OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL-MONDAY-15/08/2016-NO HINDRANCE-BY PASTOR E.A. ADEBOYE
NO HINDRANCE
Memorise
Who
are thou, O Great Mountain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he
shall bring forth the headstone therefore with shoutings, crying, Grace, unto
it. Zechariah 4:7
Read
Zechariah
4:7-11,
7 Who
art thou, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he
shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace
unto it.
8 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
9 The
hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall
also finish it; and thou shalt know that the Lord
of hosts hath sent me unto you.
10 For
who hath despised the day of small things? For they shall rejoice, and shall
see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes
of the Lord, which run to and fro
through the whole earth.
11 Then
answered I, and said unto him, what are these two olive trees upon the right
side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
KJV
MESSAGE
You must
never allow anything to hinder you from becoming what God wants you to become.
Don’t give in to the lies and fear that the devil is sending against you. In
1981, before I became 40 years old, I had been General Overseer for just a few
months. One day, I looked at myself in the mirror and I saw grey hair all over
my head. We had many problems in the church then. The Lord said I was carrying
a burden that was not mine and I responded by saying that I was carrying the
burdens related to the church. He said the church belonged to Him and that He
could take care of it. He said He just made me the General Overseer as a front
so that people will see a visible representative. I relaxed henceforth, and all
my hair became black again.
There are
mountains that stand between us and the things God wants us to achieve. These
mountains could be issues that are hindering the actualisation of our set
goals. The mountain could be people who do not see or understand what God is
saying to you yet; or it could be people who are falsely accusing you, but you
can be sure that God will always reduce all your mountains into plains. There
are certain burdens and problems that are too big for you to carry? All you
need do is to hand them over to the Burden Bearer. In Numbers 16:1-35,
three men; Korah, Dathan and Abiram, came with the intention of
hindering the assignments that God gave to Moses. They accused him of turning
the leadership of the congregation into a family affair. They said Aaron his
brother was a priest while Miriam his sister was the Choirmaster. In the midst
of this mountain, Moses turned to God for intervention. The Lord told Moses to
stand aside and watch Him fight against the mountains that were rising before
him to hinder the work He had committed into his hand. By the time God was
through with the mountains, they had all become plains.
When
mountains rise against you, don’t waste your time entertaining any fear. When
the Almighty God is on your side, it does not matter the problems confronting
you, testimonies will be the final result in your favour. The Bible says in Psalms 30:5:
“Weeping
may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning.”
What is that
sickness hindering you? The Almighty God will be your personal Physician. If it
is poverty that wants to hinder all the great dreams that the Almighty God has
given to you, do not fear the hindrance because He will supply all your needs
according to His riches in glory. Are there people standing up against you? Are
they persecuting you and distracting you from that which God has designed you
for? Just relax; God who levels all mountains knows the best judgement for your
enemies. He has assured you that when the enemies come in like a flood, the
Spirit of the Lord will raise up a standard against them. He has assured you
that no weapon fashioned against you shall prosper. He will supply you with the
strength to succeed when failure rises up. He will still all the storms rocking
your boat and at the end you will look for the mountains but you will see them
no more in Jesus’ name.
Key Point
There is no mountain that is
beyond God.
Bible in one year
Isaiah 24-27, Psalms
34:11-22
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