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Heavens Devotional by Pastor E.A. Adeboye
Memorise: Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the
Lord; Romans 12:11.
Read: 2 Kings 13:14-19
If you will manifest as more than a conqueror that you are,
you must first conquer the Laziness in your life. If you fail to do this, it
will surely affect other areas of your life. It is common for a particular
weakness in an individual’s character to affect virtually every area of his or
her life. For instance, a primary school pupil who finds it difficult to be
early to school, will most likely be known as a late comer at secondary and
tertiary institutions he goes through. He will also be a late comer at his
place of work when he starts working. He will equally find it difficult as a
worker to attend the worker’s meeting at 7am on Sunday mornings in church. Even
in ministry as a pastor he will do things late. Who knows, he may even get to
the gate of Heaven too late and be disqualified from entering. If you have
identified lateness as a weakness, start applying corrective measures now
before it escalates and affects every area of your life.
Another
area of character weakness that must be addressed relates to carelessness. Some
people never take anything seriously and in the process they never become what
God ordained them to be. We find an example in 2 Kings 13:14-19. Elisha was
sick and the king paid him a visit. Since Elisha knew he would die through that
illness and he wanted the issue of their enemies settled, he asked the king to
take a bow and arrows and fire them through the window prophetically, with his
hand upon his to signify how far the enemy would be defeated. After shooting
the arrow, the king was asked to strike the ground and he stuck only three
times and stopped. Elisha was angry with him saying that three defeats were not
enough to have complete victory over the Syrians. Can you believe that even
with the correction and rebuke from the man of God, the king did not strike
further. In our meetings if l ask the congregation to pray for one hour, some
people will pray for 30 minutes and start looking at me as if they never saw me
before. Are you resting before the time? It could be very dangerous. In 1 Kings
13:1-24, God sent a young prophet to deliver a message and return without
resting on the way. But on his way back he decided to rest and he never got
home to tell the rest of the story. How careful are you? How up and doing are
you in the things of God?
ACTION
POINT:
The
anger which robbed Moses of the Promised Land at 120 started in his childhood.
Ask that every vice in your life capable of breaking your trip to the Promised
Land be uprooted in Jesus name.
Bible in one year: Psalms 7-9
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