OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL-SUNDAY-16/8/2015-PEACE THROUGH HIS PRESENCE-BY PASTOR E.A. ADEBOYE
Memorise
Therefore
being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Romans 5:1
Read
Exodus
14:13-14
13
And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation
of the Lord, which he will shew to you today: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen
today, ye shall see them again no more forever.
14
The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
KJV
MESSAGE
The assurance that God is on the side of the
righteous and not against them, give peace to their life. It is commonly said
that “One with God is majority.” Even if the whole world is against you, as
long as you know that God is on your side, you will not be afraid. As a child
of God, because God has justified and cleansed you, there is now peace between
you and Him (Romans 5:1). The rift of separation is gone! Condemnation is also
gone! Praise God! As long as God stands by you, nobody can withstand you (Romans
8:31). If God is for you, it means that He loves you, and if He loves you, then
you are more than a conqueror. If God is for you, He will personally take over
the battles of your life. As you simply praise and worship Him, He will arise
and engage your enemies in battle. You can be certain He will bring the victory
back to you. While facing the Red Sea with no visible way to cross it, the
children of Israel suddenly had the Egyptian army rushing furiously towards
them. Faced with this impossible situation, Moses said this to them in Exodus
14:14:
“The
LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.”
When you have the Commander-in-Chief of the
heavenly hosts fighting for you, oh what peace and joy will flood your heart in
the midst of the storms of life! As long as Jesus, the Prince of Peace, is in
your boat, that boat will never sink. A song writer wrote, “… No water can
swallow the ship where lies, the Master of ocean and earth and skies”. This is
so true. You can go to sleep in the midst of an earthquake when God is with
you. That was why Peter sleep so deep after his arrest. Acts 12:6-7 tells of
how he slept, bound between two soldiers:
“And
when Herod would have brought Him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping
between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door
kept the prison.”
He knew that even though he was in prison,
He was safely in God’s hands. He also knew that God can do the impossible
whenever He decides to. Are you anxious over how you will come out of that
impossible situation? Fear not! What did Peter do to come out? Nothing! He
slept while others prayed, yet he came out. You are coming out today in Jesus’
Name. Because God is with you, you will never fall.
Key point
The peace that God gives cannot be eroded by
the storms of life.
Bible in
one year
Genesis 21:8-23:20, John 14:15-31
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