OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL: SATURDAY, MAY 6TH 2017- SONS ARE SPIRIT-LED

Memorise: For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Romans 8:14
Read: Romans 8:13-14
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Bible in one year: Deuteronomy 4, Jeremiah 26:12-24

1. “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” John 6:63
2. To a natural man, the words of Jesus Christ and the message of the cross are all foolishness (1st Corinthians 2:14).
3. A person who is not living in the Spirit cannot comprehend the message of Jesus Christ because it originates from the Holy Spirit. This is why it takes the Holy Spirit to enlighten the eyes of a natural man’s understanding and convict his heart, before he can accept Jesus Christ into his life.
4. To live in the Spirit, you need the Holy Spirit to quicken you. It is His work to make you alive and to strengthen you spiritually.
5. When you are down or tired, if you pray in the spirit long enough, you will find the required strength to undertake the assignment ahead of you.
6. Every assignment that God has for you is the first spiritual and then physical. This is why you cannot effectively perform a divine assignment using only physical means. Even when you have to undertake the physical aspects of a divine assignment, you need spiritual stamina or input to be effective.
7. Moreover, if you live in the Spirit, you should also be led by the Spirit. Who leads you reveals who owns you (Romans 6:16).
8. To understand what it means to be led by the Spirit, read up the account of the operations of the Holy Spirit in the life of Philip in Acts 8:26-40.
9. If you are saved and you barely receive divine guidance from the Holy Spirit, you are still a babe in the Kingdom; but if you are regularly led of the Holy Spirit – meaning you hear His voice and follow His instructions – then you have most likely attained the level of maturity in the faith where you can be called a son (Hebrews 5:11-14).
10. God is looking for sons and not just babes!
11. There are several Kingdom assignments that God wants to give out, but He is looking for sons to take them up.
12. Sons hear His voice and obey promptly, but babes find it difficult even to recognise God’s voice. Sons are guided by the Holy Spirit into all truth, because they can accept it and run with it, but babes cannot stand certain truths (John 16:12-13).
13. If there are some truths from God’s word that can make you to turn back from following the Lord, you are still a babe and not a son yet.
14. The word of God contains depths of truth. While babes read through it without getting much, sons carefully go step by step through it to harness the volumes of truth contained in it. Are you a babe or a son?

Please understand today that being led by the Spirit is never a burden to His children but rather a blessing. To be led by the Spirit is to get divine directions and avoid frustration of life. Being led by the Spirit of God is great gain to every believer. We charge you today just like Apostle also encouraged the church in  Galatians‬ ‭5:25‬. “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”  Many believers want to known  to be in the Spirit but truly not walking in the Spirit. It’s two different things, to walk in the Spirit is to be sensitive to the voice of the Holy Spirit and obey every instruction. May God help us in Jesus’ name. May He preserve Pastor E.A Adeboye and satisfy him with peace, long life, good health and Joy unspeakable in Jesus name.

Prayer Point
Father, give me ears that hear Your Spirit, and give me a heart that follows His leading.
HYMN
1 O spread the tidings ’round, wherever man is found,
Wherever human hearts and human woes abound.
Let every Christian tongue proclaim the joyful sound:
The Comforter has come!
Refrain:
The Comforter has come! The Comforter has come!
The Holy Ghost from heav’n, the Father’s promise giv’n,
O spread the tidings ’round, wherever man is found:
The Comforter has come!
2 The long, long night is past; the morning breaks at last;
And hushed the dreadful wail and fury of the blast,
As o’er the golden hills the day advances fast!
The Comforter has come! [Refrain]
3 Lo, the great King of kings, with healing in His wings,
To every captive soul a full deliv’rance brings;
And thro’ the vacant cells the song of triumph rings;
The Comforter has come! [Refrain]
4 O boundless love divine! How shall this tongue of mine
To wond’ring mortals tell the matchless grace divine –
That I, a child of hell, should in His image shine?
The Comforter has come! [Refrain]

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