RCCG Open Heaven Devotion 2012 – Pastor E. A. Adeboye (ISBN: 978-36079-4-4)
Download Open Heaven – iOpenHeaven , www.m.openheavensportal.net
(Previously available online @: http://www.rccgna.org/Resources/BibleStudy/Devotionals.aspx)

Bible in one year: Jeremiah 49-52

Memorise: Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. John 14:27

Read: John 14:1, 27

In Psalms 42:5, the Psalmist observed that in spite of what he did, he was still worried. Christians often get worried in spite of God’s express command that we should not. In John 14:1, the Lord says we should not let our hearts become troubled and He gave a recipe to worries: believe in God and in Jesus. Faith is the solution to worries. Also in John 14:27, He says not only should your heart not be troubled, but that you should also keep fear away from you. Fear and faith are diametrically opposed to each other but similar in the sense that each involves some form of believe. The fearful believes that something unpleasant is going to happen while the faithful believes that something good is about to happen. In both fear and faith, there is an expectation and expectations can be very strong sometimes. In fear, there is believe, but this believe is in the wrong thing or the wrong person. When you express strong belief in the occurrence of something negative, you are misapplying the creative power in you.

The fearful believes in something and the confident also believes. This simply means that there is nobody who has no expectation. There is nobody too who can say I have no faith. You express faith one way or the other whether you like it or not. The most fearful and suspicious people are people with great faith potentials. Are you always very fearful? You have the capacity of manifesting great faith. In fact, if you start to believe strongly in something good happening in your life or situation in place of the negative thoughts, you will get the Lord’s commendation. However, when you have expectations or faith, for it to work very well, it must be connected with God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. If you say you believe in God but do not believe in Jesus, your faith will be unable to deliver its best to you. Another thing is that you must be in the place of righteousness for faith to deliver its best. If you are in sin but you believe in the Godhead you have just placed a log on your wheel of faith. Remove it; remove that bitterness, lie, deceit and hatred. Remove pride, envy and jealousy and ensure you are completely clean so as to effectively activate your faith.

Father, turn every fear in my heart into faith. Pray for a successful Lets-Go-A-Fishing programme (Evangelistic Outreaches) at all locations this season, asking for a great harvest of souls.