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17/12/2018

THANK YOU JESUS FOR SUCCESSFUL CAROL SERVICE IN CHURCH YESTERDAY.

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18/10/2018

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22/05/2018

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04/04/2018

Prayer point
Father, any battle confronting my life must be shattered in Jesus name. Amen.

01/03/2018

Heavenly father,thank you Lord for the grace given unto us during this season of waiting that ends today.
We say may your name be highly exalted in Jesus name.

01/03/2018

Day 50 Prayer Points for

20/02/2018

Day 41Prayer Points for

20/02/2018

OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL...
DATE: TUESDAY 20TH FEBRUARY 2018
THEME: THERE SHOULD BE NO COMPLEX.
MEMORISE:
But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to
every man severally as he will. 1 Corinthians 12:11
READ: 1 Corinthians 12:1-12
1Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you
ignorant.
2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb
idols, even as ye were led.
3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by
the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can
say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same
Lord.
6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God
which worketh all in all.
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to
profit withal.
8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to
another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of
healing by the same Spirit;
10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to
another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues;
to another the interpretation of tongues:
11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing
to every man severally as he will.
12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the
members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is
Christ.
MESSAGE
There is one silent source of confusion in the body of Christ
which must be addressed for the sake of the advancement of
God’s kingdom. It is a combination of attitudes and feelings
known as the “complex”. A complex is a mental or psychological
state that should be alien to the Body of Christ. It manifests itself
as inferiority or superiority complex. Ironically, the church has lived
with this issue through the ages. Apostle Paul in today’s text
warns us against the manifestation of such attitudes- whether as
inferiority or superiority complex. How does the issue of
“complex” operate in the Body of Christ? It is through the
exhibition of spiritual gifts. There was an issue with the
demonstration of spiritual gifts in the Church at Corinth, whereby
some offices were considered superior and some other spiritual
gifts were looked down on as inferior. Against this background,
Paul wrote to the Corinthian brethren to enlighten them on the
distribution and operation of the different offices and spiritual
gifts in the body of Christ. The analogy of human body parts
used by Paul to explain this spiritual truth is very profound. In 1
Corinthians 12:17, Paul rhetorically asks,
“If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the
whole were hearing, where were the smelling?”
The truth is that the whole body cannot be the eyes; if this where
the case there would be no movement, which is the prerogative
of the legs. Therefore, if the eye cannot do without the legs and
the ears cannot do without the nose, why should the eyes or ears
think that they are superior to the legs or nose? Unfortunately, this
was the situation in the Church at Corinth, as is the case in a
typical church organization today. We must recognize this reality
and work towards eradicating the anomaly by continuously
teaching ourselves the truth of God’s word. The most important
thing about spiritual gifts is that their recipients must use them for
the edification of the Body Christ (Ephesians 4:11-13, 1
Corinthians 12:7). Another mystery of spiritual gifts is that those
gifts which some consider as less important are equally as
important as those held in high esteem (Corinthians 12:22-25).
For example, if we ignore the ministry of intercession because
intercessors are often not known or seen like the evangelist and
minstrels, the Church may become a comfortable zone for
demons to operate, and then the preacher and the choir will
preach and sing with no effect. The Church must begin to
appreciate the gifts of God in each member of the Body of Christ
and celebrate them for who they are as very important and
valuable. There should be no complex of any kind.
ACTION POINT:
Identify the spiritual gifts God has deposited in your life and begin
to use them for the advancement of God’s kingdom in your local
church assembly.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Leviticus 17-18; 1 Corinthians 7:17-40
AUTHOR: PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE

19/02/2018

Day 40 Prayer Points for

13/02/2018

Day 34 Prayer Points for

13/02/2018

13/02/2018

OPEN HEAVEN
TUESDAY 13TH FEBRUARY 2018
CARELESS WARRIORS?
MEMORISE:
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
Mark 13:33
READ: 1 Samuel 30:1-6
MESSAGE
I have watched with pity and dismay as many children of God,
particularly ministers of God, carelessly fight spiritual battles at
the expense of their own lives and family. If you desire to be
triumphant in every area of life, you need to pay attention to what
the Lord Jesus Christ told His disciples in today’s memory verse.
You need to apply caution and be strategic in all that you do. To
see the big picture of the challenges confronting, you need to
watch. To get direction and strength from heaven to help you
confront these challenges, you need to pray. In today’s Bible text,
we have the story of the careless group of warriors: David and his
mighty men of valor. While they went about fighting for survival as
mercenaries, they left their own camp unprotected. Before they
returned from their raid, their own camp had been raided and
burnt, and their wives and children were taken away as captives
by the enemy. When they discovered what the enemy had done,
these men of war were so distressed that they wept like babies.
They didn’t just weep, they even revolted against their leader,
David, and spoke of stoning him to death. However, faced with
that volatile situation, David did something worthy of emulation:
he encouraged himself in the Lord (1 Samuel 30:6).
There are a good number of lessons we can learn from this story;
first of which is that as you Lord’s battle even the Lord of Host
expects you to watch your back. Our God does not expect you to
be presumptuous. The words of our Lord Jesus Christ concerning
counting the cost before building a tower or fighting a foe are
pointers to strategic planning in spiritual warfare (Luke 14:28-32).
Secondly, there should be division of labor in spiritual warfare. We
should not all be at the war front at the same time. All bases
must be covered. The early church realized this truth on time, and
so the apostles gave themselves to the ministry of word and
prayer while they appointed others to look after the administration
of corporate social responsibilities (Acts 6:1-7). Thirdly, persons
in leadership positions should always be proactive. David’s
proactive move to seek God’s face was what saved the day. He
inquired of the Lord on how to go about recovering all that they
had lost (1 Samuel 30:7-8). At the end of the day, what they
should have done in the first place was what they later did. They
learnt that they should always organize themselves into bands
with different roles. When they pursued to recover all, not all of
them pursued after the raiders, but when they shared the spoils
of war, those who went to battle had the same portion as those
who waited behind to look after their stuff. This principle did not
go down well with some of David’s men who did not understand
it (1 Samuel 30:21-24). Indeed, God’s ways are not our ways
(Isaiah 55:8)!
KEY POINT:
Watch and pray as you engage in spiritual warfare.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Leviticus 4-5; Romans 16