OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL: MONDAY JULY 21 2025

TOPIC: GOD HATES BARRENNESS

MEMORIZE:

“Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.” - Isaiah 54:1

READ: GENESIS 21:1-7 

1. And the Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had spoken.

2. For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

3. And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him—whom Sarah bore to him—Isaac.

4. Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

5. Now Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

6. And Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and all who hear will laugh with me.”

7. She also said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.” 

MESSAGE:

Yesterday, I explained that God doesn't want you to be lonely. He wants you to be part of a family. Indeed, a man and his wife are a family, but God doesn't want to stop there; He wants the man and his wife to be fruitful and for their union to bring forth children. If you're married and have been waiting on God for the fruit of the womb, congratulations because the wait is over. In Genesis 1:26-28, He issued a command to you to be fruitful and multiply. In Exodus 23:26, He said that there shall be none barren in the land, and in 1Samuel 2:5, He promised that the barren will bear seven children. You might be saying, "God, all I want is one child." Well, just know that you can bear as many children as you want; where you choose to stop depends on you.

Several years ago, we held a programme in a town called Ota in Ogun State, Nigeria. A lady who had been barren for about twelve years attended and asked that we pray for her because her husband's relatives had threatened to throw her out of her matrimonial home within that year if she did not bear a child. I prayed for her, and she left. The following year, we were holding another programme elsewhere, and there was a long queue of people who wanted me to pray for them. Unknown to me, the lady was also there, and when it got to her turn, she kept opening her mouth to speak, but she said nothing. Eventually, she was able to utter just one word, "Jesus!" When she could finally speak, she said that she was the barren woman I had prayed for the previous year. That was when I realised why she had been speechless; she was overjoyed because she had given birth to twins - she was carrying them in both of her arms!

Beloved, God hates all forms of barrenness because it goes against His command to be fruitful and multiply in Genesis 1:26-28. If you are experiencing marital, financial, material, mental, or any other form of barrenness in your life, I pray that God will cause you to sing for joy because of His abundance in those areas of your life, in Jesus' name. Also, if you are reading this devotional today and you're waiting for the fruit of the womb, in the name above all other names, your womb is opened. Go and carry your children, in Jesus' name. 

ACTION POINT:

Sing for joy because God has not created you to be barren but to be fruitful and multiply. 

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:

Isaiah 25-28

HYMN:

1. There shall be showers of blessing:

This is the promise of love;

There shall be seasons refreshing,

Sent from the Saviour above.

CHORUS: 

Showers of blessing,

Showers of blessing we need;

Mercy-drops round us are falling,

But for the showers we plead. 

2. There shall be showers of blessing:

Precious reviving again;

Over the hills and the valleys,

Sound of abundance of rain.

3. There shall be showers of blessing:

Send them upon us, Oh Lord!

Grant to us now a refreshing;

Come and now honour Thy Word.

4. There shall be showers of blessing:

Oh, that today they might fall,

Now, as to God, we're confessing,

Now as on Jesus we call!