OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL...
DATE : FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER 2015

THEME : CHOSEN FOR LAUGHTER

Memorise:
And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
Genesis 21:6

Read: Genesis 21:1-6
1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.

Message
We serve a God that fills the mouth of his chosen with laughter. Some chosen of the Lord testified of this in Psalms 126:2 saying:
"Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them."

In Genesis 18:1-14, when the Lord visited Abraham and Sarah and ate in their tent, He promised them that they would have a son in nine months' time; but Sarah laughed because her husband was over 99 years old and she herself was 90 years old. She thought that this promise was a joke borne out of how much the three august visitors enjoyed the meal that she and Abraham had prepared. God asked why she laughed, but she denied that she laughed. Nine months later, she gave birth to laughter, and she laughed for the rest of her life (Genesis 21:6). Today, God still makes people laugh.

When God makes you laugh, your laughter will be sustained. But how can God make you laugh today? God makes you laugh when you receive an unexpected divine visitation. It is one thing for you to pay God a visit, like when you attend a church programme or a special programme like the Holy Ghost Service; but it is another thing for God to visit you. It is a beautiful experience when God visits a congregation or group of people, but it is even lovelier when God picks out an individual in a large congregation for divine visitation. The Lord will single you out for a divine visitation this season in Jesus' Name.

In John 5:2-9, there was a multitude of sick folks at the pool called Bethesda, but when Jesus visited there, He went straight for the man who had been sick for 38 years, healed him and left the place. In like manner, in Mark 10:46-52, Jesus entered Jericho and passed through it looking for whom to visit. He saw none in Jericho, but as He was leaving, in the midst of a crowd, he saw a blind beggar outside the city gate, healed him and continued with His journey. As Jesus healed these people, He introduced laughter into their lives.

There was no record that either of them was ever sick again. Whatever criteria He uses to determine candidates for His visitation shall work in your favour today. Out of the crowd of those who need children, the Lord will visit you with yours. Out of the crowd of those who need promotion, the Lord will promote you. Out of the crowd of those who need special anointing, the Lord will visit you specially today. However, flee from sin, and do only what pleases Him. Be faithful in your tithes and offerings, and worship Him.

Prayer Point:
Father, I have wept for too long; from now on, introduce laughter into my life and make me laugh forever.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR : DEUTERONOMY 12-13 and EPHESIANS 5
AUTHOR : Pst E. A ADEBOYE

Prayer Points On Today's Open Heavens (Friday, October 30th 2015)- CHOSEN FOR LAUGHTER

1.Thank you Father for answered prayers.

2. I appreciate you Father because with you, all things are possible.

3.Father, have mercy and forgive me all my sins.

4.Father, grant unto me the grace to run away from sin and to do only things that please you.

5.Father, please, give me a testimony before the end of this year that will make me laugh and that will cause many to laugh with me.

6.Father, let me experience your divine visitation today and let reproach and shame of many years be terminated in my life.

7.Father, today, fill my mouth with laughter and my tongue with singing and let the hearthen say, "The Lord has done great things for me.

8.Father, let all your promises for my life be fulfilled today, in Jesus' name.

9.Father, please, single me out today for a divine visitation, and let every river of sorrow and affliction, that have flown into my life, dry up today, in Jesus' name.

10.Father, whatever criteria you use to determine candidates for divine visitation, please, let me be qualified.

11.Father, I have wept for too long; from now on, introduce laughter into my life and make me laugh forever.

12.Father, let all my outstanding prayers, petitions and heart's desires, receive favourable response and answers from your throne of grace, today.

13.Father, let every problem that has defied all known solutions, in my life, receive divine touch and positive turn around, today, in Jesus' name.

14.Father, let all that the enemies have concluded are no longer possible in my life, become reality, today, in Jesus' name.

15.Your Personal Petitions. (Phil 4:6)
16. In Jesus name I pray. (Jn 15:16)
17.Thank you Father for answered prayers.(1 Thes 5:18)