OPEN HEAVEN DAILY DEVOTIONAL: FRIDAY FEBRUARY 28TH 2025

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TOPIC: UNDERSTANDING HARVESTS MEMORIZE : While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Genesis 8:22 READ : Mark 4:26-29  26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; 27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. 28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. 29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come. MESSAGE The first thing to understand about harvests is that they ultimately come from God. 1 Corinthians 3:6 says, "I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase." Also, harvests come in different levels, which Jesus identified as thirtyfold, sixtyfold, and hundredfold (Mark 4:20). Some Bible scholars believe that a thirtyfold harvest results from...
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ENLARGING GOD’S SERVICE Monday 9 July 2012

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Open Heavens Devotional by Pastor E.A. Adeboye
Memorise: And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. 2 Corinthians 12:15
Read: 2 Corinthians 12:13-15
When God is looking for those to call, He looks for hard working people because He is not lazy. God cannot entrust things of eternal value into the hands of lazy people. One thing you can be certain about concerning the 12 apostles the Lord chose, is that they were all hardworking people. It is Peter, James, John, or Matthew the tax collector or even Judas who was their treasurer? Balancing the account is not an easy job for the lazy. How hardworking are you?
Another criteria God uses in selecting those He will use is their determination to serve Him all the days of their lives. Some people serve God now just because of their present circumstance, status or location. The day there is a change in any of these, particularly in a negative sense, it will affect their commitment. But there are those who have decided to serve Him in all circumstances and until their last breadth. In 2 Corinthians 12:15, Paul says:
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
He also said in Philippians 3:7-8 that all his gains were counted as losses to enable him know Jesus more. Have you resolved to serve Him to the end? Some brethren are asking God for the anointing to heal the sick or raise the dead while God is asking them, “How many souls have you won to me since I saved you?” Grace meets you on the move, the idle fellow would therefore be bypassed. Paul made a great sacrifice to appreciate God’s salvation. Some people have never made any major sacrifice to the Lord since they got saved. By His grace I got saved in July 1973. The following year, I was in my village. I did not have much but I repaired a shop and agreed with the owner that what I spent in that renovation would be converted into renting the shop for church use. It covered up to 17 years. We did not spend up to that when we built our own church. I also went everywhere preaching the Gospel. God’s grace is meant to be used for God’s Kingdom. What are you doing for Him?
ACTION POINT:
Take a stock of your achievements for the Kingdom since you got saved. Compare your findings with the goals you earlier set and see the difference.
Bible in one year: Luke 4-6

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