OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL-FRIDAY-27/05/2016-VENGEANCE IS THE LORD’S-BY PASTOR E.A. ADEBOYE
VENGEANCE IS THE LORD’S
Memorise
Dearly
beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give please unto wrath: for it is written,
vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Romans 12:19
Read
Ezekiel 25:12-14,
12 Thus
saith the Lord God; because that
Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath
greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will also stretch out mine hand
upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate
from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
14 And I
will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall
do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall
know my vengeance, saith the Lord God.
KJV
MESSAGE
Many passages of the Bible reiterate the
fact that vengeance belongs to God alone. Because vengeance belongs to the
Lord, it is His right to execute it. He said in Romans 12:19, “Vengeance
is mine, saith the Lord.” Deuteronomy 32:35 also says, “To me belongs
vengeance”. Even Psalms 94:1 says, “O Lord God, to whom vengeance
belongs, show thyself.” God’s people are not to avenge themselves; especially
when He makes use of them as His instruments. God must be seen as the one in
action, personalities involved should assume the position of an ordinary
instrument in the hand of the Almighty. Romans 12:19 says:
“Dearly beloved,
avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written,
Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.”
We as children of God must never make any
move to avenge ourselves under any circumstance. You can be sure that God will
surely fight on your behalf according to His word. God will avenge His people
upon their adversaries; He will not allow any unrepentant sinner to go
unpunished. You must know that God does not want the death of any sinner;
therefore, He will make ways for repentance by making a reasonably long period
of grace available to sinners and adversaries alike. But you can be sure that
at the right time, He will make good His promises to His people, and they will
be avenged of their enemies. But, because His mercy endures forever, He will
even spend several warnings to the enemies to prompt them towards repentance as
recorded in Isaiah 47:3:
“Thy nakedness shall
be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will
not meet thee as a man.”
But let enemies not be encouraged by this to
continue in wickedness, because God will surely avenge His elect, because they
are so near and dear to Him. God has always been a witness to the rage and
oppression of the enemies; He is a quiet listener to the threatening and
arrogant boastings of these enemies. It does not please any father to watch his
dear children being tormented, beaten, enslaved, burned alive, and killed,
before his eyes. We are His beloved; He suffered and died by carrying out the
ultimate sacrifice of our sakes.
The compassionates and tender
heart of a husband toward his betrothed wife cannot be over emphasized. Our
heavenly Father is always sharing in our affliction, and bitterness of soul,
every time any of His children is being brutalized. God will avenge His own
elect to convince the world of how grievous it has been for Him to behold all
the violence and cruelty wicked men have done unto His own people.
God will avenge His people because the days
of the wicked must end, and the days of the saints must begin. Also, because
the harvest of the prayers and cries of God’s elect is now ripe. Your
deliverance is here, you can begin to celebrate Jesus. Praise God!
Prayer Point
Father, from today, I will
stay quiet and watch you avenge me.
Bible in one year
1st Chronicles
28-29, Proverbs 30:7-17
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