Open Heaven 21 December 2023 Thursday Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye – You Can’t Box God In 2
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Open Heaven 21 December 2023 TOPIC: You Can’t Box God In 2
MEMORISE: “Now unto him that can do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,” – Ephesians 3:20 (KJV)
READ: Isaiah 55:8-9 (KJV)
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than yours, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: James 1-5
Open Heaven 21 December 2023 MESSAGE
Some people think they have God all figured out. They think they know all there is to know about Him and how He does His things. After several encounters with God, a lot of suffering for His work, and even episodes of being stoned and left for dead while preaching the gospel, Apostle Paul said in Philippians 3:10: “That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.”
Also Read: Open Heaven 20 December 2023 – You Can’t Box God In 1
When you go for a service, how much you get from it can be limited by your expectations. If you expect the Pastor to mention your own case and he doesn’t, that is not proof that God has not answered your prayer. God can decide to work loudly or quietly; all He requires from you is faith, not an analysis of how He will work. He expects us to walk by faith, not sight (2 Corinthians 5:7).
There was a testimony of a lady who was born with so many abnormalities – including having one lung instead of two and her heart being on the right side of her chest instead of the left. As such, she struggled with her health from the day she was born. Finally, somebody recommended a hospital in Dubai. Still, she decided to go to the Holy Ghost Service first, but nothing special happened about her case during the service. Afterward, she went on to Dubai as she had planned. When she arrived, the doctors examined her and had to ask what she came in for because they could not see anything wrong with her. She thought the people there didn’t know what they were saying, so she went to another Hospital in Dubai. They also examined her and said there was nothing wrong with her. The Doctors could not believe that she was the same person they had read her case note from Nigeria because they could see her heart on the left, and she had two lungs, not one. She might have missed her miracle if she had assumed that God was not interested in her case because I had not mentioned her possibility at that Holy Ghost Service.
Don’t try to box God in so you don’t lose your miracle.
Open Heaven 21 December 2023 PRAYER POINT:
Father, please help me not to live by sight but by faith in You at all times, in Jesus’ name.
Open Heaven 21 December 2023 HYMN 16 – Praise Him! Praise Him! Jesus, Our Blessed Redeemer!
1 Praise Him! Praise Him! Jesus, our blessed Redeemer!
Sing, O earth, His incredible love proclaim!
Hail Him! Hail Him! Highest archangels in glory,
Strength and honor give to His Holy Name!
Like a Shepherd, Jesus will guard His children,
In His arms, He carries them all day long.
O ye saints that dwell on the mountain of Zion.
Praise Him! Praise Him!
Ever in joyful song!
2 Praise Him! Praise Him! Jesus, our blessed Redeemer!
For our sins, He suffered and bled and died;
He, our rock, our hope of eternal salvation,
Hail Him! Hail Him! Jesus the Crucified!
Loving Saviour, meekly enduring sorrow,
Crowned with thorns that cruelly pierced His brow;
Once for us rejected, despised, and forsaken.
Prince of Glory, ever triumphant now.
3 Praise Him! Praise Him! Jesus, our blessed Redeemer!
Heav’nly portals loud with Hosanna’s ring!
Jesus, the Saviour, reigneth forever and ever;
Crown Him! Crown Him! Prophet, and Priest, and King!
Death is vanquished! Tell it with joy, ye faithful.
Where is now thy victory, boasting grave?
Jesus lives! No longer thy portals are cheerless,
Jesus lives, the mighty and strong to save.
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Ambydennis Notice Board: We trust you have been blessed by the devotional. Accepting Jesus as your Lord and personal Savior is one of the best decisions, especially for you; imagine having Christ in your life; what a fantastic experience it will be. It starts here as you proclaim: Dear Father, I humbly come to you in sincere repentance, claiming you as my Lord and personal Saviour. Cleanse me from all unrighteousness, be the center of my life, and let my life revolve around you as I partake in the eternal life you gave us in Jesus’ Name. Congratulations, you are now Born again. God bless you.
