OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY.
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The Topic of Open Heavens for 11th August
2023 Is “”
MEMORISE: Jeremiah
29:11
For
I know the thoughts I think towards you, s a i t h t h e L O R D , thoughts of
peace and not of evil to give you an expected end.
READ: John 5:1-9
After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem.
2 Now
there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew
tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
3 In
these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting
for the moving of the water.
4 For an
angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water:
whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole
of whatsoever disease he had.
5 And a
certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
6 When
Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he
saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
7 The
impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to
put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
8 Jesus
saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and
walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
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OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL
FOR TODAY
Several
years ago, when I was a very young preacher, there was a good campground in
Nigeria called the ‘Youth Camp’. We would often go there for retreats. One day
while we were there for a retreat, the owners told me they wanted to sell the
place for N100,000. We had nothing close to that kind of money then, but I had
faith that God would buy the place for us. I gathered my people together and we
prayed round the camp, confessing that it was already ours in line with the
word of God in Joshua 1:3 – “Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread
upon, that have I given unto you”.
Later
on, when the owners saw that we were not forthcoming with the money, they sold
it to a bigger ministry. We were devastated. We turned to God, “But Lord, we
prayed, we used Your word”. All through, He remained silent. He remained silent
because He had something bigger in store for us. He knew that forty acres of
land would be too small for where He was taking us. By God’s grace, the
auditorium we now call the Old Auditorium sits on over forty acres of land.
Our
new auditorium is now 3 kilometres by 3 kilometres. If you have prayed, praised
God, and are sure of your faith, but God remains silent, it is likely because
He has something bigger in store for you than what you are asking for. He is a
God who takes pleasure in exceeding His children’s expectations. The Bible says
in Ephesians 3:20: “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above
all that we ask or think,according to the power that worketh in us,”
In
our Bible reading for today, the man at the pool of Bethesda was explaining his
predicament to Jesus, hoping that He would help him get into the water. Jesus
however ignored him and gave him something greater. This is the case many times
when you are praying and it looks like God is ignoring you; He may just be
preparing something greater for you.
Don’t
give up hope; trust Him. Isaiah 55:8-9 says: For my thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the 9 LORD. For as the heavens
are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my
thoughts than your thoughts.
Bible in one year: Jeremiah
25-27
Hymn 5 Blessed
Assurance
