RCCG Open Heaven 9 August 2022 Daily Devotional Guide By Pastor E.A Adeboye

RCCG Open Heaven 9 August 2022 Devotional for Tuesday

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Open Heaven 9 August 2022 TOPIC: Letter To The Ephesus Church 2

MEMORISE:
“This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.” – (Matthew 15:8)

READ: Revelation 2:4-7 (KJV)

Open Heaven 9 August 2022 Daily Devotional Message

You wonder how Jesus would say that the Ephesus Church had forgotten their first love after saying that He had seen their works, labour and patience (Revelation 2:4). This tells us clearly that all the labour that people were putting into the work of God was not from the heart. It had all become routine and there was no longer a deep fellowship between them and the Holy Spirit.

Many Christians today fall into this trap of the devil. When they are in a prayer meeting, they can pray for 2 hours, but they can hardly pray for 5 minutes in their closets. When the Church evangelism team is going out to evangelize, they are the first to arrive, but they have never opened their mouth to preach the gospel to their neighbor who is an unbeliever.

Oh! Gone are those days when you would arrive in Church only to be told by the Pastor that you would be the one to preach that morning, days when every Christian was a soldier, ever ready for the use of his Master.

These days, the Pastor has to pray hard and give enough notice before he can ask a member to lend the Church their car for an assignment. Sadly, the love of many has waxed cold.

Open Heaven Today 9th August 2022 Devotional by Pastor E.A Adeboye

Is it your love for God that pushes you to do the things you do for Him or do you do them just as a normal duty you have in Church? Are you still bubbling with that first love you had when you gave your life to Christ or is your Christianity now a bunch of activities?

Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. – (Revelation 2:5)

At the beginning of the letter, Jesus said He had seen their works. In verse 5 above, He says that they should return to their first works.

There is the work you do mechanically, without being driven by love for God and there is the work you do as a result of your love for Him. Jesus is telling you today to return to your first love, to do the first works that were driven by that love. It could be the same activity, but the works must now be backed by love.

REFLECTION:
Ask yourself, “What drives me to do the work of God?”

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Isaiah 6 – 9

HYMNAL:
Hymn 3 – Deeper, deeper in the love of Jesus

RCCG Open Heaven 9 August 2022 Devotional Message. Open Heaven Daily Devotional 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. RCCG Open Heaven 9 August 2022