Open Heaven 1 July  2022 Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Topic: SLEEPING IN TRAINING? 

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Open Heavens 2022
Date: 2022-07-01
Topic: SLEEPING IN TRAINING?

Memory Verse: 1 Peter 5:8 – Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 1 Peter 5:8
Bible Reading: Acts 20:7-12

Message: Apostle Paul was preaching while a young man named Eutychus was sleeping. Our attention however is not on Paul but on Eutychus. Here was a greatly anointed man of God preaching and he was sleeping. It may look like something to judge him for, but there are many like Eutychus in the Church today. Many people go to the Church today and sleep throughout the service. They may not be closing their physical eyes, but their spiritual eyes are closed. Some workers are sleeping spiritually while the anointing is flowing. John 7:38-39 says:

He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

The rivers referred to in the Scripture above is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit flows like a river. When He is moving, if you are not conscious of His presence and paying attention, He will flow past you and you would miss your miracle. Anyone who saw Eutychus and the others leaving the service the next morning would have thought that they were all blessed and fully charged spiritually, not knowing that some of them like Eutychus slept off during the meeting and were leaving just the same way that they came. This is why many people keep attending powerful crusades and life changing services but their lives have remained the same.

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Sometimes, the organisers of these services are the ones who actually make it easy for people to sleep when they should be fellowshipping. When you decorate the Church and make it look like an art gallery, people would be appreciating the art rather than connecting with the Lord. The Church is a place of intimate fellowship with God so let the environment foster that more than anything else. That is why we decorate our Church auditoriums in The Redeemed Christian Church of God with Scriptures. Everywhere you turn, there is a Bible verse that will catch your attention because we want you to be focused on God and nothing else.

Hymn: O God Our Help In Ages Past
Points: Church services play a major role in equipping you for all-round success; don’t sleep in training.
Bible in one year: Psalms 79, Psalms 80, Psalms 91, Psalms 82

Title: O God, Our Help In Ages Past.
Chorus: null.

  1. O God, our help in ages past

Our hope for years to come
Our shelter from the stormy blast
And our eternal home.

  2. Under the shadow of Thy throne

Thy saints have dwelt secure
Sufficient is Thine arm alone
And our defence is sure.

  3. Before the hills in order stood

Or earth received her frame
From everlasting Thou art God
To endless years the same.

  4. A thousand ages in Thy sight

Are like an evening gone
Short as he watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.

  5. Time, like an ever-rolling stream

Bears all its sons away
They fly forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.

  6. O God, our help in ages past

Our hope in years to come
Be thou our guard while trouble last
And our Eternal home.

Open Heavens 2022 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. The Open Heavens devotional application is available across all mobile platforms and operating systems: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Nokia, Windows Mobile and PC.

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