Open Heavens 23 September 2017:
Saturday daily devotional by Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Resisting God?
RESISTING GOD? – Saturday September 23rd
2017
Memorise: Do we provoke the
Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? 1st Corinthians 10:22
Read: 1st
Corinthians 10:21-23 (KJV)
10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of
devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than
he?
10:23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not
expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
Bible in one year: Nehemiah
7-8, Ezekiel 45:10-25, Hymn: Sing hymn 6
MESSAGE:
Colossians 1:16
tells us that all visible and invisible things were created by God and for God.
You were created to make God happy by following His will, plan and purpose for
your life. However, when you take the path of self-government and go contrary
to the purpose for which you were created, that is rebellion. Lucifer and
several angels decided to walk out of God’s original plan, and they became who
we now refer to as Satan and demons (Isaiah 14:12-16, Revelation 12:7-9). Anyone
who follows self-government today will also end up where the devil and his
demons are. The truth is, if you fail God, you fail yourself. Therefore,
pleasing God is the real path to true self-fulfilment, lasting peace and joy. I
tell you the truth, living on earth without confronting to God’s original
blueprint for your life makes you waste that life. Without God, life is not
worth living.
“No man that warreth entangleth
himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen
him to be a soldier.”2nd Timothy 2:4 open-heavens-23-September-2017
We
are not here on earth by our power or design. We were created and placed here
to satisfy God’s eternal plan and purpose for our lives. Even when Jesus was
here, in all that He did, He did not try to please Himself but His father (John 8:29, John
5:30). Now that He has chosen us to be His soldiers, we cannot
afford to please ourselves. When He gives us an assignment, we must do it
exactly as He wants it done, or risk going against Him. In 1st Samuel 15, King
Saul was given an assignment by God to go and utterly wipe out the Amalekites.
He went out to fulfil it but made slight changes to the instructions. In the
end, he failed God and failed himself. He lost his kingdom because he could not
totally comply with God’s will. Today, for this same reason, many people are
close to completely losing their place in God’s divine plan. A king who
resisted God had to go on a seven-year trip into insanity, and he lost his
throne for that period (Daniel 4). Similarly, another king who said
that God’s word should not be heard was eaten alive by worms (Acts 12:1-24).
If these great kings could not resist or withstand God, do you think you can?
If you are wise, you will totally submit to His will today. God has a problem
with the so-called obedience of a good number of His children. Although He is
speaking to them, they are not listening to Him; rather they are more
interested in hearing themselves. Hence, He has almost grounded them in all
areas. Thinking it’s the devil at fault, such people are wrongly praying
against agents of darkness. It is time to do nothing short of God’s total will
in all your ways!
Key Point
Those who resist God are
fighting a battle they can never win.
Open Heavens Daily Devotional Lessons
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. open-heavens-23-September-2017iOpenHeavens is the electronic version
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