Daily Devotional
Open Heavens
OPEN HEAVENS: “MIRACLE PRODUCING EXPECTATIONS”, TUESDAY 7TH JANUARY 2014
Tuesday, January 07, 2014Omoba
Memory Verse: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things
not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report.”
Read: Matthew 9:20-22.
Message:
Having expectations
depends on many variables, particularly if we are talking about having
expectations of God. If God has made you a promise, then, you have the right to
expect that the promise will be fulfilled. In Genesis 8:22, the Almighty God
made a promise. It is based on this promise that the expectation of a farmer
rests. He said as long as the earth remains, seed time and harvest shall never
cease. This promise of God is the basis on which a farmer planting a seed
expects that there will be a harvest. Another variable which expectations
depend upon is the integrity of the one giving the promise.
If you are dealing
with a man who doesn’t keep his promises, you don’t expect anything from him.
If you are dealing with a man who in the past said”I am going to the right” and
you discovered he went to the left, the next time he says “I am coming”, you
will know he is going. Thank God that Numbers 23:19 says clearly that our God
is not a man that He should lie. Once He makes a promise, you can go to bed
knowing it will be fulfilled. The resources and the ability of the one who has
made a promise is another foundation upon which an expectation depends. There
was a time I visited my village and a little boy ran to me asking for a pair of
shoes for Christmas. I promised to buy him one. The young boy started spreading
the news that he would soon own a brand new pair of shoes. His mates did not
believe him until he told them that it was “Lagos Daddy” (as I was being called
then) that promised him a pair of shoes. The reason being that, apart from the
fact that they all knew that whatever “Daddy from Lagos” promised to do, he
would do; they also knew that God has blessed him with the wherewithal to keep
his promises.
In our Bible reading
for today, the woman with the issue of blood had a miracle-producing
expectation. This woman sought Jesus Christ with great expectation and she got
what she wanted – a miracle of healing. It is unfortunate that many people go
to the presence of God without an iota of expectation, whereas, the Bible in
Isaiah 45:19a says: “I have not spoken in
secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek
ye me in vain:”
I want to encourage
you to begin to seek and trust the miracle-working God with great expectations
for salvation, healing and astonishing breakthrough. I prophesy to your life
that the mouth-opening miracle you have been expecting will come your way this
season in Jesus’ Name.
PRAYER POINT
Father, my expectation
is to have blessings that will overflow unto many nations; please bring this to
fulfilment in the Name of Jesus.
Open
Heavens Daily Devotional
Written
by: Pastor E.A. Adeboye
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