Open Heavens 2 October 2017: Monday daily devotional by Pastor E. A. Adeboye – The Most Needful Thing
Open Heavens 2 October
2017: Monday daily devotional by Pastor E. A. Adeboye – The Most Needful Thing,
THE MOST NEEDFUL THING – Monday October 2nd
2017
Memorise: Wisdom is the
principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get
understanding. Proverbs 4:7
Read: Proverbs 4:5-9 (KJV)
4:5 Get
wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my
mouth.
4:6 Forsake
her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
4:7 Wisdom
is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get
understanding.
4:8 Exalt
her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost
embrace her.
4:9 She
shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she
deliver to thee.
Bible in one year: Romans 7-8,
Daniel 2:17-30, Hymn Sing hymn 9
MESSAGE:
King
Solomon is considered to be the wisest king that ever lived. How did he become
so wise? When God gave Him a blank cheque to ask for anything, in 1st
King 3:9, he said:
“Give therefore thy servant an
understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and
bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?”
He
chose to ask for something that the average person of his time would consider
inconsequential: wisdom. Solomon feared that he might misrule God’s people and
thereby incur God’s wrath, and so he asked God for wisdom. Indeed, in Proverbs 9:10,
he later wrote:
“The fear of the LORD is the
beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.”
It is
unfortunate to discover that even among some children of God today, the fear of
the Lord is greatly absent. This accounts for the level of character erosion
that is being witnessed in the Church, so much so that even pastors are being
caught in various acts of sin, such as sexual immorality. Open Heaven 2 October
2017: Monday daily devotional by Pastor E. A. Adeboye – The Most Needful Thing. Joseph was repeatedly tempted and
pressured to commit sexual immorality, but he vehemently refused to indulge in
it, despite the fact that it was offered to him on a platter of gold. The Bible
in Genesis
39:8-9 gives this account of Joseph’s steadfastness:
“But he refused, and said unto
his master’s wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house,
and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand; there is none greater in
this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because
thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against
God?”
If
you ask me what kept Joseph away from this sexual immorality, I will tell you
that it was wisdom, brought about by the fear of the Lord. How I wish all of
God’s children would embrace the fear of God, so that they can begin to live in
wisdom. It is wisdom to run away from sin, because the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23).
A foolish fellow would say, “Death will come one day all the same.” Such a
fellow fails to consider untimely death like the one that took Absalom away (2nd
Samuel 18:10-17), the agony of death that comes as a result of sin,
and the eternal death in the Lake of Fire. Revelations 21:8 speaks of the Lake of Fire in
these words:
“But the fearful, and
unbelieving, and the abminable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers,
and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth
with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”
For
this reason, our Bible reading strongly recommends that we get wisdom. The
question is, where can we get wisdom? It is from the word of God (2nd
Timothy 3:15). Beloved, seek godly wisdom and don’t be lawless in
the name of grace, because grace does not indulge in lawlessness.
Prayer Point
Father, put Your fear in me,
help me to love your word and give me wisdom.
Keyword stuffin!!! lol...
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