OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29TH 2018- ARUGING WITH THE OMEGA?

August 28, 2018 Posted by admina In Devotionals No Comments
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Memorise: Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. 1 Kings 20:11
Read: Matthew 26:30-35
30 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
31 Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be [a]made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, And the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
32 But after I have been raised, I will go before you to Galilee.”
33 Peter answered and said to Him, “Even if all are [b]made to stumble because of You, I will never be made to stumble.”
34 Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you that this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.”
35 Peter said to Him, “Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You!” And so said all the disciples.
Bible in one year: Psalm 81-87, Matthew 26:69-27:14

AS REVEALED BY PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE IN TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL

1. In today’s Bible reading, we see an overconfident Peter arguing with the One whose Name is Omega. Perhaps Peter forgot that He is the Omega, God knows the end from the beginning.
2. You need to recognize that overconfidence is not synonymous with faith.
3. While overconfidence ignores that which is ordained as if it were not, faith calls those things that be not as though they were.
4. When God’s ordained word says “Abstain from all appearance of evil and flee fornication”, it is overconfidence and not faith that makes a brother linger in a place where female nudity is on display.
5. Your faith cannot annul God’s word.
6. Some people believe that as new creatures in Christ, they are now super beings, no longer susceptible to weaknesses or temptations. Driven by overconfidence and not faith, such people throw wise checks and balances established in God’s word out of the window. No wonder they end up in the same pitiable state Peter found himself in after denying Christ thrice.
7. After Jesus told Peter what would happen to him shortly, instead of praying for grace to stand firm or praying for a reversal of his impending denial, he was busy making “confessions of overconfidence” and not “confessions of faith” as he supposed. Hear his confessions in Matthew 26:35b: “….Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee:” Unfortunately, the same mouth Peter used in making these confessions also denied Christ.
8. Your confessions must be based on the totality of God’s word, if you don’t want to engage in a futile exercise.
9. There is a place for making confessions and affirmations, but basing them on an isolated portion of God’s word cannot override the generality of God’s principles.
10. Apostle Paul got it right when he longed to know Christ and the power of His resurrection, in Philippians 3:12, Paul revealed his mindset with these words: “Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: bit I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.”
11. Unlike Paul, some people behave as if they have arrived. Some of such people even try to persuade me to slow down and rest upon what God has done for me over the years in the ministry. They forget that only those who endure to the end will be saved (Matthew 10:22).
12. Beloved, continually search the scriptures, and make God’s word your compass in life.
13. Pray earnestly also that the grace of Jesus Christ will be more than enough for you to finish well and strong.

SHORT REFLECTION BY THE LIGHT POINTERS

“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.” James 1:22‭-‬25 Refusal to follow God’s instructions is disobedience and it is an indirect argument with the Omega. The scripture above makes it clear what doing the word of God will result into. So I enjoin us to confess God’s word confidently and seek His help and mercy for it’s fulfillment. God be praised for Pastor E.A Adeboye in Jesus name.

Prayer Point: Father, I have no power of my own; please help me to finish well and strong in Jesus’ name.
Hymn
When we walk with the Lord in the light of His word,
What a glory He shed on our way!
While we do His good will, He abides with us still,
And with all who will trust and obey.
Chorus:
Trust and obey, for there’s no other way
To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
Not a shadow can rise, not a cloud in the skies,
But His smile quickly drives it away;
Not a doubt or a fear, not a sigh or tear,
Can abide while we trust and obey.
Not a burden we bear, not a sorrow we share,
But our toil He doth richly repay;
Not a grief or a loss, not a frown or a cross,
But is blessed if we trust and obey.
But we never can prove the delights of His love
Until all on the altar we lay;
For the favor He shows, for the joy He bestows,
Are for them who will trust and obey.
Then in fellowship we will sit at His feet,
Or we’ll walk by His side in the way;
What He says we will do, where He sends we will go;
Never fear, only trust and obey

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