OPEN HEAVEN 18 AUGUST 2024 MEMORISE: And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: Ephesians 2:6

OPEN HEAVEN 18 AUGUST 2024 READ: Mark 16:16-18, Ephesians 1:18-23

Mark 16:16-18:

16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;

18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

Ephesians 1:18-23:

18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

OPEN HEAVEN 18 AUGUST 2024 MESSAGE

There was a man in my village called Kaka, who was the leader of the occultists. It was generally believed that he single-handedly protected the town from all forms of evil, and he was feared by all.

When we wanted to open the RCCG parish in my village, the place we found suitable for a rally was close to Kaka’s house.

Surprisingly, when an altar call was made during the rally, Kaka came out of his house to give his life to Christ – he had been listening to the worship session and sermon.

Later that night, he came to my Father in the Lord, Pa Josiah Akindayomi, and said, “The way you spoke about your God, He must be really powerful.”

Papa said, “Very, very powerful.” Kaka said, “In that case, now that I have given my life to Jesus, I would need help with an idol in my house called shigidi.

It is an effigy that has been in my family for generations and that we send out at night when we want to kill someone. It is so dangerous that we must not sleep until it returns, and we must kill a ram to welcome it.

Upon its return, it will step on the ram’s blood and drink it. Thereafter, it will return to its position and become just like an ordinary effigy.

I am afraid of the trouble that might follow if I throw shigidi away.” Papa decided to send me over to remove the effigy.

I went to Kaka’s house with the pastor of our parish in ilesha and a church worker that I thought to be a strong prayer warrior.

When Kaka saw me, he felt sorry for me, “Ahhh, Adeboye’s son, you are the one they sent?” When my colleagues saw shigidi, they ran out of the house, leaving me alone with the effigy.

It was smeared with blood and adorned with all manner of charms. I said a prayer, broke the effigy into pieces, removed the shrine in front of the house, and threw everything into a river.

After three weeks, I returned to my village and visited Kaka at home. When he saw me, he shouted, “You are still alive?!” That was 1975. I am still alive almost five decades after.

Beloved, the devil and his demons are under the feet of even the smallest child of God.

You are a part of the body of Christ, and Ephesians 1:21 says that Christ is seated far above all principality and powers.

OPEN HEAVEN 18 AUGUST 2024 KEY POINT

Never ever be afraid of demons that you can trample under your feet.

OPEN HEAVEN 18 AUGUST 2024 HYMN 1

ALL HAIL THE POWER OF JESUS’ NAME

OPEN HEAVEN 18 AUGUST 2024 BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Jeremiah 49

OPEN HEAVEN 20 AUGUST 2024 MEMORISE: Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 1 Peter 5:8

OPEN HEAVEN 20 AUGUST 2024 READ: 1 Samuel 18:6-15:

6 And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.

7 And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

8 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?

9 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.

10 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul’s hand.

11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.

12 And Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul.

13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.

14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the Lord was with him.

15 Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.

OPEN HEAVEN 20 AUGUST 2024 MESSAGE

I discussed handling failure properly yesterday, the factor that can affect success in life; there is also the need to learn how to handle success correctly.

Many people have eventually failed in life because they did not know how to handle their success.

In 1957, a man won £75,000 in a lottery. In those days, you could buy a flat in London for a tiny fraction of that sum.

One day in the early 1980s, somewhere in Western Nigeria, I saw a man that was wearing rags, sitting beside a building that had collapsed in half.

I asked the fellow who was driving me, “Who is that fellow?” He said, “That is the man who won £75,000 in 1957.”

The man had great prosperity but did not know how to handle it, so he ended up poor.

A popular proverb inspired by Proverbs 21:20 says that a fool and his prosperity are soon separated.

If a fellow is not wise enough to handle success, it can turn out to be the beginning of great failure.

Don’t get over-excited when success comes. Many people start rejoicing and partying after a victory, forgetting that the devil never relaxes.

What actually happens is that the devil becomes more determined to bring such people down. Don’t miss prayer meetings or your personal devotion because you are celebrating a victory.

