OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2026

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TOPIC: NEVER GIVE UP II MEMORISE : Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; 2 Corinthians 4:1 READ : Isaiah 40:27-31 27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? 28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. 29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. MESSAGE Yesterday, I encouraged you not to give up on your God-given dreams. Today, I would like to show you that even if it appears as if your dreams can no longer come to pa...
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OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL: TUESDAY 7th DECEMBER 2021

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TOPIC:  YOU WANT TO PROSPER? FEAR GOD
 
MEMORISE:
Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways. Psalm 128:1
 
READ:  Psalm 128:1-6.

1 Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
 
2  For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
 
3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
 
4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.
 
5 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
 
6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.
 
MESSAGE:
The lack of the fear of the Lord has brought untold hardship to many people since the fall of man. However, those who have exercised the fear of the Lord in the past have fulfilled their destinies. Thus, every wise person must exhibit the fear of the Lord.
 
Joseph could have had his destiny cut short had he succumbed to the temptation of sexual immorality- an age- old sin. You would recall that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of this. Reuben also was cursed because of his sexual immorality with his father’s wife (Genesis 49:4). Despite how inviting the temptation was, Joseph feared the Lord and refused to take up the offer of sleeping with Potiphar’s wife. With fear and trembling, he declined in Genesis 39:9 thus:
“There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

You may be wondering how Joseph knew that sleeping with another man’s wife is a sin against her husband and God, considering the fact that the commandment to refrain from adultery was given much later in Exodus 20:14. The truth is that God has written His laws on the heart of man (Hebrews 8:10, Romans 2:14-15. This is what puts His fear in us if we have not been given over to reprobate minds as seen in Romans 1:28.
 
Joseph prospered because he feared the Lord. Do you fear the Lord? Do you question the spiritual authority of your Pastor? Do you still hide under the clock of a ‘clear conscience’ even as you engage in sexual immorality? Today’s memory verse says:
“Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways; that walketh in his way.”
 
The practical way of showing that you fear the Lord is by trembling at His word. Isaiah 66:2 says:
“For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.”
 
I encourage you today to fear the Lord and abstain from all evil. As you do, God Himself will prosper you in all your ways, in the mighty name of Jesus.
 
PRAYER POINT:
Father, please instill Your fear in me and prosper me the way only You can, in Jesus’ name.
 
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: EZEKIEL 7-12.
 
AUTHOR: PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE 
 
 HYMN 9:  HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.
Holy, holy, holy
Lord God almighty
Early in the morning my song shall rise to thee
Holy. holy, holy
Merciful and mighty
God in three persons, blessed Trinity
 
Holy, holy, holy
All the saints adore Thee
Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea
All the cherubim and seraphim are falling down before Thee
Which wert and art and evermore shalt be
 
Holy, holy, holy
Though the darkness hide Thee
Though the eyes of sinful man Thy glory may not see
Lord, only Thou art holy and there is none beside Thee
Perfect in power, in love and purity
 
Holy, holy, holy
Lord God almighty
All Thy works shall praise Thy name in earth and sky and sea
Holy, holy, holy
Merciful and mighty
You are God in three persons, blessed Trinity
You are God in three persons, blessed Trinity
Oh, God in three persons, blessed Trinity

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