Open Heavens Devotional by Pastor E.A. Adeboye
Memorise: Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker
of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure. 1 Timothy 5:22
Read: 2 Samuel 11:1-5
It will shock you to know that it is easier to manage lack
and hardship than to manage abundance and pleasure. If you live in a single
room in a “face-me-I-face-you” building (building with multiple tenants of
low-income class), it is easier for you to wake up and pray even at night than
when you live in an expensively furnished bedroom with water bed in a mansion
overseeing the sea. When you want to get up to pray in such a house, the
comfort of the bed will motivate you to sleep some more. Before you know it, it
will be dawn. Let us take the case of David as an example (2 Samuel 11:1;
12:14.) While David was being chased from cave to cave, he had no time to think
of committing adultery, but after being crowned king and baptized into comfort,
when he should have been at war, he was resting and so he saw what he should
not have seen and got into trouble.
It is important to be where God wants you to be always.
During evangelism, He expects you to be in the field witnessing to souls.
During rehearsal time or Sunday school preparatory class, God expects you there
if you are a teacher. He expects you in service during the time for service.
Any time you are not where God expects you to be, you open yourself to see or
encounter what you should not, and you may find yourself in trouble. Do you
know what the devil could have planned for one of David’s servants who stayed
in the palace to be the one to see the naked Beersheba? But because David was
in the wrong place, he got trapped by this temptation. Many people, like David,
have entered into trouble not planned for them and became victims of stray
temptations. One way to avoid this is by being where God wants you to be at
every point in time. But even when confronted with such temptations, know that
God’s grace is sufficient to overcome all temptations. Ask God to guide your steps
aright from today.
PRAYER POINT:
Father, order my steps according to your will and Word. Let
me be where you want me to be at every point in time.
Bible in one year: Luke 22-24
As Christians we shuold try to forget our God either when things are bad or not. Staying in d house of God or doing things in d right way will bring us closer to God and keep us away from sins.Thank u
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ReplyDeleteOrder my steps o lord according to ur word and deliver me 4rm my past and present mistakes IJN Amen.
ReplyDeleteLord plz help us not 2 fall n2 avoidable sins n Jesus name. Amen
ReplyDeleteLord have mercy on me! For I have sinned
ReplyDeleteLord please don't let me depart from Your presence for once please order my step IJN Amen.
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