OPEN HEAVENS Devotional – Monday
August 1st 2016
TOPIC: BLESSINGS FROM ABOVE
Memorize: Israel then shall
dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn And
wine; also his heaven shall drop down dew. Deuteronomy 33:28
Read: Deuteronomy 33:27-29,
27 The eternal
God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust
out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.
28 Israel then
shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn
and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.
29 Happy art
thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the
shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies
shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Bible in one year: Hebrews
5:10-8:13, Psalms 24
MESSAGE
There are different kinds of
blessings, but there is a kind of blessing that comes from God alone. This is
the blessing that has no boundary. It is from above where God sits to
coordinate the affairs of His people. Today, the blessing of God will locate
you wherever you are in Jesus’ name. If you must prosper the way God desires,
you cannot afford to ignore the presence of God.
Those who have succeeded
exceedingly in life are those whose source of blessing is God. When the
presence of God is with you, He causes whatever you lay your hands upon to
prosper. With little effort, you enjoy great favour and you become a channel of
blessings to others around you.
If you study the biblical men
of faith; Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, you will notice that God was not only
interested in giving them blessings that will be sufficient for them
alone, He was interested in blessing them to a point that they become channels
of blessings to others. Do you know God can bless you so much that your driver
becomes a millionaire just from driving you? He told Abraham.
“And I will make of thee a
great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shall be
a blessing” Genesis 12:2
The blessing that came from
above into the life of Abraham made a great nation out of him. That blessing
gave him such a great name that there was no nation where his name was not
known. The name attracted so many blessings to his life that he became a
great possessor of vast expanses of land and today, his seed are all over the
world. God can make you a man or woman of great wealth and power. No matter how
dry your ground may be at the moment; He can raise greatness out of it and make
your little one become a thousand. The outpouring of God’s blessing upon your
life can move you beyond the point of daily provision and mere survival, to the
point in which you become the talk of nations because of how frightening your
blessings have become. Peter who toiled all night and caught nothing became the
talk of the town when he experienced a net-breaking blessing. I have always
said that a day is coming and that season is here for a reader of this
devotional, that when you take your money to the bank, the bank manager will
order that the branch be shut down for three days to other customers just
because they are attending to you.
For you to achieve this level
of blessing, you need to understand that it will not come easy, but you need
not be discouraged because God is ever faithful and He knows the path to take
you through to get there. God is the fountain of all honour and it is from Him
that promotion comes. What you are going through at the moment may not show
that you are a candidate for this kind of blessing but you need to know that
the plan and purpose of God for your life cannot be denied. Your faith and
obedience will be tried. You need to be separated and set aside for God alone.
Those who forsake their sins
and turn to God will get blessings that they never bargained for. You have to
take your mind off the mundane things of this world and step up into the higher
ground of what God is prepared to do with your life.
Key Point
Until there is a departure
from the little things, there will be no discovery of greater things.
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