Open Heavens Devotional by Pastor E.A. Adeboye
Memorise: He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man
of wicked devices is hate. Proverbs 14:17
Read: Proverbs 14:17-18
Apart from pride, another work of flesh you must exert your
Christ-given victory over is anger. Pride and anger are related. It is those
who feel superior to others that are easily irritated or take offence by what
others have done to them. A messenger is not likely to be angry or mad at his
boss if the latter insults him. But if the messenger insults his boss, he can
be fired. Anger is a vice that has robbed many and will yet rob many more of
their blessings. According to Ecclesiastes 7:9, it is only a fool that will
allow anger to remain in his bosom because if you will be angry at all, it must
not go with you to bed (Ephesians 4:26). However, God expects you to avoid
anger because of His classification, an angry fellow belongs to the class of
atheists who deny God’s existence (Psalms 14:1). He is also classed with those
who pledged but do not redeem their pledges (Ecclesiastes 5:4). God calls all
such persons fools. Proverbs 22:24 says you should not make friends with angry
people. Moses was a great leader in Israel. Imagine the one God used in
breaking a bondage of 430 years from a nation yet because of anger, he could
not enter the land of promise he had sacrificed so much for. If anger is a
weakness in you, cry to the Lord to deliver you today or else, it can cause you
the greatest defeat at the most crucial time of life.
It is difficult to keep your cool or remain under control
when angry. At such times, you may speak unadvisedly both to God and man.
Remember Job’s wife who asked her husband to curse God and die because she was
angry with his state. Anger can make you do things you never planned to do,
particularly things you will later regret when you come back to your senses. No
matter how successful you are, if you are not able to internally appropriate
your victory over the work of your flesh manifesting in anger, it can trigger
your failure in life and ministry. The angry believer will remain in the
corridors of sin. Are you easily provoked? Do you take offence so easily? If
you do, ask God to help you today. Undo any wrong decision(s) taken in your
angry state and keep a cool head. It pays
PRAYER POINT:
Ask God to uproot the spirit of anger from you today
Bible in one year: Proverbs 12-14
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