Open Heaven Daily Devotional 10 April 2024, Wednesday Reading Guide
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Open Heaven Daily Devotional 10 April 2024 TOPIC: The Challenges of Being Anointed (1)
MEMORISE:
“And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.” – (2 Kings 2:24)
READ: Numbers 20:1-13 (KJV)
OPEN HEAVENS 10TH APRIL 2023 MESSAGE:
Do you want to be heavily anointed? The One who generates the anointing has more than enough for everybody. Psalm 23:5 says, “Thou anointed my head with oil, my cup runneth over.” He has more than enough for everybody, but are you willing to pay the price? Are you willing to go through the challenges that come with being anointed? Hebrews 1:9 says that if you love righteousness and hate iniquity, God will anoint you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
Yesterday, I mentioned some benefits of being anointed, but it is also important to note that the anointing also comes with some challenges. The major challenge with being anointed is that power can corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The more anointed you are, the more careful you must be because of the tendency to misuse the power. In Numbers 20:1-13, especially verse 10, Moses said to the people, “Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?”
Only a few minutes before then, he was on his face before God, asking for a solution to the problem. The moment God told him what to do, he turned to the people who had been provoking him, called them rebels, and spoke as if the power to bring water out of the rock was from him and not from God. In verse 12, God said that because he did not sanctify Him in the eyes of the people, he will not enter the promised land.
I have always told pastors in The Redeemed Christian Church of God that no one must ever feel as if he healed anybody. Left alone, you cannot even heal a rat! It is God who heals, and you are only a vessel through which the healing takes place. You must always see that as a privilege. Since the power to perform miracles is not yours, God can use anyone else to do it. A man of God once said that if you remove God from him, there will be little left. I was surprised because, in my own case, if you remove God from me, there will be absolutely nothing left.
Beloved, never forget that without God, you are nothing. Anyone who thinks that he or she can be something without God is clearly on a path to destruction. No matter how anointed you are, never allow yourself to think that you are all-powerful. Ensure that you remain humble.
KEY POINT:
Never forget that it is God who works miracles, not you.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
1 Kings 6-7
HYMNAL:
Hymn 1 – All hail the power of Jesus’ Name
Open Heaven Daily Devotional 10 April 2024 guide was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical church in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer’s Ministries.