ABANDONING GOD’S ASSIGNMENT? – Thursday July 20th 2017
Memorise: Ye looked for much, and, lo, it
came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? Saith the
LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto
his own house. Haggai 1:9
Read: Haggai 1:5-11 (KJV)
1:5 Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.
1:7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.
1:8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and
build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith
the Lord.
1:9 Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to
little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run
every man unto his own house.
1:10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from
dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
1:11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and
upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil,
and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle,
and upon all the labour of the hands.
Bible in one year: 2nd Samuel
15-16, Ezekiel 12:7-20, Hymn: Sing hymn 14
MESSAGE:
“What shall we then say to these things?
If God be for us, who can be against us?”
Romans 8:31
The above
scripture clearly tells us that God can be for us. It is so reassuring to know
that God can stand for you. Whenever He is for you, anyone against you is in
trouble. open heavens 20 July 2017. However, do you know that just as God can be for you, He can also be
against you? Yes, He can if you check through the Scriptures; you will see many
instances where God stirred up the enemies of His children to fight against
them (Judges
4:1-3, Judges 6:1-10). They reminded defeated until they realised
their evil, repented and ran back to God. Judges 13:1 says,
“And the children of Israel did evil
again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of
the Philistine forty years.”
Every time you
turn away from God, violate His word or live to gratify your fleshly lusts, you
turn Him against you.
Moreover, God
can personally fight or frustrate the efforts of His children. In our Bible
reading, because some people refused to complete the building of God’s house,
He decided to frustrate their personal efforts. It is frightening to see the
extent God can go to in fighting His own children! In Haggai 1:6, it is written that
his people worked like elephants but brought in the harvest of ants. They ate
but were never satisfied, and their thirst could not be quenched no matter how
much water they drank. No matter how many clothes they wore, they could not get
warm. They worked and were paid, but kept losing their wages. Haggai 1:9
even goes further to say that if they managed to bring in any little gain, God
would blow it away. God also prevented the heavens from releasing rain and the
earth for releasing its increase. He went further to declare a famine on their
land. This was God fighting His children and not any devil Why the fight? It
was because they abandoned God’s house and focused on building their own
mansions with the resources God had given them. If you abandon God’s assignment
or project in pursuit of yours, you are calling for God’s hammer. In any way
you have erred, repent today and turn to what you abandoned, and the Lord will
turn away from His anger.
Prayer Point
Father, prosper all Your missionaries in
mission fields across the globe. Back them up with signs and wonders. Help them
to win souls and to disciple your end-time army.
Open Heavens Daily Devotional guide was 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.
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