.”
4. It is possible for one of the farmers to reap a better harvest, if he or she increases the quantity of seeds sown or the frequency of sowing. In light of this, the preacher strongly advises us to engage in regular sowing of seeds.
5. You should be prepared to sow by day and by night. You should also sow when you are young and continue sowing when you are old. Why? Nobody can determine how the harvest of the seeds he or she has sown will be. Some seeds may come up with a poor harvest, some with a good harvest while some others may not yield at all. All these are pointers to the fact that you input can greatly influence your harvest.
6. Some people sow once in a very long while and then wait to see the harvest before deciding to sow again. This is why their harvest is kept far away from them. Do you know that in spite of all God has done for us – He sowed His only begotten Son to obtain our redemption – He is still sowing seeds for mercy, love, forgiveness, protection, provision, etc into our lives on a daily basis? This is why He continues to take in a harvest of souls every day. No wonder He tells us in Galatians 6:9 “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
7. How frequently do you sow into God’s Kingdom? Have you stopped sowing because you are now old? Don’t stop sowing! Scatter your seeds today!

Few days ago, our father taught us about sowing in tears and we discovered that our seed can be in different forms not just monetary seed. Our prayers, service, time, behavior, words etc are seeds. According to the scripture, bountiful seed results in bountiful harvest. We must therefore not faint or get weary in sowing our seeds. Some believers get tired of praying or attending services because they are yet to receive answers to their prayers and so they stay back and relent. But then, the time of God’s visitation cannot be determined by the time of prayer or service’s magnitude. May we never miss our time of visitation in Jesus name. God will strengthen us to remain strong in faith as we sow continously that we may reap in due season in Jesus name. May God continually increase Pastor E.A Adeboye on every side. He’s indeed a blessing to us.

1. Holiness is so integral to the person of the Holy Spirit that the word “holy” is attached to His Name.
2. You cannot live the Christian life without having a relationship with the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:9); but to have a good relationship with the Holy Spirit, you need to understand that He detests sin. Part of His assignment in this world is to liberate you from the power of sin and to help you live above it (John 16:8, Romans 8:2, Galatians 5:16).
3. Two sins entangling a lot of Christians today and fast eroding their character are stealing and lying.
4. Stealing has its origin in covetousness and it leads to betrayal. The life of Judas Iscariot, a man who walked with the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, is a case study of this (John 12:6).
5. Today, due to covetousness, even ministers of God are stealing from the Church purse, thereby betraying the huge trust reposed in them by God.
6. Have you been stealing from God or from men? Repent, restitute and turn a new leaf today (Ephesians 4:28)!
7. In today’s Bible reading, Gehazi lied to Naaman and received the gifts his master had rejected. Thereafter, his master sent for him and asked him where he had been. He lied again saying he went nowhere. He however did not get away with that lie.
8. There are lies you tell and it may appear you got away with them, but there are also lies you will tell that will leave their sting on you perpetually.
9. Gehazi lied to his master and his life changed negatively and irreversibly from that day.
10. Similarly, Ananias and Sapphira may have told lies in the past and escaped the consequences. However, on the day they lied to Peter, they never lived to tell another lie (Acts 5:1-10).
11. If you consider the punishment that followed the supposedly “little” lie of this couple, many people would be of the opinion that it far exceeded their offence. Why? It is because they see lying as a regular, common sin that is inconsequential if weighed on a scale with “heavier” sins like murder.
12. This is why many people engaged in it, even those who profess faith in Jesus Christ. Some people have even categorised lies by colour and size!
13. If God could bring leprosy on Gehazi and kill Ananians and Sapphira because of lies, it means that He does not take lies lightly as we do.
14. God even says He will exclude all categories of liars from the New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:8, Revelation 21:27).
15. Run away from lies and embrace Jesus Christ, the Truth!

