ARISE AND SHINE – Tuesday January 3rd
2017
Memorise: Arise, shine; for
thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. Isaiah 60:1
Read: Isaiah 60:1-5 (KJV)
1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is
risen upon thee.
2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and
gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall
arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to
the brightness of thy rising.
4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather
themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy
daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
5 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart
shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be
converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
Bible in one year: Matthew
6-8, Isaiah 2:6-22, Hymn: Sing hymn 4
MESSAGE:
Sometimes,
we as children of God become so familiar with a passage of Scripture that we
lose the essence of the truths embedded in it by the Holy Spirit. One such
passage is Isaiah
60:1:
“Arise, shine; for thy light is come,
and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.”
The
first truth of Holy Spirit is the relaying to our spirit through this passage
today is that this statement is an express command. Here, the Almighty God is
commanding us to arise! It is someone who is either sitting or laying down that
would be commanded to arise. So, when God says “Arise”, it presupposes that you
are either sitting down idle, or that you are on a bed enjoying the sleep of
death. I command this day that whosoever is wasting away his or her time in
idleness or in the sleep of sin and death will arise in the Name of Jesus
Christ! In addition, we are not commanded to arise into obscurity; rather, we
are commanded to arise and shine.
I also decree that all who are reading this devotional today will
arise from their state of obscurity and mediocrity and come to the limelight of
success in Jesus’ Name. Arise and shine: - Open heavens devotional Tuesday
January 3 2017
Another
truth worthy of note in this same verse of Scripture is this: God is announcing
that your light has come. Before now, the Lord did not command you to arise and
shine because there was nothing to aid your shinning; but now, He is declaring
that your light has come. I therefore say prophetically to you today that your
light has come in Jesus’ Name. Here is the big revelation we must not allow to
slip away from us: the Holy Spirit in Isaiah 60:1 declares “Thy light is come.”
You may be wondering, “What is the light?” the question however should not be
what, but Who is the light? John 8:12 reveals
the answer:
“Then spake Jesus again unto them,
saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in
darkness, but shall have the light of life.”
Jesus
Christ is the light of the world. Isaiah’s prophetic writing in Isaiah 60:1
came to pass the day Jesus Christ came into this world.
Indeed
there is darkness in this world; majority of us are witnesses of this fact. The
darkness we are talking about is not the absence of physical light. Open heaven
manual 2017. We are talking about spirit darkness, principalities and powers (Ephesians 6:12).
Here are some pertinent questions for you to answer: Are you still in darkness?
Why has your light not come? It may be because you have not embraced the Light.
If that is the case, today is your day. Accept Jesus, the Light, into your life
today and darkness will no longer comprehend you, and therefore will be unable
to stop you (John
1:5).
Prayer Point
Father, let the light of your
Son, Jesus, shine upon me today, and let His glory help me.
Open Heavens Daily Devotional, written by Pastor E.A
Adeboye,
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of
the largest evangelical church in the world and also the President of Christ
the Redeemer's Ministries.
iOpenHeavens is the electronic version of the Hard Copy. The Open Heavens devotional application is available across all mobile platforms and operating systems: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Nokia, Windows Mobile and PC. Click HERE to DOWNLOAD Daily Open Heavens Devotional from January to December 2017
iOpenHeavens is the electronic version of the Hard Copy. The Open Heavens devotional application is available across all mobile platforms and operating systems: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Nokia, Windows Mobile and PC. Click HERE to DOWNLOAD Daily Open Heavens Devotional from January to December 2017
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