OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR SUNDAY 25 MAY 2014 - THEME: LUST: ENEMY OF GREATNESS BY PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE

OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR SUNDAY 25 MAY 2014 - THEME: LUST: ENEMY OF GREATNESS BY PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE

MEMORY VERSE: Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. 3 John 1:2

READ: 1 JOHN 2:15-17

15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Your Divine Defence

“And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan” (2 Kings 6: 13). That is the Focal Scripture of Streams of Joy Devotional today.

In our Focal Scripture, the King of Syria sent spies to go and spy on Elisha, in a bid to fetch him. Those spies eventually found Elisha's location. That means, Elisha was visible, available, and had no visible security.

Notice that although they knew Elisha's location, they could not harm him or dislocate his destiny. They saw that he was available, but he wasn't vulnerable. Elisha may not have had any visible defence, yet he wasn't defenceless. He was visible, yet he was untouchable.

Precious God's Word: "I am the rose of Sharon"

"I am the rose of Sharon." --Song of Solomon 2:1

Whatever there may be of beauty in the material world, Jesus Christ possesses all that in the spiritual world in a tenfold degree.


Amongst flowers the rose is deemed the sweetest, but Jesus is infinitely more beautiful in the garden of the soul than the rose can in the gardens of earth. He takes the first place as the fairest among ten thousand.


He is the sun, and all others are the stars; the heavens and the day are dark in comparison with Him, for the King in His beauty transcends all.


"I am the rose of Sharon." This was the best and rarest of roses. Jesus is not "the rose" alone, He is "the rose of Sharon," just as He calls His righteousness "gold," and then adds, "the gold of Ophir"--the best of the best. He is positively lovely, and superlatively the loveliest. There is variety in His charms.

"WHERE DID YOU BELONG... BELIEVER! CHRISTIAN!! BORN AGAIN!!! - Shobayo

"WHERE DID YOU BELONG... BELIEVER! CHRISTIAN!! BORN AGAIN!!! John,20v24-29. Act,1v13-15. 15v41-47. John,3v3. 

Just like Thomas, A Believer believes merely on what He sees or heard. A Believer believes in all his or her Church Doctrines, Norms, and Forms. A Believer worshiping God in forms of Idolatry, just because that was what the doctrine says. A Believers Celebrates anything worthy celebrated. During Easter, Christmas, He changed his/her Profile Pictures into Jesus seemingly images, He talked about Christ, but a day after Easter/Christmas, Jesus can never BE found in His life anymore. He believes in what His Churches says rather than what bible says. He believes in His Pastors Gospel that ONCE. He believes in Jesus by a mere Lips Confessions, He is Saved. He believes Sin can not take Him to Hell because Jesus Has paid for His Sin... So, He EATs Sin like puff puff. They are Easily carried away with the World they are not different from the people of the world, they imitates the cultures of the world.  Believers are not found in Heaven. They die in Sin,, Death came Unexpected and found then Unprepared, "too late for them to Repent.

A Christian is someone who reads Bibles, attended almost all Church Services Regularly. Probably telling others about Christ everyday. "not joining the world, and love the world". They knew Friendship to the world is an Enmity to God. They Sinned but easily repented and ask for Grace not to Sin again. When God's word came to them, they do not searched for Matth,7v1 to enabling Sin reigns over them. They do not calling WARNING 'A' JUDGEMENT. They are Eagerly to hear any NEWS about GOD's KINGDOM. Many Christians are not found in Heaven because they are not Spiritually Awakening. They are sometimes a Lukewarm and finally Backslid.