Open Heaven 27 JANUARY 2023 Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Topic: THE LAW OF HARVEST
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Open Heavens 2023
Date: 2023-01-27
Topic: THE LAW OF HARVEST
Memory Verse: Hosea 8:7 – For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up
Bible Reading: Genesis 27:18-23, Genesis 37:26-35
Message: The law of harvest states that you will reap much more than whatever you sow. This is why you must be careful of the kind of seeds you sow, because when harvest comes, it is always much more than the seed. In our Bible readings for today, we see Jacob sowing a seed in the first passage and then reaping the harvest in the second. In the first passage, he deceived his father in order to get the blessing and so his children also deceived him that Joseph their brother was dead. Genesis 37:35 says:
“And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning Thus his father wept for him.”
Many a time, the harvest of your seeds comes when you are too old to do anything about it. Everything you do now is a seed and the harvest will come back to you when you may not have as much energy as you do now.
I thank God for some of the seeds I sowed as a young man because I am now reaping the harvests. In 1961, as a 19 year-old, I gave some money to a poor, sick old man — a neighbor, so he could get some medicine. The man said to me that someday, I would be travelling abroad as often as people go the market. I laughed at that prophecy because in my village in those days, if anyone was returning from a trip abroad, the entire village would not go to the farm that day. The hunters would come out and shoot their guns in celebration of the person and everyone would be rejoicing. At that time, there were only 2 people who had gone abroad in my village, and they studied there for a number of years. Now this man was saying that I would be going often. It appeared funny, but I had sown the seed. Today, by God’s grace, that prophecy has been fulfilled.
Beloved, pay attention to every opportunity you have to sow a good seed. On the other hand, always check your actions to be sure that you are not sowing bad seeds that you will regret when the harvest comes.
Points: Be very intentional about the seeds you sow today because they will come back in multiple folds tomorrow
Bible in one year: Exodus 38, Exodus 39, Exodus 40
Title: There Shall be Showers of Blessing.
Chorus: Showers of blessing
Showers of blessing we need;
Mercy drop round are falling
But for the showers we plead..
1. "There shall be showers of blessing"This is the promise of love;
There shall be season refreshing
Send from a savior above
2. "There shall be showers of blessing"Precious reviving again;
Over the hills and the valleys;
Sound of abundance of rain.
3. "There shall be showers of blessing"Send them upon us Oh Lord!
Grant to us a refreshing;
Come now and honour Thy Word.
4. "There shall be showers of blessing"Oh, that today thy might fall,
Now as to God we are confessing,
Now as on Jesus we call!
5. "There shall be showers of blessing"If we but trust and obey;
There shall be season refreshing,
If we let God have his way.
Open Heavens 2023 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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