The two examples given in today’s devotional (Gehazi, Ananias and Sapphira) clearly shows that lying is not a small sin as widely and commonly categorised by most believers. Stealing on the other hand is manifested in the lives of believers who do not know who they are, who is ignorant of their identity in Christ and not aware all things belongs to their father. When we live day in day out in the word of God, we are cultured with the help of the Holyspirit to live in God’s way and will for us. May God deliver us from every bondage of ignorance, disobedience and unholiness in Jesus name. When we submit ourselves to God, it becomes easy for us to resist the devil and he is bound to flee from us. James 4:7-Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.God bless Pastor E.A Adeboye for this great insight into the word of God. His strength is renewed in Jesus’ name.

1. In Exodus 1:8-11, a generation of the children of Israel woke up one day and realised they had become slaves in a foreign land. From that moment, their children were born into slavery. Slavery became a burden that was attached to them for hundreds of years.
2. Has something unsavoury been attached to you from birth? The Lord shall separate you from such burdens today in Jesus’ Name!
3. Thankfully, just as there are burdens, there are also burden-bearers.
4. A burden-bearer is someone who sees you carrying some burden and offers to carry it for you, or gives you a helping hand.
5. We see this demonstrated in today’s Bible reading. While leading Jesus to Golgotha where He would to crucified, the Roman soldiers made Him carry His heavy wooden cross. Even though He had been thoroughly beaten, was bleeding and was tired, He still had to carry his cross. As they began the journey, Simon of Cyrene came along and he was compelled by the soldiers to assist Jesus in carrying His cross.
6. Some years ago, we had an experience with one of our domestic workers. Whenever we ask her to suggest a chorus during our family devotion, she would always raise a particular song that says, “The fire is burning the bush but the bush is not consumed, how great is our God.”
7. One day, we curiously decided to find out about this fire she kept singing of. On interviewing her, we discovered that she became a housemaid because her parents were heavily indebted and could not pay. By the grace of God, we paid the debt. The following day, when asked to suggest a chorus during prayer time, she sang a new song which proclaimed “He has done it for me!”
8. If you have carried a burden for so long and the burden gets lifted away, your song will indeed change.
9. The burden-bearer is the one who sees you carrying a burden and empathises with you. He comes to say to you that the load you are carrying is too heavy for you, and then offers to help you.
10. There is no greater burden-bearer than the Lord Jesus Christ! He wants to help you carry any load you are struggling with.
11. Here is His call to you today: “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28 Accept His invitation, and call Him for help.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28. This is an open invitation for all regardless of who you are. Once you fall in the category of those that labour and heavy laden. This attribute of burden bearer was revealed alongside the name Jesus to Joseph through the angel of the Lord in Matthew 1:21 “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.” The truth about living in fullness of God’s love and blessing is that we must fully know who Christ is, all He has got in stock for us, our inheritance and heritage in Him and all He is able to do in us. When we open up our hearts to Him and fear Him, He reveals Himself to us. This was Abraham’s experience. As He moved from one place to another at God’s word, all difficulties that came his way was taken care of by God. When we surrender all to Him, He is ever willing to carry our burden for us. We pray that the Lord will strengthen our Father in the Lord Pastor E.A Adeboye for greater works in Jesus name.

1.Have you ever been on a journey and the opposition against your progress was so intense that you felt you would never get to your destination? If you answer is yes, then know that you are not alone. Life is like embarking on a journey to a destination. Every trip has its obstacles and hurdles. While on a journey, the disciples of Jesus once found themselves in this kind of tough situation. It was so bad that they felt their boat was going to sink. In fact, water was already entering their boat, and going by all they saw, it appeared nothing could be done. If you are facing a similar situation today, simply make this confession to yourself: my boat cannot sink, I shall reach my goal and nothing can stop my trip!
2.Why will my boat not sink? The reason is because Jesus Christ is in the boat of my life. Nobody and nothing can “swallow the ship where lies the Master of ocean and earth and skies”, a song-writer declared. The greatest mistake you can make is to embark on a journey without Jesus in your boat.
3.It is important to note here that you should have Jesus Christ in the boat of your life, which you can do by receiving Him as your Lord and personal Saviour.
4.In addition to this, you should also have Him in the boat of your endeavours. Do you know that if Jesus is in the boat of your life but not in the boat of your personal endeavours, these projects or plans can sink?
5.Many believers today take it for granted that because they are saved, automatically they will scale through any rough waters, including projects in which they never involved the Lord. This not faith but presumption.
6.If you are a believer in Christ and you go ahead to start a business, a home or a career without God’s involvement, you are on your own. This is why the memory verse of today says you should trust God and not depend on your own limited understanding. Even when Jesus appears to be asleep in your boat, as long as He is in your boat, He still in control.
7.Is God silent over your situation? Does it appear that He is unaware of what you are going through? Do you feel abandoned by God or even doubt whether He really loves you? Be comforted! God still loves you. He cares so much for you. He empathises with you in that present situation you are faced with, and He will surely make a way for you. In spite of how you feel, God is still in control. In spite of how distant God appears to be, God is right in the middle of your situation to bring you out. It does not matter what is happening around you, the Lord is in control. Very soon, you will testify of His intervention.

