Open Heavens: Effects of Sexual Sins

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RCCG Open Heaven Devotion 2012 – Pastor E. A. Adeboye (ISBN: 978-36079-4-4)
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Tuesday 18 December
Bible in one year: Psalms 138-142
EFFECTS OF SEXUAL SINS
Memorise: Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body 1 Corinthians 6:18
Read: Judges 16:16-21
After his hair was shaved, Samson thought of arising like in times past to stir up the Spirit, but little did he know that the Holy Spirit had left him. It was acrobatics without power. It was motion without unction. It was all noise without the Noise Maker. The wheat had gone and all that was left was the chaff! Sexual sins are great robbers! Samson lost so much to sexual sin. When he fornicated with a harlot and the anointing was still there to uproot the city gate of the enemy, he thought nothing was lost (Judges 16:1-3). But a lot had gone even as at that time. This is the deception of sin. When you sin and it appears all is still well, you will be tempted to continue in sin thinking all will remain well. If you do, you would have been deceived. There are many pastors, evangelists, prophets, teachers and even apostles today who are living in sexual immorality and because they still feel the anointing in some measure or still hear from God or are still able to perform their assignments well, they think all they have is intact. No! They have lost a lot!
By the time Samson got to Delilah in Judges 16:4-21, what the first prostitute started, Delilah completed and he was totally drained. A man of God who had slept with some sisters observed that after fornicating with them, certain gifts of God upon his life ebbed while those gifts were later developing in those two ladies. Those you are sleeping with are stealing your power, although sometimes, what they took out of the fornicating leader could also cause great harm in their own lives and families. A time will come when the fornicator will be totally empty. Through fornication, your sex partners are shaving your hair – your anointing. Soon, you will also lose your eyes – spiritual sight. A blind leader is a useless one because he will end up in the ditch. As a fornicating pastor, you are in bondage to the ladies you are sinning with as the fear of being reported to your superiors will push you further into that pit. Also, you can no more preach holiness whenever they are around. You are also in bondage to your enemies and you will end up working for the devil if you do not repent (Judges 16:21). All your gains in ministry could disappear because of sexual immorality! Repent today!
PRAYER POINT:
Father, uproot and roast every iota of immorality and lust operating or hibernating in my life.

 

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Open Heavens: Sin and Health

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RCCG Open Heaven Devotion 2012 – Pastor E. A. Adeboye (ISBN: 978-36079-4-4)
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Monday 3 December
Bible in one year: Jeremiah 3-5
SIN AND HEALTH
Memorise: Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. James 5:16
Read: James 5:13-16
God gives power to the faint according to Isaiah 40:31. This shows that, He is ready not only to share His health and fame but also His power. Many times, as a result of fasting, my whole body will be weak. But the moment I stand behind the altar and take up the microphone, strength comes. All He wants you to do is to stay connected to Him as your Source. What do you do to be healthy? Psalms 107:17-19 says afflictions come on fools because of their iniquities. God wants you in perfect health so if you fall sick, it cannot be God. Sometimes, sickness is as a result of sin. According to 1 Peter 2:24; in such instances, God would first forgive your sins before healing you. This simply shows one is more important to God than the other. If you are sick, all that matters to you is regaining your health but God sees beyond your physical need; He sees the need of your soul; hence if you are not yet saved, He would prefer you got saved before healing you. Furthermore, after you are born again, since He has already come inside of you, it becomes easier to chase out sickness from the inside than when the devil is still in charge of the government of your life.
A classic case study on this is recorded in Mark 2:1-12 where a man sick of the palsy was brought to Him. Because He could see that the man was in need of salvation, He first forgave his sins before healing him. It is only unfortunate that sometimes instead of looking inwards when we are sick, we look for somebody or some demon to hold responsible. If only we can admit our mistakes like eating the wrong food, not taking enough rest, entertaining worries, not doing exercises or harbouring hurts, un-forgiveness and bitterness, etc., we will be able to know how to stop most sicknesses. If you admit your faults and confess them to Him, He will not only forgive you, He will also heal you (James 5:16). What are you doing that is currently keeping you sick? Stop it. If it is your diet, change it. If it is secret sin, confess and forsake it.
PRAYER POINTS:
Using 3 John 2, pray that God will heal and prosper your spirit, soul and body.
Pray also that every effort you make will be prospered.

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Open Heavens: Secret Sins

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RCCG Open Heaven Devotion 2012 – Pastor E. A. Adeboye (ISBN: 978-36079-4-4)
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Saturday 24 November
Bible in one year: Nehemiah 7-9
SECRET SINS
Memorise: Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. Psalms 90:8
Read: Psalms 19:12-14
Besides expressing faith in God, the righteous is identified by consistent right-standing with God. According to Ezekiel 3:21, the righteous is expected not to live in sin, but to continue to do what glorifies God. Righteousness is not something you engage today and disengage tomorrow like some people think. You do not abstain from sin only when those you respect are around, but also when they are not around. The righteous does not only abstain from public sins but also from secret ones. The challenge of most believers is not how to avoid open sins but how to stay righteous in their thought realm and to keep away from touching the unclean thing when they are all by themselves. That is a major challenge and for the righteous, this is the area he or she devotes more attention and prayer to.
David was one person who had a challenge in this area. Through the knowledge of God’s Word, he understood that secret sins, which nobody else is privy to, is fully exposed to God. In Psalms 90:8, he says our sins which were shrouded in secrecy of darkness and ignorance are exposed by the light of His presence. Your secret sins are not covered at all! God knows everything about your secret deeds. The devil or his agents who were present when you indulged in those evil acts also have the records. It is either God exposes your secrets, or the devil does. What you have buried in the earth or locked up in a safe, which you think is safe, is not safe at all. It can be exposed at anytime. The only secrets that can truly be secrets are the ones you confess to the Lord and hand over to Him. If He covers your faults, nobody can uncover them. When David realised this, he therefore asked God to deliver him from secret sins. Are you still living in sin secretly? Do you secretly masturbate, lust after same sex or the opposite sex? Do you secretly steal or bribe to influence decisions? Repent today and hand your secrets over to God.
KEY POINT:
The secret sins you fail to expose to Him today will be exposed before everyone and then nobody and nothing can cover your shame.

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