Open Heaven 6 December 2018 Devotional — As In A Mirror written by Pastor E. A. Adeboye
Open Heaven 6 December 2018 Devotional Memorise:
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own self. James 1:22
Open Heaven 6 December 2018 Bible Reading: James 1:21-25 (kjv)
21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23 For if any be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Open Heaven 6 December 2018 Devotional Bible in one year: Ezekiel 47-48, John 7:40, john 8:11
Open Heaven 6 December 2018 Devotional Hymnal: Sing Hymn 4
Open Heaven 6 December 2018 Message With Hymn And Prayer Points
While driving on a highway, you would often see a road sign that indicates ” Bumps ahead” or ” sharp bend ahead”.
Seeing such a sign, a wise fellow will immediately slow down while a foolish fellow will keep speeding. When the danger that should have been averted happens, everyone will consider such a driver to be foolish.
This scenario describes the case of those who read the Bible and see some truths in it that will save their lives but choose not to act on what they read.
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Today’s Bible reading tells us that the word of God is like a mirror which shows us what needs to be changed in our lives. It is a dangerous kind of foolishness to read or hear the word of God and not act on it.
Some people hear the word and resolve to do something, but they procrastinate taking action until their resolve fades away with time.
They are like a man dressed up to go out who sees in the mirror that his tie is a little too far to the right, but then leaves the front of the mirror without correcting it.
If after a while he remembers that his tie is a little off to the right and then tries to adjust it to the left, he may adjust it a little to the left. The wise thing to do is to make the adjustment while still in front of the mirror.
If you hear or read any word from God that requires you to make an adjustment in your life, you must do so immediately, because delay may be dangerous.
Many years ago, my Father in the Lord preached a message on keeping our environment clean if we want God to live in our homes.
He also said that the kind of music we listened to would determine if the Spirit of God would be comfortable dwelling in our homes.
My wife and I got home late and tired that day, but tired as we were, we raised up our mattress and swept off a lot of dirt from under our bed.
We also broke and threw away all the secular tapes that we had in the house. We acted on the word immediately and we were better off for it. Matthew 13:23 says :
“But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. “
When you have heard a word that can change your life for better, the devil knows it, and he immediately springs into action to steal it from you.
You must be on guard, and your best strategy is to act on the word before he brings distractions and suggestions that will destroy the fruit that God intends to yield in you. Are you just a hearer of the word or a doer of it ?
Open Heaven 6 December 2018 Devotional Prayer Point:
Father, please give me the grace to act on your word instantly, in Jesus’ Name.
