OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL..

DATE : WEDNESDAY 23 MARCH 2016

THEME : LIVING IN THE SPIRIT

Memorise :

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Galatians 5:25

Read : Galatians 5:22-26

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Message

When you are not living in the Spirit, you will suffer spiritual famine. You will become victim of the works of the flesh such as adultery, fornication, uncleanness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, heresies envying etc. But when you allow your life to be directed by the Spirit, you will be able to express the fruits of the Spirit such as love, joy, peace, long suffering, meekness, patience ,faith etc. Those who walk in the Spirit cannot make wrong decisions and even when they have decided to make a move, their moves will always lead to the right destinations, because they are guided by God. This is why it's important to allow God to speak to you so that you can hear His voice and find rest for your souls. When you live in Spirit, you will not grope around as someone in darkness. There are many people who have lost the energy required for the Christian race because they allowed their hearts to be taken over by the mundane things of this world. Don't be a carnal Christian. A carnal Christian enjoys what the world can offer as long as it it satisfies his ego. A carnal Christian is always a victim of sin because the body has not been trained to be disciplined. If you live in the spirit, you will no longer compete with the world in fashion. If you are walking in the Spirit you will not be comfortable exposing your body to cause others to fall into lust. You must make up your mind to break away from every act of carnality, so that the peace of God can rest on you.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God,neither indeed can be Romans 8:7

Do not be consumed any longer with the lust of the flesh, the list of the eye and the pride of this life. Make up your mind to be ruled and governed by the Spirit of God. Our hearts, deeds and fruits we bear must be patterned to please God. One of the ways to ensure we live in the Spirit is to continue to fellowship with Him. Those who find it difficult to come to the presence of God and fellowship cannot experience the power of the Spirit. You are supposed to value the presence of God more than any other thing in life. You may be denied of every other thing but not the presence of God. Also, to grow in the Spirit we must create time for the study of the Word of God. Make the study of the Word of God important in your agenda. The moment you begin to have excuses for not attending fellowship and not studying Gods Word, you can be sure that the devil is already causing you to experience spiritual famine, and at the end , there will be a manifestation of the flesh. Some who are no longer walking in the Spirit have given themselves over to the false doctrines blowing across the world. If you are in this category, you have to cry to God to help you so that you will not be a victim of heresy. The flesh is programmed to always yield to sin. Ask God to deliver you from the desires of your flesh so that you will no longer gratify its dictates.

Prayer Point :

Father, let not my flesh have dominion over me.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR : Judges 8:29-9:57 and Job 4:15-17

AUTHOR : Pst E. A ADEBOYE

HYMN 5: OH SPREAD THE TIDING ROUND

Oh, spread the tidings ’round, wherever man is found,
Wherever human hearts and human woes abound;
Let every Christian tongue proclaim the joyful sound: The Comforter has come!

Chorus:
The Comforter has come,
The Comforter has come!
The Holy Ghost from heav’n,
The Lord’s dear promise giv’n;
Oh, spread the tidings ’round,
Wherever man is found,
The Comforter has come!

2. The long, long night is past, the morning breaks at last;
And hushed the dreadful wail and fury of the blast,
As o’er the golden hills the day advances fast!
The Comforter has come!

Chorus:

3. Lo, the great King of kings, with healing in His wings,
To every captive soul a full deliv’rance brings;
And through the vacant cells the song of triumph rings:
The Comforter has come!

Chorus:

4. O boundless love divine! how shall this tongue of mine
To wond’ring mortals tell the matchless grace divine
That I, a child of hell, should in His image shine!
The Comforter has come!

Chorus.

Prayer Points on Today's Open Heavens (Wednesday, March 23, 2016).

1.Thank you Father for the spiritual gift of the Holy Spirit to your church.

2.Father, in anyway we have relegated your Holy Spirit to the background, in the activities of the church, today, please have mercy upon us and forgive us.

3.Father, please, put an end to spiritual dryness and famine in my life and ministry, in Jesus' name.

4.Father, by your fire, destroy all the works of the flesh in my life and destiny.

5.Father, let every carnal desire for worldly and mundane things, in my life, be quenched by the fire of the Holy Spirit.

6.Father, let every invisible chain that the devil has been using to draw me away from your presence be consumed by your fire.

7.Father, give me the grace to meditate, day and night in your word.

8.Father, heal and restore, every wounded and fallen spiritual soldier in your Vineyard.

9.Father, deliver me from the desires of the flesh and empower me never to yield again to it's dictates.

10.Father, order my steps in your word and let not the flesh have dominion over me.

11.Father, let your Holy Spirit take complete dominion over my life, in Jesus' name.

12.Father, let me begin to manifest the fruits of the Holy Spirit, in my life, which are: love, joy, peace, long-suffering , gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance, in Jesus' name.

13.Your Personal petitions. (Phil 4:6)

14.In Jesus' name I pray.(Jn 15:16)

15.Thank you Father for answered prayers.(1 Thes 5:18)