Open Heavens Devotional by Pastor E.A. Adeboye
Memorise: Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his
place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that
he dealeth very subtilly. 1 Samuel 23:22
Read: 1 Samuel 23:19-24
To effectively deal with a problem, wisdom demands that you
take it from its root. A tree that is cut down does not cease to grow. With
time, it gets nourishment from its source and springs up again. The only time
you are assured of total victory is when the enemy is uprooted. It is not enough
for Goliath to fall. He can rise again after recovering strength. Until the
head is off, there should be no celebration. Many of us still engage in
premature celebration of victory. Put such celebrations on hold until victory
is total.
Some brothers from the same parents struggled through life.
One of them was a pastor. The difficulty encountered in that family negatively
affected his ministry. Growth was hampered and he struggled with his finances.
At a point, out of frustration, he cried out to God to reveal the root cause of
his situation. The Lord asked him to go and see his mother back home. On
visiting her, he narrated the ordeal of all the siblings and demanded to know what
could be the cause of the lack of progress in the family. She told him the only
thing she could recall took place several years before while she was a
spinster. Her parents were wealthy and quite influential. An incident occurred
involving their family, which led to the death of a member of one of the less
privileged families in the neighbourhood. But instead of proper restitution or
justice from the court of law, her family used their wealth to bury the matter.
What they thought was over unknown to them was just beginning. The aggrieved
family made a certain pronouncements against her family. They said if there was
no more wealth in that family, they would cease to oppress the poor. Since
then, wealth, progress and the likes became a rarity. After deliberations, they
decided to trace that family. They found one aged man still alive. When confronted
with facts of the case, the man confirmed it. They asked how they could right
their wrong and he said the victim of the oppression had not been buried for
lack of money. He said if they can give him befitting burial, they would be
left off the hook. They did. Not long afterwards, wealth, prosperity and
progress returned to their family. The pastor’s ministry witnessed a boom and
became largely successful. Many people are where they are in spite of fasting,
deliverance and other efforts because attempts at resolving their matter are
not getting at the root. Ask God to unveil the root of that problem to you.
Take necessary corrective measures and you will be free.
PRAYER POINT:
Father, show me the root cause of that persistent problem in
your life.
Bible in one year: 1 Peter 1-2
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