Benefits Of Rightiousness 1
[10/3, 5:28 AM] faithemm2015: OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL
DATE: TUESDAY OCTOBER 3RD 2023
THEME: BENEFITS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS 1
MEMORISE: I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. Psalms 37:25
READ: Deuteronomy 28:1 -14
1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.
10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
MESSAGE
Isaiah 3:10 says it shall be well with the righteous because there are certain guaranteed blessings that righteous people enjoy. One of them is in Psalm 34:17: "The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out,of their troubles ".
When you are living a life of holiness, anytime you cry to God, He would answer you speedily. This is as opposed to Isaiah 59:1-2, which says that it's people's sins that prevent God from hearing them. David said clearly in Psalm 66:18: "If l regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me". If you really want God to start hearing your prayers, then you must begin to live holy henceforth.
The blessings attached to living holy are numerous, as seen in today's Bible text and memory verse. The children of righteous people are God's responsibility; He takes care of their needs Himself. King David shared his observation about this in today's memory verse.
The children of the righteous don't have to depend on anybody to survive - God Himself makes sure that they don't lack anything. This means that the best legacy and inheritance you can leave for your children is a holy lifestyle. This is so because God will ensure that they never lack. A classic illustration is in 1Kings11:11-12. David was a man after God's heart, and God preserved his son - Solomon because of this.
It is better, however, to teach your children to live holy themselves even when you have gone to be with the Lord, so that their own children too will enjoy the preservation of the Lord.
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Hebrews 1:9
Pursue righteousness and hate iniquity; so that you would see the manifestation of God's glory upon your life and all that concerns you.
ACTION POINT
Make holiness your lifestyle.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Matthew 5-6
AUTHOR: PASTOR E. A ADEBOYE
HYMN 23: TAKE MY LIFE AND LET IT BE
1. Take my life and let it
Consecrated Lord to Thee
Take my moment and my days
Let them flow ceaseless praise.
2. Take my hands and let them move
At the impulse of Thy love
Take my feet and let them be
Swift and beautiful for thee
3. Take my voice and let me sing
Always only for my king;
Take my lips and let them be
Filled with messages from Thee.
4. Take my sliver and my gold
Not a mite would I withhold
Take my intellect, and use
Every power as thou shalt choose.
5. Take my will and make it Thine,
It shall no longer mine:
Take my heart, it is Thine own;
It shall be Thy royal throne,
6. Take my love, my Lord, I pour
At Thy feet its treasure store;
Take myself, and I will be
Ever, only, all for thee
[10/3, 5:28 AM] faithemm2015: *🥑🍑SEEDS OF DESTINY🍌🍅*
DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY DR. PASTOR PAUL ENENCHE
DATE: TUESDAY 3RD OCTOBER, 2023.
*TOPIC: WHAT DO YOU SEE?*
SCRIPTURE: And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. GENESIS 13:14-15.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: What you do not see coming will never come.
Dodie Osteen, the mother of Joel Osteen had metastatic adenocarcinoma of the liver in the year, 1983. She was given six weeks to live.
Giants of faith like Oral Roberts, Kenneth Hagin and others prayed for her, but the sickness persisted. The cancer was ravaging her body.
Then she decided to stand on God’s Word. She put the pictures of her youthful and healthy self, some of them in her wedding gown, on the wall, on the fridge, and wherever her eyes could always see them. She said to herself, “This is me” pointing at those pictures. She turned to her sick body and said, “This is not me”. She said, “I cannot have cancer; this is me in those pictures. This is how I am looking. This is how I will look”. She kept on looking at those pictures and declaring until the six weeks she was given to live passed, but she did not pass.
One year, two years, three years, forty years have come and passed, yet those six weeks have not come because vision is the seed of the reality.
Vision is key to healthy living.
When God wanted to change Abraham’s mind from a barren man to a fruitful man, he brought him out, and said to him, “I want to change your mentality by changing your picture; look at the stars in the sky, look at the sand of the seashore; so, shall your offspring be” (Genesis 15:5 paraphrased).
Beloved, what you want God to do in your life, how does it look like? See the pictures of those expectations.
You know, picture, they say, is worth a thousand words.
What do you see? What you do not see coming will never come. What you do not perceive, you will never possess. What is not a reality inside of you can never become a reality in your life.
REMEMBER THIS: What you do not see coming will never come.
ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Concerning your future, what do you see? Write them down.
2. Locate scriptures that mirror your expectations, look out for instructions to obey to see their manifestation, and begin to picture their fulfilment.
PRAYER: Lord, I receive the grace to stay focused on your plan and purpose for me. I see my lines falling in pleasant places, and I have a goodly heritage, Lord, in Jesus’ Name.
FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: The Way of Vision.
DAILY BIBLE READING: Zechariah 9-11.
QUOTE: To see the ultimate is to survive the immediate. To see tomorrow is to go beyond today. Culled from the book, “22 Laws of Life” Vol. 1 by Dr Paul Enenche.
AMAZING FACT: Israel, a small country with a population of over 9 million people, is a world leader in the invention of new technologies. Some of the technologies it has produced are: the cell phone, voice mail technology, the first antivirus software, the Pentium MMX chip technology and most of the Window NT operating system.
PROPHETIC DECLARATION/WORD: Grace to see the right vision be released for you now. And as you see it, you shall seize it, in Jesus’ Name.
