UPTURNING BLESSINGS – Friday November 3rd 2017
Memorise:
And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye
make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make
the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it. Joshua 6:18
Read: Malachi 2:1-6 (KJV)
2:1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
2:2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of
hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your
blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to
heart.
2:3 Behold,
I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the
dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
2:4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.
2:5 My
covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the
fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
2:6 The
law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips:
he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from
iniquity.
MESSAGE:
God
can bless you by pronouncing a blessing on you, cancelling a curse or
even turning a curse into a blessing. It is important to establish at
this point that no man can change your blessing into a curse – not even
the one through whom the blessing was pronounced. Once the blessing is
pronounced, it cannot be taken back. We see a manifestation of this
truth in Genesis 27:30-37.
After Esau returned from his father’s errand and realised his younger
brother had stolen his blessing by impersonating him, he went to his
father and said, “Daddy, what have you done?” Isaac his father replied,
“I am sorry son, I have already blessed him and he remains blessed. I
didn’t know I was blessing the wrong fellow, but I can’t change the
blessing now. Open Heaven 3 November 2017: Friday daily devotional by Pastor E. A. Adeboye –Upturning Blessings. He
is already blessed!” In the Name that is above all names, every
blessing that has been pronounced on you and your family shall come to
pass! Your blessing shall never be reversed in Jesus’ Name! Every plan
of the wicked to upturn your blessings shall fail and meet with
disappointment!
However, God can change a blessing into a curse. In 1st Samuel 2:30,
God told Eli, “With My mouth, I said that you and your father’s house
would stand before Me forever, but now, because of what you have done, I
have changed My mind”, and with the same mouth, God cursed Eli and his
descendants forever.
In that scripture, the Lord revealed that honouring
Him is very crucial. If you want Him to fulfil His promises and
beautiful prophecies to you and your family, you must be prepared to
honour Him. God will only honour those who honour him. I have often told
those brethren who attend our monthly Divine Encounter programme that
when God asks you to give Him your first fruits, it is not because He is
in need. It is simply a way of you honouring him. Proverbs 3:9-10 says,
“Honour
the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine
increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses
shall burst with new wine.”
Have
you been faithful in paying your first fruits? If you pay it
faithfully, He will definitely keep His word by bringing His promises to
fulfilment in your life. If however you cannot meet His conditions, do
not waste your time claiming the promises. God is a responsible God and
He is the Father of responsible children. If you ignore the commands of
your earthly father, it doesn’t show you are responsible. It works the
same way with God.
Action Point:
Pray that your blessing will never become a curse.
Open
Heavens Daily Devotional Lessons was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye,
the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the
largest evangelical Church in the world and also the President of
Christ the Redeemer's Ministries.
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hymn 10
1. There shall be showers of blessing:
This is the promise of love;
There shall be seasons refreshing,
Sent from the Savior above.
This is the promise of love;
There shall be seasons refreshing,
Sent from the Savior above.
[Chorus]
Showers of blessing,
Showers of blessing we need:
Mercy drops round us are falling,
But for the showers we plead.
Showers of blessing,
Showers of blessing we need:
Mercy drops round us are falling,
But for the showers we plead.
2. There shall be showers of blessing--
Precious reviving again;
Over the hills and the valleys,
Sound of abundance of rain.
Precious reviving again;
Over the hills and the valleys,
Sound of abundance of rain.
[Chorus]
3. There shall be showers of blessing:
Send them upon us, O Lord;
Grant to us now a refreshing;
Come, and now honor Thy Word.
Send them upon us, O Lord;
Grant to us now a refreshing;
Come, and now honor Thy Word.
[Chorus]
4. There shall be showers of blessing:
Oh, that today they might fall,
Now as to God we're confessing,
Now as on Jesus we call!
[Chorus]
Oh, that today they might fall,
Now as to God we're confessing,
Now as on Jesus we call!
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