Open Heavens 1 August 2016: Monday
daily devotional by Pastor E.A. Adeboye – Blessing from above
Memorise: Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of
Jacob shall be upon a land of corn And wine; also his heaven shall drop down
dew. Deuteronomy 33:28
Read: Deuteronomy 33:27-29, (KJV)
33:27 The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the
everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall
say, Destroy them.
33:29 Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people
saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy
excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt
tread upon their high places.
Bible in one year: Hebrews 5:10-8:13, Psalms 24
MESSAGE
There are different kinds of
blessings, but there is a kind of blessing that comes from God alone. This is
the blessing that has no boundary. It is from above where God sits to
coordinate the affairs of His people. Today, the blessing of God will locate
you wherever you are in Jesus’ name. If you must prosper the way God desires,
you cannot afford to ignore the presence of God.
Those who have succeeded
exceedingly in life are those whose source of blessing is God. When the presence
of God is with you, He causes whatever you lay your hands upon to prosper. With
little effort, you enjoy great favour and you become a channel of blessings to
others around you.
If you study the biblical men of
faith; Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, you will notice that God was not only
interested in giving them blessings that
will be sufficient for them alone, He was interested in blessing them to a
point that they become channels of blessings to others. Do you know God can
bless you so much that your driver becomes a millionaire just from driving you?
He told Abraham.
“And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless
thee, and make thy name great; and thou shall be a blessing”
Genesis 12:2
The blessing that came from above
into the life of Abraham made a great nation out of him. That blessing gave him
such a great name that there was no nation where his name was not known. The name attracted so many blessings to his
life that he became a great possessor of vast expanses of land and today, his seed
are all over the world. God can make you a man or woman of great wealth and
power. No matter how dry your ground may be at the moment; He can raise
greatness out of it and make your little one become a thousand. The outpouring
of God’s blessing upon your life can move you beyond the point of daily
provision and mere survival, to the point in which you become the talk of
nations because of how frightening your blessings have become. Peter who toiled
all night and caught nothing became the talk of the town when he experienced a
net-breaking blessing. I have always said that a day is coming and that season
is here for a reader of this devotional, that when you take your money to the
bank, the bank manager will order that the branch be shut down for three days
to other customers just because they are attending to you.
For you to achieve this level of
blessing, you need to understand that it will not come easy, but you need not
be discouraged because God is ever faithful and He knows the path to take you
through to get there. God is the fountain of all honour and it is from Him that
promotion comes. What you are going through at the moment may not show that you
are a candidate for this kind of blessing but you need to know that the plan
and purpose of God for your life cannot be denied. Your faith and obedience
will be tried. You need to be separated and set aside for God alone.
Those who forsake their sins and
turn to God will get blessings that they never bargained for. You have to take
your mind off the mundane things of this world and step up into the higher
ground of what God is prepared to do with your life.
Key Point
Until there is a departure from the little things, there will be no
discovery of greater things.
Open Heavens Daily Devotional, written by Pastor E.A
Adeboye
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