HE SENT HIS WORD – Thursday January 19th 2017
Memorise: He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. Psalm 107:20
1 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
2 Thus saith the Lord the maker thereof, the Lord that formed it, to establish it; the Lord is his name;
3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
4 For thus saith the Lord,
the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning
the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts,
and by the sword;
5 They
come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead
bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for
all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
8 And
I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned
against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have
sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
9 And
it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the
nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them:
and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the
prosperity that I procure unto it.
Bible in one year: Mark 9, Isaiah 15:1-16:11, Hymn: Sing hymn 12
MESSAGE:
It
often breaks my heart to see the children of God, who ought to value
the word of God, which is the source of our power and our defence,
trivializing it as if they do not know what they stand to lose when they
do not heed it. Or the danger inherent in ignoring it. Rccg open
heavens 2017. The Bible warns us against such an attitude in Hebrews 2:1
“Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.”
When
the word of God comes to an individual, maybe in the form of prophecy,
through the written word or by any other means, it is a wise thing to
pay close attention to it. Open Heavens Devotional Wednesday 18 January 2017:-He sent his word.
The word of God comes for many reasons and for different purposes.
Going by today’s Bible text, we can see that the word of God was sent to
the people of Judah for the purpose of deliverance and for the
restoration of their freedom which had been lost to the Chaldeans. For
this reason, I always warn members of the congregation during our
services never to dose off, because they do not know when God would send
a specific word of prophecy that would settle their cases. At often
times in the Old Testament, before the people of God went to war, the
word of God would go forth announcing their victory and that always
settled the battle (2nd Kings 3:17-19, 2nd Chronicles 20:13-15).
Likewise, in our meetings, before the people start to pray after the
sermon has ended, God through His spoken word would often have already
settled their cases. The word of God comes at times to bring peace in
the time of crisis, as in the case of Judah (Jeremiah 33:6).
When Jesus Christ was in the boat with His disciples and the devil was
playing pranks through the tempest, a word of peace settled the
turbulent waves of the sea (Mark 4:39).
I therefore prophesy into your life right now, your trouble life,
marriage, business or career receives peace now in Jesus’ Name.
It
is equally comforting to note that when a child of God is exposed to
the word of God, he or she receives spiritual cleansing. It is therefore
unfortunate for any child of God to run away from the sound teaching of
the Bible by failing to read it, study it or listen to it being
preached. To underscore this salient truth, the Lord Jesus Christ in John 17:17 prayed thus:
“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.”
Prayer point
Father,
please grant me the grace to align my life to conform to Your word, and
through Your word, deliver me from all forms of destruction.
Open Heavens Daily Devotional, 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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