One of the names of our Lord Jesus Christ is the Prince of peace. Wherever He is there is peace and whenever He is our boat there is an assurance of a peaceful sail. A clear picture of this was what happened in Mark 4:37-41. “And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith? And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?” The personality of Jesus is powerful. His name carries power and so does His presence. Let’s not give Him just a room in our lives let’s give Him the whole of us that He may dominate and take charge of every situation. Thank God for Pastor E.A Adeboye. He’s a great blessing to our generation. May he be strengthened day by day in Jesus name.

1. Our Heavenly Father expects us all to grow in our Christian faith (2nd Peter 3:18). If you refuse to grow, you may end up keeping God in an endless state of waiting for you to grow.
2. Unfortunately, while God waits for you to grow, you may end up losing certain crucial things to others who grow up faster.
3. For how long will you remain a babe? How long do you expect God to wait for you?
4. Keeping God waiting can definitely affect His original plan for the life of some of His children. The night is far spent, and the Lord’s return is around the corner; therefore we cannot afford to slow down the growth process.
5. Your level of maturity determines the level of relationship you have with God, and in turn, the level of your relationship determines the communication channels that are open to you from heaven (Numbers 12:6-8).
6. It also determines your understanding of and response to God’s word. As a result of this, you can expect different responses to the same word from God by different children of God.
7. Take for instance, if you tell three Christians at different maturity levels that God loves them, they will see it in different ways.
8. When a baby Christian hears “God loves you” he will rejoice because this reminds him of his triumphant state. He will remember Romans 8:37 which says, “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us”
9. When you tell an adult Christian “God loves you”, he will inquisitively ask why you are saying this to him, because this reminds him of responsibility: for whosoever the Father loves, he chastises (Hebrew 12:6).
10. On the other hand, when you tell a bone-cracking Christian “God loves you”, he will be a lot more apprehensive. He will say “Amen; may God have mercy.” He is saying this because it reminds him of sacrifice: for whosoever the Father loves, He sacrifices (Genesis 22:2, Ephesians 5:2).
11. God the Father was so pleased with Jesus that He sacrificed Him to redeem the world (John 3:16).
12. When God wanted to prove to the world that there was no God above Him, what did He do? He sent His outstanding sons, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, into fire. When He wanted to show His supremacy over lions, what did He do? He allowed His loved Daniel to go into the lion’s den.
13. How will you respond now when I say to you that God loves you?
14. Can God trust you enough to send you to tough assignments that will bring honour and praise to His Name?

The speed at which a child of God grows is determined by such child of God. Firstly there must be a desire from such child to grow. Then it is followed by delibrate actions in line with the desired growth in the things of God. Also there must be a constant request for the Holy spirit’s help that we may achieve the desired growth. When we are aided by the Holy Spirit it becomes easy for us to say yes to God’s will and respond in faith to Him. Abraham took Isaac and was ready to sacrifice Him to God, Jesus took the pain, He said here I am send me. Paul, John the baptist, Stephen and many others in the Bible heard the call, took the pain, responded and pleased God. The latter part of 1 Samuel 2:10…”He will give strength to his king and exalt the horn of his anointed.” May God help us to Him as a true child in all His will in Jesus’ name.We are grateful to God for blessing us with Pastor E.A Adeboye. Our knowledge of the word of God is increased each day as we study the Open Heavens devotional. More grace for greater works in Jesus’ Name