Open Heavens 15 January 2018: Monday daily devotional by Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Daring the Most High God?
Open Heavens 15 January 2018: Monday daily devotional by Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Daring the Most High God? Open Heaven For Today, Rccg Open Heaven & Open Heavens Devotional 2018Rccg Open Heaven & Open Heavens Devotional 2018
DARING THE MOST-HIGH GOD? – Monday January 15th
2018
Memorise: Yet they tempted and
provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: Psalm 78:56
Read: Daniel 3:14-30 (KJV)
3:14 Nebuchadnezzar spake
and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye
serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
3:15 Now if ye be ready
that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut,
psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the
image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same
hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall
deliver you out of my hands?
3:16 Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not
careful to answer thee in this matter.
3:17 If it be so, our God
whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will
deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
3:18 But if not, be it
known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the
golden image which thou hast set up.
3:19 Then was
Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they
should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
3:20 And he commanded the
most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
3:21 Then these men were
bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments,
and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
3:22 Therefore because the
king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flames of the
fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
3;23 And these three men,
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning
fiery furnace.
3:24 Then Nebuchadnezzar
the king was astonished, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his
counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They
answered and said unto the king, True, O king.
3:25 He answered and said,
Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no
hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
3:26 Then Nebuchadnezzar
came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said,
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth,
and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst
of the fire.
3:27 And the princes,
governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together,
saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of
their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had
passed on them.
3:28 Then Nebuchadnezzar
spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who
hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have
changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve
nor worship any god, except their own God.
3:29 Therefore I make a
decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak anything amiss
against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and
their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can
deliver after this sort.
3:30 Then the king
promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the province of Babylon.
Bible in one year: Genesis 32-33, Revelation
14:1-13, Hymnal: Sing hymn 9
“Woe unto him that striveth with
his Maker!Let the potsherd strive with the
potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What
makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?”
Whenever
I read the words of this scripture above, I tremble. It is quite astonishing to
see mere mortals “flexing muscles” with the One who made them. You can be a
‘dare-devil’, but you better not dare the Almighty God; the end result will
always be catastrophic for you. today's open heaven. Today’s Bible text narrates a classical example
of someone who dared to challenge his Maker: King Nebuchadnezzar. When
Nebuchadnezzar commanded all to bow before the golden image he had set up, the
Hebrew boys refused to bow, daring the devil in King Nebuchadnezzar. Open Heaven 11 January 2018. In
response, Nebuchadnezzar dared the God of heaven and threw His Children into a
fiery furnace in defiance of God’s supremacy. open heavens devotional for today. However, the God of those Hebrew
boys, who is also the God of all flesh, showed up in the furnace and rescued
His children. open heavens 9 January 2018. It is unfortunate that those who, by the order of the king, threw
them into the fiery furnace were all burnt to ashes. I decree that as it
happened to those who threw Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego into the fiery
furnace, so shall it be to all the enemies of God in your life in Jesus’ Name.
Although Nebuchadnezzar temporarily repented of his folly after witnessing the
awesome power of God, he still got a taste of God’s punishment down the line:
he was turned into a beast for a season (Daniel 4:28-37)! May those who are challenging
the Almighty God in your life be like Nebuchadnezzar, Pharaoh, Herod and all
those who dared the King of glory throughout history.
Key Point
Father, please remove folly
far away from me so that I may not challenge you to a fight through
disobedience.
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.
Sing hymn 9
1.
On a hill far away stood an old
rugged cross,
The emblem of
suffering and
Shame;
And I love that old
cross where
the dearest and best
For a world of lost
sinners was
Slain.
Chorus:
So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross,
Till my trophies at last l lay down;
I will cling to the old rugged cross,
And exchange it someday for a crown.
2. O that old rugged
cross, so
despised by the world,
Has a wondrous
attraction for me;
For dear Lamb of God
left his
Glory above
To bear it to dark
Calvary.
3. In that old rugged
cross, stained
with blood so divine,
A wondrous beauty I
see,
For ‘twas on that old
cross Jesus
suffered and died
To pardon and sanctify me.
4. To that old rugged
cross I will ever
be true,
Its shame and reproach
gladly
bear;
Then he’ll call me
some day to my
home far away,
Where his glory
forever I’ll share.
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