OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL - SATURDAY 10/08/2013 - THE SPIRIT RELEASES POTENTIALS BY PASTOR E.A. ADEBOYE

THE SPIRIT RELEASES POTENTIALS

MEMORY VERSE

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Acts 1:8

READ

Judges 6:19-21

Judges 6:19 And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.

Judges 6:20 And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.

Judges 6:21 Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight.

MESSAGE

The Holy Spirit is often symbolised by fire. In Judges 6:19-21, when Gideon offered an angel of God a meal, he was asked to package it in a basket and place it on a rock. Thereafter, the angel touched it with his staff and fire came. Inside every wood is the potential of a fire, which is why it is called firewood. But if the wood does not contact fire, it would die and rot away like any ordinary wood. This simply tells us that inside every Christian, there is the potential of becoming a mighty man or woman of God. However, and most unfortunately, many Christians may live and die as ordinary people, without performing a single miracle, simply because the Holy Ghost fire has not come to change ordinary wood into firewood.

When Jesus borrowed Peter's boat and taught the people from it, He afterwards gave him a boat-sinking catch of fishes, He then told him he would become a fisher of men from that day (Luke 5:1-11). Yet, for the next three years, Peter did not manifest in a dynamic way the potential to win souls that was in the inside of him. However on the day of Pentecost, when he came in contact with the fire, the potential which had been buried within him for three years suddenly erupted. He preached a single sermon and won 3000 souls! (Acts 2:41) You are not on earth by accident because with God there are no accidents. God did not create you just to eat, drink, go to work, return from work or school, play, go to church, and shout Hallelujah! Your life is more than that! God has a purpose for creating you. There is a destiny in you that must be fulfilled. That potential in you must be fully exploited for the Lord. But, have you contacted the fire that can release your hidden potential? Have you contacted the Holy Spirit who alone can unearth your buried destiny? Draw closer to the Spirit of Grace today and you will fulfil your destiny. There is a User of this Devotional, who has been worried over how to fulfil the glorious destiny God had earlier spoken of. Just draw closer to the Holy Spirit and obey Him completely and your destiny will be released.

PRAYER POINT

Holy Spirit, as I draw closer to You this period, release my destiny from where it has been buried.