OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - TUESDAY AUGUST 18 2015

OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL.

TUESDAY AUGUST 18 2015.

THEME : LIFE MORE ABUNDANT.

MEMORISE : The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. JOHN 10 : 10.

READ : JOHN 10 : 9 - 11.

9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR : GENESIS 24 : 62 -26 : 35 AND JOHN 15 : 18 - 16 : 15.

God’s plan for His children is that they do not become sick at all ( 3 John 2 ). All through His years on earth, our Lord Jesus Christ was never sick. If you believe in Him and fully obey Him, it is possible for you to never be sick again. Sickness is alien to God’s temple – your body. It is a stranger, an invader and a tool of the enemy. John 10 : 10 says the mission of the devil is to steal, kill and destroy. He wants to steal your health, kill your body and destroy you. But thank God, 1 John 3 : 8 says Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. Every work of darkness operating in your life shall be destroyed in Jesus’ Name.

Moreover, Jesus came to give life. The life He came to give is not in limited measure, but at a level described as being more than abundant. In other words, in superlative measure! Life is the opposite of death. Any resemblance of death in you shall be uprooted now! The life Jesus gives includes physical life; hence, He can reverse the process of death in a human body ( Acts 9 : 39 - 41 ). It also includes spiritual life: He imparts life to a spiritually dead fellow and is able to sustain this life until He returns ( 1 Peter 2 : 24 ). This is how those who were once sinners became saints and remain holy until they sleep in death or are caught up in the rapture.

Jesus also gives intellectual life. He can resurrect the mental faculty of a dullard and turn the fellow into a genius ( Acts 4 : 13 ). His abundant life includes financial life: He makes the deeply impoverished to become financially empowered ( 2 Corinthians 8 : 9 ). The abundant life restores health to the sick, makes the barren fruitful, changes the story of the one covered with shame, gives beauty for ashes, joy to the sorrow-laden, compassion to the neglected and so much more. It is capable of multiplying provision to overflowing measure. Are you a beneficiary of the abundant life? Any blessing to you have in limited measure can be made available to you abundantly. This season, the abundant life that Jesus gives shall be your portion! Reject anything that is less than the abundant life! Do everything possible to live a life that is filled with God’s abundance.

KEY POINT: Although Jesus has made all good things abundantly available, your faith will determine the level of what you draw from it.

  

AUTHOR:  Pst.  E.A   ADEBOYE

 

Compiled by:

Jide Aderibigbe