Yes, you won the battle, but the enemy is not dead yet; he is still roaming, looking for whom to devour (1 Peter 5:8).

You should increase your commitment to God after every victory and not the other way around.

The devil knows that after successes, people are likely to relax, so he usually attacks them during such periods.

After David killed Goliath, he raised King Saul up against him. It was after Elijah called down fire from heaven that Jezebel swore to kill him (1 Kings 19:1-3).

When you attain success in a particular thing, you must not relax. You must remain alert and ready for battle. Don’t let success distract you from the end goal that God has called you to achieve.

One great success we had in RCCG was a programme called Lekki ’98, where over six million people gathered in one place to worship God.

Immediately after that programme, we doubled our missionary efforts, sending missionaries to new territories.

We immediately started planning the next edition of the programme, and today, we have held much bigger programmes because we doubled our efforts and did not relax after our success.

OPEN HEAVEN 20 AUGUST 2024 KEY POINT

When success comes, that is the time to work more, not the time to relax.

OPEN HEAVEN 20 AUGUST 2024 HYMN 26

THERE SHALL BE SHOWERS OF BLESSINGS

OPEN HEAVEN 20 AUGUST 2024 BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Jeremiah 51-52

OPEN HEAVEN 19 AUGUST 2024 MEMORISE: We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 2 Corinthians 4:8

OPEN HEAVEN 19 AUGUST 2024 READ: Judges 20:18-35:

18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Judah shall go up first.

19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.

20 And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.

21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.

22 And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.

23 (And the children of Israel went up and wept before the Lord until even, and asked counsel of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the Lord said, Go up against him.)

24 And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.

25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the Lord, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.

27 And the children of Israel enquired of the Lord, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the Lord said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.

29 And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.

30 And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.

31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

32 And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.

33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.

34 And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.

35 And the Lord smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.

OPEN HEAVEN 19 AUGUST 2024 MESSAGE

The way people respond to failures determines whether they will eventually live in victory or not.

Failure is not as bad as people paint it to be; it does not signify the end, but it is a signal to try again using a different method.

Almost all scientific breakthroughs result from failure. If most scientists became sad and stopped after the first time they failed, they would never have had breakthroughs.

Every successful person you see is a product of many failures. If you try today and fail, rise up and try again in a different way.

As long as you are sure that what you are doing is in line with the will of God, don’t give up on it; keep trying until you succeed.

In today’s Bible reading, the Israelites asked God if they should go to battle against the Benjamites and if they would win.

God told them to fight and that they would win. However, when they got to the battlefield, they were defeated.

The question on their minds would have been, “Did God deceive us?” They refused to give up, got themselves together, and went to ask God again if they should return to battle the Benjamites.

God told them to go, and once again, the Benjamites defeated them.

At that point, giving up would have seemed reasonable; they had already lost 40,000 men, and it looked as if God, the only one they could trust, was deceiving them.

If they had given up, they would have been commended for trying, but they did not give up. They went back to God, and this time, they fasted and gave offerings to God.

They asked again if they should return to fight the Benjamites, and God said that they should go.

They went, and as you read in the story, they used a different strategy and were able to defeat the Benjamites. Don’t give up; your breakthrough is probably just around the corner. Try once again.

When next you encounter failure, ask yourself, “Why is God letting me go through this?”

If you have been consistent with your prayer life and walk with God, ask, “What can I learn from this experience?

What is God trying to teach me with this failure? Are there other strategies to achieve my goal?”

If you answer these questions sincerely, you will draw valuable lessons that will help you achieve success the next time you try.

OPEN HEAVEN 19 AUGUST KEY POINT

Failure is only a signal to try again using a different method unless God says otherwise.

