OPEN HEAVEN DAILY DEVOTIONAL: MONDAY APRIL 20TH 2026

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TOPIC: REVERSING HOPELESSNESS MEMORISE :  But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. Psalm 3:3   READ : John 5:2-9 2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. 5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? 7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. 8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up th...
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OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL: SATURDAY 24th APRIL 2021.

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TOPIC: GOOD SUCCESS.
  
MEMORISE:
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of  fools shall destroy them. Proverbs 1:32
 
READ:  Joshua 1:8
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
  
MESSAGE:
There is good success and there is bad success. I know this because Proverbs10:22 say:

"The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it."
  
From the above, we can infer that there can be a 'blessing' with attendant sorrow because it is not from the Lord. This kind of success is bad. This may explain why God had to be exact in the type of success He promised in Joshua 1:8.
 
No one can tamper with good success that comes from God as He has assured His children of divine protection (Psalm 91). If after a breakthrough, you are afraid of calamity, perhaps the source of that 'breakthrough' is not God.
 
Genesis 26:12-14 bears record of the good success that Isaac recorded. He was so blessed that even the Philistines envied him. The secret of his good success is found in Genesis 26:2-6. We see that Isaac obeyed the Lord, stayed where God asked him to and became prosperous as a result. If you obey God all the way, good success will not be far from you.
 
 You should pay attention to the Bible reading for today. For Joshua to have good success, God commanded him to keep the book of the law in his mouth and to also meditate therein constantly, so as to "observe to do according to" the content. James 1:25 says:

 "But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”
 
Thus, if you want to be blessed of the Lord and obtain good success this season, you must be a doer of God’s word.
 
 PRAYER POINT:
Father, please grant me good success in all my endeavors this year, in the mighty name of Jesus.
 
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Matthew 13-14.
 
 AUTHOR: PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE 
 
 HYMN 10:  I'M PRESSING ON THE UPWARD WAY.
 
1. I’m pressing on the upward way,
New heights I’m gaining every day;
Still praying as I’m onward bound,
“Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.”
 
o   Refrain:
Lord, lift me up and let me stand,
By faith, on Heaven’s tableland,
A higher plane than I have found;
Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.
 
2. My heart has no desire to stay
Where doubts arise and fears dismay;
Though some may dwell where those abound,
My prayer, my aim, is higher ground.
 
3. I want to live above the world,
Though Satan’s darts at me are hurled;
For faith has caught the joyful sound,
The song of saints on higher ground.
 
4. I want to scale the utmost height
And catch a gleam of glory bright;
But still I’ll pray till heav’n I’ve found,
“Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.”

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