Down From Horse Back? By Pastor E.A. Adeboye

Teens Open Heavens Daily Devotional Tuesday 20, June 2018 by Pastor Adeboye

Topic: Down From Horse Back?

Memorise: For a servant when he Reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat; Proverbs 30:22

Read: Proverbs 30:21-23 (KJV)

21 For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:

22 For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

23 For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

Bible In One Year: Nehemiah 12-13, Acts 4:23-37

MESSAGE:

A while back in one of our churches, I was invited to speak on ‘Surviving In a Coastal Environment.’ And I wondered why instead of ‘Surviving’ they hadn’t used ‘Triumphing’. It is ignorance to think that because 1 Peter 2:21 says Jesus suffered and left His footprints for us to follow, therefore we should be poor and beggarly. No, we are to follow His steps in power, holiness, glory, et cetera.

Some believers have misinterpreted the command to carry your cross and follow Jesus to mean that we should live in poverty and suffering. They have forgotten that He came to give us abundant life. Tell God of your desire to live in the abundance He died to give you today, and begin to live with the attitude of the liberated and the wealthy.

Prayer Point: I begin to walk in the abundance of Christ!

Hymn 11:

1. Stand up! stand up for Jesus,
Ye soldiers of the Cross!
Lift high His royal banner,
It must not suffer loss.
From victory unto victory
His army shall He lead,
Till every foe is vanquished,
And Christ is Lord indeed.

2. Stand up, stand up for Jesus,
The solemn watchword hear;
If while ye sleep he suffers,
Away with shame and fear.
Where’re ye meet with evil,
Within you or without,
Charge for the God of battles,
And put the foe to rout.

3. Stand up! stand up for Jesus !
Stand in His strength alone;
The arm of flesh will fail you,
Ye dare not trust your own.
Put on the gospel armour,
Each piece put on with prayer;
When duty calls or danger,
Be never wanting there.

4. Stand up! stand up for Jesus!
The strife will not be long;
This day the noise of battle,
The next the victor’s song.
To him that overcometh
A crown of life shall be;
He with the King of glory
Shall reign eternally.