Saturday, 8 February 2014

OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL - SATURDAY - 8/2/2014 - ACCEPTED TIME II BY PASTOR E.A. ADEBOYE



ACCEPTED TIME II

MEMORISE
Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.
John 7:8

READ
John 11:39-44

John 11:39  Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.

John 11:40 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?

John 11:41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.

John 11:42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

John 11:43And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

John 11:44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.

MESSAGE
God is never too early, and He is never too late. His timetable is set on purpose; the purpose is not only for your sake but also for His. In all things, His name shall be glorified. No doubt, He would have been glorified healing Lazarus of his sickness, but this cannot compare to raising him from the dead after four days. God works according to His own time-table. His time-table is not necessarily in tune with your own time-table, even when it concerns situations or issues of your life for which you desire His intervention. Being the perfect God that He is, His time-table is the perfect one and not yours. Your case will soon become a testimony that will bring you great joy and celebration; your testimony will also bring great glory to God, in Jesus’ Name. Keep resting in Jesus, keep trusting in Him, and don’t shift your focus from Him. You are on the verge of God turning the table in your favour and turning it against your enemies.

The attributes of God’s nature such as omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience are demonstrated in the way His timetable works. His love moves Him to seek the good of His people and to desire their peace, joy, fulfilment, health etc. By His omnipresence and omniscience, He sees and knows all that is going on, even to the smallest detail. Through His omnipotence, He has the ability to effect the required and desirable change – for example, He can make a ninety year old woman conceive a child, as was the case with Sarah. He can bring back to life a decaying corpse, as was the case of Lazarus, the brother of Martha and Mary (John 11:39-44). He can also make a woman to have natural birth after three previous births by caesarean section, as He did for my wife. God, by His omnipotence is even able to bring back lost opportunities, such as in the life of Abraham, who in spite of working out his own plan to fulfil God’s purpose for his life, still received the true seed of promise, though his action and expectation should have aborted God’s original plan for his life (Genesis 17:16-19).

What more can we hope for? When God is at work, the impossible becomes possible, the irreversible becomes reversed, and the hopeless becomes hopeful. He can rewrite history with your life. For someone using this devotional now, your accepted time is now. Your story is changing from a shameful or reproachful one to an enviable one. You will forget quickly the pain and sorrow of your past by the change of events which will occur soon in Jesus’ Name.

ACTION POINT
Extol God for all His attributes: love, power, faithfulness and others. Tell Him you love and will serve Him with all your heart. Then tell Him what you want Him to do for you.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR
Isaiah 19:16-23:18; 
Psalm 34:1-10

8 comments:

  1. Daddy, you are wonderful; you are excellent; your are incomparable; Lord of lords King of kings; the El Shaddai; The Almighty; mighty to save; mighty to set free; mighty to deliver; the all knowing God; the ancient of days; the Lord of Host; the Great I AM, the everlasting one; my Rock; my Strength; lifter of my head, my Redeemer; my Saviour; my ALL in ALL, glory to your name in Jesus' name.
    Father, I receive breakthrough from you concerning my academic pursuit, Daddy grant me unusual wisdom, let me know more than my teachers according to your promise; silent every opposition to my rising. I command in the name of Jesus that those who matter to my success should arise by divine command and favorably attend to my case. Father, command all you have created to give me support that I need in life to get to the very top you have destined for me.
    I love you Daddy, I worship you' Blessed be your name. In Jesus' name I pray.

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  2. Thank u Jesus. Father oh Lord settle me and my household in Jesus name. Make away for me oh Lord where there is no way. Make my children oh Lord to be number one in Jesus name. Jesus enlarge my Husband. Almighty God send helper of Destinty to me and my household in Jesus name I pray Amen Amen Amen in Jesus name. Shalom#

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  3. Thank you for confriming your words over my life ! Thaank you lord for favor .,let all the glory be given to you alone ijn http://www.toridey.com/?p=8861

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  4. Oh God I magnify ur name,I give u glory for ur faithfuness and steadfast love.i will serve nd follow u for the rest of my life as I am convinced that nothing in this world and yet to come can separate me from ur love. U r beautiful for all situation and the joy of the whole world.i return all glory to u alone. Lord do wat u alone can do in my life.thank you lord for u r a prayer answering God.

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  5. Daddy I thank u for the gift of life, I bless u for the new apartment u ve given my family, thank u for enlarging my husband coast, thanking u for blessing me more than I deserve, thank u for making my daughter to excel in her studies, thank u for my nieces blessing them with marriages may ur name be glorified

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  6. princewill onyeaboh8 February 2014 at 12:10

    Oh Lord according to your promise, my expectations shall never be cut off in Jesus name, I give my totality to You henceforth.....

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  7. My Father, the king of kings,the Lord of Lords,the omnipotence,the omnipresence,the omniscience, I thank you for you love,power,faithfulness,care n mercy upon my life,I love you Lord and i will serve you with all my heart. Father today please bring forth every of your promises concerning my life to fulfillment in Jesus Name. Amen

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  8. Thank U Lord for Ur love and merrcies d@ are ever new every morning........i wil always Love and serve U till d end of time,,,,i only need Ur amazing grace to follow.....Amen..........

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