OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL-MONDAY-01/08/2016-BLESSINGS FROM ABOVE-BY PASTOR E.A. ADEBOYE
BLESSINGS FROM ABOVE
Memorise
Israel
then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of
corn and wine; also his heaven shall drop down dew.
Deuteronomy
33:28
Read
Deuteronomy
33:27-29
27 The
eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he
shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.
28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the
fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall
drop down dew.
29 Happy
art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is
the sword of thy Excellency! And thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee;
and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
KJV
MESSAGE
There are
different kinds of blessings, but there is a kind of blessing that comes from
God alone. This is the blessing that has no boundary. It is from above where
God sits to coordinate the affairs of His people. Today, the blessing of God
will locate you wherever you are in Jesus’ name. If you must prosper the way
God desires, you cannot afford to ignore the presence of God.
Those who
have succeeded exceedingly in life are those whose source of blessing is God.
When the presence of God is with you, He causes whatever you lay your hands
upon to prosper. With little effort, you enjoy great favour and you become a
channel of blessings to others around you.
If you study
the biblical men of faith; Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, you will notice that God
was not only interested in giving them blessings that will be sufficient
for them alone, He was interested in blessing them to a point that they become
channels of blessings to others. Do you know God can bless you so much that
your driver becomes a millionaire just from driving you? He told Abraham.
“And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will
bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shall be a blessing”
Genesis 12:2
The blessing
that came from above into the life of Abraham made a great nation out of him.
That blessing gave him such a great name that there was no nation where his
name was not known. The name attracted so many blessings to his life that
he became a great possessor of vast expanses of land and today, his seed are
all over the world. God can make you a man or woman of great wealth and power.
No matter how dry your ground may be at the moment; He can raise greatness out
of it and make your little one become a thousand. The outpouring of God’s blessing
upon your life can move you beyond the point of daily provision and mere
survival, to the point in which you become the talk of nations because of how
frightening your blessings have become. Peter who toiled all night and caught
nothing became the talk of the town when he experienced a net-breaking
blessing. I have always said that a day is coming and that season is here for a
reader of this devotional, that when you take your money to the bank, the bank
manager will order that the branch be shut down for three days to other
customers just because they are attending to you.
For you to
achieve this level of blessing, you need to understand that it will not come
easy, but you need not be discouraged because God is ever faithful and He knows
the path to take you through to get there. God is the fountain of all honour
and it is from Him that promotion comes. What you are going through at the
moment may not show that you are a candidate for this kind of blessing but you
need to know that the plan and purpose of God for your life cannot be denied.
Your faith and obedience will be tried. You need to be separated and set aside
for God alone.
Those who
forsake their sins and turn to God will get blessings that they never bargained
for. You have to take your mind off the mundane things of this world and step
up into the higher ground of what God is prepared to do with your life.
Key Point
Until there is a departure
from the little things, there will be no discovery of greater things.
Bible in one year
Hebrews 5:10-8:13, Psalms 24
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