OPEN HEAVEN 19 AUGUST 2024 HYMN 21

STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF CHRIST MY KING

OPEN HEAVEN 19 AUGUST 2024 BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Genesis 1-4

OPEN HEAVEN 17 AUGUST 2024 MEMORISE: Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. Proverbs 18:21

OPEN HEAVEN 17 AUGUST 2024 READ: Proverbs 18:20-21:

20 A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

OPEN HEAVEN 17 AUGUST 2024 MESSAGE

Certain things can contaminate our prayers, such that they weaken our prayers and their possible results. One such thing is speaking words that are against what we are praying for.

When you pray about your country, for example, and later join others in saying that nothing good can come out of that same country, you have contaminated your prayer already.

Don’t pray for God to give life to something and then turn around to speak death into that same thing; you will not get results from such a prayer.

Joel 3:10 says, “Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’” In other words, if you have prayed for strength, but can still see traces of weakness in you, at that point, say, “I am strong”.

As your words go in line with your prayers, they will remain potent enough to deliver the results you seek.

When you pray about something, it is important that your words and thoughts agree with your prayer. This way, you will not stand in the way of the answer to your prayer.

Another thing that contaminates prayers is a lack of concentration while praying. This is when people pray, but their hearts are not in the prayer.

Rather, their minds are occupied with other things. The devil knows that if your mind is distracted while praying, your prayer will not carry as much power as it should.

Therefore, whenever you decide to pray, he will begin to remind you of things you are yet to do and places that you ought to have gone to.

His plan is to occupy your mind with other things so that you will become distracted and lose your concentration as you pray.

Whenever you find your mind wandering while praying, write down the things that you ought to have done, put the note aside, and continue to pray.

Train your mind to keep all distractions away, and don’t give room for them to disturb your connection to God in the place of prayer.

With time, as you continually train your mind, you will get good at focusing on God while praying.

OPEN HEAVEN 17 AUGUST 2024 KEY POINT

If you want your prayers to remain potent and powerful enough to deliver results, make sure they are not contaminated.

OPEN HEAVEN 17 AUGUST 2024 HYMN 3

ANCIENT WORDS

OPEN HEAVEN 17 AUGUST 2024 BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Jeremiah 47-48

OPEN HEAVEN 16 AUGUST 2024 MEMORISE: But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. James 1:6

OPEN HEAVEN 16 AUGUST 2024 READ: James 1:5-8:

5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

OPEN HEAVEN 15 AUGUST 2024 MESSAGE

Today, I will conclude my discussion on some of the factors that can extinguish prayers. Some people get almost everything right in the place of prayer but miss out on just one thing – faith.

Today’s memory verse says that believers should always make their requests to God in faith without having any doubts in their hearts.

The next verse directly addresses anyone who makes requests from God without faith:

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. James 1:7

When you pray without faith, that prayer is dead on arrival.

Hebrews 11:6 says that without faith, it is impossible to please God. Believers cannot expect God to answer their prayers when He is not pleased with them.

God requires that you have faith in Him when you ask Him for something. Luke 17:6 says that even if your faith is as little as a mustard seed, God will use it to move mountains on your behalf.

If your child asks you for food and then looks at you in such a way that says, “I know you will not give me; you probably don’t even have it,” you will feel insulted.

This is what we do when we ask God for things that we are not really expecting Him to give to us.

When you come to God in faith, you come knowing without a doubt that what you have asked of Him is already done.

You bring your requests with thanksgiving (Philippians 4:6) because you know that your prayer has already been answered.

The moment you pray, your hands are already stretched out to God, expecting what you asked for.

This is how to pray; it is the kind of prayer that God cannot ignore. Hebrews 11:1 says that faith is the evidence of things not seen.

In other words, when you have faith, even though you have not seen what you are asking for, you will be so sure that you have it that you can present it in court as evidence to any judge, telling them, “See what ! have.”

For a long time, I tried by my own power to increase my faith, but it was difficult. Then, I read Mark 9:24, where a man cried to Jesus, saying that he believes but that Jesus should help his unbelief.

In minutes, what Jesus was asking him to believe for was done. I also started praying that God should help my faith, and I have seen my faith grow tremendously since then.

If you pray the same prayer, Jesus will give your faith a boost, and you will be able to overcome unbelief.

