OPEN HEAVENS Devotional – Monday
September 19th 2016
TOPIC: FULFIL YOUR PROMISE O
LORD
Memorize: Teaching them to
observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you
always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. Matthew 28:20
Read: John 14:12-18,
12 Verily,
verily, I say unto you, He that believeth in me, the works that I do shall he
do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
13 And
whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be
glorified in the Son.
14 If ye shall
ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
15 If ye love
me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will
pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide
with you for ever;
17 Even the
Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not,
neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in
you.
18 I will not
leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Bible in one year: Lamentations
1-2, Psalms 63
MESSAGE
A promise is an express
assurance to fulfil an intention upon which expectation is based. The promises
of God reveal His specific and eternal purpose to which he is irreversibly
committed and upon which Christians can totally depend. These promises are conditional
upon obedience on the part of Children of God. God’s promises are irrevocable
and He is absolutely trustworthy to make good His promises to His children.
Whenever the fulfilment of a long standing promise is overdue, God will create an opportunity for divine favour, and God does not only give you an opportunity to key into it by sowing, but will also personally make a demand of you. When the time Heaven has set to favour a person comes, the promises suddenly assume the form of being ‘Yes and Amen’ in the life of the favoured. After waiting for 24 years of a promise from God, at the time of God’s favour, the Lord suddenly changed His promise to Abraham into an irreversible decree. Similarly, after Peter was promised a harvest of men in Luke 5:8-11, nothing happened for the first three years. Peter must have wondered if the Lord had forgotten, but He did not. Finally, at the arrival of the Holy Ghost, being the day of his favour, the one who could not ‘catch a human fish’ started to harvest thousands from every sermon. When God gives you a promise, wait on it until the day of your favour. Do not let go until that day, for that is the time of its fulfilment. Every promise the Lord has made to you shall come to pass this season in Jesus’ name.
In 1979, I went with my Father
in the Lord in the company of four others to a Kenneth Hagin camp meeting in
the United States of America. That was our first trip to the USA. As the
meeting ended on Saturday, we decided to worship in a local church the
following day. While translating the message to my father in the Lord, since he
could not speak, read, write or understand English, the preacher suddenly
walked to him and said: “Thus saith the Lord, What I told you several years ago
will soon be fulfilled”. And he returned to continue his message. When we got
to our hotel later that day and I told him what the preacher said, he broke
down in tears saying that when RCCG started, the Lord promised that if he would
keep to certain conditions, He would ensure that the church spreads throughout
the world. As at the time of this camp meeting, the church had only 39 parishes
in addition to the Headquarter church. Not so long after my father in the Lord
went home to glory in 1980, we had over 4,000 parishes in Lagos State alone;
today our presence is felt in all 36 states in Nigeria and in more than 178
nations of the world because our time of favour came. This season, the Lord
will fulfil pending promises in your life.
Prayer Point
Father, please my eyes are on you, fulfil your
promises in my life in Jesus’ name.
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