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 ...
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OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL : MONDAY DECEMBER 19TH 2022

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TOPIC:  BOUNTIFUL SOWING -  BOUNTIFUL HAIRVEST

MEMORISE: 
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. 2 Corinthians 9:6 

READ: Proverbs 11:24 -25

24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

MESSAGE
ECCLESIASTES 3:2 says: ...a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.

When a fellow fails to plant when he should, he will not harvest at the normal time. Furthermore, Proverbs 20:4 says: 

The sluggardly will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg  in harvest, and have nothing.

If you don't plant when you ought to, you would have nothing to harvest. If you want a bountiful harvest, you must be willing to sow bountifully. 2 Corinthians 5:6 says:

But this l say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

A long time ago, when The Redeemed Christian Church of God was still quite small, I used my salary to pay most of the staff and had nothing left. At some point, I had to go into early retirement in order to carry out my duties as General Overseer more effectively and I had a lot of expectations concerning my gratuity. In the middle of all my plans, I remembered that I had not asked God for what to do with the gratuity, so I did. God told me to divide the money into three parts: each part was to go to a different ministry. None of these ministries was the one I was leading!

This broke my heart, but God assured me that He would be my source. It has been over forty years now and up to today, He has never failed me and l know He never will.

Bountiful harvests will cost you big seeds. If the Lord is asking you to give bountifully, He is planning to reward you bountifully. You will not lose your opportunity, in Jesus name.

PRAYER POINT: 
Father, please reveal to me what seed I need to to sow and where, in order to receive a bountiful harvest.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Hebrews 1-5

AUTHOR: PASTOR E. A ADEBOYE 

HYMN 3: DEEPER DEEPER IN THE LOVE OF JESUS

1. Deeper, deeper in the love of Jesus�Daily let me go;�Higher, higher in the school of wisdom,�More of grace to know.

CHORUS�O deeper yet I pray,�And higher evry day,�And wiser, blessed, Lord,�In Thy precious, holy Word.

2. Deeper, deeper! blessed Holy Spirit,�Take me deeper still,�Till my life is wholly lost in Jesus,�And His perfect will.

3. Deeper, deeper! tho it cost hard trials,�Deeper let me go!�Rooted in the holy love of Jesus,�Let me fruitful grow.

4. Deeper, higher, evry day in Jesus,�Till all conflict past,�Finds me conquror, and in His own image�Perfected at last.

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