Open Heavens Devotional by Pastor E.A. Adeboye
MEMORIZE: “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee;
and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained
thee a prophet unto the nations.” (Jer. 1:5).
READ: Jeremiah 1:4-5
“So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be
called, but few chosen” (Matt. 20:16). The chosen is on a higher level than the
called. Not everyone who is called will be chosen but everyone who is chosen
has been called. When the Lord invited His disciples to meet Him on the
mountain in Mark 3:13-15, they were all called. However, only a few of them
were ordained [chosen], twelve to be precise. One thing to note here about the
chosen few is that they were not chosen after their biological birth or the
new-birth experience. Ephesians 1:3-4 says their divine selection predates
their physical existence, back to a period before God laid the foundations of
the earth. There is very little anyone can do about a choice God made before
the foundations of the world. So, you were not chosen because of your
eloquence, stature or effort. If God has chosen you before the world began, you
must truly be unique.
“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before
thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a
prophet unto the nations.” (Jer. 1:5). Today, there is much fuss and struggle
for physical ordination. What many fail to appreciate, though, is that physical
ordination is only a confirmation of an ordination which took place in the
spirit realm in ages past. For your ordination to be effective, the spirit
ordination must blend with the physical one. Yet, many who lack spiritual
ordination still manipulate their way into physical ordination. The oil used
for such ordination will be of no significance in their lives. As a result,
some who have earthly ordination but lack heavenly ordination will only serve
an unholy purpose that will end up destroying them. My father-in the Lord, Pa.
Akindayomi, the Founder of the RCCG, visited Jerusalem in 1975. While praying
that first night the Lord told him his successor has arrived. I joined the
church in 1973. The Lord told him to ordain me immediately he returns to Nigeria.
It was not the custom of the church to ordain someone who has just joined the
Church, so he secretly ordained me. The one he ordained before me had been in Church
for fifteen years. The oil is not the ordination. Gallons of oil may be poured
over your head but if God has not ordained you, it will amount to an oil bath.
Has God ordained you?
KEY POINT
If Heaven ordains you, one way or another, in God’s set
time, the earth will equally ordain you.
Bible in One year: Gen. 1-2
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