Open Heaven 28 August 2022 – Fulfilling Purpose
Open Heaven 28 August 2022 Sunday Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Fulfilling Purpose
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Open Heaven 28 August 2022 TOPIC: Fulfilling Purpose
MEMORISE: “For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:” – Acts 13:36 (KJV)
READ: Ephesians 2:10 (KJV)
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Jeremiah 21-24
Open Heaven 28 August 2022 MESSAGE:
Every human being on the surface of the earth was born for a purpose. I know this because God does not do anything just for the sake of doing it; there is always a purpose behind His actions. If He made you and put you on this earth, then there is a purpose for your life.
Unfortunately, however, many people don’t end up fulfilling the purpose for which God brought them into this world. One of the reasons is that many never even get to know their purpose in life. Another reason is that even when some discover their purpose, they get distracted by the devil and end up pursuing other things rather than the purpose of God for their lives.
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There are certain features that God built into you – your talents and gifts. You need to discover them and then go back to God to tell you what they were built into you to do. Joseph’s talent was to interpret dreams and administer resources. He managed Potiphar’s resources so well that Potiphar put all his possessions in Joseph’s care. He also interpreted his fellow prisoners’ and Pharaoh’s dreams correctly. However, his purpose was to save the world from starving to death in famine.
“…but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.” – Genesis 50:20
When you have discovered your gifts and asked God how those gifts should be used to fulfil your purpose, take note of one thing which the devil uses to distract many people – selfishness. The only way a person can fulfil his purpose in life is if he is selfless. A tree bears its fruit for others to eat and that is how it fulfils its purpose. Your purpose is not to amass wealth for yourself but to impact lives. If you pay attention only to your needs, you would not fulfil purpose, but if you pay attention to meeting the needs of others, then you would fulfil purpose. If you are ready to make sacrifices just so that you can impact the lives of other people positively, then you are on the path to fulfilling purpose. The lives you impact, the souls you win for Christ and your good works will be recorded in heaven (Revelation 20:12). That is all that will matter when you are gone.
Open Heaven 28 August 2022 REFLECTION:
Ephesians 2:10 says You are God’s workmanship, created to do good works. How many people have you done good works for recently?
Open Heaven 28 August 2022 HYMN 13: My Hope Is Built On Nothing Less
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.
CHORUS:
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand,
All other ground is sinking sand.
2 When darkness seems to veil His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.
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.
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.
Open Heavens 2022 Daily Devotional guide was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical church in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer’s Ministries. The Open Heavens devotional application is available across all mobile platforms and operating systems: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Nokia, Windows Mobile and PC. Open Heaven for Today 2022
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)
