OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL: SATURDAY JANUARY 18TH 2025

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TOPIC: PRODUCE SONS MEMORISE :  Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient towards all men. 1 Thessalonians 5:14 READ : Philemon 1:10-18 10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: 11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: 12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels: 13 Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel: 14 But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly. 15 For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever; 16 Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord? 17 If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself. 18 If he ...

ATTITUDE TO DEBTS Saturday, September 29, 2012


Memorize: Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest. 2 Kings 4:7


If you owe God, man or an organization, make every effort to pay up. God expects us to live a debt-free life (Deuteronomy 15:6). Psalms 37:21 says it takes a heart of mercy to return what is borrowed. This implies that if you borrowed something or some money but fail to repay out of choice or you do not make serious effort to repay, you lack mercy, you are heartless and wicked.

You are simply repaying evil for good done to you. What does the scripture say about that? When a similar thing was done to David, he decreed that his offenders should by all means come under a wicked boss or leader, and that Satan should personally supervise their misfortune, and that in their judgment there should be no appeal, their prayer should become an abomination to God, their life-span should be shortened, they should be replaced and that this judgment should be extended to their families too (Psalms 109:5-10).
The gravity of this is so enormous! Are you returning evil for the good done to you? You don't know the trouble you are courting! Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. Proverbs 17:13 It simply means if you are working against those who are working for you or you are repaying with evil the good things being done to you, evil will make you their headquarters.

You can be certain that in such a life, evil happenings will be a normal occurrence. There are some leaders who were supported by their assistants but instead of the leaders helping them up, they sat on their progress. They too are not exempted from this fate as there is no respect of persons with God.
Have you in any way repaid evil to those doing good to you, whether in error or deliberately? Go and meet them and restitute. Release their promotion you sat upon today. Whatever you need to do to make them happy, go ahead and do it now. If you restitute, it is for your own good.

If you don't, you cannot avoid the harvest you have triggered. Some debtors may tell their creditors or say to themselves, ”Since you want me to repay the money you loaned to me, I will pay it back in such a way that you will be unable to gather the money to do anything useful with it”.
Such a debtor will pay back but will still suffer the evil consequences of wickedness. If you owe, you should make repayment a priority. You could even starve yourself of food or daily needs just to repay at the fastest possible time as agreed with your creditor. That is an act of righteousness.

PRAYER POINTS: Father, make a way for me to pay off my debts and grant me the wisdom to live within my means. Let me never have cause to borrow again.

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