OPEN HEAVEN 16 AUGUST 2024 PRAYER POINT

Lord, I believe in you; please help my faith.

 

OPEN HEAVEN 16 AUGUST 2024 HYMN 10

IN CHRIST ALONE

OPEN HEAVEN 16 AUGUST 2024 BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Jeremiah 44-46

OPEN HEAVEN 15 AUGUST 2024 THURSDAY: PRAYER EXTINGUISHERS 2

OPEN HEAVEN 15 AUGUST 2024 MEMORISE: Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. James 4:3

OPEN HEAVEN 15 AUGUST 2024 READ: James 4:1-6:

1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

OPEN HEAVEN 15 AUGUST 2024 MESSAGE

Yesterday, I discussed how sin can extinguish our prayers. Another prayer extinguisher is – not praying according to God’s will.

You must understand that God has a plan for your life and wants to bring you to an expected end (Jeremiah 29:11).

This means that God already has an expectation about you before you were born.

Thus, everything He does, including the prayers He answers, is to bring you to that expected end. You cannot pray for God to do something against His will and expect Him to do it.

Many people have said, “I have been asking God for a particular thing for so long without an answer.”

Where they are probably getting it wrong is that they are not checking if what they are asking for aligns with God’s will or if it’s just for their selfish lusts (James 4:3).

Asking for something outside God’s will is asking amiss; such prayers are extinguished, and God will not grant such requests.

This is why you must be intimate with the Holy Spirit. Romans 8:26 says that we do not know how to pray because, many-a-times, we don’t know the will of the Father.

However, the Holy Spirit can help you to pray exactly what the will of the Father is, and then your prayers will be attended to.

When you pray in tongues, you are praying very accurate prayers because the Holy Spirit is praying the will of the Father through you.

Imagine that you are friends with the son of the chairman of a company, and you apply for a job in that company, using an application letter that was written by a director in the company, and having the chairman’s son, who is also a director, as your referee.

When your application gets to the chairman’s table, he will not be able to ignore it because it will contain the exact things that relate to the organisation and the role you are applying for, and also because his son is your referee.

You will surely have the job because your application will contain exactly what is on the chairman’s mind, and you have a good relationship with his son.

If you don’t want your prayers extinguished, let the Holy Spirit pray through you as you maintain an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ in whose name you are praying.

The best prayer points are the ones generated for you by the Holy Spirit.

OPEN HEAVEN 15 AUGUST  2024 PRAYER POINT

Holy Spirit, please teach me to pray according to the will of the Father at all times.

 

OPEN HEAVEN 15 AUGUST 2024 HYMN 22

SWEET HOUR OF PRAYER

OPEN HEAVEN 15 AUGUST 2024 BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Jeremiah 40-43

OPEN HEAVEN 14 AUGUST 2024 MEMORISE: Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings. Micah 3:4

OPEN HEAVEN 14 AUGUST 2024 READ: Isaiah 59:1-2:

1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

OPEN HEAVEN 14 AUGUST 2024 MESSAGE

When you spray a fire extinguisher over fire, it dies off. In the same vein, certain things act as prayer extinguishers.

If such things exist in our lives, we will not get answers to our prayers because the prayers will die off before they get to God.

Sin is the first thing that extinguishes our prayers the moment they leave our lips. David said in Psalms 66:18: If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

If sin is in your heart, it will extinguish your prayer, and God will not hear it, even if you scream aloud while praying.

In Isaiah 59:1-2, the Bible says that sin creates such a huge distance between God and us that He cannot hear us nor can His hand reach us.

Even when a genuine man of God prays for a sinner, the prayer will be extinguished by the sins of that sinner unless he or she repents.

Many years ago, when the congregation was not as large as it is now, and I could lay hands on everyone, a woman came to one of our Holy Ghost Services.

She had been married for many years without a child and had been told that I have a special anointing for making the barren fruitful.

I laid hands on her during the service, and she fell under the anointing. However, months after that, she still did not conceive.

