Open Heaven 8 April 2019 – Sorrow: An Arrow In Satan’s Quiver

Open Heaven 8 April 2019 – Sorrow: An Arrow In Satan’s Quiver written by Pastor E. A. Adeboye

TOPIC: Sorrow: An Arrow In Satan’s Quiver

MEMORISE:
“A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.” – (Proverbs 15:13).

READ: Nehemiah 8:8-12 (KJV)
8. So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

9. And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

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10. Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy unto our Lord; neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

11. So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.

12. And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.

MESSAGE: Open Heaven 8 April 2019

Sorrow is a feeling of deep distress caused by loss, disappointment or misfortune suffered by a person directly or by loved ones. It is the human response to painful and heartbreaking life situations involving loss or other tragic circumstances. Sorrow is characterized by weeping, mourning, bitterness, depression, disappointment, failure, sadness, regret and disappointment.

It is indeed an arrow in the quiver of Satan and his agents, and their aim is to use it to break men’s spirit and determination to move forward in life. In God’s original plan, sorrow and its attendant problems were not meant to be part of the human experience, and that is why there will be no more sorrow in the new heaven and new earth that God is preparing for His people.

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Speaking on this truth, Revelation 21:4 says:
“And God shall wipe away all tears from there eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall be anymore pain: for the former thing are passed away”.

Sorrow became part and parcel of the human experience because of our descent in the sin and pronouncement of God’s judgment that subsequently followed (Genesis 3:16?-20).

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The consequence of this is laid bear in Ecclesiastes 2:22?-23, which says:
“For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath labored under then sun? For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.”

Today, the devil in still shooting the arrow of sorrow all over the world through sickness, poverty, childlessness, terrorism, natural disasters, calamities of epic proportions, separation and divorce, untimely death, and much more.

Open Heaven 8 April 2019