She came back complaining, “They told me that when you lay hands on me, I will fall, and then I will become fruitful, but up to now, there is still no child”.

I thought she needed an extra dose of the anointing and was about to pray for her again when God told me, “Son, ask her how many boyfriends she has.”

It was hard to ask her the question, but I managed to mumble the words. She replied that she had six boyfriends.

I exclaimed, “Ah! And you expect my God to answer your prayer?” Yes, I prayed for her and laid hands on her, but her sin extinguished the prayers.

Check yourself before you pray to be sure that you don’t have any sin in your heart because if sin is present, your prayers will go to waste.

Repent of the sin first, then you can be sure that God will answer your prayers.

The only prayer that God will hear from a sinner is the prayer of repentance from sin because as long as sin exists in his or her life, God will not hear him or her (Isaiah 59:1-2).

OPEN HEAVEN 14 AUGUST KEY POINT

Sin extinguishes prayers.

OPEN HEAVEN 14 AUGUST 2024 HYMN 23

TAKE MY LIFE AND LET IT BE

 

OPEN HEAVEN 14 AUGUST 2024 BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Jeremiah 37-39

OPEN HEAVEN 13 AUGUST 2024 MEMORISE: The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. Psalms 145:18

OPEN HEAVEN 13 AUGUST 2024 READ: Psalms 66:17-20:

17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.

18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

19 But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

20 Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

OPEN HEAVEN 13 AUGUST 2024 MESSAGE

All around the world, people call on God for one thing or the other, and as busy as He is, He said: Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. Jeremiah 33:3

I have been to the offices of some presidents. Before you go, you must first book an appointment.

If the president asks you to come by 2pm and you get there early, you may still not be allowed to see him until 5pm because the president is busy.

At times, it is the president who needs you, but you still must wait. No president is as busy as God, yet He is always available to give you His undivided attention whenever you call on Him – He is never too busy.

Jesus said that whenever we come to God in prayers, we should come in His name. I can send you to someone and give you a signed note asking the fellow to give you what you want.

However, when I say you should go in my name, what I mean is that, even though you are the one going there, when you arrive at the gate, tell them it is Adeboye who has arrived.

When the people see you, they are to receive you and treat you as if I am the one they are welcoming.

Jesus asking you to pray to the Father in His name means that even though you are the one praying, the Father is to see that prayer point as if He prayed it.

Since Jesus and the Father are one (John 10:30), it also implies that whatever the Father owns, the Son owns also, so as the Father will not refuse to give Jesus whatever He asks for, He will also not refuse to give you whatever you ask for according to His will.

If Jesus appears to you and tells you that the moment you ask Him for anything, you will get it, will you stay silent or start asking for whatever you need?

He already told you in John 16:23 that if you ask Him for anything, He will give it to you.

This is why you should pray for everything you need. Many people complain about things they can change by simply praying. Jesus is waiting to give you whatever you ask Him for.

Don’t be worried about anything; just pray in Jesus’ name, and the problem is solved (John 14:13-14).

OPEN HEAVEN 13 AUGUST 2024 KEY POINT

Jesus is waiting to hear your requests, don’t hesitate to talk to Him.

OPEN HEAVEN 13 AUGUST 2024 HYMN 22

SWEET HOUR OF PRAYER

OPEN HEAVEN 13 AUGUST 2024 BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Jeremiah 33-36

OPEN HEAVEN 12 AUGUST 2024 MEMORISE: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: Ephesians 1:3

OPEN HEAVEN 12 AUGUST 2024 READ: Numbers 23:5-8:

5 And the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

6 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.

7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.

8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?

OPEN HEAVEN 12 AUGUST 2024 MESSAGE

How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied? Numbers 23:8

The Scripture above tells us that it is impossible to curse people that have been blessed by God. Such persons can never be affected by curses that are pronounced on them.

No matter how hard he tries, there is absolutely nothing the devil can do to curse the fellow that God has blessed. Romans 8:31 says:

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

God is Almighty; if He is on your side, there is no force on the earth, underneath the earth, or in any other place that can work against you.

The Bible says that you have been bought with a price (1 Corinthians 6:20) and that price is the blood of Jesus.

This means that no one can touch you because you are God’s possession. Through the sacrifice of the blood of Jesus flowing inside you, you are irreversibly blessed.

God has blessed you with all heavenly blessings, and there is no man that can curse you!

Numbers 23:23 says: Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!

In Proverbs 26:2, you are reassured that: As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

If someone decides to curse you without a genuine cause, do not be moved and do not be afraid.

Goliath cursed David and, in a few minutes, his head was in David’s hands. In fact, any fellow who tries to curse you needs your prayers because God’s word says in Genesis 12:3: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: …

What is that genuine cause that can make a curse active even on a believer? It is sin.

After Balaam could not curse the people of Israel because they were blessed, they were tricked into sleeping with strange women, and before they knew it, they were cursed with diseases.

If you want to be blessed beyond curses, after surrendering your life to Jesus, you must ensure that you live holy.

A life without Jesus does not have protection against any curse. As long as you remain a child of God, you are untouchable to curses.

OPEN HEAVEN 12 AUGUST KEY POINT

Surrender your life to Jesus and live holy to ensure that you are blessed beyond curses.

OPEN HEAVEN 12 AUGUST 2024 HYMN 19

ROCK OF AGES CLEFT FOR ME

OPEN HEAVEN 12 AUGUST 2024 BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Jeremiah 31-32

OPEN HEAVENS FOR TEENS 10 AUGUST 2024 MEMORISE: But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble, James 4:6

OPEN HEAVENS FOR TEENS 10 AUGUST 2024 READ: Daniel 4:28-33

28. All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.

29. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.

30. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?

31. While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.

32. And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

33. The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’. feathers, and his nails like birds’. claws.

Today’s Powerful Confession: I confess that my marriage is a fruitful garden, filled with love, joy, and peace, as I nurture and support my spouse to reach their God-given potential, in the mighty name of Jesus. Somebody Shout Hallelujah!

Prayer Points For Open Heaven 10 August 2024

Powerful Declarations For Today 10 August 2024

OPEN HEAVENS FOR TEENS 10 AUGUST 2024 MESSAGE:

The Babylonian empire was a great kingdom that was ruled by powerful kings.

In today’s Bible reading, we see that King Nebuchadnezzar was wealthy and wellhonoured by his people.

This made him arrogant to the extent that he boasted about his achievements and accomplishment.

He had forgotten that God enthrones and dethrones, and He alone empowers and enriches.

Therefore, God humbled Nebuchadnezzar; for seven years, he lost his mind and lived like an animal.

When he finally regained his sanity, he acknowledged the sovereignty of God.

One key lesson to learn from the life of this king is that it is a dangerous thing to be humbled by God.

If you humble yourself before God, He will promote you. However, if He humbles you Himself, He might do so through an incident that would leave a dent in your life.

When God humbles a man, he becomes a ridicule before men.

Imagine a whole king who lived in the ambience of a big palace eating grass. My dear child, there’s nothing you have that was not given to you.

You can never attain any height in life except God permits you. Therefore, learn to be humble and give Him all the glory.

Even when people praise you, return the glory to God.

OPEN HEAVENS FOR TEENS 10 AUGUST 2024 KEY POINT

It is better to be humble than to allow God to humble you.

OPEN HEAVENS FOR TEENS 10 AUGUST 2024

HYMN 58: MY HOPE IS BUILT ON NOTHING ELSE

1. My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.

Refrain:
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand,
All other ground is sinking sand.

2. When darkness seems to veils His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil. [Refrain]

3. His oath, His covenant, and blood,
Support me in the whelming flood;
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay. [Refrain]

4. When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh, may I then in Him be found;
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne. [Refrain]

OPEN HEAVENS FOR TEENS 10 AUGUST 2024 BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Ezra 10:1-44; 1Corinthians 6:1-20